skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm not.

The astroturfing against Google has certainly been going on for the past decade. IV/Myhrvold is current. UEFI is current. A number of EU antitrust issues are current. Gaming the office market (no r/w tools available for Android) is current (and Google are now doing a Claytonesque disruptive innovation in that space as they did with Google Docs in the online space).

There's a whole side rant about the ills the Microsoft have spawned in malware, spam, spyware, etc., which despite several decades of protestation on the part of the company's apologist, have simply failed to materialize on other platforms to any vaguely similar fraction of a magnitude. My reasoned analysis is that the security issues are driven by engineering design decisions, and the engineering design decisions are driven by business and marketing objectives, which again are a conquer-at-all-costs, scorched-earth, mentality. My conclusion is that a world in which proprietary control of both operating systems and applications markets is held within a single corporate entity is fundamentally untenable, and that F/OSS si a very strong countervailing force (Apple presents an interesting side case that can also be explored). We've heard again and again "but it's better now", but ... it's not.

I could go on. I can't go on at length with specific references right now, but you've given me inspiration to do so, for which I give you thanks.

The point remains: the company has a fundamental attitude toward competition and exclusive markets. And the boy had cried "wolf" (or rather "but we're different now") far too often a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

But they haven't changed.
Sorry to post this here, but jsprinkles' profile is empty.

@jsprinkles: do you have a blog or website? Really enjoyed your xip.io comments (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4082017) and would like to keep up with your adventures. On a related note, it would be nice if HN had RSS feeds for specific user submissions and comments.
We're still running vb6 code inside COM on win2k3. It's ugly but it works (just about)
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Tough Crowd, Tough Crowd :)

The graphs aren't misleading (IMHO), they show the distribution of lengths. However you slice it, if you have to type the domain name, you have to push that number of keys. It's far more important to know that, than the ratio of the length normalized by the possible combinations of characters at that length. (I did try looking at that as well, but the graphs were almost meaningless - even at log scales, the increase in the number of combinations of characters dwarfs the number of names, and after you get more than 10 characters, the percentages drop to so small that comparing is meaningless).

"a lot of experts disagree with you on the importance of having a .com domain name". Well, yes they can! So go with the wisdom of the masses. It's a free market, and as a company you can select your own domain suffix. Yet most go for .COM, because well, right or wrong, that's what people expect. (I will agree that, in the end, it's not as important because, if you read my article I state that many now find web sites through typing keywords in search engines, and the exact domain is not important), but, Ask youself the question though: if you are company XYZZY, and there is a XYZZY.COM domain there, and it's not yours would you be just as happy with XYZZY.NET and not worry about it (Listening to those experts?) I think not, you want to preserve your brand, and avoid confussion, and make it as easy as possible for the masses to find your site (the non-experts who make up the majority of your consumers). It's the tastes of the fish, not the tastes of the fisherman after all :)

This article was written for fun. The couplet/triplet was generated out of interest and to see common combinations of letters. I find it fascinating, and I'll be happy to explain some business utility of it if you want to send me a personal email.

I'm not trying to sell my services as an expert domain name seller; it's not what I do. I make a living as someone who mines data and helps find 'inconsequential minutia' in data to leverage (when dealing with hundreds of millions of users, moving the needle just fraction of a percent can make a difference to a bottom line).

But anyway, the article was created as a trivia/fun article. I'm sorry you don't find it interesting/relevant. (Though again, wisdom of the crowd: since someone posted it here this morning, my inbox/twitter has been alive with comments/retweets about how fun and interesting an article it is - to date, it's been one of the most promiscious articles I've written)
1. There is already cmd.exe integration in Explorer. Hold Shift as you right click.

2. This doesn't look much like Cygwin. At best it's like MSYS with MinGW compiled tools. Either way, no package management, no auto updates.
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Experience Oriented Approach To Deals
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I would not teach my children to hang out with people to get things done per se. Just start getting stuff done regardless of others and as a nice side-effect you will find yourself hanging out with others who get stuff done.
Nice summary of what my reaction was after reading this post. I especially like the parts of the excerpt that basically said, "we may fire you for any of these things, or something else entirely".
Why Innovation Needs Design Thinkers
As a member of the VS team (but not one who is in charge of making these decisions) I can't comment in any official capacity. I can say I am not a fan of the ALL CAPS menus, but, strangely enough, my personal opinion doesn't drive decisions in a multi-million dollar product unit :).

