skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What else would you like them to say?

How many licenses are sitting with OEMs? If retails sales are below expectations the channel may have over purchased and items are sitting on the shelf.

How many sales are through enterprise agreements? These sales may be a bundle of licenses for different products. It is not unusual industry practice to throw in, for next to nothing, products that for strategic reasons, need to have sales numbers inflated. Or the enterprises may have purchased the license because they are contractually obligated to buy the latest desktop OS version.

It would seem odd to me if they created some new metric that we couldn't compare with Win7 and Vista sales.

Since what they mean has never been defined there is no metric. They could quite easily have changed what's being measured and no one would be the wiser.
I think it's neat. Nerds/Geeks/Hackers/etc are generally a solitary lot and even in groups the group is very inward focused so it's nice to have an outside opinion.

edit:

I especially like

>There’s a whole chapter on joking, humor and cleverness among hackers. And that, to me, was one of the fascinating areas. And I feel that I’ve just scratched the surface with that chapter — to how deep and complex their oral histories are and their folklore is.

Because I've always been fascinated with Internet History and much of it is recounted through what is basically oral tradition simply because a lot of the old era hasn't been saved.

edit 2:

>They come from the meme world.
Not only is it stupid. It's completely illegal. They claim it will be a Class II laser, but no laser at 1mW can sufficiently light up a road like this. They're obviously hoping that with the lens in place their power density will be decreased to allow them to become Class II.

It will probably not, these devices are dangerous and almost certainly prohibited.
I was referring to the 2.7.3 docs. Personally I don't like the brighter 3+ docs.

This is much more readable to me despite just the sidebar being different: http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/io.html

I'm really curious as to what other subtle changes contribute to that but I just prefer the 2.7 docs over 3 given that the text area looks kind of similar if you ignore the sidebar.
How about this one to display the recent HN stories? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news/geancn...
"Assuming the above is true, then why do we not see any sign of these probes?" Because for example these probes are as tiny as a nano-meter? Hey it is the year 2012 here on earth. In the last decades we have already shrunk computers from the size of a entire room to fit in our pockets and soon our blood. And we ourselves can already build nano-technology, despite not being able to travel around our galaxy. What tells us that intelligent life has to build "probes" so big that we are able to detect them. Maybe these probes are just as large a nanometer and are already flying towards us or were near us or are already on Pluto. Or maybe other life forms shrink themselves to fit into a trillionth of a trillionth of the diameter large spaceship to be able to travel around space faster than light. All of the theories are just expanding from current knowledge as of today, not factoring in any stunning surprises of how the universe might really work :)
Looks like you have no reason to visit HN then?
I guess I have a more negative worldview than you do. And in this case, I would have been wrong, and you would have been right.
Now a teenager is detained for a Facebook post in India
BlackBerry maker RIM loses patent dispute with Nokia
I ended up throwing together a script that pressed the "proceed" button repeatedly until it worked. Took around 45 minutes even then.
But they don't scare away people who are actually qualified but just don't see themselves as 'rockstars' or 'ninjas' or 'the best in the World' - even though they are.

Yah, they select against self-awareness. I think the dirty truth is that thinking you're the best in the world is more important to these companies than actually being good. If you have an outsized self-perception, you'll put up with unreasonable deadlines and terrible conditions on account of pride. That's attractive to someone who's in the business of exploiting naivete.

I'm a mediocre (96-97th percentile) software engineer whose expertise pertains more to the software ecosystem and economy. Knowing it (and myself) as well as I do, I know I'm not the best in the world. I even have that rare trait of knowing what I'm missing, and there's quite a lot in that category. But I'm more than good enough for 99.8% of the tasks that people need done, given reasonable learning time.
Regarding "human nature as it stands", doesn't nature change when things different to it happen?
This is true especially in the autumn/winter. Unfortunately my self confidence on the road usually get's the best of me.

As much as I hate to say it, maybe there should be some sort of guidelines/laws to cycling on the road; I know there are plenty of drivers that would want this and I have seen some awful cyclists on the road who are not only a danger to themselves, but also to others.
10 Avoidable Mistakes Cause Entrepreneurs Much Pain
Wow, I really, really, really like that second design. The two nav menu is brilliant. Maybe I'm behind the times (I think I am but that's why I'm not a designer) but it's sexy.
True, there are also a few of my favorite bands on Spotify that Rdio doesn't have. Rdio seem like they haven't gotten a hold of certain indie labels. I've considered switching to a paid Spotify account just because of that.

Spotify had a terrible Android app for a while, so I switched to Rdio. Then Spotify really improved their app so I considered them again, but now Rdio's app is even better. Hmm...

Also, Rdio has a "family plan" type thing. My wife and I both have accounts, so we get a discount.
Although lighting is a very important factor of being safe when cycling on the road, being aware of traffic and the law of the road is far more beneficial.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of going around without lights on, if you do get involved in an accident, you won't have a leg to stand on. So no bike replacement, and no payout for missing teeth.

