skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should clarify that I'm not advocating the approach, rather just stating that I've seen it work in several organizations. Those cases were mixed, some accepted a counter others were up front, essentially saying "Look, do I need to go and get another offer for us to work this out?".

If I'm not mistaken, the thought behind not accepting counters is that it breeds resentment. In reality, I think it depends on how tactfully the process is handled.

Personally, my approach has been to hop and not accept counters.
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And how companies like Google might have acted?
It is up again I suppose.
Everything can be done in one line of code of a language that does not require newlines.
Post-Deal Best Practices In the Socialize Acquisition by ShareThis
SOA = "Service-oriented architecture", first time I've come across that term (I always say "Web Services").
That company was called Intervento, before they were acquired by EasyPhone and together became what is known nowadays as Altitude Software.

I live in Germany nowadays.
The NumPy, Scrapy and SciPy folks may disagree :)
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How Paul Graham writes an essay
An abusive monopoly? Microsoft never had a monopoly, much less an abusive monopoly. If they had, there's a very long list of products and companies that did survive Microsoft that would not have.

They had market power, not a government granted right to a market (aka a monopoly). There's no historical evidence to suggest Microsoft was unbeatable. Rather, there's a lot of evidence to suggest very few companies tried to compete with Windows once it achieved scale. Neither Sun nor Oracle ever launched a full fledged Windows competitor in the consumer space, neither did AOL or Netscape. And Apple lost due to its own mistakes, more than admitted by Jobs after the fact; ditto IBM.

And if you want to talk market power. Microsoft beat Apple, who was ten times its size. And they beat IBM, which was 100+ times its size. How? The same way Android has beaten iOS in smart phones when it comes to market share: distribution across the widest selection of hardware vendors.

Re inflating prices. Actually Microsoft lowered prices substantially.

You should look up how much productivity software cost before Microsoft created Office, and how much easier it was to buy and sell their software. They undercut everybody at the time. Microsoft also was instrumental in vastly bringing down the cost of personal computing by leveraging a standard across consistent hardware. They also made it extremely easy to distribute software, courtesy of a standard, bringing down the cost for software by providing economies of scale. Meanwhile, competing platforms were far more expensive (including Apple's solutions). Also, Microsoft has always charged half or less for Windows than what Intel does for its good consumer processors.

The DOJ got involved because competitors who either screwed up and failed to compete (eg Netscape), or were simply scared (Sun), complained.

Wired's The Truth The Whole Truth article about the case more than spells out how much of a witch hunt it was.

The DOJ tries to control any wildly successful company with market power. For the government, it's all about power over the economy and bringing companies to heel. Anti-trust has little to do with monopolies (if it did, Verizon and AT&T would be broken up).
After 12 years!
> Wanting the respect of others in your peer group is sad now?

Wanting superficial respect based on material things is sad.
Math nerds. chortle My sister is a 9th grade math teacher - she will appreciate. Thanks for the chuckle :)
but the .net guise did such stuff
Doesn't kill IE10 on my box.
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My negotiating a higher rate for you is like an annuity, since your earnings every hour have increased for the same level of work. So you are rewarded every hour for the fruits of my labor. Yet I should only be rewarded once?
> Perhaps if she's going to wear a ring for the rest of her life, she wants it to be a nice ring that is color neutral.

So CZ then? That saves money for the point below.

> Perhaps she doesn't want something cheap and easily replaceable acting as a symbol for your marriage.

You mean like having kids?
For anyone who might be interested, my housemate published a book of Backbone tutorials. You can download it for free from http://backbonetutorials.com/
They'll just tell him that he should fix his CSS (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/microsoft...). The only thing publicly announcing a MSIE bug will do is subject the author to ceaseless attacks from "you're either with us or against us" Internet Explorer fans (speaking from personal experience.)
Does this mean I have to take down all of my Ruby on Tails Twitter-like tutorial apps?
Gem list to gemfile
Moneytrap at Pozible (non-tech kickstarter)
Just to clarify - my assertion is that CAM doesn't work because if it works, and we have evidence to show that it works, it's not CAM it's part of the body of evidence-based medicine.

