skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on who you are hiring. If you're hiring Computer Science graduates than "getting shit done" is not a priority at all (at least in the meaning you imply). Computer Science graduates gets the discipline to be scientists not to be code ninjas or rockstars and it should stay that way.

On the other hand if you're meaning people with Computer/Software Engineering degrees then you're right.
How does a formal education make that any different?
The odd thing is that Windows 8 minimum disk requirements are only 20 GB.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/system-requirem...

(It's also interesting to see Marco try to nuance this post. All the Mac pundits have been posting it as a "haha, stupid Microsoft" which is probably why it came to his attention, but he tried to write his blog post in a generic way, that this is a problem with all of these devices.)
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It's being advertised as coming with 64GB of storage, not with "64GB free". That's a huge difference.

You can wipe the hard disk, install Damn Small Linux, and get ~64GB of free storage.

The FTC should consider taking action? What? Why does Marco seem to lose all sense of perspective when it's Apple vs. competition?
I disagree. Changing FP optimizations is not something that can surprise anybody in producing different results. If the results were exactly the same we wouldn't need different options in the compiler as there wouldn't be a trade off to decide about.

It's the "religious" claims (presenting very well thought-through engineering as if some god, magic or a random number generator is inside, it's not) that motivate some people to say things like "we'll never know." You won't if you approach it dogmatically or fatalisticaly.
The reason I asked here because I don't want to do an extra step to open the news in new tab or window :)
Ask HN: What is a realistic amount of time given by advisors?
Ask HN: What is a realistic amount of time given to a pre-seed,pre-product startups?

As many of you may know advisors can be key to a new startup, esp. with first time entrepreneurs.I wondered, how much time have your advisors say over the last month talked to you?My advisor (as many others are) is super busy with selling a company right now and is on travel every other week...something that wasnt the case when we started together ~ 2-3 months ago.

The problem is - he is punctual for our meetings on skype or in person, but when it comes to responding to emails lately - i havent heard in over a week since i last sent him an email - and he is yet to respond.I do see him come onto gmail...through gmail chat, but he never responds.I wondered are my expectations say within a few days realistic in terms of response? Is this guy just too busy for my startup with his own life/startups or what?

First time entrepreneur, we havent signed docs yet formalizing any equity but we have discussed he will get a little (1-3%) eventually.
You forget that most Linux distros take up much less space than windows.
Why average revenue per user is a useless metric
Especially when it was popular on various forums a few months ago to rag on the iPad and various price points for still shipping with 16GB when the Surface was shipping with 64GB. It takes a lot of wind out of those sails when it ships with 64GB only because it has to, not because it provides a much better cost:storage ratio.
I wasn't aware that the pirate accepted any uploads other than torrent-files, which do not contain copyrighted information.
How else will you know to keep consuming if you only use the youtube search box and have an ad-free existence?

Really? The only way to educate users about other similar shows is to interrupt the viewing experience with intrusive ads?

If I like the video I am watching, I'm going to go to the creator's profile or channel or just click on one of the videos that appear after I've finished watching. Personally, I find these ads annoying and not effective. (I can't remember the last time I clicked on an in-video ad)

There seems to be this idea in marketing that if you promote yourself in a way that forces the user to be exposed to your message, you will be more effective and successful. The more effective companies, however, seem to focus on creating advertising that people want to see and create products that people like to use and will recommend.
Whipping it out when there's a major battle going on, becoming the star and centerpiece (or one of them) of it, :p.
It's deceptive though. Making $100k/year in San Francisco means that rent is very expensive, relatively speaking, but that consumer goods are incredibly cheap.

Living in SF: Eating out at restaurants, buying the latest iPhone, plane tickets, clothes shopping all relatively cheap.

Living in Atlanta: Getting a big house in a desirable neighborhood, parking are cheap.

So if you'd prefer to consume more real estate and real estate dependent goods, you should prefer to live outside boom zones. If you like to buy experiences and consumer goods, you should live in the boom zone.
"It's even simpler, when MS says 64GB, I'd wager that most people expect to have about 64GB free to fill."

This is where we disagree. I could certainly understand that they might thing there would be more of the 64G available to them, but if they were Microsoft Customers before this and the installed Windows on a 64GB drive they know that after the install not a whole lot is left for them.
There is nothing misleading about it. There is 64GB of storage, and if you want to use more of the available space, remove some of the software it comes with.

If you wish for intelligent discussion, how about we discuss a more interesting topic. How much free space should be expected? Should a non-techy device such as the Surface sacrifice space in order to make their user experience better? Where do you draw the line?
How I'm creating my startup...
(Shrug) Other people are doing a better job. Microsoft hasn't had to compete in the OS space for a long time; now they do.
You can't seriously compare this with the HDD situation, where the term "gigabyte" has two meanings.
Have Mac sales peaked for good?
"The investment Apple made in reducing the footprint of the OS is basically not being taken into account in pricing."

