skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Breaking ties" was a poor choice of words.

It appears that Systrom and Mike Krieger (the other cofounder) together held a majority stake. Assuming the two of them decided to accept the Facebook deal, then they are indeed acting in the best interests of the majority of shareholders, no?

Why do things get murky when the CEO/board/controlling interest is the same? They started and built the company, and structured their funding deals such that they were able to keep majority control wrt voting rights. If they want to screw over the minority shareholders, I think that's pretty lame, but that should be their prerogative.
Or (if subway has wifi) see the ad, google it straight away.

I don't think I've had a barcode reader app installed for a couple of years. I checked out one or two QR codes for the novelty when I heard about them but the novelty wore off quickly.
I thought it was rad! I found value in some lists as well. I think you've got a lot of potential and hell, if you're about the experience and helping people discover, then keep rolling with it!

I must warn you though, I've been down a similar road relating to intention, all the while thinking in the back of my mind that I can somehow flip the switch and create monetary value. It didn't work like that.

If you're not being true to yourself with your motives for the sake of justifying where the project currently is, then take a step back and re-evaluate what you need to do to achieve your real motives/desires with the project. This is a personal suggestion stemming from my own experiences and is not meant to be offensive in anyway. Good luck!
"I don't know" shouldn't be feared either.
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Making a clear statement such as "I don't understand" also is a great signal to your coworkers. It kills confusion and builds trust: I know that if you don't understand, you will let me know. That is much better than having someone who I have to poke to admit that they don't understand something.

Another personal favorite is stating unequivocally, loud and clear that "This was my mistake". It is tempting to just fix the mistake but even if you have fixed it, if there isn't clear declared ownership, you probably haven't addressed the root cause.

Doing this keeps you honest to yourself and also removes the awkward air where no one knows who is responsible for this mistake because no one has taken ownership. To pull this off you need an environment that won't punish mistakes by default.

There are absolutely fireable mistakes but if you do this right, the employee should volunteer to be let go because he realizes the gravity of his error.
Which is why MS has had a lot of free developer events going around the place for both windows phone 8 and windows 8. I think you can also use the free edition of visual studio (express) to publish to both respective stores these days.

One thing that is confusing to me is why they didn't fully unify the phone and tablet (Win 8) stores; right now there's two completely separate stores, each with their own infrastructure of registration and app approval.
I don't disagree with you but there's a fine limit between asking questions and asking to be hand held.

And it also works the other way around: I cannot stand when a member of the team is too afraid/shy/... to say "I don't understand". (I'm not blaming the team mate as much as the work environment. Nevertheless it's still a very real problem).

When I get out of a meeting with coworkers and they said they understood (or implied it by not asking questions or saying "I don't understand") I really need to trust they do, or else major problems lie ahead.
Yes. But historically the content producers weren't selling the device as a loss-leader.

It's hard to match google's prices on android devices when google is content to break even on the device.
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http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/ - cambridge (uk) security group
Really? Not going cross-platform makes you North Korea?
Linkbait... Surprised it made to the HN homepage.
They've always done that, the reason they're not doing so well is mostly because the margins for commodity hardware has gotten really thin. There was a time when CompUSA & Dell were thrived on computer sales.
>When the goal is to change behavior as a whole it helps to not point anyone out.

Has it ever occurred to you that many people strongly dislike it when others attempt to change their legal, nonviolent behavior? It's nosy, condescending, self-righteous, and creepy.
It's probably because modern tweet IDs are larger than a 32-bit integer. Presumably some JSON parsers aren't too hot on parsing bigints, so they give you the option of having a string instead.
Is it possible that bootstrap was really only designed to "bootstrap" the design of a web project? I think that eventually the project will mature into its own. I would not expect a mature project to ever "upgrade" to a new version of bootstrap as that doesn't really make sense to me.
On #3 it does seem that Safari for Windows is either dead or very late. As a Windows web developer this means I can't test on the latest Safari anymore. At least with IE it's possible for Mac or Linux users to run IE in a VM.

