skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the end of the current startup era? How did we get from "Make stuff people want" to the current obsession with funding, SEO and "Growth Hackers" (!). This sounds like the same sort of nonsense I was reading in January 2000. Just like the 90's tech boom, the community has become inward-looking, stale, and it's feeding on itself (c.f. this article, which isn't about how to start a company but to be hired by a "startup"). The most exiting new stuff seems to be stuff that just feeds more startups.

None of this is about the practical details of the article. If that's the job you want then this sounds like a great way to get it. But like I said, if this is the kind of thing that's interesting to "startups", then I think the end is near.
The Prospects for a 'Sterilizing' HIV Cure
Humble THQ Bundle threatens to ruin the brand's reputation
I thought the point of these bundles was to support indie game studios? Still, money goes to charity, decent set of games.. it just feels a bit incongruous.
We can all hope so.
Thanks to box-sizing we can finally have both, but thing haven't always been like this.
My old Sony 505g had a 10.4" screen and was plenty useful.
With all 300 views...I doubt it will change anything at all.

(EDIT: MY opinion will say the same until that view counter says a million and I highly doubt it will even get close. The only people who really care anyway are the "trolls" that Microsoft is talking about!)
Why is public nudity illegal?
Did you see that Microsoft is doing exactly the opposite these days by removing the DVD capabilities from Windows 8?
Where is this ad going to be shown? Because, honestly, IE isn't that vilified outside of tech circles. My parents and friends happily use it without a second thought.
I don't get the general perspective that the concept of what the Surface Pro is trying to be is a pointless/undesirable thing.

Now, I totally understand the Surface Pro and Windows 8 might not be a _good_ solution to a problem... but there is a problem. And that problem is that I have too many devices. I have a tablet. I have a laptop. And I have a desktop. They all serve their function well, but I do imagine that in the future all of these devices will be combined into one. I believe that's inevitable. The Surface Pro is trying to be this solution (again, whether it's a successful solution is TBD). A device with no keyboard when I want a tablet. Attach a keyboard when you need it for whatever reason when you're on the go. Throw it in a dock when you're at your desktop to get your main work done, with multiple monitors, a comfy desk and chair, etc.

To scoff at this idea as not being a valid problem to tackle, and suggest the Surface Pro has no reason to even exist, seems short-sighted to me.
On ultrabooks: This looks very nice, but I'm a TrackPoint guy, so, while I am excited to see the ultrabooks, I can't use these or MacBook Airs. I purchased a Lenovo X1 Carbon about 2 months ago. It has a TrackPoint and I can't recommend it highly enough. So if you're a Linux user looking for a great ultrabook, check out the X1 Carbon (but make sure to get the 8GB model...)

EDIT: obviously, the X1 Carbon doesn't have the same level of Ubuntu support, but the out-of-the-box experience is perfect.
LivingSocial CEO Announces Layoffs
1) not really sure what the question is? If the specs are the thing for you, then go for the machine with the best specs. My macbook is plenty fast enough for me.

2) I like the retina display because I can crank my resolution up to 1680x1050 (on a 15") and it looks great. Font rendering on the retina displays is outstanding on apps that support it.

3) I can confirm that the Dell is not an Apple product.

I'd be unhappy if I had to switch from a retina macbook or an Air to the dell, mainly because of the screen. YMMV.
Looks like a fantastic laptop. It's great to see the effect that Apple has had on laptop design over the past 10 years.
This argument is, I think, completely correct, but also to a certain extend irrelevant.

The real discussion should, in my opinion, be held on the supply side of digital content for it still seems to be crowded with companies who for better or worse can not or will not deal with the ramifications of our new networked world and keep dwelling in poor service whilst preaching that piracy is sinful. Companies, whom I might add not so long ago, were happy to push for legislation that would alter the way our basic democratic freedoms work, all in the name of copyright.

I find anti-piracy crowd to be highly similar to politicians or policy-makers who advocate abstinence. In principle the argument is correct, you only need to forget that in the real world people don't quite work that way.

