skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I suggest you re-read and re-evaluate the post, because you may have missed other things in it."

This is shaney's thesis statement:

"Culture is about power dynamics, unspoken priorities and beliefs, mythologies, conflicts, enforcement of social norms, creation of in/out groups and distribution of wealth and control inside companies. Culture is usually ugly. It is as much about the inevitable brokenness and dysfunction of teams as it is about their accomplishments. Culture is exceedingly difficult to talk about honestly. The critique of startup culture that came in large part from the agile movement has been replaced by sanitized, pompous, dishonest slogans."

You agree that this is a fair and true characterization of "culture" ? You were persuaded by her text that this is an accurate description of what motivates a corporate culture?
Although I can appreciate everything said in this article I think that virtuosity is something that is unnecessary. Electronic music and its technologies are there to simplify the process of creating and performing music. Yes, this eliminates the aesthetic of physical, dexterous skill and talent but it opens things up for creativity to be unleashed without the hurdle that is virtuosity.

Now this means that a lot of cliche garbage would inevitably be created and shared which is expected. I see a lot of similarities between the modern day electronic music scene and the punk era of long ago. There was a ton of punk music produced between the 70s and 80s and it is still being pumped out today like nobodies business. The majority of which is cliche and quite awful. But every once and a while you get a gem. And I think those gems are worth the effort of weeding out the trite for the great.

The idea of skipping out on virtuosity and just letting creativity shine is an amazing concept. There have been a lot of fantastic punk bands without a shred of skill that have made break through productions. Beautiful music does not require dexterous fingers - though it is definitely something to be in awe of.

I am rambling. Essentially what I am trying to say is that virtuosity is good and all but I think there is the flip side which is a lack of virtuosity and modern technology gives every single person the ability to make incredible music regardless of that sort of talent. With enough time grinding on a modern DAW anyone can make music to rival the heavy weights of electronic music. That in itself is a huge revelation.
My theory is the Pixel is for corporate customers not consumers. Dramatically lower IT support costs since no local storage. Probably increased security as well. And this version takes care of the high end of that market.
Business Plans are Dead. Their Replacement? Startup Accelerator Applications.
The Sprinting Marathon
Seriously, what is even the point of that offer? You can eat up 100mb on verizon LTE in less than a minute.
Like, which firms did and didn't invest in LivingSocial?
I have no problem with GoDaddy. Am I alone?
A Week With Nothing but the Surface Pro
I posted this elsewhere, but...

P2P applications have security risks associated with them, but they also have network constraints associated with them. It doesn't take many P2P users to choke legitimate users out of a network. When some of the network monitoring tools we use are licensed based on how much data is flowing through the network, P2P gets expensive real quick. Move that stuff to a network we're not monitoring as extensively.
It's easy to say this when you're hacking on a side project and just need the smallest instance possible, or just a medium instance. But when you're scaling for millions of users, then those costs add up.. really really quick. AWS, especially nickel and dime you for the smallest of things, such as total # of I/O requests.

Plus I find, the whole myth about able to scale faster.. somewhat misleading. I use EngineYard, and you need to ALLOCATE a certain amt of space. Sure you can increase it in the future, but you'd need to shut down the instance, and create a new one with the extra space... not exactly fast nor convenient. And it's not like you can't add an extra hard drive if you hosted your own servers...
They didn't release details on the hardware or show the casing because;

a) its not finished, or

b) they're saving it for e3.

How this linkbaiter came to hardware is dead, fucked if I know.
I use gmail and google docs because they're good. Why else would I use them? Cheap? There's plenty of free email programs out there. None compare to gmail. I'll agree that when I need to get really down and dirty with a spreadsheet, I whip out Excel, not google spreadsheets, but for most of my "lists that need some numbers to add/multiply together", google spreadsheets work great and are always available from wherever I am.

