skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't that many 47 year old female undergraduates, let alone in computer science. And, in addition to describing her own experiences at UCLA, Bateman, is publicizing stories of older women going back to school in STEM subjects, as you'll see from her twitter and esp. her tumblr, where she lets some of these women tell their stories, at length.

And it's interesting reading about her interest in computer science, what it took for her to be able to be admitted to UCLA, her experiences with the courses and projects, etc.

Additionally, if you read her stuff, you'll see she is an entrepreneur, with her own company, who was trying to get Hollywood interested in doing projects involving digital media, the internet, etc. years ago but kept getting push-back.

And that's without any of the celebrity pixie-dust.

As far as that goes: she was on a very highly rated, award-winning TV show, along with Michael J. Fox, called Family Ties, back when tens of millions of people would watch a TV show.

And: given that the newly-revived Arrested Development just came out on Netflix, she happens to be the sister of Jason Bateman, who plays Michael Bluth.

tl;dr: she's quite HN-worthy.
Well maybe fix the laws first. Not for founders, but but for regular workers.
I really have the embedded XML in javascript code. I'm much more interested in the Angular or Dart approaches to building web applications.
45 seconds is too long for me. I only listend to 6ish seconds.

Vine is 6 seconds and that's also visual. Tweets are read in 10 seconds.
If you want to grade what's worse, DRM or closed source software, I'd say that the first one is worse. While closed source software restricts user's freedom for modification and redistribution, DRM goes way beyond that and violates much more.

I'd say it's practical, reasonable and not extreme to be opposed to any forms of DRM. There is simply no excuse for it to exist.

Unlike Valve, other distributors (GOG/CDPR) proved that DRM free gaming distribution is practical. So I don't see Valve as a best example in the gaming industry. Music is DRM free. Digital books publishing offers more and more DRM free options. It's the video industry which lingers behind the most.
In a flat organization, your boss is going to be irrelevant. I would gauge a company by whether the interviewers teach or belittle. I personally find belittling okay, and can learn in that environment. "fuck you, if you are such an expert, then you can explain it to me. If you can't explain it, then you are probably full of shit." I have no problem saying that, but most people won't/shouldn't.

I get high from learning no matter whether the people are assholes or teachers. Most people need good mentors that are not managers. Any organization where managers have time to teach are too hierarchical.
I sound like a stuck record here but: the proposed EME standard in no way standardises the underlying DRM mechanisms in individual vendors' CDMs.
Lego Gun Incident Ends Better Than Pastry Gun Incident
Immigrants will pay American seniors’ healthcare bills for years to come
They should also actually be block quotes. Those aren't. They are images. I can't think of a good reason for this, becaus the PDF they came from is one that allows text selection and copying.
Kinda just a worthless piece of PR for ReelSurfer. Why is this on the front page?
the in-page-pop-up composer is just a lame substitute for people that don't know how to click "Compose" with the middle button (or pressing the modifier key of choice). Well, you don't even have to know that, just open a new tab and type gmail<Ctrl+Enter> and you can reference your other emails while writing.

the problem with google launch for that feature is that they DID NOT give the choice.

So, people that is not slow and know how to use tabs effectively, got their writing space crippled. and it became a pain to actually see the email i wanted under the in-page-popup composer. because you know, some people have 10inch screens.

at least now they made it available to go back to the old format. ...that will give me a few more months to look to a gmail alternative.
LOL DOM IN UR JAVASKRIPT (no really, you're fired)
In some professions this guy would be considered young. Its kind of amusing to read. He has made it so even though there is some bitterness in his writing, he has obviously benefited from the system, and unlike being a struggling actor you are making some bank at a startup with a potential to make it big. Compare that to making ends meet as a waiter.
This has an expedient solution of only making devices which are able to play DRMed media (perhaps with permissive flags), and having all authoring tools use a per-user content creator key. Then the same broadcast encryption keying that allows players to be selectively disable also allows the cracked transcoder to be disabled.

Of course, this isn't terribly compatible with general purpose computing but operating systems intended for the public have been moving away from general purpose computing for some time and tables and mobile devices are pretty close to that now.

If we go far enough down that path the makers of these handicapped devices can even get legislative help in preventing competition from more user friendly devices by outlawing their sale as was the case for macrovision.
Right, ok. Thanks. It's related to but distinct from ketosis / ketogenesis, and I was conflating them.
i totally understand and respect your position and that's definitely a strategy that can work.

The other end of the spectrum is, you could contract someone like Tony Morris[1] at $250 an hour for 20 hours a week, and he will build your product faster than a team of untrained engineers, or more likely, build a product that untrained engineers aren't capable of building, with a defect rate close to zero.

Not every strategy is right for every business, but generally, the harder the technical challenges, the more cost effective it is to pay for a superstar.

