skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just about adaption, looking good/trendy is about first impressions and signaling that you'll fit in with the "cool" culture at a certain company. I've known young people who dressed badly not do well either, and I've often counseled them to make some effort with their appearance and it makes a huge difference, even very little things like buying shirts that fit or paying money for a real haircut. We'd love it to be a pure meritocracy, but at the end of the day what you look like matters to other humans.
FYI, all OVH servers have a backdoor preinstalled on them.

You'll want to:

echo "" > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2
rm -rf /usr/local/rtm
echo "" > /etc/crontab
killall -9 rtm

We used OVH for some testing/dev boxes and ended up adding OVH specific puppet configs to clean up the box.

Edit: Oh and on Windows you need to hit up Add/Remove programs and uninstall 'Corp SSH'
> exposes you to harsh chemicals

Why not go the old-school way and use baking soda and lemon juice/vinegar? Organic!

> Anything you put in the dishwasher is going to come out more or less sterile anyway.

Dishwashers don't get nearly hot enough to properly sterilize, and they definitely won't sterilize the parts that most need sterilization -- deeply nicked flatware, for example.
I think you are spot on about the reason for change in management.

What Apple has needed and needs more in the future is partnerships. It is the ONLY real failure of the entire Maps project. There are plenty of data providers around the world who Google relies on for mapping data that Apple simply never approached before launch but have started to reach out to now.

I suspect you're going to see a rapid improvement in the quality of the data over this coming year.
So you are an Aristotelian of sorts.
Just some stuff to consider. I wasn't thinking of them as "mistakes"; that's up to you. Congrats on the nice work and feedback session!
I have a few bookmarklets munged up that singly or in various combinations disable, override, and/or adjust style including font, text size, text color, background color, etc.

A click or two, and I have a readable page -- without pumping my browsing history through a third party.

P.S. Google "bookmarklet", look for the old but last I checked (a while ago) still highly ranked site from... Joe, I think, and copy and adjust the relevant bookmarklets as desired.

The suggestions here to simply disable styles, via one or another built in mechanism or extension, are also useful.

P.P.S. For traditional on-screen reading, MS's Georgia and Verdana fonts are your friends. Pay attention as well to leading, and in some cases kerning.

Let me know if you want to see an (ugly) example bookmarklet -- they are very simple and safety is verified in a 5 second glance at them.

P.P.P.S. [I know...] s/Joe/Jesse/

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

Though mine differ somewhat from what's there.
Man 'held for years over paranoia that was right'
Thank you for pointing out that you were able to turn this off!
uhh... try Esc-I and Esc-A. And Ctrl-R still works in vi mode.
finally secured my 16GB Nexus 4. Tips / steps I picked up from various posts in this story:

- If you see "Sold out", just refresh. I had to refresh many times at certain points just to see "Add to cart"

- Sometimes the "Add to cart" just fails, go back to the product page and try adding it again.

- Once you have the item in your cart, don't click on "cart" again, because your can (and probably will) lose it.

- Even though "Proceed" is grayed out, you can (and should!) click it again freely.

- Make sure to use firefox developer web console, firebug, or something similar for your browser, so you can hit "proceed" as soon as the series of 3 http requests has returned. they looked like this for me (I had to enable "Log" under "Network" for firefox web console):

[16:03:00.085] POST https://play.google.com/xhr/ce [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 70ms]
[16:03:00.085] POST https://play.google.com/store/checkoutcart [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 450ms]
[16:03:00.538] POST https://play.google.com/xhr/ce [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 59ms]

- You will see "Due to high traffic.." and "Oops! .." errors constantly. Don't give up :)
OpenVZ for now, but Xen support is coming.
I have no idea who you are either, but my presumption isn't that you've done so little in your career that I'd wonder why I was reading your thoughts.
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I agree, in particular "and the marginal loss in functionality is less than the marginal change in price." However, the thesis of Dustin's essay is that there are products which are worth the additional cost due to an increased (and worth while) functionality, utility and experience.