Which is not to say I think you're wrong. No one's going to spend this much money on something so limiting. If we were 10 years in the future and we all had gigabit network speeds, and there were enough awesome web apps to replace the hard working desktop apps (photoshop, IDEs, CAD, etc)... then yes.... but I would still hope the specs would be better for the price. 4GB of RAM in a $1300 machine? What is this, 2005?
I wonder how well Ubuntu would handle high DPI? (Honest question)
I found that asking the questions she asked about different elements of startup culture was in fact a useful exercise.
$1269 for a refurbished 13" rMBP

http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD212LL/A/refurbished-macb...
How to Sharpen Focus and Own a Market: Imprivata CEO Omar Hussain (Part 1)
The fingerprint issue certainly hasn't stopped people from using tablets.
So You Want to Make a Whole Bunch of T-Shirts
"These error rates, although troubling, are in line with those in programming and other human cognitive domains."

I take it you are against software in general, then.
Sifter: An API for Multi-Armed Bandit Testing
I saw him play at Sasquatch in 2010 while walking back from the main stage not even intending to see his set (totally respect his talent and really enjoy the pieces he writes musically, but his genre just makes it unlistenable to me), and it was probably one of the most brilliant/memorable performances I've ever seen. I'm generally not impressed by random lighting setups because they're impersonal to the performance. Just set them up, have them go off at certain points of the music and you're done.

Everything on his stage was choreographed down to a T including his own movements, and when the crowd coos and freaks over every single detail (some of us not believing what we were seeing), it just makes it all the more immersive. Even knowing that he puts such detail into his shows doesn't prepare you for what you see. None of the videos I've found online even begin to do it justice.

I didn't get to see ISAM when it came through, but I'd be interested in seeing how they compare in fidelity.
Indiana's most cited location for a missed connection is "at home." How does that make sense?
" From a business perspective, it makes no sense to pay high salaries to college educated 20-somethings to do customer support from expensive downtown DC loft office space"

So true and the same comment I was going to make. I was in the Seattle office and thought the same thing 2 years ago.
Or the Surface. Or BB10.
Java is a 2nd class citizen for Play and other Typesafe projects like Akka. I think this helps the jvm and scala, but I'm not so sure about java.
I agree with this, that would probably be the icing on the cake. At least help on the steep price jump.
On here? Probably. Their SOPA support alone is worth the derision. Their CEO is also a lunatic.

Take a look through some of these controversies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies
I think you have that backwards: 3:2 == 1.5x as wide as it is high. That's more vertical space than 16:9 (1.78x) or 16:10 (1.6x).
Ok, I have to admit that didn't really do much for me. I need a little bit of melody... think more along the lines of like Massive Attack or vintage Jamaican Dub.
Unit That Hacked 115 U.S. Targets Likely Wasn't Even China's A-Team
What power user [is willing to pay $1300 and] lives completely in the cloud? This Chrome OS might be great as a tablet, but as a $1300 browser...?
I don't understand why I'm getting downvoted. Brackets is an HTML5 based IDE that's currently targeting the web development set, but could easily branch out (like any text editor) into being a good editor for any language, and is built to work in a browser. Make the remote repository for you code a bunch of files by SFTP, using SSH for commands, and you have a remote IDE for any development process, including eventually a debugger.

How many breathless stories have been linked here about dudes in Oregon pedaling their mountain bike out into the forest and setting up their iPad 3 and Zagg keyboard, and using their LTE connection to do remote dev? Same thing for the Chromebook.
That surprises me - if I get a resume with a github url on it, I always look at it. Maybe it would be different if they all did, but to me it signifies that they do interesting stuff.

Of course, I've gotten ones with a github url with no repos in it or some piddly little thing, and that sends a different signal.
On lesson 2, power is always the biggest concern when it comes to colo so it may not necessarily be that the facility is attempting to nickel and dime you (although that is often also the case), but that they need to restrict power density to a certain level so they can ensure they have enough power for the rest of the facility and so that they can provide adequate cooling. Pricing is also highly dependent on how much available space there is in a facility; the best deals are to be had when a facility is brand new and needs to fill the space. Whereas a facility that's almost full may stick to full list price and be content to have you walk if you don't want to pay those rates.