If we don't have scientific evidence that something works then pretty much by definition we can't say it works because we don't have the proof. It's sort-of tautological.

The other comment "I don't understand how it works because it doesn't" was specifically in reference to Homeopathy, which has been shown over and over again to be no better than placebo (i.e. doesn't work). The example was to show that there's no point in investigating how something works, and it's silly to chastise people for not understanding how something works, unless we can first show that something works and that there is even something to investigate.

Apply this to paleo - I have no reason to suspect it works or not. Before investigating this miraculous diet, lets do a proper study to see if it actually is of benefit to the general population, or just to a subset, or if actually the benefits reported are by a tiny number of self-selected people and not really significant at all.

When we actually know (rather than suspect from anecdote) that it does something, then is the time to look at how.
Just a heads up for anyone thinking of ugrading to IE10, it breaks several sites including FedEx, at least on Win7.
I came here to ask this too. What if you burn yourself? I imagine that is very difficult to deal with.
I was specifically referring to the diamond cartel as 'scum'. You are right, and there are real practical uses for stuff that gets taken out of the earth. I see no problem with that since most uses could be considered as a net positive. Diamonds to be a "girl's best friend" though, much less so.
I'm guessing you're using Windows 8, but suspect that the bug still crashes MSIE10 on Win7. The two browsers look the same, but I suspect there are some drastic differences between their innards.
Former Google reader product manager explains why reader was shut down
You did nothing wrong and shouldn't apologize to an absurdly psychopathic feminist "developer evangelist" (what the f* is that?). You made a mildly off color comment then she set out to ruin you. She thinks she's a hero for creating an unemployed family of five. She's genuinely insane and genuinely evil, and i'm guessing if you polled average Americans 90% of them would agree with the sentiment (including a huge majority of women).
Ask YC: What is YC antiportfolio?
Inspired by BVP antiportfolio - http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio, could you share some teams you have passed on and "later blossomed into a tremendously successful company"?
This is disgusting and immoral. It also seems to have been filed before they made their patent promise thing public. Assholes.
Thanks for your comment. For now no. Yes I will change that in next iteration.
they=Ruby/Rails community
Same reason there are still plenty of Java projects out there that stick a "J" in the start of the name.
Ridiculous, surely sth like Jabber could be shown as prior art ?
"I only have to provide a citation that CAM sometimes works to disprove Nursies assertion that CAM "doesn't work"."

It helps to pick something that is actually CAM then, and not part of mainstream health advice that has been coopted by CAM. Eating well and getting lots of exercise isn't exactly revolutionary, outside-the-box, non-mainstream thinking.
What does this mean for the likes of Identica, StatusNet, OStatus, etc?
"Getting started with Ember.Js is easy." - No it isn't
In Thailand, people borrow money to have a wedding. But guests pay some money (+ gift) at the wedding. So you usually got enough back, if not more, to pay for the debt.
I think the performance varied from device-to-device and from site-to-site. The heavier uses tended to perform worse, the flash games designed for mobile tended to perform much better.

But it's really moot, flash on mobile didn't fail because of quality, it failed because it wasn't on the iPhone. A cross-platform runtime that's not cross-platform is pretty worthless, no matter the quality of it.
The title here is neither the question being asked, nor the question being answered, and hence is significantly misleading given the fact that this is a detailed question about a detailed aspect of behavior.
Of course you can use JavaScript to express OOP patterns. You say it yourself that you need those patterns to develop large apps. Anyone who does otherwise either leaves behind a mess of a code base or is being naive. You can have classes right now in JavaScript, it's just a matter of educating developers.
I think it's a simple matter of focus. One could extend your logic and say 'Why don't you get your tech news from NY Times instead of Hacker News, since they have a tech section in their website ?'
Harmoniums of Mercury: a semi-interactive homage to Kurt Vonnegut
I am impressed that you managed to cycle hard enough that such a thing could happen. My best month on the bike was 1000 miles; I can't imagine what you must have done to 'earn' such a 'reward.'
For me, The pain isn't necessarily painful. It's closer to a dull ache that's always there.

