skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every place full of ambitious people is full of liars, but I've lived in several such places and overall the ratio of lying to ambition here is lower than anywhere else I've found. There are a lot more posers in New York and LA and Cambridge than there are in SV.
I think drone strikes are pretty fucking objectionable. Showing them on a map? Not so much.
For anyone wondering, that's about 135 jpgs at ~100KB on average.
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I went back and read the article you mentioned, and I still don't. I see a corporate credit card being used for travel expenses and incidentals. He even says in the "damning" email that she met a business associate of his.

I see an accusation, but I also see a business meeting and a corporate credit card being used.

I don't see theft, pathological lying and a mental disorder, but there very well could be dishonesty going on. Who knows, though. This is why we have courts of law.
no worries at all, just wanted to give feedback :)
Do you mean a small language such as C? Because I disagree completely.

Whenever I use C, I always seem to find myself wishing for C++'s string class, the STL containers and exception handling... There are libraries for C to get containers and things but C interfaces tend to be uglier (in my opinion) and it's annoying to have to use a lot of 3rd party stuff to get things that come with C++.

Just because C++ has a ton of other features (many of which are pretty easy to use incorrectly if you don't know how) doesn't mean you have to use all of them.
The more I look at what is happening with technology the more I am likely to declare Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End a prophetic book.
Yes, exactly.

You could do all sorts of things. How do I wrap it up into one sentence without marketing speak?
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Which is ironic? is maybe the word? given how difficult it is for people from families in the bottom 50% on income earners to get into Stanford; that's something like 15% of the each incoming class. Admissions at Stanford is need-blind, but many important college admissions criteria are proxies for need.
I gathered that much, but that page could really use a diagram (or brief example code!) to show how the product works.

It's still not clear to me whether the Human.io users are tagging photos you send them or taking new photos or what.
This reads like a list written by any number of people in any number of workplaces where they have difficultly working well with others. Some people are pedantic. The way to sort these issues out is to sit people according to their sensitivity to these kinds of issues. Personally, if an office manager (or angry staffer) feels they need to post a list like this it is a sign of a dysfunctional workplace. Passive-aggressive nutjobs overflowing with seething resentment for everyone around them are the last thing you want in a healthy workplace. If you have a problem with someones behaviour, talk to them like an adult.

Honestly, I never partake in any of the listed behaviours but I don't get upset if someone else does. Some people are relaxed and laid back while others are not. You need to find your tribe or just accept that you don't really like to be around other people and move out on your own.
What inspired you to build this? It might help us understand it better.
This is hilarious and spot-on at once. After a few minutes of salivating over the data, I came to one thought: Whom amongst the normals I know would give the slightest fuck about this product? Plugged that query into W|A. Answer: Null set.
I’ve updated my articles to point out the need to update Bundler:

Installing Rails[1]

Rails on Heroku[2]

I’m looking forward to Tokaido from @wycats so I can cut the Installing Rails article down to one paragraph.

[1]http://railsapps.github.com/installing-rails.html

[2]http://railsapps.github.com/rails-heroku-tutorial.html
kernel: a central, essential part of something

paraphrasing the dictionary definition

the meaning is similar in both contexts you mention.

indeed if we asked someone who did not know what an "os kernel" was, they might think of the meaning they do know: e.g., the innermost part of a seed of a cereal or nut

and they might guess based on what they know.

have you ever heard the phrase "the computer program has become non-responsive"

e.g. a graphical web browser such as Firefox

Mozilla developers are not committing "crimes against nature". But nonetheless they do create some annoyances that millions of people have to endure. That's not the developers' problem, it's the users' problem. Some might search for solutions to the annoyances. Such solutions could be quite valuable to users. They might read things that are meant for "web developers" because that is where the annoyances come from. They are created by web developers.
Sorry I read it again (the first time I was reading it on my phone) and I thought we were discussing about Meyers singleton:

Singleton & theSingleton() {
static Singleton instance;
return instance;
}

Which in the proper context is perfectly fine.

This is wrong:

class myclass {
// can have state
// ...
public static myclass m = new myclass(); // globally accessible static instance, which can have state
}

and the first link itself explain why.
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With all due respect to Hillel, not everyone is bothered or hindered by the same things. Some people can focus with loud ambient noises (von Neumann) and some people can't (me).
I tried using it on Windows Chrome 23, but not going well. I get into creating screens, but can't for the life of me figure out how I can start drawing those screens. I seemingly can only edit the name of the screen or delete it.

Also, the page is too wide for my 1366x768. See http://imgur.com/kzIqN
I made this to get into php and mysql. Constructive Criticism, and suggestions are welcome and appreciated :).
I wouldn't say it forces people, just heavily compels people.
Mechanical Turk + Twilio + Phones.