On lesson 6, when the hosting provider does own the building, chances are there will be less bandwidth options available within the building unless the provider specifically offers bandwidth neutral services. May not be a concern if you're happy just using the provider's own bandwidth mix, but if you're pushing a significant amount of traffic, or need higher quality transit, you are much better off shopping around for different bandwidth options.
> Unless you lie and tell them that it's something other than a sheet of A4 paper

Which is exactly what has happened here on two counts -

1) it is not a world first - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4156

2) it is not a 3D printing pen, it's just an extruder - exactly the same mechanism as that used in a glue gun.
I wonder how Linux desktops will handle the screen - I imagine lots of tiny, unreadable text.
If you want to petition your representative you can call their office.
I would not say this is the norm. If you look at Sandbox-enabled third party applications such as Google Chrome, it is well defined what libraries it dynamically links to outside of the directory it is installed in.
Also worth a mentioning Racket's ability to go static vs dynamic vs hybrid typed. An example of Typed Racket: Iteratees http://goo.gl/9uT4R Compare and contract with Haskell and Scala impls of same.
Fair enough. Let's just agree to disagree on that. Your explanation is a bit too far on the "been reading a bit too much dystopian pulp" side of the spectrum.

To argue that the practice of policy is cynical and easily corrupted is a truism. To say that the white house deliberately threw up a petition system to actively "neutralize" inconvenient opinions is just ridiculous, sorry. The white house staff are people just like you and I, and they care about many of the same things you do and truly want to do the right thing in the face of many competing interests. Don't turn them into Orwellian villains, it's not helpful.
Facebook prevents 104-year-old woman from revealing her age
Then maybe we should consider the possibility that it doesn't make any sense to have a country this large.

Why should people living in Florida have any say whatsoever into the affairs of people living five thousand miles away in Alaska? Why vice-versa? How does that make any more sense than people in London having a say in the lives of people three thousand miles away in Boston?
Yeah, I agree that Crouton and the like are "cheating" a little bit, and I don't use them personally. I think you're being a little unfair here, though. You want verified boot and a full *NIX offline toolchain. Aren't those incompatible things? Probably the closest thing you can get to local development without cheating is if something like VirtualBox were ported to NaCl, which I don't believe exists, yet.
SCTP is widely used for carrying signalling in mobile and fixed telephone networks. It is _the_ way of carrying SS7 over IP.

(Another angle on the same thing: it didn't get used much outside the thing it was originally designed for.)
They seem to be followin the "ask for forgiveness, not for permission" philosophy!
Native OS X apps either statically link everything, or shove all of their dynamic libs into a single .app package... that's why their binaries are so big. This avoids shared lib versioning nightmares and makes everything "just work" (including drag-and-drop installs), but it also means you have 30 bajillion copies of libXYZ on your disk.
If that's the case then they should have waited to reveal the Pixel. I'm of the mind that you should buy a device for what it is, not for what it may be in the future.
> Hard reality: a thing is worth exactly what another is willing to pay for it.

Harder reality: I'm willing to pay precisely zero dollars American for the military.
I think there is always going to be some amount of overhead with physical or cloud services for scaling. I can say though that one thing you can do with physical servers which is pretty neat is shut down entire physical nodes when you don't need them to save on resources. Your scaling software has to know how to do this, but IPMI is fun stuff like that.
This is a great, related story from a long while back:

In the early years of the 20th century, Charles P. Steinmetz, who stands among the electric industry's greats, was brought to GE's facilities in Schenectady, New York. GE had encountered a performance problem with one of their huge electrical generators and had been absolutely unable to correct it. Steinmetz, a genius in his understanding of electromagnetic phenomena, was brought in as a consultant -- not a very common occurrence in those days, as it would be now.

