skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think youre on the right track - Ive worked on an eval application in the past and your research about numbers / metrics is spot on. Try to stay away from quantifying performance and focus on helping managers / employees capture achievements / shortcomings. Give employees an opportunity to demarcate the achievements / shortcomings they jotted over the year before the final eval.
> killing off humans is much worse than killing off bacteria, from a human perspective

Exactly. I introduced another perspective into the picture so that people can see this from a perspective other than a human one.
Well, here are two short snippets on how to do that. It is incredibly easy. (Sorry, I couldn't find a better paste it host.)

http://paste.org/53022
What if the package doesn't fit in any of the available compartments? Does the customer get notified they're package is about to arrive in X (hours, minutes, etc)? This could lead to an angry customer who decided to plan their day around retrieving said package at the estimated arrival time and they find out it's not there?

For select distributors, the customer gets to use BB for 'free'. How is this possible? Doesn't that mean those distributors are increasing the cost of shipping to pay BB for using your storage boxes? Why would a distributor want to use BB rather than the current individual shipping locations model?
+1 for succinct statement of why DVCS are great.
Also, can I drop a package in one bufferbox and have it delivered to another?

You want to borrow my snowboarding helmet, goggles and gloves. I drop them in my box, select a destination, and buffer box teleports them to your box. Reverse the process when your done with it. Also, I let it be COD - meaning that you, the borrower, pay for the round trip buffer transfer cost.
Is that what the mysterious "GTA" on their site means? "Greater Toronto Area"? Groan..

If so, they could probably save themselves a lot of puzzled support emails by expanding the TLA.
"Scroll down and you'll find users whose per-month equivalent is comparable to a bottom-end Linode VPS."

They are objecting to equivalently paying -- at worst -- bottom-end Linode VPS prices for web hosting. That's why I have this bemused look on my face.
Stripe better move quickly
Sweet. I'll take a look. I was looking for something along this line.
This looks awesome....out of curiosity, I wonder how this handles numbers and graphs.

I imagine the vast majority of presentations do include some presentations of numbers and charts.

I don't see anything on the landing page that talks about it - and maybe the answer is you haven't built that yet (MVP and all).

Just thought I would throw it out there.
I'm a web and mobile (Android) app developer.

Hardware: Last gen MacBook Pro (15" with matte screen), iPhone 4.

Operating systems: Mountain Lion, iOS 5.

Development tools for web apps: Terminal.app, bash, vim (for Sinatra apps), TextMate (for Rails apps), git, GitHub, Ruby 1.9.3, Sinatra (with DataMapper and Haml), Rails, jQuery, Google Chrome. In my experience, vim is better for projects with fewer or larger files, and TextMate is better for projects with more or smaller files.

Production environment: Heroku Cedar stack, Heroku Postgres, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, MemCachier (through Heroku), New Relic (through Heroku for profiling/performance info).

Development tools for Android apps: Eclipse, git, GitHub. I hate Eclipse, but I haven't found a better way to develop Android apps.
Excellent analysis. Agreed that valuing Square as a credit card processor makes for a very frothy, perhaps unjustifiable, valuation.

My belief, however, is that some investors are betting on Square's potential as much more than a credit card processor -- really, more of a data and payments platform. If Square can own the marketshare of payment transactions happening offline, then other monetization opportunities appear and the credit card processing is more of a loss leader or infrastructure investment (e.g., Amazon investing in warehouses and supply chain management).

Some of the other opportunities include: coupons (they know exactly what you buy and can tailor deals); analytics (e.g., household good purchases dropped by 25% in San Francisco last month); recommendation engine (I ate at these restaurants last month, this week Square recommends these); and a replacement network for credit cards, though this seems unlikely in the near term because of the difficulty factor and the fact some big banks are investors in Square.

While there are assuredly other ideas, and while some of these may never yield profits, the macro point is that investors are betting that Square can monetize payments data and payment identity in new ways -- if it can become the new funnel through which everyone pays businesses in the offline world.
Link to site: http://microeval.com
Tons of opportunity to disrupt an old industry which has remained largely unchanged since the advent of the internet
Are you saying use the right tool for the problem, or that there is only one tool per problem?

