skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may accuse others of scaremongering, but I call you apathetic and you're trying to spread apathy to others. Why even bother commenting?

Oh, I accidentally voted you up, and I want that vote back.
Matthew, I should have put my response to you. I'll be curious to see what happens with Bitcoin and when crytocurrencies become the norm, whether the business will start to respect tech. Show me a great business mind with great technical sense and s/he will be the master of the universe. Algo and HFT which now move the majority of capital markets are essentially just messages passed back and forth. So to your point - you nailed it! And this is coming from a sales guy who recognizes the EXTREME strategic advantage technology provides. If any of you are interested in a Beta invite to the Next Gen job search and career management platform send me an email to ben@projectsherpa.com with the subject BETA
Not for phones. On iPhone, the assumption is that removing headphones while playing music is a mistake (e.g. jostling the cable from jogging) and if you're going to take it out of your pocket to plug the headphones back in you can restart the music too. On Android, I think headphone removal triggers a global intent that your music app can listen for. Whether it does something when that intent fires is another story.
> It wasn't until 1990, when Texas Instruments released the TI-81 graphing calculator, that the medium became a feasible platform for game design

Nonsense. People were writing calculator games long before graphing calculators were introduced. There were lunar lander games for HP and TI calculators in the late '70s and early '80s, for example. HP had a "Game Pac" for the HP-67 that included blackjack, craps, a slot machine game, a sub hunt game, an artillery firing game, a space war game, a game based on "Mastermind", Nim, and more.

The HP-41C, introduced in 1979, and (amusingly) discontinued in 1990 (the year the author says game design became feasible on calculators) had an alphanumeric display so it could do word-based games, and Hangman and an an Adventure-like game were available.
Is a graphing calculator really the most obvious way that a young and impressionable mind will find an inroads to programming in this day and age? I find that idea laughable. Tinkering on the web is the obvious modern-day equivalent that is completely neglected when talking about how hostile the modern environment is towards the young creative spirit.
As an older person on this forum I can confirm the Note II really helps. The eyes start to go first..
> right now people's behavior is driven by the pattern of charging the phone at night.

Exactly. With e-Ink the screeen would always be on, showing the time, messages, inbox or whatever, no need to "pick up phone -> click power - > swipe to unlock" every ten minutes.
Makes a nice headline for a Friday afternoon. Unfortunately it will never happen. Tech company leaders don't have the stones while the government has guns and prisons.
Or better yet: Crypto of mass destruction!
I think the fundamental difference between our points of view is that I am attributing traffic on each individual application to be contributing to Meetup.com's traffic.

Each individual application is still owned by Meetup, it runs their application binary executing their advertisements, running on their payment processing, cross-promoting whatever content it is that they want to promote - what difference does it make if the application is called New York Tech instead of Meetup.com?
That's right, it must be possible to install an app that enables to program from the iPad (I don't owe one, so I may be wrong on that), but unlike the calculator, the programming environment is not included with the device, so many students who were not exposed to programming before will not even think of installing it on the iPad.
Through 6 semester courses of high school mathematics, 10–11 semester courses of college pure/applied mathematics, 5 semester courses of college physics, and lots of other numerical problem solving, I never ran into a case where punching some complicated formulas or numbers into a graphing calculator during a lecture would have been useful, and never ran into a time when I wished I had a graphing calculator instead of a regular $10 scientific calculator or a laptop. YMMV.
That'd be more salient argument if graphing calculators were used outside educational environments.
Are there any work permits needed for EU citizens? I'm planning on trying the Berlin startup scene this year.

Thanks,
"Consolidated Cryptologic Program has 35,000 employees working to defeat enemy crypto."

Yeah, "enemies" such as Miranda.
I have asked myself this too. Also since Laura is good at using crypto according to the media I would have expected for them to have created a few key pairs while together in the US and a few terabytes worth of one time pads. So they can just encrypt the volume headers with them.
> I'd ask that if you downvote me, you at least comment on why you disagree. It's not like my opinion is just going to go away, guys.

I guess the democratic voting system you so valiantly defended bites back.
the article says half the cooling circuits are fucked

and that leaks are a huge problem - i.e. waste water bypassing the cleaning systems

agreed that there's no proof the mist is steam. But if a normal nuke plant warms up the water enough that fish come to feed there, not hard to believe that in a crisis some steam could rise.
> Why aren't the models globally available?

Cellular standards are completely different in different countries, let alone on different continents. Your flagship smartphone might have a quintuple-band chip in it so that you can sell the same model everywhere, but most of these smaller devices only do two or three bands, where the antenna can be smaller / they can get away with using fewer of them.
You can buy it for $199 straight from Google: http://www.google.com/nexus/4/
Nice. I call this technique the "attack of the clones". I was slammed with this method by competitors in FB apps in 2007.

