skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A lot of us haven't even gotten far enough to figure that out. Microsoft just switched us all over to a new UI toolkit (Windows Presentation Foundation) with the release of .NET 3 five or so years ago. We've invested a lot of time and money into getting up to speed with this new technology. And now we're already being asked to migrate away from it and onto yet another Next Big Thing."

Bingo!
Talked about disrespecting your developers/users by changing the rules of the GUI every couple of years. Only the hardcore fans, pioneers and draftees are jumping into Windows 8. (The rest of us are keeping it locked up in virtual machines.) There's enough work in the Windows development universe, a developer can ignore Metro till it grows up or decent third party tools come out. For f--ks sake, Redmond, I've got real apps, (both web and desktop) to write.
Well, I have not heard of such letters being rejected. Not read, maybe...
I'm a LibreOffice user and it regularly pisses me off. It's not terrible, but it definitely has a lot of sharp corners that I keep hitting. Image placement is my current #1 gripe. It's apsolutely horrific. More generally, it starts up slowly, does many things automatically that I don't want it to (and stubbornly refuses to do some things that I do want it to do) and is hard to configure.

I haven't used MS Office in years, but I'm fairly confident it would annoy me about as much as LibreOffice does. Office suits are just really hard to do right.

I guess it comes down to Stroustrup's famous quote:

"There are only two kinds of programs: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."
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Couldn't agree more! If ppl want to build shit that anyone can run, then make it run on LAMP (i.e. any shared hosting/cpanel account)!
How could it be larger?
You could use mmap64.
If the design is a distraction then it is bad design. Good design would help you easily and happily "get straight to the code".
I'd rather have a slightly scuffed phone than one made entirely of glass.

Seriously though who doesn't buy a case for their thousand dollar smartphone?
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fille ... that is for ze ladies in french of course ;-) ... fixing it as we speak
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Yep, something like this:

http://www.instahero.com/project/wWhe4J/report/jRa9Qz/

This is very easy to create using whichever metric you like (I will probably include it as one of the pre-made report templates, too), and you can extend it to report on whatever you like.

Thank you very much for the idea!
While correct (in a sense), this suffers from pretty much the same naïveté that a lot of similar essays contain.

Simply put, the chief benefit of formalised higher education is that it forces you to learn stuff you didn't even know you didn't know, deeper than you ever thought you had to.

It's many years since I left university (studying electronics and software), and I while I still work in tech (who doesn't around here?!), I only used a fraction of what I learned there once I got to the real world. That's the chief argument of essayists like this one, and it's one I agree with.

However, I have many times been in situations where I've had to solve a problem that I would not have had the mental tools for, were it not for a deep distant memory of some obscure piece of maths I did (painfully, perhaps even reluctantly) in second year, or some recollection of a weird hack with CPU registers I learned in third year. True, these moments in my career have been fleeting, but they helped me in a way that OP could not have been helped.

I've since worked a lot as a technical trainer. For me, the difference between technical training (or vocational, or OP's self-inflicted syllabus) and education (college, university) is that the former gives you a great hands-on real-world grasp of the available tools and techniques and how to use them to solve problems. The latter gets you further into the "why", and makes you better suited to making your own tools and techniques. Those of you who have written your own operating systems and compilers - would you ever have done that had you _not_ been in university? And how much did you learn from it?
I work with a lot (80+ developers) in the Microsoft ecosystem. I haven't found a single one who is enthusiastic about Windows 8. Most are looking rather worried as yet again the rug has been pulled from underneath them. They got burned with Silverlight and the first drop of the Foundation series of products and Entity Framework.

Another incompatible API is just more shit to deal with.

They are not happy.

I'm not either as I have to support these guys.
Yes. They tried that with the iPhone 3G. People didn't like the cheap "plasticy" feeling.
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The layers seem to be 25 micron vs 100 micron for the Replicator 2, although I'm not sure what they mean by the 300 micron resolution:

http://formlabs.com/pages/our-printer

http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2.html
I would love to be able to change the google search URL. Mine currently is: <google-base-url>/webhp?complete=0&hl=en&pws=0&safe=off
"X, but Y" is a perfectly reasonable business model. Almost any product isn't particularly unique, from cars to shavers to operating systems to knives.

Neither Twitter nor Facebook really tread virgin soil, either.
Yes it is. Extruded pieces can be pretty gnarly. This is exacerbated at small feature sizes, which is what you see here, especially on the birdcage which is about 3cm tall. To be fair, most people would clean that birdcage up a bit before showing it to anyone.

