skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, when people start waking up they will realize that it isn't, hasn't ever, and will never work. Facebook only functions on one core input; your demographic info. I would bet significant amounts of money that Facebook has permanently backed up everyone's demographic info for all eternity. It is the vulnerable point in the Facebook deathstar. No one already looks at or intentionally clicks on any adds on Facebook, imagine how difficult it would be to sell marketers that facebook flavored bull if the user demographics were junk info.
What no-one has mentioned that I find interesting, is that Microsoft are calling this a 'promotion'

"This upgrade promotion for Windows 8 Pro both online and at retail runs through January 31st, 2013."

I wonder why this price is only temporary, and what the price will be afterwards?
Look at the lessons learnt cutting the prices of videogames in the Steam store. Lower prices can spur people to buy your videogames in ways that are actually much more profitable than pricing it higher.

Pirates will always try to rationalize themselves to a reason to pirate software. Microsoft is doing a great job of making Windows 8 an attractive upgrade to people.

I was personally planning to hold off on buying it, but that price tag is extremely compelling, so I'll probably buy it, shortly after any launch kinks are sorted out.
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Except that I can install OS X on a blank hard drive when needed (which I've needed to do twice).
I'm thinking of ecosystems rather than products; app stores vs. web, etc. It's easy to vilify rent-seeking behavior that drives closed systems, but without that lure, fewer platforms get built, and progress slows down. It's the kind of thing that Charlie Stross calls a Wicked Problem.

Admittedly, this all depends on one's interpretation of "Openness".
agreed, they definitely seem to be targeting the more "casual" audience. But who knows, if the whole "shared kernel" thing has some practical benefits for businesses, we might see more widespread adoption.
It's rather difficult for most of us to accept criticism but at some point most sane people would try to take a step back and conclude that if thousands upon thousands of people think you are behaving poorly it might be prudent to at least consider their viewpoint is valid.
There's enough actual sexism/racism/etc in the industry to worry about that, rather than worrying about totally innocent things which enjoy massive support from a lot of people, including people of good will whose ears you will require the next time actually outrageous behavior happens.

If one were, hypothetically, of the mind that the cultural signifiers of geeky tech guys needed to be demonized to avoid scaring e.g. women out of the profession, one would be advised to tiptoe around that conclusion and avoid explicitly linking those cultural signifiers to evil behavior, because one will shortly be forced into making arguments like "Mentioning Diablo 3 in a job interview is spiritually akin to sexual harassment." One will lose those arguments, in a flamboyantly destructive fashion, and the next time one makes well-founded arguments such as "Corporate outings at a strip club are not appropriate", one will be remembered as some variant of an "implacable harpy who would be equally offended if the meeting had mentioned Dungeons and Dragons."

P.S. I am probably not the guy who you'd want as your #1 ally on this issue, but I know that guy, and he literally has Warhammer tattoos. If you're making an anti-Xism movement which can't accept him as an ally because he's culturally alien to you, your anti-Xism movement will have less success than you probably want it to have.
>The pole is to keep that cluttered ribbon interface away from my relatively clean Explorer windows

The ribbon is minimized by default.

What's cluttered about this more than Windows 7?
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Along those lines, I'd expect a declaration of freedom to go like "We're free, and we're going to do the following things" rather than "Hey, people with actual power, please respect our freedom in the following ways."
Love Easel.
True, that is an advantage! I was just speaking in licensing terms.
You know what? You don't get to decide who people's friends are. 30 years ago people had all kinds of friends they only got to communicate with on the phone and through letters. Non-face-to-face friendships (and romantic relationships) have existed since we had semi-reliable postal services. People happen to find things like Twitter & Facebook really helpful in this regard.
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I'm very excited to try Angular. Your tutorial, however, is not compatible with the suggested server experience where Apache is not installed, as Node has updated to v0.8 and not only deprecated but removed the "sys" module in favor of the "util" module. Update your repos please? https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat/pull/18 https://github.com/angular/angular-seed/pull/22

Not digging against you, but this might (though, imho it shouldn't) be a barrier to entry to newcomers. I've simply resigned myself to editing the one line it takes to complete the tutorial every step of the way... Though in retrospect I think I probably could have just forked it and updated that line myself for a permanent fix... :)
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Not to toot my own horn, but I rather like Hakyll hosting to S3. It's simple, almost unkillable, and the code for Hakyll is quite beautiful.

My site's code is hosted on github for your perusal: https://github.com/KirinDave/public-website

Note the makefile for how its deployed. All the code for site generation is in Main.hs.
> I would gladly sign a document that had an exhaustive and exclusive list of declarations of what we weren't going to allow governments to do.

