skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please abandon IE only interfaces for your enterprise products. Having a fully functioning web interface for outlook web access or sharepoint shouldn't be a big deal, but it is a constant problem, you cant force people to use IE, embrace the alternatives.

Added features are not always good, we know Office is a cash cow, but it is also heavy as hell, offer a slim down office suite, not in software, but in features, or at the very least, allow people to easily turn them off. And please please dont do this format change again (from doc to docx) it was a real dick move. oh yeah, embrace and promote open formats.

While we are on the office issue, WHAT THE HELL is your problem with full compatibility between office for mac and windows office, where is access? why did you remove vbscript from the apple product? did you think people will abandon macros? seriously, what the hell are you doing with this one

Add single instance storage capability to your entire server line, it may sound as a minor feature only but it would make your server line better, also simplify your licensing schemes across the board, it is antiquated and annoying for IT staff who wish to be compliant. while we are at it, powershell and cmd, should incorporate unix commands, why not?

Xbox development should open up more, the Xbox market should be more plugin oriented, services like Pandora would give the best product Microsoft had in years, extra boost.

It wont hurt Microsoft to acknowledge the brilliance of other companies, parroting the line that Microsoft invented the Tablet form factor in the face of the ipad and latching windows7 as an alternative to Ios is shortsighted and makes you look outdated and somewhat ridiculous, paradigm shifts should be acknowledged. Please reconsider the courier.

While we're at it, Crapware and glut should be abhorred and disdained and discouraged. if i buy a new windows7 machine, i dont want to reformat it to get rid of the trialware, crapware that is loaded on the average dell etc... Do you know how much of a performance degradation this stuff does? its comical. the speed (and often stability) gained by the computer you just bought when you perform a clean install, makes it feel like a different computer. you will also save time for small business IT.

Microsoft, you are rarely loved, and only admired with caveats. Work on your image better, you outspend Apple on marketing but still manage to look bad, you are not getting your money worth. Get Microsoft Surface technology to museums and public serving institutions, it will help them serve the public, it will help you look cool.
Facebook's data center costs are now $50M/yr to lease almost 60,000 servers
Google's product development looks strikingly similar to Microsoft's from my POV.

They buy small companies and assimilate their products. Microsoft has done this many times, making many small but "successful" products. So has Google. And they both have just a handful of home-grown products that support their reputation. Personally, I find no fault with the strategy. But I do find fault with the way people use Google to bash Microsoft when they're so similar in this respect.

Everybody knows about Microsoft's acquire / "embrace extend extinguish" so how about a brief one for Google, to reinforce my point.

1. Search - Home Grown, Obv.

2. AdWords - Embrace/Extend/Extinguish - Copied from IdeaLab, Sued, Settled out of Court

3. AdSense - Acquisition

4. Maps - Acquisition

5. GMail - Home Grown.

6. Android - Acquisition

7. Chrome - Not sure entirely, but def based on WebKit,
Seems fair to say it's not an E/E/E strategy tho.

8. Display Advertising - Acquisition

9. Docs - Several Acquisitions

10. Voice - Acquisition
Smart is such an overloaded word/concept.

To me a smart person would know that the key to getting people to do what you want (such as hire you) is using psychology to manipulate their emotions. Would not require a career consular to tell them that intimidating and threatening employer's ego, superiority and job security is not the way to go.

Also a smart person would know "get rich" to be a vapid goal.
Sorry, my self preservation is rather strong. Thus I will not sacrifice myself.
Is there no HN filter for previously submitted URLs?
Hmmm ... I had no difficultly imagining that Netware would die a hard death in the early 90s. My memory of the exact details are a bit fuzzy at this remove (I might be e.g. confounding versions 2 and 3), but its fatal flaw was no memory protection. And as I recall, at least early on, the entire directory structure was in memory (this was an issue for my company in provisioning them for document imaging storage).

