skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk answered a similar question, and identified drive as the only relevant factor:

"How do you stay focused, motivated, and maintain enthusiasm when things don't go the way you'd hoped?

"I think my, sort of, drive to get it done is somewhat disconnected from hope, enthusiasm, or anything else... I actually just don't care about hope, or enthusiasm, motivation... I just give it everything I've got, irrespective of what the circumstances may be... You just keep going, and get it done."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOPgM7Sc2VQ
What's more likely: a bird that can fly for six months straight, or a software bug that caused the sensor to yield misleading data on what the bird was actually doing?
FAT and segment loading have nothing to do with each other. Gates was just bragging about having written something complex in a short period of time.
This reads like a screen play. "One Million Dollars - would you take it?!?" Indecent Proposal. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107211/)
Why did Nvidia cripple its Linux driver?
Awesome article and very interesting.
However to go on a bit of a tangent what did people think of the sensor in the photo?
It's interesting that such as small sensor still has long pads for connecting (presumably to program it and get data off) and also that it has a little tag on the left of the picture (making it bigger).
I can't see a battery in the photo. Is it on the backside or is it powered in some other way?
Also what is the little metal wire for? I would think that it was an antenna, however they state that they had to find the birds again to get the data back so it would seem that they don't communicate wireless. Could it be getting powered from radio waves instead?
What do you think? Is there more information on it somewhere?
Ubuntu 13.10 Review: A great Linux desktop gets better
Careful, if you go around waving your pirate flag like that, you'll be the one getting expropriated.
And today quite a few people complain about having to code on a whiteboard while at a job interview. How times have changed.
looks nice! similar to my Mac app CloudPlay - http://cloudplay.fm - love that you guys have visualizations!

are you aware that spotify and grooveshark require special agreements for commercial use? even rdio forbids any kind of monetization through their API: https://twitter.com/rdioapi/status/388019290538266624
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meta is building the most advanced interface in the world. We are bringing the technology of Iron Man to life by integrating a real-time 3D depth-map and 3D see-through display into a pair of glasses.
It's an inference, but that's how priming and propaganda work.
While the bar is a noncommercial setting to tell stories, it's hardly a private one. The analogy seems to suggest that the distinguishing feature that triggers the more is on one side commercialism and on the other side publicness, but then it doesn't quite keep it consistent. So I guess I don't quite get it: why, under this reasoning, is it OK for him to tell the story about you at the bar?
The problem is that some discrimination of applicants based on "culture" reasons are considered acceptable, while others aren't. For example, it would be generally be considered acceptable for a fast-iterating early-stage startup to not hire a competent engineer who is more comfortable with longer release cycles that are highly-spec'd and polished, but unacceptable to not hire a competent engineer who is much older than the rest of the team, even though both engineers might not fit into the team's culture and therefore both hires might hurt team productivity.
Of course it's been renovated, but the GP was talking about the original purchase price.
Fusion "Breakthrough" at NIF? Uh, Not Really …
When You're a Startup, You Turn the Floor Into a Beautiful Wood Table
Here's a crazy idea:

newstr = [@"%d %@" format 42, @"blah"];

Implement it as a method that takes a dummy parameter, plus a macro:

- (NSString *)format:(int)dummy, ...
#define format format:0,

Awful way to do it, but the resulting syntax is not entirely terrible.
Codemasters releases £2 F1 Challenge for iPhone and iPad
TBH, I didn't have many problems with AMD's recent Catalyst drivers.

The graphics performance is good and they have the fastest and most feature complete OpenCL implementation by far. Early buffer swap latency problems have been ironed out.

The only real gripes I have is that vsync with multiple monitors doesn't work too well and KMS isn't supported.

And at least with AMD I can be sure that my card will keep being supported by open source drivers once Catalyst support is dropped.
Related: FunScript, an open-source F#-to-JavaScript compiler:

http://funscript.info/
I guess my question is how does that fit into our current insurance policy and liability laws? For example, with so many things claim to be going to open source, if someone uses a 3d printer to make a screw to fix a car, and an accident occurs, what does it mean to the victim, insurance company, auto company and you?

