skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one am shocked that someone lied and then someone else had the gall to correct the lies.

Also, as one of the people who were on the Zaarly crawl, she literally emailed our all@ account and then we said, sure that sounds cool, come on by. Hypothesizing that she must have been a good marketing person because she got people interested in something that would be beneficial to them and then hypothesizing that Techcrunch is unfair and ruined her career makes me feel like you're REALLY letting your biases get in the way here.
Everything under the sun supports UMS, that OSX does is nothing special. That is not what his device was using though.
Not true[1], and despite the current, small uptick in numbers, I suspect that union membership will continue to fall due to the rise right to work laws around the US[2].

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

[2] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/what-are-right-t...
If that was the only problem though we would have expected FreeBSD to overtake the desktop. the larger issue, unfortunately is just that people are afraid to switch from Windows to anything other than Mac. Android is helping there, but it will take time.

Never underestimate the fear of the consumer that they will break stuff on a computer they are unfamiliar with. The fact that Windows is actually getting better may actually be a good thing regarding other possibilities of desktop software.
Increasingly not, though. The US has always lagged behind other Western countries in union membership, and although most countries have seen a decline, in the US it's been particularly severe. Perhaps worse, that decline has been much stronger in the private sector: the only places unions really have seen any even moderate victories in recent decades is either public workers or in artificial markets created by the State (such as California's homecare workers).

Culturally there's a big difference, too. While in Europe unions and corporations tolerate and even co-operate with each other (German companies have, I believe, half of their board members controlled by labor unions), in the USA they are very antagonistic.

Either because of that or causing that, most unions in the USA are effectively nominal with no real power.
I like LiveQuartz

http://www.rhapsoft.com/
You don't have to turn it off. Just Command click the application and click open the first time. It's automatically added to a whitelist.
While I don't condone the methods posted in this case study, I think that it goes to show that no-follow links do have value, that your on-page doesn't have to be perfect, and that the types of links that you claim don't work actually do.

http://serpfu.com/case-study-insurance/

Once again, let me clarify that I don't condone the type of link building here, but I don't think that you can argue that it doesn't work.
A little from column D (healthcare not tied to employment, sensible immigration policies), a little from column R (simplifying taxes, relaxing certain SEC regulations, corporate tax amnesty), and a little from column 'completely neglected' (patent reform, internet freedom).
I'd put money on most cleaners not having hobbies =) (Sorry couldn't help myself...I come from a family of very blue collar folks and it's a running joke that your hobby is sleep)

My main point is it's hard to break years of routine/habit. If someone has done the same thing for 20 years, I don't expect them to suddenly change. Even when change would bring greater happiness over the long-term, I'm not betting against the comfort of status quo.
Obvious hoax, would be nice if it could be paid in Samsung shares.
Firstly I think I should point out that, I have previously used manual blog commenting to rank for highly competitive keywords.

The strategy was extremely effective however, it isn’t any more and doing SEO this way isn’t a strategy your startup should adopt.

Google Penguin and to some extent Panda, were brought in to stop this kind of SEO and some of the changes they made have been very effective in stopping the effectiveness of this type of Grey-Hat SEO.

Similarly, your startup is probably on a new domain & with the changes to Google Penguin/Panda to ensure you aren’t sandboxed the first 500-1000 links you acquire are extremely important. By doing Grey Hat SEO – blog commenting, directories, article sites you are putting yourself at risk of getting your site placed in the sandbox.

After that you’re probably going to get a manual review and that is something you don’t want & if you don’t think Google Penguin is effective, then don’t but Google are going to keep making Penguin smarter & more aggressive about punishing sites that have built non-authentically earned links.

Additionally if you’re an E-Commerce startup a completely different SEO approach is needed & blog commenting is definitely not the way to do it (as is the case for any startup).
RES has had an IAmA sort mode for the last couple of versions which does that.
acidblue, your account has been hellbanned since 149 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3790146
I'm writing this from my laptop which is running Ubuntu as its desktop.

I don't really see how the Linux desktop is dead. I've been running the same OS on this same laptop since 2007. The only upgrade I've added is an SSD and an extra gig of memory. It's still pretty speedy and I've never had any problems.

I use a Macbook Pro with OS X at work because that's just what I was issued by default. I hate it. I hate the over-reliance on the mouse, on gestures, the abundant and tedious animations; I hate the crappy ecosystem of package repositories and how most of the packages are broken or completely mess with the system; I hate never being able to find where any of the configuration files are or where something is installed; I hate the plethora of ways you can start and stop services; the confusing GUI; the masochistic meta-key layout; the awful full-screen support; and the complete lack of customization options.

