skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two things about this article that made me want to say something about it.

First, in his zeal to deflate the original, he killed the original business value of the piece, which is to get picked up when someone in the trade press needs to fill inches with material on CRMs or HRMs or enterprise social software.

Second, the big problem he sees this release demonstrating is a sort of Orwellian perversion of the English language by business functionaries. But that's not really the problem at all, is it? NewsGator has a problem no copyeditor can solve: they have nothing to announce, but they have a full-time PR staff that needs to fill a press release quota, so you have a pre-announcement of a partnership program, partnership programs being the thing that every enterprise software company announces when they have nothing to announce.

If he wanted to talk to "people like us", Merlin could have written a "translation from PR-speak into English" post just like Gruber always does. Instead, Merlin used this other device of "what a press release written for humans should look like", and it missed the mark.
Isn't tabindex part of what makes a form properly structured?
I'm curious, as I have only recently started contributing here -- how tolerant is HN with reposts?
Maybe do a pre-order the way the do with video games sometimes? You'd have to be pretty serious about hitting the release date though. (And the customer would have to be pretty serious about buying your product.)
> Without paying for minutes?

Yes, I had just the 3G data only unlimited plan on AT&T with a Blackberry (they don't allow this with an iPhone because of an agreement with Apple). I don't know about their VoIP rules.
Firefox history shows only page titles and I am always glad for the "Hacker News |". Though I wouldn't mind it being shortened to "HN|". But then again, page titles are prominently picked up by google and the ilk, so I suppose that will have to factor into the decision somewhere.
When it takes the form of hoarding, the link between saving and promoting economic activity is broken, or at least frayed.

Hate to comment on something submitted so many times, but the above use of "hoarding" no longer applies. There was a time when people actually took physical money or gold and hoarded it...hid it away. With the gold standard, this amounted to a drop in the money supply. Such deflation has well-understood problems. It isn't possible now. When you "hoard" money in your BAC account, BAC loans it out at anywhere from 5 to 25 percent interest and life goes on. This isn't the 1930s.
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With a growing population, a more slowly growing subpopulation can nevertheless be a smaller and smaller percentage.
> perhaps there just isn't demand out there for software that helps you apply for jobs.

The problem might be that you're targeting an audience that by definition doesn't have much spare money to spend.
The core issue isn't that you offer a month free, the issue is that your form doesn't measure purchase intent. You have no idea if 1% or 10% of your leads will convert into sales.
try imagining that this is a poll by some other brand asking "Do you think our product is the best?"

Of course it's not a poll for a product at all.
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That's the point. What are you missing?

If the people you think you are going to market to don't think your product idea is good, then you have nothing.
It's funny to hear people refer to themselves as Keynesian, Neo-classical, or even Austrian like one school actually has all or even most of the answers. It's more than possible that current economic theory is much like current physics in that there are many theories that work part of the time (quantum physics vs. relatively) but universal theories elude us. I'd doubt there's a physicist who's only a Quantumist...
Less likely to hire.

And the popularity of MBAs is because (a) that's where the pool of leaders tends to go for education (I said tends, people), but (b) it's also a self-reinforcing psuedo-class system. Look for correlations in the military and older class structures such as aristocracy & feudalism.
It would be nice to get it on something as portable as normal glasses first.
BTW, I've made this decision several times before, I'm not just guessing what I'd do.
As a member of the current generation, I know that I don't often send personal emails.
And yes, it's something my parents and teachers use.

But I definitely use it to talk to members of the older generation. And anything that's less than personal, in fact.
Any sort of business arrangements, anything that's supposed to look professional.

In fact, the lack of time constraints on email make it far superior to most newer technologies for anything that requires some thought. Email gives you a chance to (re)consider your argument, idea, or response. And to spellcheck.

(Irony: Firefox spellchecker picked up "spellcheck" as incorrect. More irony: "spellchecker" is fine.)
I'm of two minds about this.

On the one hand, the "smile or die" crowd at the breast cancer support groups sounds insanely creepy. Particularly the part where they've ostracized members whose cancer has metastized because they'll bring the mood of the group down.

Also putting pressure on people to feel happy will often make them feel worse. Depressed people who are shown pictures of happy people get more depressed.

On the other hand, being positive seems to have several benefits from a personal success front:

1) Optimistic people are more fun to be around and are more charismatic.

2) Often things that are worth achieving are really hard. Optimists underestimate the difficulty, and, indeed, continually believe that success is right around the corner. Hence optimists will keep cheerily (and ignorantly) marching onwards long after pessimists/realists have realised that the chance of success is low or it's too much work. This leads to a higher chance of them achieving things.

3) Overoptimism in terms of financial risk was bad societally but not individually - as mentioned in the article people who doubted the stability of derivatives were often fired. People who were optimistic and went with the herd made money all the way along and then were bailed out after the crash.

