skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I found this bit about not setting up a public repository strange, too, but the reason there is no "Fork me on GitHub" seems to be just that the project predates Github by a year :)

You're hinting at licensing as (one of) a reason that this project was abandoned, but I think the author just wasn't sure what to do with his code - I think he wanted to get some money out of the project and didn't know or couldn't decide how to do it. If enough users told him they wanted the source, I think he would comply - it's just that there never was enough users (seems so).

Your analysis is interesting and a good one (thanks!), but it doesn't answer the more fundamental question: why the project failed to get another user out from every user it already had? That's assuming somebody was actually using ODB - maybe it failed at even lower level: everyone said it's cool and stuff, but nobody really gave it a chance and actually started using it.

I'd like to know which one it is and why? If something like this was available for Python (btw: is there something similar?) I think I would use it instead of ipdb without hesitation (assuming that I would know about it).

From what the author writes he did his best to inform the Java world about his and his project existence. So why aren't we all using this and similar tools today?

I think this can be an interesting case for every developer who wants to change something with his software. This debugger failed; LightTable seems to have a high chance of succeeding - what's the difference between them? (Not having Bret Victor talks as an inspiration seems an obvious one :))
Gotta love artificial scarcity.
Be alleged in a lawsuit[0] that ms settled without admitting wrongdoing for US ~$23 million that Hitachi, Compaq and others vacated agreements in place to ship pcs preloaded in dualboot configurations with BeOS and Windows due to ms anger and resulting anticompetitive threats.

Be was pretty much a shell company by the time the lawsuit was filed and resolved.

[0] http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Microsoft+Pays+$23m+to+Settle+...
How does this compare with the tools mentioned here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4561350/388928
Thank you.

This would've been very useful as part of the animated tutorial on your first boot that you can't skip (and that I've seen 3 times this week thanks to setting up new machines).
I find it interesting that no one has pointed out what a massive piece of masturbation this piece is. It's representative of both the productivity porn and factional editorials that have become so common on hn these days.

"Look mom no hands!. I write my code without pretty colors! ... and I'm using a dvorak keyoboard!" If that's what does for you sure, but I'm not sure why this needs to be in my twitter stream.
IMessage down for some users
It's been a few months since I tried a Windows 8 preview, but from the start screen type "task manager" in the application search context, click the app tile, and it may or may not be necessary to click "more details" for a more complete view of the running processes.

The idea was supposed to be that you wouldn't have to do this yourself as the OS would terminate metro app processes itself if you did not use them for some period of time.

EDIT: Apparently this is the long/manual way of doing it.
On a tablet swipe down from the top edge to the bottom to close the app.

On a desktop drag from top to bottom or bring up the appbar on the left and right click on the app that you want to close.
Are we reading the same posts? Is it calm and rational to tell someone their head is up their ass?
Am I the only person who thinks the lack of a start button and a 'traditional desktop' are non issues? The lack of a start button/desktop is not a usability issue in and of itself - it's everything else that makes it such a nightmare.
Yeah, it's not quite as bad as it sounds.

That said, I find it somewhat annoying that the new-style apps are clearly targeted at tablets, and yet are the only way to get apps sold via the Windows app store.
Vestigial, perhaps?
I gotta ask, I was looking for some access points for a small company. How does meraki compare to the super cheap
http://www.open-mesh.com/

which seems to have some nice software as well. Is Meraki really aimed towards enterprise who can justify $1000 access points?
This seems a little harsh, to say the least. Among other things, he seems to be criticising Microsoft for both the early efforts of third-party devs (live tiles) and because users take time to grasp some of the new UI fundamentals (charms bar). Both of those issues will disappear quickly as the OS picks up steam.

As an iPad owner myself, I am nothing but intrigued and excited by 8's tablet interface. It seems like it would be a massive, massive jump in usability from iOS (dependent, of course, on how the App Store fills out). Furthermore, while he may not be wrong re: 8's desktop usability, I think this review is unnecessarily harsh towards what must be seen as a significant and complicated transition product. Just as web design is changing to a responsive model where content dynamically adapts to different devices and display areas, so are OSes changing to be dynamic and adaptive. In the future the idea of a user experience where your files and program's were locked onto the hard drive of a single computer, accessed through a static, unchanging desktop will be absurd. Computer interfaces are going to become incredibly smart, fluid and responsive, and W8 is the first step in that direction. I think it is silly to just focus on what Microsoft didn't get perfect first time around - I think they should be congratulated on their audacity. What they've done is certainly leagues more impressive than Apple's plodding, torturous attempts to wedge iOS concepts into its 20-year old WIMP model (seriously, go use Mountain Lion - its a complete mess - but no one attacks Apple as harshly as they do Microsoft... funny that.) Anyway in the end I share his sentiment, can't wait to see how Microsoft builds on its great work with W9! One thing is for sure: the old one desktop to rule them all model is finished.