I will however just leave this here:

http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s....

This is of course not officially supported and my being a VS team member does not imply a contract for this registry key to exist for all time or on any specific SKU.
Join Google.

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." --Oscar Wilde
Mumtris - Tetris in M
Only for ancient hackers: Tetris in MUMPS, implementation is GT.M specific.
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The linked blog post from Posner is excellent:

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012/06/capitalismposner.h...
Huh, so there is. Amazon bought them in 2007. I've been reading DPReview constantly, but I never knew that.
So when it's an article critical of conservatives it's fine, but when it's critical of Obama it's political troll baiting?
Not true (to my knowledge) it hasn't been stated there will be any such exposed setting (to my knowledge, if I am wrong feel free to cite sources). There is a reg key switch, but there are lots of reg key switches in VS.

Edit: As drivebyacct2 points out below I am wrong, it HAS in fact been officially stated. I don't see any attribution on the blog entry, but I suspect I know who wrote it and it is an official Microsoft blog, so that is a public announcement. Done and done.
WordPress's performance bottlenecks lie with its reliance on MySQL. Moving to a NoSQL storage method would propel it beyond what we know CMSs to be.
This is very true.

Just curious - aren't we all judged every single day, by how much 'useful' or 'productive' we are? At work, among friends, while trying to find a mate..heck, even within families.
I prefer to stay semi-anonymous, but a few people know who I am (it wouldn't be rocket science to deduce). When I posted under my real name folks I did not know would come up to me at conferences and argue with me about things I had said on Hacker News. People tend to get offended by my remarks because I disagree with a lot of this culture, so it's also easier to just keep that separate from my career.

Thank you for the kind words.
I think any solution needs to check that only one finger was touched - some solutions forget this check. An iOS quirk to be careful of is that the event.touched array count for a touch event on an element is different if there is also a touch event registered on document (spooky interaction, but true).

Also I would check no modifier key (ctrl,alt,shift,meta) is down to handle mixed keyboard/touch devices. This check is often missed for mouse events, and causes various UI faults in pages.
Easily apply to a variety of startup accelerators
Sounds like an interesting idea; I hope he publishes more details. I also hope the next interviewer is not so detached.
This was confusing for me as well. Why on earth would anyone create a separate "text" notation for a programming language?

Please just stick to writing out ".prototype", if writing for a general audience.
It's not uncommon for a street dealer to buy a pound and sell it by the gram.

Since the average price for a bad batch of marijuana is bordering $200/ounce according to http://www.priceofweed.com/

That means that a dealer only needs to sell 3 ounces before he turns a profit? And the other 13 in the pound are profit? Ie... a weed dealer makes $2,600 profit on a $600 investment? $3,200 total? Just by selling 16 ounces?

I live in Canada and I can tell you that's not how the math works :P

A good return on a drug investment is 2 to 3 times your money. The person you're buying it from isn't an idiot.
Obviously my goal - however, should I wait and prepare for the APM or go for the Tech. Associate role and try to transfer after some time?
To add insult to injury, it uses 100% CPU by design :)
This opinion is both extraordinary and extremely significant. Richard Posner is probably the most prolific legal intellectual not on the supreme court. He co-writes, along with Gary Becker (Nobel Prize winner in Economics) this excellent blog http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/

Posner is the author of the 4th most cited Law Review article in the field of intellectual property law[1]. Most telling of all is this statistic: "As of 2000, Judge Posner was the most often-cited legal scholar of all time with 7,981 citations, nearly 50 percent more than anyone else" [2]. He retains that position in 2012.

[1] - William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner, An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law, 18 J. Legal Stud. 325 (1989).
[2] Fred Schapiro & Michelle Pearse, The Most Cited Law Review Articles of All Time, Michigan Law Review 2012.
See my comment to leephillips above.. The math just doesn't make sense. Unless people are actually buying ounces in California for $40 or $50... I wouldn't know because I don't live there, but I can say fairly confidently that they do not.
He called it right, as it is.
The title is NZZ, Neue Zurcher Zeitung (New Zurich Newspaper), as it's commonly known in Switzerland.
> [re a slide-to-unlock patent] Apple’s .. argument is that “a tap is a zero-length swipe.” That’s silly. It’s like saying that a point is a zero-length line.

