skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated to the post, but I hope you guys are all doing okay out there.

I have a huge amount of respect and appreciation for the level of commitment you have for your customers, despite these horrific circumstances. Stay safe!
Is that not what Jar Jar Binks was? Or did he escape from the Picar trash and appear in Star Wars.
It really is good feedback.

I didn't come to HN expecting sunshine and rainbows as a response--but it was nice to see. I'm not going to be shy about taking harsh feedback constructively. It seems people want an option for a reading/layout mode. Not hard to do.
Looks cute, but what will happen when you try to scale down that logo?
I never felt like I was doing my best at college. After my first internship at a large software company, I didn't understand why people had told me to stay in school for as long as I could. I actually wanted to start working! So, a year before graduating, I dropped out and moved from Wisconsin to California.

I worried at first that my lack of a degree would make it hard for me to find a job in the Bay Area, but the market is incredible right now. If you're good enough, it doesn't matter if you have a degree. I managed to find a great job with people I have fun working with. Sometimes I forget I'm getting paid for it.

Reader, your mileage may vary. College is great, but it's not for everyone. I got a lot out of my three years (especially studying abroad -- if you can afford it, do it), but I knew I was ready for something else. The other path turned out great for me.
Easier deployment/automation with fabric
http://shrikar.com/blog/2012/10/30/easier-deployment-slash-automation-with-fabric/
They're practicing for thin iPhones? It is pretty weird. They could probably release something thicker than the old model and market that just as well.
On a similar note, I've been waiting to see an Android tablet, without an anemic cpu, use a high contrast, fast refresh e-ink screen. The Kindle is great, but I find myself mostly emailing articles to it from services like Instapaper/Readability/Pocket and RSS/Google Reader and Flipboard/Google Currents. It would be great if there were a powerful enough e-ink tablet to access dynamic web content directly.

I find I use my tablet and cellphone mostly for reading (articles, books, texts, emails), and the e-ink screen is much more pleasurable for me. Also, I love having a laptop, cell phone, and tablet, but I hate having to charge 3 devices at the end of every day.
I wasn't sure what the point of the article was. Reinforcing pricing notions of a specific group was my second guess, and from what you're saying, that's the right one.
Form IS function.
Thanks for that. I looked it up and it seems they declare it a bit differently, with grids. Worth adapting, though!
No, it isn't. But getting people to believe that is the RDF's power.
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Apologies. I didn't realise it was a direct quote. And point taken about PG's mention of the word "God" in his essays.
Looks like they still have sites that are open though:

http://corporate.disney.go.com/server-status/
There is a reason the average age of successful first-time startup entrepreneurs is something like 35. And this is something I only learned in retrospect, having precocious talent for being at the right place at the right time in my 20s and never really capitalizing on it. Yes, there are outlier cases but really successful startups tend to be led by people that already have a few iterations under their belt.

Experience is more valuable than it ever seems like it is before you have it. It will also take more than the couple years in college you might skip to acquire it. College does not add that much value from the standpoint of building a technology startup but there is also little upside in not completing college or using it as an opportunity to gain some early good experience.

Dropping out and doing a tech startup should be independent decisions.
And unless you're Gates or Zuckerberg (protip: you're almost definitely not), that college degree is going to be infinitely more valuable to you than anything you might come up with while in college.

A lot of people think that it was because he dropped out that Zuck was so successful, but IIRC, during Startup School 2012 he said that Facebook hit 1 million users before he dropped out. So unless you're coming up with the next Facebook (and you're almost definitely not), dropping out is a boneheaded move.

Your startup can fail at any time before people give two shits about it (and most do, quite quickly), but a good degree from a quality university will stay with you for life.
Then it seems to be plagiarism, not a summary of your key takeaways.

Your Google link unfortunately disproved your point.
No!
Modern smartphone combines many things in one and simplifies your life in that sense. I play music, use turn by turn GPS, read books, newspapers, and magazines (though mostly on tablet, to be honest), listen to music and Internet radio, watch videos and photos, use instant messaging, check calendar and todo list, write diary, keep my boarding passes, buy movie tickets, check weather forecast, set alarms and kitchen timers - all one small device sitting in my pocket. And oh, sometimes I use it as a phone too.

Smartphone made my life much, much easier.
When you scale it down to letterhead size, it is no longer NEMA 6 compliant. :-(
10 better questions for aspiring entrepreneurs
I think the 'personalization' they have been doing is the primary culprit.

