skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem like there has been progress made/realistic goals in mind. I submitted this Times piece earlier today: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/science/vast-deposits-of-g...

There are contracts for delivery in place: Meanwhile, Tong Ling, China’s largest importer of copper concentrates and one of the world’s largest copper smelters, recently signed a deal with Nautilus for more than a million tons of Pacific sulfide ores per year — an amount equal to about 5 percent of the world’s copper production.
I start to see two camps on Windows8. Some who love the surface usage idea, tech people who can easily adapt and the other camp having a real challenge with the new UI. The majority of users are the second part and I think it will be a long hard battle for MS to convince that group. At least they tried something new.
Hey Domenic_S

So you know, that example of poor client integrity is something that we 100% prohibit. We audit every game before it goes live for real money on our platform, and since we control the gambling transactions, we make sure players get correctly paid out.

Also, we are audited by the UK Gambling Commission annually, so our gambling licenses are testament to our own integrity as a service (the UKGC does not take the license-holder commitment lightly!).
Asus' rate of laptop defects is well below apple. Does that mean they're objectively better designed? This is just more apple fanboyism masquerading as an appeal to rationality, rebuke was perfectly justified.
You are far too trusting. When people start spewing this nonsensical BS and then go dark, nine times out of ten you've been had.
Are you saying they 'accidentally' scammed him? Wow
Commercial efforts tends to beat committee efforts in the marketplace.
Use something a little more...dignified...than two used car tires?
Updated Office 2010 style "ribbon" Explorer UI.

Bleah. Here's a thought: "Newer" and "innovative" do not necessarily equal "better." As far as I'm concerned, the Ribbon UI sucks big hairy ones, and is just one more reason to run screaming away from Windows 8.

Then again, since Windows 8 isn't F/OSS, I have exactly zero interest in running it to begin with, so MS aren't losing a customer here.
I can't imagine getting real work done on a touch device. Touch device implies it's screen is small enough to hold in one hand. In other words, the screen is too small to spread a few browser windows on. Touch implies discouraging the use of a mouse. Fingers are fuzzy and annoying for precise selection, and onscreen keyboards suck. By the time you've gotten an external keyboard and mouse to work around this, you no longer have a touch device.

I can't imagine buying a touch device for work. I wouldn't object to getting one to watch movies or read books on.
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One of our primary goals as a company is to be entirely white hat and trustworthy. Our investors, partners and the lawmaking body that granted us our gambling licenses all fully support our product and the service it provides. We worked hard to earn the trust of these institutions, and we will work hard to earn consumers' trust as well :)
JPEGmini is oozing with professionalism. "Save disk space with JPEGmini for Mac, tweet you savings".

I would honestly stay clear of such a company, and not just based on their scammy contests.
>then the original poster can have a beef with Padmapper, and Craigslist has no claim.

So what you're saying is that, "The original poster can sue PadMapper, but at least CL isn't going to be a plaintiff."

Unfortunately, you don't know what you're talking about:

From the CL TOU: "You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including but not limited to any unauthorized downloading, extraction, harvesting, collection or aggregation of content that you post)."

That clause just made CL the agent for the original poster and it expressly grants CL the right to prohibit unauthorized use. RTFM.

This whole situation is excessively asshole-ish. It seems like PadMapper is hell-bent on scraping CL data by any means (or rationalization) necessary. We can debate about CL running their business the way they do, but this argument is starting to look like some pseudo-intellectual freshman philosophy conversation. It's almost like debating Lyndon LaRouche supporters.

What PadMapper really needs to do is consult a lawyer and figure out how to work within the law rather than trying to be cute about skirting the CL TOU. Any investor would run far away from a company that seems so determined to do something without any professional legal advice instead replying upon some sophomoric interpretation of a contract and the law.

This comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4160061 outlines a strategy that could work that doesn't involve playing games and skirting Craigslist. It's also a way to actually build a business based on something besides just stealing other people's data. Of course it requires real work and doesn't appeal to someone that thinks code is the answer to every question.

Data posted to craigslist is subject to the CL Terms of Use. If the data comes from CL, it can't be used without CL's permission. There's no gray area.

if data.from_craigslist?
cant_use
else
use

We can moralize and cry all we want, but their Terms of Use are pretty damned clear and the law is pretty damned clear as well.

Returning to the Google example, it's irrelevant, "Google does it" is not a legal defense or even a moral defense, depending on ones opinion of Google..
I am always a critic but seriously why??? This may be useful for young children I suppose (who cannot read/spell yet), but typing is way faster than signing. So why not just have a custom formed mini half keyboard attached on each hip? The expense would be miniscule compared to this, the accuracy would be much better and the thing could probably be on the market in 4 months.

