skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At MSFT my 1:1 with my manager is pretty much this. If there's any immediate good/bad things that he needs to share with me, that's the venue we do it in. It's one of the reasons why I really appreciate working for him (I had previous managers that didn't help me at all and I was lost in the weeds).

It's not for everyone; but I personally really appreciated timely feedback on what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong.

For the last few annual reviews it's been pretty hands off from my side of things - anything that is brought up about great things I did or things I struggle with we've talked about it already numerous times over the year. If you're surprised in your annual review you're doing something wrong.
Ask HN: Looking for links/tutorials on implementing responsive css design
If anyone has some good links to share on the topic of responsive design. I need to redo my sites css so it looks right on mobile devices as well as the web. Any link/tutorial is appreciated.
Show HN: Indoor Location you can try yourself
http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/
> From all evidence it is clear that he will be extradited to the US where he just might face the death penalty.

What evidence? So far all I've seen produced is speculation based on quotes from political figures that lack the power to make this happen.
And let's forget buying stock. Unless a company goes bankrupt, thereby sinking all the shareholders, then every share sold must be honored.
Simple compared to what? The Go implementation is very immature, I'll grant you that, but it is definitely more complex than an implementation of C at a similar point in its life. At the very least Go supports, fairly straight forwardly, a lot of C and it has a GC and multiplexing user land threads over multiple cores.

* Assume C90
I'm glad $foo syntax was reserved for future flexibility in usage. When CSS level 4 is ratified in 2057, we'll all be thankful there was this kind of oversight and level-headedness now.
1% of Views of Live Olympic Streaming Used IPv6
This article takes the perspective that the purpose of performance reviews is to provide feedback to employees. It was my understanding that the purpose of performance reviews was to provide evidence to the government that you had reason to fire the person. Attacking the first idea won't bear much fruit if what people want is the second.

This is a (slightly) different area, but during my year as a teacher, my much more experienced coworker, who came from the New Jersey system, couldn't emphasize enough that anytime a "problem" student committed any infraction, no matter how minor, he wanted us to write it down. He was quite explicit that this documentation should be based on our view of the student, not the conduct, and that the purpose was that, should a parent complain about actions we were taking against their child, we wanted to have a huge file of infractions to show off.

(Clarification of "based on the student, not the conduct" -- otherwise good student commits an infraction that might merit discipline ("She punched through the girls' bathroom window"). We don't care. Awful student commits a minor infraction ("Talking in class"). We write it down.)
Yet another possibility is that they have a feature in the new iPhone that possibly infringes on a Google or Samsung patent, and they want to buy Authentec's patent portfolio as ammunition in cross-licensing negotiations.
Yeah, that's pretty much the point I was getting at - the price for "everyone should get [...]" comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is usually taxes.
When Connector shut down, I switched to Fastmail, which had a nice little "fill in the credentials and press the button" migration process. Been with 'em ever since.
Shark Net - iPad app uses robots and acoustic tags to track white sharks
I like how this implies that soccer players are 10-year-olds.
GdURL.com direct permalinks for Google drive
Software sabbatical - in search of inspiration and creativity
The article is primarily about the live streaming of the Olympics ... but toward the end they had an interesting note that IPv6 traffic to the live streaming was measurable enough that they could see it as being ~1%. Now, given that YouTube supports IPv6, this traffic may have been to livestreams coming off of YouTube.
yup. I'd be suspicious of any "unlimited" plan which didn't offer such a guarantee - anything that doesn't put its money where its mouth is is just marketing, a polite euphemism for "lies" in this case.

or time-bound it, so everyone's clear - if I know I'm buying a 10 year plan, that's fine. I know I'm getting value for money, and the service provider knows they have a finite projected cost.
Is Techcrunch connected to/or sponsored by YC by any chance? I'm not accusing, I'm questioning out of real curiosity...I see many many YC-related posts on Techcrunch..hence the curiosity.
I don't remember Microsoft saying that. What I do remember is a bunch of blogs getting a bit antsy because Microsoft wouldn't tell them how .NET was going to evolve for Windows 8. They blew this up into "Microsoft is abandoning .NET and orphaning 600,000 developers!"
+1 great job on this app! I agree with Rand in a way. I love the ipad for consumption but I went to make a presentation for techstars last night and it was just a bit too much to bite off. Web though I would have used.
Has anyone figured out how to set a breakpoint in the actual page (not a .js file)? There are no line numbers in the inspector to click on. I complained to Apple. I also can't figure out how to add script files to the sources tab in the new webkit version of the inspector. Also clicking on the line numbers in the resources tab of the new webkit inspector no longer sets a breakpoint. I've had to go back to 5.x since I can't set breakpoints where I need to... Ideas?
QUOjs - Micro JavaScript Library
The most pressing problem that the page classifier solves is for the current community of developers using Diffbot. We only offer APIs at the moment for extracting information out of frontpages and article pages (see http://www.diffbot.com/our-apis/). While we'll be releasing more soon for the other page types that you see in the infographic chart, this limitation is a problem if, for example, you're passing in a photo page or recipe into the article API--you're not going to get an article back since its not appropriate. Having the technology to visually understand what the types of pages are allow us to route those requests.