I'm pretty sure that nobody but web devs actually used Safari/Win, so I understand why Apple want to spend the engineering time porting something that users didn't care about. But how is Apple not shipping Safari on Windows (or Android for that matter) different than Microsoft not supporting IE on Macs or Linux?
We used clicky with custom events for analytics, which I like better than google analytics, but doesn't have built-in support for cohort analysis. I'd love to hear recommendations for better tools based on others' experience doing similar analyses.
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>Whether it was the official policy or not, I'd imagine that the UIKit team probably wanted UIKit to be an API... Wouldn't a private api that looked like that just be completely over-engineered?

Yes probably, but API design is hard, and when the API is for something that big, it's even harder. My gut hypothesis is that Apple didn't initially put anyone with that particular expertise on the team because the people in charge thought HTML5 would be good enough. The people on the team, being UI developers, knew that that was silly and that the API would eventually need to be public, so they made a valiant effort to prepare for the inevitable.
I can see why there seems to be a stigma attached to admitting you don't understand something, especially if you've just started at a new place and you want to make a good impression and reassure them they made the right choice hiring you. I've been guilty too many times of not speaking up when I don't understand something and it comes back to bite you. It makes you look more incompetent being ignorant and not speaking up and then ultimately failing to deliver, than it does to admit you don't understand something thus lowering expectations of the outcome from your work.

To be honest most senior developers are guilty of not creating the right kind of environments for people to comfortably admit they don't understand something and then it brings the whole team down as a result. With exception of where I work now, the senior developers at all other large companies I've worked at made you feel stupid for admitting you didn't understand. There's no weakness in admitting you don't understand, but because of the way companies these days throw words like Agile and lean around, it's no surprise people are afraid to speak up when a company works in the form of 3 week sprints.

While it comes down to the volatile environments managers and senior developers have created over the years, a bad economy doesn't exactly help when it comes to admitting you don't understand something you were hired to do either.
> If they want to screw over the minority shareholders, I think that's pretty lame, but that should be their prerogative.

The law doesn't really give you blanket approval to do that, though. There are a lot of legal ways to screw over minority shareholders, but lots that aren't. When you sell part of your company, you agree to be bound by certain responsibilities to those minority owners. If you don't like those aspects of contract law, and want to do whatever you want without obligations to other co-owners, you need to keep 100% ownership.
They negotiate a rate with providers in the network and pay out based on that. My point (and I don't think it was very clear) is that the system currently is set up (for at least that one company) so that if you don't have autism they will pay for the exam (which isn't cheap). Since there is no barrier to getting an exam, everybody could go and get the exam and for the majority of the people the insurance company would pay because they would (most likely) not be diagnosed with autism. The insurance company would pay out for all of these people for a useless test. Granted that this is only if a bunch of people wanted to waste their time and the time of the doctor(s), but it would still not be beneficial to the insurance company.
I've asked interviewees very difficult questions for this exact reason. I want them to say "I don't understand" or "I don't know" rather than bullshit me an answer. Of course, after saying "I don't know," I instruct them to elaborate on how they would work out the solution -- co-workers? Google? Experiment?
Ranker and Listverse aren't social listing sites. They don't prove your model.
Unless you are supposed to know it.
> If a lot of other people are talking about the negative consequences of something you personally haven't experienced, generalizing outwards from your own experiences to conclude that something a lot of other people have experienced doesn't exist is a pretty wrongheaded way to approach life.

You're wrong. Generalizing from your personal experience and from verifiable facts while paying little attention to vague whining and anonymous accusations (of unnamed alleged perpetrators, no less!) is an excellent way to approach life.
I would hate to hear what the author would compare Microsoft to when it came to silverlight, netflix and linux.
I think this is a case of you're not who they're marketing to. Nice post.
Blossom.io seems to be using Dart [1, 2].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4694645

[2] https://plus.google.com/113104647883788326011/posts/RzYVrLRs...
Dell is going the way of the do-do bird, along with hp, et al. Still hawking desktop machines for ever shrinking margins. They are the Digital Equipment Corporation of this decade, along with Microsoft.
Betting your fate on another company seems to be the perfect move for someone who doesn't fear being on a burning platform a couple years down the road.

At least there are some laptops with Linux (or no OS installed) in their store. I'm quite sure this kind of insubordination will not last.
I'd be interested in what the current best practice is for sending emails.

