skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an anotated diagram of a V.32 (9600 bps) connect at http://www.3amsystems.com/wireline/hmo-v32.htm
Its going to be a pretty huge undertaking.

I assume that this will lead to some discussion on API standards, as multiple agencies simultaneously realize the implications.
It's called JVM and .NET.
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Major flaw on all platforms: switching apps is cumbersome and slow

We need ALT TAB on phones
This thing sounds like a nightmare. Speaking as a Windows power user, they'll get my Windows 7 when they pry it from my etc etc etc.

(Seriously, people. Windows 7 is generally recognised to be the first decent to good Windows OS in a long, long while. And now MS are junking that? Aargh.)

Looks like it's backup plan time.

What's the landscape like from a "moving to Linux" point of view these days? I'm specifically asking from a 3D animator's POV - historically one of the professions that has the hardest time getting away from Windows. How's support for 3D Studio Max, Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects et al?
This is not the same, because RubyMotion compiles directly to native code.

The best would be to have something that could make use of Android's NDK.
It would be very nice to have a native code compiler for Ruby with support for more than just iOS.
I would argue in recent years people have been more aware of the non-guarantee of static pointers in the lua api; and a moving GC would be feasible.
There was talk that the next lua version (after 5.2) would have a moving GC...
What's this programming language?
> It appears to be a grid of icons in two different sizes, laid out at random

You can change the layout. You can also choose icon size based on whether the larger icon is more useful due to 1) increased visibility, and/or 2) increased space for notifications.

Metro is also a lot more than just the start screen. It's a a style that describes the entire platform. It's clean and modern, it's content instead of chrome, it's crisp and legible, and it's free of the pseudo-physical elements (whether leather or glass or metal or whatever) that have become so common in GUIs.

The Windows team published a case study that highlights a lot of the metro aesthetic, and it goes way beyond the design of the tile. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh86826...

> with the Microsoft app icons being blocks of unpleasant primary color, with a white image in front of it.

Obviously, tastes differ. White on solid color is what basic metro tiles look like, though, and the offenders are the parties who shove their faux-3D logo into the tile without adapting it to the platform. This is no better than app developers who do a half-assed port of an iOS app to Android.

Disclaimer: Microsoft employee
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I started off agreeing with you and then things kind of veered off in the other direction.

Yes, the "post-PC" world is what Microsoft is betting on right now. Though I think it should be kept in mind that the launch window between Windows 8 and the Windows 8 tablet isn't going to be very large and while the there will plenty of rancor in the tech industry over the transition, a large percentage of (and maybe even the majority) of casual PC users' first experience with Metro and Windows 8 will most likely be on a tablet (just so we're clear, casual users are people who use computers to mostly go on the internet, check email, do non-tech related small business work like word processing, listen to music and game). It feels to me that this is a very important distinction.

Those who have been afraid to make the jump to an iPad due to the unfamiliarity of the concept will now have a mid-ground to bridge that gap. They have a familiarity with Windows bridged by a new "tablet-like" interface. These people didn't do much work under-the-hood work on their computers, even in the simplest terms, so the lack of familiar control panel mechanisms won't be an issue. So long as the tablet version works, they'll be cool with it.

I also want to add that Microsoft can't follow what Apple has done because they aren't a hardware company. Apple has become what they are based purely on the merits of their hardware manufacturing capabilities, methods, models and the genius/lucky vision of a handful of men. Microsoft doesn't have this luxury and really that is the greatest risk facing Windows 8, because they're going to have a hard time putting together a tablet that's financially competitive with the iPad. Especially with the iPad 2's rumored price drop for the holiday season.
I hope you realize that NSA, perhaps the biggest and most capable information security organizations in the world has always been under the Pentagon. It's absurd to suggest the US attention to data security started with the establishment of "Cyber Command".

My personal view is that it's a dangerous experiment in ineptitude allow the Pentagon to "defend in cyberspace" US networks. Most of the people who are tossing around such terms don't have the slightest clue what they're talking about.

It's one thing to say we're going to let the Pentagon use its procurement bucks to have defense contractors weaponize exploits in case the day arrives. But it's highly debatable whether allowing the military to get involved in US domestic networks is even legal.

Their ability to defend even their own networks for less than 10x the cost of the private sector is still an open question, much less whether or not they can defend anything having a wide diversity of traffic such as today's business and consumer internet.
I can definitely see some benefits of keeping the taskbar/panel on screen, but I think they were primarily motivated by the belief that designing the interface around apps being fullscreen would be more attractive to developers. The bottom edge is pretty important screen real estate both for touch (appbar) and mouse (scrollbar, zoom).
I would not consider it immoral as long as there is no other way to access the same content without committing an illegal act. As a non-US citizen, I can't even watch half the content even if I would want to pay.

