skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and I think the hype for the metro interface creates a false expectation that the whole windows 8 experience is going to be new. I was disappointed using it the first time how similar it was to windows 7. Looking at Metro, you can imagine how far they could have gone, but that really would have meant betting the company on it.
Clean design can be just as flashy. The new one stands out...but not in a good way. It looks cheap.

I do agree that app icons should be respectful of the user, but some users demand flashy!
Consider the audience of the WSJ. I doubt Github is known to more than 5% of the WJS audience.
You can use Google's cache of the page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Clicking on the current page link should still allow you to read the page too, at least it works for me.
Or, maybe, because they thought having a single device rather than two was an advantage? I would certainly rather have a single tablet that could also act like a laptop as opposed to both a tablet and a laptop.
It sounds to me like 'understanding their own rules' isn't the only problem here. Perhaps a lesson in counting tweets correctly.
A small, social coding startup that hosts the Linux kernel source tree. And has a cute logo.
Oh wow - that would be nice. That doesn't seem to be how they've run previous trials, but if it's true, that's great news.
At the very least it confirms that their email client is not going to be part of their Social Browser:

http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/07/06/bringing-s...
Not necessarily: "In the United States, neither federal nor state registration is required to obtain rights in a trademark. An unregistered mark may still receive common law trademark rights. Those rights, for example, may extend to its area of influence—usually delineated by geography. As such, multiple parties may simultaneously use a mark throughout the country or even state. An unregistered mark may also be protected under the federal "Lanham Act" (15 USC § 1125) prohibition against commercial misrepresentation of source or origins of goods. Unregistered marks are also protectable in the United States under Lanham Act §43(a)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unregistered_trade_mark
I can't imagine a more emphatic Mixergy fan than myself. I wrote a post at the beginning of this year[1] with a list of things you can do to afford the paltry sum Andrew charges for his content.

I don't even pay $25/month, I pay $200 per year. The content I've seen on Mixergy has not only helped me refine the pitch for my products, but also my service and consulting business which helps me make money to build the products.

In fact, I get work by simply pitching people the exact same systems I learn on Mixergy - basically taking what I've learned and applying it to other people's businesses.

It's like having a degree. Someone introduced me the other day as the "walking, talking Mixergy king". Like in entrepreneurial circles, it's so well known that having an encyclopedic knowledge of the content is tantamount to having a qualification.

If you're not already a Mixergy premium member, get in now while the price is this low. It's the single best source of business advice in existence.

[1]http://www.workingsoftware.com.au/page/A_list_of_things_you_...
Their RSS feed has new hires almost every day. I suppose they need to pay all those hires. I wonder why they need quite so many people.
Show HN: Oflow, my creativity iPhone app
And, for the people making that claim, this is still true. I certainly wouldn't be nearly as productive if I only had my GUI tools and could not use Bash, after all!

I don't understand why people assume that just because CLIs are older and less popular they are also necessarily worse: they really aren't.
I don't want an iOS clone. I want desktop Windows to continue to exist. As it is, I will be forced to use a touch UI on my desktop, which is less than optimal for keyboard-and-mouse.
To me it sounds more like he wants you to form your own opinion.
Apple Seeds Golden Master of OS X Mountain Lion to Developers
I agree this is very interesting.

If you'd like to hear Tim Cook's take on what Apple think, see his interview from D10, where he talks specifically about this, and why Apple thinks keeping iOS and OS X separate makes more sense than combining them.

TLDR: A legacy OS (OS X) has to much "Old stuff" that would hold back an iOS device (iPad) because it would be too clunky.
Microsoft is not composed of morons, their engineering is world-class, and they're not out to ruin their business or their product line. And the problem isn't Windows 8.

I'm guessing:

The Windows 8 Desktop side will be top-notch, comforting, and work as before and as expected.

The Windows 8 Metro side will be top-notch, internally-coherent, well-received, and offer a reduced complexity set for novice users and those seeking clarity and easier consumption.

