skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quote from Steve Stone, founder of the tech group at Microsoft:

"“We couldn’t be focused anymore on developing technology that was effective for consumers. Instead, all of a sudden we had to look at this and say, ‘How are we going to use this to make money?’”

The duality here strikes me because the winners in consumer technology are able to do both at the same time. They make money by shipping technology that is effective for consumers.
Nothing is wrong with Opera. It's not missing any major features. In fact it is competitive with the major web browsers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers including HTML5 support, accessibility, security, and speed. Many of the features that other browsers need extensions for (like image blocking, tab management, or "new tab" pages) are installed by default.
> he's only doing himself a disservice.

How precisely is the scalper, by increasing costs and adding _no value_ doing us a service?
> From the fans's POV

And the artist's POV as well, his fans are now poorer and there's no value into it: they don't enjoy it more, they don't get more merch, they don't keep their money to see the next show, they don't get to buy a nice dinner for their SO, etc...
Three year old percentage padding bug in FireFox
I see a lot of posts here make fun of opera.

Just a gentle reminder: they are the ones that invented tabs among other things.
This is really nice work.
Brilliant. By living in a car, you will have very few distractions, though I wonder how do you get electricity and an internet connection?
Nexus Q from Google I/O stolen by airport security
Wow that's a very good point. I heard people talking about the bar but never saw it myself because I always use Opera. Ironically, they hurt themselves a little because G+ needs all the help it can.
And, presumably Bing tracks users and uses that data to improve its results. When you use DDG, you're just being tracked as "a DDG user" instead of "a Bing user with cookie=0x23987438743". (I don't know if that's true or not, but it's my current understanding of the situation.)

I think the problem with tracking is not the intrinsic action, but rather the fact we call it "tracking". Tracking is the technique you use to hunt and kill animals. Showing Java results to Java programmers and C# results to C# programmers is a little different from that...
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs != social psychology
Milestones in mobile development
Any mirrors on the document for [2]? Site seems to be down...
The Steve Jobs Pivot
I also just submitted this article, nice that HN coalesces submissions.

I prefer using PaaS myself with Heroku and AppEngine being my favorites but I also enjoyed kicking the tires on dotCloud, OpenShift, and others.

That said I just rented a high capacity Hetzner.de server a few weeks ago because a lot of what I do, besides customer projects where they pay the bills for infrastructure, is learning side projects and some of my experiments take a lot of resources.

I can't comfortably afford to do some of my side projects on PaaS because I don't directly make money from them.
This was my experience as well. Working at MS, I wanted to leave after a few years because it was becoming obvious that the company was getting worse and worse over time. Working at Amazon, I wanted to leave after a few weeks, it felt like I had to gnaw my leg off to get out of that trap. I ended up leaving mid 5 figures in bonuses and non-vested stock on the table when I left after only a year.

I really like amazon from the outside, but their internal business culture in the development teams is just poison.
People from Germany have heard a lot from him and we can't understand why anybody would think he is a hero or some innocent victim.
Their mobile browser accounts for 20%+ of all mobile traffic, which together with their desktop browser usage is about 300,000,000 active users (that's the population of the entire United States). So it would make sense for Google to support them.
Read this while listening to dubstep. Was totally awesome!
Why not slap a layer of buzzwords, while keeping your original concept underneath?

Latest fad is turning everything social. Ugg... But, it might get the attention of fad-followers:

DailyToaster: Social wakeup calls. Friends take turn to call you up. They win "points" by getting you to your destination on time. Leader-boards, badges, etc...

Did I say friends? Why not strangers. Plenty of loudmouths. Might as well put them to use. The calls are routed through the DailyToaster call system to prevent spam and protect phone privacy.

Why stop at meetings? Apply this to weight loss, book reading, etc.
Reasons You Need Incentives (Counterpoint to Dan Pink)
There's loads of ticketing startups. (e.g. http://ticketabc.com/ ) It's like trying to sell operating systems though. Microsoft are the big boys.
Ways To Stop Satisfying Customers And Start Wowing Them
Off Topic: Twice in this thread he/she asked the same condescending question if the person he/she was replying to had actually read the article, with this one in particular showing indication he failed to read a portion of the article also. I didn't really care to start up an argument with someone on the internet if they were having a bad day (we all have bad days), so I quickly glanced over their comment history and saw a pattern.

