skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vista's delays didn't do much to entrench IE6. IE7 was available on XP, and companies just flat out didn't want to upgrade from XP or IE6, even though there were more superior options available.

Why? Because of the huge amount of legacy code that relied on IE6, and would not run on IE7. Microsoft could have kept in ActiveX support and all the insecure bits that these applications relied on, but instead they did the right thing, deprecated their proprietary interfaces, and released a more secure and all-round better browser. And people didn't switch to it.
I'm in Canada so I may be OK I freeze my balls off each time I have to shovel the driveway before work :P

But seriously yeah maybe, or get a girlfriend/wife asap.
Well I am sold - but I cannot pay outside the US it seems (unless I make up a zip code)

Edit: You have my hard-earned now, after I saw the "which country are you in" - that was embarrassing, but in my defence its a terrible interface.
Should I make a FourSquare reference?

I'm just amazed that the colours are a rotation of Google's Favicon... Red Green Blue Yellow. (Alright so it's orange, not red.)

https://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imgh...

Is there any way to get a compressed google search URL that's not a redirect?
For me... personally, the logo doesn't work.

I am slightly colour blind.

The logo in the article I see just fine, and all of the squares are the same size. And I get it... Metro theme.

The favicon.ico and small logo on Microsoft.com

Those don't fair as well. The red and yellow squares are much larger than the green and blue, and my eyes see a throbbing line around the bottom and left of the red box, and a black line at the bottom of the blue box.

Now... I know that those boxes don't have those lines. For I know what the Metro style guide looks like. But there it is, the logo has not been viewed by anyone colour blind with the ability to have it modified. There should be more space between the boxes when it's shrunk.

The red box is literally 20% wider than the blue to my eyes.

You know how much of the population is colour blind? A very significant chunk.

Also... those colours... very bad choice. When you print this logo (greyscale), all of the colours come out too similar a shade of grey. There is no distinction between them.
Because housing is not necessarily (or does not neccessarily appear to be) a good investment. Millenials watched their families wealth evaporate. I would the stress of the Meltdown to effect them in a way similar to the way the Great Depression effected the generation which came of age during that time.

Furthermore, demographics in much of the affluent world is likely to create a further surplus of housing which further reduces over the long term the value of entry level housing as an investment vehicle. The population is greying.
VMware Workstation 9 Released
What else do I need?

I think the parent says the cheaper sunglasses lacks UV protection.
I think it's over 65 in England:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Publictranspo...
This is probably the most confused rhetoric I've seen on the front page of HN in a while.
AT&T’s app-blocking defense anti-consumer and anti-Apple
[I] live in New York City ... and don't care to own a car.

Your lack of desire for a car has a LOT more to do with living in NYC than your age or social status. You sound just like friends of mine from NYC.
What about Google Hangouts (preloaded) and Skype (going to be preloaded in Windows Phone 8)? Why single out FaceTime on the iPhone?
I remember this product back when it was called BlindType. If you combined no look input with swype, I think would be a pretty robust product.
I remember this product back when it was called BlindType
Same with the Windows 8 logo. Without the artifacts it would look so much better.

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive...
Maybe I missed something but there doesn't seem to be an upgrade discount from Fusion 4 to Fusion 5. Only Fusion 4 to Fusion 5 Professional.
I think it depends on the agreements Bufferbox can get with the buildings. I'm not familiar with these types of agreements (eg Redbox kiosks, vending machines may be similar), but I can imagine that non-competes with multi-year terms are a possibility. Especially if Bufferbox itself will pay for the initial costs.

If that is the case, then Bufferbox is in a more defensible position.
Agreed. Have you seen the Nspire CAS? It's pretty amazing.
Fair enough, but in the same way, these people are in a much better position than me and yet get this benefit which I don't, yet I'm also forced to pay taxes.
if i'm guilty of making some sort of fallacious comment then at the very least you are also guilty of it.
The thing he mentioned was startup time, though, not the actual input lag.
What did DHH say that was relevant?
If you're hiring the right people, you shouldn't need a formalized rule that says "don't steal people's lunch from the fridge" (an example given).
To be fair, there aren't many 20 year olds who think that, either. There are many on college campuses who have Macbooks and iPhones just so they can check Facebook.
Really? AEI?

Minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation.

Debt financed consumption.

You're trying too hard. This stuff isn't that complicated.
Opera didn't invent [modern] tabs http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/opera-did-not...
I doubt it, this was probably in the works for much longer than a couple of weeks.

That said, I like the minimally minimal redesign much better.
The VMWare store still shows version 4...

But if I'm reading this correctly, they added back in an upgrade discount, which I think was missing with the 4 release.