[1] http://tmorris.net/posts.html
It's a tough balance between making the clips long enough for the creators to sing their song / tell their joke but short enough to where it's not annoying for listeners. I don't quite know the equilibrium yet.

The looping nature of Vine videos for me typically makes the videos longer ( or at least the amount of time I spend watching them ). Maybe if we looped the sound clips we could get away with shorter?

Thanks for the feedback
Your statement was "closer". Even if the video watchable without plugins is only 1% of the total, your statement is still wrong if it was e.g. 0.1% a few years ago.

Regarding YouTube, I do most of my YouTubing on iOS devices, and it's very rare to find a video that doesn't work, so the non-plugin support is good. Why it doesn't work in your browser, I couldn't say, but at this point I suspect it's more about your setup than YouTube not supporting it at all.
Disabled man making 3D animated series from hospital bed
NASA'S Swift Reveals New Phenomenon in a Neutron Star
amazement. sorry for the ambiguity.
People with high IQs really DO see the world differently
> Elm is the future as much as Java is dead in the software development industry.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like what you've done here is just take one narrow interpretation of Nekorosu's comment and used that as the basis for a dismissive reply that offered no value.

---
Dateline 1995:

Nekorosu: "Java is the future"

Cuttooth: "Java is the future as much as C is dead in the software development industry"
---

It's a big industry, cut. There's room for everybody.
Slight hyperbole, but I understand what you mean. Assuming OP has never succeeded in creating a truly viral video then a pontificating title such as this is sure to get a few backs up at the very the least, certainly amongst hypersensitive and hypercritical HN commenters.

Having never made one myself, I can only imagine that making a viral video is largely a function of luck, so any treatise on how to make one might just be viewed as a hypothesis that provides something useful when one synthesises their own strategy. That's how I looked at it, and that's why I'm grateful for the OP having shared it, rather than getting insanely worked up behind a computer screen.

Thanks OP.
He also dismissed any broad customer interest in AR products such as glass, while at the same time hinting at future "wearable" products from Apple. That strikes me as a strange and possibly regrettable position to take.
After PhoneGap, which approach did you end up taking?

Congrats on the app, by the way!
I mean in general, there are about 500 responses there. You can get permalinks for all of them. (After doing a lot of page refreshes—and seeing a lot of amazing stories from interning at the Swedish Defence centre to being inspired by Gloria Steinem—I found mine http://ilearnedtoprogram.com/?id=4db7598635a76c8952000000 )
This was a lessons-learned post, but I would LOVE to read a "How we made those lead bullets" post.

Because his post goes like "guy says lets use lead bullets." -> "We hunker down and use lead bullets" -> magic -> "Boom. $1.6 billion company"
Internet trends for 2013
Update - Just realized I just fed a troll. Moving on!

Whoa! Hold on there cowboy!

What have we told you about sweeping generalizations??!!

Not every person in India wakes up every morning to fix social issues. They wake up every morning to go to work, feed their families and you know..do what you and I do - when we turn the other way to the glaring poverty and injustice that is visible in our communities.
I agree with most everything in the article, but:

"Make sure to give your video a provocative thumbnail.
For example, this video (which got over 13 million views) used a thumbnail that was not really even related to the video itself."

It is crazy they openly encourage the community to do the same. It is the same as posting a provocative HN title unrelated to the post, creativity should be encouraged but not to the detriment of the community.
google labs is fun for a minute
I feel the OP raised 2 strawmen:

1) Many jobs are at startups now, and those startups are roughly similar, therefore it's not cool anymore ("is the novelty even there").

That is just bad logic. It may be that startups replicated high pressure low gratification corporate jobs, but that's not inherent in the argument that there are more startup jobs. It could also be the case that the tech economy has really shifted from large corporations to small agile (and sometimes fun to work at) startups.

2) Startup jobs turn into corporate jobs, so you shouldn't take them in the first place.

That change is not a given, nor is it that the change will be done poorly, nor is it that the employee won't want the change by then. Anyways, if you get 1-3 years of startup experience that you enjoy, make contacts, have a chance at a payout, then there's nothing wrong with taking the startup job with the knowledge it may change and you may want out later--in fact, in every US employment contract, it's a given that the employee or the company may change their minds later.

I do agree with the idea that we need to demystify the startup scene. Being beholden to a VC is no different than to a corporate middle manager, they're both trying to carve out their little empires with your work. I think the interpersonal cost is real in certain cases, and the comment about fetishizing disruption is right on. But the 2 logical errors above weaken the message, especially since they are above the more lucid observations.
... because it is fun to paint everything with the same brush?
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Even if you don't have an American degree, it helps for immigration purposes. For example, I have a Canadian MS, allowing me to apply for a green card under the EB2 category. The EB2 category has an expected wait time of about a year as opposed to the EB3 category (if I only had an undergraduate degree), which would have a wait time of around 5 years.
SSL vs JS crypto is kind of missing the point.

