skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given Microsoft's track record with Win32 replacements, it seems a little far-fetched.

I'd say there's more of a risk for Metro developers that the platform will be EOL'd/legacy/forgotten in 5 years than there is a risk to traditional desktop devs.
Introducing Repose: The Restful Proxy Service Engine
Wix App Market launched
What looks funny to me is that right next to the preorder button there is a print link - I assume that that is just in case you decide not to preorder but to print the page. LOL
From a user's point of view it doesn't matter if it is python or cython. Slow things get implemented carefully and are packed away in a 3rd party libraries.

If the performance comes down to BLAS, then language speed benchmarks are moot. Saying one language is faster than another becomes disingenuous.
Notes from Eric Reiss' UX Design workshop
I like the trend of YC companies and other startups marrying technology (billing, scheduling, authentication) to old school service businesses. there are a number of stories of individuals doing this making 6 figures a year running these types of businesses. (see g-maids in dallas)
Rsvp.js
Nuuton is lucky to have two very smart women on the team. One is developing a state-of-the-art crawling system and the other is developing an amazing Javascript client system. Both are just amazing people. Congratulations to S and A from Nuuton, and to those women who day-in, day-out make the tech world move forward. Thanks for your contributions.
"there are well-established principles to judge which code/software architecture is better" There are very similar principles for judging which design is better (affordance, natural mapping), it's just that coders don't know those principles.

You're implying a value judgement that code is an objective discipline and design in a subjective discipline. There are aspects of visual design that are subjective. However, UX is a testable, repeatable, objective discipline that is informed by the work of cognitive science.

Yes coders have arguments... with coders. They have inside baseball arguments. It's entirely different than a designer having an argument with a coder. Often, the designer has to teach the coder the principles of design in order to even engage in a logical, productive discussion.

The overriding point I was making is that the tools like github are designed for code, not design. Our tooling inherently advantages code. It's a pain in the ass to even insert an inline image into a comment. Github isn't built for evaluating mockups and wireframes. Designers do our best to bootstrap into the tool, yes. But it's not our tool.
Google Releases Dart SDK & Teases Native Browser Support
Greenfinger
Very nice.

I thought the 4 stripes on top were actually windows, though (since you can see through them in the movie, such as in this photo I found: http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/ThePropDen/cee7e16...)
That way lies madness.

In SVN is easy to create repositories. Not as easy as on GIT, but very easy.

Also, you can attach different commit-hooks to every repository, related to each project.
You could probably just slap CloudFront on the existing WP site. Might have side-effects but it would surely bump the performance up.
The thing is, I would say the cost of production of Coke is less in India too.
In other words, even though I believe price arbitrage happens, I dont think that would be the main culprit.

I would say the lower standard of living in a particular country puts the country in a good vantage position to export more goods (or services). For eg:- A person from a developing world might be in a good position(financially) when he decides to return to his home country for good, even if he has saved what an American would call "not much".

Now, I think true globalization which means (tariff free import and export of all goods including groceries) might eventually solve this problem. But before that happens- that might eventually mean a hard life for people currently living in the developed world.
If this becomes mandatory for Google, I'd switch search engines. You may call it FUD if you wish, but I would either have to be logged out when making Google searches or risk having some of my e-mail with senders and subject lines revealed to anyone watching my screen.

EDIT: As of now, it's opt-in.

EDIT: It seems most people inferred that I meant people could see the body of the e-mail. I meant to say that people can see the subject and sender exclusively, not in addition to the body.

EDIT: And no, I didn't create that throwaway account with the deleted post. I wouldn't have done this if I did. I'm just saying that it isn't all FUD.
Hey guys, We use this daily at work and also for personal use. Let me know if you are interested in using this service. We want to see if there is any market for such a tool. Thanks.
I think the captain even had to yell "Shields up".
That's possible to do in SVN as well.
You haven't been on a college campus recently, have you? Most laptops have some sort of after-market coloring, stickers, or case. Not just PCs, I mean most as in MacBooks too.
The "Stolen Bike Finder" doesn't list all stolen bikes, it lists all bikes for sale on online marketplaces everywhere. They're not all stolen.

