skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this! I have taken 7 Coursera classes, and most of them "lightly": just doing as much work as I needed to for passing the class, with just a few classes that I did put a lot of energy into. Andrew's class was in this second category: I kept taking the tests and tweaking the homework assignments over and over again until I got a 99.5% score in the class. His class was lots of fun and also very useful material. Recommended!!
I once used a laptop for a two hour hackathon. The risk, price, performance, and power ratios of owning a desktop versus a laptop never quite added up to me.

My wife knows (from some prior experience) that unplugging the computer without shutting down can be dangerous. She also knows that putting the computer to sleep will lock the computer and not let friends/child on the desktop without asking for a password.
The nutrition labels are required by the FDA, I think. There's a good breakdown on their site.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/Labelin...

I think any requirement for this would have to come from them. Of course there's probably a grocery industry group that would also have the power to get something like this set up if it were somehow desired or otherwise profitable.
>I simply make too much money these days.

This is why I don't respond to any solicitations anymore. It's apparently against the laws of the universe for a job candidate to initiate the discussion about money, but there are a lot of inexperienced hiring managers that don't know that people might be already making more than the position could possibly pay.

One interview in particular, I got past the phone screen, got past the technical interview and got past the interview with the CIO. He starts talking about when I can start, setting up my PC, etc. He says, "oh, oh, what do you make now?" I told him and his smile literally melted away and he said, "Well thanks for coming in."
The main takeaway from this article for me was not the point of failing to look like Zuckerberg, but the importance of being likable and project a certain image of (the promise of) success. It's clear from the beginning of the essay that this was the main issue even among the group of founders themselves, so it was no surprise this deficiency translated straight to the interview.
If you're running Nginx, We're having a SFHN meetup with Nginx on Thursday here in SF:
http://sfhn-nginx.eventbrite.com/
I graduated with an ME degree and I now work as a software developer. I find that the traditional engineering coursework is more difficult than what I find with regards to CS. It's pretty easy to become a self-taught developer and even go through the online courses coming from MIT, etc. It's significantly more difficult to do the same for traditional engineering.

In addition, as someone mentioned elsewhere in the comments, the cost of failure in software doesn't often result in death.
Yes, when I started this I thought it might be fun. The name seemed perfect for such a thing.

It's not trademarked but the app sucks SEO wise (the realisation came later on).
It depends on what you mean by a few years ago.
Even 5-6 years ago, it was clear to a bunch of GCC devs this was going to be the result :)

The need and desire was very clear, and it was clear LLVM would meet that.
1) No one is going to believe that you can accurately compensate for your biases. If you are in fact biased towards Zuckomorphs, meta-awareness is only going to help so much with that. You don't have to be naive, you don't have to be incompetent, but you're still biased. OH WELL, LIFE IS HARD.

2) Respectfully, pg, why are you bothering with this, and more with all the other "how to hack YC", "why we got past YC", "why we failed YC" blog posts? I'm surprised you don't have a bot that first-posts the following comment to every such submission:

"On behalf of YC, there is basically zero chance that TFA gives meaningful insight into YC's hyper-evolved process for seeing past such rudimentary schemes. -- the PGBot"
The "slash" punctuation mark as new slang word
While both of those have English as an official language, it is not listed as a majority language for either (though both have an English-based Creole as a majority language so you could probably argue it either way).
If you use RBC's US routing number for your USD account it is possible to withdraw USD from Paypal Canada directly into your USD funds account. I confirmed that this works:

http://bradt.ca/blog/transfer-from-paypal-to-a-us-dollar-acc...
Didn't play much spin the bottle when growing up, did we?
I'm sure win8 is great on a tablet, when you're expecting a tablet experience. But for people who instinctively upgrade their PC every few years, a new UI is just annoying.
+1 for smart advice - use a separate email account for logins and never worry about unsolicited email to your primary email account :)
(posted the same minute the question was asked by jgrahamc, by the way, hold the arrows ;-)
Haha, it's so funny! Oh, and look at all this money in iTunes Connect...

Yes, totally just a joke!
Except it costs $.99
In SV speak, aren't food trucks disrupting the restaurant industry? I mean, people praise AirB&B, and the taxi compny (I forget ther name), but the food trucks are doing the same thing: Gaming the system. Oh, I see, we just need YC to launch a food truck startup for it to be OK.

Have you ever thought about it from the other side? Maybe these people want to open up a real restaurant but can't due to draconian laws? This is their way of disrupting it.
This seems to be more of a problem with "formally government sponsored" than with "food truck tuesday".
This is, in large part, something the FSF did not want to happen without the app being GPLv3.

The other interesting thing is that this is only really an issue due to difficulty in properly parsing/semantically analyzing languages like C++.

