skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'd argue that the last truly revolutionary version of Windows was Windows 95. In the subsequent 17 years, we've seen a stream of mostly minor and often inconsequential design changes in Windows"

I know Jeff is looking at this more on the design side than the technical, but I'd argue that Windows XP was a much bigger deal than Windows 95, being the first consumer release based on the NT kernel and thus the first "home" version of Windows with reasonable memory protection between processes. How quickly we forget how terrible Windows was in the bad old days of daily BSODs.
Other questions one might answer:

- Were other libraries (YUI3, Backbone, Ember, ...) evaluated and if so, what were their weaknesses and how does this improve on that?

- What are the core strengths of the framework?
So anytime someone is excited about a product and says "I love it; you should try it!" they're a shill? If your customers used your product and told others to do the same, would you have the same opinion?
> claim that I violated their rules by entering multiple times

Actually, they didn't claim you violated their rules. They claimed you entered multiple times... which you had previously claimed violated their rules. But they had already pointed out that making multiple tweets is fine if it is from the same account. And one of the spots you underlined was not the complete sentence. The rest of the sentence concludes with by using multiple/different Twitter accounts. I think it all needs to stay together.

Also, some people forget there are two ways to retweet. You still have the perfectly valid original RT-style retweet (which you might be calling "mentions") and then you have the "new and improved" retweet function. I would guess that the old RT-style does not get included in the retweet count.

Note: please don't take this as an indictment of your story... just that you may not be seeing everything correctly.
To the contrary, I am extremely encouraged by his complaints. Because his problems basically boil down to Hard Engineering problems - nothing he said was a lack that required basic science (hard). If you will recall it was only 10 years ago that it cost millions and ~10 years to sequence one human genome.

And the problems he is listing, all it takes is something like memristors to catch on to lay waste to his worries on data and computational limits and replace them with "I remember back in the day when petabytes were considered a firehose".
Maybe they're building their own data center? Or really trying to expand into the enterprise market by going up head to head with Atlassian (expanding their issues and Wiki tools to complete separate packages). All speculation, of course.
VoiceBunny Launches “CrowdVoicing”, Aims To Be Mechanical Turk of Voiceovers
I'm not making a big deal about this, and I have a lot of respect for Craigslist, don't put words in my mouth. I think Craigslist is nearly perfect for the vast majority of things, I'm not on a crusade to "disrupt" them. It's just that for a long, drawn out, location-based search, it's objectively terrible, and I'm trying to patch that bug.
Designers: Shipment’s latest update makes reviewing over Dropbox slick and easy
GUI's can't, and that's why so many tech companies are trying to develop intelligent voice controls. Saying, "Hey move all of the files starting with A and ending with Z" is easier to remember than command line syntax. Don't try and make a GUI do something it's not designed to do, you'll end up with a bad GUI, not progress.
A magnetic memory with one bit per molecule
After using Vim for couple of years, I recently made a switch to Emacs. Sometimes I regret it. I definitely miss Vim modal design and keybindings. Compare Vim's J (join lines) with Emacs go to the lower line and press ^ to join it with the upper one.

To copy a line in Vim you just have to press 'yy' but there is no copy line command in Emacs out of the box. What you can do is C-k, C-y, i.e cut a line into clipboard and paste it back to have copy line effect.

But trying and learning different tools is obviously useful. Emacs introduced me to ido-mode and org-mode. Now that I know of the possibilities, I can search for and use similar plugins in Vim.
Beautiful. The controls are a bit messed up though; it tends to spin out of control if you drag it too far.
I had to laugh at this because I am in the exact same process and I am an American. For a non-EU citizen I'm starting to think this is impossible. Essentially one needs to apply for a "professional card" which is good for 5 years before enter the country to work one of the requirements, which are numerous, is to already OWN A BUSINESS IN BELGIUM! WTF! Starting a company before arriving n the country is hard enough but you are asked for your local address and company address in the process. Chances are I'm not going to have that information sorted out until I enter the country. Classic Catch-22.

Good luck with the business and keep us informed, know at least HNer will be looking forward to your updates.
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You're right. It can be clunky instead.
Startup / business content is not something I'm short on lately. There's a ton of free stuff I have yet to consume, and so spending $25 /mnth doesn't seem necessary for me.
I'm really embarrassed that "their" ended up "they're". I'm not sure if I typed it out of muscle memory, or if I mistyped it and Lion auto-corrected to "they're".

