skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument about experience probably holds a ton of water in other domains, but I question that it applies to every technology startup. A lot of technology startups are better off not hiring any any experienced folks (developers, business people, whatever) for a long long time. Young people learn and adapt faster and are less blinded by past knowledge and heuristics by how the world operates, so there are tons of technology startups that can probably go a long time without bringing on experienced folks.

This is a specific argument, cannot be generalized for all startups.

Full Disclosure: I'm a "young person".
The difference is that those preferences actually do something. DNT is just asking nicely to advertisers, it doesn't actually prevent tracking, so if everyone asks by default, it becomes meaningless.

The only way for a "Do Not Track" feature to be on by default is if it legally or technically prevents ad networks from tracking, otherwise it'll be ignored (see IE).
My point is that the metrics used are mostly meaningless
I'd hazard that because you didn't have the opportunity to speak to them face to face. If you were that aggrieved, you should have complained to the manager. I totally agree that the kid was out of line. My experience of Dell has been worse than yours. I won't have any of their products in my house. I have found their pre-sales support to be overly aggressive and patronising, post sales support to be lack lustre, verging on incompetent and a build quality that can only be described as inept. HP are not much better; I recently returned a HP Spectre XT that had a faulty power button. It took a written legal threat to get anything close to a resolution. These are all anecdotal, but very real incidents to counter your own.

EDIT: spelling.
eBay used to be the place where you could put all your old junk and get some nice cash for it but lately it seems to be entirely focused on resellers (stores) rather than people selling junk from their basement.

Now it's all $1.00 items with $16.00 shipping fees.

I've been using Craigslist to buy/sell. I would prefer a place that was targeted specifically at casual sellers.
Yes, you can use unauthorised hacky methods to change batteries. A laptop beautifully designed for tiny thiness is a bad example to use, because there are obvious trade offs.

Look at things like the Power Mac G4 - amazing design, really lovely internal layout, really easy to change anything.

I have no idea what Apple's equivalent product is today, but I do know that changing anything is harder, and that Apple is keen for people not to modify anything.

That's okay. Homogeneous install base makes support much easier and better. (Compare to blue-screens on Windows caused by shoddy graphics card drivers provided by vendors). But it sucks for people who know what they're doing and who want to make changes. Apple products are expensive, and not everyone wants to change machine every 1.5 years.
Ditto to that, i was a huge fan of OSX until lion and mission control. Started to use win 7 with dexpot and some other customization and haven't booted to OSX in at least 6 months now.
I've used the ctags plugin for Sublime Text and it's pretty damn awful. Maybe it's just with PHP, but it seems to look only at symbol names and doesn't do any static analysis of the code, so if I have several functions named the same thing in various files ctags has no idea which one it should look up.

It's also not up-to-the-second. It has to re-run an analysis of the whole project to update its db. It doesn't update it's cache as you edit a file. Not sure if that's ctags in general or just the ST2 plugin.

Still, the point the author is making is that to make VIM useable you have to use a lot of plugins to get what you want while many IDEs provide it out of the box without the user needing to figure out what plugins/addons/scripts/config files to setup to get it to work.
Yeah, Apple should provide support like Dell (used to? dunno about know) where they can send a tech to your home, or send you parts to swap yourself.
To be honest, I didn't like OSX when it first came out and, despite my best efforts, could not force myself to like it when I gave it another chance a couple years ago. It's an OS that demands the user to conform to it's way of doing things rather than conforming to the users way of doing things. That's fine for some people, but not me. I like the feel of Apple's hardware and find their prices very reasonable, but they're simply not built to last. This is a tragic and fatal flaw for what would otherwise be great hardware for running another OS on.

The only thing Apple truly has going for it is branding. Mac's are freakin' fashion accessories these days. I'm not sure if any other manufacturer can duplicate Apple's marketing genius, but I think we can already see Apple's trendiness fading. A big part of what built Apple's brand up over the last decade was being the plucky underdog fighting the MS man. Now Apple is "the man". Samsung's Apple-bashing ads might be heavy-handed, but they're almost identical to the ads Apple used to run against MS.
I don't understand something. How can she find a dongle joke in a private chat offensive, while make a phallic joke herself a day later? Sure, she can say that they broke the conference's rules; but people break such rules all the time. Grab an extra pastry? Borrow a colleague's badge? Sneak out some extra food? Who hasn't done that?

This just seems bizarre, and the price paid by the guy who got fired seems to be too much for what was, in essence, a private conversation. I can understand (to some extent) him being excoriated for making such a joke with her; but he was chatting with a buddy, albeit louder than intended.