When you think about the impact hand injuries can have on your career - let alone anything more serious - frankly I'd recommend lighting up for that reason alone.

But please, do wear lights - you'll only be making life easier for everyone else around you.
I disagree. It's how the glass is attached to the phone.

This is just a theory, but I've discussed it with People Who Know Things (TM) and they all have agreed that it's more than likely a small sliver of plastic or glass (or maybe just a tiny dirt particle) has become lodged in the space between the glass and the phone during fabrication. 9/10 phones don't have these defects, but when you're manufacturing millions of phones 90% still leaves a lot of bad phones.
I love my smartphone for everything except phone calls. Since I don't want to give my personal number to work contacts and vice verse I carry two phones. One smartphone (my personal phone) and one 4 year old bar phone (work phone). I use my smartphone all the time, however as soon as I have to make a phone call I instinctively grab the bar phone.

My current thinking is to get something like a Note II to use as an always on internet device I can carry everywhere and an old bar or flip phone for making and receiving calls.
maybe there should be some sort of guidelines/laws to cycling on the road

Such as the highway code?

https://www.gov.uk/rules-for-cyclists-59-to-82/overview-59-t...
Yep. Thank you. :)
Your conclusion is a result of a very poorly written title and lede. The greatest value of this product for your average consumer is not that it keeps your signal inside your home, but that it keeps other signals out.

Anyone living in areas of high population density can tell you how difficult it is to find an uncluttered slice of 2.4 GHz spectrum. It's next to impossible in places like Manhattan. I don't know just how effective this wallpaper is, but if it attenuates outside signals by even 50%, it would be a huge benefit.

EDIT: Another side benefit for businesses (even small ones) is control over what networks are available inside your office. Many businesses are in office complexes where WiFi signals overlap in to adjacent suites. I can't tell you how many times I've been to offices where users are connected to a neighbor's wide-open Wi-Fi network because they were ignorant of what network they should connect to.
I select text and have osx's speech to text read it to me while i'm reading. That way I can read way more and way faster.
Sometimes traffic lights break, and people still manage to get through that junction safely.

Some areas in the UK are removing all road markings. This is scary. The scariness is good - everyone slows down and looks around and is more courteous.

"Naked Roads" are pretty good. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4213221.stm)
Sometimes complicated by laws that require you to cycle on cycleways that are almost always more dangerous than cycling on the street (since drivers rarely look for cyclists if they are a few meters away from the road). At least in Germany.
One reason my stuff usually fails is due to empty elements. For example:

<div class="clear"></div>

in order to clear a float or something. There are better ways to do this but nothing is more convenient than riddling your markup with non-semantic garbage. If your website renders as expected in all major browsers, I say don't worry about it.

Also, if it renders like crap in IEX, don't worry about it. IE users are used to a horrible experience online. They see broken websites all the time and just assume their computer has a virus. And it probably does. It's just not causing their poor web experience.
This is of course interesting. I have thought about this before: But wouldn't it be more interesting to use (say the orient) language's mindset to set, embedded into the language at its core?
Fun article but as you'd expect from the title "we won’t know for certain what this means for human beings until more research is done."
How to make a demo video in less than a day.
Hack the scope, Engineer the solution
If you're going to have that discussion, you shouldn't use a poor analogy, nor should you state that said analogy is not illegal, when it could well be the case that it is.
I would hate it if browsers started getting in the way with my text selection. The best thing about it is that it works almost everywhere.

I don't select text when I read something in the terminal, though, only in GUI applications. I guess I don't like lines being selected completely for some reason.
Even though sub-string search is a slightly offtopic for this post I'll go on with this.

As a native Finn it's quite hard to use Gmail search for anything in our native language.

Just an example. If I want to search for, as an example, invoices (which many companies send directly to your email) I simply cannot do it.

The reason is this:
"Tässä laskunne" - "Here is your invoice"
"Saitte laskun" - "You've received an invoice"
"Puhelinlasku" - "Mobile bill" (the monthly invoice)

The word for invoice in Finnish is "lasku". And there are immense amount of ways to morph the word. And that is with every word. So in order to search for those kinds of mails we usually just search in the basic form. In GMail it's impossible so it's a pure guessing game.

I think this shows nicely that when developing something and thinking "This feature is not really needed" you might accidentally ruin the whole main feature for use cases you're not familiar with.
You know nothing about me.)

Automated server management has been done long before virtualization stacks emerge, and it about utilizing monitoring and network boot.

What virtualization stack Google uses on its servers? None.
Most that I've encountered have been PostgreSQL or MySQL. I've seen a few sqlite3 and oracle backed sites in the wild as well. I think I've seen more redis and more mongo sites than I've seen firebird.
One other BIG difference (significant enough to drive me to Rails, even though I prefer Python to Ruby), is that Rails 3.x has a lot of very nice "quality of life" features that django is lacking.