But a point is a zero-length line.
Making an open hardware and software cell phone
Great work. I am a long time finance geek - this will make life decidedly easier.
WOW.. thanks for the input.. i would have guessed a lot more..
But in my defense, training workers is extremely expensive for a small shop like mine. I would have had to assign one of my better guys to the task full time for there to be any hope of success, and I simply could not afford to do that.

We are eating our seed corn.
My wardrobe follows many of these mechanics - jeans, t-shirt, hoodie. In the winter (I live in Waterloo, Ontario) I just add layers. Sometimes more shirts, sometimes long underwear, and always a jacket, hat, gloves etc. It's usually pretty warm inside, so the core pieces don't change.
cronjobs.. sorry
Have to agree on Calculus Made Easy. Found it in high school and quickly learned intro calculus better than anyone in the AP Calculus class.
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I am listening to music all the time. I have it hooked up with all of the mobile services I've used (Spotify, Rdio), SoundCloud, and online radio services that support it in addition to regular old iTunes and Winamp on my computers. I'd say I listen to the equivalent of 3-4 albums per day. There's a lot of random one-offs that get tossed in there, but there have also been months where I either turned off the service out of embarrassment over something I wanted to listen to and forgot to turn back on, or just plain didn't download it or sign into it through another service. I figure that the fluff evens those times out.
Source, with a lot more content: http://retina.smithsonianmag.com/post/24629746846/smithsonia...
This is a good book. I found it preferable to regular epsilon delta when I was in highschool.

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html
Why the FBI wants IPv6: It's better for tracking criminals
If my high school maths teacher were here he'd say that a point is a zero-length line segment.
Go to Google, build your resume and get more experience under your belt. Save up. Then chase your dreams via your own startup or another that you're passionate about and have a little cushion. If things go awry, rinse and repeat.
You're right that this is increasingly a digression. I thought my point was more important, but I'll play on your field: Trumpet Winsock was shipping the same BSD code that everyone else was using, and built a business around it only because MS didn't bother to. When MS took the same code for themeslves, the market for proprietary products evaporated. Where is the "harm to the market" in that? Users got compatible software at a better price.

When Netscape was killed, Unix users lost the ability to use much of the web, because everyone started writing to IE only. And the reason that happened was because MS leveraged their windows monopoly illegally. I note you didn't have a reply to this bit. :)
Move to South or SouthWest.

You'll be golden.
To Track or Not to Track? Not Just a Question, a Choice
> "Wouldn't a Raspberry pi for 1/20 of the cost, and which can drive a full HD video, be sufficient?"

Not for arbitrary arrays of potentially-disparate displays -- which is where a lot of signage software is going/has gone (being able to marry varying display technologies, resolutions, dpi, etc). While they likely don't need to wring every last flop out of an i5, they do need to be capable of substantially more than driving canned video to a single HD display.

And the more displays an off-the-shelf unit can drive, the cheaper/easier installation and expansion becomes.
I encountered this problem on one of my sites.

The solution was -- rather than using the video player's API to stop or pause the video -- I had to remove the video entirely from the DOM with Jquery.remove()
Indeed, you're right. It is relevant. However, I still disagree with your conclusion. I say this as someone who worked at Mozilla, and who knows a lot of Mozillians who have been there many years.

Mozila is a non-profit, and it has a mission. It exists to make the web a better place. It existed before Google, and it will exist after Google stops paying. As it happens, although Google's money has allowed Mozilla grow hugely, it has other revenues that would allow it to support a good sized staff.

The point I was making is that without Google, there is Microsoft, who are dying to make Bing a thing. Microsoft clearly offered way more than Google's old $100m, else how would the new deal be $300m.

Finally, enable-by-default DNT wouldn't kill anything except DNT. It is an optional protocol, no-one has to support it, and if it was enabled by default, no-one would.
Apostol starts similarly, with the first chapter mostly being really basic set theory (and discussion of the reals, couple of proofs about fields, etc).

Reading both volumes of Apostol is the sort of math introduction that any college student at all interested in math should have.
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Pretty funny using a $35 "workstation" to develop for a $79 microcontroller platform :)
I think we all try to teach our kids to avoid the mistakes that we made and to grow from the successes that we have had. Your lessons will likely be different from mine.
If you've only read the first few chapters of Godel Escher Bach, you should really set a goal to continue reading. The book is filled with so much good information presented in a digestible format. Topics are slowly revealed throughout the book until you just get it. It's a great experience.
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I'd like feedback on this concept - would anybody sign up for "reverse advertising", and does using a readable privacy policy as a feature appeal to anybody?
Only if you have a jury full of mathmeticians
Clicking the top corner of the page works for me, as well arrow keys (on Firefox + Linux). It did take me a bit too long to figure out though...
Seriously, you are claiming that network latency and a delayed response to click events is a GOOD thing because it lets you fix mistakes that you made? Sorry, that is not how you design a product/feature.

