skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's quite that simple. Here's some other things Paul Graham has said about that question:

"There's one question that acts like a wildcard, at least for me: [the question] ...
We're looking for people who like to beat the system. So if the answer to this question is good enough, it will make me go back and take a second look at an application that otherwise seemed unpromising. In fact, I think there are people we've invited to interviews mainly on the strength of their answer to this question."

From http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html July '09

"Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications."

From http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html Oct 10
A lot of work has definitely been done in the last year. Two years ago, firefox was unusable on the netbook I had at the time, so I used chrome. I think the situation would now be reversed, however.
Capital B for bytes, thank you.
Give me a break. I'd rather be doing something interesting at Boeing or General Atomics than working on f-ing YouTube ads any day of the week!
Google Nexus 10 hands-on (video)
It's not clear to me whether the process you describe would infringe. It seems to me that if the component server returns only a data object with all scripting instructions provided by the host computer, this patent would not be infringed. This patent appears to me to be speaking to plugins that return both data and script. Facebook's like button comes to mind, perhaps ...
"grand - Version Control that Scales"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471989

There was no real response from the Show HN but we generated a decent amount of interest. We haven't reached our beta yet, but we decided to apply to YC so that we can work on it full time.
Everyone's hating on the parent post -- it even got downvoted. While people who have struggled, or have taught struggling students, may understandably be put off -- mainly by what's being said, peripherally by how it's being said -- I think the parent has a legitimate point of view.

I will admit that many beginners find programming hard and counter-intuitive. This fact, however, is a reflection of the utter failure of our education system to teach a few important things:

Learning on your own. A K-12 curriculum is highly structured and guided, especially K-8. Consulting resources outside the curriculum and figuring things out for yourself is a valuable life skill that's seldom taught in a typical classroom.

Thinking rigorously. A typical curriculum involves memorizing facts, not figuring out the consequences of known facts. Knowing something well enough to make detailed, testable predictions simply isn't taught. (When I learned the scientific method in school, it was simply memorizing the list ["Formulate hypothesis", "Test hypothesis with experiment", "Write paper"]. Even intro college physics was basically applying known theory to measure numbers in the lab, more engineering than science.)

Tenacity. In school, when you learn your answer to a question is wrong, it happens at the end of the learning process, and it means you've failed at mastering that particular tiny corner of the curriculum, but need to move on anyway. However, in the real world -- particularly programming -- when you get a traceback or incorrect output, it's the beginning of a dialog between you, the language, and your mental model. Making a mistake doesn't reflect on your ability until you give up on fixing it. People simply don't realize how humbling programming is, in terms of the sheer number of mistakes that even the best programmers make. (Beginners don't use or can't yet understand tools like IDE's which instantly notify you of many errors -- especially syntax errors -- and incorrectly highlight many others, like missing quotes.)

Differential diagnosis. "What I expect isn't happening. Situations alpha, beta, or gamma might conceivably be happening based on my mental model of how things work. I already observe y, which eliminates situation alpha. Now z would be different between situation beta or gamma, so I just need to print z out and rerun...aha! Now that I know z, I can eliminate gamma, so the problem must be beta..." This sort of intense critical thinking is absolutely vital to functioning in technical subjects, and also enormously helpful in everyday life. But it's a skill that has to be trained, and our education system completely misses it.
This is really going to be tough for me over the next two weeks because I'll have a lot of new services to become a power user on.
Perhaps it is too simplistic, but the alternative Apple chose suggests hubris. I suspect that TomTom or Garmin or even OpenStreetMap would have been glad to partner with them to develop an app to replace Google Maps. Instead, Apple chose a homegrown solution, quality be damned and then threw TomTom under the bus when Maps was released half baked.

The decision to adopt not invented here as corporate policy backfired. Forestall was probably prescient enough to see where it was headed.
why would you be bored learning something new?
Let's be honest here, speed isn't as fast as WiFi all the time. It's as fast as WiFi, with much higher latency, in the times you're within good range of the proper cell tower. Sorry, but its not the same as WiFi when you're sitting on the can in the windowless bathroom on the 8th floor of a big office building.
>The reason testing is good isn't because it is somehow super accurate. It is good because it keeps teachers honest. Without testing, how do you measure teacher performance at all? How can you tell if someone who is capable of teaching well isn't just being lazy or getting distracted?