Edit: here's the proper link http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html
I was expecting something more along the lines of actual genetics, in which case two ugly parents make stunning children all the time. It is called hybrid vigor. The overwhelming amount of our produce is bred this way. They will inbreed corn like made so that it is 100% homozygous, but do it in five different pools. The resulting offspring of any two inbreds from two different pools is amazing. Inbred corn plants are about 4-5 feet tall and ugly as sin, but their offspring are 8 feet tall and near perfect.
This is the ideal situation. It only works, however, for a subset of routers.
I like PhoneGap, but I am not really sure why you would do this with RubyMotion when for most PhoneGap apps, you really don't need to go much outside of what there are already plugins for. In my experience, getting a plugin working in Obj-C is not terrible.
I agree with the underlying spirit of this post in that I too often find DHH insufferable. However, I agree with his [DHH]'s point, and disagree with some of the arguments the OP made.

#1. Office Formality

"You don’t steal other’s lunch out of the fridge. You get your tasks accomplished, listen to your boss. Why do we do those things? Because it’s a formality, but we have to do it."

Frankly, no. This argument relies on an extreme implication that simply was never made. Obviously DHH wasn't implying that an office environment should be purely anarchic.

Put plainly, the fact that I do my job and don't steal has very little to do with office formality. I'm sure I don't speak for solely for myself in this regard.

#2. Company Culture [aka. Nokia, RIM and IBM]

I believe his [DHH]'s point with regards to company culture is quite valid. IBM simply should not be lumped together with RIM and Nokia, as they have successfully pivoted towards different business models. It was very much a "which of these things is not like the others". Pointing out that IBM is a successful company does not undermine his original point, although he was incorrect to use them as a supporting argument.

RIM, and Nokia in particular, suffer from an internal inability to capitalize on their creative teams. Nokia's deficit in this regards is actually quite well documented.
DHH is talking about something very specific: the role of formality on creativity and creative individuals.

Curtis is taking about rules in business organisations. Formality and rules are not the same thing. Creative people and business organisations are not the same thing.

His examples are subsequently skewed. IBM may be a thriving business but are they considered a highly creative company? Also, what has raising a kid got to with anything, DHH is not offering parenting advice and there are no parallels with running a business.

While Curtis is tearing apart his straw men, he seems to have missed the point of the article.
A Blobsquatch for Amelia
Is there anything to the strategy in aquihires of terminating a competitor? If you hire employees away, the competing company might still exist. By doing an aquihire get the option to remove a competitor from the landscape as well. See: Sparrow?
This is the Next Step
This is awesome, thanks so much!
I still have a (parallel port) Zip Drive, a minidisc recorder/player (and shoe box of minidiscs) and a graphing calculator cluttering up my study.

We used to use a minidisc recorder and a pair of PZMs to record all our rehersals - It then took about a week to rip and burn them onto CD, but a few good ideas were saved/salvedged in this way.
Great! This is a response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4410629

It might be useful to make the website even more generic (apply it to documentation for older versions of any reasonably popular framework), although I am not sure if any others also have this problem (if so, this emphasizes why it is strange that Bootstrap doesn't include copies of their older documentation on the web.)
I'll definitely agree that the other analogies are more severe, but I don't think they're totally off-base. If the Kindle isn't being actively read, it is an advertisement. The text message analogy is a stretch, I'll admit, but I don't think the car analogy is. If your car is turned off, anyone near it is exposed to advertising, just like the Kindle.

The Kindle is a device that almost never needs to be charged and has a pretty attractive form factor, so it's very natural to leave it laying around, just like you would a book. Because the ads are always displayed, it is naturally turned into a tiny billboard unless it's intentionally left face-down or hidden.

That said, you're right; I'm being a little picky and my problems could have been solved by just coughing up the money instead. It just doesn't seem like quite enough fair warning is given to the uninitiated (like me) as to just how heavy-handed the advertising is.
You're right. I was looking at the diagram. Clearly the author accidentally swapped the two names in that sentence.
Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?
I was browsing HN today, and I wasnt logged in(dont know if this is the cause) and when I got to the 5th page, I started seeing posts from many days ago. I took a screen shot of the offending posts:
http://i.imgur.com/yZymU.png

Has anyone else seen this before?
You could have problems with NAT, but SIP protocol has STUN and ICE which are responsible for dealing with this. Check that out.

Btw i had idea SIP + JSON/HTML + DHT which would not suffer with "man in the middle attack" that HTTP has as designed decision. You could connect, for example, with HTTP/FTP/... protocols to your buddies directly. You just have to make right SDP packet when calling them ...
Become a Java programmer without a college degree
Because current home prices (post-crash) are still at unsustainable multiples of incomes.

My wife and I just bought a house. We could have afforded something big an shiny and new, but the prices being asked for that are simply unconscionable. Houses are not worth that much, and anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. We are still in a bubble.