So if you wanted to run any 3rd party software on your Netware servers you were making a big bet on both its stability and safety (in not scribbling over the rest of Netware, including most especially whatever memory it was using to keep track of files and directories, no matter whether it had all of the latter in memory or not).

As soon as NT became stable enough (which didn't take very long at all as these things go, that group really had its act together from launch to 3.51 SP1) the value proposition was pretty clear and simple: run Netware for file and print services or run NT for both plus whatever other server software you might want (NDS was never a big issue for the sorts of systems I was involved with so I don't know the story there).

So as I recall the bleeding started before Win2K, although I can see becoming critical with the release of Active Directory.

Of course, all this assumed that Novell wouldn't make the proper strategic decisions in time, but it didn't take too long to realize they just didn't have what it took in that area.
The problem lies in how badly companies hire developers.

Sadly, the example used by the author - web development - is quite fitting. We have all met the sort of client who was never satisfied and for whom the saying "I don't know what I want, but I'll know it when I see it" was written. The same applies to companies. The hiring folks are not sure what they want, so they put out a bingo card full of specs and hope that something might work out OK.

TL;DR - companies and clients don't know what they want, then complain then they get it.
Not sure if this is what you are looking for. I am a bit of GTD person.

@defer

@delegate

@review

@todo

@note

Each gigs/proj depend on the stage they are in each of these folders.
Yeah, your complaint is honestly kind of ridiculous. Contrarian viewpoints get eyeballs. This site (and many like it) welcome opinions from startup bloggers. This wasn't my favorite post by this author, but it was an interesting read and certainly topical.
Kim Kardashian
Do Groupon’s salesmen have an incentive to get shops to sign up for uncapped Groupons?
To me bold means directly related to your core business. F# is a neat little language but it's success or demise would not mean much on the balance sheet of microsoft corp.
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert
So why not let them ask the question themselves? I understand that's part of the premise of StackOverflow.
Ask HN: Ideas for parking a phone number while overseas?
I've had the same phone number for nearly 10 years now. Next month I'm heading overseas for at least a year, and I'd hate to let the number go. I'd love to be able to port it to Google Voice but that feature is not yet publicly available (anybody have an in at Google?). It's also not possible to port a number to Skype. Current options include leaving it in the States on a cheap family plan ($10/month) or using a service like NumberGarage ($30 + $5/month). Both of those will let me keep the number, but I won't be able to get much use out of it while I'm gone.

I see that it's possible to port a number to Twilio. Any ideas for something clever/fun/useful I could do with Twilio or some other similar service?
Obviously it depends on you. But I think having a book published gives you:

1) Warm glowy feeling + bragging rights.

2) A lot more "longevity" than just a blog.

3) It makes the world a slightly better place (and makes some people really happy).

I say 3) because I love reading, love collecting (good) books, and having more good books to read is always better. I read a ton of blogs and read HN every day, but books are still the best media for serious works, and I'm sure my book collection will be my pride and joy many years in the future, long after I've forgotten half the blogs I read now.

All of that is really just my way of saying, please spend the time. I'd love to have your book in my library!
They told me at a conference that you can use the API or even subset of Wolfram's tech (compiled, not source). I believe the licensing is complicated though. I'd like to see Wolfram become a little more open about letting other use their awesome code/function base.

The API and Pioneer Grants are a good start.
Maybe. I should go into design. Does a paragraph of text a text box and a button really go for $75?
Of all the things pointed out in the article, this is the one single thing that I could not see a reasonable defense to, and he didn't even mention this as one of the problems!

When a launch is imminent and you are a CO-FOUNDER, and you take a vacation, this is grossly irresponsible. The whole "life happens" comment he uses as a minor defense to it, well....guess what? Work is a part of life too! We juggle work, home, family, friends, hobbies, etc etc all the time, and it's up to us to be responsible on deciding which gets priority at any given time. While one aspect is more important to each of us, there will always be times when something trumps it, regardless of category. And well, a launch of your business compared to going on a honeymoon? Yes, absolutely that trumps it!