There are times where it gets worse, and it's like somebody's kicked you, and times when its really bad like when somebody's stabbed you.

But generally, I feel the pain, and then any extra pain on top. And it's not like an actual injury where it hurts more when you move, its just there, like background noise of your nervous system.
Is this because someone forgot to patent the cc feature of email? We've been doing similar point to multi-medium translation of messages for decades. Email to email+text pager for doctors in hospitals. Surely there's a strong prior art case that invalidates this, but this is also obvious enough that it really shouldn't get through in the first place.

I am just too thick to understand IP law.
Yeah, EI is a major factor. I read Daniel Goleman's book some years ago. It was definitely a worthwhile read: http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-Matter-More-Tha...
don't forget the web.py folks!
The java equivalent was '4j'. It's mildly useful on a mixed community like HN, you've got some idea before you click through what the target developer audience is.
Multi-level-of-detail IDE
Hey guys. I am dreaming about an IDE which allows you to seamlessly walk through multiple levels of detail and want to ask if you heard about something similar what already exists.

Imagine. You open an IDE. You see a list of projects. ZOOM into the project you want to work on. You see a list of packages. ZOOM into the package. You see a list of classes. ZOOM into the class. You see a list of variables and methods. You can move the methods up and down, etc. ZOOM into the method and you can edit the code. ZOOM into the code and you can see e.g. call diagrams or documentation. What do you think?

The point is you can zoom in and out easily and quickly navigate on various levels of abstraction.
This isn't really Hacker News-related, although the whole article is depressingly true.
For a senior developer in SF area, 3 months salary could get you a loose diamond in the 3-4 carat range off a site like bluenile.com. That's enormous for a ring. In fact, probably so large that disbelief becomes a problem: "That can't be real!"
>You cultivate stoicism, although you aren't quite sure what it means.

Out of interest: have you read any Stoic (or similar 'acceptance' philosophies, e.g. Epicureanism, Buddhism, Taoism) literature? If so, have you found any of it helpful?
Am I the only one that disagrees with the decision? Correct me if I'm wrong:

So imagine you're a publisher and you sell a math book in the USA for $60 and in a 3rd world country for $20 so that more people can afford it and you can establish a presence there.

Is it fair for people from that 3rd world country to sell the book back to the USA and for you to miss out on your profit?

I know most of us here love having the freedom to do whatever we want but we need to look at the RESULT of the decision, not the EMOTIONAL return of the decision. Sure it makes us feel good to know we can sell what we want to where-ever and whom-ever we want. But what if the result of that action is a bad thing?

I think it's quick sales like this that will push more publishers to:

1) Move towards digital only distribution with heavy DRM.

2) Increase prices in the USA to make up for the loss in profit.

3) Increase prices in other countries to discourage the overseas exporting.

4) Retract themselves entirely from smaller markets.

Am I missing something, or not seeing the benefit? Seriously critique my thoughts, I want to see both sides to this.
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The Atlantic has a series of photo's to mark the 10 year anniversary. These photos just highlight the tragic scenario that unfolded in Iraq after the invasion. It's just unfair that Bush and his cronies will not be held accountable for this disaster.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/iraq-wars-10th-an...
Only if anyone actually looks at the SSL cert warnings instead of just clicking through them.
Google Code uses stars, Codeplex allows votes... that seems to be the minimum effort to support crowdsourcing bug prioritization. GitHub's issues haven't gotten much love.
Re "Create at least one lead generation channel as an affiliate for another product"

Selling another software app as an affiliate is completely different to selling your own application and I would argue much harder to actually make any decent money from. Any effort you expend is building the brand of the other company. You can't split test their landing page. You lose a lot of traffic to people that directly type in the url.