Beyond that, it's useful for companies that perform analytics or use the information to do better search or auto-categorization.
Google Play to support gift cards, wishlists
Why I Changed My Mind On Klout (And Invested)
MSNBC wrote about the wave glider robots here: http://www.futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/technology/futureoftec...

GTOPP also put out a press release: http://gtopp.org/shark-net-app-puts-the-blue-serengeti-in-yo...
Simplicity in tutorials.
From the article:

https://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communi...
Yes, I really like Rackspace. Great customer service! And the tier setup makes sense to me. It's Smith's Division of Labor principle at play. Sure, it's technically possible to adjust each feature separately, but you add so much complexity at every layer that it's a wash economically.

In the same vein, I can buy a Honda Civic for $10K, but a car with custom specs isn't $12K, it's $some_orders_of_magnitude_more, even if it's equivalent to a Civic in almost every way.
Well, knowing how to market yourself is just something you have to learn on the way. It's part of "wanting".
Have you looked at the Twitter Bootstrap yet?
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>Guess what? There are factions that are actively moving to make sure that doesn't happen.

Do you have any examples? This is interesting. Reminds me of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
As an app developer, what I really need them to support is promo codes...
Is this anything more than a stop gap for growl until apps implement the new mountain lion notifications and mountain lion becomes as widespread as lion?

Are there any other advantages at all to using growl with bark? (Or growl on its own for that matter) If you are a fan of the new notifications panel?
Copy-paste with Intent and support for HTML on Android.
Oops, I missed that. Thanks for the correction.
The next step for Square, in my opinion, is developing a reader for the EMV cards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV), which is hugely dominant in Europe - and also more secure. See a this useful Quora post, from 12 months ago: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Square-intend-to-translate-the...

Going international, or making such a reader, opens up an enormous market and the potential is huge.

I'm waiting, excited, as I see Square disrupting this business. As tibbon asked earlier in the comments: "why has no one disrupted this market before". I'll think it is a good question, I have no answer, but find it is about time. Ref. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4392763

Also, an interesting firm from Sweden, which is worth following now is iZettle (https://www.izettle.com/) which has developed an EMV reader.
Noticably their, "how much do I pay to use iZettle" page is intresting. http://help.izettle.com/customer/en_us/portal/articles/53095...
Yes, the main use of this will probably be to create graphs in adobe applications.
F# is practically OCaml, from my understanding. I don't know if it has all the same current .NET multithreading support under Mono. Worth looking into.
The ACCC is like the FCC, but they are backed by a very hardcore piece of legislation, which bans misleading or deceptive conduct - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_or_deceptive_conduct

Not just lying, but anything the court consideres "misleading or deceptive".

It's a consumer right's lawyer's wet dream - they can argue that basically any company which screws consumers is being misleading or deceptive; and it's going to be up to the company to convince the court otherwise.
Building personal trust with UEFI Secure Boot
tl;dr?: Don't criticize women in technology.

No I'm not being dismissive, that's the tl;dr.
Thank You CrowdTilt (w12) and Friends. We’re Going to Long Fucking Island
I don't think this one rings as true as the parent.
Save Tesla's Lab & Make A Museum in His Honor
I guess there's a void in the market somewhere after the Rypple acquisition by Salesforce?
You may not have intended to compare it to anything, but you were. The words “incredibly tough” cannot be used without being in comparison to something, because without the comparison they _lose all meaning completely_. So however you want to spin it, whatever, but your words were words of comparison.

1) A skyscraper is really small. A skyscraper is really big.
2) A skyscraper is really squishy. A skyscraper is really cuddly.

All of the above are implicit comparisons, but the ones in 2) are really dumb and make no sense. Are you suggesting you really meant to fit category 2 despite pretty clearly using terminology befitting category 1? It's really better for you to just own up and admit you made a small mistake, than to dig your heels in deeper and show your reluctance to listening, to being receptive to learning anything new.

Everyone has their own problems in life. The issue at hand is women suffering from problems caused by the very same people who repeatedly attempt to diminish the severity of their (women’s) problems and try to make it about men, instead. Again.