NB: just to clarify, I haven't used W8 myself. I am sure a lot of the complaints about it being too minimalist and apps being too limited are perfectly fair. But I think Microsoft was right to strip away the clutter of the WIMP legacy and start again from scratch. Adding progressively more complexity in carefully measured increments is the best way to build a mature, balanced product befitting a new generation of computing. Again, go take a look at the average Mountain Lion set-up if you want to see a ridiculously cluttered, complicated mash of UI concepts, windows, spaces, slide-away trays, menu-bars, etc etc (and try find a normal user instead of a HN-style power user for added effect.) The only argument is for me is not whether Microsoft is doing the right thing (I completely believe they are) but whether they are managing this transition well. As someone with no experience in developing major new OS versions I can only imagine the complexity, so I am inclined to go easy and try and praise what was done well and what is a good idea rather than what didn't quite pan out in the first attempt : )
Send an email to jeff@amazon.com. This worked for me when I had some issues.
There is a clear framework for existing mobile platforms, but IMO the whole process is WAY more frictionless with the web (FFos) side.

>download Android SDK installer, install eclipse plugins, install eclipse, install current SDK, create new device for emulator, create new project..

It is easy to forget once you have done it, but that is a pretty daunting process for a newcomer.

In reality the web side will evolve, starting with editing some existing files in notepad-- much lower barrier to entry. Not to mention that they will have the established webdev community to draw on.
The redirects are generating fake ad clicks for the scammer, it's very common and probably the main source of revenue for this "campaign".
Maybe. Although I like to think that being reality-based on ones approach is more pragmatic than intuitive :)
This is anecdotal, but I walked into a Windows store not too long ago to try Windows 8 on a tablet, and I was blown away at how terribly unintuitive it was. There were absolutely zero visual cues to indicate where features were, how to move around the interface. None. Now I don't know if that's changed since then, but the experience left me with such a bad taste that I told myself I would never give it another 5 minutes' chance. Throughout the entire demo, I was asking the rep to show me again how he accessed certain menus, switched views, etc.

My technologically-illiterate parents went from zero to road geeks with their iOS devices in a matter of days. Had they been given the Surface, I imagine my legs would be in constant spasm from all the frustrated and confused phone calls I'd be receiving.
Same config, does not work for me.
After reading this article, I'm almost in tears when I realize what the mitigation step would have been for protecting those bearer bonds from moisture: Tupperware containers.
I work on ClojureScript - so I'm obviously biased.

I think there are very deep seated assumptions in even the best designed JavaScript libraries. Because of this I think there will tend be impedance an mismatch between Clojure and the API that JS libs present. If you're willing to spend a little bit of time upfront - I believe macros & protocols can likely eliminate at least the tedium you'll find at the interop barrier.

Still, I'm hopeful for pure ClojureScript libs that show how expressive Clojure can be for client side development if you approach the problem without the usual JS assumptions.

One example, I recently returned from the Clojure Conj where I saw Conrad Barski's (Land of Lisp) presentation on functional DOM programming - impressive stuff and worth checking out if people are curious what an idiomatic client side ClojureScript library might look like - http://github.com/drcode/webfui

EDIT: I don't mean JS libs in general (simple functional libs integrate great!) but the various MVC frameworks mentioned in the post.
One of the things mentioned in the acquisition FAQ was that one of the key differentiators was the Meraki business model.

Can anyone shed more light on exactly what is different?

EDIT: Also, since I have never priced any of their gear before, any idea on ballpark costs (list) would be nice.
Re: actual casualties

How many people have had heart attacks and strokes brought on by TSA-induced stress?
This reminds me of this (slightly old) article, wherein the authors observe that about 1 in every 30,000 TCP packets fails the TCP checksum, even though the actual errors should have been caught by the link-level CRC. They go on to speculate about possible causes, which include memory corruption at the hosts.

A good read, and it seems to be an instance of the same problem.

"When The CRC and TCP Checksum Disagree" - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.27.7...
Google's driverless cars have driven over 300k miles. Only 2 accidents so far.
Should they have called it Bob, do you think?
How the hell do they expect the everyday user to learn that? That is such an essential and core feature to navigating any operating system's interface. Jesus.
You didn't offend me by criticizing him. You went, in my mind, totally nuts on him because you didn't like his tone. You said his head is up his ass for giving his POV on entrepreneurship. You were sarcastic and snarky and for no substantive reason.

Impertinence is also a common characteristic for a lot of other people, many of whom neither you nor I would like to be compared to.
I'd like to know how loudly you need to type to exceed the ambient noise on an Amtrak car, of all places.
It is unclear relative to both the text, and Google's intent in choosing the Apache license, which is a "liberal" open source license in the sense that it is nonrestrictive. You can fork, keep your source code unpublished, etc.

