skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those less initiated in management-speak, KPI is apparently "Key Performance Indicator" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_performance_indicator
Google's 'Glass at Work Certified Partners'
Show HN: Planleaf – Manage tasks completely over email
"I have learned the art of being incredibly outgoing and a veritable chatterbox when need be."

How did you learn ?
how does Linode compare to Amazon AWS?
Two words: partner dancing

For me it was Argentine Tango. For others maybe salsa, swing, ballroom, etc. I seriously cannot overstate how great dancing is.
An early beta compiler crashes! Oh, noes, Apple is doomed!

I think the point here is that if the compiler crashes, that implies that it is trying to do the thing, as opposed to saying "No, filthy programmer, I will not permit you to do that thing."
As a consumer I should enjoy the "race to the bottom" of hosting pricing, but as one who wants to make my own *aaS apps, it's sort of troubling!
This is what drives me nuts. I've seen "social advertising consultants" or "growth hackers" give talks and even expensive training on how to plan a calendar where you're publishing updates of one type or another (not that your "fans" care in most cases) multiple times per day, every day. Completely unsurprisingly, even genuine fans of, say, $big_name_drinks_brand get fed up with that very quickly.

On the other hand, there are organisations that want to use the system as originally conceived, just like your friends: they post an update every now and then when they actually have something of genuine interest to share with their "fans". These days, most of the fans won't actually see it unless the organisation pays FB a fortune to promote every post they make. Probably no big deal if you're Coke or Ford or something, but more so if you're the Friends of St Paul's Church and you're just trying to tell your local congregation about the summer fete next weekend so they can come along.

This seems like a short-sighted bait-and-switch from FB to me. They're removing most of the value from the "like" mechanism for both the liker and the likee, just to try and squeeze a bit more advertising revenue out of the mega-advertisers who can afford it... until everyone decides the game is up, takes their ball, and goes home, presumably.
A lot of what people call bullshit is necessary social grease/grace [0].

Trust and authority are currently centralised and because this is the case if you want to belong to society you will have to become more forgiving of bullshit.

Additionally I haven't met a single person yet (and I include myself in this wonderful category) that doesn't believe their own bullshit.

Whenever I hear somebody imply that they're always correct and never believe or act upon anything that can be empirically disproven I call bullshit at that or wonder whether they've ever risked believing and acting upon anything at all?

If you truly despise bullshit then do this: before you point the finger at others realise that you're likely one of them, and that if you really want to lessen it your best chance will be to start with yourself. This is called humility.

How might you do this? Well perhaps before or after you say something, you can turn to others and ask them what they truly think without imposing expectations or qualifications that they must agree with you. And remember even if they respond saying "yes, that sounds right" you could still be wrong and trust me here you will eventually be wrong. You are only human.

If the cognitive dissonance of knowing that you will never be a perfectly rational being is too much for you, then continue believing whatever you want about your intellect and others quackery as the world will not stop you.

I guess we all need our egos [1].

* * *

[0] Firstly, I define bullshit as the action of using higher social skills to offset lower domain knowledge. Secondly, my intuition is that belief in bullshit also stabilises large groups: I would be just as worried about a lack of bullshit as I would harm caused by bullshit.

[1] Our need to politicise and attack the bullshit of somebody with higher status shows our wish to have the injustice of not being the dominant re-evaluated by our group, while our need to attack the bullshit of those with lower status is a strategy to fight off perceived pretenders of our position. Resentment and contempt are after all two sides of the same coin, both used when we don't want to personally act on our feelings.
That price is shockingly low.
Preserving Model History with ActiveRecord and PostgreSQL
And, I guess I'll visit this page in lynx...
Way to roll over and play dead in face of such blatant theft. The phrase "we’ve had our own share of Cease & Desist situations" also gives a fleeting reader the impression that the company's being complacent because they've been guilty of the same crime in the past: I didn't bother delving in to read that back story and I suspect many other readers may not.

If the above is not the case, then at a minimum, you should:

* Assess your rights vs economic implications: A C&D letter with legal help might be enough to get the offender to stop; nothing wrong in stating your rights and pointing out violations. Does it cost too much to do this? Contact the app stores; they might respond favorably and yank the apps.

* Assess branding/marketing implications: how is this playing out in your customers minds and actions?

- What can we learn? - What faults does this highlight in our product or operations? Note a few people have mentioned that the ripoff version seems more visually appealing. The only thing worse than being ripped off is if the ripoff is better than your product in any way. So maybe a visual edit should be placed higher on your task list.

- How do we respond tactically? Referring not to legal but customer facing options. Ie What is the minimum action we can take that will at least show users that the ripoff is not from us?