The other issue is that value-added testing should be used in evaluating teachers, but only a single component of a larger evaluation process. On its own, it's almost as pernicious as the system we have now.

For more on these subjects, see

* "What Makes a Great Teacher?": http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/what-mak...

* "Why Kids Should Grade Teachers": http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/why-kids...

* The collection of articles I listed here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/susan-engel-doesnt-... .

>It's easy to point out problems. It's useful and important that people find flaws and fault.

The largest issue isn't identifying problems—it's that the people who benefit most from the status quo (teachers, unions) derive very concentrated benefits, while the solutions to the status quo are diffuse (students, parents, society). One sees this pattern in many fields (farm subsidies are the canonical example), and there's an extensive economics literature on it.
If you trust the cloud Mozilla's client side encrypted sync service will do this.

If you want simple and dirty.

1. Create a backup of your bookmarks using the import and backup button on the Library window on each machine

2. Pick your favorite scripting language

3. merge the two json backup files using your script

Import the resulting json file in a clean Firefox profile.
Excellent information. Checking out yodlee and wesabe's ssu.
You (probably) jest but I would have loved LinkedIn and Twitter MUCH faster had they done a better job at on boarding me. I didn't get what they were for way too long. Needed a story.
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Nothing seems to work in FF these days. =/
It's also by far the most heavily used of AWS regions, so they face many scale problems there that other regions don't have to worry about yet. And it was the first, so there's probably some legacy baggage there (i.e. they've learned from mistakes when building other regions).
uh, yes. that's exactly right.
IMHO it's definitely running in place

1 - replaced what they already had and then moved it up to feature parity with the competitors

2 - pioneered it then let it sit, is Siri really that much better and personally assisting me today then at launch?

3 - which appears to be only a response to the competition's great cloud integration

perhaps stagnation is too strong a word... tread-milling perhaps?
I'm all for bashing patents, but this seems to ignore the obvious: sharing fits the way people use tablets a whole lot more than phones.
Looks like only production databases for now, though. Hopefully they'll branch out to us-west for apps as well pretty soon.
so is have multiple Harvard degrees the answer to how to get into YC as a single non technical founder?
What kind of error specifically? Also, is the SHA1 fingerprint of the certificate you do receive the same as this: B0:02:9E:58:32:7B:72:16:58:C6:E4:DA:20:9F:20:CC:C5:7D:3F:5F?
For those that haven't used Safari, can you give a quick overview of using this feature?
It's government of, by, and for the people. He is responsible for the health of the country, just as every other citizen is.
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Viewed from the other side, though, he did convert $3 million, yes, but Apple saved $57 million.

Apple can afford to lose the three mil. They'll make that back in a few days once somebody who actually gets Apple's retail concept is running the show again. Somebody who respects the model that brought Apple top-of-the-charts customer service ratings. Somebody who respects that if you're making more money per square foot than any other retail store in the world, you might be doing something right.
That is a derivative of the "fundamental attribution error" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error) and essentially the entire point of the Republican party (just world fallacy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis) - protecting the lucky/well known/founding/accrued notoriety people.
> go to college, get a job, make money, spend money

Can you tell me why these are good things to prepare people for?
Both Clipboard and Pocket can do that. Pocket is my personal favorite as it's available on all devices that I own:
http://getpocket.com/
https://clipboard.com/
because Cargo Cult is why
Show HN: Customer support/issue-tracker application, control via email/web/CLI
Depends what it is. I'm actually trying to get into machine learning, but I'm not into databases or knowledge representation even though there is some cross over on my field. My point is that I wouldn't appreciate just being thrown into a new field without any say. I might transition to a new field over time as my interests evolve, or as part of some negotiation where there is a crisis need. But no, I'm not an interchangeable part.
Nope, it is to have multiple Harvard degrees, worked at top law firm, run a company, been featured in a magazine article, and already built a product that has paying customers.
I do the same. My hundreds of tabs are my memory "staging area".