A honeymoon can be postponed. I've had many friends that postponed it an entire year! Sorry, I simply cannot find justification for this single act alone.
I have to agree that it is great that Groupon did something so quickly.

However, I read their entire post as a backhanded criticism of the business acumen of the owner of Posie's Cafe. "97% of businesses would use Groupon again... Groupon is a great resource for solid businesses... this guy sold 10,000 bagels no problem because he was prepared".

I am very much pro free market, so it is hard to me to fault Groupon for penning the deal (beyond a few reservations based on long term business). But it is easy for me to fault Groupon for what I read as a thinly veiled attack on the owner of Posie's.
Hunch Exports Taste Graph Via API, Business Model Emerges
I'm not sure how important it really is, unless your current layout doesn't work well for you. That is, most things don't really care where you save your documents, code or other files.

Using gnome/fedora quite some time I have the standard Desktop, Documents, Music, etc which sit mostly stagnant due to dropbox.

Some of the interesting others:
~/Dropbox My dropbox folder.

~/prefix where I install various libs and things I'm using. I have my /home on a seperate partition so I can quickly re-install without losing settings. Using ~/prefix saves having to re-build the more obscure dependencies/tools I end up using.

~/projects where I keep checkouts projects I'm working on or using (they get installed from here into ~/prefix). It is also an eclipse workspace folder, for the times when I need eclipse.

~/media a symlink to my other drives (DVD, usb devices, etc) so that when I samba in (rarely) I can easily get to those -- I was too lazy to add shares for them.
They did a nice job of trying to frame the problem, but they are dead wrong.

"Traditionally, the biggest problem for most small businesses is getting customers in the door."

Actually, the primary concern of most small businesses is keeping the doors open.

Once the doors are open retailers have two things they need to maintain:

1. The number of customers
2. The amount of money the average customer spends

Groupon is a bad deal for retailers because it puts all of the emphasis on #1 at the expense of #2. Obviously that is what happens with any discount promotion, but when is the last time you saw a "75% off everything in the store" promotion?

Groupon's terms are too greedy and it will be their downfall unless they change it. It is way too easy for someone to come behind them and just offer better terms to the businesses and run Groupon out of town (without businesses Groupon has no benefit).

The company offering the best deals from the most desirable places will win the daily coupon market.
... Which gets him more unmonetized traffic. But yeah, of course he should be doing that.

Note: I wouldn't use the noscript tag. I'd either have a div that was replaced via javascript or a small/light chunk of html below the javascript. Pretty good chance of noscript tags getting dinged by Google given how they are being used.
It just occurred to me that it's in the "Google Profile" box, so the typo was probably made there
We're better than the 90s! The cutting-edge-features-that-only-work-in-some-browsers today aren't proprietary (à la ActiveX) and will eventually make it into every browser.

I read an article a while back (anyone have a link?) that argued that "best viewed with" helped push browsers and the web forward tremendously. IE 9 is evidence that it's happening again.

HTML5 could really use feature publication — if authors could easily detect support for next-generation features (`if(!document.support.canvas){ tellUserAboutNewBrowsers(); }`), they might be less likely to lock out browsers by name.
Call forwarding from Twilio to your cell, with local time awareness to tell Mom that it is four AM? I do this and it saves my sanity.
Good real-world stories and inspiration, Jason!
A Rebuttal to "Goodbye, OpenOffice. Nice Knowing You."
OOC, did you draw this by hand, or is there an ASCII art chart maker out there?
VMware expanding its Mac virtualization app portfolio?
If "playing" reddit ends up with >$150k donated to charity, then I say, play on.

edit: I think it was $150k when I checked this morning, now it says $244k. A quarter of a million dollars in less than a week.
Sounds a bit like Pearltrees. I'm likely going to add similar functionality to quippd as well at some point, but this looks very nice -- very sexy UI.
It's a compromise between what the rights-holders want for security (eg: usually more), and what the hardware vendors can reasonably implement and profit from (eg: usually less), and the degree of hassles and adverts that the end users will tolerate (some), and the trade-offs between the ease of use of any cracks with the fear of and the threat of and the costs of legal entanglements, and the cost of entry for folks outside the consortium (usually licenses and patents).