Google choose the Apache license to give their OEM and carrier partners as much freedom of action as possible, while making Android an open source system.
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You don't understand, its not the web-server, it is the client's browser that is the issue. Until SNI came out, the handshake was made and validity of the key determined even before the "Host: xyz.com" header was sent in. Without the host header your webserver can't determine which key among the multiple sites it hosts should be used for authentication. The only way so far to support non-modern browsers and to host multiple SSL sites on the same server is to assign one IP per site; the server can use these IP's to lookup the respective keys.
Yeah, back in high school people would constantly point out that I type too loudly. I think the Apple keyboards have helped a bit, still a bit noisy but not annoyingly like I probably would be on other keyboards.
looks great - have been looking for a new home for all my public photos now posterous is not being further developed
- have settled on g+ albums but not that happy with it

couple of things:

1 - Can you 'storify' all albums by defaults

2 - Can you change the sort order of the albums to Newest to Oldest

3 - What about videos - can i add youtube embed to a story ?

4 - Custom domains would be good

5 - Custom story/album url / slug would be good
I hypothesize that the point of all these obtrusive measures in the name of security is not really to prevent terrorism. Instead it is so that when the inevitable happens, wherever and however, the masses will not riot. They will instead think back to all conspicuous things that the TSA was doing all those years and think, well, I guess they were trying their hardest to stop it.
Reddit? https://github.com/reddit/reddit
Analysts: Google Is 'Just Trying Harder' Than Apple
Random usability rant: I find it slightly odd that, even now on Windows 8, keyboard customization requires so much effort in Windows. For example, I always make my capslock key an extra control key (if you haven't tried this before - try it!) and on OS X and most flavors of Linux, this is an easy 5 second process.

On Windows 8, there are a ton of Keyboard settings - including promising-sounding ones like "Change how the keyboard works" and "Keyboard properties" - yet you still have to use a stupid registry hack to actually change the behavior of keys (ie, to make your capslock key an additional control key).
Republican-backed copyright reform paper on frontpage yesterday has been pulled
If I'm not mistaken they don't expect every day users to learn that on account of metro apps automatically being suspended and then closed for you based on your usage.

EDIT: This describes a metro app's life cycle: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh46492...

The basic idea is that if you aren't using an app it receives a "suspend" event allowing it to save its state so that it can resume where it was. If the system is low on resources it will start terminating suspended apps that you have not used -- though as far as I gather they should still have the ability to re-launch and read in whatever they saved at the time they were suspended.

So the general idea is that closing apps isn't something you should be concerned about as a user.
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Those are called tactile keyboards and have many advantages (and the disadvantage of being noisy, although this varies by switch type):
http://www.overclock.net/t/491752/mechanical-keyboard-guide
I'm sorry if you find anything misleading. We try to be as accurate as possible without making the page too dry for non-technical folks. For example we list the features of the Allwinner processor as our work will be portable to many devices beyond what we sell. This lead to confusion were people were saying "I wont buy it, it has a resistive touch screen". The devices have capacitive touch screens and the chip has a built in resistive controller, but we are not using it. Our attempt to show the technical merits of the A10 confused many and so we must be careful how in depth we go. I'm happy to accept feedback about points we need to clarify.

I think this most important work will be doing is to setup and maintain repositories of available packages for the A10 and tablet based improvements. Also we also providing device preloaded and maintaining images for people who don't have time, or don't yet have the skills but would like to run GNU/Linux on their device.

I realize you can buy these devices at cut rates directly from China. Since we have to flash and test these in the USA, we have to pay livable wages to our staff. I realize its not great for the bottom line. It allows us to ship with the latest work we have completed without delaying the production run. This will help to avoid running into Chinese new year and a long production delay.
I lived in the "quiet" floor in my dorm in college. No greater farce has ever been endured. I really wish noise-cancelling headphones existed then.
Keep in mind that you can run it on both ports; you can specify the Port option twice in sshd_config:

Port 22
Port 443
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Thank you so very much for making this point in this way. I wasn't sure how else to explain something so seemingly obvious.
Question: Why couldn't Microsoft user some sort of device input flag to default the Windows 8 UI to the best UI for the current input?

Tablet-mode: default to Windows 8 metro style (I'm using my fingers)

Any kind of trackpad or plugged-in mouse: Shift UI to traditional Windows GUI (Obviously I want more fine-point control)

If Windows is truly trying to cover both types of usage, they should recognize that both of these paradigms are useful in specific settings.
They have some pretty amazing stuff. I recently attended one of their webinarsa and received a free AP + License. I used to push Ruckus because I was really familiar with them. Meraki is hands down a much better product.
Hah. This seems to be a fairly common HN motif - I also have a disposable email site - http://dudmail.com.