We've got one of those already. It doesn't work as well as it was intended to, because, despite the idealistic "rule of law, not men" rhetoric, laws are just abstract concepts, and the world is always under the control of people, who will game and manipulate any system of rules to their advantage. If you build an institution and give it enough power, the people who run it will eventually find a way around their constraints.
But competition is good.
I used to curate the All Programs menu. What that did was mess up uninstallers, because they could no longer find shortcuts to delete them, so I ended up with lots of dead shortcuts that needed clearing out.

So now, I create a bunch of category folders (Work, Development, Entertainment, you get the idea) in the Start Menu profile folder (rather than the Start Menu\Programs folder), and copy the handful of app and applet shortcuts that I actually need in. I leave the All Programs menu to fester and ignore it. With Classic Shell, this works well; the classic start menu, in XP mode, shows my folders as top-level expanding menu items.
This has been implemented in a totally boneheaded fashion with the forced update and onerous privacy policy, but it's not necessarily a bad concept. Router interfaces are clunky, inconsistent, and not very user-friendly, but they're hard to improve because they're quite constrained by the limited resources on the router and the difficulty of pushing out firmware updates. If the UI were in the cloud it would be easier to provide a really nice experience and start offering new features.

For instance, Marshini Chetty, a researcher at Georgia Tech, has been working on a project called Kermit[1] to provide increased visibility into home networks, mainly to provide QoS (e.g. you can determine your teenager is hogging the bandwidth with video streaming and throttle him back). However their system generates a lot of data, too much to process on the router itself, so IIRC they schlep it over to a PC running on the network. If this were coupled with a cloud service, you wouldn't need to keep a PC running all the time. I'm not sure how much of a market there really is for this, though in a presentation she said they had done a study where they put these in average people's homes and received a positive reception.

On a different note, I find the outrage about this (both here on HN and elsewhere) somewhat ironic because the privacy policy isn't that different from the privacy policies people put up with everyday with other cloud services they use. I think it's just when it's put in contrast with the status quo of routers (not in the cloud and with good privacy guarantees) that people find it outrageous. This is not a comparison people make with other cloud services; perhaps they should.

[1] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~marshini/kermit.html
Are you talking about pure mvc's like sproutcore? faux mvc's like backbone? model2 patterns like rails and most other server side architectures? I think what you mean is 'Model2 is dead...'. MVC is great for any environment where the observer pattern can be implemented (eg web front-end).

The biggest problems I've seen in model 2 architectures is weak models. The side effect of this is everything gets stuffed in the controllers. This is understandable because there is no observer pattern and therefore the models don't have nearly the power they do in real MVC.

Heres a great explanation of the MVC[1]:

In a nutshell the classic MVC architecture work like this. There is a model that is at the heart of the whole thing. If the model changes, it notifies its observers that a change occurred. The view is the stuff you can see and the view observes the model. When the view is notified that the model has changed, the view changes its appearance. The user can interact with the view (e.g. clicking stuff) but the view doesn’t know what to do. So the view tells the controller what the user did and assumes the controller knows what to do. The controller appropriately changes the model. And around and around it goes.

[1] http://michaux.ca/articles/mvc-architecture-for-javascript-a...
You are overlooking the fact that MS is introducing yet another browser variant that web devs have to accommodate. And also the QA dept. And also customer service. And also internal IT.

On second though; Yes, this will be exciting! ;)
no. I would not. We have VWO code implemented on our sites, I cannot be bothered to signup for another service when this works fine, regardless of pro/cons of using new A/B testing algo
By "trogs" are you referring to troglodytes? I have never heard that being a synonym to far right republicans so am a bit confused.
Thank you, I understand the metric used now, although I'd say you'd have to offset the costs against traditional print advertising (e.g. 1/2 page advert in Guardian / Ha'aretz jobs section etc).

~ This begs the question, which I assumed (down thread): if the CEO is the one actively engaged, and he looked rather uncomfortable / wooden in the video, then there surely has to be some kind of agreement with Activision/Blizzard to use their Brand like this. i.e. Any and all such arrangements for third parties must have sign off by them (or "why can't I use the D3 franchise / name to sell my porn parody", see http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld-Employment/Still-... for reference).

Thus, I tend towards the meta position I mentioned below: that the real cost is being born by that ~$500mm advertising budget, not Saatchi & Saatchi, and this is meta-advertising.

Jury's out: whether or not this is as clever as I'm imagining will be born out in the next few nights...
Hey, sorry it took so long to respond.