When I search for technical things or related to the news I feel like I can see the 'tint' actually. It's like google adds certain keywords to my searches, or reduces it to a much smaller subset.

When I search for something, sometimes it's because I want to find something I saw a while ago, but sometimes it is to get a new perspective on things. When you search for something and see the same opinion for the first 10 results you can tell how skewed it is.

Now I have to manually add 'criticism' or 'failure' to certain searches, or 'success' even. It's just weird.
Wisconsin, eh? Me too. UW-Madison?
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This is pretty awe-inspiring but as a programmer I know it would be fairly difficult to use this machine for existing workloads because so much code would have to be rewritten from typical x86 code to CUDA/OpenCL to use all those GPUs.

Personally, I'm more excited for the next wave of supercomputers built with racks of Xeon Phis [1].

[1] - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/high-performance-comp...
It seems that most comments here (and the post itself) are conflating "Hacking" with "Cheating".

Cheating would be something similar to placing your name on the interview list, bypassing the need for an application.

Hacking is figuring out the rules to the system and using them to your advantage.

Examples from other posts:

"Taking Adderall"

Taking Adderall is hacking your biochemistry. Taking it to misrepresent your abilities to potential employers is cheating.*

*unless there are proven long term benefits to Adderall?

"Doping"

Doping is hacking your biochemistry. Using it to win a biking race is cheating if the rules prohibit it.

"Spending years studying for the GMAT"

That's just studying. There is no hacking, and no cheating going on here. Hacking would be finding a way to remember more about the GMAT in less time. Cheating would be using a cheat sheet.

"Autotuning"

Autotuning is a vocal effect. It also degrades the quality of your voice. Comparing a trained vocalist with someone using auto-tune is no contest, the trained vocalist will always perform better.

"Creating higher visibility by posting on HN"

This is hacking. The rules of News.YC have been used to garner greater mindshare with the partners that review applications. This is using one process to have an effect on a different process.

In conclusion Hacking is a mentality, Hacking != Cheating even though sometimes one may be an integral part to the other.
>Things you own actually begin to own you after some time. You clean them, organize them, buy them, sell them etc. More you own, the more time they rob from your lives.

and

>You won’t lose that much.

These two points go hand in hand -- though, I would change "lose" to "miss" in the second.

I grew up rather poor, and with a less than stellar family. As a result, I was bounced around a lot from home to home. One thing I learned from that is that with each move, I unpacked fewer and fewer boxes that were filled with my things. I only needed a few core things in which to be happy. If another move was only few months down the road, I didn't see a point in unpacking all of these useless items if they're just going to go back in the box again. Eventually, I realized that the stuff I didn't unpack was really just that: stuff. I didn't need it to be happy. It was really just one more thing that I had to spend time maintaining.

This minimalism, though originally born from necessity, carried over to adulthood as a simple lifestyle choice. I have a massive problem in wrapping my head around people's obsession with filling their homes with.. stuff.

In an attempt to explain the minimal lifestyle to my much younger brother the other day, I gave the example of people who shop at Kirklands (we just happened to be walking by the place when my older, and very married, sister exclaimed joy at seeing the store). The stuff in that store is little more than yard sale fodder (in my ever so humble opinion!). It's purpose is to will up a space in your home, but it means nothing to the buyer. In a week's time, it will just be another "thing;" something you bought once on a whim. In five years it will either be thrown away, sold, or in a closet somewhere because you've got to make room for ever more stuff in your house.

I've got a very simple question which I ask myself before I purchase something: "Is this item really going to make me happy?" "I cannot imagine a scenario where this fancy silverware holder, which by definition will sit in a drawer, underneath said silverware and thus rarely seen, will really make me happier than this $5 utilitarian one" (actual conversation I had with my girlfriend at Ikea, to which she replied, "but it's cuter!").

That said, I don't not buy things; I'm a sucker for the NASA lego sets, admittedly. But they have meaning to me more than a placeholder. It's an activity I do with my brothers, it is, to me, a symbol of a great human achievement, and I fudging love showing people that there's actually a little lego satellite inside the lego Shuttle. That type of thing is an experience for me. It's not just a thing, looking at it is like a mnemonic for triggering good memories I had of putting it together with family and friends. Those are the things I feel are worth filling your house with, not just stuff because "that wall could use something."
The inflection is nice, especially at the end, sometimes falling, sometimes rising. I guess this isn't yet available on desktop voice search?