...Etcetera
Internet Explorer Developer Channel
Representation Versus Depiction
I share your popularity vs quality concerns. I've been a customer for 9 years and I've noticed two areas where I believe quality has declined in the last ~2 years as a result of their increased popularity:

1. Their support, while still fast, has turned into script-reading drones and I've often been frustrated when trying to deal with more complex issues. They seem to assume everyone is stupid, which I think is a consequence of having many customers.

2. DoS attacks against other customers have gone way up, causing datacenter-wide network outages. I think this is a consequence of having too many non-professional customers who attract the wrong kind of attention. Creating a $10/month plan will certainly not help with this.

Linode has been a great company and they deserve to enjoy the fruits of their success, but it is definitely disappointing as a long-time customer to see quality decline as they grow in popularity.
Its quite simple making friends , you just need to feel confident and if you start doubting yourself just start to count 1,2 before you reach 3 do it , and soon that hidden voice will disappear and the confident grows.Feeling sorry for your self will be the worst.Am a developer and the first thing i do say hi to people randomly in the morning and any time and listen to a station like Capital UK find it amazing and even as i punch code ,,,you mind is knowing something that is happening and if you are the type of music guys you still enjoy .
This is probably something worth saying louder.

If you commonly display $information in all sorts of settings, then $information is not ipso facto private and leaking that information further is not a privacy threat.

(Of course, it can be used as an input to deanonymize you in some data-mining system, so there's that...).
I think you're right. It's really about adding value. Emphasis on the "ing".

So, they addED value once by creating the game. Then someone else diminished that value. Now it's up to them to keep adding value.

The people who deserve to win are not the ones who make an idea first. The people who deserve to win are the ones who put together a team and add value in all dimensions - marketing, delivery, support, innovation, accounting, etc.
In today world using any version of IE as a main browser is a bad idea. Why? Because browsers evolve very quickly and IE doesn't. It might look at first that IE is running quite nicely and even fast. But soon you start to notice all of the glitches. Especially if you're web developer. As long as there is no auto update, IE is always a threat for web developers as IE6 can happen again..
Naive Query : The article mentions that it's a 21 percent premium to their present stock price. Can you throw some more light on why do you consider so ?
The two most valuable things I learned in high school:

* Most of the time, people are too worried about themselves to worry about you. For you, that means if you talk and smile, people will not care about your English. Yes, they'll notice it. They may even say to themselves, "His English is not good!" But if you act like it's not a problem for you, it won't be a problem for them.

* Schedule conversations and times to check in with people. A lot of posters here mention maintaining relationships, and many say it's hard for them. Just schedule it in! "Call Tony. Figure out conversation topic... hmm, just got new job, ask for advice." Or "Call Tony. Ask about his new car." Have a topic to start with and then see how things go. Maybe you just want to invite some people to a Mozart concert. The conversation might end after that, or it might continue. Either is ok.

A weird cultural thing: in Europe if I smiled as much as I do in the Midwest of the US people would/do think I'm a little disturbed. In the US people smile a lot. An Asian-American male friend has commented that people think he's angry sometimes when he is simply looking into the distance and deciding whether he needs to pick up cereal today or tomorrow. I'm sure this is not true for everyone, but maybe think about what others see when they look at your expression.
> Religion is bullshit for bullshits sake.

I'd rather strongly disagree with that. Because it appeals to a form of justification which makes verifiability in any decisive sense largely impossible, it is a fertile venue for "bullshit" (in the terms used in the article) -- and for the same reason, for "liars", which the article distinguishes -- but it is not, either in principle or in practice, either exclusively bullshit nor "for bullshits sake". The purposes of bullshitting, lying, or truth-telling in religion are pretty much the same as they are in any other venue.
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Many of the example links in the article go to The Onion. (And there's Thank You For Smoking.)

Is the author trying to imply that irony, sarcasm, and satire are bullshit?
Hmm.. that's really strange, given that one of the dictionary transformations available (number 12) strips the last letter from the dictionary word and another (number 3) strips the first letter from the word.
I don't get it, why do I need the pipe operator for this?

#(9 1 2 3 7 5 5 8 4) unique sorted
-> ( 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9)

In Objective-Smalltalk (http://objective.st).

Definitions:

-unique
{
(NSOrderedSet orderedSetWithArray:self) array.
}

-sort
{
self sortedArrayUsingSelector:'compare:'.
}

Why is it suddenly cool to make things so much more complicated than they need to be?
Both Linode and DO use a variety of CPUs, and make upgrades all the time for their host machines, and your individual speed can vary as other VMs on the host use more and less CPU power.

That being said, Linode gives you access to as many cores as available on the host. In my case, I have 8 cores available, while DO restricts the number of cores available to guests based on plans (starting at 1 core).