Instead we bought a rather nice small house in town, for less than my yearly base salary (i.e. not counting my wife's income or bonuses). It's not showy, but it's exceedingly comfortable. We'll spend some cash to make a few changes, but our payments are half of what our rent was previously.

We could have easily spent five times as much money, for a house that wouldn't suit our needs any better than the one we bought. How could the underlying asset possibly be worth five times as much? It can't be. Bubble. I'll invest my surplus income in something with sound fundamentals instead, thank you.
Sass 3.2 makes authoring CSS3 as easy as it will be
I don't get that either. They are still standard here in the UK in A-level + university courses, are readily available in lots of shops and perfectly good bits of kit (I use a TI86 regularly if I want to "get shit done" still!)

Stuff that does maths doesn't really get old or forgotten.
Just thought I'd post this for the few on HN who are interested in this sort of thing. It's not directly related to startups, but rather, finding a way to live the way one wants (which, for me, was a big part of the appeal behind starting our own company/projects).
The pursuit of 'state of the art' in audio has changed a little I would say. That 99.999% of listeners can't hear the difference between audio sources has been true in the past as well, even in the pre compressed era. Most people listened to car radios and other lo-fi equipment.

Consumer formats aggravate the audiophile alchemists regularly. Looking through chat from a few decades ago about CD's versus vinyl, adjectives like 'hard' and 'brittle' crop up a lot. The solution technically, was of course to add more distortion, in the form of dithering, to provide an early form of psycho acoustic modelling.

Being a musician as well, I've taken a couple of online 'dare you to tell the difference' tests as well, while researching DAC's for mixing, but not under uncontrolled conditions. I put the top end through custom ribbons comprised of 4Kg of magnet focused on 0.001g of ribbon ( a crude description, but good enough ), and it's an observable difference.

Sitting outside listening to noisy wildlife of all types in the woods, I'm sure 100% of listeners could tell the difference between that aural landscape and any recording, including an MP3.
I'm a bit annoyed, I just paid $50 to upgrade to the Lion version last year, plus $50 for Fusion 3 upgrade the year before that, and now I have to pay again?

My single Fusion license has cost me $150 over the last 3 years! Thanks a lot VMware!
Wow, microsoft.com looks like shit on iOS with a Retina display. Couldn't be bothered?
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why wouldn't you buy as much house as you can afford?

Because you may not have a job next month? You don't need the space? You have better things to spend the money on? Bigger houses come with bigger energy bills? While I do agree that the biggest factor here is economics (if people can't pay, they won't), I also think that there are other non-insignificant factors. Some of it is getting away from cars and houses as status symbols (a good thing), others are more practical (trying to offload a house while looking for a job is not easy). In this day and age, long-term employment is not a sure thing, so why settle down and grow roots when you'll only have to rip them out again?
> Rules aren’t All Bad

I don't see http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3223-the-end-of-formality mentioning "all rules are bad". It specifically mentions the kind of business formality they/he considers bad.

>> When did you last hear a programmer or designer clamor to wear a suit to work?

>> No more personal secretaries, memos on official letterhead, meetings that must happen in person.

>> We wear the same clothes, use the same technology. It’s a liberation of the mind and it’s the new world order.

If there was a point comparing business formalities with teaching a child formalities, I am completely missing it. All analogies, by definition, are inexact(or else they won't be called analogies), but this one isn't an analogy; it's more like a strawman. The blog post author is deliberately ignoring that DHH's blog is specifically talking about pointless, bureaucratic bullshit viz. forcing programmers to wear suits. That is in no way analogous to teaching a child to say please and thank-you.

> You get your tasks accomplished, listen to your boss. Why do we do those things? Because it’s a formality, but we have to do it.

I won't say accomplishing tasks is a formality. But more importantly, I would rather not discuss it as the author again deliberately ignores that DHH's blog is talking about a very specific set of business formalities and accomplishing tasks isn't one of them.

Also, depending on the economy and my personal beliefs, "listening to your boss" formality is very limited. If you come over to my desk and ask me not to use vim as we are trying to standardize text editors, I would politely ask you to take a laxative, take a dump and then come back when you aren't full of shit, or don't come back at all.

> The thing that DHH (and almost all other internet celebs) forget is that they are speaking from a position of privilege. They’ve ‘made’ it and thus can afford to say anything they want while they race expensive cars. While I have a successful web design business, I’m 100% willing to admit that I’d take pretty much any job that wasn’t morally objectionably to keep a roof over my kids head.

What's the fixation with strawman? What exactly is the author responding to? All I see in DHH's blog post is he doesn't like business formality.
The differing lines and popping squares are not because of your color-blindness, someone did an absolutely terrible job resizing the logo images for the website and preparing the favicon.