Bingo! - Quality in both Software and Hardware.
The specific, relative number of subscribers is not the point.

That said, I wouldn't call something huge when there are comparables (even if it's just one or two) which dwarf it and others which (at some point) exceeded it.
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Why would you compare Windows 8 Pro with Android or iOS and not OS X or even Ubuntu?
You don't think it could possibly surprise anyone that changing optimization level can change the meaning of the program?
Fair point Chris.
User testing has been changed to usability testing throughout the article. Referenced your comment on HN

Unfortunately, I couldn’t change the title as it would break the url which has been reblogged and distributed.
Apparently well reasoned blog posts are worthless too. What does Steve Jobs have to do with people Justin Kan wants to hire? He's famous not for being hired but for starting a company. He also doesn't fill the roles on Exec's hiring page.
Great rant except for the part wanting to hire kids. That's age discrimination.
I questioned whether or not to include women, and elected not to because I simply don't know enough about how their minds work. In addition, most of the people making the hiring decisions are currently men, so the influence of a cognitive bias in women on the overall makeup of the pool of employees would be considerably less than one in men. It may well be that the same bias exists in both men and women, but I strongly suspect it does in men, whereas I have no idea if it does in women.
Thanks, middle mouse button is awesome
Added - thanks for the suggestion!
That's a great idea, did you do it for Chrome? Seems like with Chrome it's non-trivial to set the page for new tabs...
> The website doesn't have critical mass or any special hooks (like pg's essays and pg himself, for instance) to help build it

I think this is the only real problem with the site, really. It's going to need some kind of attractor to make people want to be there. (And honestly, I'm hoping it finds one.)

> I'm not "applying" to post on a website

Why not?

> Costing people karma is going to drive everything towards a hive mind as soon as possible...

"Hive mind" is a label that people seem to be applying to, "opinions I don't like". I can't think of a reason why this system would penalize different opinions, so long as they were thoughtful presented well. It would however penalize stupid ones, which would be just fine.

I hope it draws enough traffic to become a useful experiment. I think it's got some good ideas.
> Your Credentials Are Worthless Here

The impression I got was more along the lines of "We're willing to overlook your lack of credentials if you can prove you're talented."

These articles always come off a little pompous to me. But, I guess if you have the money, and you're hiring, you get to say what's important.
Our startup's IDE, Construct 2, attempts to do just that for HTML5: http://www.scirra.com

Do you think that's in the right direction?
The image looks like an uncredited reprint from this 2009 posting on ImmigrationRoad [1] which has a large version one can actually read.

The pdf deeplinked to at the bottom is from this Reason blog post [2] (which just adds some attribution, no extra info)

[1] http://immigrationroad.com/blog/immigration-flowchart-a-road...

[2] http://reason.com/blog/2008/09/24/new-at-reason-mike-flynn-s...
Windows RT is not a shrunken version of Windows as we used to know it. It's a new OS, created to run on ARM, the only similarity to previous Windows versions being it's name.

Shrinking Windows means finding a way of reducing or removing the "cruft" you mention.

EDIT: It appears my initial sources were incorrect. Feel free to downvote me, I should have checked a few more places before writing my post.
It might be possible to make a fully functional tablet with 4 GB worth of software, not 40 GB. What in the world do they put on that thing?
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>On the box you are told you have 64GB

And, inside the box, lo behold, is a 64GB hard disk.

Edit: The Nexus 4 8GB only has 5GB of free storage and has no means of extending the storage though a MicroSD or anything else.
That doesn't seem like a sensible comparison considering how much the gameplay of EvE differs from the typical MMO.

The "typical" MMO doesn't even try to handle large populations. The use of separate servers, population caps and login queues are how just about every one else deals with congestion problems.

Even from your second link there is the quote "Working with IBM, the EVE server cluster is maintained in London and is currently the largest supercomputer employed in the gaming industry." Sure that is from 2008, but newer MMOs are built using the same overall server architecture you saw back in the days of Ultima Online.
Surface Pro is Win8 + pre-installed tools (e.g. Office Suite) + the recovery partition. The last 2 likely aren't included in the official w8 disk requirements.
India-nigger. Psychology is for arrogant retard lying fucks.

God says...
C:\Text\BIBLE.TXT

he first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it
was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from
the sepulchre.

20:2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other
disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away
the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid
him.

20:3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to
the sepulchre.

