skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like them or not, these kinds of exaggerations and not-quite-lies are common in business for a good reason: if customers, partners, investors, and/or employees ever perceive a company as a failure, they will start leaving the company. Once a company starts losing customers, partners, investors, and/or top people, it can quickly find itself in a downward spiral that is extremely difficult to reverse.

When it comes to entrepreneurs specifically, more often than not the positive spin is just a sincere effort to generate momentum 'out of thin air' when facing the harsh realities and stomach-churning odds of entrepreneurship.

What that woman profiled in TechCrunch did, however, was very different: she crossed the line.
This is a great idea, but I had to read the blog post, read the home page, then re-read the blog post to fully grasp why I'd want to use it, and now I have a great idea for how to utilize it for something I'm building. There has to be a better way to get the idea across, but I'm not sure what it is. The "Some things you can do" part of the homepage was the most useful part for me. Emphasize that more?
> I will just declare the sales contract null and void if Apple continues to be unable to fix this issue. It’s quite simple and I have the right.

I'm not suggesting that what you say is not true, but I am interested in learning more about what rights you think you have in respect of this issue.

I'm from the UK, and our "Sale of Goods Act" states that goods must be:

- "as described",
- "of satisfactory quality", and
= "fit for purpose" (including any specific purpose that you agreed with the seller)

Of these three tests, the first second one would be sufficient reason to return a device with a faulty display.

Summary of UK law, for those who are interested:

http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/sale-of-goods/underst...
I've been kind of working on something like this too...

https://github.com/greggbowden/HyperTextComponents

It's still in it's infancy, so be gentle. ;)
More information here: http://joyent.com/migration/
It's not trashing Heroku specifically, it's actually a pretty good read and highlights real problems.
I do not want nor need a phone in my face guiding every aspect of my behavior.
It's heat related. It will only happen once the LCD gets warm.

So if you test it with a freshly booted up machine you won't see it.

If it bothers you severely, get a cheap USB fan and cool the screen. (Although that may be more annoying than the persistence......)
Sorry, you're right. Mobile safari is fine.

Embedded UIWebViews have the problems I mentioned. Probably not much you can do about that.
> worst argument in the world

thanks for the link. I'll read it later tonight.

> So pulling it back to the 'forcing' thing, this behavior erodes trust.

Yes, absolutely.

> And the best thing about it is you don't have to keep remembering what you said to be sure and not contradict yourself.

For me the most important part is maintaining self-respect. Not contradicting yourself doesn't hurt either.

What concerns me, though, is the seeming rampancy of this behavior. I wasn't in the industry for the aftermath of the first dot com bubble, so it's possible that this behavior will go away, and I just haven't seen it happen before. I'd be interested in your take on it, since your resume indicates you were in the middle of it.
That's what I meant by "possibly" for other reasons. I wasn't sure whether you were enjoying it because of that. Sorry for doubting you :)
Open Source’s Final Frontier: Interview with Alexandru Csete
The difference between analog and digital playback of drum sounds
> I'd take issue with psychology not being a science.

Yep. It depends on how you define "science". If science means having a central corpus of theory that defines the field, informs research in the field, and regulates practice, as is true for physics, biology and every other scientific field, then psychology isn't a science.

If instead "scientific" means white lab coats and clipboards, and endless papers that are never replicated and that contradict each other, then psychology is a science.

If "scientific" means ignoring a field's reduction to practice, so that theory never informs clinical practice and anything goes in clinics, then yes, psychology is a science.

> ... Models of mental illness (depression, autism, schizophrenia etc) ...

Interesting you should mention autism. There is no clear definition of autism, no known cause, no clear diagnostic criteria, and no treatment. But that doesn't mean that psychologists don't diagnose and treat it -- of course they do. They just don't have any science to back up their practice.

Occasionally, an entire autism-spectrum disorder is simply abandoned, as is happening right now with Asperger's Syndrome. The reason? Clinical psychologists got carried away and began diagnosing nearly everyone who showed any apparent symptoms.

