skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1

Also I think that if you have video (at least flash, since that's what we have) or games, that then google times the amount of time it takes for the complete video/game to load. Which is complete madness considering that the video/game is playable long before it's fully loaded. But I can't say that it really does that since I have no way of knowing :/ But I do think that you are correct on the widgets part.
Android Design Stencils
No domain membership or enterprise management for Windows 8 on ARM
Not sure if trolling or a joke.
I think he misses the Start Menu. But he has a point. Windows 8 right now seems to be a mess between tablet and desktop-like and the most usable part of it is the Desktop part. (At least for me.)
About 5 million of those people are in Asia, where they're paying less money.

Also, in China for example, Blizzard licenced WOW to some other company (The9 ?). I'd be interested to know how much money Blizzard gets from WOW china.

Here's a very old (2005) link with some interesting financials.

(http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2005/11/with_all_the_ta....)
Networking Budgets Will Continue Their Bounce Back in 2012
I take the environmental-friendly approach with ridiculously long showers.
I'll check it out.

Part of the trick is I don't even have a demographic or problem statement. I'm trolling for ideas with my lure in the water, sailing in circles. Consequently, 50% response rate would be a miracle. But maybe not for cold calls, we'll see.

Also, the whole buy some adwords and do a landing page thing worked for you? I have had zero luck with this approach. How niche was your idea? It seems like a rare combination where 1) The adwords are affordable, and 2) There is enough search traffic to generate real data.
Probably depends on the state, but wouldn't a 'layoff' mean the company would pay higher unemployment compensation premiums?
Attribution rights should last forever.
Everything is incredibly hard
So it's been confirmed that 200 of the jobs going are here in Ireland where Blizzard have over 800 staff.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0229/blizzard.html
Projector calibration on uneven surfaces made easy
Everyone dials in
Crazy Horse show red light but so sexy-photo-
Definitions don't change?

I'm realizing deeper into the tech world I go the more signals tossed in all directions my way. I don't see spam though, I don't see the viagra ads or the russian wives. That's a testament to Google, Mailchimp, and the bevy of email marketers.

But I still have needs, wants, and requirements for work, personal, or consumption. So rather I see relevance and irrelevance of all these things tossed me way. That's spam's inevitability.

That Banksy item is pretty old. I'm getting a slight chuckle that an Instagram shot of a blog post posted on Twitter is getting play. Then I remembered I saw it on Tumblr last night.

The internet is just weird.
Red 5 Studios is beta testing their AAA title Firefall right now. Many ex-blizzard folks (WoW Lead Mark Kern, etc.) are at the core of Red 5 and it's rumored that Blizzard's big unannounced MMO project Titan may share some of the core gameplay elements of Firefall ("skill based" TF2 style gameplay with MMO persistent world effects).
I'm on board with most of that, but I'm not sure about the "don't cold call me" bit. I mean, yes, I understand that you - the author of this piece - don't want to be cold called. But I'm not convinced that going with a pure "no cold call" strategy is optimal in the general sense. Everything I've seen / heard leads me to believe that cold-calling is still essential for companies that are selling in the b2b / enterprise space.

But, then again, I'm thinking more in terms of "companies who are willing to host their own software, want 'best of breed' solutions, have extensive integration requirements," etc. Sure Google Docs is fine for plenty of firms, but there are firms who want an DMS that integrates with Active Directory, ties into their workflow / approval systems, etc.

I guess the point is that "enterprise software" covers a pretty broad swathe of scenarios and situations...
Don't confuse "simple" with "doesn't do much yet."

Exec does plenty. It planned an awesome weekend biking trip for my girlfriend and I, found me a great-sounding (and surprisingly affordable) stereo amp for my bedroom sound system, got me a new iphone (after minimaxing all of the plan options based on my historical usage and international travel plans), researched all of my options for cloud photo storage and got me set up, found me the most styling archival-quality inventor's notebook ever, helped me box up stuff and move it to storage, stocked our office with drinks.. gosh, probably some other things I'm forgetting. All in about a week and and a half. It rocks.

