skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was about 12 I remember doing some school craft competition where we had to make and then sell our wares to our teachers. A teacher said something to me that's always stuck, but I always struggle with following.

It was "Don't point out your own short comings"

I was saying things like 'in the final run the paint job will be better', highlighting the deficiencies of our Xmas decorations instead of highlighting the positives.

If you've ever met a good sales person working for your company, they're almost blind to the deficiencies in your products. It's not that they're deceiving you, it's that their internal reality is that that they see the positives, that's all they talk about. That's the product they're selling. If you try and say 'well this bit isn't great', they give you a confused look.

As soon as the 'negatives' click, their sales plummet. It's a built in defence mechanism to add confidence and to be honest it's up to the client to see the deficiencies, not the sales person.

That's kind of like a start up founder is, they've got to focus on the positives just to keep going. To stay working the hours, to keep their team going. To keep believing it will work out in the end. Having been part of a failed startup, I think the time for honest reflection and learning is afterwards.

But saying you've met x and y and z, worked for a company you haven't and photoshopping yourself in photos?

That's not the same thing at all.

That's just fraud.

Let's not conflate the two as this article has.
Wow, the coolest part (in my opinion) is the Friend Network section at the bottom. It accurately mapped and clustered every section of my life, including my first high school, the high school I moved to after that, my college, my family, various work groups and social groups, etc. Very interesting to see visually.
So the answer to my question is "nobody", then? Apple in fact hasn't sued startups using their patent portfolio?

I'm willing to be wrong but not willing to accept the idea that Apple is oppressing startups with their patent arsenal without at least one actual fact to back it up.
It's obviously a problem. The question is whether you're overestimating the chance of a single person receiving a defective unit, a defective replacement, and seeing defective units at an Apple store. Considering how many people go to Apple stores and buy the computers, even an extremely low defect rate could explain your experience.
Look, it’s unlikely that this has anything to do with a bad batch. People are still getting defect machines all the time, the week in which they were built don’t seem to play a role.

It’s a massive fucking problem.
I think this is one of those cases that's akin to the famous quote by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when he said "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it."

I think a lot of people are sick of the crap written on TechCrunch for reasons that are hard to define. Mostly they have turned the innovative process into a form of TMZ, which glamorizes a field that is meant to build things to make lives better. Very few articles have anything to do with companies building these types of innovations, and profits have nothing to do with it. A response might be, well Scientific American writes those stories. Yes, and that's precisely why Scientific American is a respected publication oft-cited by Steve Jobs.

Too many stories on TechCrunch are titled something like "[Insert clever startup name] raises [insert some absurd amount of money] to become the [Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Birchbox] for [Work, Finding a cab, Healthfood]. These stories are ridiculous and cover mostly crap ideas that don't solve any real problems.
I think the answer is probably "as soon as people stop giving money to cable cos for HBO".
How does that save over $30? At most, it saves about $6 with the Brazilian currency. The upgrade price is $50.
Oh, man. That old bullshit again. Beyond a certain point that just doesn’t work. If you think about it. Also seeing how my experience is shared with many other people who also received defect units and saw several defect units in different Apple Stores.

The employees in the Apple Store know about the issue even before I arrived, the Apple Care guy I talked to knew about the issue before I brought it up (there is just no word yet from higher up) … this is very likely a big fucking deal. Antennagate shit, only this time with an actual defect.
At least it was updated to work with FF 13+.

Version 0.6.2
Released July 19, 2012 1.0 MB
Works with Firefox 13.0 and later
I've just returned from a three-week vacation, and one thing that strikes me as I re-enter our little world of tech is how much of the attention and focus of our incredibly rich and fortunate community is spent on bitterness and negativity. I'm not claiming any kind of superiority (I've engaged in my share of negativity), it's just an observation, and I want to see if I can avoid it in the future while still participating in the extreme mental stimulation that drew me to tech in the first place.
It seems disingenuous to compare what "Shirls" did with many of the points made in the article.

"We're doing well, our investors are happy!" is saving face (or, perhaps they want to believe it so badly that they do).

What she did is the equivalent of falsely saying "We have an investment from Andreessen Horowitz -- see, here's a copy of our term sheet!" and then using the person's credit card to buy yourself a plane ticket.