Sometimes I wish people would just calm down a little, and fight the _real_ problems. And I'll be the first to raise my voice against sexism and discrimination, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
So, I have a couple of answers. The first being that you are probably right. I've been a Mac user my whole life so a big part of it is just comfort, coupled with some remaining hope that things will return to the way things were. It was not that long ago that OS X updates were genuinely solid. Everything up to Tiger was great in my opinion. Secondly, I plan on making myself a PC in the near future just to handle graphics stuff and for gaming. The latest 10.8.3 update has negatively affected my framerates and the lack of support for the latest graphics cards is making it harder and harder to do some tasks. Lastly, there is the fact that I do iOS development so I need a Mac for that regardless. If I was still doing web dev my options might be different.
>Is it really unreasonable to expect a patch for a reported software issue?

No. But it's unreasonable to expect a patch pronto, while they must be investigating the issue (that the steps in the forum solved the issue, doesn't mean they cover every aspect of it, or that they work with everybody that has the issue).

And if the issue can't be fixed with a simple patch but needs several steps, it's reasonable to take your computer to them and have them perform them.
Everyone's natural tendency in situations such as this (ones where valid moral principles are in conflict) is to try to look for the easy solution. We want to determine who's right and who's wrong by determining which should take precedence - one's right to privately hold and express (even unwelcome) views, or one's reasonable expectation not to be bombarded with offensive language in a setting where they cannot get away from it. In order to resolve this conflict we try to order, add, and/or refine rules, hoping that we can make a clear distinction between right and wrong that will be accepted by a near consensus. This is an empty exercise and denies the nature of complex matters.

Clearly, the men involved (unknowingly) imposed speech that was deeply offensive and uncomfortable for Adria in a situation where she couldn't get away. She reacted, which she has the right to do, and as a consequence one of the men is paying a price that is obviously too steep. It is clear that the pain caused by Adria's tweet isn't proportional to the harm the initial language caused, so what could have been constructive criticism has spun out of control. So, it's unfair to Adria that she had to hear language she found offensive, but it's also unfair that anyone got fired over a comment that most of us would agree wasn't intended to offend and could've been rectified with a simple apology.

We should acknowledge that no heuristic we can come up with will tell us how to behave in the future in order to avoid this sort of thing. As a person who, embarrassingly, finds toilet humor frequently hilarious and fully supports free speech, I don't see nor want to see it go away. As a rational person I also acknowledge this sort of thing has the potential to offend.

What we should realize is that, if we expect to progress in such matters, we have to let go of the notion that punishment is the tool to move us forward, and engage in conversation instead. The fact that our impulse is so frequently to oversimplify behavior by labeling it "right" or "wrong", seeking to penalize the "wrong" should trouble us. It denies both parties (both the offender and the offended) the opportunity to exhibit empathy, compassion, remorse, and forgiveness, which are at the base of anyone's morality. Thus, the blindness to the complexity of moral dilemmas, and our aversion to the necessary discussions deprive us of our humanity.
> but I was honest about the incident

that was your mistake there, i always play ignorant and say it stopped working. So far I've had no problems even with things that were my fault.

Dishonest? maybe, but apple can afford it.

Why didn't you just say it stopped working and leave it at that?
Here's an idea to really drive traffic:

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Then in the ebay listing description add some key phrase like "Heyy Folks Be Quick" - the buyers will quickly learn that such a phrase means "get a 5% discount by making your purchase through SellSimple".
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Why is it that Apple users are so damn opinionated ?
Jeez, just use what works for you.

Guess what ? I use a Windows Desktop and really like it. Its fast, i can built it myself and works with everything. My web development is done on an ubuntu vm in the cloud so i dont care where my tools run.
Id probably run Linux but as i do some game programming and my tools arent availabe there, i cant.

I also own a Macbook Air, i really like the hardware and battery life. Its a really solid mobile device. I dont like OSX too much but it runs my tools so i dont care. As PC laptop makers have catched up alot in the past 2-3 years id probably buy an ultrabook next as there are more choices and they are a bit cheaper.

So what ? No hardware/software is perfect, just use what works for you.
Except for the many, many websites that have stupid restrictions like: "sorry, your username should be lower-case letters only".
10.8.3 came out days ago.

Apple may or may not have an official fix. Either way it it takes time for Apple to QA before pushing it out to tens of millions of users.
The sapphire is susceptible to chipping or shattering if whacked hard enough or dropped (a bit like toughened glass...hardness usually means more brittle). Diamonds are the main cause of scratches, but softer materials can also still cause scratches....
Lua’s Startup Way: Dropping the Baggage
Unlike Apple (at least the last time my wife bought one), other PC vendors are happy to sell you accidental damage protection with a laptop. I'd say that is a pretty big difference.
Are you suggesting that most people have micro screwdrivers suitable for opening cases ?

