skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, this is not a well argument. Let's say you are CEO of Twitter, which in your terms is totally should be considered as a distraction. You are living your life with less items and in a less-cluttered way to focus on more important stuff. Then you create Twitter for a purpose. It could be making tons of money, it could be changing people's lives by providing them an advanced communication tool (and look around the world how Twitter can be used, how it changes the countries and governments). It also makes a distraction for most of the people. I used to read tweets during the classes, I still spend hell a lot of time in Twitter, but this is not an valid argument to accuse CEO of Twitter with being not minimalist. It has nothing to do with that. Steve Jobs took the "smart"phone idea a little bit further, of course he made rooms full of money, but he also changed the way we reach the knowledge and we connect each other, which are human needs.
Dear downvoter: What the hell? I can only assume that you clicked that button because I wrote something remotely-not-entirely-worshipful about Python, and in that case, have you really connected your identity so strongly to a single programming language that you feel comments unfriendly towards it should be invisible on a place like HN?
We called it "two beer logic" in college. The effect was real, though possibly placebo driven.
Ask HN: What are the most impressive international startups?
Outside of the US, what startups are considered the biggest/best/brightest?

I know of Soundcloud & Spotify. What else exists?
Are you sure this is a trend? Was it different some decades ago?

Also,

> -Autotuning in the music industry

Oh, come on. That's like not giving Tron an Oscar because they cheated their special effects scenes by using computers.
Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel up a staircase? I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly the most fire-safe substance. Are they literally 5-gallon pails, or are they sealed containers?
At a good college you learn as much from the other students as from your classes, and not only about CS.

It's also easier to work on side projects in college.

You should not leave college as early as this unless (a) you start something so successful that it pulls you out, or (b) you are one of the very rare people who are temperamentally unsuited to it.

Unless your college is awful, your longing for SV is a case of the grass being greener on the other side of the fence. SV is full of people who wish they were back in college.
Yes, I may have apologised in haste.
Hmm, this somehow defies common sense (but of course, its quantim mechanics, so thats a given!).

You are saying that, if theres an entangled pair, they cannot be used to transmit information that couldn't be otherwise transmitted via "conventional" means. However, if you performed the measurements, and then compared notes you will find that somehow, it looks like the measurements were "synced"?

How does it work this way? that is, how could it be the case that those measurements can be related, but you can't use that relation to transmit informatino?
Where does the 35 figure come from? being in that age group and as a founder of a business it kind of interests me.
I got a logo that I really liked on oDesk for $100. I hired 3 different designers (a couple were from India, and I forget where the third designer was from). I paid each of them about $35. One was a complete bust. The other two were pretty good.
I like Mobile Gmail much better than iPhone Mail client.
"In the old world products were scarce - this meant that companies who provided product could profit from the demand.
In the digital world, where abundance is key (creating a digital copy costs next to nothing) it is a customer's attention that has become scarce. This means that the customer now holds the value - not the company." - Chris Saad

Some people did see this commoditisation of human behavior coming back in 2005 and promoted the idea of the 'Attention Economy' which had a goal of putting people back in control of the content they create and view online with tools like the Attention Recorder from Attention Trust (now defunct, but you can read about it here http://p2pfoundation.net/Attention_Trust ).

The current idea of social is to capture much more than eyeballs and clicks of course, with checkins for places, Runkeeper and many other health apps for tracking/sharing activities, and so on... nearly everything we do is a potential data point for commercialization that a startup will want to capitalize on. This is fine if the user clearly understands the relationship.

I expect it was too early when the 'Attention Economy' ideas emerged but now perhaps we'll see projects that resurrect some of that early work and build on it to empower users of social tools to take control of both their attention and the data points they are sharing.

addl reading: http://p2pfoundation.net/Attention_Economy
Why is it so hard to find fair, grateful, appreciative employers?
Just so I'm clear this is what I understand of the situation:

You convinced a guy to reneg on a contract he had signed to join your company.

You convinced him by telling him what a great opportunity your company could offer him.

A few days later you let him go because you couldn't sustain him with work.

Am I missing something?
I currently pay $5 per month for a vps with unlimited traffic on which I run a node js server. I might possibly pay 5$ for this service, but certainly no more for applications that aren't going to have >10k users.
I think what he is trying to say is just concentrate on what you are building/creating and not whether it fits a certain buzz word which is sound advice.
I'm pretty sure Google is doing most of it on the server as well. Why do you think otherwise?
How ironic that you mention reliability as an advantage of a mostly unserviceable all-in-one.
Just as a thought experiment, how would you feel about reading a very thick magazine in which each page was blank except for a single sentence? After reading a sentence you could flip to the next page, which would also have only a single sentence. You could read all the same material, but only see one sentence at a time. Would you enjoy reading like that?

