skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I follow. There is nothing preventing the desktop software from using a system-wide notification system.

FWIW, metro apps are not fully featured but rather feature crippled. Take Chrome's metro version for example. It is just the forced-fullscreen version of the desktop one. You can still open insane amount of tabs.
Regarding point #1: I think that's the only thing going on for Microsoft. For instance, I have Windows 8 on a laptop. After using that for a while, my mom atleast appeared quite comfortable using a Windows phone at the mall.

Not to repeat the same point again and again, but this could definitely be Microsofts' moment of truth. Basically, I feel MS is going all in, double or nothing or whatever other comparison you want to pull out.

The problem is, if it works, people will laud MS for their bold move. If it spectacularly blows up in their faces, everyone will spare no words in saying "They should've known. It was obvious. People were complaining way before they even launched."

I personally feel MS is at that point in time where services and hardware each are taking value away from the software and they feel desperate to throw anything at the wall. I'm also pretty sure that they don't really expect the Enterprise folks to use Metro so I wouldn't be really surprised if somewhere down the line, they release an "Enterprise/Professional" only service pack that allows you to boot to Desktop.
I'm not the best person to answer about bootstrap on our team, but I'll ask my colleague to add a comment about this later.

Redis is fantastic. Perhaps I should also mention we use ohm as an ORM, which is very neat. I wouldn't dream managing our particular app without it. But it's not exactly fire-and-forget. Firstly, modelling your data is very important, or you can end up with lots of stuff taking precious memory. Secondly, whilst performance is great, it's still not 'transparent' like accessing a variable in memory. If you have lots of small redis queries, they do add up eventually. This is getting very detailed, but you might want to check out this as an example (specific to the ruby version it seems): https://github.com/redis/redis-rb/issues/283

Hope this helps, but feel free to get in contact.
I think it makes sense that I would be able to see who invited me. If the link is public, then one assumes that they aren't terribly concerned with their privacy, or are weighing more heavily the incentives to their privacy.

Sure, it would be better if it just showed "f_name l_name" instead of email, but I don't think this is a terribly egregious offense. Maybe that's just me though.
Bifocals.js - asynchronous, nested view rendering
EBay goes social with eBay motors's "Community"
Thanks for this! The VLC stream wasn't working for me, it was pausing every few seconds.
The Verge liveblog, for those for whom the stream isn't working: http://live.theverge.com/apple-ipad-mini-live-blog/
Hello HN: Music composer available to work on startup game soundtracks
Hello HN!
I am an electronic/orchestral music composer who is available to work on custom game music for your start-up company's game project. If you would like to hear some examples of my style, the following websites have 20 second snippets of the music I have written. You can find some of the tracks via torrent as well. I can also send you some full length mp3s if you'd like to hear more.

Here are the examples. To hear the samples, just click on each album and then click on "Preview all songs" or the preview next to each individual song:

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/IgorPogosyan
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Ametrine
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Koyrogi

Thank you for your time!
Amazon Payments doesn't support "pay-what-you-want" models
Well, that is the proposition. It turns out it may be false, which in fact would explain why Groupon is doing poorly.

Giving discounts may induce the most price sensitive to use your service. They will continue to be price sensitive, and stop using your service once the cost returns to normal.

If the opposite were true, and if business actually did profit from this approach, then it is likely that Groupon would be killing it.

At the end of the day, some types of retailers find ways to profit even off of the price sensitive, but it seems to be the case that the same is not true for most Groupon-trying businesses.
Tooling is not the problem, the problem is the browsers themselves. On the desktop browsers are updated very frequently, on mobile up until very frequently once-a-year updates were the norm. That's changing on the Android side. So far Chrome for Android hasn't shown to be disruption it was on the desktop, and I'm not sure Google is giving the team the same level of importance as they are on desktop (and Chrome OS).

Firefox has the best chance of being the disruptor, and they seem committed, but it's much harder to do it as a 3rd party browser on mobile for a couple of reasons 1) There is not, yet, consumer demand for 3rd party browsers. The default is accepted as the gateway to the web. 2) It's much harder to make a competitive 3rd party browser due to the APIs that are available. Firefox OS is a better experience than Firefox for Android for this reason.

The wildcard is still Chrome, in my opinion. It seems to me, as a 3rd party observer, that Chrome for Android is still a side-project for the Chrome team who are more focused on their own OS (can't blame them there) and their own app store. If Chrome, which is updated more frequently Android Browser ever did, starts to gain momentum it could be the push that is needed to bring mobile browsers to a place where they are an acceptable "native platform". Chrome still doesn't have a version of "home screen apps" like Mobile Safari has had forever and Firefox for Android now has, so it remains to be seen if that is even a goal of Chrome for Android.
Very cool. I just bought a book because of this. Nice work!
What, no ent jokes?
> The barriers to entry ahead of you are obstacles to your success.