It's the same with depression -- a recent meta-analysis discovered that depression drugs don't actually work for most patients, and all the "evidence" that supports depression medications was cooked by vested interests.

As to schizophrenia, it's not a mental illness, it's a physical illness with genetic roots, an ailment that manifests severe psychological symptoms. Psychologists are reduced to treating the symptoms.

In medicine, if a "doctor" doesn't pay attention to medical research and evidence-based practice, he isn't allowed to practice because he represents a threat to public safety. In psychology, this simply isn't true. Professional organizations have repeatedly ruled that certain therapeutic practices are unscientific and invalid, and clinicians simply ignore them (examples include Facilitated Communications and Recovered Memory Therapy).

Medicine became respectable by stopping all unscientific clinical practice, and now any "doctor" who fails to meet present evidentiary standards is breaking the law. Psychology has yet to begin this process, and clinical practice is out of control.

Psychology have two choices:

1. Make clinical psychologists adopt evidence-based practice.

2. Make clinical psychologists stop calling themselves "psychologists."

There is no third choice.

> There's too much to mention really, and its an extremely important and relevant field.

It is a field that you do not understand.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology
The persistence scaling story for Heroku seems pretty questionable to me. Once you've maxed out what they offer for MySQL and Postgres, what exactly are you supposed to do? Start using EC2 RDS?

Heroku seems to be like a more useful Google App Engine, a good place to host a blog or experimental project if you're not into dev-ops.

If you have a knack (at all) for dev-ops, you're not saving yourself anything.

The downtime is pretty bleh too. The moment you start doing multi-provider to offset this, you'll end up doing all the dev-ops work you would've had to have done before. Except now, you have to do it all at once in a time of what is probably high stress.

If you do the dev-ops/automation yourself from the start, you can start small/simple and grow that as you go, deploying your services to arbitrary hosting providers (EC2, Linode, dedicated boxes, whatever).

This is why whenever anybody asks me my opinion of Heroku, I respond, "it's a great place to host that blog engine you wrote in Haskell/Clojure/{hipster_language_of_choice}".
No problem, thanks for your interest!

Reloads will still be applied beyond the limit - you'll just get a nice email from us :). In the future we will charge an overage rate.

Reloads do not block the UI, by default the old version is used until the updating is done. We check and apply updates when the app gains or loses focus, but you can modify the update behavior using the Reload API:
http://current-docs.trigger.io/modules/reload.html#modules-r...
Ah, the good old "We try harder"; made famous by AVIS:

http://www.avis.com.cy/We_try_harder.html
Agreed. When I read

Walk around any conference that startup founders are attending and you are bound to hear countless stories of how well things are going.

I think, "Well, duh. You know, the truth might not be any of your business."
Get It While It’s Hot … And Human
Engine Yard and WNYRuby or The Little Ruby Group that Could
If someone takes a photo of a public street and they happen to see me in the frame and don't do anything with it that's one thing. This is more like they are following me down the street taking photos of me just to report anything even slightly suspicious that I might do at some point.
White lies are a necessary evil in business and in life. Would you tell someone with terminal illness that they look like shit and that there's no hope? It is a good thing, however, that YC has been turning back the dial on presenting vanity metrics + funding pitches at their demo days. At some unquantifiable threshold, white lies do become outright lies.
I get your point.