These gloves will probably break or need maintenance every 2 months, They will need constant replacing for growing users or users who gain weight, users will not be able to work at any jobs in the food industry (or many other industries for that matter)
He's right though. Ten years ago it was different, but as the top-level comment quotes, the problem now is sifting through the terabytes or even petabytes of data generated by the sequencing process.

Even worse is the fact that our ability to sequence is increasing faster than our ability to process the data.
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Microlocal - the next data grab on Google's radar?
I'm not being paid for this analysis. I'm briefly popping in during break periods.

I'm presenting a basic overview of the facts and current state of the law. I limit my comments to what I can type during my breaks. Consequently, my analysis is spread out over multiple comments. If you want a more detailed analysis with every comment, you can pay me or wait for a lawyer with plenty of free time on his hands to summarize things for you.
Github Raises $100 Million
I don't see why not. By being a competitor that scrapes PM, they are accepting that there will be a delay in their data versus when it's available on PM. So unless their site was significantly better than PM in some way, in the really competitive apartment hunting markets, they would be strictly inferior to PM.
I took the dive into Vim about a year ago. I was at the stage where I'd become proficient with some command-line tools in Linux, but I didn't yet have an editor I could use fluently from the command line. I tried out both Vim and Emacs, and found Vim to be slightly easier to grok, plus my pinkie got kind of sore from holding down the Ctrl key in Emacs.

I changed my default editor at work to be Vim, and started doing all my dev work at home through Vim. I started off just using the arrow keys to move and just using insert mode to edit text the normal way. Each day I tried to add one new command to my repertoire; I learned about how to structure vim commands (c-change i-in w-word, etc.) and move using hjkl and the higher order movement commands like w and b. Now I can maneuver my way around vim quite confidently, and although when I started off I was much slower in Vim than other editors, I now find that Vim is just as fast or faster for most tasks, particularly where I can make use of Macros.

At the moment I still have to get my head around markers and a few other concepts, but I've definitely become proficient enough for it to be worth the effort and time invested so far.

My tips for anyone learning to use vim for everyday development would be some common tab commands: :tabnew <path> to open a file in a new tab, :tab sball to show all currently open buffers in separate tabs, gt and gT to jump to the next/previous tabs.
Yes, but this article (and others of its ilk) aren't saying that Google software and ASUS hardware together make a great device. Instead the storyline seems to be that only Google, Apple and Microsoft can make great hardware, even in this case when it's mostly a re badge of a previously announced product.
You should write a blog post or something and get some SEO juice on there so when people search for them they will find out how shitty of a company they are.
> But I have to say, this choice seems, at least so far, to be a bit saner approach than the super hard totally incompatible iOS/OSX divide in Apple land.

Oh, this was a satire piece.
I think this is nice in theory, but it's naive. From a developer's point of view, an icon is an ad that causes you to click and read the description in the app store. I don't like it, but those are the facts.

The author argues that a movie app icon can be designed in two ways:

1. To stand out against other movie apps in the app store

2. To stand out against Mail and Safari on a device home screen.

The fact is, developers are incentivized to do #1 and incentivized against #2. It would be nice to live in a world where that was reversed, but as long as developers are competing for eyeballs in an app store against other apps in a search query that will simply not be the world in which we live.

I've run A/B testing on dozens of app icons. #1 becomes optimal as your app becomes more niche, #2 becomes more optimal as the niche becomes increasingly competitive. Compare and contrast the icons for "cinema" as for "sign language" to watch this battle play out. Cinema you get brand names, abstract art. Sign language you get a hand sign, or little kids (in the case of baby sign).
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm disagreeing with the foregone conclusion that a more liberal ToS would spell doom for Craigslist. A nicer way to display, sort, relate the data doesn't confer rights, but--as long as the end destination is Craigslist--I don't think providing access is a necessarily a losing proposition for either party.
I wish people didn't used Twitter for contests, it's not transparent and you can't audit it. You can just have a bunch of bots retweet you, or anyone can claim you delete a tweet, etc.
It is not available for any of my tablets. (Notionink Adam, Transformer Prime and lg slate)
I just heard from a friend that her friend also stayed in India for 6 weeks and suffered exactly the same. Is that person you're talking about from Berkeley any chance? Could be a weird co-incidence.
Nice. That is what I was gonna call my application originally :P
Gambling winners are most likely money laundering* recipients. In the overwhelming majority of cases, gamblers lose.

* http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/97/03/Chapt11.html
I don't understand the fuss, it is minimized by default and works well on a touch screen by showing a lot of common commands. It's like people love to hate it or something, especially ones that don't even use Windows daily.
You use linkedin, twitter, gmail, and quora. Those aren't open source. How do you reconcile that? Sincere question.
They had a contest, you didn't win, he-said she-said and you post it to HN. I'm sorry you didn't win but I don't really see what the point of this post is- shaming this company for... what? Giving away a camera? Without more solid proof you should withdraw your accusations. How do I know you didn't tweet more than once?