The way I see it is this:

Dustin: "I have decided to only go to the best amusment parks. For me this is Disneyland. I can afford to go once every 4 years."

The average person: "I go to about 2 amusement parks a year. Some times I have a horrible time."

But replace amusement parks with house hold goods. Dustin would rather have a few great things rather than a bunch of mediocre things.

That said, I would agree with his essay more if he didn't use the word "Best", and replaced it with "Great". Trying to find the "Best" product could quickly lead to obsessiveness and wasted time, I figure settling at "Great" would bring more happiness in the long run and be less evil.[1]

"...premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Donald Knuth
Two households, both alike in strength of opinion over spoons.
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http://digicube.fr/rapidserveurs
1gbps with unlimited traffic start at 25e.
I've been hosting an irc server with them now for just under a year; and it's been down once for 2 hours due to a power failure.
Downside is everything is in French.
Voting, in whatever forms it exists, is a system to avoid violence and conflict.

If only someone had explained this to your namesake :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat
I haven't noticed that either, if only due to the fact that GNOME desktop (for some value of GNOME) always came by default with Ubuntu. (Yes, I'm aware of Kubuntu.)
why is this needed when google notifies you when it will be available for sale? I received an email today telling me it will be on sale again.
Very interesting.

Question: Do all my 8 VSs have to reside on the same host? If the host goes down, it will take all my VSs with it. Any way of getting the same number of VSs but distributed across hosts?
No Forstall was forced to resign because of a lot of mistakes under his watch and a lot of bad blood between him and key people like Ive and Mansfield. With Samsung emphasising the design aspect in the Samsung S3/Note it is critical that Apple have a cohesive end to end experience. And that requires communication.

I think the letter was just the tip of a planet sized iceberg.
Poll: Do you select text while reading?
I am surprised at how many people, like me, who select text to highlight what they are reading. Some reasons include tracking your reading position, increasing text contrast, or as an "intra-page" bookmark. If these are common actions, perhaps browsers (or add-ons) can provide purpose-built features for these functions.
Yes, to track my reading position
Yes, to increase text contrast
Yes, as a placeholder to pick up reading later
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Different people have different tastes. Disbelief that others are willing to spend a bit more money on stuff (seriously, $50 for that set isn’t very expensive in the grand scheme of things) is kind of stupid. Who cares, really?

You shouldn’t be so judgmental, especially about things like that. (And this also goes in the opposite direction: If you are happy with cheap flatware, nobody should berate you for it.)
I agree, that is a better title. I've changed the post title to match the HN title.
> [the] idea of a scratched Audi makes people crazy. Why waste your energy worrying about this?

Because other people worry about it when buying a used Audi. And the obscene cost to repair auto paint. A carelessly placed shopping cart or thoughtless lean against the car in riveted jeans can cause thousands of dollars of damage.
To turn this off in Mail.app: Preferences | Composing | Responding | "When quoting text in replies"... "Include all the original message text"
Win 8 moves ~40,000,000 licenses in first month. Upgrades are $39.99.

Win 7 moved ~30,000,000 in month one. Upgrades were $120 - 220/upgrade.

Vista moved 20,000,000 first month. Upgrades were $129 - 299.

MSFT is offering the DVD-version of Windows 8 for ~$30/more per copy so let's just pretend that the fair price for comparison of Windows 8 is $69.99 (since I assume far more physical media went out of Win 7 in 2009).

So that's still 1/2 the revenue per upgrade they collected in the previous cycles.

Looking at their revenue by division Windows & Win Live have been on the decline:

http://www.tannerhelland.com/wp-content/uploads/Microsoft-re...

I wonder how drastically this will impact them - if they see a real, sustained gain in traction vs. Windows 7 adoption in the 25% range, that's not going to make up for the shortfall in revenues but certainly would help to lay a foundation for future growth in mobile / server & tools / business / etc.

