skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, NIH.

DOS was primitive but the things you mentioned worked, even if they were a simulation. The end user was unaware, unless they needed real OS capabilites. In which case, why were they using DOS?

Cmd has a lot of improvements most people are not aware of because they were off by default. Still they refused to do further improvement necessary to make it very useful. There is a 3rd party shell called 4NT that is/was a compatible and very powerful replacement.
I'm not a fan of biometrics (I have a fingerprint reader on my laptop) because you can't change your password once it's stolen.

The "Log-in with your iPhone?" could be coupled with some kind of non-biometric authentication and that would be better. But honestly, two-factor with strong passwords are more than enough. The dismal security scenario is mostly cultural, not technological.
Yes, trust is one problem. I think we're being objective (at least we are trying, with building a scoring system that's automatic). But for sure, we are not being neutral. We do think that tracking should always be opt-in, not opt-out.

At least, we're working in total transparency and it's an open process. I hope that helps.
I absolutely agree. But even with little substance, the fact that a major publication is saying things like this is relevant - it shifts thought and dialogue in less reasoned circles for the worse. I posted to highlight the absurdity, and to gain insights from the HN community so I could form a better argument against this line of thinking.
For me, Android SMS Backup is definitely convenience over security.

However, some type of SMS backup is required: if the Android SMS SQLite db is ever even slightly corrupted (power loss/program crash [usually when db is large]/etc.), Android will silently delete it: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10127
An API and chrome addon would be very nice. I wouldn't check the site, but I would like warnings when I accessed the registration page of a bad website.
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You don't actually know that the developers you want are all people employed somewhere else, that is just a heuristic you use to make recruitment easier.
A Entrepreneur/Hacker Vacation?
Would anyone like to go to an Exotic location with a very fast Internet connection, some cool hardware, and TONS of contests, learning sessions and hackathon style events? The resort would have a great outside and inside setup so you could move around and code by the pool, etc... then at night gaming and contests with live music and entertainment and cool speakers...

I would spend 5-7 days here... in heaven!!!
I think this is what you're looking for:
http://hnpickup.appspot.com/
Great point. I think having a story is spot on. It's why founder's myths are so enthralling to all of us and why having a concise and digestible message is so important to a company. I work in the hiring space and I've come to believe that recruiting is really the same thing as selling... It's the same idea pitching your company and product to VCs or selling your product to consumers. In all these cases, people want to know where they fit into the tapestry - why should they buy your product, invest in you, or join your team?

Point 3, "These make for a unique story. A unique cult to want to be a part of and more importantly tell people about." is also really interesting. The companies with the best recruiting and team-dynamics are those that harness these inclusive, cult-like cultures. You can see it everywhere, in little things like team t-shirts, quirky events, or big things, like cult-leader CEOs.
Wow, where would you find triple? I've never heard of a developer making 180K in DC.
I am absolutely sure that a change on the desktop market is coming and that open source operating systems will gain a nice percentage of the market share, if not the majority thereof.

But this change will be a lot slower than we would like it to be. It'll come, but it'll take some time.

We saw similar changes in the browser and the phone markets recently, it went faster there because it's an easier change for non-technical users.

It's rather great that the floodgate is now open and that open source is slowly overtaking their proprietary software and operating system counterparts. It's also a fact though that Microsoft and surely others are trying to close them again, one approach is the "secure boot" nonsense for example. One can only hope (and of course, work on open source whenever possible) that they won't succeed in that.
There are plenty of other apps you want to keep as secure as possible. For me it's: web hosts, DNS providers, Dropbox and source control hosts (GitHub/BitBucket).
"If Facebook were a country..."

The fact that it has 900 billion people and no real source of revenue or trade would make its citizens among the poorest in the world. The massive infrastructure costs for its regime of information gathering are not offset by any kind of taxes. Further, the lack of any police force or military (aside from a few pushy lawyers) means that it has no way of protecting itself or ever hoping to recover the massive loss that went into building the fledgling nation. But the 2000 bureaucrats running the place are doing pretty well for themselves.

And yet still, I couldn't make this article interesting.
According to http://content.4chan.org/tmp/extensions.html they did 1.65 only petabytes for the month of June 2012, so where are you getting your 3.5 PB number from?

Additionally, https://www.cloudflare.com/plans seem to suggest the bulk of that costs an unbelievably low $3k/month.
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My take is that your age should not the biggest thing you should be worried about. If all you have are coding classes on your belt, and no actual projects in the wild (stuff you did outside of class, apps you built that are on the market, open source contributions) then that should be something you should aim to rectify.
This post is interesting to me on many levels.

