skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, Pandora is a lot like Twitter in that the actual website isn't as important as the service they provide. I use the Pandora Air app, their app in Boxee, the Pandora iPhone app, etc, and basically never go to the site itself.
Good customer support experience:

My laptop went wonky, and it appeared to me to be the HDD.

Took it into Apple store, they agreed and quoted me £156 for replacement HDD. I happily agreed.

Next morning, they called to say it was ready. When I went to collect I was handed another bill for £40 for the HDD cable. Again, I was happy about that £196 to fix a ~£2000 laptop.

They then told me, no sir, it's just the £40. The HDD turned out to be fine.

They COULD have merrily charged me the £196 and I'd have been quite happy. Very honest of them.
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If anything, I hope this kind of litigation forces the US government to overhaul the patent system.

Also, what if Google simply Open Sourced the small amount of Android that isn't already Open Source? The Linux community would surely embrace it, integrate the bits not in the mainline kernel that should be, and move forward.
Dyscalculia. I've known other people have that same problem too; thankfully it's more annoying than demoralising like dyslexia can be.
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Two points of confusion (for me, at least) which the article doesn't satisfactorily alleviate: first, how can something dissipate heat effectively when there is an air cushion between the base plate and the cooling vanes? And second, how is this device "immune to dust and detritus"? For instance, it seems like dust could easily enter the thin air cushion layer and cause all kinds of problems.

Can anyone help me overcome my ignorance and understand these points?
"The cooler consists of a static metal baseplate [...A HEATSINK...], which is connected to the CPU, GPU, or other hot object, and a finned, rotating heat exchanger [...A FAN...] that are cushioned by a thin (0.001-inch) layer of air."

OK, there's only 0.001-inch between them, but still a heatsink + a fan, no?
That's sad. I'd like to be treated as a person, not a "resource", and the zeroth step in that is respecting my wishes. When I want to make a career change, I will make said desire known.

Is there anything I can start saying to recruiters that could plant the seed of this idea in their minds? I know it's hard and that I have to compete with a $25,000 fee, but everyone has to start somewhere.
"Moving beyond 3GHz". Really?
Good question. I'm not sure what the recent momentum is about, but I remember two widely-linked stories about "hipsters" and "hipsterdom" back in 2007 and 2008:

http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-new-yor...

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

It's interesting to note that "hipster" really started ramping up after "emo" had started sliding downward:

http://trends.google.com/trends?q=emo%2C+hipster&ctab=0&...

I compare the two because they are both subcultural labels that have become terms of abuse in fairly recent years.
See the comment above from someone who was sitting near her; she was trying to toss it back up to the stage to return it to him (and tried to get his attention so he could catch it) but it didn't work out. She also gave every indication of being mortified when the bottle burst and splattered people.

She certainly wasn't trying to bean Noah in the head with it, and I don't get the impression he would have thought that either.
The application of monads to C++ metaprogramming could be described as cargo cult programming, even if this post is a well-thought-out explanation of how it works.

While it is true that they work to help organize libraries like Boost Proto, it is questionable whether that's the best or even a good way to accomplish that library's goals. There's a reason the metaprogramming-heavy parts of Boost are still generally avoided in many parts of the programming world.

I see this as cargo cult because it appears as "monads are cool, and C++ templates are a weird functional language, let's do it that way" without much regard to whether monads, template metaprogramming or EDSLs are the right tools here.
> Actually, I can because I'm a heterosexual female.

Well then it doesn't make sense to say you have no trouble getting your needs met. If you're a female, you'd have to be fat/ugly not to.

> And I really have no problem attracting male attention and never have.

Apparently you're neither fat nor ugly then. Your lack of problems doesn't mean you're somehow "good" at attracting men though.
Releasing Jetslide … naming it Hackernews+ would have been childish
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i dropped gandi this year because they emailed me asking for 1) copy of drivers license, 2) proof of residence, and the current drivers license address must match whatever your current address is. they gave me 1 week to comply or face deletion of account. they claimed it was a regular/random check, but offered no answer to my questions other than "you must provide". i immediately transferred to name.com because they have a telephone number and they answer it. gandi does NOT have a support phone number.
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I have decided to leave my job. I started August 05, 2010. My contract says "All sign-on bonuses and relocation must be repaid should you resign or leave the company on or before twelve (12) months of your start." Does that mean if I give notice on august 06 to leave 2 weeks after I should be fine?
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yeah, that is the nice thing about it. but still, to someone just signing up, a flash box doesn't scream 2011.
I think that honesty is a two-way street, especially in this scenario, and too many developers wind up holding a recruiter over a fire for what the developer perceives as a dishonest/snake oil salesman approach when they themselves are often inflating the truth either on their resume or when talking about previous accomplishments (I was guilty of this early in my career as well).