Everybody lies a bit to themselves feel better when things are going badly. Congressmen leave to spend time with their family, breakups are always "mutual", etc. This is completely different than the TC article.
BMW designer says Apple made white the most popular color for car buyers
Ah, right - I guess I'm just so skeptical of the claims that didn't think of it. I expect self-driving cars to be driving like a cautious human driver for at least 5 years. If we get to the point where they're in fact driving closer together, then there is indeed an argument for letting them in the HOV lanes.
Good god that's a serious nay. Do that in your own home not at the office (unless you have a private office where I can't see it). Personal hygiene should be taken care of before coming to work.
I was actually pretty disappointed with the two courses I tried. The prerequisite knowledge is very inaccurately described, so I got my first weeks material for both courses and really had no idea what was going on. I wouldn't have wasted my time with it had I known.
Windows 8, Users 0?
... except heroku doesn't do multi-region, which is where things start getting tricky. They make the easy immediate, but haven't really tackled the hard (yet.)
This was the first time I have ever seen a loading bar go down both percentage and visually. Why on earth would they do that?
We were concerned with keeping our platform affordable when we launched our pricing: we added the $19 / month tier specifically for indie developers.

We grandfather plans so if you sign-up now you've locked in that pricing, which most people think is fantastic value relative to the time they will spend developing and iterating their app :)

Reload is a unique feature not available on other mobile platforms, but it is perfectly possibly to launch an app with us without ever using it or upgrading higher than the $19 / month tier.
The author may have a point in general, but using Holstein is sounding more and more like the wrong example to stand behind.

One of the comments in the blog post points to a very in-depth betabeat article that says that Holstein was involved with much more than just name dropping... she has been accused of credit card fraud and ripping off people around her. If the allegations are true, it might be that she is a criminal and a pathological liar with likely mental issues.

http://betabeat.com/2012/08/shirley-hornstein-shirls-credit-...
I think part of the hacker ethic is not being afraid to point out when you think something's wrong, because it's how communities (and software projects) improve. You may take this post as negativity, but I think it's intended to start a discussion about how things can improve, which is a positive thing.
I wasn't aiming to trash Heroku specifically, but the post by Randall is very uninformed.
When I tried using the app, for some a reason a car came by and picked me up.
I wonder if they will address how this affects the current Graph API usage. It would be nice to know if I need to update my apps or not.
Yep. I'm on my 2nd display with that problem. The thing is, when I replaced the first one in store, I (along with my father and the Apple employee) scrutinized the screen to see if it had image persistence. It did not. It does now, which indicates that the problem developed over time. Both screens have been LG -- I think all LG screens will eventually develop the problem to some degree. It's not noticeable except under certain circumstances (light to dark backgrounds).
What you are saying is akin to somebody from the revolutionary war going forward in time to the age of the cell phone and saying "People are talking through these boxes but I communicate just fine with the people in my house. I don't need these boxes. It's okay if you do."

I'm not by any means suggesting that you're stupid or out of your league, but simply that you are talking about something that you are clearly completely unfamiliar with. Have you ever managed a team of people and projects? Once you do you will understand what an incredible pain in the ass it is to rely on email and spreadsheets. Full disclosure- I am NOT a 37Signals customer, nor do I know anybody affiliated with the company. Simply that project management software is a very real need for a very large number of teams. One of their partners created Ruby on Rails to create Basecamp, then released the framework for anybody to use and remained as a core contributor.
Developers face Windows 8 conundrum
What I'm saying is, dont confuse the motivation and the implementation. Yes, its the wrong implementation, but that doesn't mean that they apply it maliciously.
Apple Rejects App Tracking Drone Strikes
Are these the best venture firms in the world?
Please take this survey on venture firms and their correlations. So far with n=203 Andreessen Horowitz is the top firm followed by Sequoia, USV, Kleiner, Khosla and Accel.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/hackernews

I'll post the results in the comments below in about 2 weeks.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/hackernews
OS X Mountain Lion running on 1 of every 10 Macs
>>I’m sorry, but selling a product with a defect like that is just unacceptable. There are no ifs and buts about that. That’s just how it is.

Unacceptable to who? The products in question are selling by the millions. Clearly, the market finds them very acceptable. In the grand scheme of things, what you think is largely irrelevant.
I agree with arrrg. I don't believe it's a bad batch issue at all. I bet I could demonstrate the problem to just about anyone who has had a MBPR for at least a month and who has an LG screen (Samsung screens do not seem to have the problem.)
Bad Hotel studio: "We're actually terrible game designers"
How White is the New Internet?
I'm going to take a wild guess here that you either (a) don't work in marketing, or (b) if you do, you work for Microsoft.

:)
Please as soon as every RGB code is reliably named, release the data / build a userscript / browser extension / photoshop plugin.

I could really use one of these, and so do every other colorblind !
But Congress obviously isn't doing anything about filling a data center with thousands of antennas and temporarily assigning them to individual customers in order to circumvent public performance restrictions.

At least in this case, talking about what decisions will "obviously" be made beforehand seems unwise.
Apple succeeds because their brand names are simple, elegant, and intuitive.
That isn't necessarily credit card fraud though. It could just be unapproved expenses and incidentals.

When I worked with Fortune 500 Co, I had unapproved expenses that I had to pay for. I wouldn't consider that "stealing." All we know from that article is "several thousands".. could that be dry cleaning bills over 3 years or is she buying HDTV's on amazon. hard to say.