I came upon his general idea of not trying to only understand the big picture, but also learn the implications and details of the matter at hand on my own. The reason I say 'on my own' is because I believe reading it in a book helps systematize and possibly take more out of it.

Now, this was a few years ago, and I remember thinking about this a lot. For me, it was like I was more conscious of my entire world and I felt more conscious of everything and more responsible for my actions. This drove me to act in a more practical manner. I remember a friend told me, 'You sound more grounded in reality now' (I wanted to change the literary world before and, thus, be one of the best writers of the 20th century--yes, very humble).

Now, some might say this preface is just an excuse to get to my main point, while others will understand the relationship between what I wrote above with what I will say now.

Kafka once said that every metaphor is meaningless (one of his paradoxes, since he only spoke in metaphor). Now, a metaphor is a type of analogy. And the OP says that 'reasoning by analogy is notoriously unreliable'. He says this in passing, but it stuck with me.

The more I practice a "detailed analysis" or "detailed reading" of things and truly absorb what I read and become conscious of my life, the more it teaches me about other parts of my life. Sometimes I speak to someone and think about another, completely different conversation and think, 'Oh, that's what he meant', by simply talking to another person about something completely different.

Other, seemingly unrelated ideas, help me understand other, seemingly unrelated, ideas.

The things I don't understand I place in a particular part of my brain or in a particular 'thought spot' for later use. I do this consciously. And as I go about my life, I go back to them when I collect a piece of information that helps me better understand it.

Anyway, there is slightly more to it, but I'll keep this short. Plus, this isn't the ideal place to explain all of it, but I wanted to share this idea with everyone.

Great post.
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Do you have specific complaints?

I personally think the Netflix UI is significantly better than the UIs of Amazon or HBOGo. And on the Roku, it's orders of magnitude better.
> getting him a TED talk

That was actually me. I suggested it to Chris Anderson originally.

(Also, the memes=funny pictures thing drives me nuts. But then again I started memepool.com in 1998 or so...)
Well I guess the objectivity of the India Times just went out the window. Facebook is a huge time sink and a way to counterfeit real relationships. Since I've quit the site, I have found my happiness and quality of life have shot up dramatically.

You know why? It's because I'm making real connections with people, instead of reading superficial status updates and being stalked. I am ashamed that this concept could get such traction. Shame on you, humanity.
No doubt about that. Just take a look at NASA's Curiosity.
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Who says it's optional? I make primarily B2B web apps, it's very easy to require all users begin using two factor auth.
It is all there. See for yourself:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/index.html

Nice features: Racket programs run without change on Windows, OS X, and, Linux. The GUI library binds to native backends so everything looks native.

The documentation is very nice.

Got any question? Ask the mailing list or on IRC.
http://racket-lang.org/community.html
It will compare badly at first.

RepRap/Mendal/Prnrbot/Makerbot all use a plastic extrusion mechansim (think robo-spider) which can make a lot of cool things but cannot make a bunch of other things. In particular 'spinning' machines (as I tend to think of these) cannot make large overhangs because the material they are using has no structural stability while being extruded. [1] The "Dual 'struder" on the Makerbot Replicator opens the possibility of a 'support' material that can be removed, this requires filling in with the support material to support the non-support material being extruded over it. The support material is later removed with a solvent.

In powder based machines the 'unbound' powder it its own support. So overhangs are not an issue. The challenge with powder machines has always been that the materials have relatively poor structural stability (in the cornstarch variety) or require a precise (and) delicate sintering process, or a 'firing' type process. In all cases having both bound and unbound material present can challenge the finishing stages.

[1] These machines melt ABS plastic to the weak/sticky stage as they push it out (typically 220 - 240 degrees). At that temperature a strand cannot hold its own weight.
> Why is it stupid for Amazon to show the last 4 digits?

I think npsimons was saying that it is stupid for Amazon to let you add a fake cc number and than take over an account using that same fake number. Not that they show the last 4 digits.
> ... you can't stop people from sending you messages

I did. I grew weary of paying for text messages that I have no interest in receiving, so I simply called AT&T and told them to turn off SMS entirely. Since 95% of my phone messaging is via iMessage, and the other 5% is via free Google Voice SMS, I'm not giving up anything at all by turning off my carrier's SMS. I'm not interested in giving a single SMS-related penny to the telecom oligopoly.
You created a self-clearing broker/dealer? Thats incredible. I would hope that the benefits of that paperwork outweighs the incredible costs of setting that up.
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It's not about age, it's about skill. It can be hard to find honestly skilled programmers, even with how many coders are out there. Know your tools (the whole ecosystem, including version control, testing, profiling, etc). Know your languages. Know how to estimate your work (which only really comes with experience, but you don't need to wait for a job to build that experience). Know how to communicate what you are doing and how you're doing it and how to convey that what is being asked cannot be done in the time allowed (by suggesting alternatives rather than flat-out 'can't be done').