Now I do my part to be honest, and I look for the same in any recruiter I come across. I'll echo Ed's sentiment in saying thanks and it's nice to read about recruiters who have a passion for the industry and the people in it and not just a passion for making the sale.
Impressive, surely this can't 'just' be early adopters like many say? I mean considering Google has total integration between search, mail and other products I feel Google+ can be very successful. Also this is about a 1/5 of MySpace and it's still in a private beta.
I don't have access to the new design...but does anyone know if they abandoned Flash completely? Meaning, are they actually using HTML5 <audio> or using Flash to play the music?
The article should probably be re-titled "Metal Fans Replace Plastic Fans as Industry Standard Cooling Solutions".
How many 4GHz chips have been produced that don't need watercooling to operate at load?
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And naming it hackernews++ would have been dusty ;)
Will the slick new design allow me to use the service in Canada again? :(
In Apples defence every single time I try to renew my MSDN subscription with Microsoft and gain access to my online tools I lose my mind because it never works almost no-one has any idea how and why it should work ("just give it another three days?").
You might consider those pirated copies as advertising for your app, not lost sales. I doubt that the people who pirated your app (as others mentioned, these are probably kids who can't buy apps for one reason or another) would have bought anything from you otherwise. You haven't exactly lost sales, you've gained a large group of testers who will probably tell other people about your application. Yeah, it would be nice if all of them bought a copy, but they wouldn't know to tell other people (people with money) about your product if they hadn't pirated it. So, there's two ways to look at it. You can certainly take the RIAA stance that piracy is bad for you as a developer. I'm just not convinced that that's true.
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Now that they have a profile, if they are loggued in there google account, as soon as some people in their social circle starts using it, the cost of interacting will be very low (because of the g+ toolbar).
Is there a way to start using this now? For Pandora One subscribers, even?
That would be a full year, so you should be fine. I wouldn't give notice such that your last day is August 06, because then that opens the door for shenanigans where the company sets things up (e.g. releases you early) so they can claim you didn't work the full 12 months.

You might be technically correct in doing so, but it's not worth the potential hassle.
The wording of the title is definitely tongue-in-cheek, but I think as a hypothetical it's something many of you could form an opinion on.
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I'm guessing the action of the impeller sucking air through itself would be enough to keep a reasonable amount of dust from collecting in the gap.

It'll probably fall apart in heavy dust environments, but most things do anyway.

To quote the pdf:

"""Rotation of the heat sink at several thousand rpm also provides a potent remedy to the
longstanding problem of heat exchanger fouling. Consider for example the CPU cooler
shown in Figure 1. The finned, metal heat sink cannot be seen because it’s covered in dust.
But the fan blade, which operates in the same environment, is for all intents and purposes
perfectly clean. This contrast in dust accumulation is at first startling, but in hindsight
entirely expected. The air bearing heat exchanger therefore provides a complete solution to
the problem of performance degradation due to heat sink fouling. In specialized applications
involving extremely high particle loading, a straight-radial rather than backward-swept fin
design would likely be used [Bleier, 1997]."""
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Ok, that's a pretty good example.
Very true, but what it this law only applied to very openly sold works? Let's say for sake of argument only ones that had sold a million copies. Once it's put there it's out there and it's really a shame when thrice-transferred IP from a defunct company can't be bought any more.
So true, there's a lot of bad recruiters out there. However the few I know to be good, I try to keep a good relationship with.
Usability case #1: Guido creates a 'python' circle for his occasional musings, marks it as public soapbox and done. He can't add but can invite. Starts posting and all his followers get the tidbits. Twitter is dead.

Usability case #2: Guido creates a 'python' soapbox, which is a reference to his blogger account. Starts posting from G+ and automatically updates blogger where all his followers get the tidbits. Twitter is dead. Also posterous and wordpress.
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>though how did they get an iOS device?

