skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree completely. This is like saying that because mainframes were being replaced by personal computers, there was not going to be money with them, when in fact the opposite thing happened with Apple being one of the biggest companies in the world.

Computers like the Rasperry Pi cost now $45 and are more powerful that million dollar IBM machines of the past. The same is going to happen with expensive industrial equipment like laser cutters, 3d printers or metal discharge model making tools as patents expire.

Different quantities, different margins, but a business after all.
no, they updated the site, clear the cache or do a total refresh, ctrl f5 in chrome
A few people have asked for this, so this is going up in my to-do list.
This is so wonderful. First thing I liked about this is the ability to surf real quick. Sifting through posts is a bliss. I am going to skip hitting reddit.com now. reeddit is awesome.
Unfortunately google also overrides the cursor keys on search results. I hate it. But it puts the site in question in good company :(
Basically you create a wrapper around the plugin, and then inject that into your controllers.
Show HN: My New Years hack, a virtual happiness jar that you can text
Vim bindings are inverted for me, unfortunately. For instance, 'k' scrolls down instead of up. Or am I missing something? I would have expected it to work like Vimium.
I love interviewing people. I've done hundreds of interviews in the past few decades, and learn something new every time.

From the superstar who you really want to start working with right away, to the bozo who can't code their way out of a paper bag, I can't say that a single interview was a waste of time.

The bad ones teach you how to ask questions, the good ones keep you on your toes (and during the "sales job" part of the interview, make you introspect a little on your current job, which is always good).

[I wouldn't have failed the guy immediately for the "I thought this was going to be a technical interview." Then again, maybe it was the tone of his voice? He'd probably been dealing with a bunch of HR / recruiter nonsense]
True, but based on her little "where are they now" aside, she could have just randomly selected 98%* of the candidates she interviewed for rejection and achieved nearly the same end result.

(or whatever the actual percentage was, I don't know the total)
Sure, the numbers are always v. low in online dating, but 0/150 is way below even that low average, and I had a friend do it at the same time and score more like ~ 1/15. That has to say something no?

Well you're inferring that number, the real number is probably closer to 12 over the past year or two, which I guess you could argue is still pretty low. Mostly they have rejected even speaking to me out of turn to the extent I couldn't ask for a date even if I wanted.

I wish I could believe you on the numbers count, but yet again my experience has been wholesale rejection. And there is a cost for each rejection, after being made to feel worthless + unloveable for the 20th time, you begin to wonder is this worth it?

Additionally I feel like this all requires me to be somebody I'm not - try to act confident, because I am a skeptic and humble in what I do, I don't ever feel like I'm special or able to speak out confidently. I feel like faking that would be betraying myself in a way that I'm not willing to do just for a relationship. So perhaps this is partly a choice, I am not willing to sell myself to score dates.

The short people I know who do better are either v. good looking (nothing I can do about that) or especially confident in a cocky way.

If I'd had a hint of iterative success in anything I'd try I'd be willing to go along with this, but I've not, nothing. There has to be a point where constant 100% failure causes you to think 'is it worthwhile spending my limited years of life pursuing this?'
There's also no evidence cats can levitate.

I don't get it.
Ask HN/PG: We Applied Late Are You Still Considering? Have Another Angel Offer
Does anyone know if late applicants are still being considered.

We have an angel offer on the table but would rather have YC investment first but we haven't heard back about our late application?

Throwaway for obvious reasons.
I grew up in Eastern Europe. Then moved to the USA to eventually become an US citizen. In Eastern Europe all kids in school were (and I bet still are) criticized for any error, taught that they are in no way better than anyone else, probably worse. I still remember physics teacher in my high-school claiming that F grade is for most of us imbecyls, D if we learn really hard, C for geniuses, he/she (the teacher) may be good for B, and Einstein was A :-)

People not only in Easter Europe, but I noticed also in Western Europe and Asia tend to critize each other.

It's funny because when you hit the US with true imbecyls around you, you will be astonished how dumb they are and how far they can get basically claiming they are experts in this or that, usually though no better than anybody else.

At first it angered me and made me feel bad. I couldn't just praise myself constantly over mundane little accomplishments for hours and days as my US peers used to. After some time though I got used to it and kind of liked it. Just do a little something here or there, write a ton of useless documentation about it and brag about it all the time to everybody. And then also get super excited about "accomplishments" of your colleges or peers at work. Kind of silly, but it really is how things roll in the corporate USA most of the time.