If I revisit them ~3 times or more - they get "committed" to my long term "repository" (aka bookmarked and mentally memorized).
No, but no one forces you to be part of the mob.
The actual satellite view of Sandy shows most of the wind flow directly onshore from New Jersey towards Philly. This app shows it flowing the opposite direction, unless my eyes are playing tricks. The white areas are flowing towards the East.
This just in, Linux is OpenSource. OMG!
Rape is rape, period. Trying to question statistics by redefining what rape is according to your own criterion is, by any sensible definition, being a rape apologist.

Using expressions like "going against the feminist narrative" when talking about rape is not usually a sign of objectivity on such matters.
As is true of many place names in Switzerland, it doesn't have one single name.

Lake Léman = Lac Léman = Genfersee = Lake Geneva

There is nothing wrong with the title of the Nature paper: Giant Lake Geneva tsunami in AD 563
Tesla boards haven't shipped in a separate 1U form factor for a few years; they're all passively-cooled PCIe boards inside a x86 server chassis now.
NYC MTA: Subways Beginning to Flood
Thanks! I've set it up now. One question about the embed code is what happens if I don't have the user's email, or there's no user. If I just say email: "", will that work OK? (ie do nothing.)
+ be a banker in HK
How much does a Mac Mini cost in Europe? 629€ on Apple France's website.
Congratulations. But I'd like to see a follow-up in 1-2 years for all those recent "how we got into YC" boasting posts, detailing how successful the products ended up being. ;-)
This is the final inducement for me to buy a whole stack of the things. Having owned a BBC Micro as a kid, I cut my professional teeth on ARM assembler for RISC OS and it remains to this day my favourite instruction set of all time: everything that was necessary & sufficient wrapped in a neat little orthogonally conditional package, and RISC OS was the elegant icing on that cake.

I don't even know what I'll use them for yet. I'll just sit down and play with it, like being 16 again.
Round corners on physical objects are less often stylistic than functionally driven. From reducing drag on moving objects, to reducing injury on objects subject to bodily contact or grasping, they are functional.

Rounding the edges of a toaster reduces the material required, reduces the space required for packaging and allows better working clearances to reduce the user's likelihood of being burned.

Rounding the corners of a picture of a toaster is generally makework, not artisic production. Rounding the corners of a picture of the phrase "WiFi Settings" is just mental masturbation, or "chart junk" as Tufte would say.
Mapping is NOT hard. I know from personal experience.

The reason Apple screwed up maps is because of one reason and one reason only. Licensing. The app itself is great. The 3D maps are great. The data is the problem.

Apple chose not to license data from many of the key players they should have to at least be competitive. My guess is Apple arrogantly thought they could get enough feedback from users to fix up the problem themselves.
If it's not a BYOD environment, you can pick one specific recent Android handset, or replace the OS with a custom image, and you have about 80% of what iOS allows for management (which is in turn about 80% of what BES provided).

In a BYOD environment (which my current company is piloting), Android makes it much more of a nightmare, but thankfully almost everyone here has iPhones.
All of what you've listed is just repeating the same point: iOS hasn't changed much since its inception. But you're still not answering the question: what needs to change?

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I think it can't be improved, because I can think of a few needed improvements myself. But I hear people continue to say this about Apple -- "They aren't innovating lately." -- without saying what needs to change.

So, without just comparing iOS1 vs. iOS6, what about the current state of iOS needs to change?
this article is mainly about some of the other problems

I just saw your reply. What would you suggest should be done about the problems you think are most prominently mentioned in the submitted letter?
It's not merely the degrees and accolades that are impressive, it's also the fact that the decided he wanted to revive his family's printing business.

His results speak for themselves, and almost as importantly, his decisions show an independence streak and willingness to break with the herd and win in his own way. This is something every founder needs to get through the trough of sorrow.
What a great terrible thing. I don't like the idea of using HN as yet another promotional tool and that's exactly what this does. At the same time theres a piece of me who likes the idea. Good going on making and shipping a cool thing but please shut it down?
I was hoping http://blog.linode.com/ would mention risk assessment/strategy on Newark center.

This is a good summary of data centers at risk: http://readwrite.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-vs-the-inter...
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Show HN: Turn any folder of markdown into a mini-documentation site
Intro to the features:

http://alouy.com/blog/introduction.html

Demo, user/pass: ned

http://baby.alouy.net
The best way to handle people like that is to preemptively strike. Try chuckling at them whenever they have to charge their phone.
Exactly. Why do you think the AppleTV is called a 'hobby' ?
Yup, that's basically what I told him.