There's at least half a dozen of these sites that have stuck around for a few years - and a whole lot more that are always starting but fairly quickly fade away...
Oh, the quiet car. I ride the quiet car every weekday to and from work into and out of Chicago (except ours is Metra, not Amtrak). His description of it is completely accurate. The people on the quiet car tend to be thinkers, readers, writers, and I dare say just a bit more intelligent than the average rider.

I've had the same experience before. For some reason people think the signs and the announcements don't apply to them and it just boggles my mind how much self awareness they lack! There's been a guy I've seen on the quiet car twice last week who for some reason had his iPhone at full volume and texted for the entire hour I was on the train. The problem wasn't the texting but that the iPhones clickers clackety keyboard sounds were on. Is that really necessary? And on the quiet car no less? A woman did the same thing a few weeks back. Of course no one said a word but we were all very annoyed. And then you get the oblivious guy who doesn't read signs or listen to the 3 announcements who talks on his cell the whole ride. And don't get me started on the teenagers who seem to be visiting the city for the first time and for some reason need to scream at each other despite being centimeters from each others face in a car full of completely silent people. The signs are obvious. The announcement are loud, clear, and numerous. So what the fuck, man?!

That's life now. It seems we have a whole generation of people who are just completely lacking self-awareness and have a serious problem with entitlement. But it's not young people this is specific to. I'm only 26 and I'm good on the quiet car (though I have had my moments I'll admit). There are people of all ages,miracles, and genders who behave this way and though I think humans are like this by nature anyway I also think the Internet and cell phones have made it worse. It seems like a learned behavior.

I just blamed Internet and cell phones for a portion of the world's ills. I'm going to go think about how old that makes me sound now...
While I can totally understand people who want to be in the quiet, your post made me feel better. As in, I am not alone.
That seems like a feature that I would really miss. Too bad.
What of free speech? And the roles you think this validates of the TSA? As fashion police?
If you are considering going HTTPS only, please take the extra couple of minutes and make sure that your SSL setup is configured optimally.

I often run into setups where someone has enabled SSL, gotten the cert installed and just left things at that with no further work done to configure versions/cipher preferences/http headers etc.

SSL Labs Server Test is a good place to start: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/
Things move fast in China, when we started planning this project the cost was based on a bulk order. In the 6 weeks or so since the retail prices have come much closer the wholesale price. This is typical of Chinese goods once they are available long enough.

So the order quantity is not as important now but we still need the bulk to provide enough funds for the software work.
The worst part of this story is that both sides will use the media for their own purposes and we'll probably never know who's lying.
And how do you expect the everyday user to learn that? Sometimes I keep programs open for days with work I'm hoping to get back to. I'm surprised that that's the everyday solution. Shockingly bad.
Ask HN: Where can customers leave feedback for my business?
I have a design business in the UK and we sell products as well (Traditional Hand-drawn Map of London (wellingtonstravel.com)). However since we sell it ourselves on our website using paypal there's no way to get social proof from our customers.

If we sold on Amazon, eBay, or had a physical address (Yelp or Google Places), we could gather 3rd party reviews. But we don't, so I'm looking for a way to demonstrate our excellent track record. Any ideas or suggestions?

This seems to be a problem faced by other designers too. For example:
florianpucher - Carpet Design (florianpucher.com)

http://www.quora.com/Customer-Feedback/Where-can-customers-leave-feedback-for-my-business
I live in the suburbs and have had the exact same experience on the quiet car as the author. The suburbs aren't quiet either. They suffer the same problems the author points out throughout the piece. This isn't unique to the city at all. I think it's something that anyone can get behind (unless you're one of those annoying people on the quiet car in which case you might not get it).
Interesting, never realized they offer a free MDM (MAM) solution.
tab + down then enter also does that.

or

Windows-W opens the settings search directly
Windows- F opens the file search directly
As a 60-year-old, I'm glad to see Jim Weirich in the Brit Ruby lineup :-)
My prediction has always been that the start menu is gone in Win8 to force people into Metro-mode and bootstrap the tablet app ecosystem. Once the tablet ecosystem is well populated then there's no need to force users into Metro.

Windows 8 is a write-off in terms of corporations- Microsoft expects very few to upgrade to Win8. So they sacrifice a bit of usability to kickstart tablets, then bring back the start menu to make corporations happy in Win 9.
I don't really want to say anything bad about Miniand, I'm a fan of their work and like what they have going, however... Our prices actually compare very well with Miniand once you include shipping. Also the images officially provided by miniand haven't been updated in a while, where as we plan to keep things more up to date.
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