If you choose it right, they are obstacles to everyone's success, which is kind of the point. A well-funded company that can make a biz work with lower-margins and inventory costs will likely not be competing with bootstrapped (for example) companies.

Edit: pg is more pithy below -
Barriers to entry are good for those who can overcome them.
Every Step Costs You 20% of Users
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57527545-71/samsung-tries-...

Samsung patent:

"The analysis unit analyzes the log information collected from the information collection unit and decides at least one topic representing the user's daily life information."

meaning cell phones

also Gordon Bell's book

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-09/p...
Getting Mobbed: Are you prepared for a mob of online shoppers?
A friend of mine started this project:

"I just launched an Indiegogo crowdfunded project for my company. Our goal is to publish the entire patent portfolio of Intellectual Ventures, a notorious patent troll that uses 1000+ shell companies to anonymously sue growing businesses. If we are successful, we hope this will add some transparency to the patent system and level the playing field for startups."

I think this is a great idea!
(Disclosure: I work for Rackspace in Cloud Block Storage)

Hi epistasis, here is what I can say. Let's talk about two things: what happens at provisioning time and then what happens at runtime.

Our provisioning engine is based on OpenStack Cinder. At provisioning time, we provision a SSD or Standard volume on our storage backend. This storage backend is a storage system we built (called Lunr) on top of standard Linux and commercially available hardware. Once the volume is created in Lunr it is then attached to the Cloud Server compute host, which exposes the volume to the guest as a virtual device.

At runtime, the volume appears as a regular device to the compute node over iSCSI. Snapshots are created against Cloud Files, our object storage service that is based on OpenStack Swift.

I hope that is useful.
Thanks all for the great comments.

Ohashi,

I'm responding to your questions inline below:

a) how should they run campaigns?
The goal of marketing is to give someone a favorable impression, get someone to remember, and eventually take action (usually by purchasing something). What leading edge companies are now doing, Apple is a good example, is getting "closer" to consumers...seeking to intellectually, physically, and emotionally engage them. The best way to do this is through experiential marketing because you are more involved physically and mentally than with other marketing techniques. I'm co-founder of a startup in the space, but if you're interested shoot me an email and I'll connect you with folks who have been providing experiential marketing solutions to Fortune 500 companies for the last 20 years and can provide you with information on the process of developing experiential marketing campaigns (ex. http://www.blazinstar.co.uk/).

b) examples of well run campaigns on facebook?
Although I wouldn't call it traditional, facebook uses ads which i believe is an outdated marketing technique. This is why we are creating our own platform.

Thanks again for the comment.
Nice edit. The second link offers a lot relevant to this particular question.
I recently went on a backpacking trip with the thought of working from the beach in Thailand in mind. I spent a couple months there, both in the South near Krabi and later in the North (Chiang Mai, Pai).

The good: You can live a pretty good life for quite cheaply. Depending on where you are, I found the Internet connections to be decent, the food to be tasty and the people kind. If you stay there long-term it is important to pick up some of the language as it will bring you closer to the locals. You may also find that you are able to get better prices as a result.

You can do border runs quite easily (Cambodia, Myanmar, or Malaysia). There is an entire industry that has developed around this purpose. When I was there, the visa terms were different depending on if you flew into the country or if you went over a land crossing. I would check out the latest situation on WikiTravel or the Lonely Planet forums.

I personally met another American who over-stayed his visa by over a month. Believe me, you do NOT want to be that guy. He had a horror story about the situation, and ended up having to pay a hefty fine.

Feel free to reach out to me if you want more details.
I suspect the real problem was the size of their discounts. Selling a 40$ bottle of wine wine for 20$ attracts far more people that buy 20$ wine than people who buy 40$ wine. So unless you can afford to keep selling at 20$ the odds of repeat bushiness is low.

Really when it comes to coupons there are three options that actually work. You can always have a sale, you can make it a pain to use, or you can limit yourself to 10 to 15% off.
I agree with points #1 and #2 but disagree with point #3. But that's not interesting, what's interesting is that it might actually work. Or at least, it seems very plausible to work.
Ars Technica's always excellent liveblog:

http://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-2012-media-event-w...
Sector 2012 Presentation: Hitting Above the Security Mendoza Line, Ed Bellis
In this presentation, Ed Bellis describes the mendoza line (a term usually reserved for baseball stats), and how it relates to the security industry.
Actually I wonder if IP might be a bigger problem for software?
Thomas Szasz (1920-2012): rebel with a questionable cause
Apple Mac takes desktop and notebook top-spots in US
Usability testing as a service
Yes, it does, and I use the Kindle all the time to read such PDF files.
The HN crowd might not be the target audience - this is targeted at non-technical people - but next time a friend of a friend tells you "so I have this website idea..." you can send them here.
This is where good business people shine - whether you call them MBA's or not. Often they're not.