The fact that people had to pay multiple times for watching the same content in different formats and that it is considered perfectly legal is more immoral to me than any thing else.
Tipping practices are pretty common in a lot of countries. In India, for example, it's expected that you tip a wide variety of people for a lot of small services. I find American tipping practices somewhat middle-of-the-road.
The start menu had to go because Windows 8 is Microsoft's big gamble to jump into the tablet market. A start menu doesn't make much design sense on a tablet or smartphone and they're clearly trying to out-design Apple with Windows 8.
Ah, someone here doesn't like my opinion and thusly is downvoting every comment I've ever made. It's been quite a while since I was around HN, but I'm very disappointed. Is suggesting that perhaps letting a Judge decide these legal matters such a bad idea?
Impressive that it doesn't just take the best guess; it also informs you of its alternative hypotheses:

http://i.imgur.com/wITwa.png

Update:

Reading your blog post, I see that this is a wrapper around highlight.js, which is doing the language-guessing (including the second-best guess): http://softwaremaniacs.org/wiki/doku.php/highlight.js:api
> death by a thousand startups

Love that.
Windows 8 was planned as a consumer-focused release from the start of the project, due to the expectation that businesses wouldn't be ready for a new version after just moving to 7 anyway. They really aren't counting on widespread enterprise uptake, and never were.
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I find it disturbing that so many people are so very willing to ignore or defend the atrocities of communism in the 20th century.

Just after the end of WWII the Soviets adopted a "plunder" policy with regard to occupied Eastern European countries. Forcing them to produce huge quantities of raw materials and industrial goods to be used within the USSR, extracting as much wealth from the beleaguered post-war economies as the US and allies pumped into Western Europe with the Marshall plan. They also set up "state owned" Eastern Block companies such that the USSR maintained majority ownership (up through the mid-1950s).

This pattern continued through the 1950s as the Soviets retained near direct control over Eastern Bloc economies and morphed in the 1960s into COMECON which merely provided political cover for the same sort of plunder policies up until industrial production in Eastern Europe started to become significant in the 1970s.

In October of 1956 the Hungarian people rose up and threw off their violent totalitarian government. One day later Soviet tanks were in the country's capital (in direct violation of the terms of the Warsaw Pact), within the next month 2500 Hungarians were killed and ten times as many were arrested, hundreds of which were deported to gulags in siberia or executed.

In January of 1968 Czechoslovakia elected a reformist government, which instituted many liberalizing reforms. In August Soviet tanks and forces from the USSR and the Warsaw Pact nations invaded, toppled the government, and killed any Czechs or Slovaks who stood in their way (though few were foolhardy enough to throw themselves against an army of 2,000 tanks and 200,000 soldiers).

The formalization of Eastern Bloc countries as effective satellite states of the USSR came about with the codification of the Brezhnev Doctrine in the 1960s, though it only legalized the status quo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc_economies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_revolution_of_1956

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine
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OP here. I can't take credit for that, though. ;-)

It uses the highlight.js API for making the guesses, which provides the 2nd best option as well. :)
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting your use of the term technical innovation, but weren't the Manhattan Project, NASA and many military projects innovation by mandate that were extremely successful?
They seem to be noting their third anniversary on that, in fact: http://www.data.gov/
Has anyone ever been charged under this for posting on a web forum?
That was my point exactly. Canada and the US share 90%+ of their culture, so it was interesting for two reasons:

1. Why send that kind of a book to a Canadian?
2. It's interesting to read what other cultures might find shocking about US culture.
Yes, they mean “divide into 365”, not “divide by 365”.
Just tried it out with brainfuck(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck)!

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.

XML or django. then again this could be anything.
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The bar did not travel state lines. If the laws allow it, they have fulfilled their obligation. If, on the other hand, they are actively targeting and soliciting orders for alcohol from 19-year-old US citizens to pick up and consume, for example, at parties, then perhaps they have done something unethical.

That is beside the point, however, as the questions of jurisdiction with respect to copyright are somewhat more well-established than that.
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Yes, I actually hate Windows, but have a Windows 7 machine on my desk (along with Ubuntu 12.04 and Mac OSX 10.8), and I find I actually prefer the Windows box for everything except sysadminning. I am kind of amazed at how good Windows 7 is.

