skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about the game or how it failed, but what you describe reads like a classic caricature of an engineer's wet dream: lots of fancy tech that's fun to build but not very useful to the end user, while comparatively boring but useful features (autosave) gets passed over.

Sure, management also failed (any failure is by definition a failure of management since they're supposed to be responsible for the project) - but textbook? You hardly made the case for that.
Not just off, kind of ridiculous. I would be embarrassed if I were the YC interviewers.
I'll throw my solution into the ring I'm the founder of https://touchingbase.io and while we're not a CRM per say, we do help consultants and sales people land four or five figure deals by automating the parts of follow up that need to be automated and letting you personalise the parts that need to be personal. It integrates into your Gmail workflow so there's nothing new to learn or spend part of your day doing. We're against complete marketing automation and for helping you build long-term, trustworthy business relationships.
My point was that they had most likely planned on releasing during GDC anyway, (which is this week)
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I'm all for "just because" projects, but after looking at this, I'm just left shaking my head. CMS? Really?

Per the documentation: "Every page of your site is represented by a .md file in the /content folder."

Um. Right... and holy hell, that navigation css! The code is 98% markup, 2% content.

Please refer to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4H...
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"Most people don't understand what they are allowed to imagine."

Heh, I'm saving this as a quotable quote. Very true.
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Interesting metaphor.

However, the difference is when you expect a large influx of water in the future (e.g. the company is undervalued). Then tipping the container will cause each share to rise much, when the water arrives, than if you would drop the lid.

The same applies in reverse when the company is overvalued.
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So this is how the world ends: with us distracted by cute cats
"I give business leaders honest feedback"

Just a side note, I'm ALWAYS noticing lately that there's a certain segment of people like to use the word "honest" as a justification for spreading their negative predictions and negative feelings.

Whether selecting these founders would have worked out well in the future for YC? That's purely a prediction. But somehow people like to throw in the word "honest" for predictions and then suddenly they can give cheap criticism without putting any real effort into making specific suggestions for how to do better.

Plenty of successful entrepreneurs have honestly thought that their success is undeserved and the whole thing is a bad idea that will collapse at any minute. Honest isn't a synonym for useful, in fact it's usually just harmful, for successful startups where 90% of the time everyone feels terrible and confused - because that's just the nature of the business.
It definitely was appropriate during a VC interview. I previously posted a longer explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9150092
We're planning to make an admin UI in the future, but this is just an initial release.
> What makes them professionals is that their biases are usually correct, and they have sufficient experience to know when to question them.

This is so wrong. Doctors have biases - "this treatment works; I know it works because I see the effect it has on my patients". Doctors have access to evidence bases that tell them about the actual effectiveness of that treatment yet we still find real medical doctors using homeopathy (and not just as a placebo but because they think it works).
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990377
Off? Really? As an app developer looking at the demo video, the first question that pops into my head is "why would I use this over Xcode"? (And it's still not a question I have an answer to.)
The entire Yo platform is opt-in. Therefore, the user, not the company, is in the driving seat.

Yo never pushes notifications from the company side. Only users can decide which services they wish to subscribe to from the Yo Store (yostore.co). In addition, unsubscribing is just as easy.

So ultimately, the platform allows 'users do what they wanna do'.
Sure, go ahead and do better than him then.
You're right. Most people in the U.S. prefer it. But that could be just from the crappy public transportation options, the crappy bike riding options, and from just growing up and living your whole life in a car oriented lifestyle. I'm with the poster below: I love to go on road trips, but man, being a pedestrian and having to deal with life-threatening drivers on a daily basis absolutely sucks. It is a poor living condition to me, no matter how much you make.
Fix HTTPS by replacing certificates with a block chain?
Well, I personally spent the better half of tonight recovering a bunch of old websites of mine from the IA using wget.

IA is one of the most important initiatives/projects on the internet, links are not meant to change but they do and when it happens knowledge & history erodes.

Remember the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami?

It was the first major event that provided mainstream credibility to the blogosphere, before this disaster consumers turned to news publications for information. For the first time ever news publications did not have the info and were desperate for content, any. TV crews flew into the effected areas and started purchasing suitcases/video/still cameras sight unseen off shell shocked tourists whom were too traumatized to remember if they had captured anything.

It was also the last major disaster that occurred before the social revolution - YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, smart-phones and mainstream adoption of broadband. Back then the main way for the general public to share information was via email (which had limits of 10mb) and if they were technical or knew someone technical on their 100mb of free hosting provided by their ISP.