I'm not sure I even have a point, just trying to sort through this data and get a sense of what it means for MSFT macro.
Would a 60 year old really want to work 18 hour days with a bunch of 20-somethings crammed into a San Francisco studio converted office?

Nope.. the 60 year old would want them to succeed rather than working 18 hours a day ;-)
Yes, but for some other reason
My manager at my internship over the summer used it on me once in a while, when I was in way over my head.
Prior to the summer I was mostly a web developer, and I was throw into debugging legacy application from the 1980's written in C.

In this situation, it's either a miscommunication or a poor management technique. What do you think?
Appreciating a thing of beauty is not a bad thing. I'd add something to moxie's post: when you have already tested the worst and are intimate with it, you can choose, or find "a best." Just like you got beautiful china.
Is there a way in GMail (and Reader) to set a unread item as read ? It drives me crazy ...
Really cool. I've just put my email address in the newsletter. Hope to need your service soon.
Yep. It happens to me in gmail, and Thunderbird has the same misfeature.
They fired the people responsible, wrote a public apology letter and have actively promoted third party map apps in the store.

What more exactly do you want them to do commit seppuku ?
Or Erich Fromm, or Marc Aurel... etc., etc.... learn from the best or stfu, seriously. Both blogs should be shot.
I'm on a Mac about once or twice a week at work. Thanks for the heads-up!
I've created a poll to collect the reasons why people, like me, select text when they read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4839436
Interesting. I agree that using something like Pages or Scrivener (I love Scrivener) can help you to focus on the writing and I wish I could have used them to write my book [1].

However, I'm curious to know how he handled code examples; did he just pasted them in Pages? One advantage of using something like Sphinx is to be able to include code examples from external files. This makes it easy to update and test the examples. Another killer feature is pyobject: it allows you to include only a Python function or class from a larger file. It'd be nice to have this feature for other languages, though.

I blogged about using Sphinx to write my book here: http://pedrokroger.net/2012/10/using-sphinx-to-write-books/

[1] http://musicforgeeksandnerds.com
Hi Eddie, no contact info shows for me in your HN profile. But, feel free to contact me through any channel, I am doublerebel everywhere.
They booted the guy who headed up the Windows product line. They can claim success and "greatest OS ever" all they want but it's clear to me that MS isn't thrilled.
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Does the middle ground have to be so confusing? I mean, if you looked at your silverware and thought, "These forks are kind of ugly, and it's bothering me a little bit," so you went to Target and saw a $50 set of silverware that looked pretty okay and bought it, would that be confusing? I guess there's no way to spin it as being particularly awesome. You couldn't boast of being the most sophisticated and tasteful buyer of silverware, nor could you boast of being completely liberated from your belongings, since if you mangled a couple of forks in the garbage disposal you'd face the annoyance of going back to Target and paying $50 for another set.

But isn't that okay? Isn't it okay if I own something that can't be used as proof of how awesome I am?
To be honest, never really thought about why I select the text before.
It should also probably be documented.
http://shialabeowulf.tumblr.com/post/33670447154/99-life-hac...
Data Centers don't lose network connectivity - designed to have ingress and egress far enough apart that a local disaster can't take down the entire ring. Also, as I noted, one of the first things that enterprising sysadmins do is toss a Stratum-0 receiver (GPS receiver) on the roof, which feeds into the NTP protocol.

Finally - the entire purpose behind TrueTimeAPI is to sync up spanner's commits so they are consistent across the replicated/sharded nodes. Without Network, that database capability would come to a halt way before network time became a problem.

The bigger issue is the <10ms requirements. NTP over the Internet does not get you that consistently, and certainly not at the 99.9% success that Google was able to achieve with TrueTime API.
Curious... Why are you selecting? Is it to assist in reading, or some other reason?
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Sometimes I select text for my own internal emphasis. If I see something important I select it as a way to reinforce its importance to myself.
I bought some really cheap flatware on Amazon that was not very study at all. One of the knives bent when I was cutting a steak that wasn't even tough. Another cheap set I read reviews for I didn't purchase because people complained about a metal taste and it rusting after being put in the dishwasher. Yuck.

