skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried:

"To fix this, I removed all the remembered locations and then in Configure Network Prefrences -> TCP/IP changed Configure IPV6 to Link-local only."

EDIT: It did seem to make things better for me, where after waking up from sleep it at least automatically reconnects, but it is still not same as Lion I think.d
Does this fix the broken fullscreen apps with multimonitor setups?
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I see HN as a fringe audience. Trends in the technology world usually happen first here. I do see your point though, and I'm not drawing concrete evidence from this thread.
One hour experiment - week one
A week ago I decided to dedicate an hour a day to my personal development time. There’s always been projects I had “in a pipeline” but they never finished, and work was always conveniently “getting in the way”. The aim of on hour experiment is to stop the excuses, and for the personal projects have to come first, over putting the overtime at work.
Rounded corners are obvious. Steve Jobs himself famously demonstrated prior art:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
I think of Twitter's logo change as the time they turned from "openish tool for loosely connecting millions" to "closed tool for broadcasting to millions". I wonder if that was intentional.
Right, but the old Windows logo has a distinctive shape. Even in black and white, it's distinguishable. Now you could argue that it's just squares that have been warped with a wave and I'd agree with you. However, the important part here is that they've now simplified it further in the direction of even less unique. That makes a trademark even harder to defend. That doesn't mean the shape has to be complicated: I'd argue that Nike's swoosh is extremely simple yet has just enough going on to make it instantly recognizable. The old Windows logo was another decent example.
Thank you, sir! Looking forward to hearing your review - and most importantly, how effective it was helping raise your rates for all the right reasons.
Congrats! Hopefully Android is coming soon! :)
If you are using an iOS device and your server is on the same network, you can use Bonjour/ZeroConf to quickly access it. For OS X, you can set the hostname in System Preferences > Sharing. Then just access hostname.local from the iOS device.
I'd speculate that's because at the end of the day, for the many people on this board $50 is probably an inconsequential amount given the benefit provided (time saving, ease of use, etc) and the expense profile. After all, someone above just mentioned upgrading Fusion after purchasing MB Retina. That's what, $3k right there? Look at $50 as part of an upgrade.

On the other hand, if some people _just_ bought Fusion 4 it indeed is very annoying to pay $50 again for Fusion 5. VMware should have a free upgrade program for recent purchases of 4.

Personally, after using Fusion for 4 years I switched to Parallels. With Fusion, even when Windows is idle Fusion would use up to 20% CPU (on a 4-core), sometimes triggering fans. Parallels seems less CPU hungry and runs a bit faster (though this is subjective, try it first). It also has interesting features, such as, suspending of Bootcamp installations and the ability to use all attached displays when in full screen mode. I don't think Fusion 4 supported any of those; not sure about 5. And Parallels has a $29 license right now for those switching from VMware, so it was a good deal as well.
Agree. Fusion 4 with Windows 7 runs really well for me under Mountain Lion.
So you're saying that it's a style from the 20s-60s and also a passing fad? :)
This is a built in feature of HN, you know...
Escaping the Kozmos
Some people still seem to have problems discussing about compilers and respective runtimes.
I try to do the same thing, but it is not easy with a Samsung Galaxy S III in my pocket :-)

Instead of starting right in on work this morning I had coffee with three friends and then went fishing on Oak Creek near my house. I was going to say that I was offline for 90 minutes but I just remembered that I emailed a picture of the creek to my Dad while I was fishing. Oh well...
Although I'm sure most of this effect is due to the economy and student loans, I wonder how much of it comes from people having children later and less often. Doing without a car or home becomes trickier once you have kids. I was disappointed the article didn't bring up children at all, because I'd be curious to hear something on it one way or the other.
I'm reading in Safari and all of the content is a single bar down the left side, all squeezed together taking up very little of the viewport...

It made it difficult to read as well. The huge whitespace on the right of the article is extremely distracting.
I love the whole direction of Microsoft's graphic design these days, and I've had Macs at home exclusively for at least 10 years.

I think Microsoft is doing a great job of trading on the emotional value of colors. Apple rebuilt their company by bringing color to computing (remember the iMac and iBook), but then went away from that in almost every way, sucking the color out of all their products except for a few iPods. It's very sleek and elegant, but let's face it, colors are fun too.
How much should a start-up CEO make?
Nope, been better than Lion performance and heat wise for me. Might be worth trying a SMC reset.
The default.aspx could be an affirmation of the backend being used so that when you see that elsewhere you know the server tech is MS, a sort of advertising/brand presence decision.

