skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging by your hostility and focus I think my point (which I don't think is trivial to those working with the web) wasn't clearly communicated.

The best of modern web designers embody that philosophical approach in regards to the 'building / making' element of how a final web design lives. This is a fuller consideration of how the design works, and can only be achieved by working with the 'materials', just as Ive mentions is essential at Apple for product design.

I never said design can't or shouldn't use napkins, keynote, Photoshop, Illustrator or whatever a designer chooses, or pass any commentary on how designers at Apple internally prototype UIs.

I did imply though that a web designer that stops at the PSD mockup stage doesn't embody the design approach Ive is discussing in the article. Without working directly with the materials (HTML / CSS) you are deciding not to entirely consider all elements of how the design lives:

* are webfonts available for this typeface?

* does CSS provide those visual effects, and if not, what fallback designs should I consider?

* can the design work across all target devices / browsers?

* will the page weight be too large to support this particular design approach. Can I simplify to avoid this?

Mocking up a variety of screens in Photoshop does not cut it at the best end of the scale as a web designer.
Better to call it "usability testing" because you're testing the system NOT the user.
Is military training (especially after a combat deployment) a good qualification for peaceably keeping order at a party?
I'd argue that merely holding an egregious patent should not be the criterion but rather using it in a unprovoked manner. However, as I say this I wonder whether my bias is showing... against Microsoft (who I am frankly not very fond of) vs Google (who I like much more).

It is clear that with their investment in the patent troll, Microsoft is evil. However, Google has tried to hold up the evil companies by using standards essential patents as well. I can try to justify it in my mind but is Google really better than Microsoft? We have yet to see (as far as I know) Google sue anybody but isn't having a trove of nuclear weapons enough of a reason to distrust someone? It is not like they have to blatantly display it for it to be a part of negotiations (might be hand wrangling if you're on the wrong end of it).

I am conflicted because the more I think about it, the more I doubt my previous assertion. A pledge to not use frivolous patents in an aggressive way is not sufficient. However, wouldn't I rather Google or Twitter hold a frivolous patent knowing they likely won't sue me directly (I have very small dreams and I doubt I'd ever show up on their radar). If it keeps one more patent off of the hands of Intellectual Ventures (or even the likes of Amazon.com, Apple, and Microsoft), isn't that a good thing for the world?
Relative mobility has remained flat and absolute mobility has increased.

http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/mobility_trends.pdf
This should work:
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I recently needed armed security for a 3 hour funeral, on 24-hour notice. This was in Central America. $350 for 2 guards for that time. So $35/hr, in the US, seems very reasonable indeed.
Ive is the real deal. You can't fake this shit.
Multiverse is perfectly deterministic without all the issues with Bell's Inequality and needing a superfluous particle in addition to the wavefunction. I think pilot wave is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Ghana is rationing electricity to ensure people can watch today's World Cup game
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In a regular week 12 hours (7am-7pm usually) from Monday to Friday and 4 hours on Saturday; for a total of 64 weekly productive hours. I spend this hours in college stuff, gym, volunteering and off course, coding.
I really liked the Caltech course. I didn't spend too much time trying the Stanford one, but I got the sense that this one had more of an overarching theoretical framework that every new concept was explained in terms of.

http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
Amazing Quora Answer: Are we conditioned to think that we have to have a job?
> The 24-year-old Mr. Kjellberg, who created PewDiePie five years ago, has parlayed his persona into a brand name that pulls in the equivalent of $4 million in ad sales a year, most of it pure profit.

If it's $4 million "mostly profit" I would take that as what he gets before taxes. If he pays his taxes in Sweden I think closer to 70% of that would disappear.
Autoplaying video with sound, what a crock.
Only one has God's official endorsement. Only one is divine intellect. 640x480 16 color is a covenant, like circumcision.
Here's my problem with Scott Adams: he thinks he's a lot more clever than he really is, and he is down right smarmy about it. I've been in the dot-com start up pressure cooker, I'm in another start up right now. The one I was part of over a decade ago needed to pivot and failed, miserably. It didn't have to, but it did. We had great people and a solid foundation, but needed to reorient. We didn't due to management, and it went tits up in no time. Tens of millions of dollars flushed down the toilet. The one I'm part of now, we've only spent a little over $100k, and after a couple setbacks, we're realizing a pivot is needed, but one that actually will save the core of the company and make it more successful.

