skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do these "product development and product management teams" do? Is this for the Boot to Gecko project?

I'm quite frankly surprised at the number mentioned. I'm also disappointed that they made the decision to put Thunderbird basically on life support. A self-hosted web version would have made a nice product.

Does anyone have a link to the official announcement? I see nothing on Mozilla's blog and Techcrunch has failed to provide a link.
I think both the real and proposed headlines are stating facts; the question is which facts to emphasize.
It's just a rebrand of Live Mail, which is just a rebrand of Hotmail. Which is a service not written by Microsoft, but which they bought.

A complete waste of time apart from the fanboys who can gloat at the Window 8 look... ;-)
Digg launches redesign
"On writing well" was previosuly suggested here, it's still in my queue though.
1. Convince yourself that success is a lottery and they were just mostly lucky.

2. Embrace your envy and let it push you to strive harder.

3. Stop thinking about others and use your mental energy to focus on what you're doing yourself.

4. Accept that you aren't up to their level and live with your limitations. Not everyone is that capable. Do you spend much time envying olympic athletes your age?

5. [insert another cliche here]
I agree with that analysis, but my read is that not all the dislike is only from people who stand to benefit (though that's a big part of it), but from a sort of intellectual/aesthetic dislike of markets that don't seem to be pricing commodities in a transparent/consistent way, and instead try to charge different people different prices for the identical product.

For example, your analysis could also apply to differentiated pricing of books. Some people are less price-sensitive, and would pay more if you could manage to charge them in a different tier: say, people buying books charged to their company, or to a university research grant. If you could do that, the base price for poorer people buying books might well be lower. But when Amazon experimented with per-user pricing based on analytics, people got really angry, as it seemed to be removing the idea that books have transparent prices.

Of course, there's often differentiated pricing by differentiating the products, even slightly: SaaS service tiers, limited edition books, hardcover v. softcover, etc. But when the identical product is being priced differently in an attempt to maximize profit in different demographics, it seems worse somehow, like a shopkeeper quoting you different prices based on how you dress (which does happen in countries with haggling-oriented pricing systems, but is contrary to the American expectation of advertised uniform prices).
The same thing is possible in Excel VBA by creating a

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)

in the appropriate worksheet, which will be called when a cell is changed. I don't see any reason why a complete blackjack game would be impossible.

I am however sure that the python code is much nicer than the VBA code to do so, and if it weren't for the distribution trouble (requiring a plugin to be installed for all users of the workbook) I'd definitely use IronSpread.
we need to have a thread about this.
Pretty print their loader JS that is quoted in the url above. I like using the Developer Tools in chrome to do it for me: Load up that JS, go to the Sources tab and click on the {} near the bottom of the screen to auto format it for you.

The issue is that you can't insert b (the <script> tag) into the DOM until you've declared window.mixpanel because the code within mixpanel.2.js depends on window.mixpanel to be defined.

It is a subtle race condition that only seems to happen with IE, but when it would fail, it would cause one of those ugly IE dialogs to popup to the end user. Not good.

The correct code should look like this near the end... just move the insertBefore to be after the window.mixpanel:

a.__SV = 1.1;
window.mixpanel = a;
d.parentNode.insertBefore(b, d);
Elizabeth Gilbert made that same point in a TED talk.

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
This is an exact description of what happens right before you pass out(faint). If you are unsure of the cause I would see a doctor.

In the final stage the field of vision gradually fades to black from the edges in.
NO part of the headline is inaccurate or disingenuous.

If you wanted a Nexus Q then you will not be able to get one. Simple as that. And this little exercise in product development is about as half-baked as it comes. You do product development/marketing BEFORE shipping not after.
On the other hand, Feynman's most important lesson is thoroughly modern: the surest way to understand something "intuitively" is to create it.
"On writing well", William Zinsser

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Edition/...
It requires a new way of thinking. Crowd sourcing your security and giving an incentive for the person to report the security hole.
So Higher Ed MOCC platforms need improvement. The original title is overly broad.

Having said that, your experience and criticism reflect many people's experiences. Just a little while ago there were some posts here about the Stanford NLP online class and the (perceived) difference in value vis-a-vis the "real" Stanford class...
That is not the case here; that is specifically addressed in the article.
This isn't surprising? When in the history of humanity have you previously heard of a company abandoning pre-orders, giving out free devices to pre-orderers, and saying they'll relaunch it when they add more features because of customer feedback? Name one other example in history.

Isn't surprising at all? This is the most unexpected thing that could possibly happen. Maybe losing only to all shipped devices turning into flying pigs who shoots laser from their tails. Other than that, this is the most unexpected thing that could happen.
If it's python, if i'm able to use python modules and call functions from excel ( udf ), why IronSpread folks pushes for useless demos ?