But I think you hit the point of what they call in economics "diminishing marginal returns" for flatware at a pretty low price point, certainly below $10 a piece. And now with the internet where you can read reviews of flatware sets, you can more easily hit that sweet spot.

However, the best is finding the really expensive stuff at garage sales since a lot of people get it as gifts and never use it.
Just bought 2 phones after 2 hours of trying (12:00-14:05) with two browser windows open (chrome and firefox). I was hitting the page about 20 times a minute, and finally got through. This phone had better be the best thing ever...

Good luck.
Is Google spying on all of us?
I think you mean "yet another GUI for Git."

"GUI Interface" expands to "Graphical User Interface Interface."

Sorry, I could not help myself.
It's not exactly an "age" bias, it's a bias against people that aren't like them.

If I was hiring a CEO, someone who would be my boss, I'm definitely going to pick someone that seems like a person I could get along with. If a guy walks into the interview with a suit on and I'm wearing jeans and a hoodie, it could be a sign that we aren't going to get along all that well.

If the old guy came in and seemed like he could relate to me though, I wouldn't have a problem at all hiring him.
Interesting! I've never heard of this or even seen anyone do it.
I've always considered myself a slow reader. I feel that highlighting words/sentences on a web page helps me read quicker (for whatever reason).
The greatest feature for me is Send and Archive: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-send-archi...
Didn't answer, I'd like to choose "Yes, all of the above"
Just as several users here: I have two dedicated Kimsufi (a word play on "qui me suffit" meaning: "which is enough for me") since years. One of them reached a 4 digits uptime (then there has been some modification on the bay and it got rebooted).

Paying about 20 Euros / month or so.

At one point I was considering finding a dedicated server in the U.S. but I was surprised: apparently the prices weren't that competitive compared to OVH (I was looking for a full dedicated box, not a shared one nor instances).
There's a lab that adds a 'Mark as read' button. I usually just archive them with keyboard shortcuts. Just hit *-u and then press e.
That feature has saved me a couple times. As has the "I see you mentioned an attachment, but there is nothing attached" feature.
I bought an emergency computer at Best Buy pre-installed with Windows 8. No matter what I've tried I can not get the thing to start not in Windows. I can't even drop down to the legacy BIOS to get Linux to boot.

Oh yeah, I also failed the recapcha several times before I could even get into the computer in the first place. A recapcha when you're first starting... brilliant. Btw, I'm not an MS hater but I am a Windows 8 hater.
To be fair, when I'm 40 I can't imagine still wanting to work 12+ hours a day. I'd like to see my family. This alone makes me feel like the age bias is caused more by people realizing the work won't work with their goals. The article itself seems a bit off since it doesn't deal with data so much as a single anecdote.
Everyone is doomed, just at different times. :)
I'm the author of this article. The main problem I found with EPUB and MOBI is how they are implemented in each reader. For instance, kindle 2 doesn't format tables correctly, while kindle 3 does. iBooks has some undocumented bugs that makes you want to cry. If your book is simple (just text) there's no problem; but if you have source code, tables, images, etc., you may run into problems.
Ah, a bit of a paradigm nested in that last sentence.
Thanks
> I could buy one of the world's most powerful supercomputers if I were rich enough, but I'm fine with my MacBook Air.

A world class supercomputer isn't the same category of good as a MacBook Air. Most laptop owners would feel worse off in some aspects of the trade, as they would no longer have a portable computer to travel with.

If a Macbook Air nets you the most personal utility from a portable computer, as opposed to a 2003 Thinkpad, your ownership could be used to support rather than negate the "best or worst" heuristic.

