skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever since Windows 8 was first shown to the public back in June 2011 people have speculated about / been confused about what relation the "new system" has to the existing Windows, technically - is "Metro" a thin layer over "Desktop" Windows, like Media Center or Bob? Or is it the reverse, the desktop some virtual-machine environment on top of the "new system", like Mac OS "classic mode"? Or are they two systems running side-by-side?

In fact it's none of those things - the new environment/UI isn't a new shell running on top of, underneath, or alongside the existing shell. Rather, it's a set of new features added and refactorings made to every layer of the existing system, together with a set of policies designed to create the effect of a fresh new environment by encouraging/enforcing a path through only the "new" parts of each layer.

So, for example, the app permissions / sandbox that new-style apps run in is actually a new general low-level system feature that desktop apps can use too - IE10 desktop uses it for "Enhanced Protected Mode". But this isn't really being publicized or promoted because why would desktop app developers rewrite their code to work with it? Similarly the windows that new-style apps run in aren't being controlled by some separate window manager, they are just regular windows (HWND) in the existing window manager - but that window manager has new features for smoother composition/animation and touch manipulation of windows, and new security features to enforce Z-order rules so apps can't pop up windows on top of new-style apps or steal focus or whatever. Most of the new WinRT APIs aren't available to desktop apps but there is no fundamental purely technical reason they can't be. And so on.
A dollar spent on healthcare is not "productive".
What do you base this statement on?
Well run public healthcare programmmes are exceptionally cost effective. Cancer screening, childhood immunisations, dental, eye and hearing screening for children, free doctors visits for children. These are all things people around me use on a routine basis. They have a real and measurable effect on productivity for us all and do save money.
All these healthcare programmes and many, many more, aren't run for the sake of smiles and happiness. They save dollars, lives and increase productivity.
Their CEO is offensive, their user interface is awful, they screw with DNS, they're typically on the wrong side of supporting internet regulation in the US, they try to upsell you on everything...

In complete contrast to GoDaddy, I really like the exposure that the DreamHost panel gives you to your hosting configuration. It's straightforward and made for people that know what's going on under the hood. Also, they keep the mail they send you to a minimum and when they do send you something, it's worth reading. I tend to recommend them to even my non-tech friends when they need to register a domain or need hosting.
Ask HN: How to I learn Exploratory Data Analysis
- I want to learn that given any dataset what kind of questions I can ask and what kind of information I can retrieve - Someone told me that Exploratory Data Analysis is what I need
- I am new to Statistics and Data Analysis

- Please share your advices on resources, books, videos, tutorials that I can learn from. Thank you very much
TC is going to get worse, not better. AOL hasn't even gone full retard with them yet, this is all we can expect...

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Pure Garbage, puregarbage, pure, garbage.
The Australian Dollar is roughly at parity with the US at the moment (Currently $1 AUD = $1.03 USD) and has been for sometime... so if the observations from the study still hold today, the amount would be about equal in either currency.
This was my thought as well. But if you can afford several TB of ROM you can probably afford to increase your RAM to 4MB.
Right, that part I parsed without issue.

I'd rather see no homeless people on the street (a decently-sized problem in my part of the US) than more homeless people who are still better off than they would be in their old nation.

I'm unconvinced that there exists some sort of moral imperative that we need to seek the suggested path instead of working towards only temporary frictional unemployment and better care for everyone currently in our nation.
Deprecation notice, I guess:

"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this
variable in this release.
It's 2012, why don't we look at the 2012 rankings where it's #1?

http://www.pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1&survey=14...
CoffeeScript classes: under the hood
It depends if the authors are in on the scam or not -- is it scamming authors of their money, or scamming universities who are checking CVs?
For what it's worth, I recently announced that I was changing jobs and moving countries on Facebook, and pretty much all of my friends saw that message, because it's the sort of thing everyone likes and so Facebook will designate it as important whether you pay or not.

An engagement would be similar. Events and PMs too, because you get notifications for those.

This feature, it seems to me, would be most suitable for things that you may think are very important but that are easy to miss or ignore for your friends. Like a benefit dinner at your kids' school or whatever. Things that are in between personal and promotional.

Doesn't freak me out. Don't know why it should.
The article seems to suggest that the best way for TC to be relevant is to post shorter bits and long form articles written by entrepreneurs. I believe what's being described exists as "PandoDaily," which statistically speaking, you are probably not reading.

Yes, it's true that most technology writers haven't gone out to try their hand at founding startups. Most founders also haven't tried their hand at technology journalism, and it's hard not to notice that guests posts on blogs from founders are usually vapid cheerleading of the form "there is an unaddressed market problem in field X and there is a lot of opportunity in solving X," where "X" is whatever field their startup is in.