Most of the objects you see on the page have been cleaned up. For instance, over the "Accessories - Form Finish kit:" heading you see a part that hasn't had its temporary supports removed. The bracelet is a little furry on the bottom. It looks much better near the top of the page where it shows in a montage after cleaning.
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I'm not commenting on whether OStatus will ever have these features. I'd like to just point out that what you're describing is absolutely disturbing. I'm talking about the part where you said that these people cannot be reached the other way and conduct all of their conversations on Twitter.
How did he get the funding for this one? Who's gonna run it if he gets jail time...not that it's looking very likely?
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Watching people surreptitiously in the privacy of their homes, definitely in the wrong.

Tracking the computers' whereabouts- I don't see why this couldn't have just been made known, e.g. "We'll be tracking the location of the machine so that when you fail to pay, we can recover our property."

Disabling the computer when renters get behind- where is the problem here? If you don't make your mortgage or rent payments, you don't get to stay for free. There are automobile finance companies for a similar demographic that will disable the car when payment isn't made. It's not like the car stops working when you're a day late. The computer warns the driver long before disabling the car. Kinda makes sense to give your 'customer' a warning and maintain her ability to drive to you to make payments.

And what's this "force a fake popup"? What's a fake popup versus a real one? Perhaps the store's systems should know who has rented which machines. But I suspect this is more about tracking the computer's location for recovery when payments are behind.

So here's my take: invasion of privacy is a big problem and should be prosecuted. Disabling service and recovering property that hasn't been paid for just makes sense. Certainly this particular company could have been more scrupulous about locating their property when payments were not made.
Whilst amusing, I find it hard to believe that the repeated excuse of "not practical" would ever have been given. Do academics really have such strong objections to ideas which are purely academic?

"Structured programming is a nice academic exercise, which works well for small examples, but I doubt that any real- world program will ever be written in such a style."

"The paper contains no real-world example to convince us that any model of practical interest can be cast in it"
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Actually Apple are pretty bad at picking phone materials period.

Glass is probably the poorest material possible for the obvious reason. The fact that yours didn't yet break is irrelevant.

Aluminum is yet another bad choice. It is cold to the touch during winter, it's slippery and if you're wearing a ring it will scratch the back. Nokia made the same mistake with the N8 and the E7.

The answer is high quality plastic, like on the N9 or Lumia 800/900/920. This feels excellent in the hand and is also very tough. Another option might be rubberized plastic as seen on some Android models.
The upfront costs of migration (including retraining, coping with missing features, and solving a wide variety of little compatibility issues as they arise) will surely exceed what it would have cost the French Government to stay on Microsoft Office for one or two more waves of upgrades. The important question is: will the upfront cost and disruption be worth it?

The data presented by the city of Munich six months ago provides compelling evidence that the answer is a resounding YES: the recurring savings from migration will exceed its upfront costs.[1]

The city of Munich identified three types of cost savings: (1) it no longer has to pay for license upgrades, eliminating a significant recurring cost forever; (2) its desktop software and hardware no longer have to be updated as frequently, reducing another significant recurring cost forever; and (3) surprisingly, Munich claims its IT department is fielding fewer user complaints with free software, reducing another major cost forever.

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Edit: There's an additional benefit from migration not mentioned by Munich which I think will become very important over time. According to this article, the French government intends to reinvest "between 5 percent and 10 percent of the money they save" on contributing to the development of the applications they use, so they will have direct, hands-on input into which features get added to such applications and even how such features are implemented. The French government, in other words, will become a 'co-owner' of these Free Software applications, giving them more control over their own IT future. How much is that worth?

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[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787539
First of all: congrats on your decision! Now I don't want to sound asinine, but have you thought this through well enough? I mean, from what I read you have two weeks to discover how you're going to make money, build something, and actually make money off of it. That might be a bit ambitious...
Wouldn't it be better to keep working at a job, and build something awesome in your spare time? Or do you have some cash to get you through the first n months or so?
Regardless of your decision, keep us posted! Good luck!
Does anyone know of "friend discovery" services using OStatus? Most proprietary social networks have that "let me riffle through your addressbook" thing, which I imagine the privacy-conscious would eschew (I certainly do), but e.g. my Twitter "following" list is publically available, so it shouldn't be hard to go through that and find people I'm following who are also on an ostatus-compatible service somewhere
Lithography printing from what I've seen so far is significantly better than extruder tech. We have a Projet 1500 and an original Makerbot at my hackerspace (Columbus Idea Foundry). The Projet absolutely kills the makerbot for resolution and jitter. If you made a sphere on the projet, it will be pretty damn smooth. On the Makerbot (original) it will have a strong texture to it. No experience with Replicator 2.

Yet, its also around 10x as expensive to run (ABS is cheap, whereas the liquid stuff is expensive). It also takes a lot more room (there's separate machines for a drying/curing thing). The resolution on the Projet 1500 (which isnt the best one in the world, just what we have) is pretty limited at like 1024x768 since it uses a projector instead of a laser. I'm thinking the laser might allow for finer resolution, but I'm not sure.