Most coding jobs, especially for junior devs, are going to want code-samples - that's where you have a chance to shine. Contribute to an open-source project or create something you can share (even if it's a 'how to get started with X' kind of project, it lets you demonstrate your coding/documentation approach).
Fair enough. It might have been worth making that clear in a top-level reply when you made the submission, though -- people might get the wrong idea otherwise.

There's been a couple of other submissions of articles citing this one -- and a bit of discussion of this daft notion on each:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350529

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350221
I agree with some of what you said, but rage comics are a cancer on the internet and I wish I had a universal rage blocker.

I HATE them.
It sounds like you are saying that auto-generating refers only to DSL's. Here is an example of a guy writing some code that printf's some C code -
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/zlib/zlib-37.2/zlib/c...

FILE *out;

out = fopen("crc32.h", "w");
if (out == NULL) return;
fprintf(out, "/* crc32.h -- tables for rapid CRC calculation\n");
fprintf(out, " * Generated automatically by crc32.c\n */\n\n");
fprintf(out, "local const unsigned long FAR ");
fprintf(out, "crc_table[TBLS][256] =\n{\n {\n");
write_table(out, crc_table[0]);

This example is in zlib. Whether it's the 'pretty' way to do it or not, this isn't a terribly uncommon thing to see in C code bases. In this case, this is a lookup table. Code is a tool, "auto-generating" code is not some fancy term, all it means is a button was pushed and a bunch of code came out the other end. Having worked on large C codebases, we used to do this sort of stuff all the time. Maybe it's the dumb way of doing things, but when you work on large teams that all maintain the same codebase, dumb and readable is more important than cleverness sometimes.
can you guys update provide a non-/CURRENT/ link so I can bring over the homebrew formula?
Yay! This I have been waiting for.
Pure link bait.

Switch to Mac because MS is making their own (non-exclusive) hardware? Really? Has this guy forgotten the OS/hardware deal that you get with Apple?

Windows 8 is dead because enterprises aren't planning to upgrade? Most just got to Windows 7, they don't like change, so they'll stay there for another 5-10 years.

I doubt the writer believes anything he's written, but this is the nature of tech "journalism".
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> It's kinda foolish to think all you have to do is open the gates and expect all these foreigners to come in and build companies that hire more Americans.

According to a paper titled "Silicon Valley's New Immigrant
Enterpreneurs)"[1], Indian and Chinese enterpreneurs were responsible
for 24% of the technology businesses started between 1980 and 1988. So the idea is definitely backed by statistical evidence.

Besides, if there are qualified Americans who can fill these jobs
already, why exactly do we have a talent shortage in tech?

[1]http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_699ASR.pdf
For me it's not the UI, but the search and discovery features. Why can't I search for an actor's name?
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Does that mean that you could use a Google Voice number? Presumably they already know that one, so "divulging" it shouldn't be an issue. ;^)
Sounds like something is wrong with your computer. I set up Music Manager months ago on two different computers and they have been humming along fine ever since.
This is a very convenient service for the users, but it might raise some issues if any of these terms are ever argued in court. Defending that you read the ToS;DR and not the terms of service might not hold much water.
Nothing really. I think it is just a preference thing. If I don't have to install Java then that is one less thing to install I guess.
Are these junior developers actually interns?
The ECB did not set interest rates to reduce German unemployment. That's not their task. The ECB's main task is to provide a stable currency.
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Love the post, I'm not sure if the title fits, but it absolutely fits the situation I'm facing, and the introduction to the Transtheoretical model is really appreciated.

Is anyone else building a product that converts people when you tell them about it, solves a real problem, but they aren't actively searching for because they don't know a solution is technologically possible?
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You trust computers you control? That's so cute.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Tarsnap and Spideroak, that's about it right now.
If you use example.com@mydomain.com as the email address for your login to example.com, then they're easy to remember.
I believe the company talbina's thinking of is mine: We applied as Theoryville, got interviewed, got rejected, applied to Betaspring (http://betaspring.com/), got accepted, changed our name to DataBraid, and proceeded to fall apart over the course of a summer.