Show me some network stuff. Show me how can i write a simple crm ( no not like the one on their blog ) " with " centeral db and gives me ability to work with my coworkers together. Show me how can i gather information from different sources ( web, db v.s. ) and analyse it.
> In a coma or something ?

Was that necessary?
Send an e-mail to me ben@airbrake.io.
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Not all Hackathons are all night events - most in my opinion are throughout the weekend, but the hacking is usually 10-7 on saturday
For a brief second I thought a "stupid amplifier" was a amplifier of stupidity, perhaps referring to the phrasing of the title.

Works either way.
I definitely agree that at the ultra high end ($1000+) people will want to pick and choose components.

I was hoping for a Raspberry-Pi level computer paired with a reasonable amplifier and a reasonable DAC; certainly not competing with top-end discrete components, but well-designed (e.g. to reduce any electrical interference) so that the mass market could get reasonable quality audio.

I think the failing of the Q is that the price point ended up in the middle ($300 without speakers), and that the initial functionality was way too limited. I'd hope you could make something with the functionality of the Google TV with a reasonable amp for around $100 - $150 retail (without speakers). I hope someone tries making a device like that, without the Q's quirks (e.g. spherical touch-sensitive box & locked down functionality).
Amazon Cloud Player coming soon to Roku
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yeah, all product launches should be done this way!
Is it just me or does the Nexus Q look like the Empire's probe droid from the Empire Strikes Back?
America: Why are you so afraid of skilled immigrants?
That's true. GNOME is a lot closer to a modernization than reinvention. Windows 8, pure Metro, is definitely closer to a reinvention. I'm not too worried about the future generations because if we have a very good tools for the job they will stay relevant. For example way more people are using vi today than they did back in 1976. It has evolved and stood the test of time because it's a good tool. An evolved traditional desktop UI may be with us for much longer than anyone thinks is possible.

For workflows I just think of some complex things I do that may end up being a 30-40 step process with tons of key presses and clicks. It's probably way more complex than it needs to be but I know it so well that I use the complexity to my advantage. So for example I know step 15 is a good spot to do a backup because step 16 might be a destructive process. The granularity this offers is so powerful. If I could replace it with a 10 step process I might lose the granularity. If I replace it with a new 30-40 step process it wouldn't really benefit me.
Apps that do this using your phone:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.modula.andr...

Similar:

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4062216 "	Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World (mit.edu) 555 points by clockwork_189 57 days ago | comments
"
Where? I didn't read anything about him Pre-clearing the address with GMail as a verified email...
Videos from the Visual Cognition Laboratory
If there was a period of rest in between two sessions then some teams would keep working and get an unfair advantage. It would effectively turn into a 2-day hackathon rather than a 1-day hackathon.

And isn't an extremely big effort kind of the meaning of "-athon"?
Less commercials but more often... and I can't buffer up and skip past them like I can with my DVR.

Sorry I don't watch adverts at all if possible - after 10 years of Tivo, I get jittery when forced to.
They do it to segment their customers. A lot of us startups do it too when we offer one plan for $9 per month, another for $19 per month. The delta isn't necessarily because our costs are different, but rather because the value to the consumer is different.

You could argue that cellular networks should only be allowed to be dumb pipes because they are a government-granted monopoly (of spectrum). That would put them in a similar place as a utility like your electric company, sort of quasi-private but heavily regulated.

That makes sense, but OTOH utilities are notorious for stupid bureaucracy and being slow to evolve... So would they still deploy new stuff like LTE quickly? Would they still subsidize phones?

I'm not sure of the answer, but I think that's what the real debate should be if you don't want them creating "artificial fees", ie segmenting customers by value.
What reality are you living in ?

This isn't a startup we are talking about. This is Google. One of the largest companies in the world. Heads need to roll if they couldn't work out the obvious problem that the Nexus Q had a massive product positioning problem.
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My summary: user is authenticating to Google's authenticated smtp server as one user but sending as a completely unrelated user. Google modifies the headers to reference the authenticated sender.

Frankly I'm not surprised. I think that the fact that is not a relay server but a specifically provided for the use of the MUA of a user with which they have a relationship gives themselves a lot of 'wiggle room' .

The use of 'tamper' in the heading is a little over the top too.
The working parts, no. The iron frame, yes. But getting the frame out can be pretty rough.
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NBA League Pass is $170… NFL, Season Rewind alone is $70, NHL's GameCenter Live pass is $170… How are you paying $250/yr for all three?
It's the right move.

I've used my Nexus Q for all of 20 minutes since I installed it. Without Netflix, without Hulu, without streaming from my desktop computer, it simply isn't useful. Yet it's the same cost as my much more capable Xbox 360 and three times the cost of an Apple TV or Airport Express (with its audio out port).