This was enough for Justin to sell me on offering a $100/month Exec credit to all of our employees (who am I kidding, I sold myself without any work whatsoever on their part.) So that quota-based, employer-pays billing system was the other thing they prioritized.

Like Uber, the genius of Exec is precisely that it is one text box and one button. More stuff on the webpage would probably make it worse.
It's funny, but this is a ridiculously common thing.
This is probably the most significant comment in the thread. Most people are pretty entrenched; they will be much more willing to try a new tool if it can fit it in with their existing workflow.

This applies to pretty much every problem out there, really.
Emacs indents the true and false forms differently:

(if (foo-condition-p)
bar ;; then
baz ;; else
quux) ;; else

You can also declare the indentation style of arbitrary macros, ensuring that "if" is not just some special case.
Selectable Elements Are Driving Me Crazy; Here's how to Fix It
Port scratch jr & DrRacket.
messenger.createSpeaker('22.222.22.22:2222', '33.333.333.3:2000')

on other server

messenger.createListener(2222, 2000)

You'll of course have to update your IP Tables.
Very nice design, the layout, with common areas below meeting areas, reminds me of Pixar's headquarters http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/39.html

I remember hearing in the excellent pixar documentary that one of the intentions behind this layout was to facilitate random interactions among employees, all sharing a common, open walkway.
Nuno did a nice job implementing this, but as an old(er) Lisp'er I like normally indented Lisp code (in Emacs, IntelliJ with Clojure plugin, etc.) After looking at parenthesis for over 30 years, I am used to them :-)

Still, a neat idea.
I think I've met people who've committed to do that, but for every one of them I've probably met many more who just got bored with it or wandered off to another game.
Do Popular Social Apps For Twitter/Facebook Use Encryption
I've always been curious, do popular mobile apps such as Facebook or Twitter use SSL encryption for their data? Especially considering that Facebook doesn't force SSL on their site.

Has anyone tested this or got an answer?
Well, you can avoid Metro if you use desktop icons or pin your favorite apps to the taskbar. I always used the start menu for opening apps, so now I have to go through Metro. It's pretty good, actually...

Even if you put all your icons on the desktop, you'll have to use Metro for search, settings, shutting down the PC, etc.
Real-time chat without client-side code: No.JS
Ah, fair enough. That additional insight (along with, say, anecdotes about cases on both ends of the motivational spectrum you've encountered running YC) would be a very interesting read.

I was under the--obviously mistaken--impression that pure profit motive was involved here, and thus was curious if a blog entry would be stating the obvious. Now that you've given some more info there, I agree with my parent poster--please do a writeup!
SXSW: 3-click rsvp to 50+ events
Blizzard CM Bashiok basically came out last week and said don't expect too much of Diablo 3, keep your expectations low and you'll be pleasantly surprised but if you're expectations are too high you might be disappointed.

Major buzzkill for a lot of people but the handwriting was on the wall with the release delays, the annual pass giveaway, word of mouth on the beta, etc.
A bunch of big brands have them already, like http://www.facebook.com/nike and http://www.facebook.com/cocacola.

They do have a lower information density, but I think the old page design was cluttered. The new pages look better.

In my opinion the big downside to the new pages is how getting to almost every bit of content requires some kind of XLR, so interactions feel laggy.
That makes sense... I'm not really complaining, but I can already see myself using desktop most of the time and rarely going into Metro on my laptop... that's exactly why I won't be upgrading anytime soon :-)
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This is the correct read on this news.

Customer service is emerging from a major generational change at Blizzard. Understand that Blizzard went very quickly from a company of mostly developers to a company whose headcount was overwhelmingly focused on customer support. They had (before these layoffs) about 3,000 customer service employees worldwide. They hired a huge, huge amount of people, put together systems and tools as fast as they could, yet even so have only in the last few years been able to get their head above water. There was a lot of inefficiency, bad solutions, poor procedures and lack of automation. Todd Pawlowski was hired from Virgin America two and a half years ago to be Blizzard's VP of customer service and has been directing a huge amount of much-needed change. This is basically the latest step in Blizzard getting their act together and providing great customer service efficiently. It sucks for all the GMs that got laid off, though.