We built it first. Now we're figuring out what it can do, exactly :)
Where'd you get that pretty header for the photo hunt page?
Love it. I cancelled my Directv subscription last month for Hulu + Netflix. Haven't looked back. I'd like to see ShowTime go in this direction for US customers.
Yeah, I came to write something similar. With a 34% discount, then a >50% commission he's selling for 1/3 of his usual price, and like Patrick says, this is further reduced by support costs from, well, cheap customers. It is like Groupon, but most Groupon successes make money from full priced add-ons, and I don't see that here.

A $100+ CPA is also a great way to think about it. I think you could get some decent affiliate traffic (which is what this is, really) for half that.

Side note: I visited App Sumo's site as a non member and there's nothing to tell me what the site is, or why I should sign up, other than it's a "store for entrepreneurs." Presumably they expect you to Google what it is, or perhaps more likely, arrive having already been explained elsewhere what it is and decided you want in. But it seems strange they wouldn't want more control over the message. I'm assuming this works for them, but I'm not sure why.
"100% of our production system is now running Go"
well, i can't argue with that.
Wasn't this made by one of the founders of Twitter? I heard the idea a year or 2 ago and was wondering what was taking so long.
> Maybe. Or perhaps the communication and people skills of the generation that came before them were somewhat lacking.

Or perhaps we valued substance and were not so easily misled by style.

Meanwhile, the bubbles have given inordinate voice to the inexperienced and those lacking substance.
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> arrrg obviously has an ax to grind about Apple in general or just has some irrational, intense hatred for retina screens.

That must be why he bought one.
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Basically every framework has a development mode that gives very descriptive error messages, and you're always supposed to disable it in production.
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> You presented no evidence that Google intends to close off Android source.

You are right, but the statement was meant to be more of a what-if situation and not a it is. Either-ways we all can agree that based on the past events that it is not in Google's priority list to keep the open-source community updated:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/googles-decision-to-de...

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/164153/how-google-can-del...

>and Android doesn't force users to create or use a Google account.

If so, could you tell me how I could use an android phone without setting up a Google account? The first screen to hit you when you switch on a brand new android phone is the Google Login/Signup screen.
For the same reason we don't use MonoTouch on client projects; it would creat a maintenance and hiring nightmare for our clients. You jumped on RubyMotion out of laziness or inability to learn something new.
Every comment you have made on this page has been in reply to someone's criticism of the App store's horrid policy.

Every riposte you have given has been that Apple have the right to choose their policy.

Yes, Apple may have a right to have a horrid policy.
But that doesn't make the policy any less horrid.

The horridness of the policy is the whole point. You have therefore missed the point every time, with every answer.
IMHO, if you wouldn't know what to say to a CEO if you got them on the phone, then I'm not sure you should be reaching out to them through Soundcloud...
This is really cool, and I'll definitely be checking it out, but "If Twitter is HTML, then Human.io is CGI." has to be the worst pitch line ever.
I'm going to guess it's because Ubuntu was called "unix" (which actually raised my eyebrow as well). Although similar, unix != linux, and Ubuntu especially != unix, as opposed to a distro like Slackware, which is more or less unix with a linux kernel slapped in.

I got what the author meant though, and it's not that big a deal.
It's a great idea and I hope the term "publishers" isn't limited to businesses. I always wanted a little service like this I could ask questions to: "I parked my car at the corner of Housten and Orchard, can someone confirm I don't have any tickets." "I heard XYZ closed down, can someone tell me if they're still in business."

But in my opinion:

>> It allows you to script with humans as easily as you would script with software.

Is a disgusting phrase.
I agree, I'm unsure of what the hook is for someone to download the mobile app and use it. Perhaps it would make sense if human.io came as a framework developers could import in their existing apps?

With this, they could potentially send out notifications to just their audience when participation would be useful. Completing tasks could also be a micropayment allowing the developer to give the user some sort of reward (like unlocking bonus features).
Looks like they still aren't able to get the old digg and comment information out. The returned JSON had stories I had submitted going back to 2006 but nothing else. Good on the new owners for at least giving this a shot though and letting people get something out.
I love pud's example. Come up with 2-3 more scenarios like those and put them on the home page.

Edit to add: "a Mechanical Turk for tasks not easily done at a computer" isn't a bad description either.
Not bad, the friend network clustering was pretty good (clustered using mutual friends). You can clearly see clusters of people from each place I've worked, the neighborhood I live in, my school friends etc. each in almost their own cluster (and when they aren't neatly organized, there's a very good reason why, like people who moved between jobs with me...aggregating both clusters together).