Steinmetz also found the problem difficult to diagnose, but for some days he closeted himself with the generator, its engineering drawings, paper and pencil. At the end of this period, he emerged, confident that he knew how to correct the problem.

After he departed, GE's engineers found a large "X" marked with chalk on the side of the generator casing. There also was a note instructing them to cut the casing open at that location and remove so many turns of wire from the stator. The generator would then function properly.
And indeed it did.

Steinmetz was asked what his fee would be. Having no idea in the world what was appropriate, he replied with the absolutely unheard of answer that his fee was $1000.

Stunned, the GE bureaucracy then required him to submit a formally itemized invoice.

They soon received it. It included two items:
1. Marking chalk "X" on side of generator: $1.
2. Knowing where to mark chalk "X": $999.

http://edisontechcenter.org/CharlesProteusSteinmetz.html
I wasn't being entirely serious, but fingerprints everywhere did bother me on my iPad. They bother me even more so on my laptop, despite there being significantly less, and it'd be worse with a touchscreen.
Fixing Online Technology Education
I imagine they'll call their self-driving car Driver.
Chartio (YC S10) now supports Salesforce data
Seriously, why is everyone ignoring this?
Many of their developers use Chromebooks, I believe. Code is not allowed to be stored locally on mobile devices so they use Chromebooks and SSH (or any other laptop and SSH).
I've considered launching a kickstarter for one of my side projects to help pay for my living while I work on my real startup. It seems like it would be extremely time consuming though.
All sites. Some more tech details here:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.ca/2013/02/dissecting-nbcs-exploits...
thanks for clearing that up. Controllerism does not seem to be all that new to me.
Yeah I figured he was taking a cheap shot at C++ which is why I asked him to clarify what he meant.

> AFAIK no organization has yet implemented C++11

Get back to me when Ruby actually has a specification.

Python's reference documentation doesn't suck, but neither is it a formal language standard.

Lisp has an ISO standard, but it's way beyond what a first-year CS student could fully implement.
I think I just realized who you are, and that I worked on that team after you left the company... (munix)

The time I spent working with those folks was one of the most educational periods of my life.
Memorylage for Windows 8: Memories and Collages all in One
The California tax that terrifies tech
If I were to guess, it would be configuration, more specifically the myriad number of choices and combinations of it. Spring's strength and weakness is the power of customizing it.
You should ask how good their source would have to be to run a story without a response from its subject inside of 4 hours.
What I find rather shocking is that 10% of all UK laptops are Chromebooks. When and how did that happen? This is all while Apple is still dominating the Windows exodus!
With a screen of that resolution 3.0 might be nice to watch 4K videos stored on a USB drive.
Because its available and better and this is being marketed as a premium device. Since you mentioned phones though I remember reading that 3.0 could enable faster charging than 2.0. Also, with the 1TB of cloud space, I would probably want to copy something off there from time to time and would like the faster speeds.
Ask HN: Where can I find analyses of good design?
There are hundreds of sites which publish snippets of good design. However, I'm looking for a publication focussed on illuminating what makes a design particularly effective, ideally from the mouth of the original designer.

For example, instead of just showing a screenshot of a pleasantly designed homepage, I'm looking for an explanation of the homepage. More specifically, the reasoning behind each piece of content and its styling.

Case studies from designer's portfolios are usually a good source but I've yet to find a publication which collects these analyses from many designers.
The Chromebook with the best battery life is the Atom-based Samsung Series 5.
As a facebook user, I'm happy I'm not longer gonna get "your friend has invited you to this app..." notifications. As a developer, though, I can see why this would be frustrating.
gotcha. yeah this vid is pretty crazy, down to the "Playing it by ear" bit.
Trust Logo Recognition Precedes Presence
The less dystopic version of my interpretation is that the site is just a way of keeping people happy, rather than "neutralized". Does that seem so implausible to you?