Good business people will anticipate the expenses needed and make sure there's a way to pay them (or delay payments and make sure everything is in a company with limited liability), borrow money in the bank with collateral in your inventory, get good deals with suppliers (If you do it right you'll get a 90 days credit line thus nullifying much of your cashflow problem), etc. etc.
What is the deal with boot time as an OS metric? Is it really important to boot 5 seconds faster than the previous iteration?
If there's only one company in your field, you likely have chosen the wrong field. You are trying to fight a non-competitive labor market with anti-wage-competition tactics. If there is only one company in your field, it is likely they are a niche, which can only expand payroll (as a percentage of earnings) to a certain degree before they damage investment return and collapse the capitalization of their enterprise.
New theory may explain the notorious cold fusion experiment from two decades ago
The 7th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval - Call for Courses
Hello, this is Niels from kenHub. Will try answering your first question.

We used bootstrap as a starting point and - to be honest - at that point it looked like this. But over time we changed and added more and more of our own code. But I would say it is quite marginal still if you look at what bootstrap provides.

I like and we still use twitter bootstrap for the grid, the readability of the text and the basic layout elements. But it is very important to give it your own style and diverge from it over time.

Of course the anatomy trainer itself is mainly built without bootstrap. But even here we use elements of it.
why include metro in the PC version?

Because Microsoft is getting ready for the future, where non-PC computing devices will be far, far, far more important to most peoples' lives than PCs.

Windows 8 is the beginning of Microsoft's play to be on those devices. That means that design considerations to make it work nicely on "post-PC" devices take precedence over design considerations to make it work on PCs.

Windows 8 isn't a PC operating system with device-friendly concessions bolted on. It's a device operating system with PC concessions bolted on. The idea presumably is that the PC desktop piece of it will get smaller and less important as time goes on, then eventually become completely redundant and easy to drop altogether.

In other words, the plan is to do to the WIMP interface what they did with the CLI interface of MS-DOS. Its death will be slow, quiet, and (they hope) painless. But it is definitely going to die.
Doesn't seem to work on my iPhone 5 on wifi.
I think it's quite simple, hardware has a much higher marginal cost per unit and it's very difficult to "pirate" hardware.
Out of curiosity (I haven't purchased ebooks from either source), what makes Apple more reliable than Amazon?
Three days is too short. I should be able to prolong it forever, because it is MY computer. This should not require an option change. What if, just this once, I want it to reboot after 3 days and 15 minutes?
Set your Kindle to "fit to screen" and then in landscape mode, and it will make it palatable. I do this all the time.

That said, the pdf rendering could be easily improved a lot, and I've send numerous suggestions to Amazon for this. None of them have been implemented, sadly.
I find one here, http://www.youtube.com/user/mshelengelena
Two other links about Thomas Szasz, author of the controversial book The Myth of Mental Illness (1961).

Lancet obituary:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

Book description page of book Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler (Open Court Publishers, 2004).

http://www.schaler.net/suf.html
Your second scenario relies upon credential caching, or "saved logins", and is just as doable for an HTML5 app as it is for a client app.

Facebook still has credentials (vs. some apps that are tied to just the phone number or native Google account tied to the phone) and as such, still requires a login for that initial run, just as an HTML5 app does.

In that regard, it's possible that the non-Facebook app has an advantage in that they can use Google oAuth to authenticate the user which, on an Android phone, already contains an active session, so their login method can be even leaner than the Facebook app (until and unless Facebook changes something, or releases their own hardware).
You are glossing over all the non-metro reasons like the security and performance.
Network and disk io vary in other characteristics. The most obvious being the block vs packet size. Lose a single packet and the block device has to ... Block.
c:\> net stop wuauserv
If pg is correct and hardware startups are making a renaissance then we can expect to see startups soon that sell shovels for hardware startups. For web startups we see shovel-style products that help with customer support, A/B testing, virtualized servers and so on.

In the same way we can expect startups to pop up that make life easier for hardware startups. For instance startups that make prototyping hardware easier. Or that simplify shipping goods all across the globe. Or startups that make it easier to find the right suppliers and get good deals with them.