This is why I never stoop to pedantry. I know the difference, I swear!
$100m to maintain their current product doesn't make sense, but I imagine they're interested in growing (duh). Adding 100 developers and 50+50 sales/support guys could easily eat $25m a year.
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I love the command prompt as well, but there are several hundred million users who don't even know what that is.
I bet the company already regrets giving out the first camera, given the low turnout.
Vimperator/Pentadactyl are not really editors, but they are awesome if nothing because of Ctrl+I : it opens the current textarea in GVim, and then you just need to save & exit and the contents are automatically loaded back.
Things I find odd:

- OP runs his own online contest company (http://www.linkedin.com/in/giancarlomassaro -> http://anyluckyday.com/ ), but did not disclose it. (Edit: the significance of running a contest company is that people may believe OP has incentive to undermine other people's contests, especially if they are run by a competitor. I don't know that's the case, but it's a fact that should have been disclosed and it suggests that there may be more).

- A couple of the RTs of OP's tweet are suspicious, in that they are from rarely-used accounts (especially https://twitter.com/DailyShitReport and https://twitter.com/vinmassaro ).

Are those the problem? Maybe. Maybe not. But we only have one side of the story here and it's possible that the company sent more information or simply decided to not further accuse OP after deciding that some of his RTs were not valid.
>And, in terms of ARM-based machines, not even end users will have that choice.

Why? OEMs can choose to ship Android on their ARM devices and are already doing it. How can Microsoft ban that? Also, end users can buy iPads which are ARM-based too.

Perhaps you mean Windows RT tablets? Those are not exactly the same as "ARM-based machines".
None of my non-programmer/startup friends know who or what a github is so I think that given the WSJ's audience, it's a fair statement.
The power of twitter is how frictionless it is to share. You don't have to sweat over every time who will see it, what your friends will think about it, and how it will look because by design there is no visual and privacy decisions. I believe if anything new that comes along it needs to maintain this aspect and not clutter it with settings and features.

But isn't the real question from consumer's perspective: What is it that Twitter (or others including Facebook) fail to solve? How can a solution be defined so it is just as frictionless?

And since Twitter is a platform, richer sharing solutions or parallel communities (Instagram, Pinterest, Picdish) are being built that just take advantage of the post to Twitter. In this case the power of Twitter is the existing community.

In my view, the future are sharing tools and platforms that are 1) simply more aware of what we are doing and 2) also allow us to be more aware of what others are doing to enable more meaningful 1-to-1 connections.
Where is the fiber in the SF Bay Area?
Right, as I had stated the winner did not have direct retweets, but rather the original style (which I called mentions). He had 13 of those.
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Pulling from an old blog post, I don't see any inconsistency.

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/10/18/optimize-for-happin...

> The ironic thing about bootstrapping and venture capital is that once you demonstrate some success, investors will come to YOU. When this happens you will be in a much better place to make a more reasoned choice about taking on additional capital and all the complexities that come with it. Talking to VCs with some leverage in your back pocket is an entirely different game from throwing yourself in front of a conference table full of general partners and trying to persuade them that you're worth their time and money. Power is happiness.
I hope I will not see many more of this kind of news.

Dear browser makers, please, enable your prefixed CSS properties only in dev/night/beta builds. Leave only unprefixed CSS properties in the release stable browsers. With this you will be able to test new features, show them to web developers and, at the same time, save them from the madness of maintaining five different slightly different versions of new CSS properties. How many developers do you think will not remove the `-moz-` prefixes from they CSS? Who do you expect to say "from now on we will only support Firefox 16, let's drop the prefixed version used by older versions"?

Prefixes are for testing, not for stable applications.
Okay, a question:

I have a github (http://github.com/blhack -- nothing too interesting there), but only use it in the "free" way; saving my javascript stuff, and keeping track of some arduino projects.

"Github" and "money" in the same thought here triggered me wondering about maybe buying a monthly plan from them, and letting them host all of my code for work, play, etc. (stuff I'm too embarrassed to release, ha)

Maybe I'm just naive, but how large are most git repos?

You can get a full pizza box, in a rack, with power and data, and plenty of storage for $50/mo.

You could get two redundant linodes for $40/mo.

What are people getting out of github that they are willing to spend as much money as some of these plans cost?

