skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top Most Requested Songs with Steven Escobar
I have been using Windows 8 for awhile now. I never really stopped to think about the overall usability of the OS, simply because I thought it was easy to use. Nielson makes some good points, but I think at the same time, his point-of-view is overly academic. It is an OS. If you choose Windows 8, you will use it all the time. Nuances, such as how the charms work, how gestures work, and what tile does what, fades into the background. You learn it and you move on.
Ahh, a fellow highlighter. I noticed too.
Comparing Amazon EC2 to Joyent SmartOS
Paul Thurrott has said Win8 sales are below Microsoft's internal targets. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57551433-75/windows-8-sale...
And on which key. Spacebar oh spacebar, why areth thou so loud?
Here's a competitor for that title, the NHS National Program for IT. The plan was to build a patient records system to run in every hospital in the UK. It was billed as the biggest IT project ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health
$38.99 per project if I want the client to approve estimate categories? Seems pretty steep. Why not a flat, $9.95/mo?
I agree that they are not sexist. However I don't think diversity needs to be an explicit goal of choosing a speaker lineup.

Having said that, being aware of the diversity in software development, if I were to organise a conference, and only managed to attract male speakers, I would think "oh shit, something has gone very wrong here", and I would not hesitate to cancel it and try and address the serious issue.
Ah, remapping it to backspace is kind of interesting. The reason remapping it to control works well for me is that most of the keyboard shortcuts I use for things (and I use a lot) use it, so remapping the capslock key to it helps you keep your hand on the home row more.

I'll check out Autohotkey, thanks for the tip.
They've obviously got their units messed up in that section. I used 99GiB yesterday, and I'm fairly sure I don't account for over a third of my country's bandwidth usage :)
This is a common misconception. Google removed it for about a week, until they found and implemented a workaround. For all practical purposes, the universal search works exactly the same. I just tried it out on my Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.2.
"My own experience has been, well, maybe "unique" is the word. While my training was in electrical engineering over the years I've had to learn a number of engineering disciplines on my own due to the various directions that life (and my own curiosity) led me through. I became a mechanical engineer, software engineer, embedded engineer, learned FPGA's (they didn't exist when I went to school), learned metal and plastics manufacturing and even became a decent salesman. All the while, when it was possible, I'd find people to replace me in certain functions. Finding good people wasn't the easiest part of my job."

At least from my experience and observation over many years your experience is not unique at all (and I say that in a positive sense by the way). One thing that successful entrepreneurs (and I am referring to the type that build small successful businesses that provide a great lifestyle not large "hit a home run businesses") is that they are able to get up to speed fairly quickly on a wide range of things that they have no experience or knack for at all (as you say "became a decent salesman"). Because for one thing if they are self funded and what they are doing is of no interest to "investors" they could never afford to pay people to do things that needed to be done. So they cut corners and make it work. And they figure it out. On their own. (And I speak from experience here starting three businesses without any co founders.)

PG's "bias" if you want to call it that comes from the fact that (from what I can tell correct me if I'm wrong) his entire experience in the business world started in the mid 90's and specifically with tech and the internet. At a time of "rising tide floating all boats". (Not taking away from the success of viaweb but w/o that rising tide (which he did interpret correctly) and Yahoo (they also helped Mark Cuban quite a bit) nothing else (timing is always important) would have mattered. Before that PG was an accomplished programmer I believe. As a result he would tend to frame things from what he has observed during that time period in which he was "born" into business like anyone would. Even to the extent that he wouldn't ever think to qualify the use of the world "startup" to be "tech startup" as only one example. Entrepreneurship and startups of course are very broad. Some of PG's (and others) statements seem to want to confine it to a particular area of the business world.

"that your data seems to be used to create bias against single-founder ventures and this has to some extent permeated the industry."

It seems that you are feeling the same way I do sometimes when I read HN. That there is this great injustice in that young readers are somehow being brainwashed into believing there is only one way to be in business. And to have "success". Similar to how certain people believe that "Wall Street" is business or that somehow it is more impressive and acceptable to suffer as a wannabe actor in Los Angeles than to be running an actual successful wedding entertainment business.
This is not "storifying" because the output is not a story. It's metadata and visualization attached to an album.

