skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now everybody who develops for desktop windows also kinda develops for mobile windows and strenghtens the weak windows mobile ecosystem...

I don't see this happening. You're talking about the intersection of Windows apps and their corresponding developers which:

a) Haven't already migrated to the web. Discounting Microsoft's own products, the revenues for web "applications" have to dwarf desktop commercial software by several orders of magnitude. Remember when Encarta was a viable product? Or a recipe database? Mapping? Finance? You name something "ordinary people" used to do with boxed software and it's almost all being done online.

b) Are suitable for a Metro/Touch-style interface and can leverage it to be cross-device easily (Games are out, so likely are IDEs, pro tools like Photoshop...). Whole classes of applications are going to keep being written against the non-Metro Win32 APIs and under the assumption that you've got a 12"+ screen and a keyboard/mouse.

c) Are popular enough to go through the bother of a rewrite (and presumably popular enough to make a difference to Windows Phone or the Surface). Much of what's left when you exclude a) and b) is vertical market stuff or internally written line-of-business applications that will never be worth a radical WinRT rewrite.

That's not to say Metro and Windows Phone won't be successful. I just think they're not going to be successful because the folks still writing desktop Windows software will wake up one morning and realize, "Oops, I guess I wrote a Windows Phone application, might as well ship that, too!"
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Twitter Launches Its Own Political Barometer To Track U.S. Pres Elections
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I made something similar a while back, but for books. Essentially it used the Amazon API to create a Pinterest like interface for Amazon. (But this was before Pinterest, so it was called a Masonry interface at the time.) Here is what I came up with:

http://bookflavor.com/list/new-york-times-bestsellers-25

Unfortunately, eventually Amazon decided they didn't like me and cut off my API access. This was because I was doing too much scraping of their service, and because they said the design of my site was causing it to falsely report referrals to Amazon. (Still not sure what was causing that exactly.) At any rate they shut off my API access and I haven't had time to come back and revisit the project since I have been working fulltime.

Best of luck with your site, and watch out for sneaky Amazon restrictions.
You know, I've had at least 3 people tell me they love the new 'genius' ads. They don't work in the technology industry.

Anecdotes, schmanecdotes and all that, but if one believed online enthusiasts every time Apple did something, the iPod was a joke, iPad was a flop, and iPhone 4S was an underwhelming epic fail. The actual opinion of world does not often reflect the Internet's bizarre jumble of fragmentary opinions.
Theoretically you're right, but SVG doesn't work in IE, so it's not a realistic option for most developers. Icon fonts are scalable, retina-ready and actually work.
You brought up the maintenance angle, and the response to that is that in some cases it's far more practical to use js for atyling than to rely purely on css. I gave an example below - a sticky page footer - do show me how to do it in the confines of your abstraction model.

Abstarting things for the sake of abstracting is a rather naive approach. It's a good starting point, but some abstractions complicate things way beyond what's needed.
I am going to bet that you are in a very small percentage of users who have such a large screen desktop.

Couple of points:

1) Large screens are getting really cheap. Occasionally ridiculously cheap, as in last week's bargain Korean LCD monitor threads. Today's $300 back-alley special is tomorrow's mainstream price point.

2) On the desktop, people with large screens are more valuable customers. They spend money on software and hardware. People with small screens don't. This generalization obviously breaks down when it comes to traditional Windows laptops, but Metro doesn't make any more sense for those than it does for white-box desktop PCs.

Metro is a bet-the-company move, and I'll give Ballmer credit for that much. However, the board should have required him to pee in a cup before placing this particular wager.
And that is why I have a fairly unique nick as my preferred username.
For what it's worth something like this is still probably possible. I'd be shocked if any sensible person would get access to Digg's dataset only to delete it immediately thereafter. While they've replaced the site with something else to get the ball rolling, I don't get the impression that they're crass and/or ignorant enough to just destroy the whole thing, so we may yet see an archive of the old Digg.

Also, I think the old Digg demonstrated that it didn't really care much about the data anyway.
Oh, boo hoo! He did the hard work. He earned the first mover advantage. Go be disruptive without being a thief. Make a compelling product that steals his users, not his data.
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Agreed, yet it's also frustrating to live in a world where deceptive and emotional manipulation works because most people aren't that good at recognizing it and counteracting it.

Do you just gnash your teeth and stick to your moral high ground while everything burns?

Or do you "play the game", and use manipulation to achieve the moral good?

Personally, I think I tend to do the former. When I get the relatives' chain email with stories that support my political ideals yet disagree with the facts as I know them or can learn them -- I try to correct the ignorance by sending out a Snopes or other factual link.