Piracy, in the end to me, is not a moral problem, but a service problem. If you care to fix it, that is.
AWS launches Data Pipeline, EC2 instances for analytics
$500K for Industrial Internet Algorithms
> Everyone throws a few €£$ in a pot and a few volunteers administer it and do a bit of due diligence to ensure cases are valid.

You are fairly optimistic about the ease of administering a charity which gives out free money.
Wow I hadn't heard of postmark. That would make processing emails from users really easy!

Now I just need to think of a business idea where I process emails from users. Hmm, how about a service where users can forward emails and it automatically creates an appointment on their calendar?
I don't think that conflating speculation with conspiracy theories is necessarily productive. It's not like Microsoft doesn't have a track record of abandoning partners in the past[1] (e.g. Plays 4 Sure).

Conspiracy theories are just speculation too. One could argue that the US government has a history of all kinds of activities and thus many of the current conspiracies are in keeping with history. The essence of a conspiracy theory is speculation not grounded in evidence or probability.

I'm not sure that 'pulling rank' is necessarily constructive either. It just reminds me of those Slashdot threads where people with increasing smaller UIDs would reply with, "You must be new here," or "get off my lawn."

My comment was directed quite clearly at the insinuation that I was speaking on behalf of Microsoft, which I do not do.

I may have been snarky, but only because I see this quite a lot on HN -- that people are the company they work for. We're just members of this community like any other.
>2) I'm actually still not really clear what the advantage of a retina display is. Maybe it's because I haven't been able to use one for a significant timespan, but I just don't get it. If there was a way to clearly and easily illustrate why a 13" display benefits from retina resolution, I'd really appreciate it.

How good is your eyesight? Honest question. The difference is night and day for me and I wonder how I lived with that blurry thing for so long.
Usually a video with 301 views means it's suddenly exploded virally. YouTube 'stops counting' temporarily at 300 views whilst it verifies that a video is being legitimately viewed by many people in a short space of time, rather than people artificially inflating their viewcount by whatever methods they can.

In a matter of minutes or hours that number will suddenly increase significantly.

So it's an anti-spam measure. There's a short explainer here: http://www.seroundtable.com/youtube-301-views-15347.html
It was, though it was also designed with Embrace, Extend, Extinguish in mind. ActiveX anybody?
This was just submitted a few hours ago:

http://cbateman.com/blog/whats-missing-in-internet-explorer-...

That's probably not even the full list of what's missing in IE10, as html5test puts IE10 way below the others in HTML5 features:

http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

I wouldn't hold my breath for WebGL appearing even in IE11. Whatever Microsoft is saying, the "security" of WebGL is not the main reason why Microsoft is not the adopting it - not even close. Just like security is also not the main reason why Apple is not allowing other JS engines on iOS.

The security reason is used mainly as a "reasonable" excuse to cover for the real reason why they aren't implementing it (they obviously don't want OpenGL to gain anymore traction that it has already gained in mobile and Linux). If security would be an excuse to not implement something, we'd probably still be in the dark ages of the web. Consider Flash, it's one of the least secure pieces of software out there, and yet it's also what enabled video on the web for everyone. It's the reason Youtube exists today.

The lack of support for XP, which is still like 40% of the market, means Chrome is still by far the most secure browser on XP, which is something companies who aren't going to get new PC's and Windows licenses anytime soon should start considering.

No full screen API, no Web Audio API, and no WebRTC (and no Opus either) are also very regrettable omissions from IE10, and it will be another year or two before it will get them. Who knows how far ahead Chrome and Firefox will be by then.
Ok, that explains your position in a way that makes good sense to me. I agree that better programming languages would be good (and in fact, we do have them) but I'm a pretty pragmatic person and any tool that helps me to do the job that I need to do better is welcome.

Until better languages are much more common static analysis can save you a lot of time tracking down obscure issues and for that alone it gets my vote. I'll be more than happy to ditch all that for a better way to develop software (not necessarily just better languages) it feels as if we're doing something terribly wrong but I can't quite put my finger on what it is.