I thought of that too, but that's sort of like Toyota advertising what sort of engine a car has by leaving the muffler off of all the showroom models. Gearheads can tell the engine by the cacophony in the showroom lot, but everyone else will get the impression that Toyota's cars are noisy.
It stands in the middle of those two. Allows you to both create content (in a blog manner) or re-distribute interesting stuff in thematic magazines created by you.

In the current beta not all of those aspects are completely implemented but we constantly update it to reach our users expectations.
Do you think we currently understand every mechanism by which software running in adversarial conditions (a web server with anonymous users, an operating system running a freshly downloaded application, that application handling random files off the Internet, &c) can be subverted? I don't; I've learned new bug classes within the last year, and I'm nowhere close to the best in my field.

If you're not confident that you understand all the avenues by which software can be compromised by attackers, how could you possibly be at ease with the idea that the law would presume vendors could secure their code before shipping it?

You may think, "I don't expect vendors to be at the forefront of security research," (which would be good, because even the vendors who want to be there are having a devil of a time trying to fill the headcount to do it) "but let's not excuse vendors who ship flaws readily apparent when their product was being developed". But who's to say what is and isn't readily apparent? How'd you do on the Stripe CTF? Last I checked, only 8 people got the last flag. But nothing in the Stripe CTF would have made the cut for a Black Hat presentation. You think a jury and a court of law would do a better job of judging this?
It must be quite a chore to manually update all that elisp!
In the other stats thread[1], users self-reported themselves as Linux 34% and Windows 22%, which I was highly doubting. There are probably a lot of closet Windows users here, or it's more l337 to claim Linux (even on an anonymous poll?). I also understand there's a selection bias related to the article's content.

I won't say polls are useless, but I keep being surprised how unreliable they are.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4421971
I'm not entirely sure as why, but as I read the article, specially the guy smashing his toe to increase the blood pressure I felt really bad.

They are in a really bad shape, but still will do things like that to win. Not sure what to think of it.
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Great work, Philip.
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At the risk of sounding snarky, not all change is good change.

Of course, it's not like Microsoft EVER had a decent or even remotely stylish logo. The bigger concern I would have over the logo is the website, which is amateurish. Honestly, if I did not know this was Microsoft, I would think it was a startup company that paid $50 for a website template, as you stated, and not a very good one.
I was glued to the screen for the entirety of that talk. That guy is completely engrossing to listen to.
>the whole thing just drips with an insecurity complex over perl.

JAPH to Pythonista convert here. I think it definitely is a reaction to Perl, but the "insecurity complex" phrasing has its own insecurity complex peeking out. The Zen dates from 2004, when the writing was on the wall for Perl. (That writing on the wall was in Ruby, Python, and PHP.) Very little to feel insecure about by then.

Also, beauty and simplicity are hardly meek values, but I understand the subjectivity. To each his own.
I saw the story, but didn't click the link. So it's definitely not going to match what pg and team see when they examine their logs for actual HN Readers.
Clearly there actually are a myriad of strategies which multinationals can use to minimize their tax bill by exploiting differences between countries, and even more clearly those countries with the most favorable tax regimes are the ones chosen as places to expand. Which is exactly the phenomenon whose existence you denied:

I said nothing of the sort, and HN can read the comment you linked. My comment claimed only that taxes not being the primary motivating factor for locating a business, because they are not. I do not deny the existence of favorable tax regimes, because I have helped clients use them, but (and this is the important part), only the non-operating, "holding" companies can take advantage of most of these favorable tax regimes. The actual operating, money-earning entities generally are located in the actual country of operating, regardless of taxes. (See for example, any holding company structure, including the Double Irish, in which an "IP holding company" is located in Ireland, HQ'd in the Caymans, and licenses the IP to the actual money-earning entities.)

So tell me this: why anyone would want to engage you as an "international tax lawyer" if you don't have the knowledge to actually, y'know, help them minimize their tax bill?

Last year, I helped a variety of client reduce their global tax liablity by roughly 28-35%, on average. And that's they key: global tax liability. My job is to look at the final numbers. Accepting a higher local tax rate (i.e., losing one battle) is sometimes necessary to achieve a lower total global liability (i.e., winning the war).
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Doesn't this imply that you can no longer update MacOS without an Apple ID? That would be a huge (and unfortunate) change.
'Homogeneous' meaning that they've been focusing on the consumer market almost exclusively for the past ten years and especially so for the last five.
Good idea, I'll give it a try.
I wrote that piece a few months ago when I was taking time off. Now that I'm back at work (I work for O'Reilly Media's Radar group) it's like being an alcoholic working behind a bar. I'm having a much harder time with it. I try to do intermittent fasting and I still won't touch my phone/email before about 10am - I even got a separate alarm clock so I wouldn't be relying on my phone for that.
the only way to explain the sudden and highly pronounced drop-off between 29 and 30 not only here but on the year-by-year graph linked a few days ago (from a single cycle) is that PG considers exactly 30 to be "over the hill" but not 29, and, therefore, being 30 is a very heavy marginal disadvantage versus being 29 when trying to gain acceptance to YC.

