skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No kidding, how about a VS plugin for Jira.

Jira is a lost cause anyway, Fogbugz is so much faster and integrates with VS.
Found it quite nice - the time was limited of course (and with some difficulties even more reduced), but I love to peek over peoples shoulders. And I respect the guts of doing this live in the first place.
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For me, there are a couple of benefits of having the functionality built into my search engine rather than my browser.

First, all I have to do is set up DDG as the default search engine in my browser, and then I get tons of search shortcuts working without any more effort on my part. I don't have to worry about syncing between different computers, browsers (I use Chrome and Firefox at different times), and operating systems.

Second, there are many more shortcuts than I'd ever think to maintain myself, and somebody else has already put the work into defining them. I can do !{relatively popular site} and even if I'm guessing, it almost always works. (In fact, I can't remember the last time it didn't.)
They may be onto something. If we get all the bad drivers into these things. Maybe We'll finally have drivers that can drive and follow the rules of the road. Hooray! One concern though if these cars will watch for the lines on the road, how will they handle roads with no lines? I live in a place where apparently lines on the road are a new concept. And are non existent in a lot of places.
When this application was started around 2008 or so we had a number of frameworks to choose from. At the time we chose spring.net. Looking back on it, that was a good choice considering most of our alternatives at the time (and since) have come and gone. Particularly Microsoft technologies that seem to come and go all the time. We're pretty happy that we chose a reliable, stable and well-maintained library such as spring.net.

I am curious what alternative you'd recommend, particularly if it's something that is production ready and has a certain future.

We're well aware of how hard it is to hire good C# developers. But in my opinion, a good C# developer isn't going to be put off by the choice of Spring.NET.
If the price of iPhones and android based phones were equivalent, then yes, android phones lose overall to iPhones.

However, anecdotally and from personal observation (small data size), those who cannot afford iPhones tend to go with androids due to price and availability than go with older generation iPhones.

Do Users really expect Different handsets to have the Same functionality? Or is slightly different ok, since they are slightly different handsets?
Protip: You should really explain on the front page what the app is all about. I don't want to go to hassle of registering when I see absolutely no benefits in me doing so.
Of course not. Thanks for pointing it out! I'm just expressing my appreciation for great software and systems that make the process effortless. Like Pandora and Netflix.

And no I don't have trouble with file types. I just like to watch or listen immediately, without a lot of fussing around, and I'm happy to pay for it because good content is expensive to produce.

And of COURSE file sharers don't sit around idly, waiting for a copy to complete. They can read comic books while they wait. Or walk up to the kitchen from the basement bedroom in their parents' house for a FREE bite to eat.
Ask HN: Is AirBnB getting too popular to cope?
I'm looking to stay in New York this week, so I went to the AirBnb iOS app, attempted to log in, and received the message "Version (null) of the AirBnb app is now available", so I attempt to update but according to iTunes UK store I have the latest version. So i delete and reinstalled the app.. Still no joy. Looking at the uk app store reviews reveals tons of users with the same issue.

Next step, went to visit airbnb.com on mobile safari... No joy, redirects to the uk site then to a blank page.

So I reluctantly visit the web site on my laptop, finally works and I find a place, enter my credit card details and relax knowingly reservation has been secured. Nope. 15 hours later the booking is rejected as the room is unavailable. The next booing was also rejected. Three more requests have yet to be responded to.

Time to book a hotel? Or is this an Airbnb UK issue?
What do you guys think? Do you think that distribution of patch information is a problem?
This is absolutely fantastic.

I remember suggesting ages ago that Intel's ark.intel.com should be integrated, so if you searched for Q6600 or 2600k or i7 980 it would show you details of the processor.

I might have a shot at integrating that. Does anyone know about the legality of doing so? I'm sure Intel wouldn't care, but showing the info in a zero click box would seem to be different than merely scraping the pages in order to return search results.
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$100,000+ is almost never a rounding error, no matter how big your org is.
Open PEPs and large-scale changes for [Python] 3.3
Or to the point that its absurdity becomes apparent.
Law Prof: Megaupload 'Depressing Display Of Abuse Of Government Authority'
I would assume being able to guarantee a certain level or "service quality" played a bigger role than finding out what people are talking about. They're probably going to integrate Skype at a much deeper level into WP8 and they need to make sure there are fewer breaking points, both technical and legal.
So, Microsoft would use Linux boxes..
I mostly agree with you; however, you do realize that your blog is called "Funtrepreneur," right?
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So I have an idea I'm trying to get feedback on from potential customers as to whether they would find it valuable. I've been calling various business event hosting companies and have pretty much got nothing but voicemail boxes. Is there a better strategy than this? What else could I be doing?