More importantly, how did they "scam" you? Did you lose money in this transaction?

Shame on the HN community for piling on this company (which I've never heard of) based on such scant evidence.
Valve continues to innovate in the distribution market. Here's to the death of monolithic publishers and retail!
What's in it for the user? I saw talk about APIs and anger over promoted tweets. Users don't know what an API is. They know when their favorite app doesn't integrate with their favorite service, but this hypothetical Twitter rival has to already be a favorite service.

How do you accomplish that? "Service You Don't Use is now deeply integrated with all your favorite apps". So what?

And I don't think many users are that outraged about promoted tweets.

You can ship a Twitter alternative after a weekend of coding. Then you can sit back and listen to the crickets.

I don't see a huge problem with the Twitter idea or its feature set. The big problem I see is that it's yet another data silo. One of the hottest communication technologies to come around in years is owned by a single entity.

Maybe a decentralized competitive technology is a more interesting place to go. Something that works more how email or the web does. It so far hasn't worked for Diaspora*, but how about the same concept vs. Twitter?
Cool. Doesn't do the artist / album thing though. But I want to implement Soundcloud too.
No, it's not a substitute - it's an aggregation, or survey if you will. At 11 volumes, it's still quite lengthy. Telling someone to read everything ever written by an author mentioned in Copleston is on the order of casually suggesting they get a Ph. D - it's an insane amount of work.

And of course it ignores non-western philosophical thought: it's right in the title. You wouldn't get up in arms over a jQuery book completely ignoring C++ calling conventions.
It seems to me that, by and large, those who hate massive UI changes are those who were well acquainted with the old ones. Also, Metro != Ribbon.
I've entered plenty of "(re)tweet this to win" type contests. The barrier to entry is incredibly low, and I've won enough times to keep myself encouraged.

If your time is so valuable that taking the time to (re)tweet something will be a drag, or if your twitter account has some intrinsic worth that could be brought down by this type of tweet, then yes, there's no reason to enter, but then again, if you meet either of these criteria, you probably don't even need to enter contests...
Github finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz
That's great! Such a simple anecdote, but it made me smile.
Can't read the full article without an account. Try this:

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/github-finally-raises-funding-1...
I'm sorry this happened to you, but I don't think the power of crowd sourcing should destroy a small start-up based on what still may be a misunderstanding.

Hell, perhaps this will gain them some needed attention.
Unmap your escape key, that will force the habit. I did this when I moved my control and meta keys to the left thumb of my kinesis keyboard, and it helped train me not to hit the old keys.
They made them less strict, I don't know if this equates to dropping them. It still has the concept of weeks with a course having a clear start and end.

I know my success rate with udacity over something like khan academy definitly comes from having a structure that I can work on every week.
Stepping off the ledge
OK, to be fair, I've never used the ribbon on a touch based device... just Office on a conventional PC with mouse/keyboard. But that was enough to turn me off on the "ribbon" and nothing I've seen or heard to date has given me sufficient reason to revisit my dislike for it.

But, I only use Windows at my dayjob where I have no choice, and I try to spend as little time as possible paying attention to the fact that it's Windows (hello, Cygwin). I'm probably not exactly the target market for MS on this to begin with. ;-)
Given how rapidly I was downvoted for saying the same thing, I have a feeling (but no evidence!) that the "community" hasn't really driven this post to the #1 slot.
I am increasingly wary of so called platforms and APIs. Even big companies like Amazon jerk developers around. E.g. Amazon APIs cannot be used on mobile devices - for no apparent good reason.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/amazon-killing-mobile-apps-...
2 months ago github was all "we don't need VC funding we're completely profitable"...
This was the only article I could find at the time, but I'm getting you up to the top so others can read.
"Little-known social coding start-up".

Got to love the WSJ.
Your trivial example is already spaghetti code; I'm loathe to imagine what real-world use would look like.
It's also an internally inconsistent concept: consider "case 3" and "case s > 4". Are you comparing values to the switch statement, or testing conditions like an if statement? What do you do when those two come into conflict?
> In the post PC era, Microsoft is betting the company on Windows 8, desperately trying to serve two masters with one operating system.

They could be onto something here, but it will only pan out if Microsoft can execute it properly.

Instead of thinking of it as "serving two masters," think of it as treating all HID paradigms as first class. You have one device that can hold all of your data and can adapt to either a tablet or a workstation input mode.

Basically, it's the OQO with an iPad form factor.

