skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that learning the Standard Template Library (STL) would give you a solid basis. Also, read up on how Facebook has made C++ a significant part of their process. This could spark some ideas in terms of applying the technical skills to a very relevant (and current) challenge. Maybe you'll be inspired to begin a project on Github?
How are percentages supposed to reflect frequency?

Consider re-wording your question to something like:

What percentage of your SMS messages are related to questions like "Where are you?"
Thank you! That link is very informative.
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In this context, the word authoritarian refers to government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism.
The patent system may need fixing, abolishing in certain fields or even complete abolition but that doesn't mean FRAND abusers are worse than all other sorts of patent trolls because there is no way to work around them.

FRAND is a necessary part of keeping the dysfunctional system working at all and while I see no prospect of patents overall being abolished I don't think that is a bad thing.

What is the difference between an illegal cartel of competitors fixing the market and a standards setting body?

The answer lies in the rules standards bodies put in place to ensure that OTHER companies not in the group can compete in the market created around the standard. One of these rules is FRAND commitments on patents to ensure that standards body members that get their patents into the standard (which they nearly try to and do) cannot just try to claim ALL the profit from every competitor by setting significant license fees.

Edit: Typos/spelling errors. Unfortunately can't fix "it's" in my other comment though.
I'd wager that being likely to mistype one's own e-mail address correlates highly with not realizing you can copy/paste between the fields.
Whatever happened to just returning the device? Seems like a much simpler solution. If enough people return the device if it doesn't fit their needs, then companies will get the message.
Fortune Magazine asked five of its writers for things like best device, best acquisition, best news blog, etc. One of those writers picked the Chromebook. The others picked the iPad Mini, Samsung Galaxy S3, MacBook Pro Retina 15", and Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite.

In the absence of a print version, increment the 2.html by 5 (2, 7, 12, 17, 22.html) to reach each review independently.
*Conditions Apply.
Thanks for the feedback, we obviously need to improve the amount of info on the site. I would say the biggest pros compared to Unity is that you can change your games while they run on your mobile devices, without needing to rebuild/restart which gives an iteration-cycle of about 1 second. We have also specialized the toolset of 2D (tiled graphics etc), but the engine is 3D behind the scenes. We are a service so the pricing is completely different. The biggest con is of course that Unity has been around for much longer so they have a bigger feature set, larger community and proven technology. But we will get there in time. :)
"I guess I'm not clear what the expectation of crowdsourcing is."

And this is exactly my point. :) I don't think most people are clear -- or at least can't agree -- about their expectations for crowdsourcing, including the users of Kickstarter. The only thing that seems to be clear is that a lot of funders assume that crowdsourcing means crowd-buying. Whereas a lot of project launchers tend to think crowdsourcing means X, Y, Z, what have you. There's a disconnect between these expectations.
If often thought about making an HTML5 fallback library for browsers that don't support features like this, or to make up for lack of localization, or to clean up ugly/unusable implementations.

Does such a project exist?
They are a much smaller operation, which means you'll get the personal touch. On the minus side the API is less robust and there is little to no documentation when you need it, I'd give it a stab if I were you, they made it very easy to migrate over!
> Guys, how do you figure out the weak points of your application that led to rejection? Is there a way we can get a feedback on the areas we need to improve.

To be able to make a claim of originality, the developer should figure out how to improve his product without anyone holding his hand. If on the other hand a specific reason for rejection were to be given, doesn't the critic have the right to benefit from the fruit of his free engineering advice?

People end up liking new, innovative products for reasons they may not fully understand. Rejection should play by the same rules.

> ... but without a feedback it's really difficult to understand why the application was rejected.

Yep. Just like real life, where individuals sort out reality on their own.
You also acknowledge, in the text, that autotools gets some hate, and you justify its use and your inclusion of it in the book.

My sense of the book so far-- though I've only had it for a day or two-- is that it's pretty balanced in terms of avoiding evangelical fervor for any one tool or approach.
Thanks irollboozers! Looking forward to having you on board.
The fact that working from home is still, relatively, rare in 2012 is baffling to me. When I think how many useful team interactions I have in a day vs. the amount of waste on meetings that either aren't necessary at all or could be more easily done via IM / e-mail it always surprises me. Of course this relies on self-managing, responsible individuals and a team with a good level of trust / communication, so perhaps that is where the fundamental difficulty lives. That and it does make it more apparent that some people aren't really required except to manage the overhead (bureaucracy) they themselves generate.
Its not supprising, concerning but there again in the UK we have just elected heads of UK police forces out of a pool of people who have no policing experience with a vote turn out below 20% in most cases.

Sad thing is this will only mean more playground insult opertunities.