Another thing to consider is: If your jobs are typically CPU-limited, it's probably not best to use virtual hosting at all. Dedicated machines would be far more economical for you.
Note: the title has been edited. The title used to be “Warning: Your pizza toppings could now be available to the public”.
No, $20/month has always been their least-expensive plan. In fact, caker (their founder) was adamant for a very long time against creating a less-expensive plan.

(I've been customer for 9 years, and have occasionally hung out in their forums where caker also hangs out.)
Ah, okay. By the way, I was just fiddling around and found "about:memory", which contains a lot of interesting information about memory usage and a couple tools for cleaning up memory. Might be interesting to look at when the browser starts bogging down your system.
People who feel lonely eventually become resentful and self-centered; the smallest social interactions gain major significance and are often perceived as hostile.

There's a fundamental truth: You're obsessing over self-imposed issues. http://goo.gl/Doyja

Share your professional/personal experiences to the world. Join communities, attend conventions and get socially involved. Once you start looking for it, you won't believe how many opportunities are waiting for you every day. Be PROUD about yourself and CURIOUS about others as well.

Think about this: by not sharing yourself, you're making a disservice to anyone near who happens to feel the same as you. Everyone is just as "awkward" as you when it comes down to human connections.

People deeply appreciate when you take the burden of breaking the ice; it's the first sign of being CARING – a core quality of any friend!

Being POSITIVE is an attitude, not a mood. You can be sad, and yet still show the confidence to overcome adversitites. Being positive is not only about self-confidence, but about INSPIRING confidence to others. Again: share yourself!

Lastly, don't let failure get into you; don't expect everyone to become your friend, or you might fall again into the self-centered spiral.

I had been through that too. If you'd like an e-mail pal, feel free to contact me. :)
2500 years later, and we still have Socrates fighting the Sophists.

I'd be very careful with definitions here. Because many human endeavors can be observed and described from many different angles, the wisest course of action many times may be to emotionally disengage and describe one or many of the sides without caring about a discussion of universal truth. This does not make one a bullshitter, although by this definition it does.
Does this developer channel include WebRTC support?
The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions
You can tell Facebook to deliver all the content from a particular brand or person. There is a setting.
A couple thoughts on C++ vs Objective C...

When I learned c++, it was sold as a better/safer version of C. You had function prototypes, const, inline functions, improved compiler warnings, etc. Some of those improvements made it into later versions of the C standard. I hope C89+ is more popular than K&R C for new code. You could slowly ease into and benefit from day one without ever using a class.

Objective C is strictly the classes and runtime so there's no benefit unless you jump right in.
"for our sake if not yourselves."

So you ready to pony up the lawyer fees?
I have only good experience with both. My linode (internet exposed) server has been running for almost 7 years now. My DO server (also internet exposed) is ~2 years old. These days I would spin up a DO by default because I am sucker for SSD. I might switch back to defaulting to linode with this new pricing. linode has a fantastic irc channel. Plus linode has IPv6 support which DO has promised _years_ ago. Just hop on and the linode guys help you out immediately.

I don't think you can go wrong with either for medium sized companies (< 100).
The inevitable "Hacker News Devil's Advocate" post.

Yes, the OP is complaining about marketing pages, because he doesn't want to deal with marketing! He wants the danged download!

If there's something wrong with that, go for it, but having to use Google to get to a download page from a vendor shouldn't be the 'solution'.
Show HN: A functional tool-belt for Swift Language like Lo-Dash or Underscore
And any thermometer. I've used friction on those goofy liquid crystal, flat plastic thermometers.
> The really amazing thing here is that they've disentangled IE from the base Windows

You realize that this is something other browser makers have done since, oh, the invention of the browser? Perhaps it's amazing that Microsoft, of all companies, finally did it, but let's not get carried away declaring a historic moment.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the South Bay is the worst area I've lived in America for meeting people, especially ladies.
This.

I'm not a true introvert, but I am shy (particuarly when encountering new people) and do need social down-time to recharge.

I typically don't go out of my way to plan social events. But, when invitations are offered, I almost always accept them. I avoid large bars and clubs, but enjoy going out for a meal or drink with friends at smaller locations where we can sit and socialize.

Also, my main hobby is competitive cycling. It works well for the type of interactions I prefer. Training rides can be anything from solo rides in the country to large groups in the city. And when riding in a group, it's perfectly acceptable to ride along in silence. It's almost a perfect sport for introverts. That said, there is a high level of jargon and definitely cliques, so it can be difficult for shy people to get started.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1144377&page...

RC helicopters have killed. A Parrot is a pretty small quad. I would find it surprising if they have liability insurance for this.
Databench
You can easily stop wearing a shirt when you change your mind about the topic.