Cleverly done my nemesis. :) As you note, this is effective in many other places too.
That app still exists, and it's being worked on by my friend Ivan Savov, one of the original founders.

You can check it out at http://papers.mcgillweb.com
New Google Play policy requires opt-in dialog to show ads
Don't worry, racism goes both ways.
Yes, what is meant by enemies? Is it Iran and North Korea, or are China and Russia actually considered enemies within the NSA? I ask because there's a lot of chatter today about having hacked Chinese telecom for the last 15 years. Are enemies just all foreign persons? I wish I knew who our enemies are, maybe the public wont agree with whatever the NSA thinks.
Software productivity management (as an end in itself) fails to account for another fundamental axiom: that software itself isn't the end-product, but itself is a tool or defines a process by which some task is accomplished.

Count lines of code, function points, bugfixes, commits, or any other metric, and you're capturing a part of the process, but you're also creating a strong incentive to game the metric (a well-known characteristic of assessment systems), and you're still missing the key point.

Jacob Nielsen slashed through the Gordon's knot of usability testing a couple of decades back by focusing on a single, simple metric: does a change in design help users accomplish a task faster, and/or more accurately? You now have a metric which can be used independently of the usability domain (it can apply to mall signage or kitchen appliances as readily as desktop software, Web pages, or a tablet app).

Ultimately, software does something. It might sell stuff (measure sales), it might provide entertainment, though in most cases that boils down to selling stuff. It might help design something, or model a problem, or create art. In many cases you can still reduce this to "sell something", in which case, if you're a business, or part of one, you've probably got a metric you can use.

For systems which don't result in a sales transaction directly or indirectly, "usability" probably approaches the metric you want: does a change accomplish a task faster and/or with more accuracy? Does it achieve an objectively better or preferable (double-blind tested) result?

The problem is that there are relatively few changes which can be tested conclusively or independently. And there are what Dennis Meadows calls "easy" and "hard" problems.

Easy problems offer choices in which a change is monotonic across time. Given alternatives A and B, if choice A is better than B at time t, it will be better at time t+n, for any n. You can rapidly determine which of the two alternatives you should choose.

Hard problems provide options which aren't monotonic. A may give us the best long-term results, but if it compares unfavorably initially, this isn't apparent. In a hard problem, A compares unfavorably at some time t, but is better than B at some time t+n, and continues to be better for all larger values of t.

Most new business ventures are hard problems: you're going to be worse off for some period of time before the venture takes off ... assuming it does. Similarly, the choice over whether or not to go to college (and incur both debt and foregone income), to to learn a skill, to exercise and eat healthy.

It's a bit of a marshmallow experiment.

And of course, there's a risk element which should also be factored in: in hard problems, A might be the better choice only some of the time.

All of which does a real number in trying to assess productivity and employee ranking.

Time to re-read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The stock music player pauses when that intent fires.
This service was originally Perl-specific, before I decided to expand on the idea, leave my job and work on it full-time.

I'm always looking for new communities, but it's meaningless to create empty placeholders for each other language and expect that people would come, we need some amount of initial content first.

If you want to help me start a new realm, either with ideas for stencils and quests, or with how to bring a group of people to it, please let me know. (My email is me@berekuk.ru.)
> Thank you for writing Apple Writer.

You're welcome!

I know this is a predictable remark, but I miss the good old days. The Apple II was so simple and understandable that I was able to write a program that played two musical notes at once (I called it the "Electric Duet"), in tune, and a fairly tolerable sound, even though the speaker was driven by a TTL output (meaning no analog level control).

If the Apple II had had interrupts, my program would have stopped working. I know this because an Apple II successor supported a mouse, the mouse required an interrupt, and it ruined the performance of my program.

Oh, I almost forgot -- Tom Clancy wrote "The Hunt for Red October" on Apple Writer.
If he had a second tenure at Microsoft as successful as the first, his efforts to save the world would be even more well-funded.
Gmail works pretty well with all kinds of older devices. Up until last year I was using Gmail with a Nokia 6820 (an S40 phone from 2004). Arguably almost as good an experience as on the iPhone. :/
Yes, I agree. I think there are professional candidates in the industry to manage Microsoft.
Odd things can happen if you drive your brain out of gamut, but I'm not very worried about that. The motor parts of the brain don't seem to do 'sleep', so much; they get disconnected using a master switch, but not immediately, so your falling reflexes should stick around.
Handling numerical input in mobile web apps or “A sad tale of two keyboards”
Facebook Updates Its Policy Documents Regarding How It Uses And Shares Your Data
This may work to a limited extent as motivational talk, but it isn't true. The truth is more like: If 100 people truly care about writing their own software, etc., then some percentage of them will figure out a way to do it. The rest will not find the right opportunity.
It was the first device I learned to program on. Part of that was probably the allure of how simple it was to get started on since the device did not give you a bunch of distracting features/apps by default. Amazing what you end up doing when you're bored in school and have the calculator manual with you (and a little "necessity is the mother of all invention" tossed in for apps related to solving equations and such for class).