Now imagine you're a student, academic researcher, production assistant and you have been tasked researching what transpired. As of right now, the majority of content from 2004/the disaster is no-longer available on the internet and only accessible via the IA.

(nb: I was the guy behind http://web.archive.org/web/20050711081524/http://www.waveofd... which was the first emergency crisis live/micro blog. For what Google now has a team of volunteers doing during a crisis I did it myself with a single pentium 4 cpu, 4GB of ram, a single IDE hard drive, a ramdrive, a 100mbit uplink and a week without sleep. WOD will be relaunching within the next couple of weeks and was one of the sites recovered from the IA.)
I'd be interested to hear your reasoning behind that? I think the increased number of sympathetic and 'normal' gay characters in TV and Film is a bigger factor.
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Do you think the higher, $415 million ($6,500 per-person), settlement offer for the class-action lawsuit by Silicon Valley workers who accused Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe Systems of illegally agreeing not to hire one another’s employees is a fair amount?
How much of that comes from the linearity limiting participation (glibly, an exclusive community)?

I hope people don't do too much deciding about what does and does not work at this early date, we've only had about 20 years of large scale internet participation, and much less of (in the English sphere) near total participation (total participation matters because people faced with the novelty of spraying their thoughts at strangers tend to behave somewhat differently than people who are used to it).
Is this not just provoking, probing?

i.e. translates as "so, why I am going to use this rather than an IDE? What's the demand here? What makes you different?"

as opposed to being a question to be taken literally.
Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent
I'd be interested in seeing one of its faces that's not a watch or compass, out of curiosity.
http://www.faroo.com/hp/p2p/p2p.html ? Looks like some ideas are the same featured in https://www.blippex.org/
I hear you and I promise you they wont be affecting the usability at all :)

Applescript is something you can use to do but wont have any affect on the usability.

Dropbox support also wont have any affect on the interface.

Our primary priority will always be bugs and user experience first, features second.
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There are less stupid ways of testing it than FizzBuzz

Before hiring an architect do you ask him to sketch a house? Before hiring a surgeon do you ask him to do a mini surgery?

Then don't waste my time with fizzbuzz! Shoot a harder question (even a coding question) and this is saving on time and mutual trust.
"social awkwardness and uncomfortable looks" can be judged in seconds. If 5 seconds of the interview is spent grok'ing appearance and awkwardness, that leaves 595 seconds of the 10 minutes for moral qualities. In short, if you're honest and genuinue, you have ~99% of the time (minus time taken for the interviewer speaking) to get that across.
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It's trademark infringement, not stealing.
What no one tells you about working in web development
The location of the email server is an irrelevence, though. The main issue is that she had such a server so she could hide her correspondance from official requests from congressional committees, FOI requests etc.
Hey Jonathan.

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It's not really systems programming in the sense that I understand it (or in e.g. the wikipedia article). More to the point, I think a browser involves a lot more manipulation of complex data structures - even the basic DOM is more complex than anything you'd use in a shell - and this is an area in which I expect Rust to shine. So I don't think a shell provides the best opportunity to appreciate Rust's strengths.
"There's no biological reason why I should care about the passport of a man I have never met, any more than I should care about his race or tribe or religion."

Actually you should care, for a lot of reasons. Your presumption of not caring comes from taking for granted a lot of things. One first thing that you absolutely must care is security. The world around you and your loved ones is relatively safe thanks to multitude of operating services that make sure that the individuals roaming free are not that crazy, not that malevolent, not that contagious, and in short will not have that much of a negative impact on society at large (which includes you). Achieving that is no easy task, especially when you also want such things as freedom and openness to the rest of the world. Of course, there are also a lot of other important considerations that require individual identification, and I'm sure you'll manage to understand many of them on your own.
I strongly agree. This is a rounding error for these companies. I'd like to see each of them pay $10 billion. That's an amount big enough for the directors and shareholders to notice.

I'm not saying that the employees who were discriminated against should get that much. The money could go to charity, could go to the government, could be lit in a big bonfire.

It just should be a large enough amount that everyone involved would say to themselves, over and over: "what we did was really stupid, we won't do that again".
I generally don't read Wired articles when they're linked to here or elsewhere. I find the title format of:
'Why XXXXX.' or 'XXXXX. Here's why:' 'How XXXXXX' to be clickbaitey, and when I get to the story, it's typically this faux-longform narrative which doesn't bring the content you'd expect from reading such a large amount. It's a little distateful.

Furthermore, it has a rep of being style over substance, with facts left unchecked in favour of the more attention grabbing story.