4) Optimists are less anxious which should (at least theoretically) lead to a reduction in stress hormones such as cortisol. Stress (and cortisol,etc) is remarkably good at prematurely aging you and tearing up your body. Also one would expect reduced anxiety to lead to reduced blood pressure. Given chronically high blood pressure leads to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes there should be a health benefit there too.

(Of course once you've got cancer 'thinking positive' will probably do very little as you're too far gone).

5) Optimists are less likely to commit suicide, which improves health by default.
It's just regular SEO. It's called "reputation management".

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/reputation-management
I'd agree with the two bin related ones. The stairs I think may have more staying power.

The question all videos need answer is what are the usage ratios 6 months later.
Rails in a Nutshell
In Defense of OO
No, and I've noticed a few occasions where someone used a tab index, then re-ranged things, but forgot to update the tab index. So rather than having a natural flow, the form went completely bonkers when I tried to tab through it.
And being that annoying CS major and obsessed linguaphile, I have to point out that it's a problem with style, not grammar. The original sentence is grammatically correct, if a bit awkward.
He did mention hiding money in your mattress. I'm not sure why you think hoarding cash is somehow impossible now?
I think that emails use just needs to be adjusted taking hints from tools like twitter and facebook make it short and to the point.
My first thought too. Then I thought maybe they could think up new games indefinitely. I don't see why not. Then the really fun thing would be to see what new ideas they came up with and try them out.
So far the results are surprising. I expected a large influx of critical (i.e., bad) reviews (given the large increase in downloads) but instead I received just a few but they were either positive or if not completely positive, very well-thought-out and constructive.

The next test will be to see what happens when the price goes back up (tomorrow is the last day the app will be free).
I setup my own PBX with Freeswitch, and we use Flowroute for Origination and Termination. Works great and I just host it on a small Rackspace cloud instance for $10 a month.
Killing the entrepreneurs
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you
If one were selling halloween crap to simply try and exploit a calendar date I don't think one need be too high and mighty about optimising ones search position.

There is more than one company selling stuff for halloween. The top spot on Google gets 85% of the entire SE traffic (say). Remind me why one guy selling crappy plastic tridents, witch masks and pumpkin shaped buckets deserves to get all that traffic and the other guys don't?
The same reason traditional post isn't dead. I still might use IM/facebook for most personal communications but that doesn't mean I stop checking my email address or post box.
Please could you forward these comments to the author? Considering he is offering the pdf for free, he may take errata as well. Thanks!
Well, yes, but sometimes the king can become richer (and more secure) by making his kingdom the vassal of an empire.
I just want to give them points for having the answer to the question in the title be "Yeah, could be". It seems like with so much other science reporting out there, when it ends in a question mark, the answer is more like, "No, not likely. But the article isn't even really about [title], except in some tangential way!"
Because I've done that before, too -- the first draft of my AdWords campaign for Bingo Card Creator was terrible. It took me almost a year before I figured out how to write AdWords decently.

An SEO specialising in ad-words and PPC would have saved you a lot of time ... I thought all this SEO stuff was obvious! ;0)>
historical debugger
Call by Common Lisp
> It's inherently easier to design an operating system where there is a small(er) set of variations.

It's not quite that simple. I spend a fair amount of time writing OSX drivers for, erm, non-Jobsian hardware. With a little hackery (not even programming-level hackery these days), OSX can be remarkably stable on a wide range of system configurations.

Specifically, Apple seems to ship (and test?) drivers for a good deal more hardware than you'd expect. Point example: the 8800GT card that they ship with the Mac Pro--the driver actually works on any 8x00* card, as long as you can disable the check. The GMA950 driver works on a wide range of Intel cards. The ATL1e driver works on a lot of Atheros chipsets. AppleHDA works on a lot of sound cards (If your motherboard has an Intel chipset, it probably works with minimal hackery). Similar to the way Linux drivers work, OSX drivers tend to cover lots of similar hardware. So AppleHDA might replace 100 separate windows drivers for separate sound cards, and the big ones even do several chipset companies.

Lots of the hardware work (some of which makes it into mainline OSX) is done by the Darwin people. I've seen tons of straight-up ports from Linux (SpeedStep for non-Core2Duo processors, for example). There are lots more.

All of that to say, the OSX hardware landscape is far beyond the four-at-a-time macs that Apple actually ships. With respect to driver support, OSX isn't far behind Linux. I'd put OSX's superior reliability as a consequence of their architecture decisions rather than their (purportedly-lack-of) hardware support.