Graphing calculators are nothing to scoff at, even if they're not considered "modern" by those that wished they had a fancy IPS LCD screen, 2GB of RAM and high powered ARM CPU.

Overpriced? Heck yeah. Overrated and obsolete? Only if one thinks they are.
It is. :P

There are a couple others mentioned in the discussion, but which would you suggest?
Hmm, that may very well be what I encountered. Thanks!
I'm not happy with your service and want to delete my account. Come on, at least give me option to unlink/hide my twitter, and change my username!
Come on now, really?

http://www.amazon.com/On-Lisp-Advanced-Techniques-Common/dp/...
With a graphing calculator it's easy for students to do these things themselves without having to give them each a portable computer

Oh, the irony...
I don't agree with the kinesis options being that esoteric. They are well known and loved in many computer enthusiast communities, this one espescially.
iPhone users rejoice for bug-free code!
Link to the official announcement: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-site-governance/1015...
> plus a whole bunch of parentheses because calculators are dumb and everyone's paranoid about order of operations

Oh yeah.. and no paren matching either and iirc multiline editing was inconvenient enough that i never used it.
Smartphones are often misunderstood. Their most important role and primary use-case are still communications.

I like my smartphone not because I can play Angry Birds on it, but because I've got my email, Facebook's messenger, WhatsApp messenger and Google Hangouts always connected.

So if you see elderly people that don't like smartphones, that's because those people don't use email, Facebook, Google Hangouts, Skype, WhatsApp and so on. But then again, there are elderly people that do.

We like to embrace new technologies just because. The elderly on the other hand value their time and tend to be very conservative, but give them a valuable use case, like video communications with their children that have left the country and you'll see them with smartphones.

On the other hand there is something to be said about the quality of these smartphones to function as phones. For example I remember fondly of how I didn't need to look at my phone, just for dialing a number, a function that's so important while driving. Yes, we've got voice recognition now, but it's so shitty.
What? I was asking a question. Perhaps unlike many here, I don't know his full background. So sue me.
It's rarely about the money at this point. It's probably time and bandwidth that's limiting his efforts.
harvard comp sci phd, repopularized lisp, successful sale to yahoo, created the biggest tech news forum (HN),

Most Importantly - has almost turned creating startups into an assembly line.
You can take my TI-89 from my cold, dead hands.

It is dramatically more portable than a laptop, the battery lasts forever, and you'd be surprised how powerful it is. Sure, it takes a while to learn how to use it, but once you learn how, you can perform tasks with it extremely quickly. Obviously it isn't as powerful as Mathematica or Maple, but for many things I would argue it is both easier and faster to use.

I will agree with you that older TI calculators have bad interfaces, but I think the TI-89 has an interface is quite usable and intuitive.
Okay. I only mention environmental lighting because I have a GPS unit with a color reflective display -- in the field it's readable in direct sunlight, a great advantage. So I know it can be done. As to whether the display can be made beautiful and have the high resolution people expect, I don't know, but I suspect it's feasible.
Just how long can 35000 people keep a secret?
Let's look outside the startup world for second.

Managing large, sprawling corporations is nothing like starting a company with a few products. I'm not saying it's harder, but it requires a different skill set. Neither Musk nor Graham have a proven history managing large and diversified companies. MS doesn't want them, and I seriously doubt they'd even be interested in the job. It'd be like recruiting Lebron James to play baseball.
> Basically, Questhub is your free public task tracker.

This copy really bothers me. Drop the "basically" - it's totally superfluous and a bit amateur.
Well, this is one specific instance. He could very well have had a poor TrueCrypt password.

Or the laptop was on and unencrypted at the time of its confiscation.
I still have my TI-92+, it was the pinnacle of graphing calculators, basically running Mathematica on the equivalent of a Sun-1 workstation in your hand. And of course TI-Basic.

While the article suffers a bit from nostalgia, the central message that young people develop learning skills from 'constructable' activities (be it programming a calculator or building things in shop class) is something we have put at risk. In many ways "art" is the most important class you can take in High School since it can challenge your thinking in ways that no amount of rote memorization can.

The bottom line for me was that its great that some folks can see the benefit, but not a whole lot of ideas about keeping that spirit alive in the school system.
I don't think it would even be financially feasible.

If microsoft was to fund 500 internal startups tomorrow, what's the chance any of them would even produce any real revenue? Out of the thousands of startups that are active today, how many of them have even the remote potential to generate 1b in revenue, or even be successful? This isnt even considering how maintaining 500 internal startups would be a micromanagement nightmare. How can you tell if someone is worth keeping? With the failure rate of startups so high, does that mean you should fire startup cells when they fail?