If you are saying the former, I agree entirely. If you are claiming the secondary, than I have to ask what do you think the purpose of a language like Lua is? Why do programmers like using Lua in combination with their c/c++ projects?
I would only disagree to the extent that if you have no other options, you shouldn't necessarily act like you have tons of options. If you have alternatives, you don't care that much if Investor #21 falls through due to a scheduling conflict. If you do not have alternatives but act like you do, you may very well find that the scheduling conflict does not resolve itself and now you are SOL with one of your only options.

Learning when to bluff and when not to is an important part of negotiating. Some people thing it's a good idea to bluff all the time -- it's not and can easily backfire.
The Georgia Guidestones.
But is it provably mathematically one way?
Nah, not really true. He was never "given permission to leave". There are transcripts of his lawyer setting up the 2nd interview with the authorities. They said they would meet on a Tuesday. Oddly enough, after his attorney discusses when to meet with the police, Assange magically wasn't in the country any more, fleeing 1 day before his interview date.

In further depositions, his attorney said he "can't remember" if he mentioned to his client the pending interview.

And furthermore: What is your point? Politically motivated or not, the police are engaged in an investigation. They have, at some point in time (regardless of the timeframe) decided they are seeking a second interview and will most likely be charging Assange with a crime.

Even if what you said was true (it's not), so what? The simple fact of the matter is, as I said, that Sweden has issued an extradition order. Whether you personally agree or not, it's legal. Everyone involved knows that he will eventually be extradited. Because there is no legal reason for it not to go through.

So as I said previously: I am missing something? How is this so hard to understand?
The next API we'll train an API for is likely image/photo pages. Event pages are definitely on our roadmap, but we've still got work to do there. Could definitely use your help with training data and learning more about your use case.
Ask HN: How do you decide what project to work on?
I've been wanting to start a new, personal project but I can't make up my mind on what to do. I don't get to build new stuff at work. I work with kernel maintenance at work, and like systems work. I've been learning about web app engineering. ML seems neat and I covered the first unit of Professor Ng's ML course.

Part of my dilemma is how do I align my long term career goals with my free time? I'm pretty much behind the technology curve on anything new. At work, it's C on linux for embedded work and not much else. I should learn javascript, I guess, but I don't know what to do with it. I'm petrified about being obsolete in a few years.

How do you select a new project? It seems like everything I think of is already done and I don't know how I could do better.
You don't strictly have to lose interface builder to use RubyMotion, you can use XIBs with Motion, but [for now] addressing elements in the XIB requires a little bit of ugly manual mapping of the numerical XIB element ids to names you want to give them in Motion.

Disclaimer: I've not built anything extensive with Rubymotion/IB, but I have built a proof of concept. I don't know if it's really feasible on a large project.

Also, Obj-C and Ruby share many common concepts, using Cocoa from RubyMotion usually requires just a bit of syntax swapping, "vanilla" RubyMotion is not much of an abstraction.
Alternately, here's BubbleWrap on camera: https://github.com/rubymotion/BubbleWrap#camera

on JSON:
https://github.com/rubymotion/BubbleWrap#json
What's impact?
You must report abuse then. Be a vigilant citizen.
I'd bet more on NFC being the next big thing. Who wants fancier cards?
Interested in revenue vs exit valuation... Can you say anything about it? The margins must be phenomenally low if the valuation was only 10% of what you process yearly...
Neat! I didn't know WebGL was available yet. I read about it a while ago.

Can any random person go write WebGL code?
Sorry, didn't see that the 'BIG' was mentioned in a different thread. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee
Oracle Fined $2 Million Over Bribery Case in India
Data Scientist: a Unicorn?
No worries. People overran my castle eventually, so I decided to dive into the codebase.

Which led me to do, among other fun things like give myself immunity to mobs and corruption, pinpoint and fix chat text:

https://github.com/tlhunter/Cobalt-Calibur-3/pull/26
Dude, I am so glad you wrote this.

Makr.io team is fantastic; they are a fun bunch of hardworking guys and gals. I hope they aren't too bummed out by the haters. Makr itself is a f-ing cool product. I am not just drinking koolaid here either. I am the last guy to care about memes. LOL cats make me gag sometimes (sorry Ben Huh :).

Perhaps that's the reason why so many people are hating. They are thinking of Makrio is a meme generator, but it's not. It's a cool tool for self-expression, a way to learn something new about your friends. The content on Makrio isn't about the image, it's about the content that you could associate with it. If you feel like being silly, you can just slap silly text on stupid images, but if you want to be interesting, sarcastic, or to be in whatever mood you're in that day, then you got to think of something interesting to post and to say. What a great way of self-expression!