If, however, your bike is stolen, you can use that tool to search for your bike among all the legitimate listings from every Craigslist and eBay.

RackLove is different from Craigslist and eBay because you are encouraged to post a story about your bike, and presumably the site owners will quickly respond to any complains about bikes with poor listings that may be stolen.
Depends on how complex your product and pricing model is. Zuora is slightly enterprisey customers and priced accordingly and they charge setup fee, customization fee etc.,

If you are looking for simpler products focused on small & medium businesses there are plenty of options available as well.

Of course if you are in North America you have Stripe as your first bet and for bit more sophisticated billing plus more options to do promotions, automated notifications, HTML emails, customer support portal, more complex metered billing, grandfathering of price plans (happens!), multi-gateway support etc., you should consider using a billing solution.

Disclosure: I am one a co-founder of http://www.ChargeBee.com, another Subscription Billing solution focused on small businesses.

Shameless plug: If you are looking for options to use payment gateway for credit card + bank transfers for recurring to save $$s per transaction you should try our solution (launching the ACH part very soon).
H1-B VISA has a limit of 6 years. H1-Bs get no social security benefits even though they pay social security taxes just like anyone else. Their children do not educate for free - they pay local, federal and city taxes just like anyone else. They aren't allowed to vote.

You are thinking immigrants not H1-Bs. Due to severe shortage of immigrant VISAs and due to MNCs not filing Green Cards for most H1-Bs - there is a small percentage of total H1-Bs that actually end up staying and becoming citizens.
As a recent STEM graduate (Masters in CS), what irks me is the relentless focus on job experience. I don't even get interviews for jobs requiring a high school/GED equivalence + 3 years of experience. There seems to be little faith in our STEM programs among tech recruiters/companies.
Adding Options Without Hurting User Flow: Navigation Spinner
We considered the "registry" angle but decided against it since it only works if everyone uses it. We wanted to build a tool that could be useful without needing any network effects to kick in.
To be safe, we always rebuild the old master after we fail over to a synchronous standby server. We have capistrano tasks to automate it, so it's not too bad. The async servers merely follow the new server after the IP moves, so we don't need to do anything there.

Edit: We also don't increment the timeline on failover. Instead, we stop PostgreSQL, remove the recovery.conf, and restart.
Will OpenStack Save the Traditional Hosting Companies?
I wonder if any places like hacker school, et. al. have creative coding projects? I would be inclined to think that hacker school is probably the one that would be closest, as the other places seem more focused on web development.
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I can feel your pain.

Right now I have this workflow:

git add filename(s)
git stash
git svn rebase
git svn dcommit
git stash pop

The worst is failed merges in git svn rebase...
Ask HN: How did you decide where to work?
I'm a Junior at a technical university studying Math & CS and I'm really having a difficult time deciding between offers, teams, and places to work. What factors helped you decide where to work? Any advice for an undergrad?
You can see in the screenshot that the results are hidden behind a "Show results" dropdown. There's no risk of people spotting your subject lines by peering over your shoulder at search results.
A peculiar comparison to P2P. But I think I know what he's getting at. It's the idea of "enablement". As in, enabling easy infringement. But if my understanding is correct (it might not be), so long as there are alternative non-infringing uses that are significant, this hurdle, set by incumbent industries, can be overcome.

Perhaps good examples were analog cassette and video tapes. They enabled easy infringement. But they had so many beneficial uses, the courts were not persuaded by the incumbent industries. And Congress even created exceptions for personal use copying ("home taping") in the statute.

