skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to figure that people who are running XP and Vista weren't going to spend much to upgrade so this part of it doesn't cost MS much in lost revenue.

For users running Windows 7 I don't see the rush to upgrade even at the low price. You have a good OS in W7. Most will figure if it's not broke, don't fix it.

It's a nice gesture from MS that won't cost it much. For myself, I have an old dual-core Vista notebook that may now get an SSD and Windows 8 just so I can have the latest OS available. That's one more developer that stays current with the latest Microsoft OS which is where I think they see the payoff.
Weather Channel buys Weather Underground; brand stays
The most glaring offense is the poor organization and positioning of the elements. Notice the many different areas the groups of widgets are scattered.
How Symantec Broke Backup Exec
rails is moving towards a "view" based approach. Here is one of the up and coming libraries.

https://github.com/rails/jbuilder/

It looks a lot like a view file :)
Yes. It's the iPhone disruption... That over half the market there that's android? Doesn't count cus they entered later (well they were working on it before but launched later) and therefore nothing they contributed counts. Yes clearly

"All of this, because of the iPhone."
I can't but I can think of another reason not to buy one. Windows Phone 7 is not upgradeable to Windows Phone 8. There will be a Windows 7.8 update but it's end of the road for that particular ecosystem as well. So with that announced to be available "sometime towards the end of the year" they've probably hurt the few potential Windows Phone 7 candidates interested in a device. What was Nokia thinking?
My thoughts exactly.

Having used MVC for many years, and in the environment where it was invented (Smalltalk-80), I couldn't help but wonder why he was reinventing MVC while thinking he was criticizing it.
It doesn't matter how wonderful IE 10 is until over 70% of IE users are upgraded to it. For a period of a few years there will be a flood of IE 10 users because this is what their computer came with. There will still be too many other IE users for commercial websites to ignore. So there will have to be a lot of web code bloat and complexity to accommodate them. I was a professional web developer before IE 1.0 and am speaking from experience.
Symbolic manipulation is a fundamental concept few kids are exposed to early. Providing exposure thereto, thru whatever means, gives her a cognitive tool for applying motor skills, social interactions, problem solving, etc. before any other kids can; this is an advantage.

Indeed, the sheer brilliance of this game is the separation of the concrete blandness of raw numbers and plain symbolic letters (which she's already having enough meaning imputed upon while learning to read) from the pure symbology and entertaining rules applied thereto. That's why I'm a programmer: the joy of symbolic manipulation; this game starts her down the same track.

I gave some positive feedback, yes, but the bulk of that was just acknowledging her excitement in creating a new "monster" and next to nothing about the algebraic content. She took her own interest in the game far beyond any parent-pleasing feedback she got.
I concur, weatherspark is awesome. My only complaint is that the documentation is a little lacking for some of the advanced charts.

Does anyone know if NWS has a good API?
Correlation does not imply causality. The burden of proof is on the inclusive case.

Windows upgrades allow fresh installs so that's rubbish.
A choice other than Android and iOS?

Personally, I absolutely think the Metro UI is great and that is really what I enjoy about Windows Phone. Zune is probably second for me. I do have an Xbox and a Zune HD so I appreciate the convenience that offers for me. I understand you could have a similar experience with other services.
IANAL so I can't say for sure but the COLOURlover team doesn't seem to think that the palettes are copyrightable, as copyrights cover specific executions and not the colors themselves.

http://www.colourlovers.com/forums/1,1,149/Copyrighting_colo...
I believe this gem does something like that, https://github.com/karmajunkie/imperator
Best evidence yet found for "God particle:" U.S. physicists
Just half?

I had to read Tara Carreon's quote for myself. The "hate speech" reference jumped out. No one else had commented on it. Probably because few here are as political as me, so wouldn't know that it's a politically charged phrase.

Oh, I forgot to mention something.

Carreon's equating Inman to Jared Loughner is just sick. As in reprehensible. No different than invoking Hitler (Godwin's Law). And is a pretty good example of hateful (vs hate) speech.
This time around though 7 is unbeatable. It just works. Okay it does (and never was) working as I wanted to be - much like linux, osx, etc. but aside from mine developer's perspective it just works for the rest of the stuff.

7 in terms of stability perception is like XP - I still have XP on my Mac Book dual-camped partition.

And we had real problems with Vista - rendering, certain apps not working, slowness overall.
Outside of enterprise, I suspect that a lot of people still running XP may be short of the hardware to run Windows 7/8. So it's largely a feel good gesture in those cases - and perhaps an indirect marketing boost for Microsoft's hardware partners.
It's an accident of history, snapshot of time that most anti-intellectuals currently vote Republican.
Speaking of very small screens, could it support something like Google Glass?
In an MVC, the views are used both for output of the model and to map input back to the controllers. Without the input, its not part of the MVC pattern.
Look at Android before and after the iPhone was announced:

http://www.tekgadg.com/storage/Android_before_after_iphone_t...

