skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, considering that the entire article was about Apple offering the market a choice and following the direction the market chose, it's not exactly an incorrect title. And the other title tells us nothing about the story itself.

But try to ask a anti-mac-fan to see reason instead of blaming the community and screaming bias? Nope! That kettle and pot are best friends.
I understand that is too much for just trying it out. I will add a trial version soon.
Zeus: Windows programmer's editor/IDE
Probably the most enjoyable time I've had reading a book. And here is my favorite quote:

>Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.
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Samsung Electronics has Launched its new Galaxy series smartphone Samsung Galaxy R Style Touch Screen Phone. Samsung Galaxy R Style is a powered by 1.5GHz quad core processor and Runs on the latest Android ICS OS along with the Touchwiz UI. It has a 4.3 inches Super AMOLED Display and 5.0 MP Camera Rear Camera with LED Flash and Front Camera is 1.3 MP.
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What are you talking about ? The battery IS replaceable just not by you.

And I hardly think saving an hour at an Apple Store once every 3 years is worth having a substantially thicker device.
I'm not sure the correct lesson is being learned here. He gives a set of things you can do to calm the situation down, but I don't get the feeling that he knows why.

First, people want to know that you understand them. Repeating back what they said helps. But even better is to rephrase what they said, so that they know you understand. And if you don't understand, that can be corrected before you go any further.

Second, people want you to listen. Once you've established that you understand, repeating everything back is really, really annoying to both sides. Gentle noises show you're still listening, if you use them at the right time. You may have to return to repeating if things get complicated.

Third, you identify their problem so that they can see it clearly. In this case, he's labeling their emotions, which is just part of the problem. But it could lead to them realizing that they need to fix it in a way that relieves that emotion. "It would be nice if there was another way to do that" is another way, but the other option can't be too obvious or it comes out as sarcasm.

And last, you either solve their problem, of let them solve it on their own, inception-style. You've led them by the nose to the problem in part 3, and now it's time to let them solve it. If they just can't, you'll have to help them with the solution a bit.

Until this point, I guess I didn't understand just how little of this other people understood. I've been empathizing with people for years and helping them solve their problems. It was especially helpful when I was doing phone tech support, but continues to be helpful in software development and personal relationships.

When you get good at this, you don't even think about what you're doing. You just do it because it's fairly obvious what the right response is at every moment.
That's nice, it's still a pretty hefty valuation but if they're that profitable it's not as awful as I initially expected.

Microsoft has done some good investments and acquisitions in the past, and also some duds. The jury is still out on Skype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
Any customer of Heroku who didn't weigh the cost/benefit of Cloud hosting is a fool and deserves to watch their app have downtime.

Cloud hosting is fantastic but it's a trade off. There are so many layers of abstraction between you and the hardware that you are completely at the mercy of one, two or (more!) technical organizations, each with their own support systems and varying levels of opacity into their infrastructure.

The fact that Amazon went down IS VERY interesting for a customer of Heroku.

And if it isn't, than that customer is a fool for outsourcing so much of their system without even understanding the risks involved.
I bought an Asus netbook some years ago. The battery(easy to put or remove) died pretty soon, so I went to see the replacement new battery cost more that what I paid for the netbook.

As it has a special shape is it very difficult to replace with a generic battery, and it is on purpose.

I see all the manufacturers doing the same if they can. As a geek I could make it to work but 90% of the people can't.
True that - I actually disagree with his final conclusion, because you can still program functionally in CS. I embraced JS prototypes a long time ago and have no need for the OO magic offered by CS. That said I still prefer it for a good chunk of my development.

Coffee vs JS rants typically degenerate into emotional outbursts, I was impressed by the author's overall restraint and advocacy for both approaches
Cmon. Your cheap shared hosting doesn't compare when it comes to scale and features.
The Tango Between SaaS Business Model and Entrepreneurship
That's just status anxiety. It's easier (and more fulfilling) to fix the wimp factor.

You'd have to do that, eventually. The wife is just acting as the canary in the coal mine.
I started sitting at home, and on any toilet I deem clean enough, since living in a house I rented that had a toilet with the worst splash back problem I've ever seen. It was impossible not to cause a gigantic mess while standing. I'll never sit on a public toilet though.
Selling Online Game Items in South Korea Could Get You Five Years In Jail
Asking questions is a good way, but the search box here at HN is probably faster. HN has been around for years now and there's a huge number of marketing-related questions that have been asked+answered. You could spend days reading the replies and following up with each.
I know this isn't the place to say this, but. Think about the context of who they're [Apple] going after now.