There are use cases that SSL does not address. This contest is obviously silly, and I'm not defending the app, but I take issue with the "break SSL = break JS crypto" argument.

sslstrip, while a legitimate issue, is closer to phishing than an attack on JS crypto. It's based on tricking the user, not breaking the protocol. I'm not trying to downplay it but I don't think it's fair to equate that with an attack on JS crypto. In an audit, I would point out the things you mention.

Consider:

1. The user knows how to look at their address bar and verify that they're on HTTPS.

2. The server gets raided or changes ownership, and the new "owners" are untrusted.

Now the inevitable counter argument is, "if you don't trust the server, how do you trust the JS that they are sending you?"

My retort would be:

1. Such attacks wouldn't be retroactive. Data is only compromised from the point that you execute the modified JS forward. If it gets owned or raided, and you don't log in, you're still safe. If you trust just SSL, you don't gain this advantage.

2. There can be varying degrees of trust. I can trust that the site operators won't actively attack me, but not trust that the data is unreadable by anyone. Your webhost could expose your data either out of malice or carelessness. It's a significant escalation for your webhost to hijack your site and start changing the code in it.

I'm not trying to suggest that JS crypto is safe or that this is a solved problem, but SSL does not provide any solution at all here. JS crypto provides a poor solution, but a much better one than only SSL (though of course it must also be used with SSL).

Mega is an example of where JS crypto might have some value. For users to be charged, Mega has to not only get raided, but the feds have to keep it running long enough so users can be attacked with the malicious JS, after which their files can be decrypted. That is far better protection than the first iteration, where a raid meant they already have everything they need to charge everyone, and they just have to start digging offline.
I agree the example in the piece is a bit extreme, but was just trying to make a point. It is very possible to have a provocative thumbnail that is relevant to your video. I definitely don't advocate deceiving your audience.
From the perspective of industry, practical experience building research toys is generally more valuable than either book learning or course projects, because you are forced to come up with and implement novel solutions and because you ultimately have to make something work in order to get the degree. This is the value of a Master's with a practical thesis.

It's not that the advanced knowledge isn't taught in a graduate program, it's that a formal research project where some or all of the advanced knowledge is applied is seen as a great way to integrate everything, and it's completion is a better marker of autonomy than course project completion. Of course there are professors doing useless research, so find someone at a school doing something that interests you. Or get hired by a company and learn on the job. Or start a side project. Yes, academia can be a waste of time if you don't actually like the work, but depending on what you want to build it might be the easiest way to get there. Grad school is generally an opportunity to become an expert in the field that interests you, and the production pressures of industry might preclude this.
Also, when asked by Mossberg why Apple does not constantly churn out top hits (using a music metaphor) it apparently didn't occur to him to reject the premise of the question. The obvious answer would have been "I disagree, Apple continues to deliver a constant stream of big hits every single year. What you're really asking is how often do we get to invent entirely new genres, and I assure you you have seen nothing yet. At the same time you have to keep in mind that innovation is not a mechanical process occurring at regular intervals."
Really liked this part:

"As there was in the first dot com bubble
there is a current proliferation of startups,
incubators, accelerators, angel/seed funding,
and so forth. ... accompanied by a shared set
of values, norms, and language."

I'm currently doing a start-up. I went the University incubator route and have regretted it ever since. Feels so pedantic...
We see a lot of this in China, with apps like Papa (like Instagram adding an accompanying audio clip). Most people are tired of reading here and would prefer sound or, now, video (we just got a Vine clone).

With that said, my thought is: why not be able to just press play and stream the experience, allowing me to listen to everything with my friends that day (like a personal podcast)? I haven't installed this app, but the screenshots look like I have to press play on every single one. Vine autoplays, which adds some feeling of this to their service.

Edit: also, congrats on your app!
Why?
I don't know why but there is this tendency in me to get really mad after failures that sometimes I miss a day or two thinking about it. I am not sure if I am a good programmer or If I ever will be. Since I get bored with programming too.
Why are San Franciscans so goddamn busy all the time?
I'm not the only one. Hey, you can still run pine if you want.
> with a defect rate close to zero.

Most of our defects are not software defects, they are product/marketing/strategy/SEO/SEM defects.

