skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the little things that add up, Vista is like Win7 with an itchy wool sweater over top. Win7 refined UAC, the quicklaunch/taskbar is amazing and the running task previews actually work, the start menu app search is better, the system tray notifications can be more finely tuned, and it runs significantly better on mid/lower end hardware.
When your industry experiences an explosion of second-rate product at third-world wages is that a threat?

Not necessarily the end of your business/career if you can market your value-add but a threat none the less.
Apple iMessage down, iOS users unable to send messages
I just thought it was funny and wanted to share. :)
Date of incorporation is an easy to measure, non-fuzzy data point.

How do you determine the date of becoming active?
This is symptomatic with one of my two big problems with journalling oriented file-systems.

My problems with journalling are two fold:

1) They are very slow:

1a) You have a nice big sequential write into the journal, which is OK.

1b) A flush track cache to make sure it is actually in the journal. This can sync whatever has accumulated in the track cache which might not just be journal data.

1c) The actual overwrites that spew data randomly over the drive.

1d) Writes to update the journal header/terminate the transaction.

1e) A final flush track cache which will sync who-knows-what onto the platters/flash.

2) Replay behavior of the journal log is _very_ fragile code. You need to handle lots of terrible cases, the most awful of which is to ensure that you don't play older transaction on top of newer transactions. You might say "hey, that shouldn't happen!" but it happens. It happens because the code is not trivial to write and detecting these bad cases aren't trivial. Even if you do get the code write, you are still screwed. Why? Because if your drive does not support the flush track cache mechanism you are in for a world of pain. You can have a journal and journal header that is ancient if it just stuck in some cache...

The ext* family of filesystems do not appear to have natural resiliency to this sort of problem. Instead, it appears to be a coordinated, concerted effort between various parts of the journaling code.
Top Spamming Countries: July-September 2012
And what is "distribution of wealth" for one might be an investment in society or demand-side economics for another.

It's not a moon shot, nuclear energy, the interstate highway system, or anything of the sort the article is actually discussing.
YouTube videos on Android cubesat to test "in space, no-one can hear you scream"
"Google says RR Donnelley filed draft earnings statement without authorization"
The title is from a Reuters piece dated October 18. It has been on the front page of Google Finance, which usually presents last-minute news, every day since then. As I write this, it is even the top headline, right next to the leading index chart. Am I the only one thinking "enough already, I got it a week ago"?
Sounds logical. If it fails, hopefully the reason for failure is not the logo, or an accumulation of things done quickly and cheaply.
YouTube Launches InVideo Programming To Boost Video And Channel Promotion
So nice to see the designers of HN come out of the woodwork. I feel like that's all my account here seems to be used for.
Mexico Needs a Venture Capital Industry
The only way I am going to see Windows 8 is with a new PC (which is a few years away, next purchase is probably an Apple product), or at work.

At work the IT dept will hopefully skip this version all together, or take a few years before "approving" it.
What surprised me is that Paypal is facilitating the payment for gigbucks, the marketplace where this is (still) offered.
this is just so awesome...
I have become quite well versed in setting up streaming replication by myself (postgres 9.1) and have a good system when i need to provision one but a one click solution is a whole other level!
Cool, thanks for the honest response. :)
Did anyone notice the Brainfuck interpreter written in Piet? The mind re-boggles... Or repurposes it as an Enterprise Workflow DSL
Once again, it's relative. It's not just corruption that matters, it's also economic power. Germany, for example, is ranked above the US at 14 in the CPI. However, the US is ranked 4th in ease of doing business, while Germany is 20th.

Economic power is also somewhat based on productive might (GDP, basically). If it weren't then we'd expect New Zealand to be the economic center of the world. Are we really going to argue that New Zealand is the economic center of the world?

The only entity I see which even comes close to matching these figures is the EU as a single entity. However, recent events have shown us that the EU is not a single entity.
That's a great idea!