For languages like Java, it simply isn't necessary, or in some cases, desirable.
I use Gandi for a load of domains (they're great!) and have just bought an io one through them but sadly there isn't much whois privacy apart from hiding your email address. Name, postal address and telephone are all visible. I think this might be a .io requirement though since Gandi offer whois protection for free. You just enable it on your contact record and any domain linked to that contact will then use Gandi's data rather than yours. Depending on the tld this means either everything is masked apart from the owner's name (e.g. for .com or .net) or only certain fields are (as determined by the various registries and each one's policy on hiding real owner info).
> Anything would have been better than what was used.

But then, how will they trick people into thinking they're not being advertised to?
How about 'on' and 'fawn'?
me neither - I used lynx ;)
Who said you can't make money from a joke?
Mainly because the "simple" act of a user in one country transferring money to a user in another country, where both users deal in their native currency, is incredibly complicated. Currency conversions, banking laws, high fraud risk, etc.
Version 26.0.1410.64
Took me a while to notice that this wasn't on archive.org. Are these still up as an oversight? If so, that's pretty impressive that their server infrastructure hasn't changed radically in so many years.
Worse, google won't even autocomplete the word "currency" after you type "chattel" and a search for "chattel currency", with quotes, returns fuck all other than stuff about this article.
Hating your current job is controlled completely by you and your attitude towards it. The hatred you feel is purely your emotions. There is something to be said for both learning to enjoy life and seek happiness wherever you are, even if that means a data entry job at a bank. Cal Newport has a good article on this:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/02/14/zen-and-the-art-of-inv...

Every job has unglamorous things about them. I'm not saying you should stay at one job forever or never quit even if things aren't going well at work. I'm saying that switching jobs because you hated your old one puts you into this continual pursuit of some higher calling / ideal job that may never come. Until you search, you're unhappy and every small minor inconvenience in a new job will encourage you to pack up and move elsewhere. Embracing the unsexy parts of life is the best way to conquer it. And then you can, over time, tweak and improve it. Whether that means getting a promotion so you're in a position that has more autonomy and more impact or leveraging the skills you learned at a job that you thought you didn't like to get a job you DID want to do at another company.

I just think it's a bit more nuanced -- one should not just quit their job because they dislike it.
Reading the thread she says that she was given credit by the machine owners. She could not cash out those credits, but she could cash out the winnings. Thus, spend all the credits on low-stakes machines and cash out any win over 10c. She claims a return of 60% to 70%. She's aware that with her own money that's a loss, but it wasn't her money.
Straply: App Store Optimization
A chef (friend) told me: It's good pizza, but not worth standing in line for. When I lived there, I had it and I thought it was OK.
3D visualization of our 100,000 closest stars
Ken Levine: I won't give Zach Braff one dime
Your point is well taken. But, from a user perspective, it's simply unsolicited change with non-obvious benefit.
Just to add to the list: https://github.com/necolas/emitter.js

:)
Oddly I get the Merriam-Webster definition which shows

n item of tangible movable or immovable property except real estate and things (as buildings) connected with real property. 2. : slave, bondman · See chattel ...

I wonder if past search history affects results, my second result was from the free online dictionary and referenced cattle.

I am not sure how I would take offense, perhaps certain groups are predisposed to do so?
Well, North Carolina, at least. Those aren't words you hear on TV or in movies a lot, I guess, so it's hard to say which version is "generic American English" to the extent that there is such a thing.
And good riddance..
SpiderOak unveils Hive, a streamlined file service with '100-percent' privacy
No, its not obvious.

I personally thought it was that, hoped it was that, but nothing on that site told me what you just did. I had to half work it out, half guess.
It has come to my attention that St Louis-style pizza can be had at Tony's Napoletana in North Beach: http://www.tonyspizzanapoletana.com/menu.php

I have tried it. It was an experience. I can't evaluate it w.r.t. "true" St Louis-style pizza since I am not from there.
You're correct in that neural networks as a model have been around for a long time. However, those networks were restricted to be shallow because backpropogation didn't work well on networks with many hidden layers. Only recently have researchers developed learning procedures that can learn these deep architectures efficiently, using some clever unsupervised learning techniques. And surprisingly, they are finding that these deep networks perform remarkably well, beating the state of the art in a number of benchmarks.

You are also right that you do need a lot of processing power to get neural networks to work well. But that is changing rapidly. Hinton's convolutional neural network has the state of the art in the ImageNet benchmark, yet was trained using significantly less power than google brain. Regardless, you don't need google scale computation to get deep networks to work well. The point of google brain is to see how far one could push neural networks.
Now, if Microsoft could bring back ClearType so the fonts don't look all borked up on normal PC screens anymore...