There is no way there is really that much of a difference in applicant quality and quantity at that margin: it has to be YC's selection bias.
I saw a report from someone that upgraded where the battery life went from < 3 hours to > 6 hours.
Highly doubt it. That's a relic from Lion, doesn't appear to be a "bug".
Thank you! After months of slowly building and perfecting the iPhone app it feels great to finally be able to share it with everyone.
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I'd go to my grandmother's house in West Virginia.
Agreed, a platform like this hasn't really existed before so it's difficult if not impossible to point to an example for that reason.
How soon we forget. If TBL hadn't invented the web, we all would have had to wait six months for gopher to come out. Hell, SGML + FTP is practically the same as the web, and that was around for years.
If I had a dollar for every time I saw this...

if(obj == null && obj.isValid())

I'd have approximately 960 dollars per project.
No. Developers in highly sensitive industries where we can safely presume the highest prevailing standards of care --- banks, for instance --- on projects that have documented standards of code safety and review far exceeding those of the industry as a whole --- have routinely managed to "ship" code containing SQL Injections.

This is easier to understand when you realize that "SQL Injection" really means "any sequence of conditions allowing an adversary to corrupt an SQL query issued by the application", and that those sequences of conditions can be long, complicated, deeply buried and not at all evident from the overt behavior of the application.

So now you have a problem: SQL Injection that is obvious from the moment you enter a single quote character in a login form is an obvious signal of slipshod development, but there are injection vulnerabilities that no reasonable person could say were obvious. Where are you going to draw the line, and, just as importantly, how are you going to articulate the line so that cases can be heard with predictable decisions? Because unpredictable outcomes are a tax.
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"The key to understanding this paradox is that the two games are not independent."

Well... can it really be called a paradox then? It's more of a classical failure at defining the problem since the probability distribution of B definitely depends on A - the description is just more convoluted, but it's not a contradiction.
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I think the question of balance is difficult if you really believe in addiction. For people that aren't addicted, moderation / balance is a great strategy. If behavior crosses into addiction the moderation strategy is much less realistic. That's the crux question for me.
Why not? For example: sprinters injure themselves during training on a regular basis. Strength increases much faster when you train a bit past the point of injury and then heal, repeatedly.
Thanks for the tip. I did that before asking and I saw a guy kind of standing with a lot of equipment behind him.

Prior to the useful other reply, I thought that being a quadriplegic implied you couldn't move your arms or legs.
You want real Paleo? Try radio, or rather, this amazing podcast on media effects from Gutenberg to McLuhan:

http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode206-lq.mp3
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I rather like the AEI. It serves a purpose. Kind of like a honeypot.
How we used WordPress to build and sell the Hello Bar web app.
A 2-1 panel of the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Thursday upheld the biotechnology company's right to patent "isolated" genes known as BRCA1 and BRCA2, which account for most inherited forms of breast and ovarian cancers.

...Circuit Judge Alan Lourie, writing for the court majority, said, "Everything and everyone comes from nature, following its laws, but the compositions here are not natural products. They are the products of man, albeit following, as all materials do, laws of nature."

I completely fail to see how [gene] compositions are the "product of man". What am I missing?
Nope, I just installed the OS update on a machine that has not been linked to an apple id. The app store also has updates for the preinstalled versions of iphoto and imovie, but those do require an apple id.
...who cares?

Do you have any thoughts or comments about the actual topic of the post?

This is an article written by one of the most innovative, influential, and successful software developers in the world, giving a lot of interesting insights and thoughts on his craft.

...and you're concerned about the HTML/JS of some shitty wordpress template? We get it, you probably work in web development. Yes, poorly-coded websites exist. That's not what the content of the post is actually about.

This is part of the decline in quality of Hacker News. When an article is posted, let's talk about the article, instead of pedantic off-topic garbage.
My guess is that they use a probabilistic model that, for every tap, incorporates the probability distributions P('a'| X), ..., P('z' | X), X=(x,y) probably a normal distribution. Then assuming they have data on how likely a specific word is, you'd estimate the posterior probability distribution over all the possible words with that many characters. Pick the top most probable words as auto correct options.