There are founders who are good writers, and people who write regularly will get better at it. But there are also a fair number of journalists, particularly in "new media" like, uh, websites, who have enough of a technical background to have some idea what they're talking about when they write. Is it better to have articles written by solid writers with unexceptional technology backgrounds, or articles written by people who've successfully gotten money but aren't necessarily good writers (and might still have unexceptional technology backgrounds)? Personally, I'd rather go for the former.
Just remember, 75% of the folks here on hacker news won't be attending your event, so following up with the slides/video would be much appreciated and would go a long way of increasing your reach!
I'm pretty sure that the 'no special code for mobile' and 'recipient pays' concepts were part of the same plan - companies worried that nobody would call a mobile if they knew it was different or more expensive, so they made it look exactly the same to call one, and make the assumed 'high powered exec' cover the cost difference in order to receive calls. I'm not sure why this only happened in the US - was it the first country to have consumer mobile phones?
Since Reddit has been down a lot today... awkward.
In my experience, things you described are probably true, but they have nothing to do with acquisition. Actually it is very much desired (Larry was hating PeopleSoft a few years ago... and see what happen).

And duplication of products was never a problem for Larry: he just kills the one with less customers. For example, in case of BEA and Oracle Application Server: BEA WebLogic replaced Oracle Application Server.
In this case, in case of acquisition, Oracle cloud offering will be replaced with Salesforce.
For anyone wondering why you might not want to use GH pages, and use S3/Cloudfront instead... The Git 1.8 release notes ended up with this today:

"You're over the rate limit. Serve this file from your own servers. Contact support@github.com if you have questions."

https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes...
MS pushes the line that desktop apps shouldn't depend on Windows store apps being installed on the same machine, and vice versa. In other words, there's no official bi-directional communication method between the two.

Some further info on this here for those interested: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7465517/how-can-a-metro-a...
I live roughly equidistant to most of the best breweries in San Diego, let me know if you're headed to town.
Are promises basically streams? Or am I over-generalizing here?
Same here but using Chrome Version 22.0.1229.94 m Win 8
Thanks for taking the time to reply, j45. The points you bring up are quite astute despite my being vague on details.

Wrt "the person is as willing to look at themselves as much as point fingers", I actually thought I was being overly hypercritical because nothing in the past week has happened that would provoke me. So I just thought I needed time and space. That was what I was looking for wrt replies on HN, but...

Upon retrospect, we have also both been testier ever since our first idea didn't work out. So far so good with the new one, but that first one was 6 months of 0 traction that changed our dynamic.

You've given me a lot to think about, and I will need to think about how to have a constructive conversation that will help us move on.
No, I'm sure it'll have rules intended to control costs and reduce unneeded care, but our regulatory history suggests the rules won't work as advertised. And that doesn't seem speculative at all - it's a dead certainty. Because the problem we have is NOT that individuals pay for health care, it's that health care is ludicrously expensive and ineffective and over-regulated and not subject to significant market competition on price or quality. Merely changing who writes the checks won't fix the other stuff which is the core of the problem.

In every other field, new technology makes production of goods cheaper. Even in medicine, if you look at the parts where people pay without insurance - LASIK, plastic surgery, dentistry, veterinary medicine - costs get cheaper over time. The parts of medicine that tend to get ever more expensive are the parts that involve third-party payment.

The book _Priceless_ has some decent suggestions for mechanisms that might help improve matters even given the existing (terrible) constraints we face.
Meta-analysis links excess Sedentary (sitting) behaviours and diabetes
I think the answers to most of these seemingly impossible questions depends on discovery of isomorphic problems spaces where they can be solved a lot more easily.

In your case you translated the problem to a different problem space and solved it there. The other contributors in stack overflow tend to do the same eg: Using network latency, compression etc to solve these problems.

These sort of solutions become very interesting when they become isomorphic to some other real world problems.
Postgres has been quietly competent since before this generation of hipsters was born. It is nice to see the user base grow, since MySQL had a huge boost for a long time just for being more noob friendly in a way postgres unfortunately never tried.

And htop is really nice.
true - to quote richard feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05WS0WN7zMQ
It depends on how you develop, really.
People in startups whose development is coding crazily 18 hours a day, obviously won't fit well with parenting. Of course, i'd be very impressed if you are coding 18 hours a day and aren't spending hours of that time rewriting code from early in the day/the day before (because it turned out to be broken or not well thought out or whatever).