> The white house staff are people just like you and I

See, that realization is what enables me to believe they would make a petition site just to keep people happy. It is something rather frequently seen in the "real world" from "normal people" (see: suggestion boxes in the breakroom at work), and is exactly the sort of thing I could see myself doing. Hell, I have done it. Have someone that is mad at you? Let them vent for a while until they calm down, then tell them why they are wrong.

This sort of tactic isn't unique bizarre super-villian behavior. It is standard bullshit.

If the intent were completely pure, merely to educate, they wouldn't have people perform a meaningless action before they got their cookie. You don't get that far in politics by being clueless about how to gauge public interest in a topic without resorting to an online tally of interest. That is simply inconceivable.
I don't know about yours, but my MacBook Pro has one of the worst keyboards I have ever seen in a laptop. Lenovo, they make good keyboards (or at least, used to).
He said he's running Spotify on his MacBook, it's just tethered to a mobile phone.
If you are using PHP, check out http://phpchart.net. It's based on jqplot.
What happens when there is a lack of culture?
"Functional programming" is one of the most ambiguous and misunderstood terms in software.

If you ask someone coming from ML or Haskell, Scala is more "FP" than Clojure.

If you ask someone coming from Lisp, Clojure is more "FP" than Scala.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what you call it. Pick your tools based on what they do, not on what other people call them.
You'll find the small and medium business especially back then adopting Windows servers. I can assure you they were not adopting Sun (Solaris), HP/UX, Dec Alphas etc. SCO was fairly successful (Compaq sold about a billion dollars a year of hardware for SCO Unix), and a major reason was because SCO offered graphical administration. But Windows NT was killing that. (Note I worked for SCO but not in the operating systems group.)

Even for the Enterprises you'd find widespread Windows NT adoption. Sure some core backend servers ran Unix but the servers users used were predominantly Windows.
already discussed this...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5257270
261 MPG Volkswagen XL1 diesel plug-in hybrid
Yeah, gruseom, you JERK.
This is mostly due to the Scala compiler being a bit slow. The team at Typesafe is working on that, but if you don't want to wait just buy a decent recent machine with a SSD and you will get back the snappiness you had with Play 1.
It's worth noting that there is no relationship between a U.S. hospital bill and the actual cost of the service:

http://truecostofhealthcare.org/hospital_billing

"Hospitals see no problem in sending bills to insurance companies for five to ten times the amount that they actually expect, because they are simply playing the game that the insurance companies fashioned. But remember, they only produce one kind of bill, and it’s designed to send to someone who holds all the cards (an insurance company), and so can just refuse to pay anything they don’t want to pay. That’s their game. But what happens when you have to play the game with the hospital alone (if you don’t have insurance, or if your insurance doesn’t cover that stay for some reason). Then you’re on the hook for the ENTIRE amount. Most hospitals have a policy that allows people to negotiate for a lower amount, but most people don’t know this. And don’t expect the hospital to tell you about it, let alone help out. So even if you can remember to negotiate while you’re convalescing from a long hospital stay, good luck trying to get the deal the insurance company gets.

For the average person, this is no small matter. In the first case, a two day hospitalization that the insurance company got for $2,100 (after the insurance adjustment), would cost an uninsured person over $21,000. The adjusted charge ($2,100) would be a pretty nasty kick in the finances for most families, but they could bounce back. The unadjusted charge, which is what you’ll get if you don’t have insurance, is an almost certain trip to bankruptcy."
The code's status as "an innocent and inconsequential instance of copying in the context of a massive number of lines of code," and its removal after its history came to light, were noted by the judge in the ruling I cited. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.

The fact that it's in the ruling is important: Since Alsup articulated these circumstances as judicial findings in the official case record, they will definitely receive strong consideration in an appeal.

(At least in the US, appeals courts can only consider findings of fact that have been found by a judge or jury in a lower court.)