But the fair point is that she admits her limitations, would it not be more concerning if there was somebody who did not know there limitations.
love this! I'm in Tahoe, but enjoy guys and gals.
Stream: A new private journaling and social sharing app for mobile on crowdtilt
Yes, I'm sure this lawyer (cough) is merely unsatisfied with the product he purchased.
Good point, we should show plenty more things on the site. The problem right now is that we are so fresh that we have little content to show. As people start releasing their games we will add screenshots.
Well, it looks like premium Usenet + SSL is still the way to go.
I would be absolutely delighted if type hinting made its way into CoffeeScript somehow.
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It's as though feminism never happened.
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31 is a perfect age. But so is 18, 24 and 42.

Side discussion - "And I want to be the next Steve Jobs."

These type of statements always irk me. I have no evidence to support my claim but I suspect that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. rarely publicly stated they want to "be the next XYZ". Rather they had a vision to _do_ something bigger. For example, Gates' vision was to "put a computer in every home". These types of realities take decades, not just years. Most people can't think this far ahead.
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Hehe, a few of us thought that too once we had the logo in-place. We hoped no one else would make that association, we were obviously wrong. :) Another fun fact, our favicon on the site is almost identical to the new Microsoft logo, but we had it first. :)
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The brand will be bought by yet another company, and the snack cakes will be produced again. This is the umpteenth time they've been sold.
Ask HN: Is really Y Combinator selection process fair?
Now there is a new filter: “Alumni will review & filter applications”. In our case, none of the Alumni or Partners viewed our YC W2013 materials including Founders URL, Video How it works and Full beta, all of them with 0 views.

They didn´t care if we were a Founder and a Co-Founder with good serial entrepreneur and execution history; raised 725K for this startup; executed and developed a full “Fintech” platform ready to launch.

Reading more than 200 applications per day could be overwhelming and finding the next Google between more than 2,000 applications is like finding a needle in a haystack but YC definitely needs to improve the selection process. Ideas:

a) Start limiting the number of applications per batch (Honestly I prefer that each batch have a limited number of applications. With that limit, Partners will review each one. Alumni are very smart but they are busy building their own startups and don´t have the experience, vision, to screen apps like the Partners.

b) If you involve Alumni they really need to review all the applications and all the materials. People spent a lot of time on the applications; at least they deserve the right to be reviewed in full and if they reject an application is because they really make a good job reviewing it.

c) Now you can apply even if you don´t have an idea. Also make a different application process for groups that are more advanced like almost ready for launch or launched.

We were only asking for the 10 minutes interview like all other groups. YC means for us: a) The best mentoring, b) Feedback, c) Knowledge and Networking

YC: You have the right to reject any group but please review the applications in full. Anyway we are continuing with or without YC. This is only a friendly note to the great people (Partners & Staff) at YC.
Opera has had this for a while now, fantastic that this is catching on. Imagine not needing some jQuery widget to choose dates and times PROPERLY. Wow, I can't wait!

http://lostinthegc.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/how-to-style-the...
Twinkies + Liquidation = Best. Milkshake. Ever.
Ripped from a source you have legal access is undetectable in most cases.

Downloading a copy over the net that someone else ripped can be detectable.

That being said, I agree that piracy is just piracy. In my mind grabbing something from bittorrent/usenet is the same as using a VPN provider to stream from a different country, is the same as watching an illegal streamed copy on some website, is the same as ripping a copy from a friend/public library.

Did you pay to access it? Does the copyright holder make it freely available? No?

Then it's piracy.
Sorry, the 'arrogance/condescension' comes from the remembered horror of having to deal with autotools too many times. Repeatedly among the most unpleasant experiences with technology I've ever had.

I don't think it is fair to accuse me of "blaming the user", as though that were horrific and plainly wrong, just because I want nothing to do with that nonsense again.
Hah :D. A friend of mine used this term wrt to Roomba (robotic vacuum cleaner) having high WAF (and implying that his 3D printer hobby has a much lower one). Good to know this term is in use :).
The answer is not more leisure time, but more time to learn and to be creative
Just saw a pitch in NYC where they said that less than 3% of their users disable push notification, so they reasoned that this means push is the notification of choice. We spoke afterwards, and it seems like outright deletes were low as well (no number here), so it seems like this sort of abuse is not punished (like I think it should be) by users. Unless we get better feedback mechanisms, this sort of abuse will continue.
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I don't mind these html5 items coming to all browsers, but I hope it will become possible to style these to your own needs, with vendor-prefixes or something alike. Because if you have a dark site it does become really annoying to have a bright white datepicker popup. Of course you could also just ignore these input types and roll your own based on javascript but what's the use than of this sort of enhancements..
I have almost 10 years on you. I started my first business at 23, and sold my 5th 4 years ago before starting this one.