When i was younger, i would hack at stuff very quickly until it worked (IE thousands of lines of code a day, it turns out,), and be proud of the result.
3 years later i'd look at the code and wonder what the hell was wrong with me.

Now i write code, if i hit a hard problem or things aren't working like i think they should, maybe i'll go take a walk for an hour to think about the problem and the code, then come back and code some more. I still end up getting more done at the end of the day, and the code looks better.

The extra time you get doing this kind of thing is the time you spend parenting.

You also get a much more acute sense of your limits as you get older, and know when you need to say "i just won't have time to do that, someone else needs to". Just because it's a startup doesn't mean people should try to take on every task. It doesn't help anyone if you say you can do something you can't :)
Or Salesforce is moving to dogfood heroku internally.
Are these COCOM limitations based in the hardware or software of the GPS devices by the manufacturers? If it's in the software, are there not free and opensource firmwares out there that can go around such limitations?
Pretty it sure it isn't the branding that's the problem, it's the brand. Oracle is no friend of open source software projects.
It says they are only doing 1000 (or 2000) hash iterations to derive the key, and it seems like it is too few iterations to be much of a brute force deterrent these days. I would have expected something like 100000 iterations, or 1 second or more of calculation time on a modern CPU.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can be hypercritical and thought that maybe I just needed some time and space away. So that's kind of where I was going, but...

You bring up a perspective I need to consider. Some faults are simply part of his character and have come up in non-work related settings. Others have revealed themselves through work disagreements.

But you are right in that I should communicate what is impacting work. And try to do it in a way that won't sound like I'm just blasting him. He is a good guy after all.
https://github.com/git/git/blob/8c7a786b6c8eae8eac91083cdc9a...
I've had nothing to do with reddit's operations for about 16 months now. I didn't even know it was down today. :)
The stolen bytes: Visual Studio, virtual methods and data alignment
I also heard that Verizon's iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, but I was unaware that any phone other than the iPhone had SIM trays. And yes, ATT does unlock your iPhone now after contract (just began allowing it this summer, it's ridiculous how long that took).

As anyone reading will probably notice, I've been quite jaded with my interactions with the mobile carriers. Actually, until this year, I would renew my contract, then sell the locked iPhone on eBay and make a few hundred dollars. I haven't done it this year, but I think the widespread availability of unlocked iPhones noawadays probably lessens the value of a locked iPhone quite a bit.
Probably so that they can make iterations on its design without requiring people to download new software updates - a huge attraction of web apps.
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A number of hackathons have done this to great success. If you want to expand a hackathon beyond ~40 teams, you do need to figure out a way to structure demos better, since less 2 minutes per demo is too little time to really show off what you built, in my opinion. And I don't think it's a poor idea to go beyond 40 teams for a hackathon like this (because then you have to start being super selective of who you let in, which sucks for teams who are new to hackathons).
And not blogspam...
Thanks, jokull. I know that I am not easy to work with at times, and he probably has good feedback for me, too.
What's insane about web workers? (Just curious.)
Curacao is a gorgeous place to visit - not sure if I would want to live there for more than a few weeks. It is incredibly small -- maybe try a bigger/more populous island? I loved St. Kitts, although that's still quite small and there are lots of gorgeous, secluded areas.

Good luck!
Apparently yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4681215
Didn't Github suffer a DoS attack in the past few days?
No mention of the number one issue. Stop writing about themselves. They think they're the story half the time. Inside nods and winks. Crap back and forth between writers. Petty little vendettas with other writers/institutions/organizations/whatever ...it's pathetic and childish.

Shifting to Facebook comments shows they care more about the (in the long run questionable) benefit of Facebook sharing, over quality of discourse. Once upon a time the comments section of TC posts could be as good as the article. Now it's spam, trolls, and "Johnny this is your mom, why don't you call me?".
> Postgres has been quietly competent since before this generation of hipsters was born.

Nice sound bite but PostgreSQL (as we know) was first released around 1996.
Also, it's been down way less since you left. Coincidence, or vastly increased budget and staffing? We give you the facts, you decide at 6.
What happened to Kenya and Lithuania? Did some American backpackers do something horribly insensitive?
My intended audience is, I guess, anyone who's ever taken something apart in a bid to figure out how it works. The ability to put the thing back together again such that the thing continues to work is strictly optional.

I hope it's deep enough that programmers who haven't been tracking Microsoft's efforts religiously will find it educational, but not so deep that someone who's merely interested in what makes the operating system tick is scared off.
Yea, these notices under light load are nothing new though.
I think it depends on your habits. Facebook is unreliable for social interaction on a deep level for me because there is a negative cycle of reinforcement based on poor data.