Gruber & his audience know (believe? Is there doubt?) that.
Overengineering and Overadoption
Purely speculating, but it may be the expected duration of rain. So 30% in one hour means on the average it will rain 18 minutes within that hour and 50% of 15 mins would be 7.5 rainy minutes.

My real guess is that they have independent models for different time resolutions.
IOS 6 vs. Jelly Bean: Which New Mobile OS Reigns Supreme?
"<strike>CEO</strike> Intern getting to level 60 ~ 12 or so hours @ $0 / hr"

I'll just note that while I did saw unpaid internship posts in other countries, I never saw it in Israel. It is definitely unheard of in the high tech industry, but as I've never heard of unpaid internships in any other sector I'd bet it is not the norm in other sectors as well.
Hristov,

the only thing we didn't disclose is how much commission Ryan would receive per job - but if you look around a little you will see that our Postmates receive between 60%-80% of the delivery fee as commission. A Postmate makes money even if a customer does not tip. The tipping is just a bonus.
Windows users consider the paid OS X upgrades blatant cash grabs for updates that should be free. They see it as charging for service packs.
Maybe not. Although I don't believe this should be allowed, one can make an argument that the expectation of privacy when in the home is much greater than when one is out in the street, or even in one's car.

In addition to privacy, I'm just as concerned about the potential danger of exposure to X-rays.
> "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

-Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
Let me suggest an opposite approach: don't be your best user.

Consider: you are an entreprenur/hacker. If you are also your best user, then your best user is an entrepreneur/hacker.

This leads to several undesirable effects. For one, your users will value the product less because they could write it themselves (or they think they could). For another, you're far more likely to end up in a crowded space with many competitors, because the need and the capability to satisfy the need are coincident in the same people. And for another, you may end up with a product that's tailored to the relatively small niche of "hackers", and unfit for wider audiences.

Now contrast with a different scenario: go find some people with a problem and money to throw at it, but no expertise in solving the problem. Learn about their problem. Most likely you will be horrified at what passes for "information technology" in their world. When you present your solution, they will look on it as magic, and you as some technology god.
no, those output types dont map back to the controller, they are not views.
The answer is technology and a very clever dispatch Jules ;)
Well, Android certainly hopped on, but most of the basic innovations and vision came from the iPhone and Android took them and did their own thing with them. They copied. Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, HP, etc. all have taken turns copying their peers at something. Good for them, it is the right decision. Otherwise, Android would have turned out a lot more like the Microsoft Kin.
I'm a mountaineer and never knew of these sites. Absolutely thrilled to see them on HN. Also, I'd pay for a user friendly data centric weather app focused on ski, climb, and outdoor activity weather reporting. I've been using nws.noaa.gov and weather.unisys.com for years and the UI is lacking. Just installed the free climbingweather.com app!!
This looks like MVC to me as well, except what MOVE is calling operations I would call commands. There are quite a few MVC frameworks that work like this, including PureMVC which has been implemented in almost every OOP language http://puremvc.org/.
The plug in does not prevent the Unknown or expired link error for me.
I'm a huge fan of weather.gov, mostly because I know it's my taxpayer dollars.
I imagine they bought wunderground for the Personal Weather Stations. They have thousands of people sending them data in real time from their personal weather stations.

I bet if someone were to quickly make an equivalent API that collected all this data from these users and presented it in a similar fashion, they'd draw a lot of those PWS contributors away from NBC/Weather Channel.
I assumed it was common knowledge that Sony offered the PS3 at a huge discount retail <-> production costs to make Blu-Ray the industry standard (which did indeed succeed). e.g. Samsung Blu-Ray retailed @ $1000, PS3 retailed at $599.

e.g. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2006/11/isupply_ps3_com/ ~ costs the PS3 components at $850 vrs the $599 retail price.

As for this topic: I don't think it's aimed at consumers, at all. Many companies still use XP as their back-bone, let alone 7. It's aimed at the software producers, akin to why some games companies are developing purely in DX11 now to reduce costs having to support DX9 ~ MS are making a switch to producing content for W8 as 'attractive' as possible.
If you've ever owned a Mercedes, Volvo, or Porsche,* I don't think that you would find the logic underpinning the auto parts analogy particularly plausible.

*912, 914, 924, and first generation 944 parts sourced from VW excepted.
Since we call in most of the orders there is very limited wait time. Ryan got extremely unlucky. Our dynamic pricing however, models the costs and the fee to be paid by the customer, by keeping all these things in mind.
Jelly Bean....duh. I see zero features in iOS6 that aren't in Android, but I see tons in Android that aren't in iOS
Needs a diagram "Number of parenthesis by language".
KNOW YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE.