But at least us, as people who understand retina simply means "high enough PPI", should not argue about whether a particular display qualifies as retina or not. Because it is subjective to decide how much PPI is enough for each type of product and there is no actual numerical barrier that we can agree upon. It is meaningless to discuss whether Galaxy Nexus display (315 ppi) qualifies as retina. It is simply a 315-ppi display.
Yeah, you are right, alignas is still unsupported in many compilers. clang 3.2 supports it. However, unrestricted unions has been supported in many compilers for a long time now. I would use that in this case, since you already know the type 'T'.
I see this often in academia as well, and imo it really damages the scientific literature. When I read an article, I really want an honest assessment by the author of the strengths and weaknesses of their approach and others. I don't only want to hear about how great the author's approach is, but I also want to hear positive things said about the "related work", and negative things said in the Conclusions about their own work. But usually neither of those happens, because then your paper won't be accepted: you need to demolish the existing work and play up your own great contribution. I think it's what happens naturally in environments that are based more on competition than concern for accuracy.
Reminds me of that advertisement someone did on Pinterest, where you had to scroll down quickly as well.

edit: Uniqlo, that was it. not on their Pinterest anymore. Video for same effect - http://youtu.be/e5FM-VcE7UA
It's fairly standard practice to provide a list of backwards incompatible changes (along with instructions on how to mend your code) when making changes to an API or a framework.

Maybe these updates to the FB Graph API don't break anything? Would be good to hear from someone at FB about this.
Is it possible that AppSumo just shifted their customer focus from the HN/startup type to more of a general entry-level audience?

If that's the case, then the products they sell might not be so scammy... maybe they actually help real people solve real problems.
I must agree that I specified too short a time period before which the "ruling" class simply ruled and weren't strongly connected to professions and investment activities.

So thanks for posting.
7 different roads?
I have the MLB package. They still restrict the content to appease the cable companies, you can only watch the games that are outside of your market. Works well if you like an out of town team, but if you want to watch the local team it's worthless.
Try reverse!
If they'd meant startups I doubt they'd have said and subsequently clarified the meaning of "newcomer".
Same with my parents. They wouldn't pay for my college based on the belief that I could easily do it myself, after tuition growth had far outstripped general inflation for a couple decades.
Looks good, though it still looks like there is no way to sort results like FQL's ORDER BY command?
Anyone care to explain how this works? It can't just be an endless array of divs, can it?
It is entirely a function of fashion + money. I know that sounds stupid but it is.

The fashion part comes from what it means to be 'hip' which entirely driven by the flavor of the hour. We've talked about it on HN a bit but the best analog is that the coolness factor of 'doing a startup' got to be high enough that we got a huge influx of people who "want to do a startup" which is distinct and different from folks who "want to do X, this is the company I created to do that."

Too many people these days are doing startups like they used to do rock bands.

The second part is money. When rich people do it, especially people who were "like you" before but are now "rich" it creates a sense in folks that don't know any better that it is easy, or that anyone can do it. It is what causes people to move to LA from Nebraska to make it big in the movies.

So no, it is not a new phenomena. And the proportion of the bullshit to actual content is proportional to the fashion + money aspect. In 2000-2001 after the dot com bust was settling, none of the cool kids wanted to be startup people any more, so the people you ran into who were doing startups were more likely to be doing it because they believed in what they were doing. Now with Facebook and Google and the newly minting of a bunch of fresh twenty-something millionaires (or billionaires in some cases) the folks that mercifully left have unfortunately returned.
Lazarus 1.0 Free Pascal IDE released 
Lazarus - it's a Delphi-like IDE for the Free Pascal Compiler and has widget sets for win32/64 GTK2, Qt, and others
Startup lessons from Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann
Start of ecommerce
> isn't an employee supposed to take direction from a manager?

Well, yes. But the relationship should also benefit the employee.

I'm not a great fan of managers in general, but I do recognise that they can play an important role in shielding you from a lot of the political nonsense that can float around in a large organisations.

On top of this they also have a role to play in providing HR guidance, pastoral support, and also as someone to bounce ideas off - I sometimes use my manager as my rubber duck [1]

However, if your relationship with your manager is all one way then there's almost certainly something wrong there. The best managers (IMHO) clear the path to allow their staff to achieve what needs to be done, rather that micromanaging and cracking the whip.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Try a menacing Post-It next time.
Maybe this'll help? http://photohunt.human.io/
No real surprise, the 2 map data giants are Nokia(Navteq) and TomTom(TeleAtlas). Even google maps uses teleatlas data outside of the USA. Apple went with TeleAtlas, Microsoft are with Navteq.
The cable carriers outbid you for access. If that was "wrong", they should naturally go out of business, right? Otherwise, what you're asking for is an artificial discount for being a cool Internet person.