Because that doesn't seem right at all.
Nokia sold Vertu to a private equity group last year[1]. "That dumb" means who in their right mind would pay $10k for a phone[2]? Unless they were Kanye West[3]. And even he's an iPhone user[4].

[1] http://www.eqt.se/en/Portfolio/Companies/Vertu/

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/21/silent-cir...

[3] http://rapgenius.com/38105

[4] Or at least was in 2010. http://www.vulture.com/2010/11/in_the_studio_with_kanye_west...
On one hand, I feel bad for the guy. I mean it seems like unless you're wealthy or have a really good case in these situations hiring a lawyer is too pricey for most people and so when the district attorney is coming at you with all they got and they shove you in with the other "drug" criminals and all you have is your appointed court defender, you're going to have a bad time. It's almost like he didn't have a "fair" shot just because the weight of accusations against him and the power behind it versus what he had was just outweighed.

On the other hand, he had to of known what was going on. You start down the path of shady, it's just going to get darker. I can't say I blame him or I wouldn't do the same if I had a passion for such things, but still he had to of known the risk. I don't believe in his sentence however and it really sucks the guys at the top only got half the length he did. There might have been other things involved sure, but stil a sentence like that is pretty staggering and life changing.
Not once a year, but here in new zealand for most people the email address is provided by the ISP.
When they change their ISP, they typically get a new email address.
Most people I know have changed their ISP a couple of times.
> I would really love is having my editor, and a couple command/console prompts in the same UI.

OFMs like Far Manager, Midnight Commander or similar might fill that niche. Far does for me, at least and I tend to spend my time editing code either there, in VS or Eclipse, depending on the language and project. But it's more a file manager with an editor (which needs a few plugins to be used for coding) than an editor with a command line.
I'd rather him buy me a house, a vacation, or a Ferrari. Rings are just annoying.
When I saw the title, my first instinct was worrying about you getting sued for making an inappropriate joke
>This "engineer" didn't even understand that Apple doesn't write the drivers and "BIOS" for the card

I would have agreed with this argument had he installed a custom graphics card but this is not the case here. It came included with the product, so its Apple's responsibility to make sure it works. Say you buy a new car from Ford and the tires wear out in 6 months, despite Michelin being the manufactures, wouldn't you still blame Ford for it?

Alright, let's take a HN friendly example. Say you run a medium B2B startup and one day the API that a lot of other businesses depend on goes down. The reason could be attributed to a strange bug in the new Ruby/Django/PHP update. Would you still pass the blame to Ruby/Django/PHP or would you accept responsibility for it?
Do you use C-r/C-s to move around? That's what I do and I think that using the keyboard is a bit faster.

The difference is probably negligible, though.
Unless I'm mistaken, he only compares the fees for stores. And looking at http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html#if_fixed, it seems that for individuals, the new fixed fee of 10% is always worse for anything electronic or $100 or more.
The Gizmodo posting of this article updated it as fake:

http://gizmodo.com/5164841/robot-programmed-to-love-traps-wo...

Here's an article on the actual robot:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/05/21/news/robots-will...
And people wonder why apple's are so expensive...
> Most Vim plugins haven’t been converted to Github projects yet.

Well that just isn't true: https://github.com/vim-scripts/repositories
His issue with vimscripts being not being on github seems to be made up.

Also, `:set format` isn't an option… `:set ft=html` I presume.
I really don't want Lenovo to go against Apple.

Or, at least, I want them to keep the T series pure and business user orientated.
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well they had to charge enough to get that 100 billion in cash somehow!
Agreed, it's a classic example of two wrongs not making a right.
But Google manages to do this, I'm unconvinced.
> Given that most successful exits nowadays are through acquisition

Yes. We should also note that IPOs are much more rare than they once were, the entire world economy is flat or failing, and the flurry of $1M/employee acqu-hires from last year by Apple, Google and Facebook was an aberration and not an economic principle that is likely to be repeated, and even then didn't benefit the actual engineers.

The reward upside on yet-another-startup doing the same thing is quite poor.

On the other hand, creating your own business and avoiding VC's entirely is still a good bet compared to these other alternatives. For those who want risk, it's a great way to go. For risk avoiders, there's tons of well compensated employment working for mature and reasonable companies.

What is the value proposition of these startups that have low compensation, completely retarded so-called products, and almost no chance whatsoever of going public? None.
"User acquisition of auction customers is indeed expensive, but I bet there are opportunities in peer to peer trust arrangements similar to escrow transactions."