* Baked in migrations.
* The asset pipeline

Honestly those two things alone are MAJOR headache savers.

Django and Ruby 2.x are probably more or less equivalent, but Rails 3.x (and especially the upcoming 4.x, with very cool things like cache digests) are just more modern.
The Seedy Underbelly of Polymorphism in the Browser
Today, the Director of the JPL (and so also Webster's) is the one saying that what they found are organic molecules.

According to the article posted he said "perhaps" they found organic molecules. Or am I reading it wrong?
Windows App Store Leaves Mac App Store Behind
The daily download volume among the top 300 most popular applications in the Windows Store is already three times higher than the volume among the top 300 most popular applications in the Apple Mac App Store. However, in terms of paid volume only, the Apple Mac App Store is still doing much (5 times) better.
This is complete conjecture. Plenty of people use their 4s 4Ss without bumpers or cases with no problem, including me. It has be a design flaw outside of the base materials involved.
VC investment trends in the consumer web
Is it that X is designed NOT to do Y or X is NOT designed to do Y? If it is the former, then we can question how good the engineering design was...

One can always hope...
The tldr of the article is to write modular code. This is great advice, I hope most intermediate software engineers already live by this.

If I recall my CS history correctly, Multics/Unix was one of the first major software projects that embraced the modular philosophy. But modularity is a natural approach when designing large systems, and has been embraced by electrical and mechanical engineers for way longer than software systems have existed. Modularity even extends to processes; Henry Ford made his millions by modularizing the assembling process of his cars.
Simplifying the donation form seems like such a big, duh, but glad to see it was tested.

Great results (speaking from the management/tech side)
This article is from 1997, you should at least mention this in the title.
I agree. Like with investments in startups there could be a "spray and pray" strategy. Maybe "they" are just happy to spray very basic life forms like DNA around the universe and watch evolution happen, like how we in our labs like to watch experiments develop.
If a headline is phrased as a question, the answer is always "no." If the answer were "yes", they wouldn't have phrased it as a question.
Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates
As someone wrote recently, some companies say they're hiring when what they really want are shiny new people for their company. Rockstars are pretty shiny.
Using WYSIJA To Manage your Email Communications in WordPress
Yeah, I got a front light with my bike that was pretty crappy and very soon realised that it was no use at all for the dark shared pedestrian-cycle paths I was taking on my commute home. Very quickly learned that a decent headlight is essential.

I'd vote for a candidate (at local council or parliamentary level) that promised to give more consideration to a poper network of cycle paths in Britain.
The problem I have with USB cables isn't fixed with letting me know which side of the cable is right-side-up. The problem is that different computer manufacturers have different ways of installing USB ports. On some computers, they're right-side-up. On some, they're upside-down. Most of my fumbling comes in not knowing which way the port is flipped on the physical machine.

At least on my Thinkpad, the interior plastic is bright yellow rather than black. This makes it a bit easier. Still, switching machine to machine as often as I do becomes frustrating.
I would argue that drivers are looking at the ground, at what their headlamps illuminate. Illuminating the ground ahead of you means that drivers can see you before you're actually in front of them. A light that simply dazzles head on doesn't do anything more than a reflector. You can call the idea "stupid" all you want, but unless you have a study, then your argument is no more compelling than that of Effective Cycling's John Forester[1].

That said, I don't think a weird green symbol on the ground is a particularly great solution either. A headlamp with a decent spread aimed slightly at the ground ahead should function just fine as both ground and elevated illumination.

[1] Forester's book argues for headlamps aimed slightly at the road ahead as well as bicycle-as-car riding.
Which of the listed pitfalls are gone in C++11?
I think it's 90 days for hotmail/outlook, which is pretty short compared to gmail, which I think is a year. But, that would also explain why it's a lot easier to get the email name you want on hotmail/outlook.
Its a shame, for a UK product, they didn't consider that it will be illegal to use in the UK[1] as your main bike light.

It has a steady mode, and such needs to conform to BS 6102/3, which it won't, so it means it can't be used as the main light. As an additional light it doesn't need to be BS 6102/3 stamped, but does need to be white (not green) and the flashing mode needs to be between 60 and 240 flashes per minute (which it may do, but doesn't say).

When I'm driving, a green picture of a bike going down a road might distract me from the actual bike, especially when its projected 4-6m ahead of it as they plan. In inner-city cycling as a cyclist, you rarely need the light to see where you're going, more to allow other traffic to see you.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_lighting#Legal_requirem...
The best solution is to have an omnidirectional connector like Apple's lightning port.
You could do what Mountain Lion does - 7px standard scroll bar, which grows to 11px on hover. It actually has a 15px clickable area on hover when you include the 2px margins. 15px visible all the time is a bit of overkill.