The real sunk cost with hardware support isn't driver development, (paying 4 grad students $400k) but paying people to answer the phones and troubleshoot the devices, paying FedEx to ship the things around, EETs to diagnose and desolder, somebody to write the technical documentation, Geniuses to take tests on the part numbers, etc. Guarantee Apple tests lots of hardware they never end up shipping because it can't clear the reliability hurdles; all those things need drivers.
Care to explain that logic? It seems a bit unreasonable to me.
I agree with this, thank you.

Respectfully disagree with others. If we didn't fight it, we'd have the same cultural distinctions as to what is and is not acceptable.
Barnes & Noble Enters E-Reader Market
How many people actually hoard money in the mattress, seriously?
I do something similar to your (1) but as I didn't want people with text browsers or screen readers to have problems I have a field labelled to look tasty for spambots and pre-filled with "don't alter this text" or similar and check that the text is unchanged. It seems very effective.
A world redrawn - how cartography prompted Copernicus' theories
Everyone here who fancies themselves as an economic pundit seriously needs to read Economics in One Lesson:

"“Saving,” in short, in the modem world, is only another form of spending. The usual difference is that the money is turned over to someone else to spend on means to increase production. So far as giving employment is concerned, Benjamin’s “saving” and spending combined give as much as Alvin’s spending alone, and put as much money in circulation. The chief difference is that the employment provided by Alvin’s spending can be seen by anyone with one eye; but it is necessary to look a little more carefully, and to think a moment, to recognize that every dollar of Benjamin’s saving gives as much employment as every dollar that Alvin throws around."

http://jim.com/econ/chap24p1.html
I'm a senior in college right now. Over the past four years it seems email has become more popular in my cohort.

When I first started college, a lot of social communication was through IM and Facebook. That's what was used for setting up group outings or dinners or what not.

Now, sending group emails has replaced that. Twitter has emerged as a place for idle chatter. And Facebook is now mostly a rolodex or a place to keep in touch with acquaintances and people I talk to less often.

But email is the backstop. Every other service feeds my email account, and my email account is where I talk to my most regular contacts.
Human women have around 400000 oocytes; their consumption is not a limiting factor.
I've used Kall8 and RingCentral. While I'd generally recommend RingCentral (especially if you use a lot of minutes), it depends on your requirements.

Kall8's advantages over RingCentral:

- Recorded calls

- Can get the name of the caller through caller ID (RingCentral only offers the phone number)

RingCentral's advantages:

- Much, much cheaper. RingCentral Office gives you unlimited minutes (well, realistically it's about $20 for 5000 minutes because they have "fair usage limits", so you have to buy more lines if you use more)

- Allows for simultaneous dialing. This is critical if you want your 800 number to be answered immediately.

I've never used Kall8 or RingCentral for digital lines, by the way, so I'm not sure how well they work in that case.
Game devs speak out on Valve, Steam and conflict of interest
"but a minus because there can't be any independent Clojure port"

there's work on a clojure port on the CLR, u can check out more on the clojure website or the github project page.
Please elaborate on why RingCentral should be avoided. I've never had any serious problems, although I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
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If you're referring to FDIC receivership, that's not a bail out. Banks pay for FDIC insurance, not taxpayers.
Please note that average height a mere hundred fifty years ago was a few centimetres shorter. The reversal of a trend (admittedly spurred by different causes) is notable. If you do wish to call a development a "non-story", please refute it with something more substantial than "the numbers don't look right to my programmer brain".
However, I have to wonder if it was perhaps the other way around whether we would have people complaining about how trashy the app store was and how their decent app was buried under loads of other spammy/trashy apps.

Yup - that would be Facebook.
Few, I'm sure. "Impossible" is a very strong claim. :)
For the less likely to hire, because I desire being a part of breaking down class barriers.

For my belief that it's a pseudo-class structure, it's just based on the invisible lines drawn between management and workers in the corporations that I've worked.
No, no, no! They should be working on how to remove the bad experiences I actually had! For instance, working at various notcoms for 5 years.
I was curious if the printed book included mention of the GNU license so I "searched inside" on Amazon.

These two paragraphs are pretty odd sitting next to each other: http://timfreeman.org/copyright_dip.png
Leaked: Facebook Homepage New Design
What I've observed is that a lot of marketing departments are killing or at least slowly poisoning their company. I suspect that you have to get to somewhere between "good" and "great" to escape this.

Hmm. It seems that I've never been in a company that had even a good marketing department! (Until now.)
Actually, I'm not sure I agree that the novelty would wear off, at least not completely. Interfaces matter. People like feedback. People like multisensory feedback even more.

Studies have shown that there are ways to design interfaces that make them seem natural and organic and appealing. Throwing the screen around on an iPhone is an example, I think. I believe the ideas in the video might make those activities intrinsically more attractive.

This might be a separate point, but can you imagine that trashcan ever accumulating garbage at its feet like in the before imagery? Do you think little kids who passed by would ever tire of throwing any trash they could find into it? I say no.
I really just hope they introduce some of FriendFeed's features into this update.