Also, our Projet machine won't operate (like, at all) if its above 75F. Most of our hackerspace is un-airconditioned in a warehouse, so that just doesn't work. We had to get an AC and put it in an office. Extruder machines just don't care.

I haven't used the Replicator 2, but the replicator looks promising. At the same time, if the Formlabs ones does as it says, then its a HUGE move forward as its around 1/10th the price of something like our Projet 1500.

This looks pretty exciting initially. If I had the money- I'd consider buying one.
From the name, I was expecting a hack to take away the "Search" page, leaving the rest intact. Less useful, but that would be a more interesting statement on perceived bloat in Google.
Aaand now you're back to the "platform dependent on a single company" problem.
Originally I saw http://www.startupbin.com/google-google/ and then thought: now someone needs to write a simpler "google wrapper" :)
I was thinking of making an app like this in the past. To take it a step further, I actually thought (still think) it would be cool to have a heat map of your entire life across the whole globe. Battery life issues aside, I decided to scrap the project for inevitable privacy concerns.
I had the same gripe with image placement when I used Open Office on my Linux box a few years ago. I thought that MS office or Apple Pages would be better but ... well ... I don't seem to get much more done with them. Granted I did not try very hard either, since I had an alternative: Latex.

I started to use it to type my science reports and homeworks, then used it to make my resume (I simply couldn't make it not look like shit using MS Word), and finally switched to using it for everything. Now I know Latex is not for everyone, and it's not easy to have other people edit and compile it (especially if they don't know it), but as far as I'm concerned, it turned out to be good for my sanity ...

Oh and for the sake of honesty I should write that image placement in latex, although imho better than in MS Word/Pages/LibreOffice, still do drive me nuts at times..
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Similar price and technology of B9creator http://b9creator.com/ (also funded on kickstarter a few months ago), more info on the technology here https://code.google.com/p/lemoncurry/wiki/main
Because it was a cheap, plasticy plastic :) The premium kind in the Lumia series beats any iPhone up to 4S. Haven't tried the 5 yet, though I think metal is a particularly poor choice.
send as pdf if you need exact formatting (and not editing), surely?
I believe so. Iirc, someone had somehow hijacked a transfer of it.
6'6" and built like an NFL lineman. Last time I got in one, I couldn't sit up straight, my knees were resting on the dash and I couldn't close the door. I'd prefer something in the full size category but would rather it was a van, SUV or truck so I didn't have to squat down so low to get in. I do a lot of outdoors stuff that takes me on some rough roads and I usually have need of hauling and some cargo space.
Best tools for customer service surveys?
My company is looking to start gathering feedback from our clients on certain customer service criteria. The plan is to send out a survey each month to some percentage of the customers that have had support calls in the last month, and get them to provide us with some metrics on how they feel our customer support team is doing and.

We're a completely B2B company in a sales driven industry, so we don't want to scattershot these surveys, but rather set up some sort of tracking system where we can monitor which customers are getting surveyed and how often.

From the software side, I haven't really been in this arena in years. SurveyMonkey was the best tool back then. I need something with good reporting (preferably the ability to automate data export), the ability to schedule surveys and provide lists of emails to contact, tracking on which customers contacted actually filled out the survey, and ideally some scriptability or even a data format for the survey so that surveys can be generated on the fly.
> "The macbook pros are quite durable to scratches and scuffs, so perhaps they could have used the same material/processes."

They do. On the white/silver iphone5. And it, by all accounts, handles wear just like the unibody macbooks. The issue only relates to the black/graphite iPhone5, due the coating used to make it appear black/graphite.

The iPhone had a metal back that exposed a black sub-surface with wear - and people complained.
The iPhone 3G/3GS had a plastic back that scratched, chipped, cracked and was known to develop discolored stress marks - and people complained.
The iPhone 4/4S had a glass back that chipped, scratched and shattered - and people complained.

I'm not sure about the Nexus One, having never seen one. But I am fairly certain that no matter what Apple makes a phone with, they can not ship anything that's literally perfect. And they will ship millions, with the initial sales tilted toward obsessives and perfectionists. These people have always found things to complain about and they will always find things to complain about.

Further, the press knows Apple articles are an eyeball gold mine, particularly Apple articles about a controversy, so they will always make as big a deal out of anything that they can.

See also: the 'yellow' screen glue issues; 'antennagate'; the possibility that repeated application and removal of cases to an iPhone4/4S might cause cracks; the stress cracks on the 3G; wear on the silver face band around the 3G/3GS; wear on the original iPhone back; dead pixels on the 4; etc.
Supermicro's equivalent IPMI remote access (iKVM) is also Java
I totally agree with your view on communist concrete buildings (I have to look at them every day).