Getting a piece of pure consumer electronics into the market is a big move for Google. Pausing to re-tool the software harms their credibility far, far less than launching an obvious dud.

Shaking things up in the stagnant living room tech space can only be good news for consumers. So I want these guys to succeed. A nicely hackable piece of hardware is a fantastic counterpoint to Apple's polished but locked-down approach.

But no wine before its time.
Good point, but I think we're talking about throwing away a $25 amplifier when the $50 computer is obsolete. And if the computer is essentially "just" a wireless audio player I'd imagine you can get a solid 5 years out of it without any problem - i.e. it can still run Siri, because the brains are in the cloud.

Physically mounting a computer in your $20,000+ 10-year lifespan car when it is totally outclassed by the phone most people carry in their pocket and replace every year or two... I agree that is insanity!
Ask HN: Why are all the Digg stories immediately killed?
I submitted mine and it was instantly a dead link.
More than decade-old. The prime properties are FF3 - FF7, which are 15-20 years old.
If a large enough percentage was paying the fee yes they can make it up but 10% I think you're off by a factor of 2-4, perhaps 10 when you consider the larger market they're trying to move to data plans to begin with.

When the minority is sufficiently small, the pennies you move the profit maximizing point by aren't enough to justify the groan factor you have to deal with, hence I doubt the rate changes. We'll see I guess.
Founders share their lowest points before success
But "what it was" is going to change. The Nexus Q could lose the built in amplifier and HDMI port and released 2 years from now.

Refunding customers is the least they could've done.
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I considered including MOOC platforms in the title, but there's very few people who even know what that is. I probably should have refined it. Thanks for the feedback.
I guess this is nice to see, but with Verizon's new data plans they are eager for you to use as much bandwidth as possible.

Thankfully and at the moment there are carriers that provide unlimited data like Sprint. We need more of them!
I'm reading through "Consciousness: a very short introduction" and one of the points that the author makes is that these kind of proccesses(object detection) are distributed throughout the brain, and that we have specilized "circuits" for most if not all common tasks we perform on a daily basis. This seems counter intuitive to me, and I presume most people, because it feels that these kind of proccesses are conscious and under my control, when apparently they are not.
Half of them were just curious, according to the survey the ad linked to.
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> For example, it would be crazy to start learning basic programming by first studying the physics behind computers.

Technically, a truly historical development in terms of teaching programming would involve plugboards and specialized hardware design freshman year, punch cards sophomore year, teletypes junior year, and then 'intelligent' terminals senior year. We simply wouldn't have time to teach anything similar to modern networking, which only really came about in the 1980s, let alone GUI design or Web programming.
A third party API? Isn't it a full fledged Android device?
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digg.com is perm-banned on HN, maybe because HN didn't want to become (the old) digg?

EDIT: To clarify, HN didn't want to become the old digg just like HN doesn't want to become reddit. The old digg community was... Less than stellar.
Apologies, I misread your comment. I thought you were referring to the second paragraph ending in

"...Google makes this straightforward to set up"

Do you have a link for the pre-clearing?

Anyway, while I'm here, I'd take issue with

"and their correspondents will never know they are using gmail"

They can easily find out if they inspect the headers.
> the surest way to understand something "intuitively" is to create it.

And there's no reason the best way to create something has to be the way it was created the first time.
I find that being active on forums and debating stuff like religion (agnostic-atheist) has really made my persuasive and argumentative writing better.
I never used the old Digg, did it have a similar look and feel?
If they are frequently switching between Linux and Windows on a dual boot system, then yes it will be more painful unless the go to the trouble of generating their own signing keys and adding them to the firmware's key database and signing their Linux.

If they aren't frequently switching back and forth between Windows and Linux, what's wrong with going into the firmware settings and turning off Secure Boot so that they can run whatever Linux they want with no restrictions?
Tim Cook.

...and a world-class supply chain, which might best be summarized as: Tim Cook.
Interesting read. I think that the combination of Ruby (for data aggregation and preparation) and R (for calculation and visualization) is great. For instance, in the related-but-not-exactly category:

http://www.r-chart.com/2010/10/max-heart-rate-calculations-c...

It seems like folks who use R tend to be from a scientific community where Python has greater respectability and acceptance. But I see some similar "Lispiness" in R and Ruby that make them somewhat natural to use in conjunction.
OMG, seems Yahoo Mail finally got https (I'm using the free version). Could be time for me to switch from Gmail.
Great question. On Facebook you pay per click or "per mille" (CPM) - it'd be great if they added "attend" as an event parameter in the Ads API so that advertisers could optimize their ads for event attendance:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/optim...
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It isn't? That's strange. Why would they do that, security reasons?

About JS performance: Might be important to you as a gamedev, but for the overwhelming majority of today's web apps this shouldn't be an issue anymore.