Does open source actually innovate in areas like making cars? Does closed-source, private industry competition generate better innovation. Are there correlation and/or causation in either approach with new innovation? In other words, maybe it's nice to open discuss ideas but does actual implementation matters if it weren't open source? With software, we certainly have really terrible open source projects that people will use just because it's handy (I am looking at you pycrypto), but in the end we have to build another one. Whereas proprietary software may include custom "pycrypto" library that has private cryptanalysis done on it. It is still safe and useful.
BART strike: Last-second proposals could avert Friday morning shutdown
After I read that she donated the money from her YouTube to a charity to help Japan, she became my favorite pop artist of 2011. I do concede that you're right in general.
Those are like advance copies of movies, distributed by media production houses to a select few before any public release.
New Developer Features in Google Play Games
The historical "best practice" max home loan ratio was 3x your gross income. However, that was at a time that interest rates were significantly higher. Therefore the amount you are paying now over the life of the loan is smaller and thus more manageable. This assumes you make a large enough down payment that you don't need private mortgage insurance.

However, this presumes you will have 20-30 years of (more or less) uninterrupted prosperity which I think is unlikely.

People also do things like rent out a room or two to give themselves more of a cushion.

Here are some calculations using this site: http://www.mortgagecalculator.org/

I assumed a loan of 250k, 30 years, with no property tax or PMI since this is just for comparison.

Right now rates are ~3.5% so over 30 years you would pay $404k and $1122/month.
Over the past 30 years the average interest rate has been 7.45% so over 30 years at that you would pay $626k and pay $1739/month.

So a very significant difference.
I think it's pretty awesome that you wrote a book and are willing to share your stories and insights with everyone. I'm curious if you are a natural writer or if writing is something you really have to work at. What was the process like of taking ideas from blog posts and turning them into a book?
>We are slowly rolling out HSTS across the entirety of Facebook's infrastructure. The fact that m.facebook.com does not send this header currently is by design.

Why not? For browsers that don't support HSTS, the header will be ignored. For those that do support it, the end-user gets better security. Is there a feasible reason for not enabling it everywhere? My guess would be so Facebook can disable SSL for certain browsers?
I think you mean "like" PHP despite experience with it.
Mobile vs Desktop
Where are you in Europe?
which is against the TOS as far as I can remember.
Yup, we have an amazing graphic designer!
EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative
Who's to say? I'm almost tempted to even say "who cares"? I mean that, as in, "what good is it going to do to find the answer to this question"? Even IF it weren't the case that the answer is probably different for every single individual, what would you do differently if there was a discrete answer and you knew it?

For what it's worth, I spent a decade of my life (basically the 1990's) dedicating hundreds of hours a month to being a volunteer firefighter. I did everything from being a probie to being Fire Chief over the years, ran hundreds of calls, spend FSM knows how many hours in training, got my instructor certification to teach FFI and FFII, Incident Command, and LP Gas Firefighting classes... and now I don't do any of that anymore.

Why not? I don't know, my interests changed, my career took me in a different direction, and now I spend my time doing other things. I don't do much volunteering these days, other than a trivial amount of time working with the local mountain-bike club on building and maintaining trails. My time is so precious to me, that I find I'd rather try to help charitable causes and other orgs that I believe in, by just donating money. So now I make donations to, or maintain memberships in all sorts of groups: IMBA (International Mountain Bicycling Assocation), NRA, EFF, Libertarian Party, Gun Owners of America, FSF, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Second Amendment Foundation, Grassroots NC, etc.

Outside of that, I feel like the best path for me to both accomplish my personal goals and to help make the world a better place, is by founding a startup and building an awesome company that can create jobs, and - once we're profitable - do even more in terms of giving back to worthy causes. Plus I simply feel driven to be engaged in the act of creating something, and right now that means trying to create this company.

But that's just me... again, I expect everybody has their own take on things.
Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In San Francisco
I feel the exact same way about Javascript.
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My honest opinion is if you were to hang out with friends, a photo or two is fine. Enjoy your live. But if that's what you choose to do, I can't stop you. But thought I'd give out my little useless 0.2 Bitcoin.
Would definitely buy this as an audio book, but I doubt I'll set aside the time to read it as a book :/
Well, in the other corner you have NVIDIA, who still won't (and I'm willing to partially blame Canonical) step up and say for sure that they will support KMS and/or Wayland. Without that, it's going to always be something of a workaround to output wayland-on-nvidia and won't be a really good experience.
If the value in most startups -- as evidenced by the practice of acquihiring -- is really just the team, then a pivot would be anything which changes the business while keeping said team.
I find your idea pretty shock. I never thought of that. But then again, if there is a crime, there is certainly an evidence. The thing is that evidence is hard to trace. For example, hair and dead skin. it's just hard to find - you can end up with 10000 individual hair sample on the crime scene.
Sacking Berlin: How hipsters, expats, yummies, and smartphones ruined a city
It's debatable whether it's shown that, but it doesn't give us much information about this device even if that's true. The statement that Android apps are terrible on non-touchscreens doesn't necessarily tell us anything about how good they are on touch-capable devices.
Nope, wrong, not if it's being used in commercial application. The FAA regs that exempt model aviation specifically restrict it to non-commercial activities. When you are in open air and are any distance from the ground, you are in FAA airspace.
In which an MBA dismisses MBAs. And pivots are dismissed by a fund that is pivoting.
FYI, all the codes are taken
So much this. I will never understand why somebody would want to own a one-family house if they aren't going to at least have a goat or something.