Strangely, it gets my place of residence wrong.
The only thing is that is not always easy to maintain an unique g_current_context across all your classes, specially if you have cross references between your headers. In those cases it is handy to have Sing::I().something() instead of local_pointer_to_context->something(), where you have to maintain several instances of the same context.

Again, singleton are known to do not be thread-safe so I am just talking about single thread apps (which still exists)
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You should know what you want to say, but some people don't feel comfortable speaking on the phone. If you're going to mumble or ramble on the phone you're probably better off keeping it short and clear in an email.
In theory the display signal would need 12.8 Gbps leaving 7.2 Gbps for PCIe traffic, so it's not obviously impossible. It's not clear whether Thunderbolt controllers can mux and demux over 10 Gbps worth of DP though.
The most successful people I know are straight shooters who tell it like it is. Even the mild bullshitters I know are struggling to make anything happen.

VCs will not hand over tens of millions of dollars to someone they know is a liar or habitual exaggerator. Sure, they don't always find out in time. But I really haven't seen that strategy work out.

There is no benefit to telling a good story unless you actually have a good story.
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DDT, while banned in the U.S., is still used--extensively I believe--in other nations to combat malaria.
"Each instance (Heroku calls them dynos), has:

512MB of RAM, 1GB of swap. Total = 1.5GB RAM.
4 CPU cores (Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz)."

That is very interesting. So you get 200% of the CPU from a c1.medium but only 1/6 that memory? For 1/8 the price that Amazon charges? Maybe this is a the new math I keep hearing about.
Ignoring the defect screen, I love everything about the machine. I think it’s pretty plainly the best laptop on the planet right now (at least for me personally). I would much rather Apple fix this than having to give back my MBPr. But I can't accept a defect screen. It's quite simple.
"I don't actually know any html, just how to click 'view source' in Chrome"

That's a bit strange for someone that visits hacker news!
"Script with humans" made me shiver a bit. Evocative copy to be sure, but perhaps a bit too Orwellian.
I don't know about that.

I believe a big part of "Retina" working is the simple, flowing, suggestive name.

Sony achieved this with "Walkman".

Motorola got it with "RAZR".

Samsung is right there with "Note", and "Galaxy" would be a great qualifier but has become a bit diluted by being stamped on everything. (In my opinion, Galaxy should have been transitioned to the ultimate qualifier to let people know that it's a premier, high-end product.)

Stuff like "Super AMOLED Plus" and your "Windows ThinkDensity MotoDisplay Technology 8" there is madness.
There are inexpensive VPNs you can use. Kind of perverse to watch a local team through a non-local proxy, but oh well.
I've got a perfectly good retina screen, and I looked at all the screens in my local apple store, and they are all good.

Thus all Retina screens are fine, and any defects must be a minor problem.

Alternatively I could realise that my local store make up a tiny % of the global market and I can't make generalisations without a more substantial sample.

I get you aren't happy you got a bad screen. But the sky isn't falling.
Once it's recognized that a person thought that way, why would any rational person believe what they had to say?
Good idea.

Everything is generated by the client. The tasks, the photos, the voting, are all happening in the human.io client. The rest is just driven around by the script. They write to a database, and the web page is just pulling from that database.

This would be easier for you to see if you installed the human.io client.
Microsoft actually did put a lot of high-DPI work into Vista, but PC makers and app developers completely ignored it. An advantage of Apple's vertically-integrated model, I guess.
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it would be nice if they played up the option to import your data into pinboard or kippt, I almost didn't notice the links.

edit: nevermind, after you request the archive they have a much bigger page with more info: http://i.imgur.com/M7xIy.png
There's a big difference between saying something with a positive spin (vanity metrics, unfounded optimism, etc.) and photoshopping a fake picture of yourself with celebrities.

Most of your examples of lying are just about interpreting things differently. To an entrepreneur, their company is heading in the right direction because the signups are consistently going up. Sure, they haven't figured out how to keep those people engaged yet, but building a successful company takes time. There's not a blurry gray area between focusing on the positives and completely making something up that's provably false.

Yes, there are plenty of liars out there, but I don't think most of the behavior you're describing in your post fits that description.
The color of the large top banner is killing my eyes but otherwise it seems to work as intended. Did you seed the stories yourself or did you get some actual users to write them?
I'm not in love with it. It's hard to come up with a good line.

Hit me with some better ideas?
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JavaScript, and most contemporary languages for that matter, would be pretty poor choices for such a use case. In particular, the concern here is the need for a language that is commands first and expressions second. It's an analogous situation to template languages. Consider Ruby's erb, for example. It's like you took Ruby, made String interpolation the default, and provided an escape hatch to get to full Ruby, not just the limited interpolation subset.