I don't blame the journalists who write it, I understand how fast you have to work in such jobs, and there might simply not be the time to track down every lead (certainly the journalists wouldn't be expected to have the expertise to fairly present every story they're asked to write (as opposed to (say) a political correspondant)). This is especially the case with our content-aggregating type media (although Wired are more able to investigate themselves than most, since they're a big player).

I'm glad it exists, as popsci articles can easily help make people interested in supported of things they wouldn't otherwise be interested in, which is good for the industry, but without trying to be snooty I don't think that I'm their target audience (and I suspect you're not also).
In this case, because:

1/ As a minority shareholder, you don't have control over the Alibaba shareholding. Theoretically, the company could sell it off and do other things with it and you would have no way of stopping it. If this company would be trading at a substantial discount (say, 15-25%), it could be 'raided' by an (activist) investor who sells it for parts.

2/ The Alibaba stock can't be transferred directly to the shareholders without incurring tax. It's 'stuck' in a shell corporation. The only exit is probably Alibaba acquiring that company to clean up their shareholder structure.
i meant over the years, not using the same camera.
Well, since software companies are so big and wealthy and seem world-dominating right now, people in this field tend to think of them as the greatest minds ever. I wonder where are all the Silicon Valley Nobel prizes, all the cure for diseases discovered there, etc.
There are some great, great minds working there, some geniuses no doubt. But their field isn't the end all for intelligence. Not even close, actually (to me), as I'd rather have advances in many other fields over IT, any day.
> The development of these systems strikes me as being similar to the development of canals, in that they solved a significant physical problem for a short time until much better technology (railroads, telephones) emerged.

Later systems only cover parts of the use-case though. Some big-box stores have kept pneumatic networks because you can send small items (cash &al) through, not just raw data.
Very cool! I really prefer how the medium article explains the functionality, though I think other commenters here have voiced the same opinion.

I think you should use the demo page to tell a story. Instead of pictures with 'demo1', 'demo2', etc let's have a family planning a vacation. There's a group chat about destination and everyone is posting airbnbs/hotels they find. Then there's a loop for items list to see who's bringing what. Oh, did Cindy say we spent too much at restaurants last year? Let's have another loop so we can plan who's cooking what for dinner as we take turns for the week. May as well create a shopping list so we can get all the ingredients for the week in one or two goes. etc...

You could have a series of these to show off the product.

Good Luck!
So if they don't validate their product, are the Creo folks building the product for the love of it?
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Yes, it's good not to lock ourselves into a particular model, and I'm glad that companies like Discourse are exploring new models of community discussion.

However, from my own personal experience, I have to say that discussions become a lot more interesting when they happen in real-time between small numbers of people. Comments tend to be brief. Topics shift around. People respond to each other. Interjections happen frequently. Opinions can freely mix and mingle in this environment, and the end result is a conversation that can actually go somewhere new.

In threaded discussions, it feels more like people posting their pet walls-of-text at each other. In some ways, the "discussion" is already set in stone from the very start. Furthermore, there's a significant penalty to the upvote/downvote model. It incentivizes groupthink; promotes giant screeds and quippy jokes; keeps topics firmly segregated; prevents the discussion from branching out past an initial point.
Sorry, what? One is in the real estate market, the other is is a dictionary(!).

Both are meaning to denote the direction "up". If you put two mediocre designers in two isolated adjacent booths - they'd come up with the same thing.

This is not stealing. This is an unfortunate coincidence of the lowest common denominators crossing each others paths.
> I don't see the issue

REALLY?!?!

Your pop can is not filled up with tons of explosive materials and didn't cost millions of dollars.

The worse thing that can happen if your pop can is damaged is you get a flat soda or a leaky can.
While these are indeed strikingly similar, I really doubt it's an actual rip, but rather someone arriving at the same visuals independently. It's one of those concepts that one can converge to naturally by repeatedly simplifying a house icon or a up pointing arrow. Same results, different concepts (in housing's case the arrow doubles as a roof), different domains.

I would seriously entertain a possibility of this being a pure coincidence, in which case it's rather unwise to burn bridges and call other guys thieves.
Really, before 2005 social factors had nothing to do with people giving each other money?...Really?

Yes.

I was a developer for companies that raised money in the late 90s/early 2000s, and I can absolutely assure you that the decision to invest was driven by slidedecks and financial models far more than personalities and the social abilities of founders. If you could write a good business plan with all the right keywords you could raise an early round even if you were a total sociopath with no clue what you were doing.