Its this kind of behavior some of us strive to avoid on HN. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I thought my remark was fairly civil. I was not trying to start an argument or flame war, and dedicated a significant portion of my reply to the topic of conversation and tried to be brief in reminding him/her about the reasons most of us visit HN over other news aggregating sites.
You are saying "is". I am saying "should".
Static linking is not easily available with C/C++ in the general case. Some libraries support it, some important ones like Glibc and GTK+ do not.
I wrote about the logistics of everything here (although a few things have changed since this post) http://kurtvarner.com/post/19347794553/man-car-startup
While I can agree that stack ranking is corrosive in many respects removing under performers is essential. I was at a company (rather large internet company) that did not get rid of under performers. When I arrived what had collected was mostly senior engineers that in all frankness should not be let near a source control system much less be allowed to commit changes. There was so little engineering talent but thousands of engineers. And this is an impossible problem to fix without wholesale firing entire orgs since competent engineers don't want to work in a team of people with equal or higher level than them who don't know the difference between a compiler and an interpreter.

While there we did do stack ranking. Its just another game to play inside a company, just like all the other games that go on. It was easy to play that system as opposed to doing something like aligning with other teams retarded ideas. We did real awesome stuff and made sure we got recognized for that. I think the hard part for many people is the recognition that 80% of people (including maybe you) don't deserve a big bonus and promotion.

There will always be politics and politics will always drive these decisions, even in small companies. I don't have an effective way of objectively measuring a software engineer. The most important thing you can do is to pick a great manager (or startup CEO) and align yourself with him. While they will do different things to help you in big companies vs little companies, a good manager will hire good people and ensure that his team is working on big, company impacting problems. Startup CEOs will be doing the same thing.

Now a couple of notes to make sure your stack rank goes awesome:

1. If senior leadership does not see your team as directly impacting profit move to a new team.
2. Make sure that now that you are working on something with great business value make sure everyone knows about it.
3. Send out reports to everyone who is interested every week telling them what your team accomplished that week (especially for you budding managers out there).
4. Compile all the congratulatory emails from executives as well as other teams (Directors and managers). Your manager will use these at the stack rank meeting since all the other terrible managers who you no longer work for will not be this prepared.
5. Remember to deliver. When you deliver real value you will be recognized.

I know this is hard but I used this strategy very successfully. I can not emphasize enough that you must be working on big, impacting features. Adding a widget to a form, or making some little feature is a butts in seats problem. If you are just a butt in a seat expect to be treated like one.
Sources Of Competitive Advantage On The Web
Switch to will call only; require the original CC or photo ID to pick up tickets. He explicitly stated on the ticket purchase page that this was a possibility.
bah, it doesn't even ship with vi.
No, first sale refers to copyrighted works. Not tickets to go to a show. You can't easily resell airline tickets, or hotel bookings either.
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"Wimpy cores" are coming to Facebook
When I do web development, I test in Opera at the very end after I have fixed all issues in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari and guess what?

I never had to make one tweak for Opera. Ever. Opera has almost a religious focus on coding to standards. While I bet there are specific issues with implementation, whatever happened to the concept of coding to the standard and let browsers do their work?

Do Blogger features really need HTML5 WebGL 2.0 or something? I can understand some layout issues and willing to excuse them, but to not support them functionality wise is really sad, especially when you're the biggest web property on the internet. This is a throwback to the days of "Best works in IE(TM)".

To add insult to injury, I sometimes get messages like "Need a faster browser, Get Chrome" on Gmail.
Please help me find a reliable apex/visualforce developer to extend SalesForce.
I am looking for recommendations for visualforce developers for an ~1 week project to extend SalesForce functionalities.

The Project:
Capture html mass emails with data merged from accounts and save as PDF with naming convention.

Avenues Explored:
1) I have tried the "Conga Composer" app but it does not capture the html formatting correctly as it is processed through MS Word.
2) I have asked SalesForce support for recommended developers. They are contractually obligated to pass me to HiSoft, but they are unresponsive. If they are unresponsive before they get the job... they are most definitely not getting my business.

The Question:
Do you have any recommendations for reliable coders? Should I use a freelance developer website? If so which one?
So make them look like Apple? Gotcha.
Awesome video! I had Daniel Whiteson as a Physics professor at UC Irvine last year. My favorite professors ever. Very great at explaining concepts and makes the class fun.
Seems like a fair way to do it (while still extracting lots value), would be to a sort of dutch type auction. E.g. theater seats 1000, so you take bids for the max people are willing to pay.

Then, once that closes out, you take enough people to fill, say, the first 5 rows off the top of the list, and charge them whatever the lowest winning bid is of the people in that group. Repeat for each tier going back until the venue is sold out.