Really, this is the best way to start to figure out what's needed. Flex layouts take a lot of work and a lot of times add hours to a project. If the audience for your website doesn't tend to use mobile devices... then don't optimize for mobile.

I try to extend this all the way down to CSS Resets. Only use what you'll need.

Even if you get some users who are using mobile devices, mobile web browsers are remarkably modern. Chrome and Safari have mobile counterparts that will help hammer down cross device compatibility (although checking on the actual system is always recommended).

Most of the time, I design with an averaged screen size in mind. I tend to do fixed layouts more than responsive or fluid. I make sure that it's not breaking on other devices, but I tend not to go out of my way to design for them if its not needed.
You don't think the leap-hour will be a new millennium bug?

When you look at how much people crap their pants over the leap second - a relatively common thing - I dread to think how unprepared people would be for something 3,600 times less common.
The iPhone very clearly disrupted the market for mobile phones. Whether or not someone else had the same idea at the same time (but couldn’t bring a disruptive product to the market) doesn’t really matter. Current market shares don’t really matter.

This Android defensiveness is getting on my nerves. Worse than rabid Apple fanboys in the 90s.
Sexual harassment isn't a punchline
For anyone, like fauigerzigerk, who doesn't know what Keynesianism is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics

Monetary stimulation buy the government or any entity that creates money is different from transferring money for unproductive uses.

Keynes point was that giving out money stimulates economic activity, dis-idling hands. The hole-digging argument was that, while handing out money for productive activity is best (it has two benefits: immediate production of value, plus money that stimulates trade), even handing out money for non-productive activity is still valuable for the stimulating effects.

The reason is that I have bananas you want, and you have oranges someone else wants, and someone else has dirt nobody wants, if the government prints money to buy the dirt guy's dirt, and the dirt guy buys oranges, and the orange guy buys bananas, and the banana guy has some money waiting for someone to make something he wants (maybe the dirt guy will make a cool cartoon about oranges), that is better in REAL terms than a pile of rotten bananas and oranges and dirt and nobody getting anything they want at all.

Even though the dirt guy got paid for worthless work, real wealth was created by better allocating resources.
Google+ won't kill Facebook, but it could kill LinkedIn
As Windows 8 rolls into view, Windows 7 claims majority of OS market
All such deals are offered as "promotions" to the start of the next year. They merely get extended ("through January 31st 2014") as a legal formality once the date is hit.

Essentially it's the Legal department's requirement.
CSS Animate Effects We Can Learn From Animate.css
Going to Blackhat, BSides, and/or Defcon? Hack Vegas
Higgs week starts with Fermilab updates, strong evidence expected
Is there something structured like hacker news that focuses on articles with content like this? I find this a lot more interesting than threads about entrepreneurship but I don't know where to go to read about things like this.
I should start by pointing out that the article does not make it very clear that all Postmates also receive a commission for every delivery they are doing. Currently this commission is between 60%-80% of the delivery fee.

To answer your question about what would prevent Postmates from taking on too many jobs i would need to explain our dispatch in all details but the answer lies in great software.

Finally, the tip is not required on our platform and all Postmates get compensated very, very fair, even without any tip.
I played with the Android SDK back in 2007. It was totally a BB clone before the iPhone came along. Granted, Android was designed to support multiple resolutions and form factors, but the default was a BB-like device until 2008.
30% chance of rain actually means 30% of the area is projected to have rain covering it rather than there being a 30% chance you will be rained on.

An unlikely, but theoretically possible way to get 50% inside of 15 minute interval but 20% over an hour would be if the model prodicted very widespread rain in a band moving over an area and time weighted the percentage.
"France is too egocentrical, Britain (as much as I love the country) has a government hell-bent on recreating 1984, the Scandinavian countries are dying a slow death of too many paper-pushers and most of Eastern-Europe cannot rightly be called developed."

Ignoring for the moment that much of that sounds overly cynical and is definitely an overgeneralisation, which part of 'fight' did you miss? The very reason we're fighting is to do away with many of these problems and improve the situation! For some reason, you think this applies to the USA and a few other countries, but when it comes to other countries, what you say comes down to "Now, listen, I really want to solve these problems. Really, I do. But listen, you guys have problems, so now I can't help you." How does that make sense?

"But none of that matters as realistically the US is the only country powerful enough to cause sufficient damaged to be worth worring about."

I think you would be surprised. The USA is still only one country. It's a very powerful one, of course, I'm glad we agree on that part. But you can't focus on one country to the exclusion of almost everything else. (Well, you can, but that would not be very smart.)

Also, you forgot the Benelux, but I suspect you would also consider these countries too small to be considered.
Is a nihilist authoritarian combination even possible?
Facebook.com e-mail plague chokes phone address books
I understand the lament over wunderground.com being sold, but have any of you checked out what the National Weather Service offers? It's been my go-to site for years, is pretty spot on, has no-nonsense text based emergency notifications, makes it easy to hop over to hydrographic data, and a bunch of other things.

