skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this good to see? They are changing because they had to, or they risk becoming irrelevant. Windows Mobile is not taking off as fast as you would expect, so if they don't move to iOS or Android, someone else will fill that void.

And office is becoming worse, merging is awful, online editing is completely broken (saving.... saving.... saving....)
Would someone please upload the PDF for those of us who don't have academic logins? The current state of affairs precludes people from thinking critically. Instead we're forced to take publications at face value.
I think it is supposed to be ready: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101322049893211?stream...
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Can you elaborate on why you disagree with them on the diagnosis?
Culture is internal marketing. The numbers are what really matters.
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I'm a solo founder. Honestly, I was a little concerned with the question specifically outlining this fact, even though it assured us not to worry.

I'd prefer not to be a solo founder, I just haven't found anybody suitable yet. I'm hoping that changes in the future.
Sounds more expensive to me if I had to include Mac version + Windows version + iPad version + iPhone version.

Subscription just bundles everything together.
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That's interesting -- my family name is from the French Huguenot also. There are a few different spellings -- from what I was told, there was a family fight a many generations ago, and 3 brothers each changed to a different spelling. From what I understand, this was somewhat common at the time, to change the family name spelling in order to distance oneself from the family.
OneNote for Mac just came out, and it's really good. So they're obviously doing something in the MacBU.
A depressing thought but important especially if you are running a startup. It's ok for Facebook to take a hit like this and revert but if you spend 6 months at your startup redesigning your product and even though people like it your revenues suffer massively you might not even have time to test and revert back.
Apart from 1min of marketing bullshit the move shows (15s) solar powered drones used for the same purpose as Google loon http://www.google.com/loon/
No - it was property all along. All that happened this week was that the IRS agreed publicly with this view.
Sounds to me like Steve was a serious control freak.. Article after article, it's the same thing... Don't get me wrong. The stuff his company did was cool, but cheesh..
You can't really have growth without a product, but like PG said in the top comment, that's not a reason not to apply to YC. You can probably still assess demand - hopefully because you yourself want what you are building. That's also helpful for us to say, though again not make or break.

Growth and potential market are things we'll look at, but we're careful about making sure neither unduly influences us. The most important things are the founders and their relationships to one another. We want great founders with great ideas and the tenacity and ability to go after them.
Just because you can punish someone for political views doesn't mean you should. The freedom of speech can be an idea and an attitude that is bigger than the First Amendment.
A likely tactic if this goes to litigation is to argue a combined halo effect and "rising tide lifts all boats", and assert that if the jury assigns penalties to the companies to award the benefits thereof to these high-falutin' Silicon Valley engineers, then all the trodden-upon blokes unfairly hammered elsewhere in this fine nation of ours would get their just and due market wages. Throw in talk of the Great Recession and how dare these companies perpetrate such outrages when these hard working less-compensated engineers were barely hanging onto their houses with some sob stories with real faces, and testimony from compensation experts that yes, if so-and-so in the Valley got their "fair" compensation that is 150% of their current level, then whosit in Podunk, Middle America would get at least a 15% bump as the overall scale goes up everywhere. Cue a "if I just had 10% more we would have kept the family farm" sob story, and the cartel could prevail in court and still lose in the court of public opinion, and end up paying more in PR, marketing and lobbying expenses to clean up the aftermath than they could have ever saved in just not setting up the cartel in the first place.

If this blows up into a viral meme of some sort, it becomes political Kryptonite for any politician coming anywhere close to various high-tech visa-related legislation, who won't want to associate with any members of the cartel until the issue blows over (probably in about a year or less). So all sorts of visas get snarled up for a year or two, tying up various projects, driving up costs of this even more.

There are some interesting PR angles that Apple and Google can engage in to nip this sort of trial-by-heart-tugs, but I bet they will get control on the media image and quash this whole affair in the mainstream news media well before it gets to that stage. If they can limit any fallout litigation and the media coverage especially to just within the industry itself and not let it seep out into severe regulatory sanctions or public consciousness, then the cost-benefit of the cartel will work out fine. I predict wrist-slap sanctions if any, and a successful management of the media image, as this is a nice example of how agency challenges work out in a large, complex system.
No, moral dissonance.
Which is just begging the question of whether more time/more hits == more engagement.
It would be like Satya donating money towards restricting the rights of Christians. Like, say, the right to marry whoever you want.
It seems Facebook really is going through the Google phases, and they've always wanted to "be Google" anyway. Right now they're in the Google phase of 5-7 years or so ago, when Google was still doing everything by the numbers, even at the expense of UI and UX.