The resources that would be used to maintain such a division would probably be much better used focusing on one new, amazing product - backed with loads of market research and QA. You cant ship that kind of product with 5 developers and a years worth of hotpockets.
I don't think that's very newsworthy until they claim to have successfully decrypted one. Law enforcement has wasted plenty of time in the past trying to decrypt these, and failing.
Numenta open-sourced their Cortical Learning Algorithm
You are completely missing the point.

He's not saying that there should only ever be two methods for http.

He's saying that rest media types should be free to specify their own verbs for interacting with them. HTTP 2.0 doesn't need to specify the full set of verbs because REST allows implementers to define their own.

HTML defines two methods for interacting with services that use it as a media type: GET and POST.

Soap defines 1: POST. Both are restful.

Arguments about which one is easier to use have no bearing on whether it's restful or not.

You can define other standards on top of REST using your own custom verbs but those verbs do not need to be codified in http 2.0
Two problems with that:

Bill Gates hasn't got Steve jobs's ego,and he hasn't got anything to prove.

The days where PCs took over from minicomputers, and where Microsoft was the disruptor, are long gone. It isn't clear if Gates or anyone else can make Microsoft disruptive again.

That's too bad, because one of the few sources of truly novel work in operating systems is Microsoft Research.
We explored having different color scheme to denote the node distance between two cards.

Unfortunately, it got too messy, and neither of us are designers, so we had to shelve it for now.

As for scrolling, and want the mouse scrolling to work just like keyboard (selects the card at center, reorders other columns appropriately). Haven't gotten around to it yet.

Thanks for your feedback!
Good, you had the energy, youth and education to know how to acquire loans without getting shorted, working 16 hours without preoccupation for other things aside from your own well-being (your business very much counts as that), and in the context of an incubator.

Now think of someone with little formal education who has been taught all his life that there is not way to solve those issues because you don't know anyone who has gotten out of that shithole.

What motivation would you have?

People seem to underestimate how important is to have a glimmer of hope that a situation is insurmountable. Sitting in a couch watching TV is not an irrational response for spending decades under that situation without any possibility of clawing your way out.
The spirit of the article is compatible with explaining the virtues of general purpose computing.

There are plenty of people who have drawn a distinction between devices that can be programmed and which encourage experimentation and creation as opposed to devices built for consuming or figuring out how to get a result within prescribed parameters.

However, it cannot be ignored that Texas Instruments graphing calculators are not great examples of general purpose computers. To the contrary, they have become a signature example of rot within education.

Students who would be sufficiently inspired to program a graphing calculator would also be sufficiently inspired to program on a Raspberry Pi which is orders of magnitude more capable, and at least $65 cheaper.

The TI-84 is BAD at its core functionality. It performs badly when it comes to acting as a mathematical tool, or as a preview of what tools students might ever potentially use professionally or in higher level math courses. Second, it is a bad general purpose computer. And finally, because it is terribly over-priced, it is unnecessary burden on high school students, at a price that is only supported by cooperation from testing agencies that acts counter to the interests of students and counter to education in general.

Is a TI graphing calculator a cute device, and does it inspire fetishization and nostalgia? Sure, why not. However, it is not acceptable that high school students in 2013 are compelled to buy technological relics that are not relevant to their education.
VirtualAlloc can reserve address space and commit pages for it depending on the flag provided. Address space is a resource of the process, and pages are a resource for the entire system.
Make it run spotify, have good sound quality, and wifi, and I'm sold.
I saw this posted by some artist friends of mine. I think it makes sense in that context. I'm not sure what this has to do with startups in the Paul Graham sense though, except to say that you shouldn't do one, because the entire goal of a startup is to kill yourself working and sell out for megabucks. What matters is the exit, the IPO, the aquihire, the valuation, and the traction.

If anything, it's an argument for lifestyle businesses over startups.
Okay, never mind. I read more:

> The more interesting is your quest, the people will upvote it, and the more points you will get.

Okay, yoda.

Maybe get some (serious) proofreading or ask a friend to write your copy. I don't care how good your app is, the homepage is a joke.
> Clearly, a team with potential success ahead of them ought to consider their options carefully and see whether applying to YC is right for them.

It seems like this step is precisely what the YCombinator process is meant to complicate. The entire structure is designed to make it feel like a competition for PG's attention. By structuring it this way, it makes it much more likely that the people who "win the competition" will say yes to YComb.

And YComb moves fast! People tell me there isn't a lot of time to think. Implicit in YComb's structure is the statement, "There are a dozen people in line behind you that will take your place." It's all very American Idol.