But eyes that are randomly wandering around are actually kinda creepy, too... :-)
Prebuilt Android APKs for Dante (Doom3 Android open source port)
I'm about halfway through this on my Kindle.

I had seen Pandas referenced online and had been meaning to look at it at some point. Reading this book has forced me to pay attention. The Pandas dataframe type is well explained here and is now firing my mind, I'm just spinning off into various applications that hadn't occurred to me before reading this book.

In summary, I would definitely recommend it so far.
RabbitMQ is accessed mostly by using the AMQP protocol 0.9.1 so if you have a client in your language for that version then you are good to go. Check the links in @blackdawg comment.

There are some plugins which offer other protocols like STOMP or MQTT
If I were phishing for information, this is exactly how I'd do it.
I'm only interested in the Fotolia credits, but would rather leave someone else to make use of the others offers. If you signed up and want to share the Fotolia credits, let me know.
I think it is because ever since the 90s we don't think a company is "winning" until the DoJ starts getting worried about anti-trust stuff. Profit is not good enough, a company must start crushing its competition beneath its feet until people in tech can declare a "victory"; until that happens we have to keep cheering/jeering.
Sure, people have been convinced not to look at alternatives because it's convenient not to look at alternatives, but it seems that press on tech would be pretty boring if the press didn't bother looking at alternatives (especially when Apple products are created in response to these alternatives).
It's not metro without Segoe UI.
Do you think your opinion is biased based on reading this article first?
Pioneer Hackathon with Sarah Austin
The first ever AppRadio Hackathon is in Las Vegas at the 2012 Specialty Equipment Manufactures Association (SEMA) Show. The Hackathon is presented by Pioneer Electronics from October 30th to November 2nd. Over $50,000 in Cash and Prizes for First, second and third place winners will be awarded in three app categories, Voice Interface SNS application, Location Based Services application, and SEMA Member automotive accessory application and Sarah Austin will be there to present.
That's the Windows "tax" everyone complains about. Microsoft gives huge discounts to OEMs if they promise to bundle Windows with every PC they sell.
The question was posed under the assumption that I already do know the languages and am a competent programmer.

I think I'm somewhat experienced with programming (and I enjoy it).

>I would say if your only aim is to have an extra income then don't go for it because you can get that easier doing other stuff.

What do you suggest?
Does this remind anyone else of the "X Minute Abs" craze?
Sign up. It's a little empty right now. There is a good chance you can get your hotel, food, and entry for 100% free. That excludes travel though.
you need agent forwarding to ssh into a server to do a git pull from _that_ server. e.g. a dev vm.
'displace' and 'replace' are synonyms in this context. What you are discussing is China becoming the dominant reserve currency in East Asia, which is a separate claim than the one made by the article.
If the Macbook Pro was advertised as a laptop you can customise and play with and then you find out you can't swap the battery yourself, then it would not be surprising if some people who bought it for that reason would say it "sucks".

Similarly, the Raspberry Pi was advertised as a computer you can customise and play with. It was built for educational use, and yet part of it is hidden away from study. This is annoying some people who expected more than they reasonably should have.
The Bevry Startup Hostel
The iPad Mini’s out, but here’s why Microsoft’s Surface is going to be huge
Times they are a-changing ...
Live Crowdfunding Event - SF - DFW - NYC - Dec
"Metro is every bit the usability disaster that people have claimed when not running on a touch screen."

It is good to see a total usability disaster in which Linux took the lead and Windows followed. It is usually the other way around. This really bodes well for Linux on the desktop.
Don't fall for the Mali/A10. Constant, repeated disappointment.
Ahhh, then my apologies, I feel my time analysing the URL may have been wasted ^^
I hardly notice a difference between Vista post SP1 and Win 7.

Vista had teething problems early on which burnt a lot of people. Unfortunately, that's what seems to be stuck in everyone's minds.
Nitrogen6X and SABRE Light do (http://boundarydevices.com/products/), and should be $200 in a week.