Pretty exciting!
Show HN: Your future backup? BRIC (Bunch of Redundant Independent Clouds)
It does. Thanks again for the info. Cheers!
Traditional Marketing is Dead. What's Next?
The effectiveness of traditional marketing is dead or at least dying fast. Traditional marketing such as direct mail, print ads, broadcast and the like are forced, expensive, and the results are often difficult to track. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last ten years, you know that a significant percentage of people are spending more time on the internet and mobile devices than any other source of media, so a shift to online marketing makes sense.<p>If traditional marketing is dying fast, online marketing is dying slow. When compared to traditional forms, online marketing has enabled one-to-one customized approaches, the ability to appeal to specific interests and niches, and the results are more accurate and easy to track (hence the “slow”). Though online marketing is now more effective than traditional marketing, it has its own problems. Many online marketing techniques still may come off as forced, lack engagement, or are down right creepy. A good friend recently shared the following experience with me...

<p>http://xper-blog.posterous.com/traditional-marketing-is-dead
Rapid user research: how to survey 400 users and interview 10 in three days
H.264 is not a "proprietary video codec", it's a patent-encumbered codec. The spec is available for free on the ITU website(http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264) and several open source implementations exist.
People have mentioned lead times in this thread. Just so I can calibrate my expectations - what do people reading HN consider to be a "long lead time" for hardware?
Show HN: If you're too busy to meditate...bandu: The watch that slows you down
"The Lord had cursed Cain’s seed with blackness and prohibited them the Priesthood." - Brigham Young (second LDS prophet, 1847-77).

Note that "the priesthood" is considered a requirement for salvation, so denying blacks the priesthood was quite significant. Various LDS sources seem to disagree as to why this is; Joseph Fielding Smith (10th LDS prophet, 1970-72) claimed it's because blacks didn't fight on God's side in a war during the pre-mortal existence, while Gordon B. Hinkley (15th LDS prophet, 1995-2008) simply says "I don't know".

The official position of the LDS church now is that blacks are fully equal to whites: "Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world. We get our truth and our light line upon line and precept upon precept. We have now had added a new flood of intelligence and light on this particular subject, and it erases all the darkness and all the views and all the thoughts of the past. They don't matter any more." (Bruce R. McConkie, member of the Quorum of the Twelve -- basically, the lesser prophets one step below the top guy. 1978.) When he says "forget all I said" he's referring to his 1958 comments affirming the view that blacks were less valiant in the pre-mortal war [0].

You can read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormonism . You can find lds rationalizations at http://www.fairlds.org/fair-conferences/2002-fair-conference... .

EDIT: to be totally fair, despite institutionalized LDS racism, they were strongly anti-slavery in the early years; LDS founder Joseph Smith ran for president as an abolitionist in 1850.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_R._McConkie#Controversy
I'm more amazed it's still trendy for geeks to hate on the people in tech media. Though that would have passed on like platform shoes and bell bottoms by now.
Soon we'll have very clever, slow going, open source Facebook scrapers, created for free just because we love a challenge.
New iMac will have Apple's new Fusion drive. Flash + HD in one
"Only 90% of of the people who download your app will actually open it - I'm guessing that people are stockpiling apps for the impending apocalypse."Hah!
Peering into the Muddy Waters of Pastebin
Some details on Freeloader can be found here - http://www.inc.com/magazine/19980515/1128.html (1998)
The Freedom to Innovate – Interaction Design for Plasma Active
Yup. I always found the rubber banding to be kind of an odd way to indicate the end of a scrolling area. The problem is that instead of something indicating unambiguously the end of a view, the movement continues to happen momentarily as if there was more to come and only gradually stops. Users end up not knowing if they botched their finger gesture or if they are actually at a boundary. Even as an experienced user, I sometimes retry pulling a few times to confirm there's nothing more.﻿
I think it's mostly the first one. I've met a lot of people with huge egos who think they are above the problems, and so far there is enough work. Someday, though, that might change, who knows when, though.
I suppose one could argue that "Hackernews" in this case represents the HN users' insights (in the comments) and also the blogs/bloggers whose only aggregator submission destination is HN (making them in a sense entangled with the "HN community" at large).
There He Goes Again: Romney's Tesla Gaffe
Basic Ready-to-Use CSS Styles
Amazon Web Services has been an integral part in opening up the web to the glut of software startups we've seen over the past 10 years.

Fulfillment by Amazon[1] could be a big part of the rise of hardware startups.

Couple 3D printing with a logisitics powerhouse like Amazon, and hardware could be as easy to deploy as a webapp soon.

1. http://www.amazonservices.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon....
You don't think a company like Amazon would have software crawling social media doing sentiment analysis? Amazon's going up against Google and Apple, so they have to care about their image. I would be shocked if the social media outcry over this issue hadn't triggered an automated alert in Amazon's PR department.
Apple Announces iPad Mini
I think Groupon was/is overvalued, but I also think they can deliver value beyond leads. I believe they already offer a booking service, and they should be offering opt-in email, social management services, and other services that SMBs have already shown they will pay for.

They may have grown too fast to do it under the Wall St microscope though.
Apple announces the iPad mini
Apple Unveils The iPad Mini