This is, incidentally, kind of a silly question. It's like assuming that owning a car means you can afford to eat a $20 restaurant meal every night. Sure, cars cost way more than food, but that's not the point.
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Yeah I get riled up too easily the last few weeks, and over absolutely trivial things - I should get some vacation.

Anyway I don't disagree with the notion that starting with a basic setup gives one a deeper insight into the tools. I have C++ noobs call g++ from the command line and then link object files manually. Also I've used vim since 1997 and still do daily, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with 'plain' text editors. But hardly anybody who does 'real' work with just the editor without configuration - the amount of time spend on vim-users to save a few keystrokes attests to that. The whole reason to use vim or emacs is because they're so configurable.

I don't know about Erlang, but using Visual Studio I can make and run a C++ program without having to touch the keyboard, apart from typing the name of the project. I'm not sure what the amount of keystrokes to run a useless most basic program has to do with how easy it is to learn.

What annoyed me was the tone in TFA belittling the use of IDE's. After some size of a project, IDE's do have added value in exploring API's, structure of the project etc. There's no need to project one's idea that somehow using one or the other is 'morally superior' or makes one 'a better programmer'.

(it's quite ironic that I'm saying this, since for years I was a vim 'advocate', basically meaning to me that I took every opportunity to show people how superior vim was for every task imaginable; even if I had to spend 1/2 day writing a macro in vim's obscure macro language to accomplish a task that could've been done in 10 minutes by hand..I've come around now and I guess that's why I react so strongly now, much like ex-smokers who are often the most obnoxious anti-smoking campaigners).
If anyone wants a way to avoid the Flash site now, be sure to check out pianobar[0] and/or Pithos[1]. I've been using them for years in my attempts to completely avoid Flash usage (VLC for YouTube, Vimeo, etc.).

0: http://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/

1: http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/
I'm getting tired of self-righteous posts about how the way Circles works is a problem. It might be a problem for you, but it might be a feature for others. It's exactly what I want, to be honest. If that doesn't work for you, stick to Facebook and Twitter.
that's marketing. forbidden fruit always looks sweeter.
I can't answer your questions, but I was wondering the same things. Also, what makes this design quieter than a traditional fan/heatsink? Isn't this still basically a fan?
I thought the clever bit was that its called IM
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The approach is weird because it focuses on shapes:

"many of the letters look similar – such as v/w, i/j and m/n – thus people with dyslexia often confuse these letters"

Dyslexic people usually don't confuse letters M and N, they confuse M and P. Notice how they don't relate in any sort of way. This shows how much of a brainfuck (no offense) it is to live with dyslexia, and how hard it is for non-dyslexic to understand the disability.

To make an object-oriented parallel, dyslexic people know very well the difference between two classes (concepts), but when seeing or creating instances (realisation), they can't seem to make heads or tails of which one belongs to which class. So the instances m of class M and p of class P will get processed as some mashup M/P. The only way out is to work around the mashup by tying M class and P class each to another unrelated concept, but related to the instances.

So as an example, the letter 'm' is linked to the word 'marmalade' (which is an instance of the concept of 'Marmalade') and p to the word peanut (itself an instance of Peanut). 'Marmalade' and 'Peanut' being hopefully[0] unrelated, the person can find a solution by linking concepts (not instances) 'M' to 'Marmalade' and 'P' to 'Peanut', so that when the person tries to process the word 'motor', instead of being faced with a dreadful (M/P).O.T.O.R. they will be able work around the issue by thinking (Marmalade).O.T.O.R.

I took the 'm' shape which is present in both 'marmalade' and 'motor' as a link vector, but really any vector will do, and people use an extremely diverse array of vectors and associations. One can end up linking 'm' to 'Green' just because for some reason seeing a 'm' makes him thing of the color (hence concept) 'Green' whereas 'p' will be tied to 'Red'. Being able to break the M/P mashup is the key, and whatever association will do, so it just happens that M/P+Green == M for someone.

[0] I said 'hopefully', because concepts of any level can result in a mashup. If for some reason the mashup Marmalade/Peanut exists, it will be of no help to map m to Marmalade.
Very very creative! A browser based SimCity clone should theoretically be possible with enough processing power.
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Employers will be a lot more keen on dealing with an agent if they no they won't ever have to pay extra for their fees.