(What I mean is: if this was $5/mo for unlimited repos, I'd have a plan now. But $7/mo for 5? That seems steep)
My guess is they're talking about the various Github desktop clients and he was misquoted...
afaik, ARM based Windows tablets will not run legacy applications.
I love GitHub, but anyone else felt it was a little immodest for TPW to say they'd "hire Marc" if they could? Can't put it into words, but I don't feel that Tom is in the position to make that statement.
I can only imagine that there is a lot of money in Enterprise. A solid support team is exactly what big companies are looking for when they choose to host their code with Github.
Rumors first circulated in May:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4006017
Yep. I was involved in a local 'pitch your startup to a room full of investors' conference. Guess who 'won' the contest and had everyone talking about it? The three college kids with a mobile app that flat out said, we don't need your money, we're profitable, we have big deals with major corporations and we're growing fast. We're here to work on our product pitch to people outside our niche for continued growth.
Having been using win8 for around a year now (MS employee), I really haven't noticed it getting in the way. I rarely find myself using a mix of both - either I'm in metro mode or I'm in a desktop mode. If I'm on a desktop, the keyboard shortcuts (win + type anything has gotten a lot better since windows 7) work wonders. They've made a lot of speed improvements that have been really nice. If I'm in metro mode (which admittedly I rarely am, it's just not that useful right now on a desktop), I tend to stay within that modality. I think that right now Microsoft is preparing for future hardware with this release. On traditional desktops, this doesn't make sense. But on things like the new surface I can actually see it working well.
"Because we want to be better. We want to build the best products. We want to solve harder problems. We want to make life easier for more people. The experience and resources of Andreessen Horowitz can help us do that."

I guess they didn't think they were able to build the best products without outside investors.

goes without saying, I hope it doesn't change github for the worse; eventhough history has plenty of counter examples. good luck github.
You know, I'm generally a fairly sympathetic guy. I've been screwed over enough times in my life to know how it feels, and to be able to feel for the next poor sod who gets screwed over in his turn. That said, I'm starting to get really tired of people trying to leverage HN into being their grievance du jour fixificator.

Sometimes, it's appropriate, as the people who could do something about the problem are here, or reachable quickly through here. The prospect of being shamed before the HN community is probably a very effective motivator for companies who've been engaged in hinky behavior to clean up their acts, too.

But the simple fact is, HN isn't your mommy, and it isn't the police; we aren't here to hold your hand, and we aren't here to fix your problems for you. People are coming here, crying that "someone on the internet was naughty!" over increasingly trivial bullshit like this, and I, for one, am finding it more and more a waste of time and bandwidth.
Was that the sleazy-sounding part?
Browser security policy for HTML+JS content?
The Rebound that Stayed Flat
I'm sure that's an accurate description for WSJ's audience.
This is exactly it. Obviously the purpose to this silly contest is marketing. How is that served by getting into a public fight with one of your users?
I'm not using this anymore, for several reasons:

I didn't get warm and fuzzy at the site by registering and spending some time.

I'm not a fan anymore of site being developed with all their intended features (read, as they go along experimenting) while we use (depend) them for daily chores. I'd rather site display all its cards right upfront.

The bookmarking site model is following the same trend as it existed for many years, i.e, there is nothing innovative in this area.
FOSS is fundamentally about freedom--the freedom to control the software you use.

Even if LinkedIn or Twitter were open source, I would still not be able to control them--I don't have a spare server lying around and I certainly don't have a way to get everybody else on my own system! So if I took LinkedIn's source and improved it, it would be useless: I would first have to get a server to run it and then I would have to get everybody I know to switch to it. This means that, even if LinkedIn was open source, I would still have to use their implementation on their servers; it would not have much of a practical effect.

Put another way, Reddit and HN are open source. But this does not mean I can meaningfully modify or control the code; this control is naturally left to the people with the servers. There is very little practical difference for me as a user between an open source Reddit and a closed source Reddit.