And to follow up, how can I better answer the question "who are my customers?"
> I'm not sure why people are complaining that it starts the upload on filter completion.

If it put responsiveness before everything else, it could even start uploading before the filters are applied and apply the filters server-side when they are validated.

While this would significantly increase server load (and duplicate the work, as filters would be applied both by the phone and by the server), it would make the visible upload window even lower (or even not exist at all).
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That's one option. Other options:

a) datacenter bandwidth is now much cheaper than it was 10 years ago, to the point that the cost saving from using p2p is not that significant anymore. (Skype did not have zero operating cost, and contrary to the article, they did operate their own supernodes - few tens to a few hundreds at least).

b) Microsoft is going to change the business model, e.g. no more free calls (or, no more free conference calls, or something like that), and if they are going to charge money, they need to guarantee a level of service - which they cannot with a P2P infrastructure.

c) The marginal cost for Microsoft (who already have data centers etc) is actually LOWER than running a p2p, with everything (including end user liability) is taken into account. Running 10,000 servers in existing data servers would cost ~$1M/month. May seem a lot to you, but it's a rounding error for microsoft (and certainly, at a $8.5B total cost, 4 years would make this ~$8.55B from Microsoft's side. Rounding error)

d) Microsoft is planning some kind of integration with their other properties (hotmail? live? office live?) for which hosting everything is essential.

I would guess (c) or (d), although the parent's guess is not without merit.
Business with significant capital get loads secured against that capital. Smaller or low-overhead businesses get loans personally guaranteed by the company officers (often against their personal assets) Or they get by with corporate credit cards (which they used to hand out like candy at the doctor's office) and work out separate payment terms with the vendor for any bigger-ticket items.
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Soft launched http://traxmo.com - time tracking, task management & invoicing.
That looks pretty nice. I'm always curious to see app developers make use of the caching opportunities in HTML5 so make the naysayers that claim the only way to have a great mobile experience is with a native app.
samdk has answered for me.
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Here at Munchery, our independent chefs have been cooking healthy balanced meals for a number of startups, most of which have no time nor staff nor facilities to make food in-house.

We have found a way to make it extremely affordable too. It's usually no more expensive than if you order takeout elsewhere. On top of that, we deliver directly to your office.

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Google Embraces Responsive Design
There's an infographic in one of the slides about the SEOMoz culture that I love and reminded me of the originating post that gives a solid overview:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/establishing-guiding-principles-a...
Note that this is built on top of Dremel: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html
You either possess the image or you do not. It is a strict liability offence.

There are narrow exemptions - "I did not view the images and I did not know they existed" is one; "The images were unsolicited and I did not keep them" is another.

(See page 4)

(http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/3249_Child_pornograp...)
When they bought hotmail, it took them years to migrate off the freebsd boxes that was running it -- they had several failures, and when they finally succeeded, they needed several times as many NT boxes as the original BSD boxes.

I would guess that the supernode software was written by skype long before the acquisition (they were running their own supernodes, despite what the article claims -- although not as many, and most supernodes were users), and microsoft hasn't had the chance or the reason to port them to Windows yet.
Well, his teachings are sort of a weird mix of medicine, psychology and pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo, apparently borrowing and adapting liberally from anything that suits him. For example, he has repeatedly tried to tie his ideas into quantum mechanics, to the chagrin of physicists everywhere: http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/11/16/deepak-chopra-mangles-...

Needless to say, there are a lot of people to whom this does not signal credibility.
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It's not at all unheard of for companies to do this kind of thing as a stopgap. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/02/icloud_runs_on_micro...
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MS using Linux to run their business. That says it all.

A company with more money than it knows what to do with, acting desperately to save itself from obsolescence.