Maybe, but they may end up back in having to weed through hundreds of agents instead of hundreds of applicants. I suspect that won't be the case entirely, as an agent would have more incentive to be selective about placement opps - they don't want to waste their time either.
A proxy will.
If you are developing for iOS, you could also package your game with a more "native" wrapper, like my iOSImpact[1] instead of PhoneGap. This has better performance (OpenGL graphics instead of the browser view) and perfectly working sound with all the same source code as the web version.

[1] http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/04/ios-and-javascript-for-...
Yeah plus.google.com doesn't work very well on Safari for iPad.
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The only thing I can think of is trying to make it a bit more obvious on your likedin profile that you are not interested in hearing about new roles.

That is one of the many issues with the recruitment industry, you could launch a national advertising campaign highlighting the fact that you DO NOT want a new job & I will bet good money you will still get recruiters calling you.
Is Apple Sharing Customer Data with a 3rd Party Ad/Fetchback Network?
Before I start I'll say the following could be a coincidence but if so it's one heck of one.

On Sunday I opened up the App Store software on my Macbook Pro. I started browsing through applications and came across an app named Boom.

I did NOT visit the link to their website, I did not do a search for anything about them. I simply went on looking through the App Store at other software.

Yesterday I was reading HN in my NetNewsWire software and saw a article about "best practices for signup forms". I clicked the link, the article opened up in NNW's browser. Low-and-behold, there was a fetchback ad (the only ad) on the page for Boom software offering me a 25% discount on the purchase of the software.

Here is a screenshot http://www.flickr.com/photos/65099140@N04/5927227432/

Is this a coincidence? Maybe. But it's one heck of one, considering there's over 90,000 apps on the App Store, and Sunday was the first time I had ever seen or heard of Boom.

Maybe the software developer is tracking users via some script/code passing information through the App Store to them? I don't dev Mac apps so I'm not sure if/how something like that would be possible.
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Same here. It blows my mind that such an ugly broken website got so popular, but city41 is right. Pandora, like Twitter, is more about the service it provides than the web interface. I rarely directly visit pandora.com or twitter.com, but use the mobile apps all the time.
Or to restate it: Apple is willing to piss off the carriers - this is a feature, not a bug.
An LG VX8300 or whatever is also "a car". An iPhone is a midrange Acura or something--not the most expensive car out there, but if you can buy one, you can afford the seat covers (which is a tortured analogy to apps, but work with me here).
> It's like assuming that owning a Ferrari means you can afford to eat at a $20 restaurant meal every night.

Fixed that for you. iPhones are a luxury item. Cellphones are arguably necessary, but nobody's forcing you to drop $400 on a smartphone when there are perfectly free (subsidized) feature phones on every single carrier.

So yeah, I agree with the assumption that iPhone users have a little extra cash to burn.

Edit: Ok, maybe Ferrari wasn't quite a fair comparison, but certainly a car that's a little more than just getting from point A to point B.
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How about "combining fan and heatsink yields efficiency gains"? It's clearly not (just) a metal fan, since it has thermal mass and will likely be optimised for surface area just like a heatsink would be.
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It sucks hard, though. Last time I checked, video quality was way worse than DVDs and prices were too high for rental. And of course everything is dubbed.
Of course, I use vim every day too. I also use Visual Studio every day, and the things for which I use Visual Studio would take me 3 times as long if I had to do that with vim - and vice versa.

It's a good thing too that most people don't pay too much attention to what I think, it would have a rather devastating effect on the world I'm afraid.

(what I think is bullshit is the reflex where somebody learns something new and before reaching the level of competence where one starts finding flaws and drawbacks of said thing starts advocating it to the rest of the world as the silver bullet that will solve all problems. I recognize the pattern all too well since I've fallen so often for it myself. It's the exuberance of youth I guess.)
If I were in your position, I'd add an extra week or two before giving notice, just to be extra-safe. I don't know how much cash is your "sign-on bonuses and relocation" but I'm sure you wouldn't want to have to repay that just because you left one week early.
aren't quite a lot of the LTE patents hardware?
Why not check the Apple account? If it's in your purchase history, you're validated; otherwise, no.
Deal. I always wanted to go to Boston.
Can we have a rule against posting personal anecdotes about a support experience?

Every post about a company's support just devolves into people trotting out a single experience as evidence in favour of or against the company. It doesn't matter how good or bad a company's customer support is, there's still going to be people with good and bad opinions of it.

All customer support requests are different and saying you had no problem returning a laptop doesn't mean someone else won't.