I take your point about TW Dallas, but feel like that's going to resolve itself soon as HBO GO generates more demand.

I don't want to stick up for cable companies (they are terribly annoying to deal with) but at the same time, if everything cost what HN readers thought it should cost, they'd have to have filmed The Sopranos entirely using finger puppets.

I think the market is going to sort this out within the next 5 years as more and more serious, big-budget productions are going to be shot and produced for Internet venues. In the meantime, I have a hard time arguing that existing media companies should be forced to forgo market rates for their investments. We're only going to get our glorious Internet media future if the market works.
Microsoft's version of Retina is called ClearType Full HD Display. Non retina is called ClearType HD Display.
Wow. That was more than I hoped for. I especially appreciated the closing paragraph. Thanks for taking the time to write it and to point it out here.

However, one of the points you made as an argument against authenticated encryption modes is actually a point for it, unless I'm not getting something. The point I'm referring to is that people write bad code and that every line of code includes a potential security vulnerability. Every time someone uses CTR+MAC, they're writing code to glue those together, and there are opportunities for missteps. Furthermore, that code that is viewed by a small number of people. By using an authenitcated encrytion mode, one can reduce the lines of code you're writing because it the functionality is provided by the implementation, which will certainly have been looked at more times than one's own project.

[Edit]

Maybe this is what I was missing: "Encrypt-then-MAC is essentially impossible to get cryptologically wrong."
It seems to be Mechanical Turk for mobile users.
So would you agree that Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper is insufficient, and that Apple should lock down Macs in the same way? If not, what's the difference?

It's true that Apple's is a bit draconian, but that's because they care about protecting their users.

I hear the TSA's marketing department is hiring.
>> "Retina" displays at sizes larger than 4"
It was a combination of FUD and objective falsehood. You presented no evidence that Google intends to close off Android source, and Android doesn't force users to create or use a Google account.
Xerox Printer Software Update for OS X
A easy way to buy a pass in participating areas to cut the line
My own CTF Writeup
"When the book was written, six years after YC was founded, only one group of co-founders out of more than 300 funded were entirely female."

That's pretty surprising. I knew the numbers for women in tech were bad, but dang. I wonder what the percentages are for applicants and interviews?
>It was "Don't point out your own short comings"

actually... Once you have credibility with the person you are selling to? pointing out your own weaknesses, I think, builds a lot of trust.
India was a socialist country from independence, so that expectation has been there already for generations. I agree the best thing to do is phase out the benefits when you can. The trick is actually doing it.
I have no idea if I'm this honest, because I've never been tested this way, but I will say this: I want to spend my career working with people like you. o.O
I hate to see 1-on-1's get abused because they really are a valuable tool.

A 1-on-1 is a designated time for an employee to direct an entire conversation with their manager. They can choose to talk about interests, grievances, concerns, ideas, hobbies, problems, successes or NOTHING AT ALL. This is for a manager to sit back and absorb, to give answers when asked. That's it.

A good manager will take 1-on-1s as a way to make sure their employees are happy, healthy and not at risk of leaving the company. This isn't a bi-weekly-performance-review.
That's just how language works.

My anecdotal evidence dates back to Netscape, so 1995. Shortly thereafter, the Valley was deluged by people with limited knowledge of financial markets who might have been reaching for the faux sophistication you describe, but this was before all that (and long before SOX). Bankers still usually got it right back then, but they didn't do most of the talking.

Anyway, I'm all for pedantry. I do take issue with your assertion that inappropriately verbing the acronym will hold younger entrepreneurs back in some way. I do not believe it.