It feels as if we're building fragility right into the process from the ground up when in fact we should be doing the opposite.
Ha ha, yeah, I know, the way some people carry on, you'd think Internet Explorer had crippled the web and added hundreds of hours to web development projects everywhere for over a decade, or something. Jeez!
Tyler Cowen has a great TEDx talk (from a while back!) that hits many of the same points, in an arguably clearer way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEEDKwzNBw
For those who may have forgotten why IE deserves all the hate thrown its way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer

http://www.favbrowser.com/the-history-of-internet-explorer/
I think the Foursquare app lets you see nearby businesses that have specials.
Warning about Metro 2033. It's actually a pretty good game with great atmosphere despite it's faults but there is a part quite near they end that is almost guaranteed to make you rage-quit even on easy skill settings.

Edit: Requires Steam and Windows. I though the biggest point of the bundle was proving the market for DRM free cross platform games? They may as well have just made this a steam sale.
Can't imagine how frustrating something like this can be.
Have many friends with similar visa issues. Hope you'll enjoy Vidyard.
Designing Workplaces For Creativity (June 2012)
Doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to figure out C#/.NET is no longer Microsoft's sole flagship strategy for developers...

Microsoft have recently discontinued their only managed .NET cross-platform managed UI effort in Silverlight in favor of the multi-language Win 8 SDK with JavaScript, C# and C++ bindings. Most Windows applications are still being written in C++ where you would barely notice the difference if Windows didn't have .NET installed, this is in stark contrast for instance with Apple's positioning of their own XCode/Obj-C development platform they've used to build OSX, which essentially would be a glorified terminal if you took away all Obj-C libraries and applications.

Microsoft have also made significant investments in JavaScript and node.js, with even Anders moving off C# to work on TypeScript for a bit.

Basically they're business models have changed where they're now positioning Azure (their new server strategy) as a multi-platform cloud strategy with support parity for .NET, node.js, Java, PHP and Python: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/overview/

So I don't think it's a stretch to observe there has been in-fact a "Difference in strategic position" with Microsoft's attitude towards C#/.NET.
Use tor+gpg and does it matter?
Video interview: Building a SaaS startup using WordPress as a framework
ITunes 11 Is Out
> While I would never defend it's usage today, it wasn't that horrible at the time it was released.

It wasn't exactly good either, IE5/Mac was better on many fronts, and released at least a year before.
He's also posted some good stuff at http://www.mavorsrants.com/. They have been pretty transparent about the dev process, they just haven't used Kickstarter updates as the primary medium for that.
of course I forgot :-)
Chart shows Syria’s Internet blackout
I don't think their target market for the Pro is the hobbyist, or Mom and Pa, it's the enterprise business market, where the iPad has seen little penetration.

This market doesn't care if the kickstand works on your knee. Or about a few hundred dollars here or there. Exchange integration, legacy internal applications, these things matter.

Note taking in meetings.
> if I can't leverage my ten years extra experience on these people to match their output in less time, then I deserve to go bust.

That's a gem. Experience is worth about 40 hours per week or so ;)
I agree. The previous startup I used to work at had a horrible candidate selection process. Amar's case is too one-off for it to be a hack but at least it was possible.
I'm really glad they're looking to hire some design expertise, but I hope they scope it right – graphic design will definitely help, but that UX is going to have to be rethought as well if they want to truly take advantage of the design language and make a great Win8 app.
It was written by Microsoft.

>The following is a post from Panos Panay, General Manager of Microsoft Surface.
I'd bet that they will never support webgl in IE -- it competes too directly with the windows/xbox360 directx gaming ecosystem.
Follow up video is here, just for kicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d...
Google Cloud Storage Cuts Prices Again By Additional 10%
I am neither high-profile nor an executive.
I don't think a blood test alone it good enough.