Since google knows so much about me, can I say:

- what movie should I see?
- book tickets
- mark the route to the cinema

to eventually (with a self-driving car):

- take me out to the movies, google
How pricey could the best wordpress premium themes would be?
Wordpress is one of the best themes of every website. Because Wordpress is very effective and has few nice features, but handle to very easily.
At this point, author says that people like parents and grandparents have a joy of buying an actual gift and he doesn't want to take this away from them. I agree with that, if they buy you something from the wishlist then you can pay the same amount to the charity yourself, as well.
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Nice price point. I thought about going ahead and trying to get these myself, but it's hard not to just hand over the $2 and call it done.

Also, really like the simplicity of the interface. Can tell you took some time making a tool a developer would want.
The shortest I've seen is 6 months. I don't have tons of finance experience though, other banks may do it differently.
Because tracking memory allocation and ownership in a concurrent program is very hard. Programmers have to track a lot of that stuff in their heads, and it's easy to make mistakes. If the language is garbage collected, however, the programmer doesn't have to think about that.
The full page (print version) version of the article is at http://www.anandtech.com/print/6421
It can be local in many-worlds.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/q1/bells_theorem_no_epr_reality/
http://lesswrong.com/lw/q2/spooky_action_at_a_distance_the_n...
Who do you use for usenet? What for primarily? Any good?
Maybe he brought a lot of devices into our lives, but with the goal of them being "bicycles for our minds." He realised people are tool-builders, and that's exactly what he was: a great tool-builder with the goal of simplifying our demanding lifestyles.
It's not just as aesthetic addition it makes the iMac more durable.

Given that families are a big market for iMacs it seems to be common sense that you would make it as kid friendly as possible. Last thing you want is an errant toy to destroy your screen.
The excitement over voice recognition threatens to obscure the most important breakthrough in Siri, which is that Siri tracks conversational context. For example with Siri you can have this interaction:

Me: Will it be cold tomorrow?
Siri: Yes, the low temperature will be 42 degrees.
Me: What about Friday?
Siri: Looking better. The low temperature will be 58 degrees.
(exact working paraphrased)

Try this series of questions in the new Google search app. The first gives me a wiki.answers.com page as the top result, the second a Woody Allen quote.

Or try it on any conversation bot. Using pronouns to obscure the topic of conversation has always been the best way to reveal the stupid machine underneath. Siri is a little less stupid.

Google voice search cannot do this because it is fundamentally transactional--you ask one question, get one answer. It is just another interface to their web search, albeit one with seemingly great voice recognition.

Siri is not designed primarily as a search engine. It is designed to be a personal assistant and is optimized to accomplish tasks and answers certain questions in the process of doing so.
but then you have to worry about looking good while the void stares at you. :)
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Video search is even worse - see this search result, offering endless pages of the exact same video:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22CHASTE+DANCING%22&hl=...
Isn't it kind of cynical to assume the reason they are taking a picture is because they want to brag about it to their friends? I have I'm guessing 10-20k pictures I've taken in the last 12 years. I've taking probably > 1k pictures with my phone this year. I've shared less than 2% of them.

I happen to enjoy looking back at all these photos. They bring back memories of various events in my life. IMO, memories I'd likely not think of without something (like a photo) to trigger the memory.

Take more pictures not less.

Also I don't see a problem with sharing. It's not a substitute for face to face time but it's connecting with people MORE not less. Go back 25 years and you could rarely connected with anyone unless you were with them. Now you can connect all the time by sharing your experiences. Some people do it brag, most do it to share and connect. At least in my experience.
Right. The concept of 'form is function' is exclusive to Apple.

I mean what world of delusion do you live in that you would ignore the entire industry of industrial design. It's everywhere from cars to irons to cutlery to furniture. How a product is designed affects how it is used.
No, it made your life more distracted, that is all. Most of these things are not necessary just like having a phone wherever you go was just about bringing in more interruptions in your daily life and work. There are things you see, and things you do not see.
Are there any good examples of someone "hacking" the YCombinator application? The only one that comes to mind is where the founder of Instacart demonstrated that his service worked by ordering a beer for Garry. And that's not even close to anything on your list.
Wow, that's going beyond the extra mile. I'm pretty far from NYC but if I were closer I'd give you guys a hand. In lieu of that, any possibility of a "Trello Hurricane fund" which we can donate to? Would give appreciative users like me a chance to help pitch in for a team and product which has already helped so much. Maybe it'll amount to just enough for lunch or something, but I for one would feel much better knowing that I contributed a little...
Doing some kind of tedious thing that you don't want to do in order to get an advantage in the future is kind of a good attribute isn't it? That's a fair summary of some of the papers I took as an undergrad anyway.
The whole fake leadership thing that goes on in high school is pretty weak seeming other than this aspect in my opinion otherwise.
I completely agree. You sometimes hear in interviews partners talking about how some companies sometimes convince them of one thing but turn out to not be able to execute on their plans. As in they sound really convincing but don't really know what they're talking about. Of course, what is "hacking"? Most of what founders do to get into YC isn't hacking the application. Writing a good application and getting lots of feedback isn't hacking it.