That being said, I will probably still switch back to chrome when they get retina support. The interface is just cleaner and it has more intuitive developer tools IMO (safari's are more powerful, but chrome's do have everything I need and are easier to navigate).
Probably so it can reliably store the passwords using lanman hashing.
Attack against Microsoft scheme puts hundreds of crypto apps at risk
"If you wanted a Nexus Q then you will not be able to get one."

From the article:

"To placate those who did pre-order the device, the same preview version of the device (now called "dev units") that was given out to I/O attendees will now be provided to pre-orderers at no cost according to an e-mail sent to those who had already placed orders."
No. It only had one main column, like say a blog, or like Reddit, but I think it also had descriptions, not just headlines on the main page. I think this one looks a lot better. But I hate that they force you to use FB login.
Yahoo's IntoNow TV companion app adds screen grab and music recognition
Do you also complain that your cable TV isn't used to capacity because you're not watching all channels 24 hours a day? It seems so peculiar that people complain that they're not using their internet account to saturation when they don't make the same complaint about other things.
> According to Borthwick, it would have cost “hundreds of thousands per month” to keep the site running on its old platform. Even though the site was state-of-the-art just a few years ago, most of the infrastructure would be considered legacy technology by a modern startup.

has anyone some details to expand on it?
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You can call AT&T and tell them to turn off text messages entirely. I did that a long time ago. I use iMessage 98% of the time, and the other 2% goes through my Google Voice SMS, so I no longer need the ability to receive in-bound SMS on the AT&T number. It's a move I've never regretted, and I'm thrilled to longer give a single cent to AT&T for absurdly exorbitant text messages.
First, having to login with Facebook doesn't really make a lot of sense.

Second, am I missing the comments on stories somewhere or is it just a website where links get voted on, but no discussion occurs?
Spiraling into irrelevance? Care to explain that?
I have an over-literate under-educated mother who has a home-spun German cure for everything and a grumpy mechanical engineer for a father...

...and I'm a programmer.

My parents never took me to the hospital/doctor for anything. This caused problems a couple times, but I was fortunate enough to be an otherwise healthy individual.

Pretty strong internal distrust of doctors still, partly because most doctors I've encountered don't seem to understand how to map statistics onto their mental pattern-matchers.

I go to a doctor if it might lead to something permanent, otherwise I wait it out.
Google Chrome now optimized for Retina display
Doesn't Sprint also throttle you over a certain GB limit?

I have a hard time deciding if I want unlimited or not. I certainly don't need unlimited. I know there are people who use 50-100+ GB a month but I don't come anywhere near that and don't want to subsidize those people. I'm perfectly fine with a per GB charge or a decent sized base plan and a reasonable per GB overage. OTOH those caps need to grow every year because in a few years 100 GB a month will probably be today's 200 MB plan. So in that case "unlimited" has some futureproofing to it.
I'm not completely sure certifications are the way to go. Probably they are, but it's not the only thing they need.

Stanford and MIT don't have great reputations because they former students score well on tests, they have great reputations because their former students achieve notable things.

I think in the long run the MOOV providers will need to cultivate the same sort of reputations. If I were them, I'd start newsletters about it right now. Start promoting former students and their accomplishments.

Udacity seems to be doing some of that, and I think it's absolutely the right call.
Here is German? site that does crowd-sourced pen-testing. I have no first hand experience but most testers seem to be from eastern europe.

https://www.hatforce.com/
Turnover is a trading term:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/turnover.asp
I agree, there's a retaliatory impulse against those who seem to be arbitrarily price-discriminating... like norm-enforcers taking nothing rather than an unfair split in the ultimatum game. It explains some of the emotion around this issue. But if that effect were strong enough in this market, would it require the FCC to ban the tethering charge? (The FTC didn't have to ban Amazon's pricing experiments.)

Most people don't get that deep into it -- and if they do, there are so very many Apple and subscription-service pricing oddities they can also get worked up about.

Also, the ones most likely to apply a 'packets are packets' reasoning are the richer/sophisticated/multidevice/heavy-users, who also on another dimension are most willing to pay for the time-savings and OS-integration of an official solution.

As someone currently paying for Verizon/iOS tethering support, I do perceive a differentiation against an app-store or commodity-bandwidth offering, or using my own Apple Developer License to compile iProxy/iphone-socks-proxy. I get one-click activation, in the OS settings panel, along a path that Apple/Verizon have designed and support.
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I think they should also fix the inadvertent unselection of selected messages when you switch pages. And the weird ajax delay when deleting messages, during which the old messages are still visible and can be reselected briefly, before they disappear. The whole thing feels plasticky to me.

(I just spent a long time browsing through and deleting the ~3000 old spam messages in my Hotmail inbox, ~30 at a time. I much prefer the feeling of control and stability that Gmail gives you when doing something similar.)