By the time cancer is getting close to/effecting blood, you're pretty far along for some cancers.
What's with that ugly image ?
http://i.imgur.com/QDi1u.png
I have the feeling it's a last ditch effort from THQ to gain some goodwill. They are doing pretty bad financially and they probably hope this might help them going forward.
Syria Has Just Been Taken Offline
> While I would never defend it's usage today, it wasn't that horrible at the time it was released.

I think it was bad even considering that it was released in 2001. Not supporting PNG alpha channel is just an example.

But I do agree that Microsoft taking so long to release IE7 made things even worse.
I don't know about B&N but you can easily go though the Amazon checkout process without any mention of DRM. Most people only learn about it when DRM prevents them from doing something they would otherwise assume they could do like read there book on a nook.
Thanks!

Also, thanks for mentioning Yeeyan; I hadn't heard of it, and I'll check it out.

WRT multiple translations, the current plan is to show the 'best' single edit, rather than aggregating a series of prior edits (though anyone who wants to submit an alternative translation can just make minor edits of any of the prior ones, of course).

But to see if that or any of the other suggestions you've made would work, I need to get more contributors to the site.

You're right about the furigana; it would make more sense as a hover/click to the corresponding word.

As for adding Chinese, I would love to do it.

Whenever I add a language, I'd like to include an interesting source of articles which is not readily available in other languages (i.e., an intelligent or thought-provoking magazine which publishes only in Chinese).

If you have a list of sites which fit that criteria, let me know, and I can add them, as well as making Chinese an option in the translate to/from list.
I wonder where the good studios in THQ will wind up. I hope Relic doesn't end up in the hands of EA like so many other promising Studios have.
Ward Cunningham on pair programming
The issue with Microsoft can be entirely explained by this sentence: "While I would never defend it's usage today, it wasn't that horrible at the time it was released."

Windows Update has been reasonably coherent since Windows XP. They've had the ability to push out software for a long, long time. Why isn't every person using Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 currently using Internet Explorer 10?

The issue at hand isn't that Internet Explorer 10 is bad. It's not! It's a great browser.

The issue is that Microsoft doesn't care about providing an ecosystem that protects people from legacy browser lock-in. They have the ability to transition tens of millions of users to a modern browser. But they haven't, and they won't. Actions speak louder than words. Or perhaps, in this case, inaction speaks louder than words. Until they join the rest of the browser vendors in the 21st century, they're simply not worth trusting.
Further confirming this, the video has 301 views and over 1800 likes, 400 dislikes.
Why agencies rocks and not freelancers
Still hilarious, I see where you are coming from but it's just not about that -- this is a high value production of a recurring discussion in every single online forum, it's like seeing a book become a movie and the writers/directors managed to bring life to things exactly as you imagined them. I myself don't care that the ad is about IE, I suffered it all -- from xml data islands to lack of text shadows even today, so much that I can't bother to see that as PR just like my eyes learnt to skip banner ads after a few years. I was more amazed by the portrait than the product in question.
GE Launches Flight and Health Contests with Kaggle [video]
Senate Committee Approves Bill Requiring Warrants for E-Mail
I liked IE4 because it was pretty damn good.

I liked IE6 because it got me out of the hell that was IE4.

I liked IE8 because it got me out of the hell that was IE6.

I suspect I'm going to like IE10 because of IE8.

I'm going to hate IE10 because it's not Webkit/Gecko.
The problem is all the users Microsoft will leave stranded on IE10 after web standards have progressed beyond that point, just as they've done with every previous version of IE. Microsoft is simply too slow to release new versions of IE, and too restrictive of the versions of Windows supported with each release. Nothing has changed with IE10, and developers will be working around its idiosyncrasies for many years to come, long after IE11 and 12 are shipped.
The only problem is that the RT also runs Office. I think the Pro looks good and I can't wait to get hands on one, but I suspect that if MS doesn't figure out how to market things it will die a swift death.

On the other hand, MS is famous for continuing to do things they suck at until they get it right. One of the benefits of having deep pockets.
I was going to say something similar. It's odd how, in a community that exhorts its members to constantly be seeking the best opportunities, someone leaving a company after over a decade is considered a sign of some deeper problem.
You can have 50% of an Ultrabook for 100% of the price. Total savings of up to negative 50%! How could anyone resist?

