skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F1 is more about advertising than about pushing technology to the limit.

It would be trivial for all tesms to build much faster F1 cars. Lots of technological innovations got banned because they made racing too dull or too fast. Examples are turbo engines with engines at are equal in size to non-turbo engines, the 'use a vacuum pump to suck the car to the ground in corners' trick, the 'electronic gear switching' trick, variable angle wings, and KERS (allowed, but drivers cannot use it as often as they want)
This is really idiotic. What are they trying to do? Make sure that all the top users flock to App.net or somewhere else?
This is why we ship bits, not boxes.

The changes are fundamental.
From the data it looks as though if anything, we should be calling them "negative Nancys".
Seconded, I'd like to know this too!
Balanced is awesome. Really helpful people!
Probably because the HTML replacements for this suck more on Android
Can you delete the bundled Office? It seems like an included app that can be deleted shouldn't count against MSFT.
And "Ho-Ho"s, but since they are baked goods with a shelf-life measured in days/weeks (not years as is commonly assumed), having them produced close to their markets reduces shipping time, but demands more facilities and therefore more employees.
Anyone else think, Bad Luck Brian's first union job!?
At which time they'll probably still be "fresh".
Ripplewood Holdings injected $120M into Hostess to allow it to keep operating - what do you bet that $120M is a loan secured by the value of the brand names? It is all private dealing so there is no way to be sure but I am sure Twinkees and Wonder bread will be for sale next year - baked by non-union bakers and delivered by non-union drivers
email address validation should not be motivated by what is valid address by some RFC, but what you feel confortable passing to your MTA, because you have exact understanding of what will happen. On the application side you probably don't want to store adresses with comment and real name fields and other such only human readble data. My rules are: contains exactly one @, contains zero or more +, does not contain any other characters that are special cased by this (notably ',', ';' and '!').
I think some people might call this "biting the hand that feeds you". Or at least the hand that got you started.
David was the one who taught me about the Will Rogers phenomenon. Merely by reclassifying something, you can make it look like all categories improve, while overall no improvement happened.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers_phenomenon
It's not on or even really near any existing trail that would make it useful as a rest stop for hikers. It's about 300m from the road up to a bunch of the most expensive houses in whister, and anybody who can find it can stop in.
There's no need to 'seize' it, just leave it as is. which is exactly what's happening - it's been sitting there for a couple years now and nobody has torn it down, seized it, vandalized it, broken it, or hurt it in any other way. It just sits there as an interesting artifact for anybody who wants to stop by and take a look.
While I've disagreed a lot with a lot of Marco's blog posts, gotta say he's totally right on this one. Actually this is bigger than Twitter, as any new platform that comes out that wants Devs to develop for their API needs to be treated with a certain cynicism: if the platform gets big enough, they'll likely cut you out.

I wonder if this trend between FB, Twitter, etc. is going to ruin the ability for new companies and new platforms to attract free development by third parties?
If you build a company around someone else's free API, you're either a high stakes gambler or a moron.
*The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.”

Exactly, that's precisely the message they wanted you to have.

What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.

I don't get anyone is surprised, it's Twitter's ecosystem and if you're duplicating their functionality then it's perfectly reasonable of them to not make any special exemption. If you wrote a client that exposed twitter to new markets or something that added value to Twitter then they'd likely give you a higher limit, but that's not the case...
What Fortune Didn't Say in Its Bezos Cover Story
This is a fine argument to make, but you don't make it with a lawsuit. You make it with publicity--negative publicity. Just telling Google and Apple should be enough; I'm sure they would be more than happy to spread the word. :-)
The team had elite and, for tech, senior talent from
Twitter, Google, Facebook, Craigslist, Quora, and some
of Chicago's own software companies such as Orbitz and
Threadless

21st century SWAT team.
> And thanks for the completely unnecessary downvote.

Have another, for whining about it!
So am I the only person seeing a Democrats (Big Goverment services) way of doing things vs a Republicans (multiple layers of crony capitalists contractors) in the comparison of the efficacy of Narwhal Vs Orca?

I can't be the only one?
Craft Night 01 - Analog Stop-Motion Goes Digital
You know, back before APIs were all the rage, people wrote clients for web services by scraping. Twitter really wouldn't be able to do anything about a Twitter client that pretended to be IE9.
I recommend avoiding XML. Its the most nuanced markup/data representation language there is.
With varying amounts of content.
I'd like to see the reverse: don't let the project go through unless it raises at least two or three times the minimum goal. Okay I know that wouldn't actually work because people would start taking it into account, but the problem is that people always underestimate what projects will cost; the most likely failure mode is you get the money you ask for, the project is unexpectedly hard and the money runs out long before you're done. Of Kickstarter projects that have actually delivered products, I bet many have been saved only by the raised money far overshooting the underestimated minimum goal.
I think "nobody" is a bit inaccurate:

Seattle PI (AP): "The Irving, Texas, company said a nationwide strike crippled its ability to make and deliver its products, which also include Ding Dongs, Ho Ho's and Home Pride bread."