The core OS will be top-notch, work on a grand range of hardware, and work as before and as expected.

It's not the problem with any of these pieces, it's how they're put together.

The first hour of Windows 8 is maddening, regardless of your technical skill level, comfort with Windows idioms, or level of resistance to change.

Two thirds of system configuration has been gutted and stranded in Metro mode. Login (if set up) is baffling and new. The computer violently flips between Metro and Desktop for reasons you're never quite sure of. It's constantly trying to drag you to this new place with completely different rules, appearance, and behavior. UI is hidden and transient.

There's no guide. You're just dumped there, and all efforts to work your computer like you did before are stymied. Yes, eventually YOU figure it out, but someone who's spent 20 years baking in the same ultra-reduced set of magic rituals to get the e-mail out is going to feel stupid. And they're not going to blame themselves - the era when you had no choice but to blame yourself is long over.

The Microsoft TABLET will be fine. The Microsoft SERVER will be fine. The Microsoft POWER USER base will be fine. The Microsoft GAMER population will be fine. The Microsoft DEVELOPERS will be fine.

It's the people who are only on the platform by virtue of "that's where facebook and my email is" who are going to run away screaming "Vista 2". That's the chip they're gambling with here, and I think they're going to lose it.
Microsoft to Acquire Perceptive Pixel and Its Large Multi-Touch Displays
Massarog: People regularly shit on me. So what you didn't get a camera for a tweet. Leave it alone and go find something more important to do with your time.

CublicleNinja: No, I do not. It's a damned contest. He lost. A guy who runs his own advertising company can easily afford a camera. Note I am not running around wising his pain.
Software Eats Software Development - Levine on Github funding
Can't comment on the tablet experience - maybe it works.

But Office on the PC wasn't made for a tablet - they intended the ribbon to be used by PC users, and it's terrible. Removing the menus eliminates discover-ability. The common case now when using a recent ribbon-enabled Office application, for me at least, is vaguely recalling a function that I used in a previous version and then hunting around for 2 or 3 minutes through the UI and not finding it. Without doing google searches, I'd never be able to find these features. And each of these feature-hunts adds up to a lot of wasted time.
Damn, github seemed like the perfect model for bootstrapped, they were growing like a weed, seemed to not lack for money from income, etc.

In these situations, I'd really love to know the details-- did they go shopping for investment (love to see that deck!) or did A19Z pursue them and talk them into it?

Probably perfect timing, too, because I think things are going to cool down in 2013.

Anyway, couldn't happen to a nicer company, but I do lament the loss of a bootstrapped example to point to.

FWIW, can't read the wsj article because it is already behind the paywall.
Probably makes it easier for them to sell the company to bigco for $1bn.
I believe the intended takeaway is 'if you find need of this company's product, use their competitors' instead.'
Well, it's in your editor, waiting to be written! github just raised $100M to host it for you as well!

Seriously, there are a lot of open source mail servers/client, some of which might be good enough for you, e.g. http://cworth.org/sup/a-mail-client-for-geeks/

The main problem with running a mail server is properly keeping it up, secure, spam free, and trusted by peers to actually send email. These are not exclusively _software engineering_ problems with the existing (SMTP/RFC822-based) infrastructure. Rather, there's a large management component here, that is unlikely to be solved by software alone (open or closed source).

This will only change with a radical infrastructure change, along the lines of djb's Internet Mail 2000 proposal. Until then, if you want your mail server to remain reliable without working hard yourself, you'll have to delegate it (to google or hundreds of other available services).
Really, "We wish we could hire them both" irks you?

Sounds to me like a great heuristic for whether a person would be a good investor.
Have you proof or are you just tossing another unfounded accusation on the pile?
> that hosts the Linux kernel source tree

Wasn't that temporary during the kernel.org debacle?
Yes, "well-known" is context dependent. But I would argue the WSJ chose a poor context. The reader already knows whether or not he/she has heard of Github, so the real question is "are they well-known in their industry?"