Today I just happened across this prediction format which is about all I could hope for as well:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.62840&lo...
Yes, I was attempting (perhaps unsuccessfully) to be ironic.
imo, the android defensiveness stems from the rabid Apple fanboys of the past ~5 years (eg daring fireball).
Considering that arrows are a generalization of monads, that shouldn't be a surprise.
That's what he wrote, the | meaning "given that". P[enjoys game | is a programmer] filters gamers from a population of programmers.
Parents doing this for their own children = good idea

Some entity of government / society doing this for its citizens = bad idea

Neither government nor corporations are our parent, and we are not their children.
First, Microsoft originally promised otherwise. "Pray I don't alter it any further."

Second, I and others have complained about Apple's lockdown for years. There's more leverage right now in pressuring others not to follow their example.
It's actually loading dynamically from tumblr. I should probably implement some caching onto the site
June 2007: iPhone launches

July 2008: iPhone 3G

October 2008: HTC Dream, aka T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone, launches: has both touchscreen and keyboard

June 2009: iPhone 3GS launches

October 2009: Motorola Droid and the big Verizon advertising campaign starts making a dent into the iPhone market share.
Yes, it would be similar to Y2K. Hopefully politicians could agree decades in advance so people would have plenty of time to prepare. Also, since you're only changing the tzdata and not UTC, much less would break and most of the breakage would be purely cosmetic. Right now we have several tzdata changes per year and they cause much less disruption than leap seconds.
So your competent and accountable employees spend more time working for you than with their own families and you think shaming them is a smart thing to do for good measure?

Please do report back on what kind of novel management techniques you're using to refill these positions in few months.
It's pretty good. Last time I looked (3-4 years ago), the hard part was getting decent radar data/images.
Settings > Accounts > (select facebook account) > Remove account

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All > Facebook > Clear data & Clear cache
Not to discount your point, but half of Americans is nowhere close to half of all people. (considering how much further right the American Right is compared to the European Right for example, I'd need some evidence to support half the worlds population having something in common with the American Right)
Apple iOS growth doubles Android over last three months
In effect he was working for free, since he could have gotten paid with or without continuing to work for Apple.
While I wholly sympathize with your rather pragmatic pov, technology is not a staple industry like agriculture or the diary business or the furniture industry. It is more like the fashion industry. You have to be a bit of a visionary to succeed in this trade.

>Is this likely to be around in 5 years from now?

In 1997 when I graduated, career services told me to erase Java from my resume and replace it with "Borland C++ OWL 2.0" so that I could land a job. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Windows_Library) At that time, Java = dancing duke on netscape navigator. Right now, I'd give a million dollars to find another OWL 2.0 developer ( ok not a million, maybe $10 )

>5 years from now is it likely that this is going to be a marginalized technology

5 years == light years in tech. Nobody can predict that far out.

>it can be very painful down the road.

If you future-proof yourself by only using the most stable, well supported toolchain, it can be much more painful down the road when you are stuck with some legacy platform nobody is willing to code in because everybody has moved on to the next big thing.

>you could replace it with Scala, or any other up-and-coming language

There should be a statute of limitations on when you can stop using "up-and-coming" w.r.t a language :) Seriously,Scala has been around in some shape/form since 2003. We've had stable releases since 2008. At this point it is no longer "up-and-coming".
> but the problem with MVC as given is that you end up stuffing too much code into your controllers, because you don't know where else to put it.

What the hell is he talking about? Has he never worked with Fat Model™ design?
The biggest disruption being that the phone, mp3 player, email, etc. were just "apps" and none was any more important than the others. So, instead of making a phone that is great for just one segment (see the ill fated ESPN phone), the phone is now a platform with personalized features for each user via apps and it's always on, always connected, always up to date.

Funny enough, the web is being disrupted by smartphone apps and yet web devs are crying "fad" just like the hardware guys were yelling "fad" when the iPhone came out, but web apps on desktops aren't growing like mobile is (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/07/mobile-is-where-the-growth-i...)... and so what happens to all the web app companies who are just hoping mobile doesn't kill their web apps or web sites?

In many industries it's as simple as making a product that does 80% or 20% of what the leading product does, but has a iPhone, iPad, Android app and you're likely to make sales on that fact alone. It's like going from desktop to web all over again.
Not with the latest versions of OSX. Lion...maybe. I think you can USB it. As far as I have read Mountain Lion is download only.
You raise a valid point. If that were the case, though, then I would argue the article should've been posted under a different title. The current title suggests that I'm going to see mr. Hawking say something profoud about time travel, M-theory and extraterrestials.
You can't kill other players in D3 (yet, there is upcoming PvP patch, although that will be arena-bound, so you still won't be able to kill other players while in PvE mode).