It seems to me that you might have some special reverence for the term. Fair enough. Surely you've seen this happen before though, to lesser words?
It timed out on me too, then I just hit the "Submit-button" again and all the data appeared
+1. I've spent 5x the amount of time trying to understand this than I would for anyone else-- because I think Joshua is brilliant. But I'm still flummoxed. Is it like mechanical turk? Tasty Labs could really benefit from a designer, methinks. Not just to make it pretty, but to empathize with/advocate for their audience.
Fragmentation? For three fields input?

Put down the koolaide and use your brain.
> The persistence scaling story for Heroku seems pretty questionable to me.

Agree. Those people who tell horror stories about Heroku/EC2, usually give solid numbers, i.e. this was how much I spent, this is how much I save by moving away, and our response time is now X% faster.

On the other hand, we have article like this that shows pretty graph for a web app serving 16.2 requests per minute, and make bold claims that everything will scale.
This might help:
http://www2.nissan.co.jp/SP/NOTE/SPECIAL/SHARED/IMG/FRAMES/0...
I've become fascinated with tracking my own lifestyle data to see where bad habits lie and where I can make room for good ones. This looks like it will pair well with http://evr.st, whenever it launches. Lift for forming habits, and Everest for guiding you to accomplish that One Big Thing.
Human.io helps you embed photos into a long web page?

(I know that's not what it does. But just illustrating my point. Don't make me, the user, figure it out. Just tell me.)
So first you say these display got "horrible image persistence problems" and then you say "you wouldn't notice it just like that". So can't be that big of a problem? I have one with a LG panel, and the only time I noticed some ghosting is when someone on the internet told me to turn my screen completely gray - otherwise I wouldn't even know about it.
viewing the source seems to indicate that it is, in fact, just an endless array of divs.

(disclaimer: I don't actually know any html, just how to click 'view source' in Chrome)
> When it comes to entrepreneurs specifically, more often than not these white lies are nothing more than a sincere effort to generate positive momentum 'out of thin air' when facing the harsh realities of entrepreneurship.

Which is why talk is cheap. Anyone can bullshit, startup founder or no.
> Lying about who you're friends with? Every high schooler in existence.

Who would a high schooler lie about being friends with? Was I really that lame that I don't recall ever doing that?
If you had a human driven car, would a malfunction in the car causing a crash be your fault? [1] I can see that if you hadn't updated the firmware of the car then maybe it could be claimed that you had not performed adequate maintenance?

[1]: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236020/Horror-ride-...
>16.2 requests per minute

Was it written in TCL? ;)
heretotroll: Heroku provides plenty of tunable capacity.
Mysql pool connection package for node.js
Yeah, aid to Africa has proven to be just that. Sub-Saharan Africa has been booming in the last decade at least in part because NGOs have lost interest.
I would say it's more like this: a mouse is good for letting a user access features whose parameters they do not know off the top of their head. It allows the UI to act as a feedback loop between the human and the computer so that the human can incrementally guide the computer to do what they want. A command line is more effective when the user knows exactly what they want done and can recall immediately how to do it.

"Not knowing the parameters" can come in two main forms. The first is when the user simply may not have used the feature enough to be able to instantly recall all of the parameters needed and how they should be set. For example, a print dialog displays three or four commonly tweaked parameters to a user, and gives easy access to as many as several dozen more advanced parameters. This is far more useful than a CLI would be, except perhaps to a very small minority of users.

The other form is when you may know what the parameters are, but need feedback to choose them correctly. For example, resizing a window is well-suited to a mouse. Obviously you know that the four parameters are the height and width of the window, but few people can glance at their screen and say "Oh, I need this window to be 348 pixels wide now".
> Heroku seems to be like a more useful Google App Engine, a good place to host a blog or experimental project if you're not into dev-ops.

Considering Heroku is single-homed, I find it hilarious that you say it's less of a toy than GAE.