If you can rebrand some awesome software where you own the domain, brand etc and you sell and get 100%, this is not a terrible business model, but the problem is that any half decent software wouldn't want to do this as they would prefer to sell it themselves.

I guess they are saying to be an affiliate as practice. I don't really agree however. I think you can practice on your real business.
2013 Microsoft seems to be trying hard not to be 2009 Microsoft. Might be worth another shot.
Show HN: Planning a scheduled Attack With Facebook Events
As someone who writes open source software to help solve other peoples' problems, all I can tell you is that it makes me happy to help other people. There's no logical reasoning behind it beyond that I feel good when I've helped someone else accomplish their goals.

Sure, you could analyze the cost and benefits of it, and maybe even find a logical reason as to why it makes me happy, but _I_ didn't. I just enjoy it! :D
You need to get a life, that's what i think.
Apple brand less 'inspiring' survey says
You have got to be kidding me. This just shows how broken the US patent system is for software.
I am speaking from a different perspective, I have gout and have had it worsen over the past couple of months while losing massive amounts of weight.

I now have pain in my feet that takes a couple of days to a week to go away with meds. I bite through the pain, but I can also feel when I hurt some other part of my body while working out. The pain is different, has a different intensity and just in general is nothing like the pain from the gout.

One thing it does do is numb pain in general, even with different pain in different parts of my body I have a higher pain tolerance in general, and I feel the pain differently.
The underlying reason that so many are against it isn't really the bleeding africans; it is the underlying sexist tones of "The man will provide" "The man must do something that goes against his rationality to make the woman happy" "It shouldn't matter to the man that De Beers is manipulating the market, the man will provide" "It should not matter that synthetic diamonds that are not noticeably different to the naked eye can be made for a tenth of the price"

The real reason isn't the blood diamond aspect. It is the male equivalent of "get in the kitchen and bake me a pie", except social expectation is for men to do the things that are expected of them, regardless of the inherit fairness or rationality.
It doesn't support priorities natively, but I've seen several projects use labels with unicode stars to prioritize. Then, you can filter by that tag to to see all 5-star issues, 4-star issues, etc.
One problem with zooming to 67% is the comment text are too small to read for me.
Want to help your hometown? Pack up and leave
The first thing this has me thinking is that it looks like a "subreddit" of HN. I'm surprised to not have seen or heard of a Reddit style site with HN voting rules on it.
We are very open to adding high-quality "generic" programming resources. At least on "organizing" and "testing" there are probably some awesome resources our there. Any recommendations?
How are they reprehensible? What exactly makes them reprehensible? I don't recall him saying anything an adult internet user should find offensive.

The man is expressing his opinion and if you're bothered by that, perhaps you should consider turning off your computer and not participating in internet discussions. There are plenty of places in this world where people won't offend your delicate sensibilities.
As a European I find that most of the text makes sense. Perhaps in 20 years we see the second Iraq war as a pivotal event in the relationship US - World.

But don't let the journals title fool you: the American Conservative is a conservative magazine that was founded as an anti-Iraq magazine (see Wikipedia). This is not a Republican or GOP outlet. It has 8000 circulation. It's a story that I think (US-)liberals, Europeans and netizens will like. But a large part of Americans really have different values.

I not looking to start a flamewar. But internet people are really different than what US politicians make of the US median vote. So this story might be nice and ring true to me, but who will it influence?
I feel very sorry that this uppity POS made you lose your job over a harmless joke. Some people need to really learn what a sense of humour is.
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Using the same ThinkPad w500 for 4+ years, running 1920 x 1200 resolution.

I'm utterly fed up with the consumerization of power notebooks at the expense of the needs of productivity workers.