I do think the idea has a lot of potential, and what StatWing has built is already more complete than what my team managed to build in 3 months. A few suggestions I'd offer based on that experience:

1. Parsing CSVs is easy in theory, but painful in practice, because CSVs in the wild tend to be full of junk. I would provide a JSON API that makes it easy for developers to put data in your system directly, allowing people to build their own CSV parsers for you.

2. Use GitHub as your model. You want people to collaborate around data the same way that developers collaborate around code. Just about every day when I was doing DataBraid, we'd discuss a use case and then say "Oh, GitHub already figured out the right way to do this." The most compelling use case here is that researchers can run different sets of tests on the same data and discuss which approach is the most valid/insightful.

3. Getting to revenue will be hard, but having paying customers will make it much, much easier to attract investment. So find the MVP that people will pay for and put everything else on a "nice-to-have" list.

Best of luck!
Let's say you're Greece and you're a trillion Drachmes in debt. You can't pay the interest anymore, your deficit is too high. Greece uses INFLATION, it's super effective! Prices double, but wages double also. Tax income doubles. What stays the same is the debt, and suddenly Greece can afford to pay its lenders. National crisis averted. Only the lenders are screwed, and those who had their savings in Drachmes. That's also the reason why it's very popular to have savings accounts in "hard" currency in these countries.

That's how it has been for decades, but now with the Euro that's not possible anymore, leading to the Euro crisis.
definitely not implying that, those boards are horrible.

i do like x's archived threads, where people dump youtube videos and wiki links
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Did you see the Gopaygo demo video? Waaay too complicated.
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Riak -> 1.2 -> 1.2.0 is also there.

Source tarball:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.basho.com/riak/1.2/1.2.0/r...
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I agree with this. I've just got Windows 7 on my corporate desktop. Although there is wide adoption of Win 7 here, Win XP was running previously, and still is on a large number of machines, if this truly sucks the enterprise sector will just wait it out like they did with Vista.
13.7%.

I was responding to the "going bad" claim.
I've been a Quora user for over two years. Since I'm normally logged in, didn't realize Quora did this to answers. Now I feel significantly less inclined to contribute content to them for free.

Edit: I just pulled up an incognito window and could still see answers. Is it only for certain answers?
The h-1b paperwork is dreadful. I asked Tom Campbell once if he would support pushing legislation to create an h1-ht (high tech) visa, which there are unlimited quantities of and restrict your residency and ability to work to Washington/Oregon/California (the west coast).

The half serious/half not comment came after he was describing the variety of anti-immigration lobbies in Washington with big contingents from the 'heartland' trying to keep foreigners out.
Go to http://basho.com/resources/downloads/, static links are available if you navigate down the tree to the individual files. e.g. http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.basho.com/riak/1.2/1.2.0/o...
Is doing a start-up really risk free like he says? How you make sure you get aqui-hired if you fail?
I wish google would block quora if theyre going to pull this crap like expertsexchange does... it adds no value
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"get a tablet with so many unknowns?"

There will be 0 unknowns a month after they get released. There are unknowns now because it is an unreleased product. Using that as a point against the success of the system is moronic.
Not a regular reader, then?
So the market worked, right? Your friend bought a Samsung, didn't like it, and doesn't buy their products any more.
Well, for a start, there's one more person in the country. That person will consume goods and services. That means more demand. Which means more jobs are created.

Economies are driven by demand (consumption drives production), and economic policy is really about creating circumstances in which that demand can flourish and result in economic activity.
To be fair, neither is exactly terminology familiar with the average user, who I think they're trying to reach out to here. Both are clever, but known mostly by avid Internet users or nerds.
What do you think of my Birchbox company&market analysis?
Any pocketable notebook with square grids, I've used moleskine and these:

http://www.amazon.com/Leuchtturm-Pocket-Notebook-Squared-LB1...
I think the main value here is not in court, it's giving people a better "bird's eye view" of how a service treats you and your data. From this point, you might decide:

- To cancel the service

- To not join in the first place

- To raise a collective stink about something onerous in the terms

Any of these things, in high numbers, could force a service provider to update their TOS to be more friendly. That's a pretty good outcome even if saying "but the ToS;DR said!!!" would never hold up in court or anywhere else.
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> Most just got to Windows 7, they don't like change, so they'll stay there for another 5-10 years

This. The client I work for is still _testing_ Windows 7. Rollout won't happen for a while yet. Windows 8? Might get looked in 2016, I guess.