Doesn't have to be a farm, but houses are for people who want to work the land at least in some capacity. Hell, at least have a solid garden!
I rather disliked San Antonio. Not much culture. Not particularly well educated. Nothing to do but eat and drink. No one is athletic or particularly interesting. Go 2 miles away from the River Walk and you see just how poor the area is.

Granted this was about 10 years ago. I much preferred Austin and even Houston.
So they are going the Chromebook route, hardware from every other company? The reason current gen consoles lasted as long as they did is certainly not because they had lots of fragmented platforms with vastly different performance characteristics.

That model seems to appeal to nobody but tech people.
Brendan Eich: JS Responsibilities
The problem actually is weightlessness, not vacuum. Normal ballpoint pens rely on gravity to pull the ink down against the ball, so it can get rolled onto the paper. Fischer space pens have pressurized cartridges so they work without gravity (or even against it--they can write upside down here on Earth).
where have you heard not to do a "news app"?
Are you implying that a slice of life is not fully enjoyed unless one or two photos are taken and plastered onto your social networks?
Virtualens: How We Made Our Project for Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge
If AMD can get their ass in gear to make a driver suitable for Sony, why can't they get their ass in gear to make a driver suitable for Valve? The reason fglrx is shit right now is because they really don't have any good reason to care.

@drivebyacct2, who is unfortunately hellbanned, makes a good point too:

"Well, in the other corner you have NVIDIA, who still won't (and I'm willing to partially blame Canonical) step up and say for sure that they will support KMS and/or Wayland. Without that, it's going to always be something of a workaround to output wayland-on-nvidia and won't be a really good experience."
Four of the top 10 best selling laptops on Amazon are Chromebooks. Not sure how that translates to only appealing to tech people.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-Lap...
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The e-mail with info on how to RSVP to the Startup School afterparty was sent at around 4:40pm PT today (Thursday). Capacity limited.

Note: I am not affiliated with the organizers. I just received the e-mail and wanted to keep regular HNers updated.
Chabris dismisses the Alter & Oppenheimer study because no "exact" replications have been done that "he has found," but then proceeds to give weight to a similar study, which failed to replicate the findings, even though that study itself was not an exact replica, because the test questions were not appropriate for the sample:

"In my review, I criticized Gladwell for describing this experiment at length without also mentioning that a replication attempt with a much larger and more representative sample of subjects did not find an advantage for difficult typefaces. One of the original study's authors wrote to me to argue that his effect is robust when the test questions are at an appropriate level of difficulty for the participants in the experiment, and that his effect has in fact been replicated “conceptually” by other researchers. However, I cannot find any successful direct replications—repetitions of the experiment that use the same methods and get the same results—and direct replication is the evidence that I believe is most relevant."

I'm not sure who to believe here. Legitimate criticism exists, but for every successful author, there is one who seeks to piggy back on their fame by attacking it, and for every sensational scientific study, there is more to be gained by disproving it than by replicating it.
Andreesen Horowitz is loosing the
ability to identify impactful startups

Pet peeve: it's losing, not "loosing".

I don't know if anyone can properly guess if a consumer startup is going to get traction until it does, especially in the mobile space. That said, they did manage to get a 312x return on their seed investment in Instagram (which they declined to invest in a second time as explained here: http://bhorowitz.com/2012/04/22/instagram/)

A-H offers seed investments to YC companies in order to get a foot in the door with the small fraction who will succeed. Offering blanket seed investments confirms that they really don't have any idea at first either. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just the nature of the beast. (http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/14/andreessen-horowitz-to-giv...)
They are "mocking" Gladwell for presenting anecdotes as science, not for simplification.
Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In SF
First time I heard about this was on the Indian movie "3 Idiots". Never did any research on it but the movie explanation just made sense to me. I didn't know there's some history behind it.
I would guess that AMD just opened up all specs of their GPU to Sony and Sony did most of the driver/API design along with some help from AMD.