I've had much better experiences with the Linux desktop for 95% of the things I do.

Now before some OS X fan-person decides to point out how woefully misguided and ignorant I am, my point is that there are different folks out there who want different things from their desktop experience. Apple gets to decide top-down what that experience is all the way down to the hardware. I prefer a little more flexibility. I like being able to swap out my own battery or adding a new memory module when I need one. I like being able to switch from a GUI desktop to a tiled window manager. Some folks don't -- there are Linux distros that hide as much of that as possible. Either way there are plenty of options and I think that's a good thing. Competition breeds innovation and even though I don't particularly like Unity I am glad to see people trying new things.

The Linux desktop isn't dead. It may just smell funny. You may switch to OS X and wonder why anyone could possibly want anything else. I just gave you a bunch of answers.
If you have no basis upon which to decide what database to use, you go with the one with the most domain expertise floating around. This means you use the most popular one, or the one that your tech people have used before. Conceptualizers are the last people on the decision list here, sorry, and there's nothing wrong with ActiveRecord outside of academe.

tl;dr: Reflect upon your assumptions before making a decision more complicated than it might need to be.
He should send Ann to do an AMA on ColbertNation and only questions regarding Rafalca and dressage should get answered. Would make some entertaining reverse trolling.
See http://www.thedominoproject.com/2012/07/voting-for-a-winner....
> If you can get replaced by someone cheaper, then you weren't worth what you were getting.

Spoken as someone with specialist skills that are in sufficient demand and business critical enough.

> I will never hire union labor ever. I would close down a business before I submitted to the extortion of unions.

So in other words, clearly people need contracts - and some will need unions -, since you're making it very clear you have preconceived notions about employee behaviour based on external factors that have nothing to do with their job performance, and you're not the only one.

Unions were formed because people realized their negotiating positions were excessively weak compared to the employer-side who held all the cards. E.g. getting to the 8 hour working day, for example, took American unions many decades of struggle to achieve (and the rest of the world commemorated that struggle by making May 1st the international day for workers demonstrations in direct response to the Haymarket massacre)

> Contracts protect the employees that strive to do the minimal possible under the terms of the contract.

Contracts also protects great employees of employers that strive to do the minimal possible under the terms of the contract.

Somehow you seem to expect that employees should trust you implicitly.

> If you don't like a company, you're free to quit, but in closed-shop states, if you don't like the union, too bad, you have to be a member (or pay the dues) if you want to be employed in that field in your state.

So why are you making your arguments about unions in general when you then go on to describe features of unions in some locations that are by no means universal?

There's no doubt that there are unions that have managed to push things too far, but your argumentation is like saying all companies are bad because some companies have been abusive.
True those analogies are very hard to make, as evidenced by the media piracy debate and "you wouldn't download a car, would you?"

I think the majority of my vitriol comes because it's an asinine way to split up service based on what we're assuming is bandwidth concerns. If they want a tiered service, then put in a tiered rate structure. The "laptop" rate gets you 300kbps, the "mobile" gets you 100kbps. Simple.
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If you're on foodstamps then it's because you don't have the ability to work, right? Or are you saying you're healthy and able to work but you're on them?
How to be a “Smooth Criminal”
Great idea. I have a little Python wrapper around that, which also copies the password to your buffer (so you never actually see it), and password generation.

https://github.com/grahamking/kip
Only if there's one programmer for the job. If there are many equally skilled programmers applying and interviewing for the position, then the company absolutely has the power.

The programmer may have multiple job openings to choose from too, as well as (presumably) an existing job.
He might be using Arch or Gentoo, or another of the more "DIY" oriented distros. Last time I used Gentoo you still had to really go out of your way to install pulseaudio, though that was four years ago so I don't know if that has changed.
I think that's quite the slippery slope you just played out there. Per the logic you presented, all blog commenters who put in a url in their comment are Grey Hat SEOs? Come on now, that's a massive stretch.

Penguin and Panda were introduced to combat blatant spamming practices, both with link building and content based spamming. Manually commenting with thoughtful replies is just being a good community member, getting a link back to your root domain is a nice little token for your efforts, and I would love to see a single case study of someone employing the strategy outlined in my post (at the volume I suggest) getting slapped by Google.
I don't think that will help a whole lot... There are some uses for non-practicing entities (eg, groups of patent holders like the MPEG LA doesn't do anything but it'd be impossible for anyone to licence an H.264 decoder without them because you'd have to get licences for hundreds of individual patents from a whole lot of other companies instead).

We need to get to the source of the problem, which is that most software patents are either too vague or are for obvious things, and the term of protection is far too long.
You are taking it too literally, I was referring of course to his influence on making the teamsters one of the strongest unions in American history, not wishing for a carbon copy of Jimmy Hoffa.