Didn't know it was based on education.

I have my own private theory regarding US success story after WW2. Because im sure it's not because of its people. It must be something else. The theory is that US hasn't been destroyed during ww2. Its currency got world reserve currency status. What's the difference between country with a world reserve currency and rest of the world? USA gets super cheap credit earned or not 24/7. The whole world must buy US Treasuries that are used as credit for US companies and people. Example: Czech Government wants to buy oil from Saudi Arabia. They have to convert their currency into USD, then buy oil. They can't use any other currency for this. They or anybody else in the world. However dumb, your startup idea, remember you get the funding because some sucker country imported your USD-denominated debt to buy resources. Even monkeys would be rich scratching their 3-letter-end, if the whole world had to buy their debt.

Once the crisis is over and we get back to the gold standard, US citiznes will wake up to the much different reality. With no free money floating from rest of the world.
Through directives. This is the cleanest way of doing it. Like Angular UI: http://angular-ui.github.com/
So.. No love for AngularUI? http://angular-ui.github.com/
"because once someone creates something free and sticks it on github, it doesn't get lost, it can only go in one direction - better."

Well, it could follow different directions, like "bloated", or like GNOME "better for us, but not for you", or "easier to maintain, but slower"
"Real sockets" you mean you don't count web sockets as real sockets? I think it will get there, eventually, just needs more time. Browsers have evolved a lot over the years, but it all comes down to the fact that the organizations in charge of creating the standards (W3C) move a little too slow.
Your shelving can be easily built by a competent craftsman using currently-available tools and materials in little time. (And you can probably do it yourself if you're not a total klutz—as, admittedly, some of us are—and can handle a four-hour New Yankee Workshop marathon.) There are places where you can't swing a cat without hitting an artisan bookbinder, and Roland (among others) have been making desktop CNC engraving machines for a very long time now. That leaves only your laptop, as far as I can see.
I know what you mean. I use hjkl to navigate (vimium). Many sites who are careful about not overriding arrow keys don't imagine someone using other keys to navigate.
Storm really has come a long way since it's introduction almost a year and a half ago. Nathan Marz and the Backtype folks are really impressive people.
You don't want to praise for results because results are often out of your control. If you grow up thinking that results are all that matter and then your first startup fails because market conditions change, what does that tell you? That it was all worthless? You end up becoming incapable of dealing with randomness, and hence shy away from situations where the results may not be entirely under your control.

Results should be looked at as a feedback mechanism to give you a reality check on your effort. If you gave it your all and still failed - what could you have done differently? Were you directing your effort at the things that are most important? Was it a goal worth doing in the first place? Could you have adjusted your actions to get a bigger payoff for your effort?

(And the parenting example is a good one. IMHO someone who does their best at raising a child with random genetic disorders like sociopathy, schizophrenia, or Down's Syndrome absolutely deserves as much praise as someone who raises a bright genetically-endowed child to be a great man or woman.)
Also, they have a hinge. Designing one that will not break down on normal (ab)use (lifting the laptop by the screen; lifting it by the keyboard; opening it by lifting a corner, exerting torque on the hinges, while some dirt has found its way into the hinge) is costly; making it not look ugly and/or feel crap doubly so.

If you look at it, a tablet is about as cheap as it can get: CPU, memory, flash, display, battery, and 3 or 4 physical switches. The only real room for improvement I see is to get rid of all connectors. That means wireless charging, and Bluetooth audio, only. I am not sure the technology is ready for wireless charging (can it be made small enough?), though, and it probably would take a S. Jobs to sell the market Bluetooth only audio.
The function of the education system is not to promote one's social life, but to aid in their career, so career applicability is the best measure. I'd also wager that trade programs and apprenticeships yield a far higher retention rate and are more pertinent to one's career.
I think the guy has a point but I agree it's premature. It's like saying their us no point in making printers for computers because eventually we'll be a mostly paperless society.

His point seems correct that ultimately you'll just use the 3d printer you have to print another 3d printer. But that day is a long long way off. There's at least 10 or 20 years ahead for companies to make money selling 3d printers.
Idea for the web: Hover over a link, see a small preview of the linked page
Sometimes I hesitate clicking on a link because I don't know what the resulting page will look like - it's a leap of faith. So here's a potential solution: If I hover over a link for about 500ms (just like hovering over a username on Facebook), I see a small modal popup displaying a thumbnail of the resulting page. It would be trivial for Google to implement this in Chrome.