Just like Google of 5-7 years ago, they're also spreading their focus on many projects, and in a few years probably forgetting about them and ignoring them, if they don't turn into big cash cows for them almost immediately. Then expect Facebook to kill a lot of services, just like Google did.
I'm not sure it's marketing but being in the bubble like was previously mentioned.

Apple has nearly 100% market share with fellow engineers at work.

Sometimes I forget PCs exist until I'm forced to use one (internet cafe, friends home, etc)
It wasn't an attack at all. My question was very sincere--I was very curious how you've come to the opinion that YC isn't valuable to founders.

> Clearly you can't review any movies because you're probably not a director?

You shouldn't review a movie, until you've watched it.

Also are we discussing movie reviews, or discussing whether YC is worth it?
I took an experimental class last semester where we teamed up with a design student to build a website for a local non-profit/small company. The technical aspects of the class were less than satisfying but taking a product through the entire life cycle (even though it was a small project) was a great learning experience.

I'm pretty sure they made it a full on elective class next semester.
So marriage is a basic human right?

So the right to marry whomever you choose is universal, for everybody, no exceptions?

So why doesn't the campaign for "marriage equality" fight for the right of a brother and sister to get married, or a mother and her son?
Well yes, but there is actually a huge intersection with computer science - bioinformatics. Since bioinformatics only requires data, which is much easier to get, and programming/statistics/data mining skills, the barrier to entry is lower than wet lab work. (When I say much easier to get, I'm talking about publicly available data, not creating your own data.)
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I have a form of cystic fibrosis. I was not diagnosed until my mid thirties. It is genetic. After I was ID'd, they tested my sons. My oldest has the same diagnosis. I spent about 3.5 months bedridden prior to the diagnosis. After the diagnosis, doctors told me "people like you don't get well." Given that I had managed to live that long without a diagnosis, I figured that, armed with new info, I could surely improve on my track record.

Thirteen years later, I am drug free, the hole in my left lung has healed up, and most of the world thinks I am a teller of tall tales. I talk a lot less about it than I used to. I would like to help other people but talking about it mostly gets a shitstorm of controversy aimed at me. Apparently, former homemakers aren't allowed to know more than doctors. Or something.

If you wish to discuss it further, I suggest you take it to email.

Thanks.
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It's not just about "known-how". Many people downloaded Instagram because it was cool and precisely because it wasn't Facebook.
I'd say that kaizen is a lean technique for improving a process or flow as described in "Lean thinking".
I have a 30in monitor and I put all fonts at 16+ pt so they are easily readable from a distance, then I relax instead of leaning in toward the screen. I am often mentally tired at the end of day but no eye strain.

When I work remote using my laptop I always end with a headache and often tired eyes as well.

Many many hackers at my office use 3 column tmux or screen terminal sessions all day long on 11 in laptop screens, but monitors are cheap so why strain your eyes?

As others have mentioned check on ambient lighting and brightness settings. You may also want to try setting your white balance, contrast and saturation levels. Factory defaults are for making them look good in on display in a store, not for daily use.
The marketplace of ideas isn't as robust if ideas are allowed to corner the market by forcing other ideas off the market. If you disagree with someone, disagree with them (civilly, please), don't force them to shut up.
There are already laws against transmitting IP, there was no agreement necessary to deal with it. Risk-minimization, perhaps, but companies have been dealing with business secrets since before the Industrial Revolution. Frankly, I think an unexamined angle is the fragility of these companies that the agreements imply.
Note that this user is not the real Michael Arrington.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=454679
What I take from this is that Dustin Curtis plays Farmville and is a member of a shadowy group named "secret group".

Actually, the question of the piece is a good one. It's really about what you're optimizing for. As every halfway decent manager knows, you get what you measure. Which means deciding what to measure is one of the most important decisions you can make.

So, in this case, do you measure user engagement time for individual sessions? Or is there some sort of "engagement longevity" which might show a better timeline keeps people visiting more often over a longer period of time?

The other possible approach would be to see what could be done to make events and profile pages more appealing to spend time on. There may not be a way to do that if the timeline satisfies people, but it would be worth investigating.
I can say unequivocally entering YC is one of the best decisions I have ever made both personally and for my business.

I'll let others debate the monetary economics of YC and just say that the YC network effect is the most under-rated aspect of YC. Both the W14 batch mates and the YC alums from past batches have been amazing in terms giving us strategic and tactical advices. This aspect of YC simply can not be ignored.
Identities of the parties aside, How is this case different? Aren't you still harming someone for a bad reason (you don't like them and what they stand for)?
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GPUs were "there" and there was a logical path towards increasing their usefulness. It was partly an accident that they're not more programmable.