Now, this is not to say that web apps should not be open sourced--quite the contrary! Open sourcing is great for reasons besides freedom: you contribute to the common good, give more people insight into the development process and help other people with similar projects. But it is less critical than having open source programs that run on my own computer.
Right, I understand that. I felt that it was sensationalist in the sense that it's unlikely to happen, but very "sensational" if it does. I should have focused on my response to the points in the article.
> "which seems consistent with the idea that they didn't let the OP win because of follower counts."
Or, since you supposedly win with the most retweets, this is a very logical statement

I agree that it is good to make unfair things public but I am pretty weary after seeing so much bullying over this kind of stuff lately (37 Signals debacle for example)
TPW (or some early GH employee) has posted somewhere that yes, the cost of servers on your own is cheaper.

However, the original goal of GitHub was to build a tool that allowed collaboration easier. You pay for the experience and the tools and the network IMO.
No profit in it. This is one of those "startups".
There are a couple metaphors here:

1) Burn the ships
By committing so strongly to an anti-VC ideology, they forced themselves to focus on profitability. They required themselves to make a sustainable company without the expectations that eventually someone would expand their runway. In the process, they created a very attractive investment opportunity for the trillions of dollars out there sitting on the sidelines looking for the next big thing.

2) Everything has a price

Don't consider this a strike against the github folks, I'm sure they are strong and ethical people, but everything has its price. $100 Million is a lot of money and I'm sure it left the founders with a lot of peace-of-mind that will allow them to focus on building an IPO worthy company.

They haven't done anything immoral and no one gets hurt, rather many people may greatly benefit from this move. They changed their mind like everyone in the world does in the face of smaller sums of money than this.

Good luck Github.
I evangelize Andrew's stuff to the NYC Startup community all the time. It's like one of those secret clubs in Chinatown which you need the password. I just tell them : Mixergy
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OK, that's great, but why does what you want have to affect my experience on the desktop? You want a touch UI that also gives full desktop functionality. Presumably they can deliver that to you via the Surface UI. Why can't they have a Surface UI and a Windows UI?
When a factory/bakery/whatever ships product, that's capital that's immediately converted to a liquid asset (cash).

I don't know where you work, but where I work the stuff isn't turned into money until it's paid for. That can take a little while, depending on terms.
More importantly -- why do you think your followers' time is so invaluable?
The person who figures out how to get movie/music studios and the like to use version control is going to be very, very rich.
Ha, well then I will predict the future with this quote:

>No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
If you sit down at a friend's Windows box, with two buttons, you can use it, again with no problems. But just try making sense of a friend's X terminal: three buttons, each one programmed a different way to perform a different function on each different day of the week -- and that's before you consider combinations like control-left-button, shift-right-button, control-shift-meta-middle-button, and so on.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
@rushabh, you mean following numbers are a pittance?

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-11-25/india...

do you expect a better contribution?
I completely agree. But, I also think it is just as odd to have to choose your device based on what you want to do with it. To me, this is why the Surface is so cool. Attach the keyboard, you have a work device. Detach it, you have a consumption device.

To be fair, the iPad (and Android tablets) with a keyboard provides similar flexibility, but I think the desktop paradigm is what is missing.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220106
The minute they change my e-mail address to @github.com I'm setting the world on fire.
Yeah, it's only a brief crack at adding some syntax which would add some more functionality to a known statement. In short, I've used switch many times and thought to myself "Why can't I just tell it to start re-evaluating the cases again?".

The example there isn't what you would expect to find in the real world (instead it's a very cut-down piece of code to show how it would flow, and show of the main points of my thinking). That being said, the switch statement tends to be difficult to read in general, and is frequently misunderstood by new coders. I remember that when I started learning to program, I just expected it to work like this already, and was confused as to why I couldn't just change the variable I was checking and trigger other cases.
I can certainly see how this is like Daring Fireball: he does neglect to talk about any downsides. But I can't imagine how this is worse, except that it's about Windows rather than OS X.

Personally, I find Daring Fireball significantly more smug and annoying--unlike this post, Daring Fireball also likes to constantly rag on Android and implicitly assumes almost everything Apple does is perfect.
Not sure what my company has to do with this, as I promoted this from a personal account and not my company account.

All RT's were from legitimate accounts from friends and family. Nothing in their rules state that you could not have friends/family retweet, and in fact, they encouraged it: https://twitter.com/jpegmini/status/218018634352689152
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I dunno, "all the image quality and none of the filesize" sets off my snake-oil alarms.
Screenshot of WSJ article: http://i.imgur.com/jfZLu.png
Would a client-side padmapper be less morally gray?
Why would you want to serve up a robot.txt as "text/html" when in reality it is "text/plain"?