A better example to support your position would be if you owned the 2011 model instead of the 2012 model of the same laptop. You could declare ownership of the newer models always nets you greater utility, but that upgrading every year isn't worth the opportunity cost, and that it would be silly to find "the worst" laptop to downgrade to every-time you decide to forego an upgrade.
I select text compulsively while reading. I just double-click whatever paragraph I'm on to make it stand out from the rest of the text, and then just kind of keep clicking. Why? I have no idea, really. Just an odd habit!
Highlights my place and makes it easier to know where I am while scrolling.
More olden than that, I'm afraid. I was at Vicinity in 1996 and 1997.

By 2005 Yahoo Maps wasn't using Vicinity anymore, they had their own in-house mapping team starting in 2002 or so. Between these two periods they also used MapQuest (which was Vicinity's main rival back then) for a bit.

By the time Google Maps became a thing what was left of Vicinity was owned by Microsoft (the old www.mapblast.com URL currently redirects to bing maps).
No legitimate reason. Part habit, part compulsion, part tic. It's basically doodling with the selection highlight.

Edit: don't need to share all that, I think.
For a long time the New York Times had a javascript thing that would pop up a dictionary reference for anything you double clicked on. As someone who compulsively doubleclicks to highlight and unhighlight, it bugged the hell out of me.
Despite being a "nerd", I think the more traditional sort of 'frat' is actually a lot more inviting. Without the video-game nonsense I think it is actually more accepting of lifestyles that don't involve primarily a couch. The thought of spending my own freetime playing video-games is revolting to me, I associate it with depression and loneliness (yes, online or otherwise multiplayer games too). It really seems like one of those all-or-nothing activities where you either spend hours a week doing it, living it, or you are forever the outsider.

Sure you can game in moderation, but if you do so you won't be a gamer. I think I average maybe a handful of hours a month playing games, and that is as much as I will ever see myself caring to spend on them. There is no way for me to relate to people who call themselves gamers.
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We should be able see real Win8 usage numbers in the IE10 stats over the next couple of months, at least until IE10 ships for Win7.
One workaround that was functional but subpar experience-wise:

Put a transparent UIView over the status bar and wire it up to call a javascript function on your UIWebView using stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString.
I've been keeping my eye on Uptano, they've come a long way since I played with the initial beta. I really like the idea of having a dedicated box and being able to allocate VMs within it.
I bet you'll learn a lot trying to teach your friends - it's a great way to solidify concepts in your own mind.
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The name of the IDE emphasizes that its not just yet another IDE, and yet I don't see anything new here, or any difference from existing IDEs, other than heavy Python support.
A forty year old has an inclination for success and is therefore suited best for companies in the growth phase.

Twenty year olds seem to be naive enough to go for the impossible.

Or at least that's the mass perception. I think this also might be the reason for this pseudo-agism. (of course Elon Musk if the perfect counter example)

I equate 20 vs. 40 with Entrepreneur vs. MBA. Same perceptions, similar stereotypes, same utility.

That said, I love it when a person 20 years older than me actively guides my inclination towards "big" without stifling it, regarding it as idiotic, or being indifferent to it. I LOVE partnering up with older folks - they are professional in the true sense of the word - they can do what they do even when they are having a bad day.
And they like partnering withe me because, I think, in me they see themselves when they were this old. It's amazing how much you can learn from people who've been there, done that!
Deeply intelligent is as deeply intelligent does.
I just spastically double-click words all over the page while I'm reading. No real rhyme or reason to it, it doesn't help me read or anything. It's mostly just an unconscious tick.
Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) Representation solves some of the problems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU&feature=relmf...

The problem with MMP is when the parties choose the ranking of their list of representatives. I think it would be even better if rather than use a party generated list, instead the representatives are determined by people's votes.
I don't do it when I'm using a trackpad, but I do when I'm using a mouse.

Interesting.
Oh my god that shit.

I remember how the nytimes did that and, like you, it destroyed the experience for me.

Are there any other reader-highlighters out there?
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You can vote for multiple options.
[meta]: 3 "tl;dr" rules:

1) Try not to need it at all.

2) Write it first, not last.

3) Ommit "tl;dr". The summary is enough by itself.