Only Apple can list 'Status Symbol' as one of the perks of their products, and I have a feeling that's one of the main features the average consumer wants in a tablet. Aside from the toy/gimmick factor and browsing the internet easily from bed (or the toilet), I'm just not seeing the mass appeal of these.
I actually started by machine-translating everything, but I think the sparseness of the articles is better b/c it feels like a call to action to complete them, versus already having the English or Japanese in place.

Also, the default MT was terrible, and in many cases, the sentences made no sense.

WRT German, I'd love to do it, it's just I don't know which articles from which sites I should pick to use.
Eventually, one of these kind of sites will put up a photo of the child of someone who is in the field of waste management.

Then the site owner might find that legal safe harbors are not the only kind of harbor he should have been concerned with.
And a whole new career opens up for me - sarcastic article writer. No, wait, that is my blog !
Does anyone know how much free space is left on the 64GB model? WinRT takes up ~14GB on the 32GB non-pro Surface iirc.
Or, alternatively, it's a decent alternative to the Modbook Pro (http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro) at a $2500 discount. I'm sure there are people to whom the Surface Pro is more attractive than a normal laptop. I haven't decided whether I'm one of them, but I don't think that a direct comparison to the Macbook Air is appropriate. If we're going to be "fair" by adding a keyboard to the Surface, shouldn't we also add an aftermarket touch screen to the Air?
I wonder why no one speaks much about the Asus Zenbook prime with it's 1920x1080 display. All reviews rave about it. Is there something bad about that notebook that I should know?
Right, at 500GB it's definitely a reasonable cost -- I think VPS providers like the parents host are much more sensible with what they advertise.

Virtual hosts like Bluehost ("UNLIMITED Domain Hosting, UNLIMITED GB Hosting Space, UNLIMITED GB File Transfer") and Dreamhost ("Disk Storage Unlimited TB + 50GB Backups, Monthly Bandwidth, Unlimited TB") however are the ones who are especially bad with their advertised offers (all for around $5-7 a month). You start using even a couple hundred GB of bandwidth a few GB of storage and they're happy to kick you off for "abusing resources".
Active Directory integration is huge for the enterprises I deal with.
Why would I buy something that cost USD 15XX. I'll just get myself a macbook.
Not just a keyboard. If you want to use it like a real laptop, you will need a mouse or other pointing device, as well. Touch on a vertically-oriented screen is not going to cut it for laptop-ish kinds of uses, as has been proven in years and years of UX studies.

Clarifying edit: Touch is great if you are holding the device in your hands, of course, like an iPad. But once you are using a keyboard and Surface's kickstand and trying to run Windows apps, which is the use case we're discussing here, you'll need a mouse or a trackpad, just like you do to run Windows on any other device. Windows apps are not touch friendly and that didn't magically change just because Ballmer is trying to enter the market that he publicly mocked in 2007 (iPhone) and 2010 (iPad).
User vs. the designer.
Audience vs. the singer.
Critic vs. the creator.
I can hardly sit down there at all!
This is not just about cancers that affect the blood. From the article:

By sequencing the abnormal DNA that a tumor releases into a person’s
bloodstream, researchers are now one step closer to a universal cancer
test. Although the technique is now only sensitive enough to detect
advanced cancers, that may be a matter of money: As sequencing costs
decrease, the developers of the method say, the test could eventually
pick up early tumors as well.
Does anyone know how much RAM this thing has, since marketing speak has now taken "memory" to mean "storage space".

What's funny is calling this a laptop since your lap is about the only place you can't use it (apart from as a tablet I suppose). It's really a portable desktop.
"Comments are disabled for this video."

What else is there to say, really?
MongoDB, PHP And Mountain Lion
Looks a lot like iTunes 10. And … the bug I opened in 2008 is still there! Sweet. Sort your library by Album/Year, and then reverse direction (year descending.) Reverses album order. E_WONTFIX.