You also have to consider that the PS4 graphics APIs will likely be a lot simpler and down to the metal than DX9/10/11 and (especially) OpenCL.
It's super easy to block tagging of any kind. You can't block untagged photos, obviously, but the same is true for every image hosting site out there.
I just launched http://www.maxxable.com/ which is a phone clip for secure one-handed use. Ne need to have case, keeps your phone securely in your hand.
Meteor 0.6.6: content security policy, upsert and $near, Node 0.10
I was hoping this would let me drop PDF, Word, PowerPoint, etc. files and it would show me thumbnail previews of the contents (rather than just for images). Anyone know of any libraries that implement this kind of functionality? Maybe hacking OpenOffice?
Just another marketing stunt.I can believe it. Its all made up !! I mean to say the NASA story is total made up.
Also consider that Valve has been hiring Linux graphics people for a long while.
I want you to know that I feel the same way, and I've felt that way since long before the Internet. I actually think that it runs in my family a bit - we're very private people.

Honestly, I prefer to live life rather than live the process of creating a record of a life. I also prefer things to be ephemeral, rather then so every-decision-you-make-is-permanent. I think people are less adventurous when they feel like they're performing for posterity.

Of course, I also have a healthy dose of paranoia. The news lately has made me very happy about the choices that I was making before 9/11.

People are generally good about it. If people want to take a picture of you or write about you in their blog or something, it means they like you. They'll probably be amused that you're so private. Of course, you probably will have to give your best friends a picture once every 10-15 years, but they already know you're a weirdo, and won't be posting it anywhere.
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Thanks for the ideas.

You're right, that's why we still constantly working / talking with our customers/users, to find if things are working or not.

I think mobile app, better notifications, doing email and other integration, and improving the daily digest emails will help to create those habits.

We want people to use the app everyday at work, understand that people also need to work, give them enough cues, but not to bother them.

One thing that have noticed that even chats are pretty intensive, and some teams so it a lot, it also requires you to be present at the same time, to effectively join the discussion.

With Inc, discussions is more like in a forum or email, where people comment when they have time / something to say.
Culture at Amazon.
This is obviously not the case, otherwise VC's would not analyze the business model or product at all when making investments. On the contrary, the particular idea and plan take on a large part of the investment thesis. In fact, the pairing of the team and the idea (can this idea be executed on by this team? do they have some unfair advantage in this area?) is an important factor as well.

In other words, what you're doing here is basically redefining pivot so as to be meaningless.
Thanks guys for the support and the kind words! :)
They all used grease pencils anyway, like you do on boats, which don't leave conductive shavings.

http://www.spaceflownartifacts.com/flown_writing_instruments...

edit - and lots of other pens as well, the link above seems fairly comprehensive.
nah... they decided Paul should go because Bill still looked like he was a high school sophomore.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/09/walter-isaacson-on-bill-g...
What I was referring to is the fact that they likely never delete your info, they just set disabled=1, recoverable=0. I have heard anecdotal accounts[1] and read the writing on the wall[2], along with a hunch, that they would rather not delete data unless compelled to. Disk space is probably the cheapest its ever been, and there's a lot that you could learn from one's profile data, and they undoubtedly data-mine (and probably sell) it regardless of your disabled status. A 3rd party might be more interested in your data, say maybe if they determined that their demographic shows a strong inverse correlation with FB activity. Or maybe the 3rd party feels that they've already saturated the FB market, and is looking for leads in new markets. Facebook themselves would stand to gain from crunching numbers to try and determine why people leave, since that is lost revenues for them.

Although, I hear that the EU (or maybe just the UK?) has strict provisions around keeping data, and so those users who choose to delete their account really do have their data wiped. But not the rest of us.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145987

2. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/29/facebook-reminds-user...
I am not asking because I want to do something differently - I am asking because I am curious about what force is the one that drives someone to spend hours and hours to fix bugs for an open source project (something that is digital) but doesn't drive him/her to do all the things I mentioned above (things that are physical).

I mean, we can end up with the coolest web apps but at the same time we might be running out of oxygen, to give an exaggerated example. What is this that we cannot see in order to prioritise differently?
Lonely, young planet drifting in space without a star