20:4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple
> Graphicly was struggling. Yet, I was spending hours and hours weekly talking to founders that all felt that they are doing better than me. My standard suicidal thoughts started to be tinged with questions about my ability to achieve. I never question my ability. But I did.

This really hits home - I'm not an entrepreneur (anymore) but this is something I used to do on a regular basis: compare my own achievements based on what others were telling me.

I wasn't at the point where I considered taking my life, but I did doubt myself. I doubted myself for a very long time, settling for mediocre results and mediocre work, because I just had no idea what I was really capable of anymore.

Like Micah, I stopped and I thought. Mine went like this: "Ya know, I may not be achieving as much (on paper) as these other guys and gals, but I'm certainly very proud of what I have set out to do. I should stop comparing myself with them and start comparing myself to what I would love to be doing."

And here I am, working in a role that I qualify as my "dream job," with a wicked smart team doing really challenging work.

I just had to stop putting myself down because of the achievements of others. Celebrate with them, and then celebrate yourself, and then kick your own ass the next year.

Sorry for the ramble.
Please add feature to direct picture send to phone. Now I have to save it to disk than using "File" to send to phone.
Anyway great idea.
I've used Construct 2, it's definitely good stuff.
Right... Apple set the precedent of not having to specify the size lost to the OS, because that magnitude was acceptable. Many people probably never even noticed it, or attributed it to the normal bytes lost.

I would have thought the 64GB Surface Pro would be enough storage for me, but if it only has 23GB usable I would need to upgrade to the 128GB model. I've wanted a Surface Pro since the original announcement, but have been really struggling to come up with any good reasons to buy one.
Users currently look at the 64GB number as a rough approximation of how much music/files/apps they can store on that device. Maybe they are wrong to do that, but that's the current intuitive assumption for Jane Doe buying an iPod. So with that assumption, they are certainly not getting what the box tells them.

The answer could be to e.g. publish a "usable space" amount on the box. Basically, to eliminate this misconception/miscommunication from the customer's mind.
You forget we are talking about the Microsoft Surface tablet - A non-techy device with a target demographic of completely different users with different needs. Apples and oranges.
I've gotten LiberWriter on the front page here a few times, and the number of new customers was astounding:

Absolutely zero.

The typical LW customer is not at all tech-savvy, which is pretty much the polar opposite of your average HN user. I get far more mileage out of hitting forums where writers actually congregate.

Not to complain, mind you, I posted to talk about aspects of LiberWriter that I found interesting that might be worthwhile for others, not to troll for business.
I think the web needs a user-driven repository of "how to learn X" submissions, so this could be good!
I would bet a majority of the people who buy PC's think the HDD space listed is what's available to them. I worked at a help desk in college and it was a frequent complaint among users that their hard drive shows less available than what the box said when helping them set up their computer. Your average user isn't going to think about OS size.
Why are these called promises and not futures?
To my knowledge Windows RT is only 32 bit at this time. The system utilities like explorer, calculator, paint, etc on 64 bit systems are 64 bit applications.
>My point is that everyone who has bought something with storage has experienced the "comes with X amount of storage (note Y is available for users)" verbiage.

There has never been a system I know of which has advertised to have that much space and had so little available, not even relatively. The used space was always almost irrelevant low (be it Windows XP with the hdd available at that time, be it Win 95, heck, even Vista used less - and Android of course, also webOS, behaved better, when going into the mobile space). So - at least if i am not completely mistaken: how should anyone have ever experienced that scam?
Does Microsoft disclose the usable space on their devices before purchase? If so, then I really don't see the problem. The device has a 64GB flash chip, and that's what the advertising says. All devices use some portion of their advertised space out of the box, so if you want to draw an arbitrary line and save customers 15 seconds of research before buying their expensive electronic device, I guess that's your prerogative.
When you buy a pickup truck, they tell you how much load it can haul in addition to the weight of the truck itself. They don't say, "Sorry, by 'three-ton capacity' we really meant 'one-ton' because the truck weighs two."
When you turn on FP optimizations you say to the compiler "sacrifice some bits here and there, give me more speed." I don't know any manual that explains such options and doesn't make that clear. Counterexamples welcome here too.
Fun facts: This fight was between the Honeybadger Coalition (HBC) and the Clusterfuck Coalition (CFC). The core of the Honeybadger Coalition is TEST Alliance, and the core of TEST Alliance is Dreddit, the "original" Reddit-based corp (there are / have been several, some of which predate Dreddit and have since folded).

HBC routed the CFC, which has Goonswarm as its core, which is organized around the Something Awful forums.

TEST Alliance was nurtured by the CFC for a long time, splitting off only in the past year to forge a more independent identity. As such, the hostilities between these old friends is hard to gauge. At this point, the presumption is that it's all in good fun. But that may change.
I have a scratch.txt file that I've had around for years. Just shy of 10,000 lines now - it's full of workings and things to remember.