Pick any non-consumer-facing industry where the average person doesn't know the players, and everybody is "little known". That doesn't really tell you anything about their actual businesses or reputations.
Off-topic, but I need to complain about the YouTube app icon. It should be red and white and say YouTube on it. Instead, it's a brownish-green old-school TV. I miss it every time I go looking for it.
Yeah, but what exactly are you accusing them of? What is the benefit to them here? It's not like they lied about giving out a camera, they just picked a different winner- there's really no upside to them screwing you here, which makes me think it's less malicious than is being made out.
I don't see it as a subtle distinction. Simple using shouldn't grant rights. If I touch an ATM, or if I borrow someone's computer there's no reason I should be able to demand the source.
Ah, gotcha. I guess I was missing out on the social aspect of it.

But I have to wonder: if you're hosting that many private repos...how much does "social" play into it?
The original post announcing the change in Thunderbird's status, written by the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation:

http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stabil...
As it stated by Jaime Yap, one of the Collide creator here https://plus.google.com/107037260910017774154/posts/f2RvyNbk...

"The Collide .. is a technology/library release, with a basic reference implementation provided out of the box. It is not a hosted service, or any kind of product competing with existing web IDEs like Exo or Cloud9.
...
These existing web-IDE services could leverage technology in the Collide stack."

So we will definitely try to integrate Collide's collaborative coding abilities into eXo's http://cloud-ide.com ASAP
Hopefully it should not be as complex as cloud-ide uses pretty the same stack of things (GWT, CodeMirror etc), so stay tuned :)
And yet posts like these usually get right to the top of the front page. People will continue to treat HN like mommy when HN continues to act like mommy.
Hangs while "geo-locating your position..."
A Time to Move Forward, Focus on America’s Urgent Challenges
Mozilla and Internet Archive organizing Gigabit Apps Hack Days in San Francisco
Exactly. While the author chose a <blink> example to make his point, a (near) stock Honda S2000 [0] can be just as classy as a Maserati GranTurismo.

[0] http://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/11/02/45/28/9610-210.jpg
[1] http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4132/4950947259_b9c8208ddf_z.j...
As a person who just used linodes instead of github for awhile, jesus christ, that was an expensive use of my own time managing linux servers that did nothing other than run git.

Especially collaborating with people, that was a pain in the ass.

Feels expensive at first. It is not.
I came here looking for this comment. I have an iPad3 with a Zagg keyboard and I freaking love it. Imagine the same level of flexibility with access to legacy Excel/Word/IE apps when you need it, but also access to newer more friendly replacements as time allows!

My wife needs a new laptop, but only because she requires access to these legacy apps. Going into "legacy" mode for this, but providing the mobile consumption experience and productivity of a convienent keyboard is a killer combo.

I'm actually fairly impressed with the promise of the Surface. I might go as far to say this will be what people will be carrying in 5 years or less.
You would write off an entire company based on one misspelling?
I would like to do a co-working sister city location in Vancouver, BC.
Do you have a BP for your co-working space?
Because, you know, the day they stop committing, is the day that thunderbird stops working and takes all your mail store with it.

Oh, actually, that's not true! I'm still using TB3 installed with my Ubuntu 10.10, and there's nothing missing there. I'm sure that the latest 2013 TB is going to be usable through 2015 at least. No need to look for replacement now.
there are a lot of typos in this.
So, your life is pain, and you wish said pain on others? Gotcha.
Let's do about five minutes of fact-checking:

@tommytrc won it with http://twitter.com/tommytrc/status/220161069958705152

There was one API retweet and 14 unofficial retweets:
https://twitter.com/typertist/status/220268257163214849
https://twitter.com/JuliaRosien/status/220171309785690112
https://twitter.com/TarlovCyst/status/220252912251699200
https://twitter.com/joycecherrier/status/220220366088454144
https://twitter.com/level343/status/220201521369989123
https://twitter.com/mmangen/status/220186571012444161
https://twitter.com/SEOcopy/status/220185232802975745
https://twitter.com/arkarthick/status/220180186136719362
https://twitter.com/JohnLusher/status/220179206485712896
https://twitter.com/purplehayz/status/220174864634482692
https://twitter.com/JuliaRosien/status/220171309785690112
https://twitter.com/roncallari/status/220165178401099777
https://twitter.com/ShellyKramer/status/220162599696859136
https://twitter.com/SarahRobinson/status/220162544600485889

But @arkarthick's tweet was API retweeted once, brining the total to 16.