As for development, I think this doesn't indicate a whole lot, as you suggested. Maybe Cinematics is wrapping their work for Diablo 3, but the "development-related" jobs could very well be all QA positions. There is more than enough work in development for Blizzard to keep recruiting aggressively at GDC next week. The speculation elsewhere about this meaning something is changing for their future projects is far-out and wrong.
I've been playing around with the 8 Consumer Preview at work for a while, and really I don't have anything to complain about yet. I ended up liking the Metro UI more than I thought I would - it's just like the start menu now in 7. You know something is in there. Type a few letters, hit enter, and go.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth due to the death of the start menu is going to be loud.. I really hope Microsoft writes these off as change aversion (which they really should).
As a former middle class kid at rather pricey private schools... will bring computing to plenty of kids whose families could afford much more, too.
Flip the keymap, I mean remove the prefix, especially in a browser where C-x becomes C <pause> x .. it negates the benefits of structural edition.

So intercept all keys, and make it vim like (i know i know, don't bite me), it will make it even more (touchtypist)DSL-like. btw , why not use <tab> for new element insertion ( cons cell )

anyway, keep digging, it's the one true path ;)

/me going back to reading 'On Lisp'
Neat. Opened code and seen this which makes me feel icky as an iOS Dev:

// getters, because obj-c is weird
- (int) getTileTypeX:(int)x andY:(int)y {

Still great on them for being open.
I've given this a lot of thought, because I'm working on a couple of vaguely similar projects. My conclusion so far is that pretty-printing is great, but enforcing structural constraints in the editor (beyond perhaps something like ParEdit) tends to cause more trouble than it's worth.

Consider the transformations you might do on a piece of source code while you're playing around. A lot of these (for me, anyway) are things which change not just position or name, but the part-of-speech of words, or temporarily make a nonsensical expression. (I do it in my shell a lot, too.) Rigid structure-enforcing editors hinder this.

So for Lisp, either you end up with something that's less useful than Emacs, or something that's just a thin display layer on s-exps (which is fine, but not game-changing) and then users have to understand s-exp editing anyway. The fact that the names of special forms, functions, and variables are all symbols in Lisp is not mere coincidence.

This highlights one of the big frustrations I have with most programming languages: they optimize for making a section of code look good and concise, but as a programmer I want a language that also optimizes for my changes being concise. For example, C# can look pretty decent in many cases, but changes which are conceptually simple can be huge diffs. Quoting an expression in Lisp is literally one character, but it takes 5 lines to quote a print statement in C# <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y2k85ax6.aspx>, and anything nontrivial grows painfully fast. This is why it's impossible for me to truly assess something by looking at sample code, or a screenshot -- so don't take this as a criticism of Pretty Lisp!

It could be that as we move higher up the abstraction scale this becomes less important. After all, Mel wouldn't be happy at such a high level as "characters". But I think there's something fundamental about the concept of quoting symbols -- 'using something as something else' -- whether those symbols are bits or characters or round-rects. The #' in the screenshot here looks out of place, as if the author didn't know quite what to do with it.

I look forward to see what the author can make of this (new ideas and experimentation are great!) but I don't see anything here yet that jumps out at me as revolutionary, or must-have functionality.
Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase
Spark Capital buys $50M of Foursquare employee stock
Sure, they can hold my shipments and destroy them, and I'd have to refund my customers money, but that wouldn't mean they could bring a lawsuit against my company because I was shipping something completely legal in my country to a country where it was not legal (if I had known, off course it wouldn't matter, but how can I be required to read up on US law to run my business).
Am I just being a grumbly old man by preferring a decent editor like vim (or even emacs) over this?

I don't begrudge anyone who likes that kind of "web 2.0" bubbly aesthetic. But it's just not for me.
He meant it ironically.