Wandaboard (http://www.wandboard.org/) should have a SATA connector on future configurations, but nothing concrete has been announced.
ExDream, http://exdream.com/Games/

The first company in the world releasing a .NET commercial game back in 2002.

Bitcomposer, http://bitcomposer.com

EA Phenomic, http://www.phenomic.de/
I poked around the data a bit (I uploaded a JSON file below).
First, I separated the tweets into two sets
based on the last eight hex digits (00s and 50s).
In each set, I parsed each 16-digit message as an integer,
converted that to a binary string, and reversed the binary digits.
Parsing that as an integer again gives numbers that roughly increase over time.

Here is a chart of the 00s (plotted against tweet number):

http://i48.tinypic.com/svl4jm.png

and of the 50s:

http://i46.tinypic.com/2mn1wg7.png

It's rather strange that the data isn't perfectly monotonic.

I'll look into the tweet coordinates next.
It is pretty clear that they care about their competitors, but they also don't have to at the same time. People are so locked into the apple marketing that they don't even want to know what else is out there.
Uhh, I got to hear this firsthand when looking at a Galaxy Note a few weeks ago. I was looking at the Note to see if I can fit the damn thing in my pocket and two BestBuy employees were BSing about "android people". "Yo, I don't even care what other features android has, I'm apple fo life!" to which the other guy agreed.

This is sad for society and wonderful for Apple. Apple's marketing is so strong/effective that at some level, they don't even have to pay attention to the competition, particularly when their customers think that every smart phone is an iPhone.

However, as said above, it is clear that they do care about their competition and if aggressive marketing from other companies (Re: Samsung's commercials), they may have a bigger battle to fight.
Can anyone recommend me some good game development books for someone who wants to create "small" games as a hobby? By "small" I mean that my goal is to be able to create games for ocasions like the GitHub Game Off, or some small indie games
I often hear people use this argument, but I'm not sure I buy it. Won't the Justices just wait until a President of their preferred ideology is in power before retiring?

Justice Ginsburg is only 79 -- both John Paul Stevens and Oliver Wendell Holmes retired when they were 90.

Edit: It looks like Ginsburg has expressed her desire to retire at 82 (in 2015), so unless she changes her mind, it will matter.
Anybody want to put a HNers team together for this?
As a foreigner in the US, who have lived and worked in two BRICS (Brazil and China) and visited a third (Russia), I don't think you've properly made your case. What about doing business here is inherently less fair to you as a foreigner doing business?

I explicitly am asking about doing business in the sense of trade of goods or services, both buying and selling. I am not talking about coming here as an employee on an immigrant visa.
I've never used Parse before, haven't really needed it, but I just bought a Surface and have my developer license ready to go. Time to have a stab at it tomorrow night.
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So you're saying Apple should stick with the same set of hardware capabilities for six years?
School of Code Part 1 : Squirrel (SQL)
I found the email. It was caught by my overly aggressive spam filter. Thanks for the reply though.
I like HackerNews to be a supportive environment for startups, but this raises some questions.

Publishers trying to make an honest buck will dislike this. So will cafe customers that just want coffee and wifi and not your political positions, and the privacy conscious who now have their browsing data being sent off to an anonymous third party.

And that's putting the security question aside. (If these guys got hacked, they could very easily harvest your bank and email passwords; I'd be more trusting if they're weren't also using an anonymous whois proxy.)

The best businesses find win-wins (Airbnb is good for travelers and real-estate owners) -- but I only see one win here.

Edit: If this company ends up expanding available public wifi hotspots by rewriting some ads and providing some revenue back to the wifi provider, that could be a win-win for customers and cafes and could be a real hit.
I mean most compiler vendors only care about big companies nowadays, since most startups don't want to pay for development tools.