Scott Adams comes in and discovers the idea of pivoting, paints it as a startup concept that he can see through and discover how it's being misused, and writes another pretentious blog post about it. Pivoting has been a business tool for centuries. Nintendo used to make playing cards, Nokia made rubber products and paper, Berkshire Hathaway was a textile mill, AmEx did mail. They all pivoted when the time called for it.

What these startups are doing is realizing they have an idea that for whatever reason, they can't pull off. Maybe it's a bad idea, maybe it's the wrong team for the job, whatever. So rather than break up the company, they SAVE THE COMPANY. Just like a human who changes jobs if the need arises, so do companies, which are run by people. They get together as a team, and figure out what they did wrong, and what they can do to fix it, and pivot. They come up with a new plan to save the company.

And now Scott Adams makes the realizations that some startups are based on bad ideas, that some react to the market to survive, and that others have taken this as a lesson to realize the objective is to find success rather than hold on to your core idea until you die. And he shares this with us as the benevolent braintrust he is. Scott, open a business textbook written anytime since 1900. This is not a unique nor new idea.

Oh, and the Internet IS a technology, it's one that enables many things, like psychological/market experiments, but it's still a technology. Don't think so hard next time, Scott. You'll hurt yourself.
Awesome, man. I better hurry up with the writing then! If there's anything specific you want me to cover, feel free to send an email to hello@meteortips.com. Or if there's any parts that you were sort of unclear about, etc, just let me know.
Not necessarily but finding civilian work as a returned service-person is not trivial.
"Actually MS has always listened."
Really? http://www.jax184.com/projects/filenames/filenames.html
Just a heads up, the fourth link [3] is broken.
I'm close to 30 (oh my, can't believe I just said that) and I still find some of his videos amusing. It's like any type of tv-show, sitcom or movie: we all like different things and have different humor. His channel appeals to a lot of people and he's probably inspiring a lot of people (hopefully).
Once you've had some time to look this over, I think we'd all appreciate a blog post that explains the differences between cap'n proto and flatbuffers
Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules
Las Vegas is big because of the gambling money, not tax structure. Compare to the rest of the state.
Any suggestions of starter FPGA projects for someone who is a programmer but wants to get into FPGAs?
Completely agree with the sentiment.
I missed the part where Adams championed the pivot as the greatest business innovation of all time.

He starts out the article rather casually: "You might be interested in some of the things I've discovered.".

If you don't generally care what he has to say, why did you bother to read it? He was only commenting on an interesting aspect of our industry.

You don't see too many car companies pivoting to motorcycles, for example. Learning about "the pivot" is interesting reading to a lot of people, just maybe not for you and I.
I strongly, strongly recommend that you take up swing dancing. You do not need a partner and you do not need to know how to dance. I promise you that if you take a beginner class in lindy hop, it will be the most fun you have had in years.

It's totally unintimidating. Lessons usually run for 6 weeks and you go once a week. Usually the teachers will have everyone form a big circle and you will rotate through partners. By the end of the hour, you will have danced with 20 or 30 different people. When the instructor says rotate, you go to the next person, introduce yourself and then dance to an old 40s swing song for a minute or so. There is nothing in the world like real partner dancing (unlike that embarrassing thing that people call rock and roll dancing).

It's totally fun and you will make QUALITY friends. Not a bunch of drunk bar flys. Most swing venues do not serve alcohol. It really is a small part of the total experience.

Even if you are married, this would make a great date night. Give it a try for 6 weeks, you will love it. Here are some lindy hop places near you on yelp:

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Lindy+Hop&find_loc=Redw...
None of these examples are unqualified successes. Neither Reddit nor RapGenius have business models yet that are making any money. LinkedIn made roughly $5,200 per employee last year.
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Ask HN: When and why did AWS decrease Spot limit from 100 to 5 per region?
According to AWS' FAQ:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_run_in_Amazon_EC2

The limit of Spot instances is now 5 per region, which sounds incredibly low.

Quotes from an older version of the FAQ and answers on StackOverflow/Quora says AWS did limit to 100 Spot instances until recently.