I make the distinction because story is important. I'd suggest reading http://www.amazon.com/Wired-Story-Writers-Science-Sentence/d... if you haven't already.

A storified album will only be a story if the user curates the album that way. There is a kernel of story in the demo but there will not be in every album. Questions to ask about a story: Who are the characters? What do they want? How are they changing? What is the dramatic tension? If you can't answer these questions, I submit that it's not a story.

So, you can't automate storytelling (at least not now.) Encompassing photos in metadata about their context IS valuable. Context is important. So you're on to something.

But storytelling is very very powerful. I'm sure you have a laundry list of features to implement but I think you should consider if there are ways to refocus on making it easier for album owners to author real stories around their photos. These are the types of narrative that compel us and resonate with us biologically.

Put another way: Where, when, what and how help us understand but why pulls us in. If you can focus less on automation and more on empowerment to enable authors to weave in the why, then I think you will really be on to something. Your site will also not be about travel and instead be about life. Because we are all living a story every moment, not just when we get on a plane.
In San Francisco, Life Without ‘Starchitects’
Let what die? Coroutines or PHP? I don't see how either one would add value to your comment.
Well, currency is based on consensus, certainly, but that is not enough to create value. A paper has not value intrinsically speaking. Gold and other metals have always had value for various reasons (either because of their physical/chemical properties or because of their rarity). So, the day the Dollar loses its consensus, you are left with worthless paper and you might as well use them in the toilet. The day Gold, Silver and other lose all actual value is not in sight. Net, you are safer saving some of your assets in those.
Nice to see startups still being bought for the products and not just the talent
Non-sucky being an understatement means "It is extremely good" as far as I understand it.
> I don't remember the last time we had this many articles on HN discussing an OS.

Perhaps it's because this is a change that people find worthy of discussion. The changes are significant and the desktop product Windows 8 replaces is well-entrenched. It's also a mobile operating system, so the total amount of devices potentially impacted by the change are huge. It's an interesting topic-- you may claim it's yawn inducing, but you were interested enough to click.

I do wonder if you actually read the article in between yawns, however, as the article made very specific arguments based on observation of third parties using the software. Yes, there's still plenty of room for bias, but I see no justification for labeling it "hater-noise."

You disagree with the article; that's great, but why? Can you refute what's been said or provide a counterargument?
Bars have loud music because, during the lulls in conversation caused by the inability to hold a conversation, you drink.

And therefore you drink more.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the priciest projects with the best ROI, though.
I use a pair of these ear muffs almost daily; they pretty much block out all sound well for me. Here are a few reviews for the product that address your concern:

"you cannot hear what anyone is saying unless they shout, and even then, it is difficult to understand them." http://www.amazon.com/review/R20X9DNAJC9ZX3/

"I use to study while my 2 year old screams her head off (as long as someone else is watching her of course!)." http://www.amazon.com/review/R29TUUYEQY98W9/

"I use them while doing research in a library. It's unbroken silence despite screaming kids and adults talking into their cellphones. People no longer understand proper behavior in a library, but I don't care. I can't hear them. It's wonderful." http://www.amazon.com/review/RQBNEZ9CX3O19/
Really makes you hate good, old Walt Disney, doesn't it?
The profusion of announcements negates them.

Just yesterday I noticed that a single bus door had SIXTEEN warning signs on it. I dare suggest that nobody else noticed any of them that day.
OSes are not particularly complicated. I could imagine that tax laws require a lot more code (and tests) than dragging some windows around and scheduling processes. (Neither are easy, of course.)
I met my co-founder on HN, and we've done pretty well together.

Here's an article I wrote about some of our journey:
http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/2012/05/everything-ive-learn...

and here is my original co-founder search post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=941606

Although Paul actually contacted me after reading the big "Searching for Co-Founders" Google spreadsheet document.
Another feature worth looking at is the calendar pad, which is used for selecting dates. “If you look closely, you’ll see that the calendar pads in the booking view are thicker at the beginning of the month than at the end of the month, similar to tear-away pads,” says Medlin. “As with mapview, these animations weren’t readily available for the Android platform, so our developers worked to write code that would discretely add that special touch.”

