skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Libraries today are monetized by many millions of tax dollars, money which is extracted compulsorily from everyone within a certain geographic area. imo this is more lucrative than banner ad sales.

Libraries already often don't pay for everything that they hand out; they welcome and indeed rely upon donations.
Good to see a humane response - the general tone of the responses here is profoundly depressing.

If I'd done something comparable, I fear that I'd find it very hard to get straight without a little more basic human goodwill than is evidenced in this thread.
Some people also store data on their tablets. Like videos.
I'm actually surprised this link got this much traction, I actually thought this was a thing that most developers were aware of. Shows you that you ought to reconsider when disseminating information that you as a learned developer think is "too basic" to bother writing about.
I think you make my point. So did the same student complain more than once about their misunderstanding of what was stated versus what they got? I'm sure you explained to them that the OS and other things took up space and that came out of the one hard drive in the system. And I would guess that they understood that explanation, and then when they made future purchases they would "expect" that some of the space was taken up by OS and other things and perhaps, if they were careful shoppers, they would read through the foot note to figure out exactly how much before they bought it.

Or was it your experience that every time they got a new machine they would complain "Wow, they did it again!" ?
Of course, this is fairly meaningless.

What they need is not new batteries, what they need is to understand what went wrong with the old batteries (right now, they haven't the faintest idea). Not just to fix the problem, but so that the FAA understands the failure mode, and thus can do a better job when vetting future planes.
Firstly, what I am about to say doesn't condone anything she has done; in fact from what I have read she has done plenty wrong. Secondly I haven't followed her story closely.

Conversion, breach of contract, breach of trust etc is not the same as theft or robbery. The first group rely on trust and in these cases money / credit cards have come from someone. This comes back to if people are too trusting what is the value of these things; again this does not make it right either ethically or morally.

I would argue that breaking and entering, robbery, mugging are a different beast, and more serious. Conflating these two types of wrong may give the wrong impression.

Once again I haven't followed this particular story enough to know whether she has participated in the second as well as the first.
You're going to have to do better than vague remembrances to make that point compelling.

In the age of mobile gaming, apps and content stores, it's absurdly easy even for non-technical users to fill up their devices. I buy that not everyone filled up their 2003 iPod. And that's probably the root of what you're recalling – Apple figured out they could sell a much smaller one and people would still buy. Today is different.

Either way, if you're a company selling devices with different tiers of storage, the spec clearly matters to the person making decisions based on that spec.
The difference between Microsoft and Apple: Apple would never have had the 64 GB one, because of this issue. They would just have the bigger drive, and charge more money for it.
Because it's a tablet. A "no compromise" tablet.
A bridge that advertises a 5 ton maximum, but 4 of those tons are used up by the road surface.
HN has all the properties of a club, it's just very cheap to get in. It's certainly possible to be kicked out of the club (just ask LoseThos/SparrowOS); so, since HN continues to accept angersock as a member, why is he still here?
I think it can be sleazy if done subversively, however it can be a less-abrasive than a regular cold call if intention/purpose is stated up front. Finding the right person in an organization can be hard, and it's much less of a waste of time for all parties if you find the relevant person quickly. It would also be important that you don't give the impression that the person referred to you believes the higher-up referred you because they endorse you.
As an MBA, take this with a grain of salt, but the hiring decision is all about managing risk. Most companies, not just American ones, are risk-averse. As such they hire vetted candidates, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Hiring decisions carry the same risk & reward pairing of an investment. You can take a risk on an un-credentialed candidate that you have a good feeling about, and in turn they won't expect the same pay as someone with a well-respected degree. Graduates from top schools get good salaries because there's a sense that these schools adequately vet candidates and prepare students for the real world. You could argue this is untrue, but it all depends on what you're looking for.

The truth is academia is less relevant to startups. MBA programs focus on case studies on Fortune 500 companies with multinational reach and departmentalization of business functions. Startups don't act this way, so hiring an MBA doesn't necessarily mean that candidate is going to perform better than someone without the same degree. What it does tell you is that they have some ability to organize, manage priorities, and ultimately complete a plan, which is still valuable.

As any statistician will tell you, citing anecdotal examples is misleading. Steve Jobs may have dropped out of college, but there's millions of dropouts that don't go on to create multi-billion dollar companies. I've worked with plenty of amazing people who were great at what they did without credentials behind their names. I've also worked with people I still have no idea how they managed to completed their programs.
Wow, Microsoft definitely deserves some kind of award for this. Shipping a tablet, with own hardware design no less, with a 41GB OS is certainly an achievement not every company can accomplish. (sorry I'm just baffled how you can fill up 41GB)
It'd be good to see both, but it all takes time.