I assume corporate and power users (of desktops) will stay with Windows 7, and then Windows 8, Windows Phone, and Windows 7 SP n will merge in 3-4 years into the real next Windows.
Do the Japanese really say "desu"?
Neither is "socialist" but that isn't stopping anyone...
int main(int argv, char **argv) {
return 0;
}

Doesn't look like CS and can't even be java. Adding a printf changes the top suggestion to perl. Adding an include changes the top suggestion to vala.

The idea to reduce language recognition to syntax highlighting is a nice idea, but doesn't seem to work.
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I think an old East German joke tells the story.

"Indeed we have an even-handed relationship with the Russians. After all, we send them coal and they send us snow in return".
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But what meet-ups do you actually mean? I think to really find out what matters to them in their jobs ("normal" people) is to work with them (of course talking can give you some clues but not real understanding of subject). Besides you are just outsider and they will not tell you everything.
The point I was making:

ethical != moral != lawful
If app works as advertised then it's freaking amazing. Telling jokes and making the speaker funnier is already highly useful.
1Password 4.0 will be Mac App Store exclusive[1]. The only upgrade path available is from 3.9, which only available in Mac App Store.

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 → Shutdown…

Or, press the power button once, get a restart/sleep/cancel/shutdown dialog (shortcuts: r/s/esc/return)
Nice job... got my C# and Ruby correct, but FORTRAN was seen as VBSCRIPT.
It's not even the Windows XP-7 UI paradigm. Cosmetically, the look has been updated over the years, but the same fundamental elements have always been there: a start menu; a panel at the bottom with a start button, a clock, a place for minimized applications, etc.; a desktop where you can choose your own background and put shortcut icons; overlapping windows of familiar applications that have mostly stayed the same in their functions, such as Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office; and many other familiar features.

They've had this similar UI with minor, incremental changes for: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

Yes, the familiar user interface that people are used to since August 1995 is going to suddenly change. If you're afraid of change, then it's been mostly comfortable for 17 years with Vista as the most radical makeover. Yes, there are now people who are adults who have used essentially the same graphical interface to their PC's OS for basically their entire life.

People didn't like Vista because it brought fairly radical change to many things, but to the average user who largely judges an application by its appearance, this is basically a completely different thing. It's basically Windows in name only to them. Microsoft might have had more success if they chose a different name and promoted it as a brand new OS to the average end user.

This is one massive psychology experiment done by Microsoft as to how far an average user can tolerate radical change. We'll see how it plays out. Based on some recent transitions in similar software with smaller user bases (e.g. the GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 transition), it probably isn't going to be pretty.
Notepad++ on Windows, Kate on linux.
Its not too good at C++.

Apparantly,

template <typename T> T foo(T t) { return t; }

looks like DJANGO or XML.
In most of Europe a tip is far more discretionary and often smaller. Eg
In the uk I would not tip at all if the service was poor/average and perhaps 10% for good service. I would think of it as being much more performance related and far more discretionary in Europe.

I wouldn't feel bad about not leaving a tip and whilst a waiter/waitress might be disappointed they be overly wouldn't insulted.

In the US I've seen much wider range of people expecting a tip. Eg in the uk you might sometimes round up a taxi fair, but I've had a new York cab driver get positively aggressive (initially refusing to give us our bags) when we didn't tip after he his inability to find a major hotel had added $30 extra on the meter.
The main screen is only for launching applications.

Seems like apps are becoming the new files. Why are all these interfaces emphasizing app launching so heavily? Most users spend far more time navigating among running apps than launching new ones. Why are we still, in 2012, so enamored of these artificial data firewalls?

As clunky as Android's intent system can be in practice, the emphasis on tasks rather than apps is absolutely the way forward. Most users barely understand the difference between an "app" and a window on their screen anyway and the app-centric model makes it much harder for them to integrate the chunks of information they need to complete their task.
>Disclaimer: Microsoft employee

I thought, "this has to be a Microsoft employee", right after I read this:

>It's a a style that describes the entire platform. It's clean and modern, it's content instead of chrome, it's crisp and legible, and it's free of the pseudo-physical elements

It sounds like something straight out of a marketing brochure.
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Working with the dexy.tv guy to make that happen for US visitors.

As for the others, there's no much we can do I'm afraid. We'll help where we can, but the offer is too fragmented in Europe right now!
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I believe that he wasn't saying that you misspelt the word, he was saying that infringement does not equal 'stealing.'

Infringement is probably within the scope of appropriation which is the number 2 definition you listed, but maybe it shouldn't be. Conflating real theft with copyright infringement is confusing, and unnecessary.

If I've misinterpreted anything then please ignore.
>I'm kind of sad that my daughter won't know what a dial up modem sounds like.