But before we completely dismiss the idea of using prefabricated elements, consider the good old bricks, which are basically prefabricated elements that allow for enormous flexibility. Same with roof tiles.

To me it seems that prefabricated elements become a problem if they are too large relative to the building's total size. It's hard to make an interesting lego house using 200 lego bricks because the square shape of the lego bricks define the shape of the house. But if you use 20,000 lego bricks the shape of the building doesn't appear to be defined by the shape of the individual bricks. Sort of the same way fonts appear ugly on low resolution screens.

Prefabricated elements should be smaller.
The second generation anodized iPod nano scratched if you looked at it funny.
As do recent libreoffice versions.
I put together a small comparison chart in this post: http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/formlabs-creates-a-low-c...
Does anyone know how a photopolymer works chemically/molecularly? What is it about the UV light that makes it solidify?
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From http://www.google.com/permissions/#tab2

We cannot approve the use of Internet domain names that use the word “Google” or some variation of “Google”. For example, we would not approve a site called googleXYZ.com or gogggles.com.

Google does seem to be a bit lax about it nowadays, compared to a few years back.
There would certainly be more apps in the store if they had opened the store up for more developers before now. They've only been accepting app submissions from most companies for about 45 days and individual developers were only allowed to submit apps 14 days ago.
What you don't have that I would miss

- Screen Filter

- Flipboard

- games/books/drawing apps/learning apps for your kids

- games for yourself

- music apps: cbc music, rdio & tunein radio for me

- off line reader: pocket or similar

- weather app

- justpictures. A flickr/picasa/facebook/many more picture viewing app. Provides notifications when people have uploaded new pictures, which is its killer feature.

- mx player

- aldiko/fbreader for reading books outside of the kindle walled garden

- atm locater app

- qrcode scanner, which is mostly used for installing apps from outside the store

- good calculator (droid48 for me)

- connectbot (ssh)

- good alarm app (double twist for me)

- skype, voip app (I use Bria)

- shared grocery lists: our groceries. indispensable.

- todo app (i use got to do)

gimmicky apps that are worth installing if you have lots of room: (granted, I paid 10cents for much of these)

- star chart

- sound hound or similar

- flight track

- camera app a la instagram (camera zoom fx, paper camera)

And that's just what's on my front screen. There are more, but most could be easily uninstalled.

p.s. how do you format lists on HN?
If you want to keep the @name you could always go in reverse:

com.example@abc

Although I think that would just confuse most of the world.

We could go oldschool with a newline:

abc
example
com

;-)

More seriously, I wish there was an easy way to divorce the username from the server similar to how DNS works so I could move my provider without losing my identity. A separation of name providers and service deliverers would do this.

Also, do we need names to match domain names? Couldn't we start from scratch?

It would be interesting to see what we could come up with if we dropped .com, .net, .org, .name etc and went for something more abstract.

.blue .horse .cheese .bang

While we may end up with just the same as now (but without the .com) it might be interesting.
So has the FDM process hit it's resolution limits in something like Makerbot or is there still room for improvement? (I'm curious which process to bet on)
work smart, work very hard. you'll either find it fulfilling and rewarding, or learn that you're might actually enjoy working for a good company (it's possible you just weren't a good fit at your current job too.)
OS X is still allowing regular people to install apps from whatever source they want, by default.

In Windows 8 you have to either check "Allow all trusted applications to install" in the Group Policy settings in Win Pro/Enterprise, or change a registry setting. This means users will have to go out of their way to install anything beyond what the App Store provides. Well, at least the option is still available.

Steam is an app store for games. Games purchases are impulse driven. When buying from Steam, you either go for a big title that you know you'll find on Steam or you go searching for something that triggers your interest.

On the other hand a large part of discovery on a regular app store is search-driven by actual needs of users that want to accomplish something very specific. Like, just the other day I searched for a way to view/manage my Picasa-stored photos on my iPad.

The number of apps is important for one because this means the app store doesn't solve many specific problems users are having and because Microsoft is known to have a big developer ecosystem since forever (building platforms is what they do best) - and so this lack of enthusiasm reflects badly on them and on Windows 8.
Would you guys say this is a game changer?
That birdcage was actually pre-cleaned to make it look as good as possible.
I think all it proves there is a fine line between following a religion and being mentally ill.
Some do get "marketed" via Perl News or PerlMonks

Marketing is bringing your story to people who don't already know about it. Readers of Perl News and PerlMonks are very likely to already be Perl users/advocates.
I'm pretty sure they have a rough estimate of the number of copies of VMWare and Parallels sold, plus know the number of bootcamp downloads. They are a very profitable business and do things for business reasons.
The "Coil Pot" look is the norm for any device using fused filament fabrication.