I wish her well.
What is it like to be inside an atom?
We hear you and we're thinking about how. It's a huge engineering/scalability challenge given the amount of data a single customer potentially can have.
Next time you ask a fellow entrepreneur how they are, and they give you some response about killing it, or talk about their company interrupt them and ask "how are you?"

I'm sure this will mean a lot to someone. Maybe not everyone, but you could end up doing it to the right person at the right time.
Are they? The difference is the difference between "technically correct" and "correct in a way that is relevant to the consumer".
PC hard drives are 100% usable space. You can easily overwrite the contents regardless what is on it. Phones and tablets, not so much.
I do this 2 ways:

1) I have a constant editor opened with a Notes.txt file, so I can save it.

2) I use Sublime Text 2 which maintains the state regardless of whether I've saved the file or not, and is extremely cross platform.
> The reason some firms hire only top school kids is (apart from ego) they know that whatever test/puzzle/interview they give their decision in hiring candidates will still be fairly inaccurate.

For young firms in software industry, this is not true. Neither Google nor Facebook (disclosure: my employer) hires exclusively from top schools. These companies do spend more effort recruiting interns and new graduates from top Computer Science programs (which is a rather different set of schools than top schools in general), but the reason puzzles, participating in competitions like TopCoder or ACM ICPC, research, open source contributions, etc... matter is that they give smart people everywhere a chance to stand out and be noticed.

On the other hand, the technical interview process in these firms is known more for false negatives than false positives. These companies all explicitly track the relationship between interview scores and employee performance and tune the interview process accordingly.

Finance, management consulting, etc... firms do recruit exclusively from top schools -- but they have other reasons for doing so. If you're in technology business but only hire from top-tier schools and fail to setup a meaningful technical interview process, you're more than welcome to -- I would highly encourage all of my potential competitors to do so :-)

I made fairly silly choices as a high school student (as well as not-so-silly, e.g., interning at a startup junior and senior years of HS) which led to me having to "hack" my way through a higher education despite having high SAT scores: after high-school I attended a community college for a year, got a near 4.0 GPA, transfered to a university no one heard of (I had a chance to stay one more year and transfer to Berkeley or UCLA, but I jumped the gun out of fear that my performance was "illusory" as I've never had such a high GPA before) while interning at yet another startup. More traditional companies (think Cisco, Symantec, etc...) ignored my resume (unknown school, internships only at startups), but nearly everyone I actually wanted to work for gave me a shot and I had plenty of good offers. I'm now 29 and I don't feel my career suffered as a result of silly choices (e.g., getting modest grades in high school, transferring too soon from a community college) I made between ages of 14 and 19.
- Github. Contribute to (or start) open source projects that show your skill.
- Blog. Write technical articles explaining confusing topics in the areas you are skilled in.
- Freelance/Contract work. Do work for others who can vouch for your skills.
What? No. I think the aesthetic features which most accurately signal good health, strength and fertility, which humans throughout history have consistently opted for in mate selection, are what we have evolved tastes for. I.e. we have evolved aesthetic preferences which have consistently construed reproductive benefits.
But they also tell you it has a 350HP motor and don't say how much of that energy is needed to run the power steering, the AC, and just push through the inefficiencies of the transmission system. They will tell you its towing capacity but they won't say that the capacity includes gross vehicle weight, so if you put a quarter ton of supplies in the truck bed you have to remove a quarter ton from the 'towing capacity.'

There are numbers and there are numbers right?
Ok, you're right and fair point. PC manufacturers were selling drives with data using up space before Apple. I don't think it was ever very large (in size or percentage of the drive) though was it? Computers weren't branded on HD size either, it was never part of the model number... It was an extra component that could be changed.

I was referring to iP(ho/o/a)(d/ne)s at 2/4/8/16/32GB, losing a decent percentage, without this type of outcry. Sealed devices, marketed on HD size.
Alright its not misleading, but it is strange. I know someone will call me out for comparing the iPad and Surface Pro, but if both devices are priced as "64 GB tablets" when you turn on your iPad you get ~55GB. The surface pro reportedly has only 23GB available. That's less than half. Look at it the way, you can buy a 32 GB iPad, magically get a Mountain Lion install on there, and be left with just about the same amount of free space.