This UI is the lite version of that magazine.
Perhaps you'd care to list these pressure groups?
In fairness, I don't think there are any existing workloads that would benefit 299k cores that aren't already massively parallel :) If you need this kinda thing, your code is already going to be ready for it.

I'm with you on the Phis though. Can't wait for one to be affordable for a home machine
Haskell in Production: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel
up a staircase?

It's flammable and slippery. Wear boots, and I suggest this is a good day to quit smoking.

I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly
the most fire-safe substance. Are they literally 5-gallon pails,
or are they sealed containers?

They are open buckets we store the cleaning supplies for the fish tank in. And also now gasoline.
Customer development is not a "Startup concept" it's fundamental. If you get that wrong then you certainly shouldn't drop out.
She's enforcing a fairly long-standing California law, now proposing a new one. Kamala Harris is not my favorite politician but she is very savvy. This is not a matter of lawyers knowing nothing about technology, it's a matter of corporations ignoring the law on privacy, which is not a technological issue.
The biggest advantages they have are Supermicro, existing partherships with server sales channels and manufacturers, and most notably, memory controllers.

Modern ARM really is very near to competitive with x86, but only so long as you don't touch ram. The entire memory hierarchy of A15 or A9 is really weak compared to what is found in any x86 cpu. The most egregious example is that while A15 is much faster than Atom when doing any kind of mostly-register/L1 benchmark, it tends to lose to Atom on real benchmarks with a lot of data.

Low-latency high-speed memory controllers are really hard, and there really are only 3 companies in the world that have proven that they can build them properly (IBM, AMD, Intel). Server workloads tend to be very memory-bound, so if AMD is the only ARM server vendor with a really good memory subsystem, they can potentially do very well.
> I am routinely contacted by people asking if I am looking for work, and what they are doing seems like it could be an amazing experience, but you get comfortable in your six figure job that you love

One percent (of developers) problems.
Technically the Pebble doesn't use e-ink, which is why they call it "e-paper". It's actually a type of passive LCD which uses 1-bit of memory located along-side each and every pixel in order to keep track of state, which vastly reduces the power requirements. Unlike e-ink memory lcds still require power to maintain an image, but the amount is very small (similar to an ordinary lcd watch, for example) so battery life is still quite excellent.

This is the display the Pebble uses:
http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html
I would be curious to see the logos, if you don't mind. It would be interesting to see if I can find anything wrong with them…
"Trello is in the process of being moved to Amazon AWS where it will not be affected by further data center issues."

I guess that's called the power of positive thinking?
Apple has a monopoly on Apple. What other company can put out one new phone per year and still rake in money? HTC and Samsung wish they could do that, but they still each spread themselves over a half dozen budget phones and a new high-end phone every 3 months. Apple has built up so much good will and trust that they can do what no other company can: nothing. They can just work on one phone, all the engineering and supply chains, for an entire year before releasing it. That's why you're never going to see Android hardware like the iPhone 5. I wouldn't write off Apple quite yet.
This technique is actually equivalent to the geometric mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean#Relationship_wit...
Credit histories go as far back as 7 years, so in terms of 3 and 6 months, it is a relatively short time. This is also why it is a challenge for many young adults to receive fair credit scores.

Also, you should at least be charging one thing per credit card so they are still remaining active.

As dumb as it may sound, it is actually better for your credit score if you have around $5-$10 on your statement on any given month which achieves a higher credit score vs. paying it off entirely. This is illogical because most smart people just set it up for auto pay and pay it off entirely. Hope that helps.
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They did, but I think performance is degraded when there's no connection. When there is a connection, it's some kind of crazy hybrid approach.
And better music. And better paintings.

Many great people did drugs. But don't mess correlation with causation please. Maybe great people are just more predisposed to drugs, while drugs actually harmed them.
It's a framework, it simplifies development because you don't have to worry about building up all the little components to improve the look and feel. Instead, you use a design framework like bootstrap so you can quickly bang out an interactive site that looks ok but maybe not great but is still highly functional.

It's a way to build a website in a short amount of time without being held-back by the frankly horrendous design and layout choices that come when you use simplistic html.

P.S. No, you are not expressing "confusion", you are using "confusion" as cover for derision.
I think there is something rather more unsettling about "GrabDudes" than that you'd be calling developers "dudes."
It's incredibly myopic to argue that the mobile landscape would be better off without Android providing a compelling competitive force.
this is a tricky subject with the current state of free online education. im currently enrolled in a small tech for game design. its becoming more apparent as time goes on that everything im learning in school is easily found online. not to mention my school keeps losing all of our good instructors to full sail and Disney leaving us with fresh college graduates. for me it boils down to the quality of education im paying for. i know being in debt is apart of getting your degree but at what point do you take the leap of faith and just try to educate and grow on your own?
Irritating how the app doesn't let you clear your search terms. You can only delete a search term by entering a new one, even with "search history" disabled. Really tweaks my OCD sense.

