skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know very little about the YC application process, but if you are confident that the problem you are tackling is real, and have done your homework, I don't see why you would need to present a phony picture of yourself. In fact I'm pretty sure that the YC folks have enough smarts and experience to pick out phonies.

If you're presenting the phony picture because you don't really have a clear understanding of the problem, then yeah, you will have bigger issues with your business outside of getting into YC.

If you've put in the work and still feel like a phony, try to ignore the feeling - it's probably just the impostor effect.
By multiple connections do you mean multiple "sharee"s? Nutty works fine with multiple sharees too.
I was working for the city but didn't have a computer or email. Brought my laptop to work but couldn't do all that much without Internet--couldn't access the network and no public wifi. Point was I got that through chatting with a bail bondsman. It's not the greatest hack in the world.
That's the wrong way to look at it. They served the whole 100%, and now they are starting to optimize for the 99% at the expense of the 1% of power users. (My guess would be more like 95% / 5%, but I may have a biased view myself)

That's the only explanation to the whole set of stupid decisions they've been taking lately (reader, yt UI, gmail compose, ...): they make more cash by doing so.
I'm Chinese, my bosses happen to be Chinese too. We have iPads, tonnes of them, if not for the iPads laying around to distract the executives on several occasions I might be in a bigger hole than I am in right now.

I really wanted to like it, our COO still likes it(iPads everywhere, Surface shiny and not everywhere), but there is no way in hell I'm gonna let him go abroad with only the Surface Pro beside him. Never again.
Many comments herein make good cases for changed titles. Titles are extremely important as they are the content of the front page, and along with rank are how we users decide what to read.

Here's a solution:

1. Allow submitter to optionally change the title.
2. Use the changed title, but on the comments page display
the original title near it.
3. Display up/down-vote buttons next to both titles.
4. Dynamically swap titles based on (Karma-weight?) votes.

In other words, let the community drive the moderation as it already does for other things. It's imperfect as there is still a first submitter advantage, but it will work at least 80% of the time for 20% of the complexity.
As it happens I was just researching it myself (it was briefly mentioned in a lecture on scientific visualization). I found this (have not read yet), what seems like a thorough and serious treatment of the subject.

http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color2.html#heringtheory
You know what's a guaranteed method for killing a 12 year old's interest in a subject? Have a 40 year old tell them how cool it is.
To play the devil's advocate, we already have the URL so the title (at least directly on https://news.ycombinator.com, experience on hn-android and other clients will vary):

A New Beginning (us.php.net)

Is that not good enough?
I agree it's not precisely mens rea; my point was simply that criminality has always depended in part on what was going on in people's heads.

Note that it's not just IP. Imagine constructing a prime from which one could decode child pornography. For that matter, imagine finding a prime whose ascii representation was a death threat: publishing that would be legal; sending it to someone with the expectation that they read it as ascii would be illegal.

The question is what is really going on, and a part of that is what's in people's heads. Law isn't voodoo, it's how we regulate actual behavior of actual people.

"Thought crime", in its Orwellian context, is entirely different. I can think whatever thoughts I want opposing the copyright monopoly or even opposing prohibition of child pornography - in fact, in some scopes, I've thought both of these kinds of thoughts - and not be guilty of any crime.
25 highest paying companies for software engineers 2013
How IBM is making computers more like your brain.
Not sure where you're getting that from the Apple page. They say that a backup should be done before migration, but nowhere does it say that Apple won't assist those who have no clue of what a backup is.
This is the exact reply you offered me a few weeks ago when we were complaining about w3schools ranking at the top of Google's results. Ultimately, your "debugging" amounted to explaining that you rank lower-quality results higher because they are more "popular", and therefore, somehow, more useful.

I still don't understand the strategy of promoting less reliable, poorer quality information as a way to help the user. But it's easy to understand as a (short term) way to help Google, as these low-quality sites invariably carry Adsense, and the better sites often do not.
There absolutely are things STEM workers can do. If it's a cultural problem in STEM, then we can work to change our culture. If it's a cultural problem with the perception of STEM, we can work to change the perception of STEM.

1. If it's us, then honest self-examination can reveal what we're doing wrong. Are we patronizing towards the women we work with or who are in the ranks below us (grade-wise in school, hierarchically in the workplace) more than we are with the men? Are they more sensitive to it, if so can we change how we approach them to be less off-putting?

2. If it's the wider culture in the US, we can participate in programs that reveal the reality of STEM to a broader audience. Help with youth mentorship programs. Become a teacher. There are many good math and science teachers, but there are many terrible ones too. I like my friends, but some of them teach math because that's what they were qualified to teach by credit hours, not because of an innate interest or understanding. They don't convey the sense of interest and itrigue that can capture children's attention and interest.

3. The reality is some combination of the above, our institutions (educational and professional) contain a great deal of systemic, often unintended, bias. Our media portrays engineers as lonely losers or creeps. As a community we can work to tackle these things if we take it on as a real challenge, instead of dismissing it as just gender differences.
I'm not really sure why he needed to buy the prop. He has a car company, why not just make a submersible Tesla. :)
Social pressures both to differentiate and conform to a particular sub-group during adolescence, and the kinds of groups that girls and boys tend to form. At least in part.
Very slick. I'm impressed at the compilation speed, given that it's in JavaScript and I'm on a slow machine. Pascal always was good for that — and you've made me miss it.
I would like this adjusted by local cost of living. A lot of the highest are in the Bay Area, where $150k ain't what it is in cheaper cities like New York. (Not a joke.)
In this article the journalist associates critical thinking with economic abilities. In other words, the local factory can't find laborers because children in the area lack reading and math skills. The author then goes on to argue that standardized testing is partially to blame for this phenomenon.

While journalists commonly make this leap, it's not necessarily an accurate one. In other words, standardized testing is not always at odds with critical thinking.

For example, South Korea, a nation with a very strong emphasis on standardized testing, consistently ranks in the world's top 5 universities, according to Pearson. Its students have strong reading and math skills, which prepare them to meet the challenges of many jobs.

We should question the myth that standardized testing always harms critical thinking. In some cases, I think, this argument is used as an excuse to justify American children's increasingly awful test scores.
This is a great exercise of talent and skill.

Too bad the HR department would never hear my side of the argument.
"I've decided to block all crawlers to the site other than Google or Bing"

And this is why I find people that respond to privacy complaints about Google with "if you want to switch search engines no-one is stopping you" frustrating.

Additionally, I would like to point out that according to those numbers, there are ~41,000 (418,814 - 199,725 - 40,359 - 36,340 - 33,893 - 26,325 - 13,458 - 10,657 - 6,109 - 5,993 - 4,959) additional robot hits, many of which generally are bots that only visit one or two pages. For comparison, that's more requests than Googlebot did. Just flat-out banning everything frustrates people, and encourages them to just ignore robots.txt entirely.

If you're being hammered by a bot, contact the bot's owner! Most bots have a link in the user agent that you can follow. Barring that, ban the specific bot. But don't ban everything just because a few (proximic and ADmantX) are hammering the site.
Anshuman Bapna, the CEO of mygola.com has written a neat blog post on the 3 Reasons Why Mygola is the World’s Best Travel Planner - http://blog.mygola.com/2013/10/3-reasons-why-mygola-is-world...
We do sometimes change titles from the original when the original title is egregious linkbait

Indeed, but the guidelines (as they currently stand) do ask people to edit both linkbait and titles with gratuitous information (like 10 amazing ways to get your blog post featured on Hacker News). Granted, people will sometimes editorialize (injecting their opinion into titles) or put outright incorrect information in titles, but we already have a good flagging mechanism to deal with this, not to mention people's ability to comment on title abuse.

The problem is that a lot of worthy articles are given shitty titles by publishers - the title of an article is very often not what an author intended, but what an editor decided would draw more eyeballs. This is particularly a problem for science articles, where the article deals with some interesting but typically slightly obscure discovery, but the title is pure linkbait. For example, some weeks back I submitted a post about the rather surprising discovery of polypropolene on one of Saturn's moons by a NASA probe; the title on the article was 'common household plastic found in space' which makes it sound like someone had accidentally dumped a bunch of spoons out of the ISS (and which led to the top comment being a moan about the crappy title, calling me out for not changing it - in fact I had, but the mods had reverted it). The web is awash in linkbaity titles, and they tend to be either misleading or to obscure the aspect of the news that's 'of interest to hackers.'

I think the policy should be to trust members. If some HN users persistently editorialize or supply misleading titles, then they'll be flagged and lose credibility or get banned, dependent on how deliberate and egregious their title abuse. Members who submit informative titles will correspondingly be promoted. The karma/user identity system functions perfectly adequately in this respect. I agree that moderators ought to focus on moderating discussion (and reducing the prevalence of mean or stupid comments); reverting titles seems like a pointless distraction from that task.
I get your point, but that's just semantics. You go down on the list of definitions in Webster and you could find that "power" means exactly what the Title eludes.
Yes, you should definitely change your name. These things always come back and bite you in the future. I just submitted my answer in that form.
Oh interesting, none of my programs had (input,output) so my parser doesn't support that. It was optional in TP and I don't think did anything.
It should make most calls faster. Exceptions are for small JSON files or on networks that are fast enough there is no streaming effect (the whole file arrives very quickly)

For most sites there'll be some users where it will make it faster (mobile, slow internet) and others that it'll be about the same. If the network is unreliable it should help as well because when the connection drops you don't lose what you already downloaded.

"makers" = just me :-)
I've come across so many examples where a perfectly valid (imho) title has been changed to something which is basically meaningless with out the context.

Here's a recent one from memory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6492781

The originally supplied title was something similar to: "My afternoon with a serial killer". It was changed to the "Center of the Universe" title.

Clicking a link titled "Center of the Universe" one would rationally think they were about to read something by an astronomer regarding the latest hubble deep space image.
People don't have an expectation of hard drives being removable(most people probably don't even realize they can be removed), whereas SD cards are explicitly designed to be mobile. People treat them as mini USB drives, so this behaviour is directly counter to most people's intuition, regardless of its technical merits.
That's one way to exclude peasants from investing in your company.
So either the entire QE money has gone into reserves or banks are parking money at the Fed that they used to lend to each other until 2008. I wonder which one it is.
You may not know, but does the Dept. of Justice announcing they won't challenge state medical marijuana laws have any effect on pre-employment drug testing? Why or why not? Most employers seem to be moving away from it, in my experience.
We have just been given a write up on Tizen
Not necessarily, for example medium blogs just show 'medium.com' with no relation to the actual blog.
Also remember that they are evil.

I don't toss this around lightly, but Wal-Mart is one of the very few companies (I actually can't think of any others right now) that I absolutely will not do business with no matter what.
Or fetch the title, pre-populate the submission form with it, and then upon submit, require a confirmation along the lines of "You've changed the title of this submission. Please note that in general, we want submissions to use the original article's title except in cases where it is necessary to edit, for e.g. reasons of clarification or space. We do not allow editorializing in titles, so if this title edit isn't good, your change will be reverted by a moderator and it will not reflect well on your karma score. Are you sure you want to submit with the edited title?"
Google doesn't pay dividends or give public shares voting rights, while I get it that people believe the intrinsic value will appear at some point, this is not how I would like to invest money in a company, regardless of what price the stock hits.
I know you're basically just trolling, but I'll reply seriously anyways.

I'm one of the people who makes changes to Google's rankings. As a result, for any change I want to make, I have to collect the statistics to justify it. This is done with the help of an analyst who has a different reporting chain from the ranking engineers in order to ensure that they remain unbiased. These statistics include things like what results people click on, how often people hit "next page," how humans rate the results before and after the change, etc. (None of these statistics involve ads or revenue in any way.) Once we've collected those statistics, the analyst writes up a report about the change summarizing their findings and pointing out any areas of concern.

This report is then presented at a weekly launch meeting, where the ranking leads review each change both for its metrics and for its complexity, ongoing infrastructure cost, etc. and make a decision about whether to launch it. You can view an example launch meeting here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRJXnXgE-A
The "Compile" option was, I think, for when you wanted to generate a .COM or .EXE. So I don't support that. The "Run" command does compile and run, though.
Yeah, I find plot construction in fiction writing to be very similar to doing software development. There's a general high level outline that you start with, then as you follow the story the complexity increases as you have to tie in disparate story lines.
Linqapp - A human-powered "Google Translate"
Yeah right, there are no incidents of people getting shadow banned due to personal vengeance/ stuff they disagree about, on Hackernews. /s

And 'running it free' is not like they are doing us a favour like you make it out to be, but running it right, is.

And we all know you are one of the good admins here too :) /s
The people who start a company that bundles VPN + international services into a simple "Chromecast" device will be billionaires... or sued because of some legal issue.
Are they rebuilding RetailLink? It is the most horrible piece of software ever.
That's true, but isn't COBRA extremely expensive though? Of course there are ways to lower relocation risks, but many involve having a fair amount of money saved up. The people the article is talking about don't have money whatsoever (which is the point of moving to places with higher paying jobs and opportunities).
Kudos on the book! Need to check it out.

You're right about LeanPub. Interesting stuff. But I'm much more curious about how you built such a great following over the years, especially since we both work with similar audiences.

Flashy tools are cool and all, but people been making lots of money on books having conversations with target audiences long before things like LeanPub came along.
Agreed. I went to some school in Poland before the reforms mentioned in the article, but have much family who went afterward. I don't think it's the school that teaches critical thought, it's society.

Poland has been through a lot of BS. There was constant government propaganda for generations and you never knew who you could trust, so people learned to use their brains to keep themselves safe. Until communism fell, it was a poor country with shortages of pretty much everything, so people had to learn to fix and tinker with things, because they couldn't go out to buy new ones. Kids played differently than they do in the US, with little in the way of toys and lots of imagination and in mixed age groups.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the differences are cultural, and maybe that hardship breeds more critical thought than plenty. I'm not advocating hardship by any means, but I think it's very important to teach kids to play creatively and hopefully, this will carry on through school. It's disingenuous to say that school reform and funding are responsible for critical thought.
There's also the question of, what actually counts as the title of a web page?

There's at least three options: the HTML <title>, the URL, and some line of large text within the page. And of course there could be many headings or subheadings within the page. Some of the discussions about changing titles arise when the submitter chooses one of those and a moderator changes it to another.

Is it worth looking into improving conflict resolution here? Should moderators know to look at the HTML title and keep it if it's better than an in-page title?
And here is a picture of the coffin [1]

[1] http://storiesofusa.com/images/us-navy-seal-michael-monsoor-...
They should hire some usability engineers and shot the ones who did design RetailLink user interface.
Which tool/code you used to parse the logs and get those numbers?
No. Titles like that are often heavily biased towards regular readers of a blog/forum/interest group, and meaningless to people outside that small circle, even though the article itself may be well worth knowing about.
Glassdoor data is useless, especially if you are trying to get "averages" from it.
which is a huge difference. you can hire half-time maid/cook with that. Did you take it?
Sure, you can look at history, see patterns there, and apply them to whatever's happening in the world right now.

Or, you could make reasonably accurate predictions on what's going to happen, based on your knowledge of how human's behave.

But what you can't do, is put current data through a bunch of mathematical functions, and have them tell you what people will do.
Well, yeah. Of course you can save a bunch of money by just refusing to pay for stuff, and finding illegal ways to get it for free. You can also save money by sneaking in the back door of a movie theater. The point of this article is that one kind of honest consumer is subsidizing another.
They didn't say that. Previously they said: "no one but the sender and receiver can see or read [FaceTime calls and iMessages]. Apple cannot decrypt that data." Now, they are saying "iMessage is not architected to allow Apple to read messages".

They key message is: Apple cannot decrypt or read your data. That's all they said.

They didn't say "Apple will not lawfully provide iMessage encryption keys to the government" nor "Apple will not provide the secret key for the iPhone CA to the government upon request/demand" nor "Apple will not provide iMessage data to the police."

When a secret court compels you to remain silent, what isn't said is critical.
30 years of side scrolling gaming history on computers. four arrow key options for movement. this person chose up and down to represent left and right.

user interface experience ( ) master ( ) proficient ( ) beginner (x) antagonistically counter-intuitive and user-unfriendly
Buy a Time Capsule if you want the Apple experience. It will cost you, but then it's Apple's solution.

Apple Time Machine has never been friendly to NAS other than Time Capsule. You have to do some hackery to get it setup, so the above fix steps are suitable for that crowd.
It's funny in these discussions, and for me personally, there are three reasons to have cable:
1)Breaking Bad
2)Game of Thrones
3)Football

It's really no wonder that they hold on to Game of Thrones like it's their crown jewel. It is.
The same logic can be applied to a variety of other fields as well. Many formulations within mathematics, signal processing, machine learning, AI, etc follow this. Higher level problems in real life usually have to deal with unknown terrains and the techniques need to adapt to that.
One thing that would make this issue so much less annoying is if a guid was added to each item in the RSS. That way users wouldn't see the same article multiple times as the title keeps getting edited.
I noticed that recently Apple stores are managed independently.

Many actions / decisions being made really depend on the store. Personally, I needed an iphone replaced and one local apple store decided NOT to even look at the iphone. Another apple store was very upfront: they looked at the damaged iphone, and offered an exchange for $200.
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This can be used to cross the Bay without bridges, ferries, or BART. Between Tesla cars, the hyperloop, and this, perhaps he is solving Silicon Valley's transportation troubles after all.
I did not know about the app, the idea is great ,was it a Nokia project? or did they "acquire-hire" it ? (bought it and shut it down ? ).
quite possibly the dumbest thing i've ever seen. yet, uniquely brilliant. still, only a might hire in my book.
Nathan made a great product and worked really hard over the last few months to make it perfect!
DDG's search results are terrible for me most of the time.

Though DDG as a frontend is quite nice. I use the bang shortcuts all the time. It's actually a better frontend to google's search than google's search itself: I can easily switch between google France results (which emphasize french speaking pages) and normal google results, something that I haven't been able to do in years since google.com/ncr (no country redirect) no longer works when you're logged in with a user account.

Overall I love the idea of DDG's bangs. I've found many of them useful and you can infer those you don't know easily (if !a is amazon.com, then !afr is amazon.fr; !hn is very useful as well!)
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Although you can get through security fine this way, it's against FAA regulations to drink alcohol on a plane that isn't served by the crew. You could drink it in the airport legally (I think), but not on the plane. Of course, you may be able to get away with it on the plane anyway, but you'd have to be discreet.