That's not to suggest there was anything actually wrong with that. People hadn't invested in SaaS businesses before because they didn't exist. No one really knew what was necessary for success. The personality of the founder or their ability to sell wasn't considered important. People thought that "Build it, they will come" was a viable route to market. The shift to investing in companies that have a good culture driven by interesting, exciting founders is something that investors learned relatively slowly.
The problem is we're dealing with real objects, conflating real objects and mathematical objects is begging the question against the person saying we need haecceity (also called "thisness" - the property of being "this" thing and not "that" thing).

If real objects are just like mathematical objects then all they are is bundles of properties: object A is no more than the set of properties that can be ascribed to A.

There are a few problems with that, but here's an interesting one. Consider a world in which there are only two identical iron spheres, say 1 mile wide, 1 mile apart from each other. Now each sphere has exactly the same properties - are they the same spheres?

Most people would say no. So what individuates them? Well, some property that makes it the case that one sphere is that sphere and not any other.

To put it in your terminology, for every boolean function f(x) which is true iff x has property f and false if it doesn't have f (eg. IsIron(x) = True), then both spheres have exactly the same set of true/false values for all properties (forall f.). Unless we introduce a haeecity functions: a(x = A) = True for A, b(x = B) = True for B - ie. properties which are only true when their arguments pick out the objects which they are about. Then we can distinguish between objects, because they have different values for haecities (property functions) a, b.
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Russia ships Soyuz to Kuru for Arian. Apparently, it is worth the cost and there has been no failures.
Things like "(Eclipse Holy God, you really just said Eclipse??)" really come across as pretty negative to me and I'm no big fan of Eclipse.

All the questions asked seemed pretty reasonable to me - after all the person asking the questions is looking at it from a business rather than a technical perspective. If someone who is running a company can't adapt to the type of person asking the question then I would see that as a pretty major weakness in the team.
It isn't either, and after decades of copyright indoctrination, I don't take people seriously who feel the need to use misleading language.

Also, this looks like one big coincidence.
I think that CSS should include something like XSLT transformations allowing developer to output site markup with simple semantic elements and then designer can transform those elements into anything he need, count elements, add classes, whatever. And then style result of those transformations with traditional CSS rules.
The girlfriend gave him very specific instructions about what to do if/when it happened, and reinforced them just before it happened with "Promise me that whatever happens, you will not let go".

I cannot imagine any scenario in which involving the authorities would have improved the situation and not violated her instructions, which he implicitly if not explicitly had agreed to follow. Most specifically "not let go", and getting her back to familiar surroundings, which per the account and others' accounts is important in stabilizing these events when they go that far.
> He noticed ruefully that a few days earlier the woman – her name was Adria Richards – had herself tweeted a stupid penis joke. She’d suggested to a friend that he put socks down his pants to bewilder TSA agents at the airport.

Lot of hypocrisy here! Neither person deserved to lose their job, the whole situation seems to have gotten completely out of hand. Funny how even the smallest hint of acknowledgement or response can keep the snowball rolling.
I tested it on Windows, and found an horrible issue. If you disable (or uninstall) this extension, and reactivate (or reinstall) you lose all your scripts. I will try again until a solution arises.
Just going to leave this here. Better than SimCity by miles. http://store.steampowered.com/app/255710/
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Mediocre might be a little harsh. Maybe first draft? Or they were asked for a simple design?

Honestly I feel like the dictionary logo makes little sense to me. I don't see the connection.

While the housing one does due to placement. (It's an obvious roof.)

Sorry, your non-competitor has a different, and better, logo.
The author assumes that this was stealing. I doubt that, housing.com visual identity is very different:

different color scheme / different spelling LookUp vs. LOOK UP / different font /different relative positioning

Basically all they share is the "caret up" symbol and the words Look Up. Both are very common and hardly unique. It can happen that people independently get similar ideas.

We actually once designed a logo after we had redesigned an app. And the logo drew from the app design. We found out a few months later, that there was a hungarian company that had the same name, same concept for logo (which was typography only), very similar font and almost identical color scheme. It can happen. In our case you could blame us for not researching it, but similarities hardly mean stealing, especially if there are no really unique attributes...

edit: corrected syntax, formatting
Say what you like, but Hank didn't do anything wrong here. In fact, he only expressed everything that had happened to him, and it just so happened that many people decided to stand up for him in what seems to be a situation of very, very poor judgement.

On the other hand, great and naturally flowing writing by the author, really enjoyed swimming through the story!