This could be just as "Post PC" as anything else claiming the moniker. Instead of all computing being embodied in a PC, the PC/workstation just becomes one of many input form factors. Whether or not this will fly will depend on how well Microsoft and partners can achieve the same sort of vertical integration that Apple has. (It will also depend on how well Google can develop the same and how well Apple can maintain theirs.)
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The trend of 'surface won't suffice! I need a workstation to get real work done!' reminds me of 'a UI won't suffice! I need a command line to get real work done!'.
I just happened to be on their About page today and I noticed they'd taken down the "VC money raised - $0.00" section.

Congrats to the fine folks at GitHub!
GitHub finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz
I just don't really get why they can't do what Apple does. There are two metaphors here, one for fingers, one for keyboard and mouse. For systems with a keyboard and mouse, use the metaphor that suits them better. Seems simple.
I finally tried this out today:
(while TERM=linux)
keys.kmap:
keymaps 0-127
keycode 1 = CtrlL_Lock
keycode 58 = Control

sudo loadkeys keys.kmap

This works, but I haven't set this up to load on startup yet.
What a great way to ruin a perfectly awesome company.
Congratulations GitHub!

I'm a bit surprised given their previous stance on VC...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4VtBcmbbSs

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...
Is it fair to consider the touch-centric UI a "bet" when competitors have been demonstrating it's popularity in the marketplace for years?

I take some exception with characterizing Windows 8 as a "bet" because there's little risky or new about it. It handles multi-tasking more elegantly then iOS, but so do/did Android tablets and Palm's WebOS. It has a nice app store, but that's just table stakes at this point. The built in apps are cute, but I don't see any that would make me regret buying a competing tablet - to contrast, Apple's creative apps and Android's maps would induce some buyer's remorse.
I'm amazed that Windows is sold and tied to one user interface!

Why they don't afford the user choice like Linux I don't know.

Forcing users to make a limited choice of one is going to upset many, change can be bad as well as good.

Come SP1/2 of windows8 they will offer alternative user interfaces - can smell the outcome in the air. Failing that they will have a active market in alternatives that will become more mainstream aware than the alternatives currently.
I personally can't stand typing on a touch screen at all, even a small sms can make me upset let alone doing some actual work with it.

Touch is for media consumption, not when you need to get something done.
What better way to pitch?
How important kiosks are these days
After seeing this, I certainly will use one of their competitors if I need a similar service.
Solid proof was sent to the company several times. They chose to ignore it and even claim that I violated their rules by entering multiple times, which I never did. I have 84 followers, what good what it do for me to tweet the same thing many times when the goal of the contest was to get the most retweets on one tweet? I tweeted once from their app and got 15 retweets on that single tweet.
They ~scammed~ the OP by fraudently getting free advertisement through twitter, by giving a promise they then broke.

Sure, we can only go on the OP's word here, so let's see what the company has to say.

Even if the OP did tweet multiple times, according to the supposed statement by the company that's fine with them, so short of some other adventurous interpretation or misrepresentation of the rules of the contest, we can probably use publicly available information on twitter to come to a preliminary opinion until the company makes a statement, and then decide who sounds more credible.

Edit: For now, this tweet - http://i.imgur.com/At4py.png - by the company kind of comes off as trying to entice random popular twitter users into participating in the contest, which seems consistent with the idea that they didn't let the OP win because of follower counts.
For one, I don't view services like Quora as being in the same class as "software I run on my own machine" in the first place. It's a subtle distinction, granted. But I've just never viewed those services that way.

Secondly, because there aren't adequate F/OSS replacements available. I can use Fedora Linux with KDE and get an experience that's better than Windows. I don't know of a Quora like service that makes their code available, that gives a better experience than Quora. That said, if such a thing were available, I would prefer it.
With reservations --simply because I don't know their details-- I'll say that this is nothing new at all and it could be the makings of another case of patent abuse.

Local changes to the magnetic field have been used for quite some time for purposes such as oil exploration. I remember talking to an old geologist/oil man about twenty years ago as he went about locating candidate areas to explore based on these fluctuations. He explained that they'd use magnetometers to map out underground "cracks", deposits and other features. To go from that from generating local location data by overlaying a map of some sort (whether it is a building or something else) is nothing less than trivial.

If you have any experience sailing you may have also witnessed the effect of large sunken metallic objects on the compass. Again, you could "navigate" by these effects "Hey we must be passing over the SS-Sunken Ship".

Gotta love patents.
I got five words into that article and hit back to find a different source.

> "Little-known social coding start-up GitHub..."

Really?

The Gigaom is a much better read.

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/github-finally-raises-funding-1...
> Whenever I use my friends Windows computers--and, reasonably, Windows is the default--I'm lost. And yet this is not a good case for switching to Windows!

Actually, I think it is a good case for switching to Windows. I just don't think it's a sufficient case.
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