Second, not to slide off topic, but it's hard to know how much of that was fact and how much of it was because of the many political enemies he made during his ascent.
Interesting: thanks for that perspective; to be clear, the reason I commented on this at all is because the title didn't make it clear why the security was interesting and the title was different from the title of the article (which is part of a massive debate about whether editorializing of titles should happen on HN; currently, the rules say you shouldn't do it, but personally I think it might be important in numerous occasions), but then the article itself didn't seem to indicate that the security was actually that key to the whole thing. (In particular, the one phrase "highly secure" that is used in the first sentence of the last paragraph seems like a frill to make the sentence sound more awesome: it didn't come after any motivation about how this is a key problem with other solutions, or that that is why the "enterprise" tag is on the idea.) Again: thanks!
>> His style of running a business as likely maximized his personal happiness, and possibly his employees.

Rather than the main focus being happiness, I think the main focus is:

Are you building something great?

And he believes maximizing happiness and job satisfaction is a core component of achieving something great.
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David knows what he is talking about, they use MongoDB in really high scale. Also, getting database level locking was like 90% of the work according to the CEO. Doing collection and finally document level locking should be somewhat trivial now. 10Gen just want's to take it slow, and make sure database level locking is working 100% correct before moving onto more granular locking.
Not sure what you refer to as not true - most professions in the U.S have a union. I didn't say most workers are a part of it.
TechCrunch is a bully
That would be great, wouldn't it? In practice, it turned out to be more like having a conversation with a bot: when someone asked a question that he could answer with a super-generic, achingly inoffensive rephrasing of one of his campaign messages, he did. And that's all he did.

I would be disappointed, but I wasn't expecting anything more.
How about using César Chávez as your example, then?
I've been thinking this extra-large format would be huge in some niches like design shops: a big slab of touchscreen you could pass around and run full on Pixelmator-type software on.

And then you find out it's a PC with a mechanical HDD and I get sad. Ship this in five lbs and an obscene battery life for $1000 and you're cooking with gas.
Something like $10B went to cash on hand for FB.
As for the "lack of a usable shell" part, have you looked at Powershell? It comes bundled with Windows, and has a lot of the features that are missing from the command prompt.

It does have some rough edges that may cause you to dismiss it as unusable, but it offers tab completion, colored text output, and a real scripting environment (not DOS batch scripting). Every serious Windows developer I've talked to nowadays uses it exclusively.
To us, a collective of tech savvy regulars of the Internet, yes. But to someone like my mom who has no idea there was backlash, not as much.
Yes, yes that' is it right there, Unity and Gnome 3 both are terrible compared to Gnome 2. I wish the Gnome 2 team would re-materialize and come out with Gnome 4, just Gnome 2 with a higher version number.
Theres a lot of things you can do in the API that you can't do in git. For example, pushes exist in the API, but don't really within git.
This mythical user must also be the bottom of the barrel. I don't think the Apple designers ever consulted me when they designed OS X. Who were they designing for? Everyone? How can they possibly conceive of what every user wants but me?

This "design," argument is a floppy, magical, hand-waving fish. I know what design is. I design software all the damn time. I am sensitive to interface and expectation. I want as little friction between my tool and the thing I am creating.

In that regard, as a software developer, OS X is a piss-poor experience. Using emacs on the thing is ripping years out of the cartilage in my fingers due to the masochistic meta-key layout that I've had to accustom myself to. It's terrible.

The eco-system of package management systems on OS X is infuriatingly shoddy. Between macports, homebrew, and fink -- none of them can seem to get it quite right. They have to compete with the user-land eco-system that Apple ships. Half the packages are broken. And I can never bloody well find any configuration files anywhere once it has installed something. It's ludicrous how much time I've wasted trying to figure out how in the seven hells you're supposed to get MySQL or Postgres to run on the damn thing (there are half a dozen ways at least by my reckoning and google's).

Their /design/ isn't the best design there is. They are designing for someone, but it surely isn't me. If you happen to fall into their mold then I'm sure you're as happy as a clam but don't think the entire world of people are just like you.
Also, the mouse is on the left side of the laptop -- and according to the almighty Wikipedia[1], Obama is left-handed -- so +1 for authenticity.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the...
The reason the press writes about funding rather than revenues is not some kind of conspiracy to focus on the wrong things, but simply because reporters know about funding rounds and not about revenues.

It's clear that the press would write about revenues if they could, because they write a lot about the revenues of public companies. They're able to do that because public companies have to disclose their revenues.