More context, happier browsing.
This is equivalent to looking at the equation modulo 10.
I said what I said, and I didn't say K&R was obsolete. Obsolescence of The C Programming Language is Shaw's claim. The aviation metaphor was intended to illustrate the anachronism underpinning Shaw's analysis. It is not a simile about technological progress.

What has changed is the size of the audience for C language learning materials. Until GNU/Linux, obtaining a C compiler required substantial effort for a typical computer user with AmigaDOS, MacOS, or Windows 3.x and 9600 baud bandwidth.

K&R uses examples to illustrate points. It was never intended to teach the art of computer programming. It recognizes that there are better resources for that - though I suppose someday somewhere someone will criticize Knuth for not providing a psuedo-code compiler on his website.
> This sure sounds like ...

I thought of the same. Although the quote itself can't be attributed to Watson or anyone else for that regard, what the quote says used to be true. During the time, in 1943 there indeed was not much more market for a computer than the about five pieces of them.

I'm curious to learn what Google has in mind. They surely employ lots of groundbreaking people when it comes to futuristic technology. Kurzweil and Norvig alone make a huge impact.
I don't think "I'm sorry" always carries the connotation of "this won't happen again".

"I'm sorry" has two very different uses -- it can mean, roughly, either "I accept responsibility for this thing which is my fault" or "I regret this occurrence, independent of whose fault it is". When used in the former sense, it doesn't necessarily imply that there will be no recurrence, but certainly implies that the speaker will make an effort to prevent recurrence. When used in the latter sense -- which I'd argue would be the usual sense in which an error message would have to be understood -- it certainly does not imply even that there will be an effort to prevent recurrence.
There is a much more interesting set of scenarios about how 3D printing might work out economically here http://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/
The content of error messages depends on who's going to be seeing those messages.

An "industrial-strength" C compiler like GCC has terse error messages, for example:

prgm.c:2:1: error: expected declaration or statement at end of input

A C parser on a website that teaches C to beginning programmers, however, should present more descriptive error messages.

That same website's server logs will probably have much more terse, unfriendly error messages because those will only be seen by the site administrators.
That's a good point. On average, a single guy out with his friends at a bar or club and with a few drinks in him on a Friday night is thinking about one thing. Yeah, maybe he would be great boyfriend material otherwise, but on that Friday night he's thinking about one thing (or at least mostly one thing). That same average guy on a dating site without those other dynamics might act differently.
Isn't there a way to remove sites like TPB with a completely decentralized search tool??

I mean, now that we have magnets, the next step should be to decentralized torrent listing altogether (on top of the existing DHT maybe??)
You are assuming customisation remains static. One solution I can think of is a site (eg bestforks.com) that has 2 fork choices - you pick one and you are done. (The web means that you can show different catalogues to each user.)

Another solution is that they figure out the customisations automatically. For example stand in your room (eg kitchen) and take panoramic photo/video. Based on that it is possible to figure out appropriate colours, sizes and other design criteria (eg sleek/simple versus ornate). Again it can offer you one or two right choices.

Yet another brings people back into the process. You have a "design/customisation consultant" and they make the choices/customisation for you.
In the US, does number portability between networks exist? In NZ, it causes problems with SMS gateways, which seem to (in general) naively use the prefix as the sole means of identifying which operator for a number.
yes, your analysis makes more sense than mine. tough years ahead for microsoft, as everyone smells already.
Another annoying "feature" of the page is that ctrl-f is overridden to take you to their FeedBurner page. Why that would ever need a keyboard shortcut is beyond me, but assigning it to ctrl-f is just crazy.
The author's arguement makes grand leaps of logic that sound great - but won't hold up in the short term of the next 10 years. In 30 years, the price of such a service will become a commidity - like our ink jet printers today. The author uses language that could easily be used in the same vein as describing the creation of the Earth as a non-event.
I don't use a career objectives section. I recommend a "Career Summary" and / or "Core Competencies" section(s). Give a quick view of what you have to offer to grab attention.
So I was the only one?
I wish I could believe that, but that hasn't been my experience, nor that of others. I would gladly lose weight and hit the gym hard if I believed that (and I have done in the past, only for all + any health/fitness improvements to make no difference.)