Once it has been on the internet, it is forever.

Not saying you're wrong, but I don't think it is exactly the same.

Maybe tattoos?
Could someone read through the website/bill [1] and verify this story even comes close to accurately portraying the bill?

As far as I could find, the text of the bill doesn't even mention the issue of navigation apps. Nor does the website. At the very, very most it mentions egnaging with state governments about driver safety issues. Which might possibly maybe include talking with people this issue, and definitely is not "regulation".

The NYT article mentions the agency has released general guidelines. That's a hell of a long way from "regulation", though... and it's completely unrelated to the bill or any legislative action afaict.

As far as I can tell this article -- at best -- massively hugely ridiculously sensationalizes.

[1] http://www.dot.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/DOT_surface_reau....
Most of what you need to learn is Cocoa Touch and whatever other frameworks you want to use. If you need to start today, use the production Xcode and Objective-C -- it will be far less frustrating.

Give the Swift book a quick read in a month or so, so you are familiar with the differences. Perhaps start thinking of Swift in August.
Not to be confused with jQuery, this project doesn't extend or monkey patch the collection using the extension features to keep it purely functional and to not override any methods via extensions if Apple decides to add those methods into the collection class themselves as part of the language update.
The state of things today is just as bad if not worse.

My thinking is that the VS and SQL teams simply don't bother with the uninstall story. It's easier to bring up a fresh new server.
> I say "he" the programmer.

Well, aren't you wonderful? Why, you'll probably win the Nobel Prize for Protecting the Poor Oppressed Men!

Alternating he and she for an abstract person is quite common amongst people who don't use singular they.
Merely printing money does not cause inflation, if that's what you're aiming at. As long as Japan's present economic conditions continue, there will be no inflation. This has been verified in the real world multiple times in multiple countries.

Elsewhere you mention concerns about the rate of increase in Japan's monetary base. The US has quadrupled its monetary base since 2008. [1] The US has experienced everything from very low deflation to very low inflation since 2008. The trendline on the Consumer Price Index hasn't changed _at all_. [2] The current US inflation rate is 2%.

And inflation is, at least, a relatively easy problem to deal with economically, barring some political/military/resource crisis. It is certainly not an evil in itself.

[1] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE/
[2] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=CPIAUCSL
It's time for someone to build the real SkyNet Want to help?
Why is "going to college" a requirement for being a healthy adult? It's economically advantageous to many in the US, but it's by no means a life requirement! What if you want to be a guitarist/car mechanic/HVAC specialist/off the grid survivalist/cosmetologist (not cosmologist)/etc?

There are plenty of poor people with resources and healthy social support structures. There are entire countries full of them. Being poor and being part of a fractured social structure are different, while overlapping. US law and society nudge them ever closer but that's our problem -- it's not part of the human condition.
I think that there is a huge opportunity to apply "just tell me what to buy" to all products and services (not just tech ones).

I go to buy a chair, see hundreds of brands and types... just tell me what to buy! I want a resource that has researched all the options, and that I could trust to make good recommendations.
Everyone seems to suggest buying used car. But how about miles "used" by the car and any "abuse/negligence" by the previous owner(s), e.g. using the car for road trips across desert.
This is a story all about how [Mint] 17 is here for a while
I'm not the author of the parent comment, but I read a couple years ago that Facebook opened a full datacenter that used Fusion IO disks, and I remember something like >$1 billion on Fusion IO disks alone.

There are other big users, but I guess none as big as Facebook, and I don't really know how much money they were making, but the $1.1 billion also surprised me as quite low.
Why the downvote? What's wrong with expressing why the company in question should not be complacent in face of such aggressive plagiarism/violation by another company?
Introducing HTTP Load Balancing and SSD Persistent Disk
The Construction Industry Needs a Software Overhaul
I wish my math classes in high school and college had stuff like this. It's amazing how much easier it is to understand something when you can see and interact with it.
Well, I am not a web developer - which is why I mentioned "regular web users".

Also, most of the WebGL demos around the net do not work in Firefox for me - it is possible that it is something to do with the installed drivers. However, they work perfectly work for me in IE.
I really wish this was taught more in business school: that metrics/productivity is subject to the Observer Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_%28physics%29) too: that the act of observing for metrics will change the underlaying system.

If underperforming on your metrics will cause some pain, humans in general want to avoid pain, and you ARE employing smart people who are paid to solve problems and do analysis ... well, duh some metrics gaming will happen: people avoiding pain.

Probably this will have an opposite affect than what the measurer wanted: people hording things/information/output specifically to improve their metrics, people working around the metrics (outside the managed systems), or essentially spamming the system ("oh you found a bug in my you're reviewing? Can you file a new bug on this?... so my closed bug count for the week goes up...")