What's sad is that he wasn't really showing off— he's just one of those computer scientists who loves to geek out and doesn't really think how other people could interpret it; and I guess he was hoping the interviewer would just start nerding out with him, that they'd start talking about how GHC handles lazy evaluation, and that everything would be perfect.
Love the process, but not the final mock-up. While the grey boxes look neat, the visual format is inappropriate for bookmarks. If they use fav icons like the NY Times logo, you won't be ale to tell what the bookmark is about. Small screenshots of the pages also don't work since they become illegible and many times only ads can be recognized since they are made to stand out. So this concept should be validated with real content. I'd assume that a text-based version would be much more usable.

I'm looking forward to see what will come from this.
That's true, but I suspect the vast majority of Kindle users and buyers are stuck on 6" greyscale screens which aren't great for diagrams or code without a lot of care. "Source code looks horrible on the Kindle edition!" is one of the most common complaints I've seen on Kindle books so far, but it's definitely getting better.
Google Nexus 10 vs Apple iPad vs Microsoft Surface
It is about Hacking. Not points. Which is exactly why this shouldn't he used. It's about news that Hackers are into. This isn't Reddit. This isn't Stackoverflow. But I fear that may not be the case in the not too distant future.
I don't know patents, this is a TC article and there are few comments, but is there any possibility of truth to this? Would it then be possible to patent "using patent 20050107114 / 953850... but with tablets"? Doesn't that kind of show how inane the situation is?
Hurricane Sandy has brought down Gizmodo, Lifehacker, and others.
Love big data and interested in search? Ark is hiring (YC W12)
what are some comparative products, and how does userfox set itself apart?
nice work ! are you looking to distribute a rubygem for this? It'd be quite cool to configure different triggers ( time based, event based) from a rails app.

I see the potential, if done well, this can really help in better communication between a product and its customers/users.
Nobody's posted this yet, so I'll give it a try.

Dear Scott,

Could you please start up NeXT again? That would really rock.

Thanks,
Bud
The way I understand it is that skeuomorphism is about using design to elicit elements or interactions that formerly served a purpose (i.e. making a keyboard look like typewriter keys), whereas path-dependence is about current schemes whose continuing popularity is more due to a quirk of history that gave its use better returns rather than being proven against others (i.e. the QWERTY keyboard).
The landing page is quite nice, but the zoom animation and the pointer cursors on the days really makes them look like clickable buttons that simply aren't working.
Just released a spin-off of an open source project that I've contributed to
for a few years. Still scratching my head trying to get some traffic. Create
and manage issues/tickets via email, web, CLI or API. Very mature web
interface. Very customizable. Any questions, fire away.
I suspect the stock options were to help maintain the illusion of stability and unity in the period before and after Jobs' death. 75,000 shares is a lot of money for one person but if it keeps the stock price a couple of dollars higher it is a net benefit to shareholders.

Apple has more than 939 million shares, maintaining $1.00 in share price is nearly a billion dollars in shareholder value.
I've been looking for something like this for a long time. It's something I wouldn't purposely implement because it's a pain to manage time/writing cron jobs, etc.

Love the landing page too!
Wave damage from arriving wave(s) occurs approximately along the
line of the (sea or lake) shore, with focusing by any underwater
landforms, but when water on or above land begins to flow back down
to the shore, its free flow is moderated by surface landforms,
buildings and other structures, and entrained debris, and damage
tends to become localized at choke-points in the flow.

So, if possible, get out of the paths of backflow.
What about a bagel with two holes?
Amazon S3 latency increasing due to Sandy
If I remember right there was a paid service around here that did the same thing. You are going to put them out of business. Great product!
Mapping is NOT hard. I know from personal experience.

What map applications have you authored? Any links?
As my manager told me a while ago: "making our company successful is well above our pay-grade: we need to make our managers look good".
This great that Heroku is doing this. It's nice to know that your cloud provider is aware of and preparing for disasters like this.
I remember noticing that they seemed to be protecting Bush's DNA when he went to a state dinner in some European country (possibly Germany). I wondered about it at the time.
I don't know if they still have it but http://enjoysthin.gs/ used to have a great way of visually bringing in new content as it came in.