No standards driven language gets fully support at the same time across all vendors.
Don't know about Cisco v. Huawei, but the Apple v. Samsung case would most likely have turned out the same were Samsung American or Apple foreign.
It looks like you, guys, are embarassed by your age. "We're too old - we are already 27". Damn, I thought that you were at least 50 when I read it. As far as I remember, PG told about 26 to be average age for applicants. I'm 27 right now but I'm not going to retire tomorrow - hell, I'm still to young and will be even when I be 40. :)
Horizontal scrolling is easier and more natural if you're using touch. The wide screen gives you lots of room to sweep your finger back and forth and "throw" the content if you want to. Horizontal touch scrolling also evokes the feeling of paging through a book.

Of course, if you're not using touch, then yes, I agree it feels a bit weird at first. It doesn't take that long to get used to though.
>I'm not going to pass judgment on the ethics or usefulness of this app...
>2. Instead of being partisan, maybe you would want a >"HotspotsForAmerica" that would just remind people to vote >for the candidate of their choice, instead of telling people >who they should vote for.

I'm not going to criticize this comment but ...
> Won't the Justices just wait until a President of their preferred ideology is in power before retiring?

For the 70+ year olds on the court, that's not always up to them. If it was, the ideological makeup of the court would essentially never change.
Anyone whose University participates in Microsoft DreamSpark will be happy to know it's available for free there already.
I was one of those people who spent ridiculous number of hours in Skyrim, but that's a rare and far-between luxury. For every one great game like Skyrim, I pay for a dozen mediocre games that I play for maybe an hour or two.

The amount of time you need to commit to make it worthwhile is exactly the problem and introduces a high risk factor. If I see a mediocre movie, that's only 2 hours of value gone.
This makes sense from Microsoft's point of view. Why would they pay a royalty fee on every copy of Windows when such a small percentage of users play DVDs? Especially when the fix is as easy as just downloading VLC.
My reaction was surprise (at jsnk's comparison), not intended to be a rant. But I'll explain further: I completely understand why this site and many others like it exist. They have a purpose, which is to provide a quick and painless service at practically no cost. I don't think that the service itself is necessarily bad. Rather, I think the way it's used is wrong. You don't use them to 'hire a designer' (or a dozen). You use them to get a couple people with either too much time, too much software, too little skill, or too little opportunity to show something off in hopes of getting a few dollars. In this case, there is a startup which needs a brand so that they can forget about it as they build their business. My feeling is that regardless of the cost, there is a better approach to getting this sort of work done especially if you claim to value this step of the process. I understand the desire to cut costs, and I am perfectly aware that quality doesn't scale with cost. On top of that, I've done my share of cheap-ass logos to pay for a little gas. But this is hacker news, I think it's worth putting in this perspective. In the most basic sense, I see it as a simple professional courtesy to pay a proper wage, even when you're getting closer to squashing costs and risk.
I see this as a pretty big leap. Remember, this OS isn't about forgetting about Windows or forcing change on anybody. It's about creating an ecosystem similar to what Apple has. They want you to use their apps (Office, Bing Search, X-box Games) across all of their products (Desktop, Surface, Windows 8 phone) and make it so you can access the same info anywhere you are.

I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on this rather bold move.
What are you giving them that isn't likely already public information?
This isn't change for the sake of being different, it's a radical (and risky) attempt at change such that the mobile and desktop environments become merged.

And you Microsoft Office ribbon example is great! That was another change that many saw as "change for change's sake", but it's become a UI function that the vast majority appreciate and depend on. I'm sure many of the HN crowd would have, or did, lambast the ribbon on introduction, and I'm equally sure many of them have come to love it. It sure didn't take me long.
> When draining swamps qualifies but cell phone coverage doesn't, I argue that it is still unclear.

Yes, you're right. There's seemingly another element to the author's designation of "big" that I neglected: people working toward a common goal with no obvious or immediate commercial benefit. Cell phone coverage was a natural outgrowth of competition between cell phone companies and a desire to claim more customers and provide more competitive service.