I really wish Makrio team best of luck and hope they ignored the haters. You guys rock!
I'm not sure that being less popular than normalize is worth of a sigh. A reset is still better than nothing.
It's absolute gem, in all seriousness.
Windows 8 belongs on older PCs like a fish needs a bicycle
This site supposedly lets one do complicated trips for less than one might spend on orbitz and the like. It's essentially 21st century travel agent mixed with a competition.
It should be clear on the homepage which cities are currently being served.

I signed up, hoping to see a list of locations, but the only option is to edit/cancel my account? Definitely not ready for launch...
Nvidia’s GTX 660 Ti offers same Kepler performance, better price
1. By all means, you don't have to be ecstatic about Makrio. It's not for everyone, much like many other things on the internet. If all you have to say is that "meh, it's not for me", that's perfectly okay. However, there are a lot of comments that bash the application for no particular reason, and those folks are just "haters".

2. Don't dismiss it outright. Get a few of your friends to remix a few images together and see if it growth on you. If it doesn't, no problem, but there is a chance your friends will love it. I started using it with my girlfriend and now we sometimes compete on who could remix an image with a more clever title. It's really fun!
This is like a redbox for delivery. They could easily grow integration with package delivery companies, or they could compete by buying their own trucks and hiring drivers. This service will be very interesting to watch.
Would it be possible for them to just rely on the commodity chip and PIN readers that most banks (in Europe, or at least the UK where I am) use for 2 factor auth for online banking?
JSDuck: Writing docs is hard. Writing good docs is even harder.
Thanks. Yes, the page classifier still does miss, which is why it's still in beta status and not fully in production as with our other APIs. Would love to hear about your use case.
Use debugging to form a mental model.

When I'm trying to understand foreign code in less than enough time, I instrument it (almost always at inputs/outputs) and try to treat functions as black boxes. In an ideal world the black boxes would be working.

Data flows are as important as algorithms. See this thing from Guy Steele.

http://dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html

In particular:

Fred Brooks, in Chapter 9 of The Mythical Man-Month, said this:

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious."

That was in 1975.

Eric Raymond, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, paraphrased Brooks' remark into more modern language:

"Show me your code and conceal your data structures, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your data structures, and I won't usually need your code; it'll be obvious."

That was in 1997, and Raymond was discussing a project coded in C, a procedural language. But for an object-oriented language, I think this aphorism should be reversed, with a twist:

"Show me your interfaces, the contracts for your methods, and I won't usually need your field declarations and class hierarchy; they'll be irrelevant."

I think, however, that practitioners of both procedural and object-oriented languages can agree on Raymond's related point:

"Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around."
"Personally, all the people I know who inherited their money are useless and/or dysfunctional."

So you don't know a lot of people who inherit then. That is probably because most of those people do not show off this money and you will never know.

You only see those that show of and why not to say it? what you want to see based on your prejudices.

I have known a lot of people who inherited, some of them are useless or dysfunctional, some of them are really resourceful and know how to make good use of his money. E.g the creator of "Zara" inherit a small clothing store:
http://www.zara.com/

Now is one of the biggest in the world.

Half of the greatest philosophers, mathematicians, physicist of all time came from wealthy families, so they could dedicate time for non-primary necessities, a luxury even today.
Writing a simple deploy script with Fabric and roles
It's value is completely orthogonal to the idea of a free social network. Making "Fark 2012" is what Diaspora meas to almost anyone I know who was previously excited about it.
On Life Goals
"Why I want you to help inflate the stock I just purchased"

Fixed that for you.
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True. You'd have sue and first get the arbitration clause revoked. My understanding is that courts are getting more amenable to this.

Dittos restrictions on class actions.

My policy is that I will generally reject arbitration / class action limitations and/or take my business elsewhere.

Of course, it's always possible that the arbitrator would find for the claimant, but such clauses usually (didn't check here) disallow class actions, and arbitrators are historically biased toward the entity requiring their services (e.g.: Joyent in this case).
Totally agree. That said, Rubymotion is pretty sweet as when I play around with it, I'm just reminded of why I love Ruby in general. I like Obj-c too, but I love Ruby.
It's not exactly a recent one so more of historical interest, but back when people thought interplanetary colonization was actually plausible in the near term, C.S. Lewis was an advocate against it. He wrote a dystopian sci-fi trilogy containing a good amount of satire on the subject [1], which sparked an on-again-off-again correspondence, cordial but without much agreement, with Arthur C. Clarke, initiated when Clarke wrote to object to some passages in Perelandra [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Trilogy

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743475186/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Ahh, good point! Take a look at: https://makr.io/latest
This was the original page I was taken to when I was first introduced to makr.