There is nothing inherently infringing about P2P, or even inherently enabling. Nothing says you have to use it to share bits with thousands of people or more. Back in the analog days millions of people made recordings and shared them with each other (i.e. people they knew: friends, colleagues, etc.), without being sued. It's only when some people tried to started businesses selling mass produced copies to the public (i.e. people they didn't know: customers) without authorization that they were sued. These "bootleggers" were, as I remember it, a very small percentage of total number of people using the available recording technology.

Not quite enough to keep an enormously useful technology like audio and video recording out of reach from the public.
I use Pathjoy to clean my apartment and I love it. The booking process is simple and the quality of the cleaning has always been superb. Recently a second cleaner came by at the end to check up on the quality of the cleaning, which is something I've never seen from any other cleaning service. It was also a great price, I can't see myself ever switching from it.
CO2 dissolving does help with climate change, but causes ocean acidification instead. If it gets bad enough, the lower pH will interfere with a lot of marine life with calcified structures like shells and coral. The full impact of that on the ocean's food chain is difficult to estimate, but it won't be good.
Linkedin gets a new look
Ask HN: What's your favorite Science Fiction book?
Which book is your favorite? Why? :)
The barrier to getting another TN for Canadians for another employer is too low to allow for these kind of shenanigans. Having to move back to Canada isn't that horrible either, and they don't get the foreigner isolation effect that ESL people have.
The point isn't whether or not there will be a PC or whether or not there will be 18+ games on it.

The point is whether or not there Microsoft will be on the PC loading them. If so, how does Microsoft get from A to B? How do developers deal with the restrictions in the meantime?
Testing in my lab at CWRU by Gary Doran has indicated that correctly written Numpy code often outperforms the Matlab equivalent. I don't know about R and Julia but there isn't usually a speed bottleneck which can be fixed by moving to Matlab from Python.
"History is full of examples of ecological manipulations that backfired."

You mean like extracting billions of barrels of oil a day and burning them? We're already manipulating the environment.

This is what I wish we were discussing in the global warming debate in the U.S. - not whether global warming was happening, but conservation versus mitigation/adaptation.
Server-side, that's cheap -- it doesn't actually copy any data. Client-side, it's also cheap: you `svn switch` to the new branch, which is identical to your old branch, so only minimal housekeeping on disk (just like git).
>Of course that may not be the best comparison since governments don't exactly like the Anarchists Cookbook.

They should - anybody trying something out of the AC is likely to kill themselves in the process:

http://www.righto.com/anarchist-cookbook-faq.html
Looks like HN is cranky this morning.

I like it! A bike used to be my primary means of transportation back in the Bay Area, and I used to pay for good ones. Every single one of them got stolen. Every one. The last one I owned had a state-of-the-art lock on it, so the thieves cut the bike rack. People that don't rely on a bike seriously underestimate what it means to a bike owner when their bike is stolen; to a lot of people, it's just, "oh, you lost your toy, just go buy another one". To many bike owners, it's more like, "I just lost the ability to get around quickly."

The number one reason I don't own a bike right now is because I don't feel like putting up with it being stolen.

So this is one of those really big under-served pain points that everybody keeps saying you should look for when building a business.

priceonomics' approach makes perfect sense: make it easier to locate stolen bikes online, and build a new, centralized marketplace specifically for bikes that people will want to use (which also makes it harder for thieves to sell bikes online without the owner finding it).

Good job, guys.
I just don't want to see any pixels from 10-15 inches away when I'm using it in bed. I doubt the surface will be able to accomplish this feat. I have superb vision and cannot discern pixels on an iPad unless it is within a couple inches of my nose.
UK halts extradition of accused hacker over suicide concerns
Artist Can’t Get Pirated Music Off iTunes, Google and Microsoft Stores
You know, there is quite a bit of very interesting programming that does not culminate in a web-app or even a GUI. If anything, this is where the most interesting work lies: embedded systems, AI, machine learning, compilers, static analysis, distributed systems...