My closest friends are the ones who I want to hear the most about, and yet for some reason, their updates are the ones I see the least. Part of the reason was because my feed was flooded by people who used Facebook voraciously, though I considered many of them only acquaintances to whom I was connected to keep in touch, but nothing more (i.e. Facebook is my social rolodex, while LinkedIn is my professional rolodex).

But I'll comment on what's in my feed, and so I'm interacting with those for whom I care less. That interaction is recorded by Facebook as saying, "Look, these guys must be good friends, they're interacting with each other." So Facebook sends me more of their stuff, giving even less opportunity for my closest friends' stuff to pop up in my feed.

It's no wonder that with my closest friends, we rather use email for our interactions, which ironically further reinforces to Facebook that I'm not close to these people: wow, look, these people don't interact at all, they must hate each other! Let's not send him any more updates from those people! Path was an interesting idea for intimacy, but why sign up for yet another service when email is so easy and already proven? We even tried setting up a private Facebook group titled Posse to stop using email. Didn't work for various reasons.

I still log into Facebook because I enjoy seeing what's up with people, etc. But I never go there to interact with my closest friends anymore. That ship somehow sailed a long time ago, and I'm not going to go through a manual process of ranking people to a special group, or anything like that, to fix the issue. Ironically, as Zuckerberg once famously said in response to Circles, "We found out that people hate making lists."
I work at codecademy and in particular one of the two programmers working on code execution. It's going to be hard to give this question the answer it deserves without spending sometime going over many of the decisions we've made designing the system. Here is a very short list and in no given order:

1) Lightweight sandboxes: unlike many services we don't start full-blown VMs for each user to sandbox they're code and execution environment.

2) Persistent interpreter sessions and environments: Not having to suffer interpreter startup time each time you want to run a piece of code.

3) Websockets: Use of websockets on the browser to open a bi-directional communication channel with the server, which is much faster than ajax. Falling back to xhr-polling, jsonp etc. for older browsers or clients behind firewalls.

4) Output buffering: Stdout from interpreters are buffered and debounced.

5) Responsive server: This is basically like saying we did a good job programming our servers. We thought an event-driven server would be best for our use case (many child processes, idling connections etc.), but then you still have to do a very good job making sure you never block or do anything time intensive.

6) Easily scalable: Investing time in deployment and build process, setting up load balancers etc. allows us to bring new nodes fairly easily when we need them.
I wrote a YA fiction novel, created the cover and eBook myself, and submitted it to Amazon KDP and did basically no further promotion of substance. I've been selling 40 copies a week at $3 each, at roughly $2 in royalties per sale. Not amazing money, but enough that I'm happily working on my second novel—and it took less time to create the novel[1] than to create the iPhone game I made, and I've made significantly more in less time with the novel (AND without the yearly developer fees).

The book bounces around the 10-30k sales rank for eBooks and has only four reviews (all positive). The thing that most helped sales was making a POD version of the book available through CreateSpace (also Amazon) which cost me about $15 in printing and shipping fees for proof copies. Almost nobody buys the print version, but just the existence of the option seems to make the $3 eBook appear to be a better values. I'd say the existence of the print book resulted in a 3-4x increase in sales.

Clearly my case is different from that of the author of the linked article, but I figure it could be of interest to anyone who clicks that link.

[1] http://www.syncingdreams.com/2012/06/dragon-master-post-mort...
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That would be a problem, and it may be the case in the UK, I'm not familiar with their legal institutions, in the US the only people empowered to 'write' laws are elected legislators.

Now some will say "Corporations elect legislators" except that isn't true at all, at least not in California. The only thing corporations and so called 'super pacs' can do is throw money at getting someone elected, and Meg Whitman proved that no matter how much money you throw at it you can't buy an election (at least not yet). The thing that gets bad politicians elected in California is voter apathy, you see most of our election races are decided by a few percent of the counted vote, and the counted vote is nearly always less than 60% of the registered voters, and sometimes less than 50%. In a number of races each year the incumbent runs unopposed or against an opponent who has no interest in actually being elected. If a small fraction of those apathetic voters actually voted, they could remove any and all of the incumbent politicians. But they don't. And they often don't because they have been told that their votes don't count, and that all of the elections are rigged by who has the most money. And that is something the corporations who like it this way, are very good at doing. Getting 'news' stories out to the voters about just how ineffective and worthless their votes are so don't bother getting out of bed, just stay home, it won't matter anyway.

The 99% could effect instant regime change in the US by actually voting. And they don't. And yes that is society's problem as you so aptly point out. But it has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism.