skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to hear it's getting forked. Hopefully those turn into real pull requests for the project :) And that it gains real momentum.
It's a good point about eating at restauranta vs. hiring a chef; in my limited norcal experience, it cost less to have a come-and-cook chef weekdays than it did to routinely eat out, and it was substantially more awesome in several ways.

Despite it costing less, though, several of my fellow Americans thought the chef was like, bourgeois, or pretentious, or something.

(I would still do it, except now I have a wife who cooks, and resists my lobbying to outsource this function...)
I've seen a lot of PG's interviews where he literally says "Don't worry about competition". Dropbox released at a time when Google Drive was looming in the horizon. Still they succeeded. It's the execution that matters.
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Would be interested to hear what people think; what is the current attitude with regards to chatterbots, speech-recognition, Siri and Kurzweil's singularity? Are we jaded, or is it the beginning of a new era in AI?
I didn't know that, thanks for sharing.

The two issues I have with that:

1) I don't use Thunderbird right now, for anything. Mails are either in FF (webmail) or in other applications. I'm not sure if I want to drop webmail in favor of Thunderbird.

2) The status of Thunderbird is still a mystery to me. I'm still not sure if Mozilla is slowly backing off or if they're just not praising TB anymore.
I noticed that their popularity is perfectly justified when I didn’t remember even once closing an infographic before scrolling down to the very end of it (and some of them has been very long).

I don't think this is true, and even if it is, unless you're in the business of making mouse wheels a user scrolling to the end is not the goal - getting a conversion (sale, signup, phone call, etc) is. The fact you scroll to the end isn't very interesting - do people call the companies they see infographics from? I don't.

A good infographic is a representation of interesting data with an imaginative and informing design. Making something into an infographic doesn't have any inherent benefit. They need real thought and hard work to be useful. There are popular, dare I say even beautiful infographics, but many are dull, unimaginative ways of reporting data without actually adding anything. They're created as if Excel had an "export table as cartoon" feature.

People are as likely to ignore a bad infographic as they are to ignore a bad website.
When I read journalism without knowing the subject well, I assume what I read is accurate. But I'm always shocked by the inaccuracy of reporting on stories I know/understand well.

I wonder whether this book is less accurate than average, or whether this review is finding only the typical level of inaccuracy.
I hope they run with the idea of a single dedicated share button (like iOS): you can add the services you use, rather than those that a publisher chose to embed, and with more work it'd be nice for starting to back away from endless third-party tracking because you wouldn't need to execute FB/Twitter/etc. JavaScript on every page in the hopes that someone will use it.

There was some noise about this in August but it doesn't look like more than an initial trial balloon: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/08/06/firefox-makes-it-ea...
Bitcoin collapse?
Let's have coffee.
I don't know how different are the work environment of ISRO and DRDO but I guess it must be same. One of my colleague at Tata Consultancy Services, an ABAP developer, left his job with decent salary and an opportunity to go to UK for an offshore project of 2 years. Why? To join DRDO at salary 4 times less than what he was getting coz he hated his work and was passionate about working on something that is not just interesting but also makes a difference.
No, it doesn't. It talks about him being inspired by DF, and other games, then discusses Infiniminer and has a quote from him saying MineCraft was an Infiniminer clone.
What is "amazingly unlikely" about that though? Revolutionary games that create their own genres (Rogue, Adventure, Dune 2) are amazingly unlikely. Minecraft is just evolution of the games that already existed.
> they did at least 7 years of studies (which are tuition-free in Uruguay).

It's not their wage that is important, it is the value of their skills and time. If two people must meet face to face, it is most efficient use of resources to have the least skilled person spend their time traveling.
Well, what that means depends on your view of the maxim that "all publicity is good publicity". I'm sure more copies will be sold. I'm also sure more copies will be read with a more skeptical eye than normal. And for many of us, the quality of her review, the specificity, especially to critical and basic factual errors, tells us a lot if we find her believable (helpfully she cites two other reviewers making the same claim). For me, that's enough to decide not not buy it.
The article that this article is based on was full of factual errors, according to an actual Icelandic publication:

http://grapevine.is/Features/ReadArticle/A-Deconstruction-of...
For the rest of us it's a huge exercise in mental gymnastics.

I've thought about this a lot and honestly, I think this is a good thing. Languages which are much less strict about types and mutation require huge mental gymnastics too, they just don't tell you about it. They let you happily continue on your merry way until some time at a later date you realize your program is a giant ball of mud and you have no idea how to change things without breaking it. Haskell forces you to deal with the hard problem of state up front in exchange for having a clear, maintainable program down the road.
Ask HN: Any new Wikipedia based apps?
From time to time I've seen several applications that are based on data from Wikipedia.
Some of them provide a different/more pleasant Wikipedia experience, while others combine entertainment with education, example quiz apps. Do you use any of them, or are aware of new ones?
Timesaving crontab Tips
Many of the largest banks in the world launder much greater sums and get away with the lightest slap on the wrist. Wherever money changes hands you will find ethically challenged people making a profit.

Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-t...
Yep, that pretty accurately describes where I once worked. But I don't think this is a bad thing from the perspective of the board of directors, only for the likes of you and me.

Remember, the goal is to spend as little money as possible developing a product/service and then sell out in 5 years. So you want to hire inexperienced but talented drones who will do as they're told and give you value for money (i.e. work their evenings and weekends for free). Anyone with the sense to push back on that needs to be cut loose fast.
I was pretty surprised when Minecraft was charging money for a fairly simple and uncompleted game. I was surprised because I had not seen that done very often. Now it's definitely more popular with things like Kickstarter but I think the fact he was asking for money early on helped a lot. If he had not asked for money, he may not have been able to develop the game to the level he did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Not the same term, but the right effect.
Brilliant parallax.An interactive look behind the scenes of The Walking Dead.
Already on it! A small barrier is the $6000 donation to become an official NaNoWriMo sponsor, but I'm managing to get some NaNoWriMo writers on the platform through other means.
I just taught a workshop in a big digital agency, and on 2/8 Macs Chrome didn't work without the -webkit prefix.

Just shows how often people update.

Don't drop them.
+1
The credits on the site speak volumes about the author:
"Microsoft - For making terrible products
Evernote - For making better products in a slightly evil way"

That is quite the snarky attitude towards predecessors. This project reads like someone wrote a vastly simplified version of onenote claiming its superiority.

That's like taking CK Editor, putting it on a web page, backing it with a database and calling it a "replacement" for MS word and google docs because microsoft sucks and google is evil.
I just took a couple of these for a quick spin so that I could have an answer if anybody asks about them tomorrow (I'm doing a LISA'13 talk about cloud storage performance). They really are pretty zippy. Basically they seem about 3x as fast as their predecessors, particularly with respect to disk I/O. The 1GB type is among the fastest in that category at over 15K (synchronous random 4KB) IOPS, for only 50% more per month than competitors. The 15GB type got over 28K IOPS, which is among the best I've seen in a public cloud (e.g. Storm on Demand 12GB or the astronomically priced AWS hi1.4xlarge).

Network-wise, I got the usual Rackspace throttling-induced asymmetry - 194Mb/s going from the 1GB instance to the 15GB, 874Mb/s the other way. Likewise, the cloud block storage significantly underperformed the instance storage at just under 8K IOPS - though that's still really nothing to sneeze at in a public cloud.

For something you can rent by the hour these are pretty sweet. It's not too hard to find 10KIOPS-capable machines elsewhere for much less, but then again those IOPS might not do you much good if the machines are network-constrained (and many of the cheaper providers do tend to be). As always, measure for yourself. It's always good to see that bar being raised.
Thank you very much for sharing this. I found it very helpful as I am also preparing some applications. One thing that I noticed though, was that the video you submitted is both well beyond the 1 minute restriction, and you also spent a lot of time talking about the project and not about yourself ("1 minute video [...] introducing the founders").

When recording our previous video we were very worried about being on the 2-minute mark and straight to the point, spending more time introducing myself and my colleagues. Do you (and the HN community) think that may have caused some serious loss of points? Good luck from Brazil!
Tell her it will free her up to spend more time on other wifely tasks.
Bezos has been famously reticent to talk to reporters ever since Amazon became big:

http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/11/i-interviewed-jeff-bezos-...

If the subject does not want to do an interview, than it is not unprofessional to not have interviewed the person. In fact, I can't imagine why even a dishonest reporter would not interview their subject given the chance, as that reporter is still in control of the transcribed material and can use it dishonestly, even moreso than if they didn't have the interview, because they can claim their biography has extra weight, due to the exclusive interview, even if they then end up twisting to their purposes.

(which is why very famous people often do not talk to reporters in the first place)

The "writearound", the kind of biography in which you do extensive research to fill in the gaps and talk to everyone else you can find, is actually a pretty well-honored form of biography, and one that can be very illuminating.

(I'm not defending the author in the Bezos case as I don't know the particulars. Just disputing your argument that not having a direct interview destroys the legitimacy of a biography)
The crime isn't transferring the money. The law applies to the payment processor, who profits from often criminal activity.
Shoving more bloated code into my browser is hardly a good thing. Firefox needs to stay focused on 4 things: speed, security, standards, stability

Chrome has done this and thrived. I still use Firefox for the extensions and the fact that Google can not be trusted.
I think it's notable that a review (that is currently the second most 'helpful') is the way to disagree with a book. It reaches people considering buying it, so it's less grandstanding than announcing the same facts to a newspaper, where there would be much less editorial control.
Caveat: email as we know it developed in frontier times when things could grow organically and/or by general consensus rather than being driven by commercial needs.

The frontier days for this sort of communication are over for the most part. Anything that shows signs of being significant will get jumped upon by commercial entities who will try to direct it in a manner that helps their larger goals (and if we are more cynical, expressly in a manner inconvenient to their competitor's goals) potentially (in fact most likely) at the expense of the overall scheme (despite publicly doing it to "help the users/community/public".

Anything new now has forces acting to shape it (for better or, often, for worse) that email never had to contend with until it was so widespread no one entity or collection of entities could wreck it for everyone (despite the best efforts of some such entities!).
Well, such "unauthorized" biographies can have value (heck, what if you're writing one long after the author and those who knew him are dead?), but they have to be much more careful. Which she's pointing out the author wasn't.

E.g. this paragraph, in the middle of like stuff, is devastating:

"In light of the focus in many of the reviews here and elsewhere on what the book “reveals” about Jeff’s motives, I will also point out that the passage about what was on his mind when he decided to start Amazon is far from the only place where the book passes off speculation about his thoughts and intentions as fact. “Bezos felt…” “Bezos believed….” “Bezos wanted….” “Bezos fixated…” “Bezos worried….” “Bezos was frustrated…” “Bezos was consumed…” “In the circuitry of Bezos’s brain, something flipped…” When reading phrases like these, which are used in the book routinely, readers should remember that Jeff was never interviewed for this book, and should also take note of how seldom these guesses about his feelings and motives are marked with a footnote indicating there is any other source to substantiate them."
In the Credits section:

Microsoft - For making terrible products
Evernote - For making better products in a slightly evil way

MSFT does make some lousy products, but OneNote seems decent enough. And Evernote is a commercial product, but I don't necessarily see it being evil.

But those matters were obviously pain points for others.
Oh you mean like having the code signing service being compromised and used to signed malware?

http://www.zdnet.com/adobe-code-signing-infrastructure-hacke...
Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Barth#Infiniminer

"The visuals and mechanics of procedural generation and terrain deformation of Minecraft were drawn from Infiniminer. According to Minecraft author Markus Persson, after he discovered Infiniminer, he "decided it was the game he wanted to do". As a result, if one plays Infiniminer, one can note that the visuals of blocky graphics and carving out blocks as a miner are practically identical."

So Minecraft probably is more than an Infiniminer clone.
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Every time I read a story about some unassuming person getting rich off of doing what they love, I always ask myself: how can I do this?

Step 1: find something I love.

Does lying in bed surfing the internet count?

No?

Damn.
> web based alternative

Well, that kills it for me. I have yet to see a web app whose latency desktop apps.
I'm the opposite of the GP, when I see the subjunctive not being used (e.g. "If I was a rich man"), it bugs me...and the proper use of the subjunctive is actually refreshing to me and is almost a litmus test for me that the writer really knows their grammar (and yes, I know the use of "their" will really rankle some people :) ).

That said, I don't think I would've ever been aware of the difference between "were" and "was" in the singular had I never studied a foreign language in high school, in which the subjunctive was explicitly defined.
And when someone else happened to use the same password as you, and enter an obvious "password hint" - too bad for the others who tried to be cautious with their password hints...
DOM/HTML represents the "passive view": http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/PassiveScreen.html in MVP and the Presenter layer makes all the manipulation of the view & widgets.

This is almost identical to Backbone which can also be interpreted as MVP, see:

http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2011/12/23/backbone-js-is...
True, we decided to outsource, at least partially, lead sourcing for http://codedose.com, as it was just way too much time consuming and steering away from other more strategic tasks, like e.g. "processing" these leads.
I use GleeBox to execute the hundreds of bookmarklets I've found and created over the years.

http://thegleebox.com/
Jared - thanks for the kind words old friend.
> When I read journalism without knowing the subject well, I assume what I read is accurate. But I'm always shocked by the inaccuracy of reporting on stories I know/understand well.

How long before you either () stop being shocked by the stories you understand, or () stop assuming the journalist is telling you the truth in stories you don't? A sentence like this makes more sense in the past tense...

When I was small, my parents taught me that if it appeared on TV, it wasn't true （they were mostly thinking of commercials, but news programs were offenders too). It may be sad, but those seem more and more like words to live by, and extend to other media.
I'm not sure, I think the streisand effect works when people want to access the source material to see by themselves. The problem here is that you and I can't easily fact-check the book by yourself and therefore we can't really make our own opinion by buying and reading it. Therefore I can't really imagine anyone buying it because "hey, someone knowledgeable on the subject said it was full of half truths!"
Compensation is sufficient, but in no way competitive. Given the real estate market in Bangalore, some of my friends who've had foreign travel opportunities in MegaCorps are buying 80 Lac+ flats. Some more than one of them. And these are guys are mostly under 35 or some even under 30.

Any one who is on VP/Director/Senior engineering managers levels is buying 2.5 Crore+ villas. Expensive cars, having vacations in foreign countries and crazy lifestyle spending's.

The definition of well paid just became a whole lot different. And there is no way anyone can live that kind of a lifestyle working for a government firm.

Again, you can be happy with what you get. But that thought doesn't work always. Peer pressure does amazing things to you. Even if you don't get into it yourself, you will get into it eventually once you start a family.

Also note, that the public retirement investment vehicles today are strong enough and sometimes even better than the government ones. We are no longer in 1980's India. If you are well paid, you can buy your own food, pay your own bills, have your own home, car etc.
The gut reaction is that some rich kid gets to build his/her Rolodex because he/she hit the sperm lottery. In my opinion, it just seems like the antithesis of what YC is all about, which is (as far as I can tell), "who are you, what have you built, and why are you so good at what you do."

Bingo.

Now, it's a huge topological stretch to argue that attending the YC dinner is really going to set a kid for life. More likely, he'll make a jackass of himself and that will be the end of that. However, it's the statement, the impression, and the direction that's getting everyone riled up.

The reason people dislike VCs is that they give resources to people who need them the least. They'd be more respected if they were pouring their efforts (at least in terms of time and mentorship; as they are businesses, they shouldn't be funding nonviable candidates) into projects and people who could actually use the help. No one likes a fairweather friend.
looks like an idea for a startup... thumbsup
I'm still not sure I'm entirely clear what about this story is "amazingly unlikely"?
I always hear about how use of mutexes is costly but i never actually encountered a significant performance hit from using synchronization. Unless, of course, you have like 10 threads frequently accessing the same memory, which is more a design issue.
Depends on what you like doing. Some people find cutting the grass relaxing. I find it's just a chore that needs to get done on a schedule. So I have someone else do it.
barbarism streisanded?
Product Person Holiday Party 2013 #nyc
Good one - can be called ice breaker oops coffee breaker
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Of course, but she points to specific facts that can be checked.

We need to be careful, as a society, that "everyone has a bias" isn't used as an excuse to discard verifiable information.
Interestingly, when the article started with this:

"The M7 processor contains all the hardware for tracking purposes."

I thought it was going to be a negative, but the end of the post was positive. I'm unsure how I feel about a chip that seems to be dedicated to tracking all that data from Day 1, what with all the surveillance talks lately...

But then, I remember that using a mobile phone is pretty inherently insecure anyway; carriers know where you are at pretty much any point, text messages are terribly easy to get for any LEO-type adversary, etc.

Still, the UX part of it is kind of neat, as are the benefits for battery life -- I do like the idea of low-power chips to handle tasks so the main application processor doesn't have to. I know a lot of phones actually have a dedicated co-processor for the Radio (which is what the radio firmware blobs run on), so it's not unprecedented.
Gutscript: CoffeeScript-like precompiler for PHP
A "Googlewhackblatt" no less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack#Variations
"Feature Description: 146 hours."

If that is your core message then you have succeeded.
Seems like Liberty Reserve just wasn't big enough to protect itself. If they had been bank sized they could just pay a few fines every now and then and continue to operate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18880269
One reason for not giving out a reason is that with the reasons given, collected and analyzed one could try to game the system by eliminating all signals that YC uses to detect bad applications without actually fixing the underlying issues.

There was a post lately about PG giving an interview and giving some shred of direction as to what makes YC reject applications and there was a big discussion on that fine point. He also said in the discussion that it was just a single way to discern between good and bad applications and that he doesn't give them all out so as not to be gamed around the indicators that YC uses to reject applications.
I remember learning firsthand just how inaccurate journalism can be. My family ran a small business (a small factory) that tragically caught fire early one morning and burned to the ground. The newspaper account was ridiculous. It described how the fire sent employees "fleeing for their lives from the building". In reality, the building was entirely unoccupied at the time since it was the early morning (likely part of the reason the fire happened to begin with). I don't remember all of the details now, but reading the story, I was stunned at how wrong the overall picture was that it was painting. It was like a parallel universe. I take news accounts with a huge grain of salt now.
There is never an effective version of 'get shit done'.
Overcharching cloud server monitoring?
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I wasn't aware LOC is used as a heuristic of sorts at YC.

Good luck Loren. It seems like you're not really targeting scientists and are willing to concede that to the Harvard folks. As someone that was recently involved in sending tex-files back and forth I can assure you there's a need there (and probably some money from volume licensing, univerities tend to buy this stuff with "wtf-don't care" money if you get a champion)

Edit: You could also sell it to conferences as SaaS. Call for papers -> use our amazing tool to write it link.