Sometimes I feel like a sucker doing that, though. Should I try to correct the email outrage of a few people I know when that outrage might get them into the voting booth flipping the lever the way I want? Will that email outrage insulate those less curious against the deluge of misinformation coming from "the other side"?
That's not correct, anyone can register a .xxx domain, there are no actual restrictions.
The F# code isn't as slick as it should be. This is much better:

type FullName = FullName of string

This is a sum type (discriminated union) with a single case. If you want to have a simple accessor just add:

with member x.Value = match x with FullName x -> x

I'm not sure why you'd create all those records; it seems very messy.

Edit: Also, phantom types may be of interest. Here's an example in F#:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3583679/implementing-phan...
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What reason would there ever be to attend an exit interview at all, if it is forbidden to say anything you think?
Downgrade. What a terrible idea. What is this supposed to add for users?
I really need to cite the fact that Apple uses an ARM Cortex A9 and PVR SGX? You couldn't look that up on wikipedia?
> At bottom, I have no idea why people buy Apple products.

Fit and finish. Only a few Sony/Samsung products I've seen on the market recently are really designed tightly and I've never had to use them so don't know how Win7 works on those compared to a Mac.

The problem in the PC/Windows world is that even if you make an Apple-quality product - hardware, drivers, testing, mandating component quality - you will be "disrupted" by another PC manufacturer that steals your design just enough to confuse consumers. Meanwhile the large Windows license costs require razor thin margins unless you price your end product above what Apple offers. This is a no-mans land.
Abandoned IDs is indeed a problem. I'd like Twitter handle cdonath, but it's taken - and is just a ghost account from 2009 with 2 tweets.
It bugs the shit out of me when I don't get "davidw". I know it's sort of silly, but I've been "davidw" since 1993, and I've grown kind of partial to it, as well as having a lot of muscle memory primed to type that at logins.
11:28am PST, site has been down about an hour for me.
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> Apple's strength is not in its chips. It's in its software

I've always had the opinion that Apple's hardware and industrial design were top notch, but I hated their OSes and software. Then again, I was never the target market for it.
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Sadly, that was my fault (I'm one of the developers over at FFTF). Thanks for the heads up! Sorry for the foolish mistake.

For those playing along at home, here is our privacy policy: http://fightforthefuture.org/privacy
your $PS1 makes the commandline examples hard to follow
My work blocks the .xxx, so I can't even see if this is legit.
Why do you say that - is that because you think it is always wrong to lie?
Please explain how either of the examples (one is specific, one is not) have anything to do with CISPA. One was a traditional terrorism investigation that was horribly botched, while the other is a case in a foreign country with laws that are completely different (and much, much worse) than CISPA.

Both qualify as FUD because their factual relevancy is extremely low, while their shock value is high. Their only use on the page is to scare visitors into going "Oh my god, that could happen to me!" so that they tell all their friends about all these terrible things that the evil gubmint is going to do if we all don't oppose CISPA.
You wanted Google's solution, which is open sourced[0].. but decided on another?

[0] http://io-2012-slides.googlecode.com/
In the absence of deities, why call it a religious system instead of an ethical one?
Haha, no. ;) We started with a test suite, but once Prose launched we had a lot of users reading and writing files to GitHub using GitHub.js (almost 5000 GitHub users have logged in at least once). So it was implicitly tested by the crowd. If something goes wrong, we know it pretty soon. Running automated tests against the GitHub API is kinda tough, and I haven't had the resources to maintain a test suite. Well, it all makes good progress, and gets more and more reliable.

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That was just in Fall 2011 before domains became available to the public. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20092596-501465.html

Sep 7 2011-Oct 28 2011: Trademark holders only
Oct 2011-Dec 2011: Porn sites too
Dec 2011-present: everyone
Americans already enjoy blanket worker protection, since you can't legally work here without some kind of visa. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and I'm not saying it's different from labor policy in other nations. But it's a fact, and it does prop up U.S. wages. H1B visas do have the effect of eroding that protection and lowering domestic wages. That also may not necessarily be a bad thing, but it's also a fact.

One way that it may be a good thing is that it lowers the cost of engineering services for the rest of us, the same way low-wage workers overseas provide us with cheap manufactured goods, and low-wage farm workers provide us with cheap food. If I.T. wage growth exceeds productivity growth in that sector (I'm not saying it does, I'm saying if it does), then we're being overcharged for I.T. services.
WxPython: How to drag and drop a file from your app to the OS
Yep - the twitter name I'd prefer to have has one tweet from 8th July 2007, the reddit name I'd like (same name) has one comment from 27th March 2007.