Regular people who don't care whatsoever if they can upgrade their RAM or have a bigger hard-drive.

They want something that just works. Furthermore, even though applications eventually require more RAM or computing power, the majority of Apple products purchased today will handle that for years to come, especially when most people use them as facebook machines. They aren't running xCode alongside of Photoshop along side of Chrome with 20 tabs open.
Woosh...that is the sound of the point flying over your head.
What's the life cycle on laptops?

I tend to upgrade every 18 months or so. I'm sure many other professionals and power users upgrade even more frequently.

At this rate, as the article states, we've voted with our actions.
Wasn't this true back in the telegraph days? I seem to recall reading that operators could identify each other just listening to transmissions.
That's not a safe assumption (rationally). People often falsely assume that pulling a gun in a confrontation will intimidate the other party. It does not, but instead escalates the scenario beyond recovery.
Well stated, and I agree 100% it is a sort of blindspot for this article. That said I agree with him on a level that CS does encourage a sort of OO band-aid approach towards functional programming and will definitely impede newcomers from embracing the power that comes with the built-in paradigm. I feel that it should not be in core, but am happy as you are to simply use what works and ignore what doesnt
Even as a person who works with computers a lot, I'd still rather just have a "geek" fix my computer. As much as I like hacking around on stuff I usually have better things to hack on and I expect my computer to just work when aiding me.
The easiest way to kill this is to use stackoverflow jobs or emptylemon or something like that.

The moment you involve humans in the process, you're going to get asshat middlemen. Other equally bad forms of asshat middlemen: car sales, estate agents and letting agents and buyers - they are all the same.

The whole point of computing is to automate, solve problems and get rid of middlemen but we seem to have failed to solve our own problems.

The only positive with recruitment agents (at least in the UK), is that you can treat them like shit and they always come crawling back.
They go to great effort to tell prospective customers that it's extremely reliable, providing claims of obscene numbers of nines.

A real engineer should know better, but otherwise, it's people trusting what a major company claims.

If it was a fly by night organization I would totally agree with you, but Amazon is a major multinational. It seems to me as reasonable for an outsider to trust the claims they make as it is for me, a car industry outsider, to trust the claims that Chevrolet makes about my car.

Do you know how to properly quality evaluate everything in your life?

Hope you don't need a doctor, lawyer, or plumber soon.
First revision of nginx/spdy
Just thought I'd provide some feedback - your product looks good, but your website is dated. You have to click on the "buy now" link (a CGI script) to see the price. This should be on the first page, especially as it seems a reasonable price. Also at first I thought this was an IDE for creating hybrid versions of the windows-only ZeuS trojan malware... ;-)
Except now Firefox actually wants to download it instead of just displaying it.
"Unrepairable Apple hardware bad" says Apple hardware repair company.

Bravo to iFixit for their PR efforts, but it's clear that the market simply doesn't care.
Harvard "racism" researcher neglected to disclose White House ties
> apple only charges $200 for the 16GB option

Only $200? That's twice what it would cost to buy from Newegg.
There was ~12.5 hours of downtime in june. That means their uptime for june is now 96.5%. No wonder why they have decided to show May uptime instead.
Normally a fair comment, except in this case the school was actually supportive, and it was council officials (unelected local government workers) who imposed the ban.

The leader of the council (Roddie McCuish - an elected politician) was interviewed on national radio and stated that he had just instructed senior officials to reverse the ban.
"'and they take £££ from me a day"
People do not gripe about recruiters taking money. People gripe about recruiter taking an unfair share for which they will lowball the candidates. If you are a good developer and have a decent idea of your market value, then it hurts to find out that you had to take a cut just because the recruiter wanted to keep extra even though the employer paid market value.
#claim is unreadable on my well calibrated Eizo: #888 on black is way too dark with a light font face. It would be OK with a regular font weight but not as it is. Change it to #ccc or lighter or use a value higher than 100 for font-weight.

Same remark for the toolbar.

The screenshots look good. Too bad it's 10.7-only and I can't try before I buy.
Any chance you could support other English keyboard layouts, like Colemak? http://colemak.com/
Sure, the virtue of Empathizing come as a surprise to those who are strong at Systemizing.

Active Listening is somehow ok with kids, with adults it smells manipulative to me. For women, as always, it's a different story (kidding).
Exactly. There will always be lazy employers, and agents are good at giving them a kick up the ass to make sure the process gets completed in as little time as possible. (Self interest of course, as this corresponds to when they'll get their commission)

Good at recruiting is not equal to "know their employers well, understand the industry and are not complete jerks". Good is getting a candidate placed as smoothly and swiftly as possible.