FriendFeed's traffic's already down by 40%...I hope it wasn't another bad acquisition and Facebook uses their technology into making Facebook a better service quickly.
The difference to me has been that really great programming languages cause me to not notice my use of design patterns, because they become trivial. For example, Factories are basically nonexistent in idiomatic Python, because they're essentially free with the language.
As far as I understand, unless they are years apart or circumstances have changed remarkably enough to warrant a new discussion on the same topic, reposts are generally avoided. In the cases where a repost is warranted, a comment with a link to the old discussion would be appreciated.
Google Voice Private Calls Appear In Google Indexed Search Results
Even though it's gotten a little better in recent years (presumably because more vendors are releasing Linux drivers), the trick is really to make sure whatever device you want to use is Linux-compatible before you get it.

Following that rule, I haven't had any problems recently, running Linux on a machine that doesn't come with it pre-installed.
Yahoo and the Objectification of Women
Twitter bug exposes private tweets via Google search
Tom Mitchell on machine learning and creating an ML dept at CMU (video)
You sure can pay for goods with cheques in the UK, many places won't accept them but it's not illegal or anything it's just company policy.

On the "not giving out details front", a little tale. I went for pizza on Sunday. The guy at teh counter asked this lady for a name (so he could call her when the pizza was ready) she responds "I don't give out my details" and was quite determined not to give the guy a name to attach to her order. I proffered that he should just call "Bob" when her pizza was ready - he shrugged and completed the transaction ... sadly I didn't get chance to hear her verbally abusing him for calling her "Bob" when her order was done.
As a student at Berkeley, I'm honestly shocked to see that we're ranked higher than Harvard as having the best business school in America. And it's great to learn that at least someone found tremendous value from their business education! (but a perspective we've seen way too little of)
That's not completely true.

Spending increases the velocity of money ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money ) which can, in the short term, increase employment.
Ahh, my mistake then. Thanks for clarifying.
This is what free software / free licenses needs, people who parade and exemplify it rather than compare it to non-free licenses or even hate on and fight against non-free software, by force.
Cardholder Not Present - the PIN is not absolutely required to perform a transaction.
As design patterns became popular in the world of statically typed, class-based OO languages that lacked first-class functions (C++, then Java and C#) there always seemed to be an emphasis on the implementation details, namely counterfeit function objects.

The higher level abstraction aspects of a design pattern are usually better expressed without introducing codewords. E.g., the Observer pattern is just, "let's call a function on objects that want notification." It's the baggage that comes along with implementing these abstractions in blub that justifies a name as a pointer.

Related to the above, design patterns connote boilerplate; all that generic code that's needed to setup the pattern in blub.
Not in China. You are not getting a lap-dance in public from a Chinese woman.
"once you've got cancer 'thinking positive' will probably do very little as you're too far gone" ?

I'll try to speak in an even-toned way (as spouse of a nine-year breast cancer survivor):

The survival rate is well over 50% (at five years) for many forms of cancer when treated with best current therapies. Most people who've got cancer are NOT "too far gone." In fact, therapists who specialize in such self-healing methodologies such as biofeedback would probably identify breast cancer patients (especially when caught in early-to-mid stages) as in a primo place to benefit from stress reduction, constructive visualizations of their future, and other audaciously positive thinking.

I would not expect "pressuring" anyone to think positively would be very therapeutic. However, skilled clinicians who guide patients toward their own preferred style of positivity can be god-sends. (In my/our humble experiences.)
So, what are people thinking about this? I'd love to do it, though a little earlier in the day would be better for me. Maybe 2pm, and then it can stretch as long as people want to hang out for?
Well it is a good idea from a book readers standpoint, my mother reads about 6 books a week and she and her friends and her mother-in-law all exchange books that they have bought this new feature could get them to buy an ebook reader.
A pointless self-promotion that lacks any arguments and explanations etc. Catchy title though.
The Eigenharp
How long does it take to learn R compared to (for example) Perl?
Heheh. Spoken like a person in their 20s
I have a Nokia Symbian(N82), and it is amazing, would never trade it for an Iphonee. I don't see why you would make such a blanket statement about them.
Audio Conference Call Services
Swagbucks adds $50 paypal cash option
he Starbucks card deal! You can redeem 80 Swagbucks for $5 deposited directly into your Paypal account
Ask HN: Full disc encryption
Do you use full disc encryption software and if you do, which one? (I count FileVault as a full disc encryption software although it encrypts only your home directory).

Do you know any major downsides of using such software?
I see the first paragraph as being "written permission" to "copy distribute and/or modify" the document under some quite specific conditions, and the second as reserving all other rights.

But yeah, it _does_ look strange...