For your case, do the emails start with an idiot proof line such as "This is the notification that you signed up for at example.com" ?
Disqus has started spamming me. I signed up to it using my Google account. When it spams, it says that I can turn off notifications ... But, guess what: you can't sign in with your Google account credentials. So, I can't change the notification, and there's no way to unsubscribe when getting email.
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I don't think you are making a correct analogy here. If you build software and that's what you enjoy, then build software, don't build audio systems or design furniture. The actual industry you build software for... well not as important, as long as you are building software as that is where your passion is.

Your day to day activities for your work are very similar if you are building software for a call centre or building software to manage coffee distribution (I am just assuming you might like coffee here). The industry plays a very small part in what you do, but it greatly impacts the chance of success.
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Imagine a tech news website that did not constantly cover......
Imagine a tech news website that did not constantly cover only Apple, facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google Cisco and Amazon.

We might get to actually hear something interesting and innovative.

I'm looking at you Techmeme.com ...... but also all the other tech "news" sites on the web.

Ugh, reading the same stuff day in day out has become so boring.
Now I am curious.
Care to go into detail on either the specific case that made "your bucket overflow" or the overall situation that maddens you so much?
I haven't been to the US for over a decade now and only pick up things on the news here and there...
I saw that as well. One student asked what seemed like silly questions, but later he got invited to apply for PhD and I did not.

On the other side of the equation, I had one amazing EE professor who would write something on the board, and before he turned around would say to the class "You don't understand this", erase it, and take a better approach. He was able to tell when the class didn't get his explanation and would improve it real-time.
The best new hires we've brought on are the ones that jump in and ask for explanations.

When explaining things to a new hire I already know they don't understand everything, and I expect questions. Those questions help drive the discussion further in a way that hopefully fits in better with their thought process/learning style.

It is much more frustrating trying to explain things to people that just nod and have to be continually questioned to try and find out what they actually understand!
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This is one of the most nonsensical posts I've seen in a while. Microsoft has no substantial commercial interest in getting people to use IE. I'd guess it's most important to make IE relevant so that people don't run away from Windows Phone because of it's presence, but other than that, there's not much in it for them. Sure, some ecosystem control, some ability to add proprietary extensions to the web, but on the whole, saying Microsoft's software being on only Microsoft's platform being like a dictatorship that puts it's leader's status above it's civilians having food? I'm not sure I understand.
To put in simply: At the moment nobody is going to create a DNS record just to create a TCP connection. Once the following works out of the box on LAN, the problem can be considered solved:

s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
bind (s, "myApplication1");
...
s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
connect (s, "myApplication1");

Propagation of the name outside of the LAN may require additional administrative work. I guess nobody will complain about that.
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> Design, hardware features,

No longer vanilla.
I am sorry, I don't really get what you think they do here. I worked for an insurance company for five years. The longer I worked there, the more policies I canceled. I am sure they won't go extinct just because I think what they do makes Darth Vader look warm and fuzzy, but their test policy is exactly in line with their goal: If you are diagnosed with autism, they don't want to cover treatment.

If you actually need treatment, they want to find a way to limit their liability. They want most people paying in to need little or nothing from them. They work like Las Vegas in that they design the game so the house wins much more often than it loses. It is the only way to pay the employees and keep the doors open. But at least Las Vegas has the redeeming value that you can view any small gambling losses as the cost of entertainment, as no different from buying, say, a movie ticket to be entertained for the evening.

Edit: But thank you for replying and have an upvote for indulging my curiosity.

Edit2: This is a criticism specifically of health and life insurance. Car insurance is another ball of wax and I think has more redeeming value.
what's the point getting a limited laptop , when for the same price you can get a better configuration and run any os you want easily ? i really dont understand how chromebooks are usefull.
So which bit indicates which one-time pad should be used to decode the message? Or did they just use the date-and-time for that?
It's not really about GPL violation, it's about laziness. There are plenty of things Samsung could have done to work around the GPL without opening a massive hole. For example, they could have created a user-space server, which either mapped /dev/mem directly (as root, and then dropped permissions) or mapped this special device but was only given permission to do so after some cryptographic check by the kernel: a simple hash of the text would have sufficed.