There has been a lot of strange things happening over at Redmond lately.
I agree. When Win8 was first announced my hunch said they needed separate versions for tablets and desktops. Now that I have a hybrid desktop/tablet device, I understand their intention.

With that said, it's completely true the desktop side of Win8 needs a bit of work.
Dude, I am sure you know more than me in the field of robotics and A.I. but I don't think Google would spent so much money on a hack.
Windows + I is a good shortcut to get you directly to #3.
I usually just look up and notice the golden arches. There are so many, that an app would take time away from enjoying a Big Mac
Yes, even if it's not a registered trademark, it is trading on someone else's work. Even if it's not in a industry (in terms of legal trademark enforcement), it's unfair to those who worked hard to put it in the mind of the public.
Ask HN: What would you like to see in a mobile ad network?
We're building a mobile advertising network for mobile platforms (iOS, Android, web) and would love to hear the problems that other developers have with current solutions.

Our native SDKs for mobile take full advantage of the underlying platform and we are going much further than banner ads that open web views. We're aiming to provide a certain level of customization that will allow developers to beautifully integrate advertising on their apps without damaging their UI/UX.

Today we announced our biggest round of funding yet, $2.7M to bring Adtile to the market. You can read more about that on TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/07/tenfarms-adtile-funding/

Developers, what would you like to see from us? What have been your pain points with current solutions?
Sure, there are many reasons. My point for posting is that one of those reasons is that people with any skill set can, and do, pick it up and bend it to whatever purpose they desire.

There have been a number of HN discussions over the past few months debating why "inferior" products like Excel can continue to dominate while solutions that are "better" are constantly struggling to find market share. Having a program that is somehow useful for everyone from major banks to 80 year old retirees is an important factor in the longevity of this software - even if it isn't necessarily the perfect tool for every use case.
Neither of those OSes is Windows, which has millions of users with 15-20 years of ingrained habits and tricks that work just fine for them and have for years.

It's different for Windows because Windows occupies a totally different part of the computing world.
Storing data in a YouTube video
3 Chrome Extensions for Salespeople
How often do you see any web startup these days post a phone number, let alone a physical address?
>>irregardless

regardless
I think they had some trouble keeping their real porn-producer clients. Since the real clients were real parties to the suit, they could be countersued directly, which happened a couple of times. I think they ended up settling and paying out, rather than risking it.

http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2012/01/31/defendant-strikes...
Ask HN: Starting an agency rather than a start-up
People name their company after an idea/product rather than start an agency and work on the primary product in as much capacity but leave an option to take some extra work that might come in handy, either as financial windfall or experience wise.

What are your thoughts on this?
David Ferrucci: Life After IBM Watson
Agreed. For anyone else who routinely reads comments without reading the article, if this is still the top comment, I'd suggest you just go skim the article.

(Aside: I'd guess it's because there are people like me, who often read comments before or without reading the article, that a well-written but not on-point comment like this can get upvoted. I wonder how you'd fix that?)
Location Relevance at Airbnb
Peer-to-peer camera lending service for photographers of all levels
Why would you want to work there if you didn't think the purpose was important?
New iOS Tutorial Post: Audio Recording and Playback
A simple App for recording and playback of Audio.
I've lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Raleigh, NC. Raleigh was battling with food trucks when I moved, and am unsure how it ultimately turned out in terms of variety.

1) On any given day in SF and LA: I have a choice in a single location of: sushi, indian, indian fusion, japanese fushion, Mexican, Korean tacos, Pizza, Cajun food, salads, and a deli. The fight in Raleigh seemed to the locals to be more about the food trucks out competing on quality. Most of the restaurant owners that had shitty food had the most to say, with the higher quality restaurants not giving a damn.

2) Cost even in LA and SF will seldom rise above $10 unless you get an entree and an "appetizer" at which point it hovers around $14. Usually the appetizers are enough for a whole meal.

3) Agreed, there are a lot of instances where the prices are the same as a brick and mortar.

I think Roy Choi is great, and is most the reason for the Korean explosion in food trucks, however he only seems to have 2 real competitors at the locations I frequent. The rest as you suggest have either gone out of business or changed to another cuisine which is more lucrative.
Parse launches web hosting
To be fair: egcs was a fork. It was a group of GCC people deciding that they wanted to work on the GCC code outside the control of the GCC project administration. And as it happened they were better at it and the FSF essentially took egcs back into the fold by handing over control of "GCC" to the forked project.