This actually tackles the inefficiencies at both ends - people willing to splurge on great seats get them, but if a show is not high in demand, you might still get people who kind of want to go to pay, say, $5 for the nosebleeds.
It's almost strange that they would implement a system like this just because they sold out for the first time. Other regional burns around the country regularly sell out up to a month before the event, and they never implement alternate strategies for people to buy tickets. Then again i'm not aware of a scalper market for these since they are small and regional, but I have often considered buying four tickets at the lowest introductory price and selling them a week before the event ("Hello, my name is Peter, and i'm a capitalist.")
Funny, whenever someone asks here how to improve his skills in programming I told them to learn chess but my comments were always ignored ..
How exactly is this brilliant? There are way more distractions living in a car, like basic needs, keeping warm, going to the bathroom, changing clothes, internet, charging the laptop, being moved on by the police etc etc. a nice quiet office in some cheap shares space is a much better environment for building software.
Thanks so much! This definitely appeals to me.

We're using redis in some very high-traffic contexts, and our usage is only increasing, so I'm on the look out for resources. RedisConf sounds quite interesting so far.
Israeli defense ministry penetrated in cyber attack
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Impersonal was the first adjective I thought of. Of the three, Apple is the least impersonal. Though deliberately unobtrusive, Siri is quite personal, to the point of having been lampooned numerous times by comedians.
Actually, from my perspective (and from someone who only knew about megaupload through their music video), he is a hero because he's actually fighting the egregious injustices brought on by the US.

I could not have cared less about the man until I read about how little due process had been involved leading up to the raid on his home. There is something fundamentally wrong when one of the most powerful countries in the world can't use due process to arrest someone violating a copyright law.
In the 60s they solved problems with mechanical solutions. We use electronics nowadays, but not as showy.

And heck, if you showed those quad copter videos to someone from the 60's, they would flip out.
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How to get a million dollar idea
your comment got me curious. It looks like opera was not the one "that invented tabs" after all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(GUI)
Personally, my first step is reflection - am I as smart as I think I am regarding programming/history/science/etc?

Second is to seek out experts. This is much easier now thanks to sites like HN, StackExchange, et al. They can help you gauge your own knowledge level.
If you ever read the 2pt font on the back of a ticket, you'll find that what you have bought is in fact a ticket license. The physical ticket itself is just for convenience, what you're paying for is the right to attend.
I believe only people ignorant of his attitude or past can consider him anything close to a 'hero'.
Yup. According to Statcounter data from last month, Opera accounts for about 2% of desktop page views and 21% of mobile page views worldwide.
C'mon, let's have a little reality here.

Anyone that has tried to deal with buying tickets (either in today's system or even back in the old days where you had to stand in line) knows that there are people with large sums of cash willing to pay people to stand in line or bombard ticketmaster.com with requests to land tickets for a show they have no intention of seeing. They resell those tickets immediately for a profit to the people that really wanted to see the show. Go look at StubHub.com 30 minutes after a popular rock concert goes on sale. Did every single one of those sellers have a sick grandmother pop up?

No, the world doesn't owe anyone anything, and this isn't a white whine. It's an example of how people with more time and resources than you can jump ahead of you in line and, as a result either deny you an experience or make you pay more out of pocket for it...all in the name of profit.
Man, I love this guy. I'm not convinced that the idea is big enough to get him where he wants to go, but the moxie, the hustle, the spirit... you can't help but root for somebody like this.

I'm shocked he didn't get into YCombinator, to be honest. Pg always talks about how it's about "the team, not the idea," and if anybody has the moxie to get in as a solo founder, I'd have thought it would be Kurt.

Anyway, Kurt, keep banging away and keep believing! I believe big things will happen for you if you stay dedicated.
Haven't they been down this road before with the Windows NT line that they released alongside Windows 9x?

I suppose the different versions of Vista and 7 speak to them re-exploring this business-consumer partitioning. I don't have the information to comment on how effective this split was for Microsoft.
> Even MS wanted IE6 dead.

Exactly. So not supporting Opera like this sends the message that Google wants Opera dead.
If you want me to go to your website, just print your URL. That worked just fine for years.

Otherwise, make them do something useful or GTFO.
Why "Microsoft" and not "MICROSOFT"?

I emphatically disagree that capitalization is merely a matter of opinion, as it can have significant ramifications in both readability [1] and trademark law, especially where marks like 'Word', 'Windows', 'Excel', 'Outlook', and 'Surface' (or 'Apple', 'Pages', 'Keynote', and 'Numbers'; or 'Android'; or 'Oracle', 'Sun', and 'Java'; or ...) are concerned.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/05/a-de...
Indoor Google Maps now available in 40+ locations in the UK
Its failing because they're not making money on them, they have to pay MSFT for every phone activation; MSFT is making a mint off of Android, Google is not.
Ask HN: Market for an app that shares your number with friends after a change?
Like the title says, is there a market for this? Say if the app was available for $1 for iPhone/Android and could 1-click send an update to your friends (via the app if they have it, or email if they don't). If they have the app, it will update the number in their contact book automatically.

There doesn't exist an app like this right now. Does that mean there's no market for it? I know carriers are required to allow you to keep your same number, but does that mean people rarely change?