"taking an unfair share for which they will lowball the candidates". Better become a better negotiator then. If you know your market value, this is what the client is willing to pay for you. They don't even factor in the agent fee as they are paying £xxx for a developer.
Not new and still over priced compared to the PiMyth?
CoffeeScript's classes are the extend functionality in underscore/backbone. Perhaps they're misnamed a little, but they're extremely simple. Just read the generated code.
College Students Need to Differentiate Themselves to Get Hired in the Social Age
well god forbid that uppity cleaver kids might enjoy school it might impact our plan to game the ofstead inspection so that we get the duffers who are on course for a D up to a C
>* the idea that games are a key factor to their success is an alien idea to me*

Games are an extra reason for people to visit the site regularly, perhaps many times per day. That increases the users exposure to your advertising and creates more opportunity for them to add some information to your database (people are more likely to post an arbitrary thought if they are already logged in to check on their farm than if they'd have to open a new browser window specifically to do so) which both helps you target your advertising and (if you are lucky enough to have people who care about what you say) may provide more reason for other people to visit regularly.
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As long as it's not Johnny flipping Depp, I'd be happy :)

(I agree with you btw).
Those people you describe shouldn't be buying a macbook "pro" then.
First of all Apple has a battery replacement program that is way, way cheaper than buying a new laptop ($129-199 for a MBP depending on the size of the laptop).

And you'll probably be able to buy aftermarket batteries just as you can with iPhones. I replaced the battery in my 3GS and it wasn't difficult at all even though the battery was glued in.

It's not like it's glued to the chassis with epoxy resin, it's designed to be replaced. iFixit didn't want to completely ruin the battery of their new laptop, so they kept it in.
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I’m sorry, my Firefox said that the script was unresponsive, I clicked ‘Continue,’ and everything remained sort of frozen.
The closest parallel to an equity structure would probably be to the employee-owned cooperative firms that exist in some jurisdictions. A crucial difference from startups is that equity is not tradable, not available to non-working investors, and cannot be taken with you if you leave the firm. Rather than owning securitized shares, you definitionally are entitled to a share of profits while working at the company; and everyone is entitled to the same share. So, for example, if there are 10,000 employees, you have a 1/10,000 claim on any dividends. If you leave the company, you no longer own shares. And there is no way to buy shares; cooperatives will generally only accept investment on bond or loan-like terms, not equity terms.
Didn't realise that. I remember the Adam & Joe Show. That rocked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGkoBjn9U-c
CEO says Crytek engine 3 is still ahead of Unreal 4
And we see the same problem again. The number of people who care about the real-name policy is so vanishingly small that it just doesn't matter. It's the 37 Signals cat.jpg[1] issue problem.

Look at Facebook. Everyone[2] uses their real names, and it seems to have done ok.

[1] Apparently some people thought it was outrageous that 37 Signals posted that the 100 billionth (or whatever) file uploaded was called cat.jpg.

[2] I expect some pedantic comments here about how their friend's boyfriend uses a fake name to avoid an ex-gf. If you think that is important then may I suggest you are missing the point.
How watching The Wire inspired me to learn to code
recordstream seems to concentrate on lots of formats. Really, it should concentrate on lots of tools, with a shared repository of parsers for tools.

EDIT: Actually, they concentrate on JSON, but they also try to provide a generic set of tools for reading any format. I think this could be better structured to "just work."
No it can't. Stop shoving it into our throats.

After Larry Page replaced Eric Schmidt, Google turned into company run by salesmen(even though Page had a really groundbreaking idea with his PageRank algorithm). It is not what it used to be in the past.

It no longer innovates. Google's strategy is now more like the one that Microsoft used - copy successful products of other companies and use your money and resources as a leverage. In the mean time, to kill the competition, perform smear campaigns against them or use the vast cash reserves to let them die the financial death(cutting their margins as in the case of Dropbox).

I mean look at Google's search results, they display google + anywhere it is possible. The same can be said about youtube, google books. Soon they will cut off tremendous amount of profit from other websites by introducing the Google shopping upgrade ( paid placement! something they despised in the past ).

They always defend themselves by saying:
"Other search engines are just one click away. People are free to choose others, but since they stay, it must mean we do something good."