Great app technically though. Hopefully this'll push Apple to make Siri more responsive.
If the machine is as unserviceable as you claim, then the increased reliability is indeed an advantage (or at least a mitigation). I'm not sure I see the irony.
Serviceability has nothing to do with reliability, for one.

They're designed to not be serviced by anyone - not customers, not retail staff. So, they have better quality parts that reduce return rates, and get replaced by new or refurbished units if they are lemons. Nothing wrong with the advances of mass production.
If you plan on staying in the city (SF), pick a place in SOMA, be it hotel or AirBNB a place. Its where all the startups are and convenient to CalTrain and many food places within walking distance.
As others have hinted, Android already enables this via intents. Google Now doesn't even have to be aware of the app you want to use to handle a specific action. For example, it just has to fire off a "schedule an event" intent, and Android will route that to your preferred schedule management app. There is no security hole here - it's simple event firing and consumption, except it happens across apps. Security is handled by allowing the user to select which app they want to consume the event, and annoyance is mitigated by allowing users to specify that the selected app should always be used as the default. It's a marvelous system, and is one of the design decisions that, IMO, makes Android a massively more powerful platform than iOS.

Siri must be system-level because Apple has prevented other apps from being capable of assuming system default roles. It is an effect of iOS's design, not an inherent flaw in mobile OSes.
-- Google can make a "good enough" mobile OS better than Apple can make a "good enough" search engine and mapping platform.

I think this is the heart of it right now. A "good enough" OS for Google has a bit of scroll jank and some inconsistent UI elements. "Good enough" maps for Apple will get you lost and cause you actual trouble.
Google challenges Apples Siri
I find it funny when people protest about the way social sites cheapen life experiences. Somehow it is assumed that people have an innate need for privacy. Privacy is mostly social conditioning (have you seen kids playing?). Social sites bring forward that repressed part of the human nature because they give incentives, but the drive is always there. Its just human nature, revealed. People say that they are repulsed when the curtain is lifted but who says that that isn't social conditioning too?
However, the super-thin capacitive touch e-ink display makes it incredibly light—apparently less than 100 grams

That's a big win. If the cost is low enough I think this has a lot of potential.
Except for this event. Where pretty much every DC in NY/NJ is compromised, yet no blips in us-east.
The fact is most people never actually "hack" the interview, it's just a buzzword people use to get their post boosted up higher. Most posts claiming to have "hacked" the application in reality followed best practices and had a compelling case. But admitting that doesn't get upvotes or pageviews.
> The current flash architecture is, from a building blocks perspective, identical to dynamic RAM architecture.

This is true of typical NOR flash, but not NAND flash. The smallest word you can read from typical, modern NAND is 8kB. This is not a feature of the controller, but of the way the bit array is laid out. While you could build this memory bus out of NOR, it would be quite expensive -- NAND is not only much more dense, but because it's a commodity with a lot of competition, cost per mm^2 is also much lower than NOR.
HSPA+ at 42mbps is still Pretty Damn Fast, even if it's not LTE. I'd have loved for there to be an LTE variant, but I don't think it's a dealbreaker given the alternatives.
Here is the message that I am getting from this.

They are applying. They don't think they will get in. They are setting up the excuse in advance that they aren't willing to try to do anything that looks like cheating to get in, with the subtext that if they wanted to they could do it. And then if they lose they will have planted doubt about the actual qualifications of anyone who did get in. They didn't deserve it, they cheated.

Yeah, right. As has been noted, the interviewers are competent enough to catch obvious BS. If "hacking" the application works, the #1 reason is because the mentality required to attempt that is a positive characteristic in the minds of the interviewers.

Doubt that? These are people who ask on the application, Tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage? They WANT people who try to spot an angle and exploit it. That kind of person tends to be more likely to succeed in a startup. Someone who follows rules because they are there does not. If they notice you trying to find an angle to manipulate them, and you're not obviously sucking while you do it, do you think it goes down as a positive or a negative? Positive, right?
thanks for actually trying this!

I'll be watching to see how it turns out.
Strawman, I never claimed that industrial design should be ignored.
Strawman, I never claimed any of those things. Stop putting words in my mouth.
Do a study. Find a reasonable test for analytical skills (and maybe a couple other tests to keep the study's purpose unclear), then get a few thousand people to take it. One of the questions should be the order of magnitude number of Facebook friends you have.