Everybody involved - content, device, user - is looking to maximize their profit and minimize their costs.

Hardware guys: No content, no buyers, uh-oh, no device sales.

Content guys: No devices, no market, uh-oh, no media sales.

Customers: No fun, uh-oh, no device and no media sales.

It's one of them marketing min-max messes, in other words.
Ask HN: Who's next to be assassinated (in next .NET)?
WF 4? WPF? Silverlight? F#? An OSS ecosystem evolves based on needs (wrong or right) and those fulfill a promise, prevail. In .NET our lives(money) as developers(stockholders) is being spent for .NET evolution so we deserve a bit more respect from Microsoft. In WF 4 you can use just VB for expression. What does that mean? That means WF 4 is developed by those parts of Microsoft that produce bulky things to pretend something important is going on (Like this Vista thing that was installed on my Studio XPS 16 when I bought it to do my job - and don't advocate me to blow up my whole dev-life to be an OSS developer; not now). So what do you think? Extensions for parallel programming? MVC? And why F# is a maimed creature? To be dead for granted? Who is using VB.NET anyway? Implementors of those stupid standards developed by lawyers and physicians for software engineers? Is HTML5/Microsoft just a bad joke? Like MS-Java? J#? I actually like .NET; but it happen's to behave a bit provocative.
Even so you would not be the typical Word user, who may be very smart and an expert in their field, but know nothing about computers.
Microsoft's customer base is huge and their advertising targets the non-technical and "hip" crowds and it seems to me to be doing a decent job. Their advertising generally doesn't target us.
How The Numbers Show Home Ownership Is A Terrible Investment
~/coding/old # all the files I don't want to work on anymore, but may need to check for a way I did something in the future

~/coding/test # all the eetsy bitsy little proving this works code

~/Dropbox/coding/#{project_name} # a place for projects small enough not to be githubbed, but large enough to be dropboxed. Actually I keep my gitubbed projects here too, my code will never die. Also, my OS setup is a bit weird, and sometimes it is easier to just have dropbox move something automatically to/from my native OS, so that's a plus.

For the actual folder structure of the files themselves I try to follow the typical Rails structure, but honestly for 2 or 3 file projects its all just there in #{project_name}.
"...you have to compete with hundreds of others, just to be considered"

To gauge the actual competition level divide that by the average number of resumes fired off by a single developer.
Interestingly enough, a Linux build _was_ one of the pivots we'd experimented with. Maybe it was because we chose the wrong distro, or our general ignorance of what Linux users might want, but this seemed to generate little to no interest amongst the Linux market/s. If anyone here knows better, or wants to tell us what we did wrong, I'm happy to hear it.
It's generally considered a good idea to lurk a little while in an online community, to see the local standards.

True. I did check the FAQ, at least, and concluded that this was a legitimate post.

I think there's an unanswered need, here. It's a problem of search. You want the first search result in google to be a small, rock-solid code snippet.

Small, because small is simple, and small can be perfect. Longer code samples introduce too many degrees of freedom. Small samples can be unambiguously correct (for a specific purpose). This doesn't mean they're trivial.

Anyhoo. If this isn't what Stack Overflow is, someone should make it...
It's cheap, brah. Huh?
I want to say "Thanks for making it affordable and easy to people from all parts of the world and all levels of income to have a personal computer."
Agreed. It just seems a shame to let a reasonably robust, mature codebase which is all-knowing about a very widely-used piece of technology go gentle into that good night. Surely someone out there has a new and previously unimagined (by me) use for it.
Dog's contribution to electricity
Awesome - thank you for sharing. Excellent interview. Chuck Peddle was the guy who made / marketed the 6502. Lots of history here including mentions of the C64, Apple I, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Basic, TI.
Chicken-and-egg. As a senior dev. I often see junior devs who don't know what questions to ask. They do a quick google search, and if it doesn't come up in the first few hits, they're lost.
Microsoft Exec Slams Android, Outlines Windows Phone 7 Strategy
40 million programmers?
Interview with Mr. Doob
How to masquerade self-publicism as a how to?
Did you even look at the graph that you posted? It shows an increase in median wages, not mean wages. Bill Gates walking into a homeless shelter does not affect the median wage. The article it is based on also shows an increase in compensation even at the lower percentiles. From the article:

"Wage growth rates at the 10th and 20th percentiles were only slightly below the median growth rates, increasing by 17 percent and 18 percent, respectively."

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_displa...
Current: Standard Mac OS X structure + Code/ + Games/ + .bin/

On Arch Linux I had: downloads/ files/ games/ media/ projects/ school/ tmp/ work/

Not the most optimal layout. There was a quite a big overlap between tmp/ and downloads/ and tmp/ and projects/. files/ should have been labeled personal/. downloads/ got bloated. school/ was the only well organized directory.

When I get my laptop, I plan to use: downloads/ personal/ work/, and depending on whether I need it, media/. Depending on whether I use fossil, work/repos/.

Perhaps I should set up some script to auto-purge downloads/, but I'm sure that would lead to disaster.
Even then, in a product with very little traction you would have to really believe in what you were doing. Had that guy took equity and continued to work his ass off it would have most likely been a waste of time.

Interestingly I wonder if the extra hours were really making a difference on the technical side, it sounds like the majority of issues, bar the domain and facebook stuff, were not technical ones.
AMF = Action Message Format (AMF) is a binary format used to serialize ActionScript objects. It is used primarily to exchange data between an Adobe Flash application and a remote service, usually over the internet.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Message_Format
Wait, you had 80 columns through an RF modulator on a TV? Wow. I thought it would be pretty fuzzy at 40 columns.
I like it. Too many task managers are weighed down by feature bloat. I've ruminated on a similar style task manager for some time now.

Any plans on integrating it with Google Apps and selling it in the Apps Marketplace (http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/)? Google Apps is a phenomenal value for small businesses, but is currently in sore need of a decent task manager.
I get that you can "legally" ask your own questions, or edit other people's posts, etc but there has to be some common sense. I think it's disingenuous to post a question on how to increment a number (in Lisp, which is not something that total newbies fall into in the first place), have the question tagged as badge-bait, and then post a rather inflammatory headline "What's Wrong with Stack Overflow: Social Over Substance".
Personally, the main thing I dislike about Windows is the lack of proper window management. There's no real Focus Follows Mouse, you have to use third-party applications to get windows to Stay on Top, or to have a second taskbar on your second monitor, etc. It's unfortunate that your OS is called Windows, but compared to your competition you are severely lacking in your ability to usefully manage windows!
By hand. Space Bar, BackSpace, Delete, and patience are my friends.
How to Create Live USB Linux Distro
While I can agree that it's a stretch to call this story hacker news, let's go ahead and let HN decide - not the chance that we "already and saw it on reddit".
Power Shell Usage: Bash
The Courier was precisely the device I wanted. I don't know if they had it working as well, or could make it work as well, as it did in the videos. I remember describing a device like the Courier the day before I saw it.

HUGE disappointment.
I'm not sure why you'd assume that being okay with being paid average (or even slightly below) is such a crime. How does this translate to the company being filled with "terrible employees" and the like? I think you're assuming that everyone's goal in life is to just make as much money as possible and damn the risk. It's not.

The company I work for has been around for more than 10 years but is very small and fiscally conservative. I've worked for plenty of high paying startups (often from home and coffee shops and doing interesting things) who die in less than half the time this one has been around. In some cases, they died because they were paying above average wages in a misguided attempt to compete for the best of the best. That didn't work out so well. Of the 5 or so startups I've been with in the last few years, only Tapulous remains in business. Sure, they all paid great and I got rid of my debt during those years, but it didn't work out so well for them, did it?