Technology sucks :(
One guess would be that GPUs address a wider market segment (everybody needs a display + hardware to drive it). More people buying GPUs, lower prices, more $$$ for R&D, repeat.

Another likely issue with FPGAs is that for everything but raw compute they still need support circuitry (physical I/O ports, memory interfaces, etc) that are different for every app but not really "reconfigurable" in the same sense as the FPGA fabric.

Finally, I'd wonder if reconfiguration time is part of the problem - until relatively recently, reconfiguring an FPGA was all-or-nothing and could take multiple milliseconds. Not a big deal when configuring a device once on boot, but serious headwind when trying to context-switch between different jobs that need FPGA assistance.
With one important takeaway: focus on the customer, not on personal engineering goals.
Free Space Optics will be used for the backhaul to the internet. What will the connection to the subscribers be? Wifi, 3G/4G, there are range limitations to both that will make communications from high altitude difficult.
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> Which means deciding what to measure is one of the most important decisions you can make.

Sounds like we should be measuring our decisions about what to measure!
These are employees who are dogmatic and who may have mistakenly believed they were working for a political organization rather than a technology company.

If Brendan Eich being CEO means they are not able to perform their duties as stipulated in their employment contract, they should resign.
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This post is literally a statement that Mozilla won't seek to actively violate California employment law. That's the entire substance. Oddly enough, I'm not convinced that rates applause.
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Liberals have power, feel the need to enforce their social order.

Is this supposed to amaze anyone ? You should see how bad this get in some parts of Europe, although that could just be me having more experience with it in that part of the world.

The problem liberals have is that while they're endemic in the rank and file of these companies, they're not exactly common at the top.
I'd like to propose a new rule for Hacker News: only if you have built the thing you're saying someone should save money by building themselves, may you say the person should build that thing.
Though, as nice as the examples are, FP rounding problems in practice are rarely due to binary/decimal conversions, which are only relevant when reading and writing decimal encoded numbers. These are normally absent when doing tasks such as moving motors based on sensor readings.
I hear this stuff all the time. So this is my own canned response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6675258

> it has a ways to go before it will actually be a competitor. And it doesn't have a few features that I find incredibly invaluable as an Evernote user:

[list of features snipped out]

As an Octave developer, I frequently hear exactly the same things about Octave vs Matlab, and if I listen too closely, I find it disheartening. Why work on something that will forever suck and not be a competitor, and can't implement the full list of features because we don't have the giant budget of our non-free competitor?

But then I remember that people are typically more flexible than they appear to be when they write these lists, and you'll discover that they may do without some of the features that they list, at least in some circumstances. And that there exist many other people with different lists of sine qua nons who will use the free as in freedom alternative you're working on because they have different needs.

So, to the OpenNote developers and to anyone else implementing a FAIF replacement I say this: don't let these giant lists of features and suggestions about how you'll never be competitive grind you down. There are many people out there who will appreciate your work, sometimes even the people who compiled these lists. Look at the lists, see what you can implement, and don't be disheartened by the parts that seem impossible to implement. Who knows, maybe some day someone will come along and help you implement the parts that seem so hopeless to you.

Keep your chin up, free software devs!
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Once you take outside money, you have to give up the sense of purpose if it conflicts with collecting money.

This is more an issue of optimization versus long term vision. Some firms can act like Apple, ignore feedback, and invent the future. That's very rare. The rest must react to feedback.
Moore's law is quite amazing.

I believe there are 4 reasons why GPUs have taken off conventionally as compared to FPGAs:

1. Last I checked, the FPGA vendors will not open their toolchains up, and not even document the bitstream formats. They will claim NDA, proprietary, etc. This has the massive side effect that you are stuck with their bloated, slow, crappy toolchains. If this were open, I guarantee hackers would be inventing all kinds of interesting ways to convert their software into FPGA bits.

2. FPGAs are VERY hard to write and debug. You have to write your design in an HDL language (either VHDL or Verilog), and you have to use a software simulator to prototype the design on first (and of course these tools are either quite pricy or if free they are usually limited or hard to use). Then you can synthesize the design and download it into the FPGA for running.

The next problem is debugging your design. The entire internal state of the FPGA is only accessible through slow scan, unless you dedicate a portion of your design to "monitors", which tap the traffic and store their values into internal RAMs. So you may have to respin the design just to get more monitors to debug where the issue is.