"
You are limited to running 20 On-Demand or Reserved Instances, and running 100 Spot Instances per region. [...]"
The emperor of “disruption theory” is wearing no clothes
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I, for one, liked your analogy. Poker is an excellent example of how talent combines with luck.
I really like well researched academic flames.
The Taliban Cut Off the Fingers of Afghan Voters
Passing a law in the first place takes political momentum, but renewing it is cheap. The Patriot Act keeps getting renewed even a decade after the moment of poor judgment that saw it passed.
What if the first software engineer became a VC?
To make a comparison for anyone who hasn't programmed FPGAs (especially on the path to etching silicon), placement is extraordinarily important. Not only can (will) you make a highly non-optimal layout, FPGAs are not orthogonal. You'll spend a lot of time trying to route the bits that need to talk to each other via direct connection as much as possible instead of going through a gp line or worse.

Depending on the make and model of FPGA, you will have "large" areas that you either can't or don't want to plop logic.

You can have a pretty netlist that validates and simulates correctly (although you'll eventually end up dealing with Cadence, who seem to have the right hand side of the bugs per line of code curve locked up) but still takes weeks or months of that inline ASM work to make it competitive with a rack of Xeons. The edit/compile/debug cycle is not quick by any means past a trivial number of gates.

Dealing with that junk is why IP blocks are so attractive, but you end up on the road to structured ASICs and that just leads to misery.
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Reddit's Newsgathering Comes of Age After Growing Pains
Drivers can work for Uber though.
"After noodling around with MorphOS for about 30 minutes, you will notice a pop-up window that asks you to register, and then the system will become unbearably slow. This is where MorphOS reminds you that it is not free software."

What a letdown at the very end of the article. It would've been nice to mention this a bit earlier, like saying "trial version" in the title.
To be fair, many of us used to watch He-man and a variety of other really bad tv before the internet came along. Now, there's just way more options to waste time.

It gets worse though. My daughter likes to watch some girl make up stories with barbie dolls and other similarly sized characters. Every one of the videos I've looked at has millions of views, so she's not alone. It's a little weird.
While I understand the HN mantra that every comment should add value, I personally feel that there is some value in legitimately funny comments, even if that's all they add. No need to upvote it, but did this really deserve downvotes? (It's not my comment, just figured its grey status seemed a bit harsh.) Or did the down-voters consider it insensitive? Certainly didn't read that way to me.
That's good advice. In fact, this HN discussion has a "ridiculous" (in a good sense) amount of good advice.

The only problem is it's a lot easier to post, comment, kibitz, criticize than to actually do. It's nice to read the good advice here, but at the end of the day it's still necessary to do something useful in a startup. This isn't a criticism of your post, it's a general observation.
Behind a registration wall. Anyone have a mirror?

Edit: My apologies, mixed up this with other youtube wsj article which is behind paywall. Consequence of opening multiple articles at once.
Al Gore on privacy and cleantech at Southland
Good points. As I've gotten older I've gotten lonelier and I've been searching for the sort of bonding and friendships I experienced as a college student. As superficial as the friendships were, the friendships were in general less superficial then all the friends I made outside of college. I'm not so sure why the whole experience suddenly ends when people step out of college. I'm positive it has nothing to do with a natural process of becoming more mature or older.

I've thought about it a lot. In the end I think your therapist got it right. It's all about circumstance. You have to live in a place that promotes daily interaction with people. Dorms and fraternities promote that sort of thing not just by being in the right location but the physical geometry of dorms and frat houses encourages people to meet and hangout. The rooms in dorms and frat houses are so small that people just end up using the larger shared lounges for dinner, studying, and chilling in general. It forces and promotes daily interaction with large groups that you'll never experience in any other setting.

I think the reason why the sports thing or the young professional stuff didn't work out was because it needs to be a daily thing. Connections will always feel awkward especially for introverts because it's just not happening often enough.

Anyway back to my point of the living space. Outside of colleges I've seen this type of living space in just two places. The first place is called Cooperatives. People in coops live in the same building, do shared chores and have communal dinner. Like frat houses these places tend to be pretty ghetto but it's never lonely. The other place is a retirement home. If you've never been to one, retirement homes actually have shared spaces and dining halls where you can literally observe older people having the same kind of social interaction and politics you experienced in college living spaces. The irony of it all is the same social experience young people get living in dorms near the beginning of their lives, they'll get to experience the same thing when they near the end.

So I guess the solution is to either live in a coop, wait until your old enough to be placed in a retirement home, or get married. Unless anyone has any other suggestions?
Chili's Has Installed More Than 45,000 Tablets in Its Restaurants
Didn't mean you specifically. Meant "you" in the general sense. Should have said "We want something that doesn't exist." As in we all do. Sorry for getting personal.