The problem you are mentioning has also been solved by Google. In Ice Cream Sandwich when you click on a link that is close together with others, it will magnify the area to make it very clear which link you want to click. This is a solution to your mis-clicks - not a latency delay on every click so that you can fix it if you clicked wrong...
Is it? Maybe a zero length line segment. In geometry terms, lines are infinite, aren't they?
Adapting my usual wardrobe for colder weather involves a few extra layers.

Base: jeans, black t-shirt, possibly a fleece vest, leather shoes.

Cold weather (~20F or below): beanie, leather jacket (lined), scarf, possibly a heavy sweater depending on the duration of being outside, and gloves. Also athletic tights (more insulation than just plain jeans).

Really, it doesn't take much.
Your statement would imply that a point has a direction, which it does not. Also, a line does not have a length; both you and Posner meant line segment. So a correct statement would be:

A zero-length line segment is a point.

Edit: not even this is true if your definition of a line segment explicitly states that the endpoints must be distinct, as does PlanetMath's definition, as Aethaeryn points out below.
A zero-dimmensional equivalent of line, maybe?
Very Beautiful! The demo has a nice Skyrim/LOTR feel to it and the lava flows were just gorgeous! If that lava flow generation is completely procedural then I'm extremely impressed.

Writing a highly parametrized engine like that with JIT script compilation is plain awesome!
Thanks for the advice. Again - worth waiting for the position I want (potentially a long shot) or getting my foot in the door (and potentially transferring)?
Wow, that all caps menu is ugly. I hadn't seen that before. As the only person I can talk to working on VS team.. I hold you personally responsible. "Fix It!"
Depends on your definition.

In my interpretation, to be considered a line in any number of dimensions, it must be specified by no fewer than two points. This puts a lower bound on the amount of information to specify "lines", a bound strictly greater than specifying a "point" in a space of similar dimensions. Otherwise, is point also a polygon consisting entirely of zero-length sides?

But anyway, I think it was only meant to highlight the Judge's opinion of the absurdity of some claims.

edit: so glad this tiny portion was the subject of the most discussion
That's a strong statement. Can you please elaborate?

Heroku is generally regarded as a reliable hosting solution. If it was a bargain basement alternative that was expected to fail randomly, then this would in fact be "clownshoes" downtime.

Building in full redundancy behind Heroku is possible, but non-trivial. They are after all being paid to provide a reasonably fault tolerant solution.

Therefore, while not literally unavoidable, it may not make good business sense for a venture to incur the additional expenses associated with implementing full redundancy. Most of their clients probably understand that downtime happens and will be perfectly content as long as every reasonable effort was made to keep the system online.

edited to add : Communication is key. Business relationships typically don't crumble due to aberrations like this (power outage, hosting provider going down, etc.). However, they do crumble if communication either doesn't occur, or the wrong information is conveyed. That is the crux of this discussion.
There's a good chance that if it's not a previously known vector, they've contact the author of the component with some opportunity to fix it before it's publicized and resulting in attacks from new parties.*

* I neither agree nor disagree with zero-day disclosure policies. I'm just noting the possibility that they could be aware of the vector and would rather not share that information yet, for various reasons.
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For extra credit, compare and contrast this approach to the US justice system.
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Say what you will about the management. I've spent time with several of their product teams over the years. They've been doing a lot to embrace open platforms, reach out to OS communities, invest in real innovation, and generally not be dicks.

Senior-level folks may or may not see the light, but from what I've seen, the company is changing from the bottom up, with or without them.
So, is Express for Desktop the only wait to get a free C++ compiler from Microsoft now? Last I read, they removed the C++ compiler and C runtime from the Windows SDK.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363.as...

As long as they continue to ship a C++ compiler freely, I'll be happy.
We don't plan to have a barrier to entry, because we want to build a platform that is accessible to everyone. The pressure is then on us to do a great job surfacing the best content for you, for whatever your need is.

And there will always be people looking for design shortcuts. Much of the web is not breakthrough design of new experiences, it's new faces on existing ideas. I hope we provide a short-cut for designers to get the template easily so they can spend their creative energies making it really unique.