I can see an argument for not deleting inactive accounts in case their owners want to resume using them, but for accounts that are both inactive and practically unused (the two accounts I've mentioned... the one tweet, and the one reddit comment, both read "hi" - different person, though), they should be freed up.

It's basically the same issue as domain squatting, except that a.) there's no cost involved to help limit it and b.) it can, and is, done by mistake by many people
The link I gave was just my lazy attempt at citing something. Wikipedia is hardly reliable source No. 1.

In reality, it is my understanding the Windows RT (the OS), can only run applications designed for Metro/WinRT (the runtime). That is, any Metro application out there should be compatible with both Windows 8 and Windows RT (the OS).

(There may well be gotchas around reusing some native libraries, but I suspect these would be few and far between).

So to your earlier 'bet' you went against...

> ...Windows RT will have more apps at launch than Android tablet currently exist.

Well Windows RT (the OS) should have the same number of (Metro-style) apps as Windows 8, given my understanding from above. I'd expect this to be a pretty high number once the devices hit, given that Developer Preview (and therefore the tools to make these apps) have been out for nearly a year now.

Counting the number of Android tablet apps is more difficult. I wouldn't count the full total of Android apps, only ones optimised for a larger screen. First you have to define it. On Google Play's store, I could only find one list of apps for Tablets, which only has around 250 apps:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/tablet_feature...
(Given that I was able to get to the 11th page).

If betting the number of Windows RT apps against 250, I know which I'd put my money on.

Of course, there may well be more than 250. How on earth does one find them though?

(In my quick searching, I came across this article from the honeycomb days, which still seems to apply: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/mystery-how-many-a...)
I understand what you mean, but network effects aren't unsurmountable. I'd argue that social networks are the pinnacle of services sustained by a network effect, but there's still fluidity (MySpace was a pretty terrible platform sustained by a strong network -- until it wasn't.)
I picked it kind of on a whim and as a hack (are they still allowing porn under .com?). I like the aesthetic symmetry of the domain and TLD, in general. There was a funny potential bug in our code several months ago which almost led to the comment

// XXX TODO FIXME nop is doing too much

Perhaps that link back to development/tech might have been too much of a stretch :)
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I think another possibility is that he is not turning to kickstarter because he cannot raise money otherwise, but instead because he realizes that it is an incredible marketing tool.
Case and point, we're all discussing the device right now, and I'm sure the majority of us heard about it through this post.
>Sure, but you could turn that argument around the other way.

The average number of people killed in a mass shooting stopped by a civilian ccw holder is much lower than those killed in a mass shooting involving police simply because of response time.

If an armed civilian is present and is able to stop it, it's usually done before the gunman kills more than a few people, and not end up on the news because of the lack of a 10+ person death toll.

That's not to say an armed civilian could stop a mass shooting in all cases, just that when they do it happens faster.

Additionally, most mass shootings take place in locations where ccw permit holders are banned from having guns.

High schools, colleges, churches, the theater in Colorado.

In fact almost every single mass shooting in recent memory has taken place in a gun free zone, and in many states there are very few places left that are gun free zones.

During the Texas Belltower sniper mass shooting, civilians returning fire saved many lives because they pinned down the sniper and prevented him from acquiring targets.
Play "Danger Zone" on every git rebase
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No, they are exactly the same. Just a separate build. My point was that by writing software for Metro you are writing it for every future PC purchase, and although a lot of those won't be using Metro much, the sheer number of people who can use Metro is going to eclipse even the iPad. So the potential is obviously great.
> I agree that "seize" is poor word choice,
> but the fact that he gained a monopoly position
> through legal competition does not negate the fact
> that it's a monopoly.

Putting up a classified ads web site is dead simple. There are no barriers to entry other than the kind of technical competence displayed by high school kids, and five or ten bucks to fund your hosting account.

The fact that it is immensely difficult to attract users away from an established site does not make CL a monopoly. The fact that nobody cares that you have a "better mousetrap" does not make CL a monopoly.
Apple's mobile chips are just systems-on-a-chip packages of ARM and PowerVR chips that are then fabricated by Samsung. Apple has nowhere near the engineering capability to design a full CPU from scratch.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A4 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A5
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Facebook Censors Pompidou's Gerhard Richter Nude
If Valve et al have already invested in the project, Kickstarter could be more about marketing than funding.
CTO: Hands on or hands dirty?
A war story wherein a flash site grows facebook fast, and a CTO gets too far down in the trenches.
Please let me know when you have a site for the 12k club, as I intend to join. The 11k club is simply too elite.
Whats the difference of functions and methods in Google Go?