“what we need is more shared understanding, that goes both ways”

There is plenty of understanding of your position already. It's not a hard one to figure out. We're calling out the sense of entitlement, privilege, and refusal to stop whining about your problems every time we're trying to have a conversation about _someone else's_ problems.
10 Charts About Sex « OkTrends
Venmo hasn't been very successful thus far. They have a small to mid sized user base and they are currently operating at a loss (no fees on transactions that cost them money), so I think $26m is a pretty good number.
Braintree Acquires Social Payments Startup Venmo For $26.2M
This was because of the planned Github downtime.
That is a totally spurious argument for a number of reasons. 1) Pistorious is genetically predisposed, regardless, from the knees up, to a higher than average level of fitness, muscle density, metabolic efficiency, etc (all successful athletes are almost by definition, since to be successful, you have to compete with people who do have all the genetic advantages AND the will to win, either alone is not enough) 2) he actually has an advantage over "able-bodied" athletes in that if he twists his ankle he doesn't need to take 6 weeks off training to heal, he just swaps in a new one.

What Pistorius has done is redefine what disabled means. He's not actually disabled at all, he's superhuman, quite literally a cyborg. For the Olympics they slowed him down by reducing the springiness of his, err, springs, so the poor humans could keep up.

As for the others, you could train as hard as Phelps but guess what, it wasn't training that gave him his flipper-like feet or his extraordinary armspan.
Also, being able to add css shadows. You can make shadows in SVG, but they will be different than the css shadows on the rest off the page, and generally a PITA
Then again, how many times have you found a bug caused by a single line or function call or bit of syntax that didn't do exactly what you thought, that was easily overlooked? Particularly in someone else's code in a language that isn't your main one. I think line level interactive debugging is valuable precisely because it tells you what you really know for certain at the local level, and so lets you reason more effectively about the big picture.
With worst date i mean 1999. Well I guess 2000 would have been worse. It's a question of luck which date is good.

And no, picking the stocks with more dividend yield is NOT a strategy that is guaranteed to work, because these are usually low-growth companies. Now the market assessment of growth is unlikely to be right for all companies, but it's likely to be better than that of most people.
I don't understand the need to participate in a community based upon a set of ideas and then rail against them as though everyone else here made a mistake in the URL line of their browsers.

You're right. I'm out.
In the US we have at will employment, so using performance reviews primarily for evidence to fire people is not going to something that is common.
The gist still stands. There are likely many succesful people from the poorest countries who only achieved success because they believed and worked harder than anyone else. The threshold is just much higher.
IBM Buying Texas Memory Systems for Flash Memory Boost
Same thing. Just look at the front page of Facebook "It's free and always will be"
The legal aspect of performance reviews is definitely one not to overlook. We believe having record of performance and reviews is important. However, I think you would probably see that in companies where the evaluations are solely intended as a legal tool, that both employees and management/HR probably hate them. An incredible amount of value is waiting to be tapped when performance reviews are done right.
Hipstamatic Lays Off Everyone But Core Team
I like the message in this post. The media loves to romanticize devoting your life to a passion. For instance, we idolize athletes. But it's EASY (relatively) to do what you're passionate about if it's in align with making a lot of money, and your unique gifts.

On the other hand, it's HARD to do stuff you dislike b/c your family depends on it. Why don't we give some attention to those people instead?
Then the children of really rich people should really be an interesting lot, since they have all their needs met plus have plenty of money to do whatever they want, right?

Personally, all the people I know who inherited their money are useless and/or dysfunctional. I'm not saying that none find the motivation to do much with their lives after their needs are met... but to assume that enough of society is going to behave that way to change the way that society works seems to be wishful thinking.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/03/new-freakonomics-radi...
It peaked 5 years ago, this is true, but check out the house values in some neighbourhoods of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, etc. Here's a random 3br house in Menlo Park:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1328-Orange-Ave-Menlo-Park...

You don't see huge deflating going on, right? Prices have fallen a lot in some places in the Silicon Valley (like San Jose), but remained quite high in others, primarily on the expensive (1M+) end of the market.
You're mixing up "mention" and "use", which makes it very hard to understand which you mean. Maybe what you're trying to say is that it would be outrageous if they invoked that statue.
They did the same for their perpetually paying customers too. When I signed up for my TextDrive account it was billed as one price ($10/month) forever. Then Joyent bought them and things were OK for a while but I figured that was the end of my price guarantee.

My biggest issue with Joyent is they seem to change their services every year or two while letting their legacy customers languish. I used to have an account on a shared host. Now I have a Smart Machine, or maybe a Shared Accelerator. I'm not sure anymore and they keep changing the support website.

Now I just use them for mail but, I'm dissatisfied with that so I'm looking to move.

What I want is to pay for a service and not worry about it. It's too much work being their customer nowadays.
Square Reader in CSS
Bitcoin shows you why we need the banking system (and lessons learned many many years ago).