In my 20's, I was smart enough to know everything, and it cost me a lot of learning. Those entrepreneurs have advantages, mind you. A single minded purpose, a refusal to accept the status quo, and the notion (by investors) that you can be trained, molded, and focused.

In my 30's, I was smart, and chasing validation, victories, crushing competition of all shapes and sizes, and basking in the glory of success. I achieved some cool things, I spent a boat load of money on stupid stuff, and I started to learn how to be an adult.

I'm now at the beginning of my 40's. I understand far more. I piss off far fewer people, and I have a wisdom that propels me towards happiness and fulfilment, but I still have a fierce hunger for success, crushing competition, and tearing a hole in the status quo.

Now, however, I know exactly how to do it. I make far fewer mistakes, build bridges instead of walls, and have a rolodex filled with decision makers, allies, and mentors.

I work, constantly. Booze, women of questionable morals, and flashy toys don't have the allure they once had. I get shit done, and leave the chest thumping to the kids.

The spin on young founders comes from a different world, and it's not altogether wrong, but it requires a 500 Startups approach (invest in a bunch and hope a few make it).

Older founders have a much higher rate of success, if they can handle the psychological pressures that come with it.

If you're doing it to get rich, you'll most likely fail. If you're doing it for a lifestyle, the odds are stacked against you. If you're doing it to be cool, well, save yourself some money and buy a Mazerati.

If you're doing it because you have an obsession with the problem, and you can't sleep because you need to see it solved, and you can enlist others to be soldiers in your army to fight this obvious injustice/inefficiency, then you have a very strong chance of success.

Don't be a founder just to check it off your bucket list, do it because you have no choice but to follow/create your destiny.

Best of luck.
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The position is indeed well known, and it is also well known to be poorly supported by facts or legal reasoning, and rather supported by fringe figures like the parental post mentioned.

But we will not get anywhere in this discussion: if someone's mind is closed, it is hard to deal with that.
Do a startup, see if it works. If you're doing anything else, or thinking of doing anything else, then no matter what age you are, it's probably wrong for you.
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Check out http://swtch.com/plan9port/, it's a huge project that runs on (to quote the site) Linux (x86, x86-64, PowerPC, and ARM), FreeBSD (x86, x86-64), Mac OS X (x86 and Power PC), NetBSD (x86 and PowerPC), OpenBSD (x86 and PowerPC), SunOS (Sparc).

It uses a shell script to do a little bit of config, then bootstraps mk (a Bell Labs successor to make) and builds everything from some very human-readable mkfiles. When you want to build, you just untar the source and run ./INSTALL
I posted this on the blog:

I worked remotely frequently at my last job (which I left a few months back, so the experiences are still pretty fresh). I discovered that being in the right environment is absolutely key…and absolutely non-static. I did some of my best work on the bus to the coffee shop (and in those same coffee shops as well). Conversely, I’ve hardly been able to work while at home because of the lack of noise (weird, I know.).

White noise and chatter helped me think, and fending off the distractions was pretty easy because I was in a zone where I was most productive.

Nice reference to the Pomodoro Technique; I’ve, unknowingly, done variations of this technique and it works really, really well. It’s exactly like exercising.
Very true, we wanted the web design to welcome people not accustomed to game dev, but we might have pushed it a bit too far. The software is surprisingly unlimited in what you can do with it, it's basically a very fast generic simulator of interactive real-time applications. It makes very few assumptions about your games. E.g. you can script the rendering pipeline exactly as you want it and update it in real-time while the game is running on your phone. The live update stuff works for almost every asset, scripts, shaders, etc.
> "Customers understand the operating system and pre-installed applications reside on the device's internal storage thereby reducing the total free space,"

I think there's a reasonable disagreement to be had over whether the Surface uses an unexpected quantity of internal storage. Even knowledgeable technical people are fairly uniformly shocked at just how much space the Surface OS and bundled apps occupies.

I'm not sure whether that translates into a good chance for this guy to win. But I can't say that I'm on board with laughing off or derisively dismissing such a complaint.
> They will lose some media deals if they offer a Linux port.

To be honest, no, they won't.

In fact, they'll likely lose some if they do. They've been able to sell some media execs on the (false) premise that Silverlight == DRM == security == anti-piracy, so as long as Silverlight's DRM remains unavailable on Linux (ie, until the end of time), they won't offer official support on Linux.

The alternatives for them would be to

a) use Silverlight, but without DRM so that Linux users can use Moonlight.

b) use Flash

c) use some other technology

(A) will never happen because they'll lose all their deals. (B) will never happen for the same reason. (C) will never happen because it would take too much time to roll something from scratch, and even then you have the same problem of DRM.