Imagine they were selling water bottles. Apple/Android's waterball was 8" tall and has a shape such that 6% of the shape of cylindrical shape doesn't actually hold water. MS sells you the same thing however the water bottle is half the size, for the same price. Most people will just shrug off the 6% as a "Fact of life", but over 50% and that's just wrong. As another user commented, an imaginary fuzzy line between "fair" and ripped off has just been crossed.
UPnP Flaw Leaves Millions of Networked Devices Vulnerable to Attack
Awesome work chaps. I've used it and I love the built in voip
It's not the user's problem that the OS takes up that much space. The user is already paying for the license. He shouldn't have to pay twice (that 40 GB of SSD space is pretty expensive).
The only reason this is even a story is because of Flash drives with lower capacities. On the desktop, I literally don't care about the tiny fraction of my 3 TB drive the OS is taking up.
It's misleading.
> If someone got an 'A' in UT Austin's honors OS class, I wouldn't even hesitate to interview them. It's a very good proxy for a good programmer.

Ihave no idea if UT Austin is a good comp sci program or if you're being sarcastic. This is the first I've heard of it.

Assuming you're being serious, then Joel Spolsky mentioned something similar in one of the stackoverflow podcasts.

His point was that a "top" school wouldn't get you hired directly but it would get you interviewed before someone else all other things being equal.
I've often wondered why so few companies make a concerted effort to seek out talent rather than credentials. Have most companies not realized that the two aren't directly related? Are they too lazy? Do they have no confidence in the ability of their hiring managers? Do they lack the resources to train new employees?

There's an upside to this, though: You can easily identify short-sighted companies that probably aren't worth working for based on the degree requirements stated in their job listings. If you require 3 years of experience and a CS degree for all your 'junior' and 'entry level' developer positions, there's a good chance you couldn't think your way out of a paper bag. That's often code for "I expect a lot out of you, but I'm not going to give you much in return".

Tech companies need to adapt more quickly than most others just to stay afloat. Following the same hiring practices that have been around since the 19th century is a great way to fall flat on your face in that regard.
The hardest part about Yale was getting in. Yes, many if not most of the people who get in are smart, but are they all competitive and competent? I don't believe so.

Top school == a signal, but it is a weakly correlated one with being productive in my opinion.
ST is a programmer's editor.
She helped herself to someone else's credit card. Someone who'd been kind enough to let her share a room.

She's a thief.

http://betabeat.com/2012/08/shirley-hornstein-shirls-credit-...
Sorry for the late reply, I missed this. A giant fireball from the bomb - or more accurately, from the contents of the gas tank when the bomb exploded.
The Windows app is using Qt + CEF (Chromium Embedded), the Mac app is using Cocoa with a native WebView.
What? Where do they do that? If they did, then that's pretty crazy. How can they say the "bridge can support 5 tons", but it would only support 1? That would destroy the bridge when some large vehicle tried to pass over it.
I'm not saying you're wrong about what it does, or even about whether it's documented. I'm saying that most compiler optimizations don't behave that way, and I can certainly see this being a surprise to someone who views optimizations generally as correctness-preserving transformations.
Now, all they have to get it to do is cause tan skin and it's the trifecta.
It's a good move Google. Just have a look at the kids happy faces. It's a gift they didn't expect.

Let's pause for a moment talking about tax loopholes.
How about buying vegetables by weight in the grocery store, but that weight includes inedible stuff. That's a real thing that happens.
Use functional programming techniques to write elegant JavaScript
Simple and elegant way to see all job postings mentioned on HN. Search works really well and fast. Love it.
Designers and Engineers are incredibly fortunate to be able to show portfolios and work samples that we can use to evaluate people with. You can also give real work sample tests during interviews! Try doing that with an MBA. My personal experience has shown a Stanford comp sci PhD doesn't mean that person is necessarily a good software developer, and if you can't even rely on that, then you might as well evaluate them directly.
YouTube reportedly will launch paid channel subscriptions this spring
Am I reading this right, in that there is no support for WebM/VP8? If so, I'm a bit confused as to who this product is supposed to be for, it seems not suitable for generic web video. Is this intended to be for mobile only?
Would be interested to learn more about your involvement - the school, how you pushed for the changes, why these things are being managed at school level ...?
Wow.

Anyone who actively refuses to buy an Apple or Android tablet in favor of one of these overpriced monstrosities is 100% cutting off their nose to spite their face. I just can't even begin to fathom why Microsoft would go out of their way to cater to such an infinitesimal group of people who feel that a laptop is not portable enough, yet need the full functionality of god-knows-what program that probably doesn't even work properly with Windows 8.
Well, if Computer Science graduates are applying for Computer Programming positions, then I expect them to be able to ship software. I don't go around knocking doors asking for them. They come to me. By the way, people who ship code are not code ninjas or rockstars. They are called professionals.
Three students build $100 device that blinds attacker and takes picture
Wilderness hacking at its finest. This guy is a total boss. Incredible wood working skills, and a passion for living in the beautiful wilds of Alaska. The Canadian side - the Yukon and BC are equally as beautiful. Go up north sometime - the beauty will blow you away.
I remember when TextMate's author announced he started working on TM2 and that it would be $big_cat_name-only. I had a heated debate in the comments because I thought paying a full system upgrade (the computer could not run $big_cat_name) was too much for getting a free upgrade to a simple text editor.