Asking founders you don't know for recommendations could be but in a negative way but a recommendation isn't easy to get as it's on their back.

If you lie about or fake parts of your application the partners will very quickly pickup on this as they've seen thousands of teams and YC founders who have applied themselves. By the way, this could be considered a trick/hack to attempt to butter-up the reader and instill a level of confidence in the authors credibility.
Good to hear news from OLPC. This is an interesting piece, if a little 'fluff'y.
We have to mention the famous mathematician Paul Erdős http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of
whom bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month. Erdős won the
bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a
month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with
ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly
resumed his amphetamine use.

He also liked coffee.

Note: effective programming in the real world is absolutely not the same as mathematics - but some would argue that the essence of it is.
I don't understand this blog post. It seems to imply that lying on an application for a place like Y Combinator is commonplace, except that the author won't do it, because it's wrong! Does his implication hold? Is it really that bad?

In other news, I decided to not steal candy from little children!
Don't give Bootstrap that much credit. The only reason it got popular is due to riding on the coattails of Twitter. If something is a better project (in which I believe Foundation is having used it and been to a couple Zurb talks), it should absolutely get mentioned.

Also, I'm wondering why you're instigating something occluding to "bad blood". Are you serious? They are CSS frameworks being open sourced. This isn't Apple vs. Samsung.

Funny how you're ridiculing options but it looks like you're new here so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
It doesn't just look thinner. It is thinner. Yes, there is a hump around the base's hinge, but it is still significantly, noticeably thinner – per the article, the machine's volume was reduced by 40%.
If you are not American, do not drop out. You will have issues obtaining a US work visa without a uni degree, i.e. you cannot go to Silicon Valley, i.e. you will be at a disadvantage.
Depends. I use Sparrow and despite the coolness of the "mini text area for reply - kind of like an IM response", I often prefer opening the compose in a new window as I might be interested in cc'ing others or sending with options, layout, etc.
It was kind of a relief for me - when frequenting HN, one might get the idea that everybody and their dog uses Python for everything, religiously. It's good that there's people out there who simply accidentally forget that it exists.
So does this mean the more friends you have on Facebook, the dumber you are?
Just getting a generic web search, what am I missing?
some perspective: it's an article about a new way to compose email... not a big woop, and all the points in is irrele-rant were spot on; the blog's design antics are distracting. stop being so jerky.
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On the other hand owning stuff is cool if it doesn't clutter your life, or you don't mind your life being cluttered. If you live in a house with a few spare rooms and don't move around a lot then it is awesome to have walls of bookshelves or other things you enjoy. Or even to go through that box you put under the stairs 5 years ago and play with your old Nintendo or the like. The minimalist thing is getting really popular but IMO there is enjoyment in ownership of things, as long as the possessions don't own me.
One alternative to leaving out the questions that take a long time is to calculate the average of log(minutes).

Harder to interpret, but it accounts for the questions with long delays without letting those questions dominate the calculation.
So… you'd rather carry around a briefcase with an attached external handset as a cellphone, rather than a somewhat modern cellphone? What about carrying around a laptop with a tethered cellphone vs. a smartphone? If you prefer the latter options, as many do, then I really do believe that's a solid signal that form is function.
Well sure, and everything is fine until it isn't. It would be impossible for Manhattan to have any kind of Internet without peering and NAPs, but for hosting? I'll choose Nowheresville anytime, which I have done before.
I recently read the book _What The Dormouse Said_, which is about the early days of silicon valley computer culture and the interaction of that culture with the counter culture.

According to that book, there was a notable portion of the people in that early SV culture who at least experimented with LSD, and there was even an organization called the "International Foundation for Advanced Study" in Menlo Park that was founded by an engineer to study the possible benefits of LSD use among engineers.
What is vim like on an e-ink display? Especially the "animation" of cursor movement, text entry, text editing and scrolling