> So the internet is not big

The author didn't say this, Thiel did, and the context in which he said it is not all that clear. Seemingly, given the context of the article, it's a reaction to the current state of Silicon Valley backed ventures, which Thiel (perhaps rightly) claims are not providing technological breakthroughs. If Thiel is suggesting that the Internet, in a larger context, is not a breakthough innovation in itself, I can't agree with that.

> And how does that act of adding a life support system and a passenger qualify as more than evolutionary?

Personally, I don't think it does. Then again, there may be huge technological hurdles above and beyond those that enabled the moon landing or the mars rovers that I'm not aware of. The average person probably isn't aware of them either, and whether or not it's justified, "putting a person on mars" will probably never seem as ambitious as "putting a man on the moon" had seemed at the time.
Windows, reimagined: Ars' review of Windows 8
I've used Jump for the past year; it's an excellent remote desktop client.
Wikitravel and Wikimedia on a collision course
Very interesting....at least it's not 4.
Udacity Raises Funds From Andreessen Horowitz
Well, it does the right thing by default if you have a sufficiently recent version. You still need to pass `verify=True` to make older versions fail rather than silently accept bad certs. For httplib2, the idiom is similar:
`client = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=False)`
Update here: https://lwn.net/Articles/521090/
Ginsburg was treated for pancreatic cancer three years ago.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/st...
I might be wrong, but I think they're mimicking the xbox dashboard which goes horizontal since you're moving it with the right & left trigger buttons. Feels natural on xbox but i think they probably wanted a sense of familiarity and thats why its horizontal on windows? Idk. Just my assumption.
But that's so short-sighted! You know what worked? The Motorola RAZR. But then the iPhone came out and it was a radical change and, even though many said at the time "I just need to make calls and text", it set the standard.

If your mentality is always "if it ain't broke don't fix it" then you're probably going to get disrupted. Windows 7 wasn't broke, but the future of the desktop environment looks like it might be, so Microsoft is trying to merge desktop and mobile. It may not work, but you must at least somewhat sympathize with their need to try.
Another reason could be those of us who support a national healthcare system (though I generally like Johnson's non-economic views).
is this permanantly shut down?
Most of international companies don't have mentions of competition on website and in optional materials. It's illegal to directly compare with competitors or ever call best without mention of specific set of characteristics in many countries.

TLDR: There in Russia we don't have "I am Mac vs I am PC" advertisements.
Open invitation: drop by the MixRank office (SoMA, SF) on Wednesday evenings for friendly Project Euler competitions.
Oddly, Windows 7 Pro does have DVD support out of the box.
Again, I get that, but the target of the accusation is wrong to me. You can say the people suck at keeping their promises, or the company sucks at marketing things that are not true. But those things have little or nothing to do with the hardware that customers have in hand right now. What I read in that article is that the underlying hardware, to some even the whole concept, sucks because its graphics driver model is not as open as some would like.

There's been no indication that the hardware itself, the chips on the board, nor the driver do not PERFORM as expected.

If the Macbook Pro was advertised in such a way that was not true in the end, yes indeed that "situation" would suck, but the computer itself would still be a good computer.
Or perhaps she was just making a joke.
Within the week? I'd be surprised if there isn't something there by tomorrow morning.
All of the deals seem good in the short term but they are FREE for a reason, to get you hooked! I am not going to signup just because it sounds good right now. Please make sure you want to stick with that service for a long time before you jump in!
It's quite significant. SD card is fine for the hacker community though. They have different intentions I suppose. SD cards weren't really designed for OS (particularly if you forget to disable a pagefile which will constantly write old memory to "disk" and drastically shorten its life)
You do the search->run thing but average joe user is not going to be doing it that way.
Apple Now Has $121.3B In Cash: More Than Amazon’s Market Cap Or A Space Station
Uh huh. I think I read this same article a few years back, only instead of yuan it said euro.
yes, the solution to wild spending is always to cast a critical eye at how to extract yet MORE of the US GDP to spend on garbage.