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/texas/article/Twinkie-maker-Ho...

MSN (Reuters): "Nearly 18,500 workers will lose their jobs as the company succumbs to the crippling effects of a nationwide union strike."

http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=6d7b095e-e558...

Read other articles this morning (sorry I don't have them on-hand) that are also pinning this on strikes, mostly because AFAIK Hostess is trying to pin it on the strikes.
Knowing how MS works, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the space taken up by "Office" is actually taken up by libraries that have to be there for any app to work, so even if the Office apps could be deleted, it wouldn't reclaim much space.
Unless you work for Twitter, I'd say you're right, and rightly so. Don't depend on someone else's API, how many times must history repeat itself before this message sinks in.
I'm not sure it's fair to assume the result would be any different if the union had acted different. Hostess had plenty of unrelated financial problems.
Treeshruggers
I get that they're showing Android 2.3 (which is still the most popular), or at least I assume it isn't earlier than 2.3, but this is definitely fixed on Android 4.0 and above which would've been nice to mention. Screenshot: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0NZ9_re99x1VzlKVldwNGRhMWc/...
and if i remember correctly, this regexp should also accept foovax!example.com!john.doe, which is certainly something you do not want to accept
Considering that I don't know a single real-life person that is on app.net, I wouldn't consider it an alternative to anything.
Y Combinator Grads Hate on Silicon Valley at NYU Panel
I like it a lot. Would be nice if I could fill in my own number...
2013 is the year of open allocation: http://www.quora.com/Software-Development-Methodologies/What...

As the bubble deflates (slowly, because it came up slowly) engineers are realizing that they're probably not going to make $50 million on their 9th-employee startup equity and retire at 27, which means they need to optimize for something different: plan B, for most of them, is interesting work and career development. This is to the detriment of companies that "seem like" they could be worth billions based on macroscopics, but that really don't have better cultures than any other corporation. However, it provides an opportunity to drink the rest of the tech world's talent milkshake: learn from companies like Valve and Github and build a culture actually worth caring about.
How To Increase Your Conversions With Narrative Web Forms
>Also, their downfall probably had more to do with a change in social perception that they couldn't do anything about. Everyone knows that Twinkies are "bad for you".

My anecdotal experience says otherwise ;)

http://jamespanderson.tumblr.com/post/35851757029/people-are...
I make extensive use of screen sharing, OneNote, and a wacom tablet. It works out pretty well, but you are right, it's not as nice as a whiteboard.

I've toyed around with the whole wiimote / projector idea as a cheap collaborative whiteboard. Sadly my company is not as open to "out of the box / off the wall" ideas as I am. It wouldn't be as useful if the other side didn't participate in the same way.

Perhaps there is a product / startup idea here. A projector with a camera built in, or something like that.

The HP Touchsmart computers would probably be an easier way to go. It would be nice if somebody marketed touch capabilities as an augmentation to traditional computer interaction rather than as a primary interface.
Does it have conditional breakpoints and tracing breakpoints? I find the latter mostly entirely eliminate the need to sprinkle printf-equivalents to follow complex flows. For full disclosure I work on VS, but not the debugger or in Javascript, and I really don't know about Chrome's dev tools, but having seen some people's approaches to debugging JS, it feels like it is in a relatively primitive state from what I am used to in other languages.
I can solve his problem for $21.64 on Amazon: http://amzn.to/XhLWTY

This guys is a fool. Let's be glad his target is MS and not some startup that didn't live up to his "expectations".
I've been in the US since birth and I write in the YYYY-MM-DD format on all documents.
Or out for a quick buck without any expectation to build a lasting business.
Can someone explain the whole frozen jeans thing? That sounds weirdly awesome. Particularly in the summer.
I've seen that many times. back button sends me to where I was scrolled, not where my eyes have been. a link to the anchor sends me exactly to the line I was reading.
app.net is still laughable as a replacement for twitter. With the new apps it's now convenient to use a feed aggregation service that only accepts feeds from rich people, but it's still a feed aggregation service that only accepts feeds from rich people.
There a pretty big gulf between usable and pretty. Ugly doesn't mean unusable, and pretty doesn't mean usable.