We've got three offices --- Chicago, NYC, and SFBA (they're all about the same size). It took a long time to decide to open SFBA; we grow slowly.

Oddly enough, if we were going to open up in Europe, Poland would be among the first places we'd consider. It's a bit of a hotbed for appsec talent.
Following Apple's lead, the UpNext acquisition seems a logical first step toward dropping Google Maps in Amazon devices.
maybe those people that want to install linux on their desktop would be willing to pay more for the opportunity to do so.

But they're not. Desktop Linux can't win in the market, so they're trying to change the rules by whining.
Totally depends on why you want to learn Java.
I hope some of the open source projects will be successful at building a self-owned social network. In all reality, you don't need massive server farms for facebook, what you do need them for is to crunch your specific profile and determine how best you can be cultivated for the most juicy marketing fruit. The relationship between user and facebook is about as real as the love of a slave driver for his slaves.
Indeed. To the scientifically-minded, I find their graph-based model many times easier to read and more thorough than any other source, wunderground included.
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It's a tiny bit annoying but I'm not asking for a refund.

"All right, I've been thinking. When HN gives you recycled content, don't make comments - make the submitter take the story back! Get mad! I don't want your damn recycled stories, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see Paul Graham! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson recycled content! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to to burn your house down! With the recycled content! I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible anecdote that burns your house down!"

Don't give him lemons, either.
I am of the belief that the government should not be saying who is and isn't married. Marriage is a religious institution, and should be used for the religions that use that. That would also mean if a 'Church of Reformed Satanism' had a marriage, is to let them.

The problem is we have a system that looks towards 'ordained' religious positions for our tax record. So this country mixes up person rights with religious gunk.

The legal question then, after removing religious stuff: do GLBT people have the right to have a relationship respected for tax and governmental reasons? I see no justification for taking rights away because of their brain chemistry.
I would love if the JS toolkit ran games as a native app.

This is the closest one I have found: http://impactjs.com/

I hope that future smart phone OS developers allow us indie devs to use JS to make native games. I personally don't truly care if the API is or isn't compatible with HTML5/canvas. As long as it is in JS, I'll be happy. :-)

I actually have gotten used to Objective C, so I don't mind using it. But I feel like there are a lot of JS developers out there who would like to build mobile games. Why make them learn something new?
Quite a lot. I mean, it's the same Gecko core, but there are a lot of pieces to Gecko. Mobile and B2G both use the same EGL backend for gfx, but they use different widgets and some different optimizations (e.g. we know that we have permissions for gralloc on B2G, so we don't use a tiled backend). Desktop and Mobile/B2G share the layout, JS, etc but you've got all sorts of different gfx backends that could be used. Same code, just a lot of divergent pathways.
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As a PWS (Personal Weather Station) contributor (KORTALEN1) to wunderground for many years, this concerns me. I live in Rural Oregon and the local PWS's provide a much needed micro look at local weather. Plus, I rely on wunderground's great radar presentation and access to the local Scientific Forecaster discussion. I worry that this kind of detailed scientific data and analysis will start to be lost in the inevitable dumbing down that will come.
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I was about to add that I would have expected more from the IEEE, but then I looked, and they actually have an accurate title.

The word iPad doesn't appear anywhere in the article. Whomever retitled this, might want to consider reading the article first.
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I completely reject that anyone who would have paid $x for a windows upgrade has then decided not to because of the price of OSX upgrade. It's either worth it for them, or not. Lowering the price simply increases the number in the first category.

And your forced car analogy is seriously flawed.
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If I may ask, what qualifies you to make that judgement? I think it really depends on your need for said information.
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Because "social conservatism" is often just thinly veiled hate and bigotry and intolerance. I have yet to see a sound argument on why two consenting adults shouldn't have the right to marry. I'll eagerly and openly listen to what you have to say on the matter.
> In a web application, the salary can be presented to the user through numerous different views - as a number on the screen (plain HTML), as a slider (jQuery UI slider), as a bar in a bar chart (using some charting library)

as JSON encoded output, as XML....
>Gain physical access to Any machine, and all security bets are off.

That's not guaranteed. For example, see Droid Milestone's locked bootloader and XBox 360 (recently broken with a cpu bug).

>But what if the attackers has physical access and simply reflashes the BIOS?

Security is all about raising the bar, reflashing takes a lot more time and effort than flipping a hardware switch and inserting a USB key.