Skype was flawed from the outset, being non-transparent (about how the network is set up, turning machines into supernodes withtout permission, and the encryption they use). It's all closed. Why? You can't verify it's well-designed. Now it's worse. Do I want MS routing my calls? Scanning every file transfer? Being able to peek at any video?

No thanks. That's not their role.

There are other true decentralised P2P Video/oiceOIP solutions. People now know that free calls, even video calls, through the internet are feasible, even without having technical knowledge.

Right now, use Skype. But it will not hold the market when more robust, flexible, decentralised, transparent services are ready for non-technical users.

Because they will be free. And Skype will not be free: the price you will pay, to a software company[1], is your privacy, at the least, and probably more.

1. No software company has a need to know such things. They are not the government, they are not law enforcement, and they are not defenders of national security. They are a software company. Who are they accountable to? It's just not a smart idea to let MS take this role. The potential for abuse is too great.
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> I'd submit the problem lies in the incomplete understanding of the source data

I'd submit that an incomplete understanding of the source data is not necessarily a problem. It's often a design goal. Generic tools have a limited understanding of the source data by design. I don't want my JSON parser/formatter/minifier/etc. to know about some silly parsing rules you added as comments. I want my JSON parser to understand JSON as it's defined.

Your nonstandard comment directives are the problem, not the fact that I didn't write a custom tool.
I'm trying to get something like this going in my office. It seems funny to me that so many days we're all busy chowing down in front of our keyboards while we read HN. I think a day a week to get together and enjoy everyone's company in a more relaxed setting is a good idea.
I don't know a browser which does not do that. They need to start the download to get the metadata (file name and type), and they'll do it if only because shitty servers may react very badly to the browser just stopping with a full socket buffer.
Backbone.statefulEvents: event callbacks based on application state
Anyone else think the naming of a product after a command used in the technology it represents seems a little strange?

See: git stash --help
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You make a great point. For example, I love Yasujiro Ozu movies, but very few of them are available on DVD. It would make so much more sense for those movies to be available to everyone through a streaming system, rather than have to sneak around exchanging files.
Another issue I see is people are not afraid at all due to easy availability of capital. Although, entrepreneur can be considered as fearless (at least when it comes to failure). But he/she always lives in fear. Be it competitors, running out of money, employees quitting, not able to hire, etc. At least, I live in fear all the time.
I think its just a commercial
It would be an improvement because then I could count on comments in JSON doing nothing (instead of possibly not parsing).
I agree this can be fun and encouraging... As long as it's healthy competition between peers (or better yet, competition against oneself), and NEVER to be used as a metric by managers for salary/bonus/firing purposes... you get my idea. In the wrong hands vanity metrics are a really dangerous weapon. I know a few cases.
Or instead of engaging in conspiracy theores with zero proof we should look at whats going on here rationally. Skype is really unacceptable in any corporate environment. I don't want a random PC on my network to be a superpeer and suddenly use my 50mbps connection routing calls to the world. Run skype for a couple of mins, fire up tcpview, and watch calls come in and out. Not only is this a waste of my resources it also provides a shit experience of dropped calls, sudden drops in quality, and connection issues. The P2P model for video and talk is suboptimal and MS knows their real customers (IT managers and IT buyers) aren't going to go for this.

I have yet to get high quality video to work on skype, even between two clients each with 10+ mbps lines. MS knows this is a problem.

More than likely Skype will be for SMB and residential use and high end enterprise will continue to use Lync or alternatives. This is a welcome move as it legitimizes Skype for many.
Definitely the case especially since they were on Amazon, and thus had to pay for EC2 minutes.

Now that they're at Facebook, server load shouldn't be a problem anymore though. So they could implement that.
Yes, and for more than a thousand years people have been rearranging the positions of tiny sculptures of feudal stereotypes on an 8x8 grid. What a waste of time.

What gk1 said.
The cargo-cult fallacy that there is a "correct" way to do something as complicated and varied as web service provision is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm talking about.

It is "easy" to blindly follow any rule. In most cases it is also wrong.
I don't see a problem with the name of his blog... putting the fun in entrepreneur. It does appear to be the first post but maybe I'm not familiar with how Tumblr works.