I'm in the UK, average is around 5'10" here. I am in bottom 2.5% of male population height-wise.

Tom Cruise is considered to be rather good looking + confident is he not? He's a good example of the factors which can counteract short height. Note he's a couple inches taller than me also :-)
Or, maybe, you have a bad memory? Or never found an application for this "useless" knowledge?

You sound like a person throwing away a can opener because they can't use it to bludgeon open a tin.

I do remember some math but most of the school math is pointless

Such as?
What's the advantage? This would only end up favouring websites which look good as thumbnails. Websites with killer content will not gain anything.
> "What part of the list above is worth hating?"

On the surface, "don't be nice" appears pretty douchey.

I suppose it's possible the poster just poorly communicated, and there's a reasonable concept (like "don't be 'fake-nice', be genuinely kind") hiding behind that bad phraseology. If so, it's up to the prior poster to clarify.
Note, there's a distinction between "praising someone for their effort" (where you say something is good because they worked hard at it) and "praising their effort" (where you literally praise the effort they put into something).
The parent is referring to a well documented phenomenon in which effort (and feedback loops which encourage effort over talent) is tightly correlated with success.

I believe you are incorrect in jumping to the conclusion that encouraging "results" would be superior to encouraging grit, effort and work. For one, the research is absent, and for another it makes the "how" incidental - whereas it is not.

My degree, for instance, is in part only as meaningful as the work I put into it. Lying, cheating and stealing my way towards it would not serve me in the long run.
You're correct in the quote being the inverse in intent. It's still a big call on a nascent tech. Big calls on nascent tech tend to be wrong.
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Like it or not, Microsoft totally dominated the home computer market in the 1990's, which is when the internet began to take hold. I'm no Microsoft fan, but to deny that they has a significant impact on the adoption of the web as we know it today is extremely short sighted. I suppose that you may be too young to remember of course...
The thieves merely picked iPads because they have guaranteed resale value and quick resellability. It's not about what kind of devices are better.
2 things:

- Most people didn't get into programming so that they could interview people 10+ hours per week.

- Plenty of managers won't really count interviewing time in the project management tools (or give you credit however time is managed). You're still on the hook for whatever work you would have been responsible for with 0 interviews.
In the Github project page (https://github.com/berbaquero/reeddit#tools) I list the tools I used -- besides that, it's the usual combo of pure html + css + js.
Scientific fraud is usually in things that aren't normally checked by peer review. For instance, suppose someone writes a fraudulent paper showing that broccoli leads to homosexuality.

The peer reviewers will be looking at the design of his experiment--could it actually show such a link, and does it control for other factors that might explain the result? Does the paper give enough detail for others to repeat the experiment? Is the analysis of the data sound statistically? Is the work original? Is it citing appropriate prior researchers?

Even in a fraudulent paper, those aspects of the paper should be OK. The fraud will generally be in lying about the results of running the experiment, which is beyond the scope of peer review.

Where that gets caught is after the paper is published, and other researchers try to replicate it and get different results.
I'm not sure how it is done in other companies, but I really appreciate the close relationship we have with our recruiting team in Production Engineering at Facebook.

Observing the process sourcers and recruiters go through to improve their quality has been very interesting to me. It takes time for them to calibrate to the role (just like interviewers), and while my Silicon Valley experience amounts to one company, my general impression is that many engineers at other companies just don't appreciate the effort they go through to calibrate to the role, and many engineering departments don't put in the effort to help them get to being great.

While there are occasional dips in quality as sourcers and recruiters try new strategies (maybe going deep on release engineering talent in the games industry in Alabama), I'm willing to accept this because I understand that they're trying to get better at what they're doing - it's just like they don't (seem to) get angry with me when I fail to get good signal on whether a candidate is good or not, possibly because I was trying out a new question.

Assuming that the problem was a lack of quality AND that this is the recruiting team's fault sounds unjustified - I assume that Google takes recruiting seriously and puts at least as much effort into calibrating their recruiting team as they do on calibrating their engineers for interviewing.
Where I grew up, no accomplishment was good enough. It took a while before the amnesia of age set in, and I began to forget the pervasive pointlessness of effort that I was supposed to have absorbed. But one lesson coming out of this experience I did not forget. I was determined never to start a family. I succeeded.