Looks like @tommytrc won fair and square, sorry.
Secret to cohesive color schemes
They deserve every penny. And I am sure their revenue has been increasing over time (at least I hope so).

They are a great blueprint on how to spend money wisely and develop features people care about.

Off the top of my head: Company Github accounts, many desktop Github redesigns and performance tweaks, Github for Mac, Github for Windows, and a Github Android App.

And this is only in the past 12 months or so. Amazing company.
My perspective on this whole thing is that I really enjoy configuring my tools and regardless of how incompatible my setup becomes and how much time I waste in the process, I don't see myself stopping anytime soon. Different people value their time differently.

It has become more of a hobby than some self-serving quest to improve productivity. Working on my config files or going through those of others in search of little gems is something I do for recreation - it's a very light mental activity. Configuring things is probably my favorite pastime in front of a computer :)

Still, highly configurable software should by all means come with smart defaults.

I don't mean to turn this into a book club, but this ordeal bears resemblance to Orr from Catch 22 fixing the thumb sized valve of the stove in Yossarian's tent. :)

'If you want to work with something big, that's okay.
But that valve is filled with tiny parts, and I just
haven't got the patience right now to watch you
working so hard over things that are so goddam small
and unimportant.'
'Just because they're small doesn't mean they're
unimportant.'
'I don't care.'
> does this mean any pictures I put up on Craigslist can be used royalty-free by anyone for any purpose

I think what he's saying is, that the fact that you are publicly selling your picture is in the public domain, a public fact about the economy, and unmonopolizable by any one private subject.
I have a second twitter account that is followed only by me for this kind of bullshit. If more people did the same, we'd get fewer companies encouraging Twitter pollution, and consequently fewer children crying about how they got 'scammed' on HN.
Do you hate your iPad and love your laptop, or vice versa? I don't think it's an apt analogy.
Just curious, what makes you think they don't already use version control prolifically? What opportunity do you see? One studio I'm familiar with has some assets with change history back through to SCCS -- back through RCS, CVS, and P4. These places have long dealt with large groups of people collaborating on shared files that are constantly changing, forking, merging, etc.
You are following hacker news, it is already a good step.

I'll try to give you some tips that will help you in the long run:

First things first, using the right tool will help you, I suggest this one:
emacs - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

You will probably want to learn elisp(emacs lisp) to configure your emacs further.

Keep yourself up to date and don't lose your time learning VB, flash, java or outdated things like that. These are dying. Focus on languages that you think will be wonders in 2 years. I personally suggest these at the moment:
D (dlang.org)
Haskell

Think more about the programs you use, what makes them awesome and what could improve them, only thinking about it regularly should help you make better ones yourself.

At your age I was programming way too much and had an over optimizing approach with everything. While seeing how to optimize most things is great, don't do it. Productivity is far more important.

I'd suggest going to the beach with friends as often as you can.

Don't learn languages past your first from books, learn to search in documentation and try to answer questions on stackoverflow for that language.

Follow your passion, don't become a tool unless that's really what you want.

Never underestimate good communication.

Have fun!
I'm pretty confused by your argument. How is making a bookmarklet better morally or legally than just using an API, or less self-aggrandizing? Bookmarklets are disallowed by the TOU as well. Is it because I'd just be making hammers instead of making and using the hammers myself?