The problems in these spaces require a significant amount of ingenuity and creativity but no design. (I'm assuming you mean visual design rather than something more general.)
Yeah, DRDB is terrible for write heavy performance. It was probably the source of many of your MySQL issues as well, but it's good that you've found a new home regardless.
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Wow! A big thank you to everyone for all the provided feedback. Taking the various reviews into consideration, I see that the design most definitely needs to be enhanced. Will be looking at revamping the site design to best gain a more professional look. Our goal is definitely to have the highest number of people signing-up, as such we'll also be focusing on reducing the clutter.

Thanks duiker101, Tangue, codegeek and Y234.

Looking forward to receiving more feedback and critique from the HN community. Please keep it coming.
"I keep seeing the supply chain thing mentioned a lot"

Because it is very important, at the same price Apple could be getting 40% profit and MS barely getting break even.

It does not matter how much Xbox they ship, but how many tablets they are already shipping, and Apple is selling millions and it has been doing for years.

this already happened with macbooks and ultrabooks, ultrabooks has been loosing money at the same price ranges because they got late.
You know readability.com? Here is the original source
>Until next version of windows when it's completely locked down.

Excuse me while I go pick up my eyes that rolled across the office floor.

Please. This sort of slippery slope fearmongering belongs in a Gutmann article, not a HN comment. It's BS when someone says it about Apple, and it's BS when someone says it about Microsoft. There will always be a need for general purpose computers that can run anything.
The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson. I think it paints the most realistic idea of space travel, interplanetary society and Mars colonization....just about the most exciting stuff ever. Also, it's pretty hard sci fi and so the reader learns a lot about Martian geology and such along the way.
Snow Crash, cyberpunk fun.
I think in this context he's using "creative" in the sense that it's used in the advertising industry. A creative is someone who actually works on developing an advertisement, rather than, say, someone buying up airtime. The companies on the list are almost all advertising agencies. It's just the industry nomenclature and I don't think he meant to say that programmers in the non-advertising world aren't creative.
What conclusion? That he was nerdy-looking? That's just an observation.
Doesn't it also matter who up-votes the post? I thought the ranking was a weighted points system. Meaning, if you have high karma, your up-vote is more respected.

I think I've even seen 1 or 2 up-votes getting a story to the homepage.
Dubious lawsuits are a telltale sign of a company on its way down. When all else is lost, file lawsuits. What's to lose?

If we can't pay our bills with earned revenue, maybe we can get a few judgements for some quick cash.

Whether this applies to this case, I do not know. Draw your own conclusions.
I enjoyed reading "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge. Its exploration of evolution of wearable devices is something I enjoyed a lot.
> You may call it FUD if you wish, but I would either have to be logged out when making Google searches or risk having some of my e-mail with senders and subject lines revealed to anyone watching my screen.

Considering that's just completely untrue based on all your available data, I won't call it FUD. I'll just call it a lie.
I just ran Wes's benchmarks (not the BLAS call versions) on my machine with a Julia I built on 10/13 (17c3c13), and the timings have indeed improved. For the details, see this gist: https://gist.github.com/3901139 (including the comment I posted on it).

The highlight is

numpy: (x * y).sum() => 41.1 ms

julia: inner(x,y) => 37.4 ms

julia: x*y => 19.5 ms

cython: inner(x,y) => 13.8 ms

The numpy and Julia versions are much easier to write and run.

Disclaimers: I've never written or built cython code before just now, and I think Julia is the coolest.

EDIT: whoops, missed the most important one (inner() written in pure Julia). Added it. Any thoughts on why inner() in Julia isn't faster?
Why The Professor Can't Teach (1977)
The whole "protecting intellectual property" thing could work if it was possible to issue patents in an unbiased and consistent way but patent examiners are human beings and they do some research on the issue, read the arguments from the patent lawyers and come to a (usually biased) decision. You even see cases where a patent is rejected 9 times and get accepted the 10th time. It is extremely difficult to come up with an unbiased, consistent and all-knowing (past work) way to issue patents, I'm not even sure if it's possible at all. And that's another reason why there should be no patents issued at least in the software industry.
>The article argues that Metro apps are the future

I'm not seeing it. Metro's entire UI paradigm would seem to limit it to primarily content consumption apps and toys (games). For instance I don't think we'll ever see Photoshop or Ableton on metro as we know it today.