Also, a physical switch is harder to implement in a consistent manner for low margin OEMs(who all buy the firmware from the same source), thus a software setting is better. For example, including such a switch on a tablet like the Microsoft Surface Pro will increase the costs and restrict design.
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Not saying I disagree with you but then where exactly would the JSON and RSS output methods go in an MVC framework, if not in a view i.e. how would a different system or user consume/access their output? Directly from a controller? Would love to know your thoughts as I've always found MVC a difficult conceptual approach to grok when applying it to web apps (lots of code never seems to have an obvious M, V or C home).
No worries, I got pretty excited because WriteMonkey is one of my favorite distraction free editors on Windows, and I headed over to the site to check out release notes on the App but didn't see anything so I had to ask.

Either way, downloading now
True, it's another IE version, but an auto-updating, mostly-standards compliant version. IE 10 brings IE into the "modern browser" realm.
This statement is total bullshit. Weather Underground doesn't have better data or coverage than the Weather Channel. If you're really looking for more coverage, check out the weather blogs.
If we stick to a reasonable interpretation of rights, that maintains the distinction between having a right and having the object of the right, I see no reason not to regard internet access as a fundamental right (or, more appropriately, as a facet of the fundamental right to free association and free communication).

Unfortunately, a lot of discourse blurs that distinction. Having the right to internet access doesn't mean that you should receive state-subsidized internet access; not any more than the right to free expression guarantees you a state-subsidized printing press, nor the right to keep and bear arms guarantees you a state-subsidized rifle.

Having a right to a thing means that your pursuit and enjoyment of that thing shall not be artificially hindered or suppressed; it's still up to you to obtain and make use of the object of that right by your own endeavors.
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Not all of them. It seems to filter some of them.
And this is a great content editor interface to extend your Jekyll blog with: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157321.
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> So what exactly is going to prevent couriers from taking multiple jobs they know they can't do in a fast time but can do in an okay time? Doesn't this encourage couriers to take on more jobs than they can do to make more money? A mediocre experience for consumers.

One the one hand, couriers are doing more jobs in the same amount of time. On the other hand, customers have to wait longer. Something doesn't add up here.
I don't disagree with you, but this is the exact argument I've heard with every Microsoft OS since windows 2000 (and no doubt it was made before then, too).
Wunderground just repackages National Weather Service data. If you can forgive the 90s design, weather.gov is perfect.
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And who says nerds don't understand other people?
Yes, I've seen his [dead] comments before, and had a flash of recognition reading the article.

You're hesitant to use the phrase "something definitely wrong with him". That made me think of other terms, like "disturbed", "unhinged", "unbalanced" or the clinical "mentally ill" and I can't find anything that doesn't sound demeaning, judgmental, or moralistic. I think that says something about our ability to understand and help these people.
must be a slow day at DF. "Hly crap, a general computer in my pocket?!" has to have crossed everyone's mind the instant Jobs showed it.
No, but it doesn't seem to be a common practice. Actually on my personal projects the first thing I do is to create a service layer, but sadly the real world projects that I jumped into never had it.
Hey pan.do/ra team! Just stumbled upon your work, and I'm quite simply amazed. It even has a clean API, which I can't wait to play with.

I'm one of the guys behind movies.io - instead of becoming an ad-supported pirate site, we're trying to spin it into a wholly different direction (platform to spread indie movies, etc.)

The 0xDB player is quite simply stunning, and offers features that are very suited to studying particular movie clips (continuous image preview, subtitle sync with seek, reminds me of Mark Boas's work). We'd love to integrate it with movies.io where possible.

If you're reading this (hopefully - you seem to check the thread often), my e-mail is in my HN profile. Looking forward to talking about this with you!
I'm currently building a single page app using this MVC-MVC approach.

I use Angularjs in the browser, now.js for the interface, and, at the moment, custom code on the server that follows the MVC pattern.

The server is lightweight: its role is to

* manage authentication and authorizations,
* ensure data integrity and
* push data on update according to user permissions.

That's it.

http://angularjs.org/

http://nowjs.com/
Except that they also lower the expectation of what an OS upgrade should include.
On the recommendation to look at sites like Kuler, are color schemes copyrightable? I see people claiming copyright on colourlovers.
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You keep using an appeal to authority, and I still see no value in the distinction.

I am most certainly a human user.
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Definitely. I think I may have met you at PyCon last year(?).
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I can't believe they sold out, I thought they were underground!
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So no pay for wait time. I know from being a bike messenger you usually got paid for wait time, I guess this isn't the traditional messenger job.
There is also the fact that a point upgrade in OSX is almost never as significant as a new Microsoft OS, that MS provides free service packs, and that (IIRC) apple allows upgrades to multiple macs with one purchase. So, really, they need to be assessed on their own merit.