It's kinda sad that the world seems to have forgotten Tcl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl

In the case of tcl, you invert C functions (or another language with C-style calling conventions) to be callable by default as commands. You then have the [expr ...] escape hatch to toggle back to the non-default programing mode, that gives you expressions, arithmetic, and other general purpose programming language features.

I'd really love to see a Tcl++ type thing. It would be super cool if applications could easily drop a console, like this one from Mozilla, into their app. Bonus points if it comes complete with a help system, UI, completion, etc.!
This is exactly correct. We expect publishers to talk about the task to be done and the motivation for doing so as the primary thing (and the fact that it happens to run on the human.io client or in a browser or whatever as secondary.)
Looks like it only has 2010+ data. It didn't give me anything older then that. :(

Edit: I take that back... submits go back further, and I see a lot of submits in my export that aren't mine.
Yeah. I hope this is a good thing.
You're too late to effectively communicate in a 1-on-1. You've got to begin the relationship with trust and respect the time to share grievances, successes, etc. Consider it a lesson learned for your next employment.
Trigger.io has been a great platform, counting reliability, ease of use and support. We're having no platform related issues with a forge/backbone/requirejs approach to our app.
I highly suggest a look if you're currently using something like Sencha Touch/PhoneGap.
What you seem to propose as an alternative to monarchy is not democracy, but anarchy. No rules sounds great in principle...

Even Linux has King Linus. And Android has King Page, Queen Rubin and a host of Lords (Verizon, AT&T, Samsung, etc). Don't kid yourself.

Furthermore, we're talking about a product, a phone, not national governments or the sovereignty of citizens over them. Poor strawman.
It's killing your eyes because it's too damn ugly or because it's too bright?
The stories are all from actual users. Family, friends, friends of friends, etc.
Publishers -> someone who publishes tasks or has an audience of some sort. Not necessarily businesses.

Hmm. It allows you to get people to do a sequence of actions (provided the right motivation.) What would express it better?
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I also save significant time and money using Heroku and it's awesome being able to scale up and down automatically using HireFireApp. Most of this article rings true with my experience however some of it doesn't feel that valid for me having a high volume NodeJS app, not to mention the entire "Let's talk about bad ideas" section is just lame.

1) If your app crashes it takes ages to restart dynos "automatically", there's nothing at all instant about it and if it's a bug and you have a high volume of requests it's going to hit every dyno which means you are offline.

2) Performance can be variable and it can be hard to be sure an optimization has done anything. This will be easier when New Relic supports NodeJS but right now you're stuck using less elegant solutions. It is shared hosting and it's not necessarily anybody's fault if something is slow, and I know this because the same requests frequently have orders of magnitude difference in response time for me.

dyno=web.10 queue=0 wait=0ms service=3ms status=200 bytes=25
dyno=web.7 queue=0 wait=0ms service=207ms status=200 bytes=28

Between Heroku and NodeJS I run my API server usually on just 8 dynos doing 6,000 - 10,000 requests per second and having come from C# and dedicated Windows servers it is a dream - nothing to maintain and easy deployment and easy debugging on Heroku's side, and NodeJS is just amazing once you start realizing what's possible with it.
I'm wondering the same thing. From what I see described it's the same kind of thing that some very early LCD screens had 10-15 years ago, and might even be tolerable if you use something like LCDScrub[1] to fight it regularly. Xscreensaver has a work-alike in it's set also that i've used before on some very old screens that had problems.

[1] http://toastycode.com/lcdscrub/
I have this issue on an iPad 1. It's not just 'retina' displays.

It doesn't bother me though.
Totally happy to try something else. Any ideas?
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Yeah, clicking that worked way smoother than me scrolling down myself.
I think it's CSS?
And then here is Steve Blank, beloved by so many here, asking everyone not to lie: http://steveblank.com/2012/07/30/lying-on-your-resume/ while companies are allowed to lie.
Some people may be defending the Platonic ideal of Heroku (multi-AZ, NewSQL, etc.) rather than Heroku as it stands today.
Spot on. Those who see a startup as the purpose of doing one are soon going to find out how hard this stuff is. Even being a freelancer is pretty tough. Its not all nice and easy. Takes a lot of work and commitment to be able to pull anything off. Thats why everytime somebody wants me to be their co-founder I tell them I already have enough of those. What I'm looking for is work of the paid variety. Something that most of these dreamers lack. :)

Off topic:

Chuck, I'm still waiting for that datacenter in my pocket idea to launch. ;)
Very true. The salesman's only saving grace is that no human being is rational.
With self driving cars, why would you own one? Why bother making a capital investment and paying to park a rarely used vehicle when Übercab could provide rides everywhere at much lower cost with much greater availability?
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