And yeah, I have a bit of a communistic bent, so needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few arguments sway my decisions pretty heavily.
It cuts both ways, of course. A zombie employer (or manager) can also be a big hit to your wallet -- not to mention your health and sanity.
Why having an iPad makes me want to continue owning a Windows Phone
I was referring to the "I saved x MB" tweets. "I saved x%" would make more sense.
I'm not entirely sure how to run a good search on Twitter to get a count of how many time a person was "mentioned" with a specific tweet. I'm sure you know better than I do since you ran such a search in order to get to the count of 13. But is it at all possible that you missed a couple? And does that 13 include the 1 direct retweet he got?
Worked here (OSX, Chrome stable) but had to reload the page after authorizing the website to properly locate me.
Here you go, https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/Just%20saved%2029.4%2...

Don't count tommytrc, or JustIs that tweeted twice. 13 total.

Edit: Looks like I missed the direct retweet, so 14 total.
Congrats to Github - great project, great team. Good work, can't wait to see what's next.
That's a good question, and mirrors my own frustration with post-10.6 Mac OS X trends... I guess since I basically never use the Start menu, I just haven't gotten the impression that it will particularly change my desktop Windows interface.

I believe both companies see increased convergence for 90% of use cases down the line, and Microsoft's just making a more dramatic transition. I can see the argument that it's premature to make the big jump at this point, before there's a Metro app ecosystem or anything (and I'd be very antagonistic towards any dramatic changes to the non-Metro interface, since for the things I use my PC for, I don't want Metro), but I can also see an argument that it's better to make the painful transition early.

And I'm gradually just resigning myself to the fact that the things I want a computer for aren't the same as most people's... so whoever provides the least-painful way to still get power-user stuff done in a "Post PC" world will get my money. I'm very intrigued about running Lightroom on a Surface Pro and tossing it in my bag with my camera...
I'm curious how this would work. If I were to use this API to create, let's say, Bingo for money. How would I use the API without going to jail for running a gambling operation? I mean, I'm in the US so I guess I could always find an indian casino to back but that isn't likely without them taking a huge cut.
They specifically said they are raising this round for their enterprise product. Having the backing of top tier VC gives them more validity within the enterprise. That's probably the main reason. I doubt they needed the money. Very happy for them. The talented team they are building is unstoppable.
To be fair, if I decided I had to win a popularity contest on twitter, you bet I'd hassle some of my friends who haven't seriously used twitter in months and make them retweet my stuff, and I don't think I'd feel bad about it (other than for annoying my friends). I don't think it's realistic to demand some eligibility requirements for being a proper twitizen before your vote can be counted.
Sigh, if only you knew how many startup sweepstakes have no actual prize...
No it's not.

Something like "Social coding startup GitHub, hugely popular in the coding world, ...." would be a whole lot clearer.

Little-known, though technically correct, implies that they are not well known in any circle.
I've been using Windows 8 has my main development machine since the start of April (developing Metro style apps). I also found the jump between Metro and Desktop initially jarring but I've gotten used to it now and it feels less unnatural.

Given that I'm spending 80% of my time in Visual Studio I definitely spend more time in the Desktop than Metro (on the tablet it's pretty much the opposite), if you're living in Desktop and not launching any Metro apps than you can almost view the Start Screen as a launcher / dashboard. Tapping the windows key to quickly see alerts, tiles and notifications and then typing to find the app you want to launch.

I think Metro can succeed on the desktop but it'll certainly need the appropriate sort of apps to do so and building apps that work well as both a full screen mouse / keyboard app as well as a tablet app is going to be a real challenge.
$100M seems like a lot of money - I wonder what their plans are.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, retweets by users with private accounts are not added to that count.
They scammed him - he posted ads, he won the contest according to the rules, the camera is legally his.
You say that like it's not true. I've never met a decent developer who runs windows, and the obvious explanation is that its command line is still hopelessly inadequate.
We understand that many things have been broken in the bookmarking model in the past. That's why we try to keep Kippt as simple as possible. Feel free to send me an email any time (jori@kippt.com), we would love to hear what didn't work for you so that we can improve things in the future.