I eventually bit the bullet and bought a new Mac. But TM2 never came and I paid thousands of euros for nothing.

Since then I've moved to Linux at home and I use Vim everywhere. For some reason, I can't imagine being unable to build Vim 7.4 on this machine.

And now that I feel very comfortable in Vim, I can't imagine switching to ST or back to TM.
Really? What browser? I just tried it in Chrome and it didn't save what I'd typed.
C'mon, it's still on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134023
Moneyball.
Ghostery (or something similar) may be blocking everything on cdn.mxpnl.com, which would prevent both css and js from loading.
Not true: http://www.grasmick.com/canimfaq.htm#IF%20I%20FILE%20MY

As an aside, I think TN status is great if you can get it. The only real problem is that you lose it as soon as you step off of US soil and have to re-apply when you try to re-enter. This makes for increasingly stressful trips home to Canada (or Mexico) since the longer you are in the US, the less likely you'll be given a new one when you return. Granting the TN is totally arbitrary and depends on the mood of the border agent and the quality of your paperwork. Make absolutely sure your job title and description is identical to one of the TN-permitted ones. Lawyer-up if necessary. The cost of getting lawyer to prepare you is more than offset by the increased salary available in the US.
USB drives are 0.5€ per GB, if we are very generous and add a 16GB stick for recovery, that's still only 8€. Even less if you account for bulk discounts. That's hardly a big cost factor, compared to the total price of the tablet.
Tip: HTML5 videos don't have ads. I use Safari on OS X, so I use a "ClickToPlugin" extension (linked below) which gives me the option of replacing the Flash plugin with just a plain mp4 video when you click on the plugin placeholder. This has the side benefit of bypassing any ads and also not showing any annoying annotations that've been added to the video.

http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/
Plausible: 20GB for Windows, 10GB for recovery, 4GB for the hibernation file (has to match RAM size), leaving 6GB for the swap file, system restore points and preinstalled software.
But he was being rewarded, no? And I imagine at a pretty damn good pay rate for someone so young and untested. and he was given a fantastic door into a high-power field. But he had to fixate on the fact that he was "only" getting X rather than Y. He had an opportunity to be thankful for what he was getting, but he chose to focus on the negative instead.

a company that isn't willing to reward those efforts.

What I'm talking about is not some sort of self-sacrifice, selling yourself into corporate slavery. It's the basics of what I would look for in an employee - is he going to work hard, do it without complaining - is he going to make my life easier or harder? Unfortunately people with a notably entitled what's-in-it-for-me attitude only make employer's lives more difficult.

Not saying that that's for sure what this guy was like btw, but that's the impression I get.
Can't think of a vegetable that is only one-third edible.
On pseudonymity
Wildman at Bay: Inside Chris Taylor's fight to save Gas Powered Games
Wait, are you saying that his analogies are terrible because they are not real things that happen? [1]

A 64 GB tablet shipping with 23 GB free is a real thing that happens even though it shouldn't, which makes his analogies fair.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5136374
We decided to go with .woff on the font cause it's the trendy, cross-browser thing to do. We now know Windows won't anti-alias .woff files. In the next commit I'll add fallback to .ttf or .otf for Windows machines.
>The OS itself has removed hot keys

Did they completely remove hotkeys, or just deactivate them by default?
Concerned about Rails Concerns
OpenTable will finally enter the 21st Century with its buy-up of Foodspotting
Data-Driven Documents, Defined (D3 Introduction by Scott Murray)
Wait, so you are saying that microsoft would rather waste the costly device inside the tablet? If not for the recovery area they could use a smaller drive after all.

It's better to spend the money on a cheap external device instead of an expensive internal one.
YouTube has gotten really bad with ads. They have a higher proportion of ads than regular TV. Want to watch a 3 minute music video? here is an ad.

I am against using ad block, so I just quit going to Youtube as much.
I was not being sarcastic. If you buy ranking metrics, UT Austin has a top 10 CS program [1]. We have some of the best Systems researchers in the country [2], a professor from our dept won the Turing Award in 2007 [3], and Bill Gates + Michael Dell just donated a new CS building for our campus [4].

[1] http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...

[2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/lasr/

[3] http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/emerson_1671460.cfm

[4] http://apps.cs.utexas.edu/goto_gdc/
Or do what Apple does and just have you plug it into a computer to update. Early iPhones and Touches didn't even have an OS installed from the start; you plugged it in to get that.
Opportunity Rover Begins Tenth () Year On Mars
that's useless.