Anyhow the sort of person who needs pick up artist techniques to make friends needs a lot more help than a book can provide.
Apple settles in $840 million ebooks price-fixing claim
TL;DR: Just another social network that claims it's different.

Their claims:

- You can follow anything that interests you easily on Whapsy (Which you can do in any other social network or even content sites these days.)

- You can reach a wider audience easily by using Whapsy (You can reach a wider audience when you sign up to any other social network as well.)

- You gain an omniscient point of view on Whapsy (Wow, omniscient! WTF does that even mean? "You can see every event from a different point of view." What does that mean? Well, just go ahead and give them your email. What are you waiting for!)
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They'd generally be more disciplined and physically fit / trained for combat. As long as they're screened otherwise, it seems like a great pool to draw from -- plus it helps out veterans.
You sure about that? I've never hard a problem viewing techreport articles without an account.
To posit such a thing as "all previous states" implies that a universe is a finite state machine whereas for all we know the universe could be infinite in which case the value "all previous states" becomes a mathematical impossibility.

> If you don't know, how can you be sure they don't either?

I don't mean to assert any claim about individuals and their personal knowledge I'm merely suggesting that in my opinion the global community of scientists as represented in academia, scientific journals, and in popular literature hasn't made a compelling case for having met it's own scientific burden of evidence (scientific method) to be able to say that "science knows".

In the past that burden of evidence was lower because we had reason to believe that the universe was a much smaller place and that we could measure a much larger percentage of it, but given what we know today that burden of evidence has grown tremendously to the point where any serious scientist should admit to himself that science doesn't know.
I don't see a reg wall here. But TLDR:

Even with only six subjects, the fact that we didn't experience any failures until after 700TB is a testament to the endurance of modern SSDs. So is the fact that three of our subjects have now written over a petabyte. That's an astounding total for consumer-grade drives, and the Corsair Neutron GTX, Samsung 840 Pro, and compressible Kingston HyperX 3K are still going!
That future sounds dystopian.
And just because I get paid to talk up worthless products doesn't mean I use them myself.
Not for me. Try using your browser's private browsing mode.
A colleague of mine told exactly the same story about his ~8yo son (even down to the game being Plants vs. Zombies). I thought he was exaggerating until I observed my 7yo nephew, who would spend the whole day watching MineCraft videos from YouTube if possible. Despite not really even playing MineCraft.

I don't understand the appeal at all, but you're almost certainly totally right that there's be something huge there.
The technet.com article is better since it at least has
links to the paper and conference, but unfortunately, the
previous submission from wired.com got all the discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7899220
It's a 3D tank game, with user-designed maps.

There's roughly two types of play: league play, and not. The former are either CTF or 1vs1. The latter are any of free-for-all, CTF, or rabbit hunt.

Head on over. It's fun.
It is interesting to note that Jony Ive thinks "the change isn't perhaps as dramatic as you might assume." I would like to point out that people outside Apple don't necessarily share this opinion. Here are some quotes from some prominent people in the Apple community:

The Verge wrote: "iOS 7 isn't harder to use, just less obvious. That's a momentous change: iOS used to be so obvious." In iOS 7 basic usability features such as making buttons look like buttons are now stuffed under Accessibility options. About this, Tumblr co-founder Marco Arment wrote: "If iOS 8 can’t remove any of these options, it's a design failure." (And iOS 8 hasn't.) Michael Heilemann, Interface Director at Squarespace wrote, "when I look at [iOS 7 beta] I see anti-patterns and basic mistakes that should have been caught on the whiteboard before anyone even began thinking about coding it." And famed blogger John Gruber said this about iOS 7: "my guess is that [Steve Jobs] would not have supported this direction." Enough said.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7899336
I wonder if you can draw meaningful conclusions about the reliability of a given brand of SSD with such a small sample size?
Actually the bay area isn't that bad, structurally speaking. Having lived in the bay when I was younger then moving to LA for for college I have to tell you, everything in LA is on average at least an hour and thirty minutes away from where you are.

You must be from some place like New York City.
Worked for me, thanks.
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There is such a thing in Rhode Island: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.916681,-71.411937&ll=41.91...

OK, the inner island and lake are man-made (hill in a disused landfill), the middle island is connected by a land bridge, so it's more of a peninsula, the middle lake is really a river and canal, and the outer island is actually North America.