It's why we don't store all of our money in a mattress underneath our bed.
I Wasn't Always A Mac User
Oddly enough, 4chan's creator moot went on to make Canv.as, which this seemingly rips off.
Hipstamatic lays off all but core employees, including designers and engineers
Thanks! I'll try again later.
There are dozens of chip readers on the market all around the world already, they just don't have the software, good design and price structure to match.
they can argue that basically any company which screws consumers is being misleading or deceptive

Er... good? Misleading and deceptive companies get prosecuted. Good.
Support of the people is not something our politicians worry about before doing things. Look at SOPA/PIPA. "Better to apologize than ask permission." For people working unelected executive branch positions (police, for example) it would be even more unlikely.
You guys gotta download this app and check it out...this thing is amazingly cool!
LittleBits
Joyent just offered me 50% of my original investment back as a payout. Anyone else hearing this? Might be more lucrative than whatever a class-action lawsuit would return to each of us.

Might take them up on it as it's better than the hosting deal they are offering (given that i want nothing to do with them, anyway... dollar for dollar it seems about equal).
I came in preparing to hate, but must admit they beauty and simplicity pretty much won me over. It's like Prezi but for humans :)
Scram, jet, you bother me
A/B testing on Mobile apps is something I have been thinking about for a long time. However contrary to popular belief it is possible to push out changes to native Android apps. I have developed such a technology. I am taking it in another direction (app discoverability) but if someone is interested in using the tech for A/B testing please drop me a line (kenneth at appprevue.com)

To see the technology in action go to www.AppPrevue.com. There is a link to a technology demo in the Play store. It is a bit crude but it does show it is possible to run a native Android app without installing it. The same technology could be adapted to push out new versions of an app to do A/B testing.
I'm really happy with asmallorange the service is cheap and customer support is great
Agree and essentially realized that when responding to _delirium above with regards to small claims court which I hadn't considered on first glance.
Initial platform choice aside, I think this was the right course of action. For three of you (all technical?), launching on two high-quality platforms simultaneously would be asking for trouble. For those of us that don't have our iPad in front of us at the moment, could you explain the Bento IAP is and what we get for that $15?
My card limits my cash back to something like $300 dollars per year. If there is a card that lets you get close to $5000 dollars cash back a year, I'd LOVE to hear about it.
Actually, that's exactly the sort of thing she'd like and would do!
I'm all for improving performance in the workplace. Many businesses desperately need it. However I feel like this product is striving to be a faster horse instead of tackling the underlying issue. Namely that performance reviews of any type can be gamed. Doesn't matter if they're every six months or every ten minutes.

I think performance reviews can be eliminated entirely. VPs that are in charge of products could be evaluated on how much revenue their product brings in. VPs could have the power to fire anyone working under them. Same with the managers working under the VPs.

The idea is to motivate employees to achieve one thing: bringing in more revenue (which is the goal of all for-profit companies anyways). There's no need to slice and dice the "performance" into pieces. Just empower people and measure revenue.
Agree 100% Splines. We've found that people are surprised way too often in their performance reviews (which is actually how this company came about). 1:1s and face to face interaction is incredibly valuable and we don't seek to replace or uproot that in any way. However, another important component is keeping a record of progress so that the annual review is based on something factual or at least written (especially when the review is the basis for promotion/termination/bonuses etc). In addition, we've seen that MicroEval can be a good tool that facilitates and begins conversations about performance and growth.
Apple TV Plan Works With Cable TV Industry - AllThingsD
Make. Better.
Thanks for pointing out WebFaction. Of all the mentioned solutions WebFaction seems to me to be the closest thing to the old TextDrive shared hosting. I'm getting too old to want to get my hands dirty with managing my own VPS for a few simple PHP sites, some email accounts and my subversion repositories (and I can even switch to git).
Maybe they know something you don't know? Like perhaps they're planning on murdering you on October 30th. In that scenario, the sentence would make total sense.
The customers should be careful, however this does not absolve people who claim "our lifetime account will be good as long as we exist" (http://web.archive.org/web/20060203030930/http://www.textdri...) from responsibility to uphold their end of the bargain. They got the $500, they have to deliver. If they can't, it's a breach of contract. Of course, as a customer, you should be aware that your supplier could breach the contract and have plan B - but that still means they are in breach, however high incentive they have to do it. I wonder if the lawsuits will follow...
Here's the answer you'll get if you write to their support complaining about the change:

Hi Obie,

As often happens in the software business, vendors “end of life” older platforms and migrate customers to new versions or platforms. The service you purchased a “lifetime subscription” to will no longer be supported or available from Joyent. On the other hand, we appreciate and value your business as an early customer. As such, we have created special offers specifically for you to make this transition as easy as possible. Details and promo codes were provided to you in the email.

I hope you will be able to take us up on the offer and see the benefits of our new platform.

Thanks,

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Peter Yorke
Senior Solutions Architect
JoyentCloud.com