I keep it in textmate, been thinking about moving it to vim but I quite like having it in its own space.
> While creative and highly independent, Proenneke was by no means self-sufficient.

I agree 100%. He also had a rifle, canoe, hiking boots etc that all would have been replaced from the outside world over the years.

I loved his comment about solo canoeing in his lake:

"I always knew that to swim was to die, but I never had a problem".

The water is so cold up here, you'll be dead in less than a minute if you swim in the middle of any lake - about 5 people die up here every year like that.
When I installed Windows 8 a few weeks ago, the 64-bit install was about 20GB so where the hell is the other 21GB going?

Is the recovery partition literally a mirror image of the default install? That sounds ridiculous because the thing is basically a computer so could have a USB-restore, but I don't see how they get to 40GB+ otherwise.

<facetious>21GB of trials and time-limited software? </facetious>
> "[Top schools] don’t make you a great UX designer or programmer."

I've found this statement to be false, at least at my alma mater(UT Austin). My Honors OS class unquestionably made me a better programmer, teaching me about how programs I wrote interacted with the OS to a very deep level. My algorithms class gave me an extremely deep understanding of how algorithms+data structures worked, giving me a better intuition as to what tools to use when confronted with a problem. My HCI class made me acutely aware of how users interact with software.

I'll agree that the purpose of universities is not vocational. Without a doubt, a lot of classes I've taken will have absolutely no impact on my career (unless Buddhist Art becomes an in-demand field!). But a good school gives students the opportunity to gain applicable skills that are needed in the world.

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. You can't do well in the class unless you truly understand code. Using a coarse grained filter of "Harvard University" is bad, but using a "Passed CS50 with an 'A'" filter is a very good metric to use.
Speaking as a graduate of one, top schools teach you credentialing and ladder climbing. If you’re lucky, you might learn how to create a financial model or craft a solid argument.

If that's what you got out of college, you were definitely doing it wrong. Maybe in a business degree, but most people who do a science, engineering, or math degree learn some, you know, actual science, engineering, and/or math, not merely schmoozing skills.

You could learn that elsewhere, but if you care about scientific progress, my experience is that few people without a science degree ever get around to developing a rigorous scientific education, whether out of disinterest, lack of time, or whatever other reason. Lots of people plan to one day work through some textbooks, but most people don't. You see it in a lot of self-taught programmers, many of whom have a weak grounding in computer science. That might be okay, depending on what you're hiring for, but there are many cases where you want some more solid foundations. For example, if you're doing anything with machine learning, you might want people who understand statistics. Oh, and if you're designing aircraft, you might want someone who's studied aeronautical engineering, or at least some kind of engineering, whether at a university or through equivalent self-study. Even Google, a canonical Disruptive Silicon Valley company, seems to prefer its technical employees to understand computer science, rather than to hire pure programmers.

If someone is a true autodidact, learning on their own the equivalent of what they would've learned in a rigorous 4-year degree, that's fine, and there are some of those, so I have no problem making sure to look out for them, or even actively seek them out. I don't run across them very often at all, however, especially if we're talking about people without any formal mathematical training who are able to do solid mathematical or engineering modeling work. When you do find such a person, they're often amazing, but they're not common. Maybe MOOCs will increase their numbers, but it's a bit early to tell.

That said, I agree in not caring about the actual credential. If someone studied CS at CMU but left without the piece of paper for whatever reason, but learned the kind of stuff people learn in the CMU CS program, I don't really care about the missing document.
I think a big one is concurrency.

Highly concurrent application will become more popular. Functional programming via immutable data structures is one sane way to manage that. Clojure is doing it. Erlang has been doing it for years. Haskell has that.

Fear of large, mutable state is well founded.

What else I think is healthy is adoption of these patterns. It is possibly to be diligent and try to apply some of the idea using other languages (C++, Python etc). It is just a different way of thinking and structuring code.
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Advertisers are very opposed to "pay to get rid of our ads". The people who choose that obviously have more discretionary money and are the exact people the advertisers are targeting.
They promise a 64GB flash chip, and that's what they deliver. Unless they are concealing or deliberately lying about the user-available space, which doesn't seem to be the case, I really don't see the problem.
Well, how do you define "Windows"? Windows RT (not WinRT!) is ARM based Windows that can only run "Metro-Style" apps. With the exception of Office that comes preinstalled on Surface RT. It still has some familiar features like the desktop, command prompt, Explorer, like normal Windows OS but you can't install any desktop software.
People did sue over formatted capacity a long time ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Legal_disputes