This is just a dumb mistake, on par with the original Android G1 release which ran everything you typed on the keyboard in a root shell.
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How would you know if I've opened your e-mail? Active html in emails (which would allow image-bugs to work) is disabled for most people that I know.
Uh, I'm sure your country is a wonderful place with some great colleges and companies, but the US is by far the first choice for anyone from Asia looking to migrate to or study in the West. This phenomenon has only increased with the rise of the tech industry.
Haha, so true. I wrote a couple of incoherent rants about this way back in the day:

http://shrik.theswamp.in/2004/03/presentation.html

and

http://shrik.theswamp.in/2004/03/presentation-2.html
I speak up and protest when I don't understand. I "fight" back and challenge the logic of code|process|etc when I disagree. I don't do these things out of disrespect or because I think I'm "that smart". I do it because I need to understand and I don't. So I pick at it until I have a complete understanding. (Sometimes this is "Because." and I can accept that)

This also has the nice side effect of bringing a different perspective to an existing problem. It's a habit that has left several managers going "wow, you sure know what's going on, or you found problems that we'd not considered". I just shrug and reply honestly, "I'm just trying to understand."

It's of course also invaluable advice for students of any ages.
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My analysis professor used to say, if you state that some part of the proof is trivial then it should be easy to just write it out. And when you have a hard time writing it out or it takes too long, perhaps it's not trivial after all.
I don't think that's true. There was a time in the not too distant past that many of their computers were assembled just in time in a suburb of Austin (it was still operational circa 2001).

Edit: Dell continues to build servers in Austin, but most everything else is outsourced.
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"Facebook requested the hearing as a way to speed up the approval of its acquisition."

I don't know if that was added to the article later, but it seems to explain. It wouldn't normally be a matter for the state, being a private transaction; but closing the deal is a matter for Instagram's investors (who have to agree to sell their shares for the agreed price), and it sounds like Facebook thought getting the investors' approval would be easier if a state department ruled that it was in their best interests.
If you are applying for a job in (say) mechanical engineering, your experience in track and field should not outweigh greater experience in mechanical engineering. This isn't a bias against track and field, it is simply an observation that track and field has no demonstrable link to being better at mechanical engineering.
It was eventually bound to happen. Google have essentially taken the simplistic approach to their applications instead of favouring Apple's love for skeuomorphism combined with their own pieces of design flare. Less is more in the world of true design, I think Google are gearing themselves up for a design fight of sorts with Apple here and I'd say Google is already marginally ahead. For a company associated with innovative design, I feel as though Apple have truly dropped the ball the last couple of years and it's starting to show as others including Microsoft catch up quite rapidly.
I agree. This is why i said "I would recommend you speak to your therapist about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy."

I simply recommended that he look into it.
What major open source project is the harshest on newbies? I want to try to contribute to it.
Err. marketing not marking.

3. Check for spelling and grammar...
The thing is, how do you even prosecute it? Where the company is based? Where the web servers are based? Where the email servers are based? Where it was served? The email client's server location?
> For a longer article that also recommends that technique for semantic more than maintenance reasons, read Stop Embedding Bootstrap Classes in your HTML.

I feel so dumb for never having thought of this myself. It really irked me that my HTML was no longer semantic, which is why I putted off using Bootstrap for a very long time. I don't have to feel guilty any more :P
Do these work with Github's hosted pages?
I obviously don't know this woman and can't speak to the truth of anything she wrote, but the citations in this post don't really seem like the poster has uncovered anything but the fact that, like all people dealing with really tough situations, sometimes you just wanna throttle your kid for their, you know... being a kid.

I was moved by the original post, but this follow-up seems a bit reaching for my taste.
It's the form factor. I had a difficult time finding a machine that was thin, light, and had good battery life. Most machines in this price range did not have any of those attributes. To get what I wanted, I had to be ready to spend somewhere near $1000. I'm not ready to do that until next year when Intel's Haswell comes out.

I'm tired of heavy machines that require loud fans. This fits the bill perfectly.
Hmm, I think Google is managing a derivative of Adobe Flash in some form or another as the version in the latest unstable version of Chrome is around 11.5 which is not what the latest Adobe version is.

Maybe there's a way to get the Flash plugin out of the ChromeOS system image? Not sure how what it'd be linked against, so that could pose a problem.
Why does it matter who is responsible for a mistake? Whence this antiquated notion that failures are to be blamed on a scapegoat?
I believe we were ignoring the severity of the damage because we were attempting to investigate what mental factors went into making people decide to go on killing sprees. How much damage they did ultimately doesn't affect the factors that led them to decided to make the attempt.