I'm sure there's more to it than that, but I assume that's the basic idea.
I'm rooting for dozens of similar, federated services that interoperate an operate on levels comparable to twitter, facebook, and wordpress
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Freemium is alive and kicking
Yes. Lawyers need work.

But joking aside, developers do need to be held responsible for their work product. Every other industry that makes things is held responsible for the safety/workablity of their output, and many of those products (i.e., cars and planes) are far more complicated than software. [There are some narrow exceptions, i.e., vaccines, where the industry is shielded from liability because alternative mechanisms provide for consumer redress.]

This does not mean strict liability (i.e., liability without actual fault), but it does mean that negligence should be on the table.

What would negligent liability require?
Merely that developers follow best practices regarding their product. They already exist for the most common types of projects. Where no best practices exist, following standard conventions is usually sufficient.

Also, users can waive the developer's liability for simple negligence (but generally not for intentional negligence), so this is unlikely to impact most developers.
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Seems like a great idea with a noble cause. I wonder if you will struggle to get people to signup though - perhaps you could appeal to people's vanity more and tell them they'll get more followers by signing up to CC. ;-)
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> why can’t you take a software developer to court if their negligent coding lets hackers empty your bank account?

It should be noted that the linked article is talking about the UK where things are different. In the US you are allowed to sue, for any reason. Whether you can find a lawyer willing to take your case, and whether a judge subsequently decides your case has any merit, is a separate matter.
> Not sure I follow this. Pre-ordering books is a pretty well established practice among publishers ...

The difference is the person pre-ordering can back out, and generally speaking in pre-orders, no payment is made until delivery. It ends up being a measure of public enthusiasm, not a way to gather revenues in advance of delivery. In this case, people are paying for a book that doesn't exist yet.

> Actually, it's the primary hack for getting on best-seller lists

Yes, true, but see the pre-order discussion above -- generally, no money changes hands until the book is actually available.

Also, I have to add, the ultimate best-seller-list hack is to buy copies of your own book and put the copies back into the pipeline, endlessly, as the Scientologists are said to do.

> Or is this a more basic "No one should sell anything that doesn't already exist" argument?

But that's true in general -- in the worst cases, where delivery doesn't happen, the seller can be charged with fraud. I hasten to add I am not comparing this hypothetical (but all too common) outcome with the book under discussion, which for all I know is perfectly worthwhile.
Yep. Great experiment. My thinking was also influenced by a book I read a few years ago. Better Off by Eric Brende published without irony, if I remember correctly, by MIT Press.
If the restaurant poison you, you will sue the restaurant owner, the restaurant owner can sue the cook, but i'm not sure you can or would sue directly the cook, that would suppose you know who cooked your meal i guess.

Also I believe if a new branch of software industry was developed where every library, os, patch, updates, firmware , framework is certified as "developed without any negligence for any use " only the defence and nuclear industry would be able to afford it. Actually I guess they already did that for their own use.

So the wish to have a software certified without negligence (and for any use the customer use it) is probably too expensive and customer would just keep buying the same as today if they would be given the choice.
If you expect 100% reliability from a piece of software, that ought to be in your contract with the vendor. You ought to have a provision describing what happens if the vendor fucked up. And the only time it is okay to sue is if the vendor then does not abide by that contract and its described penalty for less-than-100% performance.

The US has a sue-happy culture which I believe is the cause for much ridiculousness in life around here. Somebody finds a way to hurt himself that nobody else has though of, and sues, which leads to everybody then patching that ridiculous hole and making everybody go thru hoops to avoid future lawsuits. Ad nauseam. (The same mentality that caused the rule mandating we take off our shoes at airports…)
The difference between Gen Y / Millennials, and Gen X, is that the younger generation is taking a hard look at the big consumer purchases and deciding that they're either not worth it, or are simply unaffordable.

Gen X matured into a world not quite as harsh, but generally took on huge amounts of debt to fund first school (not quite so much as current students), vehicles, homes, and marriages. Only to be hit by multiple periods of very uncertain economic times (recessions in 1989-92, 2001, 2007-2009), each of which was followed by increasingly weak recoveries. The early 1990s recovery not really picking up steam until 1995-6, the 2000s in 2005-6, and the most recent recession still not really over.

In the early 1990s, it was popular to call Gen X the "slacker generation", which I suspect was largely due to the economic conditions of the time. A few years later, they were the dot-com generation, beavering away in the first generation of Internet start-ups.

The 2000s are already being called a "lost decade". The 2010s are well on their way to much of the same. Some sectors, notably tech, have been countertrending, which may affect YC/HN impressions. But overall, economic trends have been downward.
No idea why they wouldn't just use their own MVC code that's now backed into the Visual Studio IDE.