The last few years have been an outright de-evolution of screen resolutions for laptops ... i'm still waiting for a clear upgrade path.

I'm a technology marketing specialist. I design graphics and develop software and websites using Adobe Creative Suite, Visual Studio, and various other apps that require lots of screen real estate. It seems like computer companies think everyone buys notebooks to watch movies.

There are a millions of power users that require high resolution notebooks including engineers, CAD/CAM designers, architects, graphic designers, developers, etc. These groups form the best litmus test for determining quality wrt high-end technology.

And these groups are being alienated by technology companies -- both software and hardware. This includes the latest Windows 8 craptaculous dr. jekyll mr. hyde release, along with the numerous laptop vendors all trying to shove consumer-focused technology down the throats of power users that primarily use technology to PRODUCE THINGS.

The most insulting and infuriating thing is that the ThinkPad brand in particular grew famous from the loyalty of power-users like me. And instead of listening to us and delivering products that meet and exceed our needs, Lenovo (and other manufacturers) blindly chase after new consumer oriented customers at our expense.

The marketing morons at these companies (i know their "work" very well) are focused on generating growth and chasing after new markets -- at all costs. That's fine. Create a new brand to do that.

My advise to manufacturers of high-end products for long-term success:

- Create new brands to enter new markets

- Deliver high-end products that meet/exceed the needs of your most demanding customers

- Evolve core brands CAREFULLY

- If you don't use the product as your demanding customers do, then you don't understand the product, so you should not make drastic decisions that affect it

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Strange that all the charts shown are the worthless kind. Time series, pie-style, all are the lowest common denominator of graphic information. No scatterplot, no multivariate analysis of any kind.

Yesterday we saw Hans Rosling show the developing world's progress in 30 seconds of brilliant graphics. Today: pie charts.
I've submitted a link to Gowers' blog which has a paper describing his work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406796
Of all the retrospectives on the Iraq War, this is probably one of the most relevant for HN readers. The image of the unneeded chicken factory in the desert, propped and funded by wishful thinking and a mad rush to spend money, brings to mind the often derided startup bubble.
Ray Kurzweil Discusses His First Two Months At Google
Well at least they have this:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/twitter-patent-...
I don't understand this bio-reductionist attitude.

When was the last time your murdered someone with your bare hands at the supermarket?
I know what you mean about the pain feeling different. It's really hard to describe, I imagine it's different for everyone. How are you approaching working out?
As a student, I feel text books are priced way too high. If the international version is just a few dollars less that the one sold in the US, no one is going to go searching the web for a cheaper book. The problem is that the price variance is too much and these are required text books. I sometimes spend hours to look for a used text book that is cheap. If I sold my used text book, I will get a max of 5 $ from a text book vendor but to buy it back is around 50 $. It is always the student who seems to be at the losing end.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/twitter-patent-...
I just figured out I have this adres at coinbase: 1AL1NkXgkoCHA4VCFwyn4E12orw4cSbWhQ
...the current regulatory laws force the businesses to use ActiveX.

Wow. Here I was thinking CFAA was a bad law.
> Support for HTTP PATCH requests, sending only the changed state of your model to the server, instead of the full representation.

This feels a little off to me. The nice thing about Backbone vs. other frameworks is that it's not overly opinionated, you can structure your backend any way you want, so I'm not sure why Backbone has an opinion of what http methods save() uses. PUT as a default makes sense but it should be able to support POST, PATCH, GET, CHANGETHETHING or anything else, as browsers now support arbitrary method strings in XHR. Perhaps an override some where?
Where I work we have build a framework which is quite powerful for handling large JavaScript codebases. http://www.caplin.com/developer/component/bladerunner

I'm surprised there isn't an equivalent OS one, I think Yeoman is a pale comparison of it.
Not allowing to reverse the genders implies treating them differently. That’s sexist.
What Happens in an Internet Minute?