Thanks for any insight you can give!
Ah. I was confused because of this: "the index — a one-byte integer — could never exceed 255 by definition." If it can hold the value 255, it couldn't be a signed integer, so there would be no room for negative numbers. Though I suppose this must have been their mistake.
A reader writes for advice about his uncontrollable penis
By increasing liquidity!!
> "People who aren't successful yet," says Varner, "can do anything they want."

This is the most important bit of the entire article. While not profound at first glance, this actually is very insightful.

When you don't have anything yet, what really holds you back? Are you going to lose your job? If you don't have one, no biggie. When you live in a car, are you going to get much more in the (pardon the term) gutter? Not really.

Going for it is a great thing.
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The way I understand it, the problem is a lack of proper hardware access APIs. Most critically, Disk and Filesystem access.
and XMLHttpRequest came from IE. Do you see where I'm going here?
If he chose bridge rather than chess, there'd be some really high-recognition names on the list: Bill Gates (a good enthusiast), Warren Buffet (an excellent player), Jimmy Cayne (former CEO of Bear Stearns, a national champion), and many others.
- Apple - Skeuomorphic
- Google - Hybrid
- Microsoft - Purely digital

I agree that this is one of the things Metro has right. It's even more "about the content" than Google or Apple is.

In the case of Apple, I think this may be intentional. Apple is also about the personal. Skeuomorphic interfaces can be used to evoke memories associated with physical objects and past technology.
That's an interesting angle. Internet piracy of content was supposed to be okay because the artist should be able to profit from concerts and related merchandise. But it seems that isn't entirely possible either.
Couldn't have said it better myself. The whole concept of a brand also becomes harder to change the more well known it is. For Microsoft it is close to impossible at this point unless they branch out completely another business, and a good example would be xbox.
Only big thinkers can realize big dreams. And only pretentious writers can write pretentious copy.
Microsoft is big enough that a shape that simple could easily become their logo. What company is this:

http://www.owenjonesdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1_...

or this:

http://www.wearesuntravel.com/SquareLogo_Jewel.303162624_std...

or this:

http://www.vintagevideogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/...
They already have multiple lines of windows which are all the same except the some features are turned off with a lower level serial key
I don't know why they are not doing the same on their own. Anyways they are doing it indirectly by giving the firehose access to companies like DataSift[1].

[1]http://datasift.com/
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Wow that really sucks. I hope you get it back! I was worried about the same thing with my ADK, luckily nothing happened.
Love the effort, but that typeface is just horrific! Badly hinted and that 'm'? Jeebus.
This design is Orwellian in nature.

In the current age of global wars, international terrorism, financial turmoil, outsourced labor, awakening behemoths (China), increasing corruption, people fear the future.

Look at Apple, classic 1960's space age retro.

Look at Instagram. Cozy and nostalgic polaroid filters.

If I designed for the future, I'd take hints from the past.

A key difference is that in the past, different social groups had something to look forward to (emancipation and liberation), despite the looming threat of thermonuclear warfare. Nowadays? In the western hemisphere? It's all gloom and doom.

In western markets - Your brand should function as an opiate, it should reassure and placate people.

In emerging markets - Sell the American dream of old.

Of course there's a third way, show us a way out of here. But for that advertisement alone is not enough. You'd have to change how your business runs and make a lasting impact on society. Forget shareholder value and start thinking about society.
Microsoft's major problem is not the branding. The branding is just a symptom of the underlying problem which is its culture.
Hmm. HTML5 has some File/Blob APIs. You can certainly load and save files.
Finding a needle in a data haystack: faster feature selection
I don't know what GP said, but zdnet is down for me. And I've checked, so it's just me, not everyone, that it's down for.

Weird.
I met Kurt for the first time about 4 months ago and have been sharing beers with him since. Definitely a guy with vision, the right kind of work ethic and attitude. Also a very talented Product Designer.
Trent Reznor had some thoughts on that:

"My guess as to what will eventually happen if / when Live Nation and TicketMaster merges is that they'll move to an auction or market-based pricing scheme - which will simply mean it will cost a lot more to get a good seat for a hot show. They will simply BECOME the scalper, eliminating them from the mix."

http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,548515
> Static linking is always an option.

Not if you use C and glibc (most common combination of them all, most software requires glibc). Even if you compile glibc statically in your program (not an option by default at least in Ubuntu), glibc itself will load more shared objects at runtime.
It doesn't have a standard implementation, each company kind of makes it up as it goes. Google's is different from Microsoft's, though it's prone to the same issues on a smaller basis.
With Windows 7 you can backup a clean installation (OS and drivers), no need to reactivate, just recover from a backup ...

Same goes for a VM, just make a copy of the fresh installed VM.