That's not to say creation apps won't exist - look at the iPad, you've got full office suites, music apps that emulate synthesizers with a great degree of fidelity, etc - but those are most definitely a niche.
this does seem useful. we have a dev team that is international and it is quite a challenge to bring them all on a call on Skype at times.
Could be that it's just "creative" as design department vs "coder" as development department.

Having said that, I agree that there can be great creativity in programming.
Of course this isn't a science fiction book, it's all real ;-)
But mine would definitely be THHGTTG (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
I've been hellbanned twice.
> 2. Visa handcuffs are not slavery per say, but close enough.

I can confirm this. A few of my former H1B coworkers described how an unscrupulous manager would take advantage of them by dangling a sponsorship carrot (for a green card if I remember correctly). None of them were very happy about it and most felt trapped.
Hipmunk Adds Free Fare Alerts to Its Flight Search
It's like the senior discount on a grander scale. Your typical old person on a fixed income can pay less than someone still working, so you split the market into two segments and do a pricing strategy that gives maximum profit in both - you keep the high margin on the young but increase the quantity the old can afford more than the price cut. You keep people from moving between the segmented markets by setting an age break.

Same goes for the international vs. the American market - there's no way you're going to be able to charge $150 for a textbook, $200 for a Windows license, or thousands a month for HIV meds in Africa and get any reasonable number of customers. Since the marginal cost of both is low, companies can cut their prices to close to the amount it costs them to make a unit and make it up on the massively increased volume.

Any time you segment a market like this you have to keep it apart somehow. Sometimes it's natural - a senior discount seems fair and few will make false claims of being elderly - but sometimes it's not. Clearly everyone in the US would prefer to pay 95% less for their medication than they are, but the pharmaceuticals wouldn't like it and probably wouldn't be able to survive on that. So they make it very difficult to do any kind of arbitrage.

If you're an individual you can probably get away with it with a lot of effort (I got a lot of Indian textbooks (Identical to US versions) because I was desperate and put a lot of work into finding someone who wouldn't refuse to ship to the US.) If you try to break the segmentation on any kind of scale you'll get a legal smackdown. Maybe it's completely legal, but it's hard to prove, and the possible losses are so great most companies will go to war over this.

I guess that the irony is that third-world wages are allowed to compete more often than third-world prices. Maybe there's something valid to that - if
HIV meds cost everywhere what they cost in the cheapest country, then there would be no new ones, or at least an end to wildly cheaper versions - but that's the grievance.

(Don't know if third-world is the right term, so let me just say when I say that I mean "places significantly less economically developed than America")
Regularly losing hard drives? Try clean power.
That's some really revisionist history there, but don't be afraid to share some actual data instead of hyperbole.
AND, they want to be able to restrict flow of goods bought abroad into the US, so they can keep US profits artificially high. All of the benefits, none of the liabilities.
This is, in the end, a reflection of the incentives governments have crafted in recent environmental policy. Now that there's an opening for profit, the market has rushed in to provide "solutions" of varying quality and ethics.
We're using AngularJS on a large project, and although we haven't looked deeply at Dart yet, I still have a ton of questions in regard to their future compatibility, potential overlaps, roadmaps, etc. I've seen some message group posts about this, but there was nothing definitive and the core groups don't seem to collaborate at all (please correct me if I'm wrong).
In this case, Canada and the US are both signatories to the violated UN rules. According to Wikipedia, US law incorporates the Convention, and I'd imagine Canada does the same.