If you're correct, you should see a correlation.
Android 4.1 introduced local voice recognition, and I expect they put some of that juice into this product. It works incredibly fast in either case.
> But as you (wmf) point out it hasn't been done yet (other than internal NAND flash for embedded devices)

It's not done there either. When NAND is used in such applications, it is usually copied over to volatile ram before use.
This was absolutely the first thing I noticed on the Apple website. Where is the profile shot? http://i.imgur.com/OvNJO.jpg
Indeed.

Why is it crazy to think that people just want something to work and look nice? It's an argument that I see people have to make on HN all... the... time.
The GNex has a pentile screen. Reports are that the Nexus 4 has an IPS display, so it should be appreciably sexier.
Title should be "nVidia GPUs", not "nVidia GPU cores".
Has minimalism gone too far?
I am a minimalist at heart, but practicality & utility override any and all desire for a minimal UI.

To a degree minimalism increases usability, cuts down on distractions with other links to other articles,media,etc and lets the user focus on the article or whatever work they're doing if its a desktop app.

To be quite frank I'm sick of websites with three miles of whitespace on both sides of an 80 character wide column article text and no navbar or links to get to the website's homepage.

examples (from HN's top articles about 30 mins ago)
http://mkronline.com/2012/10/30/you-arent-imagining-it-the-web-is-a-mess/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-most-advanced-voice-search-has.html
http://joel.is/
I'll admit, to a degree, some of it is bad coding/design using fixed sizes in pixels instead of relative sizes for things (em) so the page renders the same independent of screen resolution.

The same sort of thing is going on with desktop applications, menus and options are getting ganked and hidden.
example: http://uberwriter.wolfvollprecht.de/

Eventually if designers/developers don't get a grip on the faux minimalism fad I have a feeling the UI of the future will be a blank (white) page with a single button in the center for everything.

I really can't be the only one who feels this way.

PS: for "minimalism" done right IMO see http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/ the sidebar layout is functional and fairly bare, but it still suffers the whitespace problem on the right side.
Actually, I'm not sure the novelizations of those would suck. It's been ~30 years since I've read a Star Wars book, granted, but AFAIK the original novel, which was credited to George Lucas himself (as if), was ghost-written by Alan Dean Foster -- who I believe was actually consulting with Lucas while the movie was in production, and had some influence on what we actually saw on screen. Foster wrote a sequel to Star Wars called Splinter of the Mind's Eye which was originally intended to be the story used for the second movie.

Having said all that, I would put fairly high odds on Disney ignoring the "Expanded Universe" stuff and actually going with whatever Lucas claims was his original idea for episodes 7-9, unless the ideas suck so much that they think they'll be box office flops.
I tried this app on my wife's iPhone and I swear the voice transcription is _faster_ than my GS3. It looks faster than the Jelly Bean demos you can find on Youtube too. Whatever magic they are doing on iOS, it would be nice if they brought it to Android soon as well. :D
There was a time (first 6 months in the life of StackOverflow) where pretty much all questions would get answers within minutes. I was somewhat active on it and to me it was like an RPG game of trying to get more and more points. It was damn addictive.

Then, somehow it got boring and complicated, and I stopped playing. I don't exactly remember what or how that happened, but it was a mixture of new rules and confusing features.

I haven't played there for more than 2 years, but I'm still in the top 2%, and best of all, I still get points from all my previous contributions. When I stopped, I had around 8k points; now I have 19k points.

StackOverflow was way more fun (and useful) at the beginning.

I think a major factor is that simply, all the basic and interesting questions already got asked. New questions these days tend to be very specific and complicated.
Looks like you're a firm believer, so I ask, is MWI by your definition falsifiable?

Do any experiments past, current or future purport to test predictions made from MWI?

While MWI may make sense in a universal reading of QM, I'm not sure we can simply extrapolate this onto the macro level, despite it's pragmatic successes over the last century. IMHO QM itself, still feels like a temporary hack (shim), when compared alongside ER.

Until we have a TOE, it may be too presumptuous to be making positive assertive claims on the correlation between the MWI model and reality.
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I would suggest that visionary is never having the prediction of exactly how it will turn out but having the faith that this is the right direction and the details will resolve in time
A web service that makes it easier to debug problems that users of my website are encountering, by recording all console log statements and letting me filter and search on various dimensions. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4081806

I'm not sure how many other people want this. But you'd be saving developer-hours, which are worth a lot, and could charge accordingly.
Don't overlook the South Bay. Lots of places to visit there too - Intel Museum, Tech Museum, Computer History Museum, Lick Observatory, NASA Ames...
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