Applications need UX usablilty. Cornflower Blue icons can come later.
I suspect (with no specific knowledge of the situation, just pattern recognition) that a problem was that the contracts were negotiated when times were good. But since food has very little IP protection besides the brand name, they eventually lost out on ways to distinguish Hostess® Twinkee®s from Generic Snake Cake With Cream Filling that can be just as good but made more cheaply.
True, but in this case the "fine print" is simply the technical details of how much of the 32 GB is actually available to the user, which MS does not make obvious, but which is available if you look for it. Lawyers, of course, are supposed to be experts at finding those kinds of details in documents, which is why I thought it amusing that this lawyer is basically admitting that he didn't bother to look below the surface.
The strike is crippling them. But the strikes themselves aren't the systemic cause of Hostess Brands bankruptcy, which started long before this round of strikes. Demand for Hostess offerings is down, and Hostess' overhead is atypically high for its industry.
Others might call it "getting big-timed"
There are a number of reasons why early detection is often oversold as a way to improve survival rates (which is not to say that early detection is bad, it just might not always help). The article doesn't seem to reference all of them directly, though I'll admit to skimming a bit. Here's a brief list, paraphrased from here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20938/

Lead-Time Bias: The earlier you detect, the earlier the clock on your survival starts. 5/10 year survival rates go up simply because the cancer is at an earlier stage when we started tracking how long people survive, not because early detection necessarily lead to more effective treatment.

Length Bias: More screening means a higher probability of finding cancers which would have stayed relatively benign for a very long time (as opposed to cancers presenting very obvious symptoms). Survival rates appear to go up simply because you're detecting less threatening cancers. I believe the article references this idea.

Overdiagnosis: Heavy screening means finding cancers that may never have become threatening at all (as the referenced link states, an extreme example of length bias). Survival rates go up, but not because screening helped. It's been suggested that countries which screen more often have better survival rates simply because they find cancers which would have benignly resolved themselves and gone unnoticed in countries which screen less often.

Patient Self-Selection: Patients who seek out screening may be more likely to live healthy lifestyles.
Was the OP the creator of the survey? I got the impression it was simply using data from a survey. Not that this changes your point.
I don't mean to be disrespectful but here is my 2 cents:

1. Limiting applications is a really stupid idea. Imagine if all the bad applications filed early and filled the quota.

2. YC decides what best/right for the selection process. None of us have a right to question that. By submitting our application, we are agreeing to this condition implicitly.

3. I am not sure why you consider "watching the videos" as the only form of due diligence to the application. They may have read your application and might have decided just based on that and might have not felt the need to watch the video.

4. "725k raised ..." - I dunno why many startup founders seem to wear "investments" like a "badge of success". I would have sympathized with you if you had instead written - "725k of revenue and dozens of happy customers". Just because someone decided to invest in you, does not mean everyone else has to or that your idea / startup will succeed.

5. "serial entre.... " - why do you need YC? go get what you are worth.

6. "please review applications in full" -- We all sometimes decide to NOT watch a movie, just based on a short 2 minute trailer. There might be no need to read your application in full - you could not grab their attention with whatever little they read.

As I mentioned, I don't mean to be disrespectful - but the tone of your thread is more accusatory than of one respectfully making a suggestion.

All the best!
Is the Save PDF to Evernote feature built in? I can right something via watched folders, but I don't seem to have this.

Yojimbo did, and it was nice ;)
How can you not care about innovation and the future of your industry?
No, they're making sure users flock to twitter.com instead. And it's been effective, since I use the web interface instead of Tweetbot now!
Tree-totalers.
In a liquidation the common stock holders get nothing until all claims are paid. Who are the biggest creditors to Hostess? I will bet you dollars to donettes that Ripplewood holdings is somehow a creditor and not a stockholder. The money from the sale of the valuable brand names will surely flow to them; someone will start making Wonder bread and Twinkees free of legacy union liabilities; and the share of national income that flows to working people will notch down again.
It's interesting that they didn't do a re-organizational bankruptcy, which would say "get us out from under (union and other) contracts and we can compete again." They are doing a liquidation bankruptcy.

The name brands may well survive, like the pets.com dog did, but it will be at other companies.

EDIT: as child comments point out, they were in re-org and have now collapsed into liquidation
Have a look at their blog for some success stories:

http://blog.rubymotion.com/

Here is a great RubyMotion tutorial:

http://rubymotion-tutorial.com/
I imagine you'd also be happy to buy a car advertised as "seats 5", then you have to spend more money to buy a 5th seat?

EDIT: Let me update my analogy a little - let's say the car is advertised as "seats 5", and when you get it, you can only put a small child in the 5th seat (1/2 a person). To seat a 5th adult, you have to buy an extra seat.

Still happy?
I don't know actually. It's just quite easy to come across rude here without meaning to.
I've found that some people are perfectly fine working from home without a separate 'work' space, and some aren't. It definitely feels like something that varies from person to person and situation to situation. For example, working at home when you live by yourself is different than if you live with your wife (stay-at-home mom) and child.

I've found that I need to be in a certain mindset to really focus on work, and sometimes that's hard to achieve at home. I found myself really forcing myself to work against my focus, and that tended to cause stress. (Though it's also possible it was just an indicator that I needed to find another job)

I also think that working remotely without much physical contact with 'the office' is definitely a detriment. Going to 'the office' once every couple of months can help you feel more in-touch with your team/co-workers.
> What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.