Private companies never publish their revenues. Including 37signals. So if Jason really believes this is a terrible problem and wants to set things on the right course, he should set an example and start publishing 37signals' revenue numbers.
As I said in my comment, I have previously used manual blog commenting techniques to rank for highly competitive terms. Regardless of it being manual or not, it is a Grey Hat SEO technique. The way the spammers do it via spinning comments & blasting them out is Black Hat SEO along with the likes of XSS injections, Xrumer etc.

My comment was mainly referring to the first 500-1000 links of a website & avoiding being sandboxed etc due to significant changes with Penguin & Panda.

If a startup wants to link back then they should only do it if they aren't putting the keyword they want to rank for as their "name" which receives the link. However, this is still a Grey Hat SEO technique & whilst the risk reduces after the first 500-1000 links, it is much greater in those first core set of links & can easily see a website sandboxed.
Wait, what? Could someone elaborate on S-O restricting developer control over production systems?
Noted, and updated the article :)

Not a big history buff myself, always interesting to learn new things
I like Paintbrush

http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

...what?
Because developers understand what they want and need from their own tools.

Now, they might have different wants, and disagree on how to meet their needs, and march off in 800 different directions, but ultimately with enough effort any one group is capable of meeting their own needs.

UI/UX that works well for "normal people" is something that most developers don't understand; they know the UI/UX that meets their needs, but developer needs are quite rarified and abnormal compared to the typical user.

Thus, when they respond to disagreement with a UI/UX engineer by marching off in 800 different directions to scratch their own itches, they end up with no solution that meets the "normal user"'s needs. There's no culture of shutting up and following orders for the greater good of the project.

tl;dr you can't solve the problems of someone different from yourself if the only thing you do is scratch your own itches.
If you're looking for a less complex model of this, you should try our Continuous Integration and deployment service: https://circleci.com. Over time, we'll be providing the sort of complexity that GitHub provides here, now we do about 70% of it.
> If you feel explaining "what" in the comments is bad practice, then it is the fault of the developer that wrote the "what" instead of the commenting.

Do you think misleading comments should stay in place then? I'm confused why this matters.
Can we amp up the creativity in naming these things? Coffeescript, Tabasco Sort, Sriracha UI, Bacon Reduce?!
I've been using GPG to password-protect files for a long time. It's so easy that I'm surprised more people don't use it.

(Non-security-researcher suggestion follows, take with a grain of salt): Note that the default encryption algo used with the -c option is usually CAST5. Though there haven't been any successful attacks against it yet, in today's world of the NSA storing communications indefinitely you might want to consider using AES256 instead of CAST5 to (semi) future-proof your encrypted files. You can do that by adding the following line to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:

personal-cipher-preferences aes256 3des

If I'm misguided in that suggestion please do let me know!
When will the changelog be updated?

https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/wiki/changelog
You can have both:

http://initializr.com
The mouse is on the left side of the laptop -- and according to the almighty Wikipedia[1], Obama is left-handed -- so +1 for authenticity.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the...
This is a guess, but I'm assuming they use the same software running in an independent environment just for them.
So contrary to the scenario lots of people were worrying about (or salivating over), equity crowdfunding will still be restricted to accredited investors. I think this is a good thing. It won't completely prevent scams, I'm sure, but will help limit the damage they could do.
And my experience is that people who say the same thing as you do are ignorant who have never used either Photoshop, The GIMP or have no business using either and should stay with something like Picasa.

For the record, The GIMP doesn't even have what we call "Non-Destructive editing" which allows to make a change to some of the filters and transformations you did on the image much later even when the image has been touched by other editions. It has been supported by Photoshop for way more than a decade, already. After all of this time, the Gimp still works like a toy and has zero productivity.

Zero. There is nothing productive about The GIMP. Anything you can do in The GIMP will be done faster with a competitor, Photoshop being the best in the category.

And before anyone comes to tell me that "THE GIMP IS FREE!!!11!ELEVEN!", Photoshop isn't expensive for a Photographer either, so price does not enter the game here. If you're a photographer with one or more DSLR bodies, lots of lenses, travel equipment and so on, spending some money on one measly Photoshop license is not going to kill you. The gain in productivity will more than make up for the money spent anyway, the Gimp truly is an awful tool compared to Photoshop. If you can't afford something like Photoshop it means that you can't afford being in that business in the first place.
So, can we please agree to never link to breitbart.com. The amount of hate and manufactured dissent on that site is overwhelming.
Make debugging Sass suck less
That's not true. People used to buy sheet music and that's what the industry looked like for a long time until radio and recorded music came along. A lot of the most famous composers started off by selling their compositions, so they could be resold as popular sheet music.
I won't believe this without a secondary source. A photo would be good too.
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