I like where you are going with that. I can envision a marketplace that is built around consumer trust and seller expertise, I just don't think that eBay is that marketplace.
It's "had to have known", not "had to of known". For the love of all that is good and right in the world, please, "had to have known".
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I don't see how it makes any difference who writes the GPU drivers. Apple's entire business model is selling all-in-one solutions and the price you pay for that as the vendor is the whole box is your problem from the customer's perspective.

GPU driver issues? I don't care if they are Nvidia's (or AMD/ATI's) bugs, Nvidia (or AMD/ATI) is your GPU vendor, you have them fix that shit and just deliver that to me in an OS update. Otherwise your shit is busted.

If my Honda car had some firmware in it programmed by some 3rd party shop in China and it started acting up, I would damn well demand Honda figure out how to get it fixed regardless of whose bug it was. They are the ones who sold me the integrated solution, it is now their problem. Same thing with Apple devices, especially since they've chosen to create an ecosystem of computers with no user serviceable or replaceable parts.
Just Use Emacs. You have no idea what you are missing.
I think the absolute numbers may indeed poor indicators, but looking at the derivative or trends tells a different story. At https://starthq.com we are working on recording historic data and showing the rate of acceleration in numbers like Compete rank to give an indication as to whether the startup is up and coming, has plateaued or is in decline.
That is one hell of a misnamed article.
For those who are upset by Reader shutdown and want more, check out Schemer https://www.schemer.com, a site that is more strategic than Reader to Google.
New Web Development Framework Aiming to Make Web Development as easy as native
Would like feedback on a Web Development Framework I have been working on for the last few years that can be seen here: http://www.webbot.ws It takes inspiration from QT and aims to make complex web development as easy as possible.
Dell, HP and Lenovo (I'm not sure about Samsung) all have support options where they will send someone to your house to fix things. To me, that sounds a whole lot nicer than carrying an iMac to an Apple Store, no matter how good the support is when I get there.
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The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage over playback devices
An awkward incident handled cowardly by someone, and some random anonymous coward too afraid to put his name where the mouth is steps up in defence? feh
> Some truly horrific things are happening to her as a result of this tweet

I don't think these things are quite as horrific as being fired by a spineless lick-spittle employer and not knowing how to provide for your family.

> whose consequences she could have never intended or imagined.

Of course not; she compared herself to a saint (actually), and probably expected others to buy into her delusions.
What about Pjax, Russian Doll Caching, Ruby 2.0 etc?
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It's a compelling story but I agree that leaving out details like that is a failure of journalistic ethics.
At the risk of sounding cynical, that's not for the benefit of the consumer. It doesn't mean much either as most manufacturers I've had experience with will try and wriggle out of honouring those agreements, HP especially. That said, Apple absolutely should offer this facility.
Come on, if you really think that a drop of coffee will usually kill any electronics you must have never even handled a circuit board...

Most laptops (including mi MBP!) will survive light spillage without problems.
> If you're implying that I took your coe without attribution

Not at all - more an expression of frustration that we've all duplicated effort.

You're right, you do go in a different direction, but the groundwork to get an absolute beginner up and running isn't something I think should need to be replicated over and over again...
I agree that she doesn't deserve some of the vitriol her way. Particularly the misogynistic stuff which is particularly stupid considering the context.

However it's also true that she was the one who chose the nuclear option, and has to live with the consequences of that. If I (as a guy) had behaved as she did, I would expect long threads on HN & Reddit telling me what an asshole I am.

The problem seems to be that her moral compass is so skewed that she believes her reaction was proportionate, and will probably not learn anything from the negative reaction to this.
Playhaven developer fired for sexual jokes
CascaDB: a buffered B-tree storage engine
too bad it has no search/next methods in the interface yet
The point here is that we used to buy Apple (and pay their price) just because they weren't like the rest of the industry. That doesn't hold anymore.
When it comes to remote typing, it's trivial to build a simple file syncing script using something like python watchdog. I use it to avoid typing remotely as much as possible.
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Why? It is measuring the difference between a compiled-as-C GCC and a compiled-as-C++ GCC.
Screwdrivers capable of opening up every Thinkpad I've ever used are included in every generic screwdriver set I've ever bought for "jobs around the house" (tightening screws on furniture, opening up toys to replace batteries [sometimes requires pretty small screwdrivers], mounting WiFi routers on the wall, ...).

I believe the exact opposite is true for the two MacBooks my wife has owned.
This sums up basically every problem I had with vim. It's great, but it took significantly less time to get up and running and productive with Sublime. I know people who are the exact opposite and took to vim like a duck to water.

Upside is at least we have two great editors now.