LLVM/clang is a rather different thing, for both good and bad reasons.
America Has More Trained STEM Graduates than STEM Job Openings 
The debate revolves around two sets of initials: STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) graduates and workers and the H-1B temporary worker program that floods our labor markets with low-cost, docile, high-tech nonimmigrant graduates, mostly working in computer-related industries.
Practically speaking, the most common term for the job of creating software is "software engineer", so just use it.
Will the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS package get the security upgrade soon or do we need to add the nginx repo?
Former king of venture capital in Silicon Valley trying to reclaim his crown
Plea to HN: Bootstrap my wife's and my startup, Happy Nerd Shirts
"For languages like Java, it simply isn't necessary, or in some cases, desirable."

Why would it not be desirable? Also, if I have an idea for a great tool, why should I have to write my own parser? I have more faith the actual compiler will have bugs fixed quicker in this regard.
I hope you never need an MRI. It really doesn't come off?
Hmmm, maybe not a ring, but cut a finger off.

Too much?
Update: Portfolio here http://chrisloftus.dunked.com
>Adding a conditional ("do I answer or do I proxy?") on every DNS query -- and there are many -- is going to introduce enough latency to be noticed unless you throw a lot of gear at it. And you're still going to introduce latency by inserting another hop. That's my point, though I do agree with you.

Welcome to the world of recursive name servers, there is a lot of software out there that does exactly what you just mentioned, I fail to see what would be hard about making this change.
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>can spot the BS and back peddling in the MS press releases

Perhaps you mean backpedaling?

>Uh, no. I'm a developer and overall power user, so please spare me the "you were using it wrong" comments.

Speak for yourself, I am a power user too and it took all of ten minutes to get used to Windows 8.

Even a 3 year old kid doesn't seem to have trouble.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d...
This reminds me of one of Warren Buffet's famous quotes:

"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."

Taking this thinking another step, one of the characteristics of good management is probably the ability to avoid bad businesses.

If Zuckerberg were to leave Facebook to start another startup, and analysis of the idea makes an investor think it's a bad idea, I'm guessing they would still invest in Zuckerberg based on the assumptions:

1. He knows something you don't.
2. He'd move from a bad idea to a good idea later and it's worth investing in smart businesspeople.
I'm grossed out by the Male/Female symbols on the page. Are they necessary? What about the few people that don't identify as gender binary? Also isn't this just a cutesy version of Grindr?
English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language
Weird Reasons Not to Hire Someone
Yahoo, Microsoft Renew Search Ad Deal
A Look at Modafinil and Getting an Entrepreneurial Edge The Natural Way
This part is relevant to that:

But Plaintiffs did not conduct a sufficient investigation to determine whether that person actually downloaded enough data (or even anything at all) to produce a viewable video. Further, Plaintiffs cannot conclude whether that person spoofed the IP address, is the subscriber of that IP address, or is someone else using that subscriber’s Internet access.

The first part, proving that they downloaded a complete copy, seems to be a bit more difficult than just grabbing a snapshot of all the IPs at a point-in-time as they had been doing.
Tech behind our augmented reality app, 'Go Make It Rain'
Posting from the grave?
It is not small at all in the context of American history. It was really not so long ago that we were requiring black people to use separate water fountains from white people and blocking them from whole classes of employment. Many places in that region of the US still cling–perhaps unwittingly, I suppose–to extremely racist traditions like segregated public and private events. The statistics on black incarceration and economic status are well established.

So when someone raises the specter of racism in a powerful public office like this, the accusation warrants investigation if nothing else. And other people here have asked for hundreds of samples, but this prosecutor's data set (which is really the thing in question here) is really not that large.

What's more, it loses sight of the real problem! The real problem is a curious girl is being overly punished for experimenting. The laws that put her in this jeopardy should also be under attack in addition to investigating the racist factors that come to light.
The script looks looks great, but mostly I just want to say it rocks to see a library with this much work put into quality documentation already.

Gives me a heck of a lot more trust for the script and reason to try it out.
This is one of the best guides I have ever read!
If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD
"What I'm trying to say is that the best way to get feedback from users without pissing them off is simply to do something that they really really like, and that they want to you to keep improving."

To me, the type of email you sent is the most useless email I could receive. It contains: nothing I can help you with; nothing I can improve; nothing that you had a problem with... it's empty kudos.

Secondly, it's very difficult to create something people "really really like" without asking them why they don't like what you are currently providing. And since people don't care about products they don't like, they will rarely tell you what's wrong if you don't ask... they'll just leave, and you'll never know why.

To improve your email, instead of simply telling them that their service was great.. tell them what your favorite feature was or what was the most helpful about their service. At least that will give them some idea of why you liked it, and it might give them some idea how they can improve other parts of their service.
Admittedly, I don't have a huge interview experience (on either side), but that hasn't been my experience. Apart from the implicit pressure of the fact that you are being evaluated, most of the interviews have given me the impression that the opposite party are really trying to learn about me, not putting me through a hazing experience.