So, at the end of the day, DRM once again gives users every incentive to pirate rather than pay!
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We will add more content as soon as we can.
Petraeus: Assuming Users Are Already Compromised
I don't think this is an entirely trivial case, either. If the Surface is meant to compete more directly in the mobile space alongside iOS and Android devices, an argument could be made that it should be advertising something close to user-available storage capacity like those are understood to.
Yes, you're too old. You should just find some comfy corner, curl up, and die.

Now that the pity-party is over, let's focus on reality. One is NEVER too old to found a startup. And the fact of the matter is, there are many more startup founders (both technical and non-technical) over 30 than under.

Take a look at these links, and ask yourself again if you're too old:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-age-of-founders#

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/28/peak-age-entrepreneurship/

TL;DR:

Ev Williams, Twitter: 35 in 2007

Jeff Bezos, Amazon: 30 in 1994

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn: 35 in 2002

Elon Musk, SpaceX: 39

Quite moping around and build something.
I felt the same way when I discovered bitcoin last year. Here are some books that I read that helped:

* "End the Fed" by Ron Paul

* "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt

* "The Mystery of Banking" by Murray Rothbard

* "What has government done with our money?" by Murray Rothbard

* "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber
As a web developer, I enthusiastically welcome native date and time pickers in web browsers...but boy are they ugly! Maybe you disagree and think they look great. So, let's both get what we want and I'll apply some custom styling to get the look I want on my site and you can do the same on your site. The only problem is that it doesn't appear that you can style these. You can style the input itself pretty well, but how do you style the resulting datepicker that it displays?

Without the ability to style them, this will not get widespread adoption. I am all for consistency in browser inputs, but unfortunately, that isn't what designers and clients demand. That specific look and feel of the datepicker, with those blue colors, blacks and sharp corners just isn't going to cut it for a lot of people.

I think we will eventually see full styling support for these datepickers. Until then, this is cool, but something I won't be able to use except maybe on a personal project. I know that if I slid this into a project, the first question I would get is, "Can we change the way it looks?" Maybe I just need to find less demanding clients.
Even if you could rip at the raw 24bpp RGB output and streaming audio, you are talking 356MByte/s (20GByte/m) of data for 1080p. People want the original streams because they have already been nicely compressed.

Now sure, you can then recompress this stream, if your CPU is able to compress it in real time as Netflix sends it to you. You'll double your compression artifacts, and any dropped frames compensating for your CPU speed or bandwidth will be lost forever. The end result will probably be between VHS and camrip in terms of quality.

If someone really wants a rip, it's easier to get the decrypted form from a DVD or Bluray. Plenty of people have already done the work packaging most stuff like this anyway.
50 video views and 0 questions. Got rejected.
Most organizations spend an enormous amount of money on offices. Offices can be argued are temperature-controlled, resource-hogging (if not LEED certified), calibrated, noise-attenuated (sometimes), free of most distractions (possibly pre-Facebook [1]), constrained, regimented environments with strategic floor layouts designed precisely to get people who are paid a salary to focus and produce value for their company. Schools are similar (witness the backlash against home schooling). Focus is very important but as the OP posits - it is a matter of learned self-diligence and control.

[1] The companies I've heard of that block Facebook, personal email et al. (e.g. financial institutions) typically make it near impossible for work to be brought home (which can be good - separation of work and home).
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Is there any public knowledge about what the hardware behind Google Books looks like?
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We currently don't have any support for this, but we plan to add the ability of user extensions in C++. We want to include it in the service so the extensions get compiled by our servers for every platform - so other people in your team can start using them, regardless of if you run the same OS or not. It should also be combined with editor-plugins.
For me, the best place to work is where I can be in a "work" environment, but without worrying about anyone disturbing what I'm working on.

Living in a studio and a half apartment means I'm either in the room I sleep in or the room I do everything else in. It's not a good environment for me to work, and I really don't like bringing work into that environment, either.

Working in an office with a certain kind of culture can mean that you're expected to be available and to respond to any inquiry via email, IM, phone, or someone walking over to your desk at any time. This really doesn't work for me, either.

So working at that kind of job means I really find I work best when I'm completely disconnected (phone off, email not open, not signed into IM) in a cafe. I have my laptop, and that's all. No distractions, pure focus.

The absolute ideal for me is an office environment where I can work in blocks of at least a couple of hours without being expected to respond to any non-emergency immediately.

Does anyone else have a similar experience?
I've always wondered why Oracle execs needed to travel in private jets all the time, now I know!
Work very hard and hang out with the right people.
it worked on the second time :)