Also, rounded corners on the favicon? It's ok to give these jobs to an intern but someone still should check the results before pushing them live.
That's pretty much why I never upgrade from 3 to 4. Now, it you can go from 3 or 4 -> 5 for $49.99.
A couple weeks ago I saw a post on the first or second page that had been from some weeks prior.
I don't see this improving my keyboard speed on a desktop since I notice an error after typing two other words (I type really really fast).
You are playing 100 games of 1 million rounds each.

The graph in the article shows the average state of each round over 1 million games.
Or rather, his living in NYC particularly has a lot to do with his age, social status and preferences. People like him prefer big cities because they don't want to own cars. So it's the other way around.
...lowering our expectations to below those of our parents.

Go read the article I linked to. We are richer than our parents. We own more and bigger houses and cars than they owned.

To fix your analogy: "Next quarter's numbers will be higher, and shareholders are just going to accept 10% growth rather than 20%. Expecting 20% growth forever is unrealistic."

If you want to argue that growth should have been higher than it actually was, or that somehow the evil vampire squid is holding us back and making us into serfs, go ahead and make that argument. But you still need to square your argument with the fact that we are consume more than ever.
I'd love to get any references you have. I enjoy learning from anyone who can keep an open mind. I do have to say that your comment about sheep herders, while funny (and accurate) was a little over the top.

Deistic or Theistic, if someone doesn't suck at religion I think that they should be left alone. Especially if that leads them to give money to the poor, teach in developing nations, etc. While it can be argued that those things have negative effects I've also seen some of the good that comes from it first hand.

I love this comic. I believe it sums up most of what I think about religion. The only thing I would change is the one where the father is teaching his daughter. There does need to be room for a parent to "express" belief to his children and acceptance when the children differ from the parent.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion

Agnostic and atheistic beliefs can be added to the above comic as well. :-) That being said, if you see someone sucking at their religion please school them and tell them I'm asking them not to make the rest of us look bad.
I've seen images and demos of them, just not in person. They do look very interesting. I'd love to get my hands on one.
Do you have any basis for that claim?
I have got an older (2006) NSpire CAS with OS 3.2 which I rarely use other than for working out integrals/differentials when I get stuck with pen and paper.

TBH the Nspire CAS is large, clunky, complicated, unintuitive, eats batteries and is not a whole lot faster or more functional than a TI89.

I still however, use a TI86 all the time out of choice as the stat graphing is great (I mainly use it for regression analysis), it does base-N very well, has conversions built in, has a good solver and the programming language is simple enough to fit in my head.

I have a fairly large set of programs I've developed for the TI86 as well for dealing with navigation/triangulation/mapping.
Teams have value greater than the sum of their parts. It is highly unlikely that $BIGCORP would be able to poach 100% of the team, or even 100% of the key players outside of an acquisition offer, and to do so could be much more expensive.

In successful acquihires, the acquired teams stay together and work on a new but related project with the additional resources and weight of the big company behind them. When it works, it is much better than just putting random people together since building effective teams is hard and takes time.

Also, keep in mind that acquihires often give the majority of value to the employees in new, unvested stock options vs. cash or vested stock.
How many of those things owe their success to goodwill people have to the Microsoft brand?
I'm part of that colour-blind chunk, and I don't see anything like what you're seeing. The squares appear to be an uneven size, but what would that have to do with our lack of ability to see colour?

Colour-blindness comes in a great many varieties, and to be honest, if you're making something involving colour, you're going to displease some of them.
The Portland numbers are pretty much irrelevant without accompanying context. e.g. population growth, sprawl, rail expansion vs average commute distances, funding, etc.

As for the linked arugment: seriously?
People are honestly arguing that Denver should allow the problems of rail in America[1] to be exacerbated rather than addressed [2]???

Should we have built highways that went from suburban stables to urban stables because people liked their horses, owned horses and horses can go more places than cars (absent further roads)?

What kind of logical argument is that?

[1] the old "you can take the train downtown, but then you still need a car to get anywhere".

[2] say, by ensuring there are useful destinations at the other end of the rail line.
source: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-grea...
Assuming this achieves some mainstream success, Apple offers "the bullet or the bribe" (get bought out or we just rebuild your product in house and destroy your business) in 3... 2...

too cynical?
The discussion about rubymotion is currently #118 (I'm logged) and "PHP the right way" is #114. But what do you find surprising in this? The main page of HN features the most popular threads and I guess some of these threads have been referenced somewhere else and upvoted by people who did not see it before? At least I'm sure that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212568 has been referenced recently in another popular (meaning front-page) submission : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412721
Two additional bits of data in my quest to prove IE6 (released August 2001) wasn't what started it all and disprove the idea that there weren't any standards back then.

From way back in Feb 16, 2001:

From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journey
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/journey/

And from that same day, long before the "Internet Explorer 6 Countdown" WaSP had the "Browser Upgrade Initiative":

http://archive.webstandards.org/upgrade/pr.html
"Serial entrepreneurs are not more successful than one-time entrepreneurs"