I guess what drew me was that everybody on that page was in a synchronous experience. You make a composition, everybody will be instantly exposed to it. It's like everyone takes a turn being at the top of HN with the fluidity of Twitter.
Quick note to all the people who ask: "How is this site different from XYZ?"

Makrio may or may not be different from 4chan (some thoughts on that here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393668), but regardless, for many of us it might be the first service that actually works!

I don't like memes, I think they are stupid, and that's why I've never used 4chan or 9gag or cared much for the Cheeseburger network. But, with Makrio I actually have fun; something about it is different and it draws me in.

Before you dismiss the site as "just another X", give it a try for a few days, you just might like it!
Modern farming is also a high tech field, most people will die anyway when you revert to agrarian societies. Once you've spread across multiple planets you're no longer at (significant) risk of extinction, so the effect is pretty much the same.
You could contribute to OSS. Or look around at github for inspiration. Or look for a non-technical cofounder who already has an idea.
Cool idea, but should offer a free version to spread the adoption. The premium version could offer more chart styles.
Products solving specific pain points: Bring them on
I think we are generally in agreement -- I just used the pipeline line to convey this urgency. I'm not a big fan of name-dropping in this case, because from what I see, lots of founders do this all the time, and it's not worth anything IMHO. I can pull out lots of cards: 500/Google/Stanford/MIT/Harvard, but one of the things that I'm trying to convey in this post is that even in the Valley with all of those cards -- and I talk with friends from all these networks all the time, there is still a lot of hustle that goes unreported. The streets aren't lined with gold just because you are a 500company (or YC/TechStars/AngelPad). For most companies, people are not just throwing money at you because of your networks or who you know/talk with. It is true that some rounds close quickly, but the majority don't. Also, most of this post refers to the beginning of the process. Once you start bringing investors in, it closes more quickly from that social proof, and that's how rounds accelerate faster in the end. But, that's in Part II. :)
This benefits only those processing $15.5K - $30.0K per month. Otherwise, Intuit's Gopayment at $12.95+1.7% is best.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An_-Z6kZBAXndFF...

Addition: Gopayment is also better than Square's standard 2.75% for anyone processing more than ~$1,200 per month
The current WiFiSLAM SDK is an Android java library, available as an Eclipse project with sample code snippets that allow you to add your location to any existing Android app.

We have an iOS SDK that works, unfortunately since Apple disabled WiFi scanning in iOS 5 we can no longer publish it. It still works on jailbroken devices, but not a big target audience. We have a workaround in the works that will incorporate iOS devices
If a merchant does at least $13,000 per month in credit card revenue, this is a good deal (read on for assumptions).

Quick and dirty math here: Stripe charges $275 per month for card revenues up to $21,000 per month. I took a look at http://truecostofcredit.com (courtesy of FeeFighters) and the merchant fees per transaction vary widely based on the type of merchant as well as card type. For the sake of argument, let's say the average Visa/MC transactions costs the merchant 1.75%. And let's say that the average AmEx transaction costs the merchant 3.5%. Now let's assume it's an 80%/20% distribution between MC/Visa and AmEx transactions, respectively, bringing a blended rate of 2.1%. Assuming that the merchant is charged 2.1% per transaction by their credit card company, the tipping point is $13,095 of revenue per month. Anything above and beyond that and this is a good deal. Below it, it's not (aside from the fact that's a fixed cost versus a variable one which is worth something).
Yes, much better he vocalize it rather than some vague platitude about timing or market sector not being good.
I'm another Mixed Grill customer, currently on a shared Solaris box.

When I bought it, I knew it was a gamble, and with the $500 spread over 6.5ish years, it's not a terrible ROI.

I assumed I'd lose out due to the company eventually folding, though. "As long as we exist" seemed pretty straightforward, and what I knew about them didn't leave me believing that they'd just pull the plug like this.

I've updated their Wikipedia page with a short section that I believe summarizes the situation accurately and factually, without letting my emotions creep in too much - if anyone cares to edit it, have at it. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joyent

Joyent, I'm disappointed. You had a few memorable tech disasters, but never before did I personally experience ill will from you. I had begun to trust you guys.