But don't make the mistake of implementing every little feature request or trying to fix everyone's problems (no offence to the op here). That's how bloat happens. Let uservoice do the talking to find out what the majority of people want, and focus on that.
It's time someone setup an alternative usenet archive to Google Groups.

The only people to do this were DejaNews.com, later acquired by Google.

Then there was the 'look, we recovered all this old stuff off tapes' which is locked behind captchas and against the open spirit of usenet. [edit: the tape archive is available here http://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive]

Perhaps the Internet Archive should archive usenet?
If this blocks ordinary voice telephone calls as well, what legal issues will it have with regard to emergency calls?
They already made them:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-USB-Anywhere-data-copier/dp/B...
I was referring to the interview
Unsourced: superimposed warning labels on articles
The annoying thing is that these things are often used to stop other developers stealing stuff, like the the disable right click so you can't steal my images.

Someone I know has an old website in flash that he had done that way so people steal the images. When I did a print screen and a 5 second edit in Photoshop he was a little shocked. He's get the site rebuilt in HTML now :)

If it's on the web, then it's gonna get stolen if someone actually wants it. Don't piss everyone else off in the meanwhile.
What Psychopaths Teach Us About How To Succeed
I think what he(?) was pointing out simply that the lack of design intention doesn't mean lack of functional capability. Certainly my fingers weren't designed to type, yet there it goes. The other side of such a fallacy would be akin to stating that because I can type with my fingers, they must have been "designed" (intelligently?) to type. So abstractly, I have to agree (since it was posed in an abstract variable replaceable way).

In this case, however, since the scientists know what they'd need to "prove" life, they can state that Curiosity doesn't have enough sensor capability to gather such evidence. Rather than stating that Curiosity was not designed to detect life, it would be more appropriate to state that Curiosity is incapable of providing rigorous proof of life.

Now, back to the evidence. Stating that what Curiosity has found is not evidence, may be taken at face value only if we narrow the definition of "whatever Curiosity has found" to the information capable of being gathered and returned, as opposed to the sources of the exhibits under observation (which may or may not have a biological origin, or may or may not be a precursor to biologic functions). A thin metaphysical/epistemological distinction to be sure, but one that is relevant because when we need to trust our senses, we need to know our sensor limits, and when we need to trust remote sensors, extra-terrestrial remoteness is as remote as it gets, and its hard limits cannot be easily overcome once deployed.
Great app, very impressive indeed.

No one else has mentioned it, but I am not seeing the effect of the grid toggle. Selected or not, I don't see a grid.

Also, I'm curious as to how you are going to implement an export feature. I know several other web-based mockup editors put exporting behind the paywall as a premium feature. Good for them I suppose, but I immediately switched to a different editor.
Uninformed comments like this belong on reddit, not here. I'll have a $100 bet with you he won't be roasted though. If you think you know more than his lawyer and the UK authorities in negotiating an international arrangement then it'll be easy money.
How to turn Piano toy into MIDI keyboard
Well, rlpb's fundamental point is quite valid: Vendors have done tremendous work in making an OS secure out-of-the-box. I remember exposing default installations to the public Internet a decade or more ago and watching them get compromised in minutes, if not seconds. Virtually every platform required hardening, and the only thing protecting most ordinary users was the fact that exposure was intermittent via expensive, but quite public, dialup connections. Vendors began taking security more seriously by providing sensible defaults, but it's an ongoing battle with zero-day exploits being discovered far too frequently.
International Atomic Energy Agency server hacked
Oculus Rift - Update on dev kits, new display, new sensor (shipping in March)
My Flask to Django Experience
I moved out of London about 3 years ago, and never cycled there. Currently based in Southampton and finding the cycle provisions ok but less than awesome.

Now Perth (the one in Australia, not Scotland) has a great network, most of the paths are separate to the roads and follow train tracks or even motorways. I guess they do have a lot more space over there though.
That's anecdotal though. My wife broke her 4S twice. What does that say?
There's also a fantastic interview with Taleb that I posted a few months ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3631472
"New wave utility belt" - deck by addi osmany on the future of web tooling
I have put up a gh-pages quick and dirty cached version here: http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/ I sincerely apologize for the total hosting fail.
Would be handy to have a snap to grid feature
>"Once Windows Blue is released, the Windows SDK will be updated to support the new release and Microsoft will stop accepting apps that are built for Windows 8, pushing developers to create apps for Blue."

What? They seem to want to piss off their developers more and more.
Also, this fascinates me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

These are cells from a person, Henrietta Lacks, which can be grown in a dish and which keep dividing, for ever.
I live in the US. Is there any way to get my hands on one (or more) of these in a reasonable amount of time. The site seems to indicate that after you place your order you will have to wait months before you actually get it :(