3. FPGA compilation is SLOW. When I used them professionally a few years ago, a Virtex5 could take multiple hours to resynthesize/place & route a medium-sized design. I believe that Virtex7 they are advertising could take over a day to respin if you change your design.

4. Most new machines already have a built-in graphics with a GPU that can be utilized as a general-purpose GPU. No one ships FPGAs in any conventional computer.
A Turkish scholar have nice analysis on this. She thinks that the Turkish government does not seek to completely ban the spread of information and knows that it's not possible. Instead the government tries to demonize the social media to keep it's supporters away from it.

here is the full article: https://medium.com/p/cb596ce5f27
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> Jobs was definitely cunning and ruthless but he wasn't all brute force, he set up a deal whereby these other companies would see things his way due to their own greed.

So, basically, he did the same thing for employees that he did for iTunes music licensing.
With One Note for Mac and now this, I'm actually excited for the next release of Office for Mac, it's looking like it's going to be really good!

I'm sick of Outlook on OSX (it's the only Office app I use), I can add rules, but I can't add notifications so I miss all of my emails. Now I've turned it off I have to manually order things.

On top of that I'm stuck with Calibri as the default font. The default can't be changed.
At the end of the day, data and numbers are powerful. They scream credibility. They shout, "you did your homework!" But they won’t be as effective as they could be if you don't use them wisely.
Unbelieveable.

At the level of principle, I agree. At the level of practicalities, knowing a little about Steve Jobs, this is believable, unfortunately.
I read this and the linked articles several times, but didn't see any answer to the question posed in the headline.

I get that Eich donated to support Prop 8 in 2008; it caught my attentions traight away sinc I was on the opposite sid eof that debate. On the other hand, he says he committed to inclusiveness in both word and deed, and Mozilla makes no distinction between employees' living arrangements for the urposes of pension benefits etc. as is.

I get that various LGBT people who work there can't get with him as CEO, but I'm not clear on why this is. For all I know he may have changed his mind since prop 8 was passed over 5 years ago - lots of other Californians have, if opinion polls are to be believed. He wrote a blog post in 2012 defending his right to keep personal opinions and professional life separate, so chances are that he was still against gay marriage then and now, but I really don't know what his specific views are just from the fact of his having made a donation. Even if he has not, it seems to me that he's still entitled to hold a personal opinion that gay marriage is a bad idea as long as he doesn't promote or promulgate that belief in the workplace or in the Mozilla foundation's policies.

I did read Hampton Catlin's call for a boycott, but while trying to learn more about the issue I also read blogs from LGBT people at Mozilla who already work with Eich and say they're fine with him as CEO. Of course, people who are not fine with it should absolutely act on their convictions, as with any political issue, whether that means discontinuing working with someone whose views they can't abide, or calling for a boycott, or whatever. I'm less convinced that other people should be expected to act to suit those views, though.
As a Finn I see wikipedia article very well written and balanced even though authors are not born in Finland.
Just few remarks:
-To really understand why Sisu is in Finns heritage and DNA you should study longer perspective (hundreds of years), the conditions like 1)climate, what it takes to settle into country totally covered big trees and soil full of broken stones after Ice Age broke the mountains and and very short growing season, bears, wolves etc. 2)events in the long history with Wikings, Swedes, Russians.
-More recently Winter War (linked in wiki article) demonstrated in population level what can happend when whole nation has had enough, unites and hits into 'Sisu mode' where nothing can come in your way.
-As article and references points out Sisu, even trationally found amongst Finns, is a quality of many populations. I can recognize reminders of it in old stories of first white people settling to North America, exploring wagon routes to west or exploring Klondike. Even more recent climpses can be seen in todays light reality series like 'extreme makeover', 'undercover boss' where good hearted people are working 2-3 jobs just to provide their family and kids.

Should we all then try to reach 'Sisu mode', my answer is no or only when really needed. As in that Wiki article famous Finnish rock singer compares Sisu and adrenaline, I partly agree with him. Adrenaline is not Sisu, but probably when you are in 'Sisu mode' adrenaline is pumping full. That means extra cortisol in your body (also stomach), which is not healthy in longer doses as we know.
Anytime an algorithm is important enough to be of interest for hundreds of millions of user it is worth the investment to etch its primitives into silicon. And if there are new and exciting computations that will only be in hardware next year, CPUs are powerful enough that software can tide us over until the silicon arrives.
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So it's not about words... or is it?

> "Gay couples have been allowed since 2005 to enter "civil partnerships", conferring the same legal rights as marriage, but campaigners say the distinction gives the impression that society considers gay relationships inferior."

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/27/britain-gaymarriage...