If American Express wants to launch some app with defined features, then Tony sounds like a great guy. We kinda understand our customers, but not really. We throw pasta at the wall and see if it sticks. Once it sticks, I can hire Tony to make it great. Tony will never accept us as a client for good reason.
No. That chain ends at the second step "digital genome sequence". In principle, we could synthesize a bunch of DNA strands corresponding to the genomic sequences and ligate them all together (although it would be absurdly expensive and laborious), but this would not constitute a chromosome. Eukaryotic chromosomes are organized in the nucleus by a huge variety of scaffolding and modifying factors (histones, etc.) into structures called chromatin. Recapturing this from sequence data is impossible, even in principle; the information is just not there. Indeed, understanding nuclear organization at a bunch of different leves is one of the big challenges of modern genetic research.
Oh I was just reacting to this part of your post:

> I strongly believe that no amount of time at the piano will make me a good sight reader. I believe I could get marginally better, but I will never reach the level of even an average pianist.

So, in the absence of technique problems, I think you can become an average sight reader. I think it's much harder to say whether you can become an excellent sight reader. Seriously, if you have classical piano books at home, just start with every piece in the grade 1 or kindergarten book, then the grade 2 book, and so on. Usually sight reading 2 grades below your playing level is a reasonable end goal. It can be boring to play those simple pieces but it's the most effective method in my experience.

Perhaps you are good at sight singing simply because you are a singer, and if you were a pianist in the same way you are a singer then your sight reading would improve. Perhaps you don't need or want to be good at sight reading, in which case there's no point in pursuing it.

I'm not denying your experience of one being easier for you than the other, but I'm also not convinced that you have 10,000 hours of piano sight reading practice, so I guess it doesn't strike me as a counterexample. How many hours would you say you had for each of singing, sight singing, piano playing, and sight reading? If it's really 10,000+ hours each, I'll eat my hat.
Surely a coffee-infused stout can provide the best of both worlds?

That said, unless it's a side project that isn't in real use I don't tend to work after drinking alcohol, but it's a rare day that I don't work "under the influence" of espresso.
Even if all it did was make bad ideas sound better, it wouldn't be worthless, at least if you believe what pops up on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5635461
Yeah, but I think the over-arching idea that the OP was getting at, was "what if we can breed these 'superstars'?"

That would certainly seem feasible if you interview for personality traits, interests and learning skills, more than actual/concrete knowledge and working skills. And of course, this would be a lot more cost-effective as well. In that case, I would say that the key would lie in paying more attention to human psychology/intelligence research than to tech blogs/circles to find out more about 'superstars'.
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Mozilla eventually decided to support H.264 in the <video> tag. Is there any indication they will/will not support HTML 5 DRM?
No one is ever ready to have kids. Yet they do.

No one is ever ready to go to war. Yet they do.

This post perpetuates and glorifies the myth of startups as extreme sport. If we look at businesses (let's not call them "startups") around the world that have succeeded through the ages, I don't think most of them began with the all-or-nothing insanity that is implied here.

Stay focused. Work hard. Life goes on.
The Y Combinator (Slight Return) (2008)
The simplest explanation is that usually an exchange is essentially a conduit - they match buy with sell orders. If for some reason (i.e. computer glitch) they are matching only buy orders, they are creating short positions in their systems.
This is something that Flex excels at. Perhaps the only thing that I really miss.

For instance, in flex, to do a 3 column layout, I could do something like:

<HBox>
<VBox width="33%">
[Content]
</VBox>
<VBox width="33%">
[Content]
</VBox>
<VBox width="33%">
[Content]
</VBox>
</HBox>
No, exchange still means what you think it means. The issue they had is that a bunch of orders got stuck in a queue somewhere and thus couldn't actually be exchanged. This is all a question of how you deal with that. NASDAQ decided not to just cancel the orders or execute them later but to provide them the trade they "deserved"

Personally, I think that was the right decision, but it's your call.
Do you have any evidence for this fraud accusation?
Tiniest web server?
The point was that JavaScript is king and this "Elm is the future" suggests that it'll be a major player. Right now it's a niche toy language. There's room for plenty of those, sure, but it takes years of work and development for a language to become worth its salt. Java had its fair share of issues for a while, and arguably still does.
My first open-source Chrome extension (read the details)
The FSF is opposing this proposed W3C standard too, of course. What's wrong with having the EFF oppose it too?
No, the foresight came from the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners, organized pursuant to statute, which specified the route and the design of the IRT Subway (what is now the 1/2/3 and 4/5/6) and bid out the contracts for its construction and operation. The construction was paid for by the city, which issued bonds to finance the construction. The Manhattan BRT lines were also built under such contracts. The lines were leased out to the IRT and the BRT (both of which were in large part formed for the purpose of executing these contracts) for operation at a contractually fixed fare.

So not quite the invisible hand. Today we'd call it a public private partnership, if we were feeling charitable, or maybe government-sponsored duopoly if we weren't. The closest modern analogy is probably the U.S. defense sector. The BRT and IRT were "competing" in the same way that Lockheed and Boeing "compete." The government figures out what to build, while private companies figure out how to build it, and the government foots the bill. I personally think it's an incredibly effective structure, but then again I think there is a place for oligopolies that are quasi-extensions of the government.