Well it is mainly people's habits. For majority of Internet users, 'google' means 'search'. What is interesting is that even if other search engines have better quality of results, those people will not change their search provider. People prefer Bing results to Google's results when they are served in Google's template. That proves something interesting.

I understand - shareholders want growth - but for fucks sake, stop turning that company into the Big Brother.
I cant help thinking that while there are so many issues like this in the EU and US, having a pop at Ethiopia is a bit ridiculous. If we cant get privacy and freedom sussed out, why on Earth should Ethiopia be held up as some sort of evil?
The Revolution at hand
The fundamental moment in which design becomes a political tool has arrived. Whatever we choose to call it — P2P culture, peer production movement, open-P2P-design — will we be able to find new meaning cooperatively? Will we be able to participate with conviction in the revolution that is at hand?
I don't remember ever seeing "obscene numbers of nines" claimed by Amazon. For S3, yes, but not EBS. The '9' character doesn't even appear once on http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/.

What it does say is this:

"As an example, volumes that operate with 20 GB or less of modified data since their most recent Amazon EBS snapshot can expect an annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% – 0.5%, where failure refers to a complete loss of the volume.

Which to any engineer, "real" or otherwise, should be a pretty strong signal that something bad will happen.
The council deny that and while you could say "they would" the pressure on improving school lunches over the past few years her in the UK is such that changes for the better could well have been in the works.
And the next technical book to be published? ... "Coffeescript - The Good Parts"

On a more serious note, I love Coffeescript and am adept at Javascript. But since we have both of them, I get to choose.
Yep that is why in third world coutries the PTT minister is a highly desireable job - lots of opertunities for diverting cash to ones swiss bank account.
Honestly, I have no emotion invested in this whatsoever. Why should I care that one corporation gains market share over another?

Keep on using one social network over another if that makes you happy, but honestly I don't see why I should care that my preferred social network "beats" the other one. Plenty of room on the Internet.
That's not the only point mentioned in this article. You are forgetting about two aspects:

- Environment: Gluing glass and aluminum most probably forbid recycling both of them, that's just a waste.
- Cost of repairing: While with previous models, any of us could replace some part of his laptops easily (to repair as well as to upgrade), that won't be possible anymore. That means that it will cost tons of money to customers (Apple Care becomes mandatory), and that the ecological impact will be even greater, see 1.

I am currently thinking about changing my current MBP June 2009, and as the author of the article states, I have to make a choice, and that choice will probably participate to drawing the future of laptops.
An iPad stylus that may have even tempted Steve Jobs.
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just saw this (and tried to submit). on the one hand, it's depressing that there's going to be a delay. on the other, the problems seem to be coming from a growing community, which is great.

have other people had good experiences with tumbleweed? i tried it once, but hit some issue (can't remember now, what) and rolled back.
I've maxed out the ram, added an SSD _and_ added the biggest SATA drive I could find and fit it in the DVD tray using an adapter from iFixit. My laptop is from 2007 and it feels like a speed demon with the SSD and still can store all my media.

So now, I have the option of maxing out the hardware _hoping_ that it will last me many years. That's part of buying into a closed platform _and_ belonging to a niche of consumers.
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I swapped out an SD card in my phone so I know just as much about hardware design as Apple's engineers. B-)
In Macbook Pro, there is Pro. These models have been designed for hackers/designers in mind and those people usually want to have a good control over their hardware (especially the former).
Not that good when Google declares it a failure and lets it stagnate like Orkut.
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I like the change, and also consider the Public folder to be redundant. I hated having to move files to the Public folder every time I wanted to send a link to someone. I am satisfied with https://www.dropbox.com/links as a way to see which links are shared with the world.

Some cynics say it's a marketing tactic, but I actually like the preview as well. I don't have any esoteric use cases like using Dropbox to host web pages. I use Dropbox to sync files across machines and to occasionally share large files with my colleagues. Consequently, I find this change to make things more usable, not less.

Just another data point, since the comments here seem to be predominantly negative. Part of what attracted with to Dropbox in the first place is its simplicity. If anything, I'm curious about their business model since I've earned so much space through their competitions and such that I no longer need a paid account.
Argyll and Bute Council have reversed their decision.

http://audioboo.fm/boos/847428-argyll-and-bute-council-rever...

(Around 1:30)

Also in good news, her charity appeal has gone from just under £3,000 this morning to over £20,000 (against a target of £7,000).
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I'd hardly characterise coffeescript generated js as difficult to debug (even the OO flavoured bits). My experience and that of most others I've seen online is that the mapping from the js that you debug back to the coffeescript that generated is trivially done in your head.