Heh, why? Do you feel like you're missing out on life because you've never had to use a telegraph ? It'll definitely be very cool to show her how it used to be, but that's likely the extent of it :)
It can't understand C.
http://i.imgur.com/7hrPE.png
API is much better than nothing. I say, begin with API, then require any API to have a basic "raw_data_dump (start date, end date)". And yes, this isn't about transparency, but it is more about efficiency, and still can lead to transparency.
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Tyranny has an API...
Ha. I never notice that's how SO does its fading. Learn something everyday. Anyway, I put something in to do the highlight and fading on the FAQ. Also changed the ! from dark orange to gray.
I gave it this and it thought it was Vala:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
return 0;
}

Haskell is a very weird guess for yours.
Revenue numbers would be very interesting indeed. I can imagine (small) developers receive more purchases from the Mac App Store compared to their own website, since apps are very easy to find in the MAS.
I don't recall when I last used the start menu to turn off the computer. I have a button on my laptop and pressing it hibernates the computer. Very handy.
Not quite. Servers report tip amounts to their employer and that information goes to their W-2. Because they get tips, servers can be paid less than minimum wage. But even so, if their tips and wages combined aren't enough to get them up to minimum wage, the employer must pay them the difference.
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Libraries do still exist.
Yup, it does a terrible job with the C family of languages. Hardly ever gets that right. And if you type in any random keys, it often identifies it as Haskell. ;-)

It does a decent job with Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.
Yeah, it nailed all the Perl I tried, even rather niche stuff.
It's perfectly safe to drink the water out of virtually any tap in America. If you do much traveling, you'll find this is very untrue of the rest of the world (not just India).

Even in Europe water quality varies between "great" and "I wouldn't drink that" on a country-by-country basis, and sometimes on a city-by-city basis. Remember that "Europe" isn't a country and there aren't any such things as "European standards". Even to the extent that there is an European Union which sets standards for a portion of the subcontinent, enforcement and adherence varies widely. In Germany the tap water will be above American standards everywhere. In Italy, for instance, ask a local before drinking.
Both Google and Apple went a smarter way. They just made two different operating systems, one for touch and one for PC. What Microsoft is doing will confuse people only, the touch OS should have a different name.
Ah, fair point.

The Torrentz guy seems paranoid indeed (lots of disclaimers everywhere) but that seems to serve him well, it's been online for 8 years.

Also, hamsters! http://torrentz.eu/img/hamster.jpg
If you want to turn off you computer, just press the power button for 3 seconds, that cuts power.
It's not a bad idea to skip every other Windows release anyway.

98SE (O) - ME (X) - XP (O) - Vista (X) - 7 (O) - 8 (X) - 9 (?)
I'm not particularly impressed. The Pi isn't a budget computer, it's not for watching Nyan Cat or listening to podcasts, it's a computer sandboxing tool. Yes, it has teething problems but it's been designed on a minuscule budget, had little time in the wild to actually gain any traction and most definitely has not had the time required to mature the supported software. This review is targeting all the wrong things and glossing over what the Pi is actually meant for.

As a media centre or recreational tool, it's useless, but as an educational tool it's not to be rubbished. For $35 a go, I'm willing to put up with a lack of Youtube.
Same goes here in Switzerland. We have a tax on storage media that is supposed to cover that use case.
So bad!

#include <stdio.h> XML

printf("%d", i); ERLANG
> White on solid color is what basic metro tiles look like, though, and
> the offenders are the parties who shove their faux-3D logo into the
> tile without adapting it to the platform.

Why didn't Microsoft anticipate this and require that icons be plain white silhouettes on top of a solid color when placed on a tile? That way, the third-party applications would match the Microsoft applications in appearance.

Actually, isn't there still time to fix this now that it's apparent that it will mess with the user experience in a major way and degrade the basic aesthetics of the main screen?
This article makes a great point which I think more people should understand: "[...] when a platform makes a major transition, people are forced to stop and reconsider their purchase. They're going to have to learn something new anyway, so for a brief moment they are open to possibly switching to something else. The more relearning people have to do, the more willing they are to switch".

This is exactly right. I'd love to switch to a Mac instead of my Windows, mostly because so many people do it and enjoy it, and their hardware is better.

But I've got so many customizations and so much history with my Windows, that it will literally take me months of work converting everything, and there are some things I'm not even sure can be converted.

But if Windows 8 will break half the things anyway, I'll really have no reason not to change to a new OS.
I admit, that's a good point.
What torrent sites are you scraping with nokogiri?