The problem I have with all this, is all this evidence seems rather circumstantial. I don't even know this woman or have any interest in this topic other than playing contrarian and thinking to myself if someone kept tabs on all my poor behavior over the course of a few years, I'm sure I too could come out looking like a pathological liar with mental issues.
I have to ask, who cares outside of Silicon Valley?

I'm sat here at a computer near London and it just doesn't matter what she did or didn't do. You could turn around and say I don't matter and you'd be right, except for when someone's looking for me to sign up, and what she did or didn't do wouldn't affect my sign up.
It's not like Apple wasn't met with ridicule either.
I think a better model would be beer paired with a catalog/website that gives rewards in the form of more beer.

An ad needs to be worth more than the advertising value of the packaging itself, and even very niche beers would not likely be seen by more than a handful of people so at $10 CPM wouldn't fetch more than a dime a bottle. Additionally, there would be the personell cost of filling ad inventory and frequently redesigning the bottle.
no way I'm signing in before I know what is the site about ...
So close.

LOAD "BLAH",8

SEARCHING FOR BLAH
?FILE NOT FOUND ERROR
READY.
The world is filled with liars. I can come up with examples of this happening outside Silicon Valley for almost all of these points.

Vanity metrics? "Customers saved an average of $200 by switching to Geico"

Acquisition boasting? I'm sure this happens all the time, but nothing comes to mind immediately.

Perpetual Euphoria? Enron's CEO talked the company up until the last minute.

Perpetual Euphoria for Investors? Housing bubble.

Lying about firings? How many people who publicly resign are actually fired? Happens all the time in DC.

Lying about how committed you are? I'm sure this happens all the time, but nothing comes to mind immediately.

Lying about how much money you're losing? Enron. WorldCom. Banks.

Lying about who you're friends with? Every high schooler in existence.

TL;DR - The world is filled with slimeballs.
Reddit's customization is far more than snippets. I've used ESIs with Varnish extensively, and I don't think it would help much for authenticated Reddit users.
Something really doesn't add up here. 125 students collaborating on a final would not only be difficult to organize but would require a lot of coordination. Not to mention getting 125 students to collectively decide to cheat and not discuss it.

How would this even happen?

My educated guess would be a complete, graded test from a previous year passed around. That would not require 125 students conspiring together, only that one test was somehow available.

This problem was rampant at Vanderbilt where fraternities and sororities would keep old, graded tests for every class on campus. It was widely recognized for the reason that Greek GPAs were higher than non-Greek. I dated a sorority VP and got to see the massive file cabinets with all of the tests and watch all of her "sisters" use them constantly, without any concern for the morality of the action. (edit: To be clear, I was offered and refused access to the files)
This was my first real encounter with BrowserID, and I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the experience was.
Plus some additional reasons: if a singleton is initialized on first use, it might be hard to reason about which kind of environment exists when it is initialized -- what locks are held, etc.
Long term I think self driving cars fix the traffic light problem without a cop. All the cars can just work it out over a network and go like it's a stop sign or just continue as if the light is there (if the city is on-board).
It's possible to pass up to 32 -p arguments.
For example, tracing multiple apache worker processes:

strace `ps -C httpd -o pid= |xargs -Ix echo -n '-p x '`
How many Kindle Fires were sold? | asymco
This would need to be implemented as a $30 membership that gives a $1 discount for every check-in over a 30 day period for the next month's payment, or better yet, $60 with a $2 daily discount because memberships below $30 aren't really enough to run a gym.

It would be better to give credit that can be exchanged for things. Better yet, become the company that sets up turnkey reward programs for active gym members.
Bundler 1.2 is out with the ability to specify the Ruby version.
Unacceptable as in illegal. Selling defect products means the contract of sale is void. At least where I live.

I mean, how deluded can you be to talk down this problem? It’s a defect product, pure and simple.
I look forward to paying for this without having to pay for VPN service to Denmark as well to watch it.
It might sound better but it doesn't align with the fact that not only Apple and Google are new entrants but the field is flooded with more competition then ever before.

Apple blasted open the gates at the carriers and now the writing is on the wall: build a better mousetrap and they will come. Android/linux is a set of cheap building blocks.
125 Harvard Students Suspected of Cheating
obvious solution is obvious: Sony just needs to market their phone as having a mega-ultra-hyper-clarity display, and then make a side by side comparison chart where they list the iPhone as only having a mega-clarity display.

Your choice of Sony is ironic, because Sony names every damn feature on their products. I could replace "retina" in your comment with "MotionFlow" and complain that Sony is tricking consumers into buying their TVs.
NASA's Jupiter-Bound Juno Changes its Orbit
"What especially bothers me about this sort of trend is that it forces those of us who aren't big on bullshitting to do it anyway."