Native > Web, if you do it right. Web has a lot of UX limitations native apps don't have.
My job didn't start as a remote working deal. I worked at my company for 8 years in the office. Then I got married and was going to move. I was fully prepared to get a new job though. At the time it wouldn't have taken long. But I liked my job and was good at it, so I said I'd like to continue remotely. After discussing for a few months we decided it was worth trying.

It's been working well for 6 years now.
I've had a bot blocked by Myspace when I resorted to that. They started redirecting all my requests to " http://google.com ". And I was just working on an old Thinkpad running Ubuntu server in my dorm room, so I have to think blocking me was an automated response.

I'm sure Twitter knows how to block crawlers, especially ones that they're actually aware of.
It is surprising that their response does not include a call to action with respect to their business development team. Why isn't there a 'click here to sign up to by a 10,000,000 token' link in that email? Now granted the result might be the same, people not developing for their API but at least they could get value pricing information as part of the transaction.
Yeah I thought this, however there are some useful gems in there, the Javascript embedded in SVG images being one example.

It's just a pity the good content is so watered down with dozens of obvious "you should sanitised user input" examples and variations of the same attacks.
It's so sad to watch such a lively lovely service remove the fun by destroying the values that made it great.
Meanwhile we are sitting here saying "charge us money, you fools", and they are deaf to us.
Twitter: your online site is usability hell, your own clients are dated and painful. Above all we have one question: why? Why are you intent on this path of foolishness based on placing customers and developers last?
To what end? You're going to base a business on scraping twitter.com? That sounds like a much worse idea than trying to work within the API.
Well, it certainly sounds like you're more than capable of working really hard and achieving good grades. Having to struggle isn't a bad thing - the key is learning to enjoy the feeling (not easy, I'll admit).

At least where I went to school they had family student housing for grad students who were married. Going to grad school would likely involve you taking a student loan, but then you'd be able to make more money afterwards.

Keep in mind that while you're under 30 (and assuming you don't yet have kids and a mortgage) you have a lot more room and leeway to take risks than later in life. Don't lock yourself into misery too early in life. :)
Say it now.
That's a ridiculous statement. Unless you are as vertically integrated as Apple, you can't avoid dependencies on someone else's APIs.
Unless I misunderstand Bitcoin more than I think I do, this is flat-out wrong (~1/3 of the way through the document):

(U) What Users Can Do To Increase Anonymity
...
• (U) Combine the balance of old Bitcoin addresses
into a new address to make new payments.

Combining balances just means you have a bunch of disparate nodes in the network which may not be related, and you are intentionally connecting them. So if you combined anonymous nodes A-Y with Z which was linked to you, A-Y are now logically linked to you because Z tainted the whole pool. (edit: or at the very least, all the money in A-Y)

Yeah, there are ways to make it true/er, but I'm arguing against the principle of the suggestion. And I have doubts that combining (only your) addresses will ever increase anonymity.
- Great list. Having gone through all of this I can tell you it's very expensive and time consuming to do all of this, but it is prudent.

- 83B 83B 83B! This one cost me over $100,000 in a deal, and at one point came close to killing a venture financing in the 11th hour - all because an attorney told us we were all set (when we weren't). Make sure your attorney and accountant have startup experience, and don't be afraid to ask the opinion of others. It's incredible how one sheet of paper can totally kill your business.

- I disagree with the PayPal suggestion. A check is more valuable to me as a vendor since i don't have PayPal taking out their fees. This is substantial money if you are talking about thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.
I'm sure Twitter would block bots doing unuserlike things. But isn't the point of a Twitter client to do userlike things?
> go on to do profit especially in order of millions(in case of Pebble watch) can be very frustrating for a VC/investor.

It probably depends on the VC/investor -- the hands-off investor it not bummed because these guys are learning manufacturing. That's expensive. The Pebble guys had a working prototype and expected to ship production Pebbles in September of this year; they're not even in production runs yet. Not getting down on them, just pointing out the not-so-obvious: manufacturing is really hard to get right.
I agree that this sort of advertising (physical space vs. useful space) is deceptive. However, it's practically standard practice; and a sadly reasonable argument could be made that consumers shouldn't expect all of the advertised space to be available, as it rarely is. My 32GB iPad only ever lets me see 28. The Razr M is worse; it explicitly states it has 8GB, but the same screen[0] makes it clear you're only ever going to use half (with no good apparent reason). Nintendo even made a video to explain that you won't even be able to use half of the 8GB Wii U's storage[1].

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/aldhpg4x6q7cbyp/2012-11-16%2013.38...

[1] http://kotaku.com/5960438/nintendo-explains-the-wii-us-stora...