I can't say I agree with this, the implication is that if you don't do it you will be harmed, which may be true in the short term but not in the long term [1]. I liked xo's reference to the worst argument in the world (http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/) basically if you focus on the lying you miss the argument.

So when someone says "How is your startup going?" you provide the most positive answer you can come up with. This is a lie of omission if there are big clouds gathering over it, but if what you say is truthful then you've met the social obligation of responding. I've got a friend who is explicitly complete when you ask them how they are doing, with comments like "well my hemorrhoids have flared up and all the fruit I ate gave me diarrhea so my arse is pretty painful at the moment." which people find a bit off putting. You don't have to be graphic like that of course and so if you're omitting details on the principle that this other person is just making 'small talk' then I would argue that is Ok.

Now if you have a potential investor ask you "How is your startup going?" and you say "Great! Adding users like crazy, totally crushing it!" when you know you won't make payroll next month if you don't get some more money in, that is lying with an intent to deceive the investor. The goal being to get them to invest before they really find out what is going on so that afterwards it will be fine. I've known people who do this, they rationalize it by thinking "Lets assume this person has just invested the money I need, what would the status of my startup be then?" and they answer that way, because that statement will be true in the future if they invest, and if they don't invest the startup will be dead anyway so who cares. But it robs the investor of the data they need to ask critical questions. It could be that the startup really does just need a bridge investment to cross the 'chasm' (in the Geoffrey Moore sense), but it also might mean there is fundamentally something wrong like a dysfunctional engineering or marketing team. This sort of 'loose relationship with reality' is just wrong.

So pulling it back to the 'forcing' thing, this behavior erodes trust. And in so doing puts folks who engage in it at a disadvantage against those who do not. So choosing not to engage may lose you a deal today, but longer term will make you more respected which will get your more business later. And the best thing about it is you don't have to keep remembering what you said to be sure and not contradict yourself.

[1] I get the point where you don't survive to the long term which is bad.
I am not sure how many have seen http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com by Linkedin Labs. The graph is much more neater, zoomable, and shows quirky insights about your network.
Good. The first thing they should do is force anyone over 75 years of age to use them.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/fourteen-injur...
That just redirects me to a mobile signup page
I still try to live by this rule, and keep it in my signature:

http://three.sentenc.es/

Sometimes it's three paragraphs instead of three sentences, but I think that tends to work nearly as well.
From 2000 through 2005 I purchased four LCD screens. Not a single one came without either (A) dark pixels, or (B) pixels that were "Always on" - in one case I had three dead pixels. Dell and Apple (vendors of these screens) indicated that the failure rate/location of the bad pixels was low enough, that they wouldn't take a return. I lived with it.

I find it interesting that since 2006, the three Screens I've purchased have had 0 bad pixels. And, in general, people are reporting significantly fewer LCDs with bad pixels (either always on or always off).

With regards to your Mac - was it within the first 30 days? Is Apple now allowing returns for a single bad pixel?

One nice thing about the Retina Display MBPro - a single dead pixel is probably irrelevant - you'll never notice.
Samsung: If Apple Releases an LTE iPhone, We’re Ready to Sue – Droid Life
i will cancel my TWC cable subscription in a millisecond once I can get NFL and HBO streamed to my house via my TWC internet connection. cable is so 1950s.
Joshua is brilliant and I want to love this!

But I wish there were a specific example of what it does.

Something that starts with, "Let's say you run a site and need [x]. Here's how human.io can help you with that..."

Otherwise it's too much work for me to try and figure out what it does, or how I'd use it. Even though I'm sure it's great - because Josh made it.
The e-mail from Michael Herzog, assuming it's legitimate, is pretty damning. Unapproved incidentals doesn't account for using someone else's work credit card to purchase multiple plane tickets. I agree with your broader point, however, and don't think this story is particularly appropriate, at least for HackerNews_(t-3).
Thanks for the reply. Can you tell me the exact behavior when Reloads run out? Even 50k seems like a small number, especially if iterating frequently. (A 2nd question: do Reloads block UI, or continue using the old version until background updating is done?)

It looks like I could potentially roll my own updating solution on Trigger using the File API. I didn't realize that Trigger was feature-comparable with PhoneGap + plugins. I'll evaluate a little further.
It's hip to be square - Static Pixels
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IFTTT adds App.net integration
BBC America is not the same thing. While a lot of their new shows are finally being broadcast at the same time (next season of Doctor Who has the same premier date in the UK and US), many are still a few months behind here.

I think the first season of Sherlock was one such show.
arrrg obviously has an ax to grind about Apple in general or just has some irrational, intense hatred for retina screens. From the replies I've seen, reasonable discussion is out of the question. "Illegal"? Please.
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