I have not used the Airbnb app for Android, but that quote doesn't fill me with confidence. That's precisely the kind of mindset that produces apps that look like iOS ports and unlike well-designed Android apps.
My guess? There's no disincentive to ignore signs.

If you get in line for rows 1-5, and your ticket reads 324, your worst case scenario is standing in line until they call your rows. The best case scenario is guaranteed luggage space and convenience.
Cisco as a company can't do the kind of "out of the box" R&D that's necessary for significant innovation. When Cisco wants something truly new they go acquire a outside company.

That said they've done a fairly good job of growing those companies within their area (Aeronet as Enterprise, Linksys as Home) through incremental improvements.

This may be intentional behavior on Cisco's part to control their exposure to large project failures. IIRC there've been cases where Cisco employees couldn't get support to develop something new so they quit and once Cisco saw their success they were acquired back in.
It wasn't meant to generate a line up, only to provide some idea of demographics. You have to start somewhere, even if only to figure out how true "curating on merit gives you white guys" is.
Think New York Has a Small Carbon Footprint? Watch This [video]
Ugly designs can convert better in some situations, and the people making these sites are very likely tuning their sites to convert the best. Also, by making things unattractive to you, the scammers can filter for the people more likely to fall into their trap.
Ask HN: One Child One Laptop
http://one.laptop.org/about/faq (linking to faq because the homepage is a pretty obnoxious full page splash)

I love the idea of getting laptops to kids in third world countries. But I am not sure about their custom OS, and I am having a hard time finding anything very specific about what they are able to "learn". I want to make sure I am not just falling for some sales pitch. Thoughts?
I realize you're just being funny, the thing I don't get is why the 'vault' isn't air tight. I looked at renting a space that had been a bank, the old vault was literally welded open because it was air tight and if the door closed and locked it would take longer to re-open then a person could survive on the air inside.
You don't have to have SNI to host multiple unrelated SSL'd sites on one IP, given a Subject Alternate Name (SAN) cert and an httpd that accepts such a configuration.
A lot of tech companies already do, such as Facebook.
Suggesting an addition http://viewdns.info/ - A collection of free DNS tools.
I understand what you're saying, which is that nothing bad has happened yet. But the laws you're talking about are relatively new (circa 1985?) and during a period of relative peace, prosperity, and lack of political turmoil. So right now, there's no real incentive to criminalize the opposition. You can't possibly extrapolate that out to mean that this proves the concept works.

Back to one of your earlier points. I think it's obvious who gains from being able to say racist things without fear of arrest: racists do. I don't think anyone else does. But your conceit is to say "Hey, we all think you're wrong. In fact, we think you're so wrong that you can't say what you've been saying anymore." That's what I think is immoral. You can say "We think you're so wrong and we're going to explain exactly why you're wrong" or "We think you're so wrong that we'll reject you socially for your bigoted views" or "I think you're so wrong that I won't hire you". But what right do you have to say "I'm going to throw you in jail because you believe something and then you said it"? Because guess what? You're guilty of the same crime. You believe something (maybe you even have some unpopular beliefs), and you've probably spoken up about them before.

I fail to see how not arresting someone = giving them a platform. I'm all for not publicly funding racist, bigoted people. But why does not criminalizing someone's speech indicate that you endorse what they're saying? Further, if you, as a society, so strongly disagree with hateful speech and don't want anyone to feel like that's a commonly held or accepted view, why don't you just show them that? If there are more of you than there are of them, drown out their voices with your own. Be a model of equality.

Finally, you mention future evolutions of hate speech laws - where exactly do you think they'll land? You mention transphobic people. Do you think hate speech laws should cover that? What else? Where's the line? Would you advocate for speech laws that cover something you believe? What if you're a communist or socialist and everyone thinks that's completely immoral and wrong? Should you be unable to speak up about it?
I hope people appreciate the idea presented in this article. I don't know how much the average engineer learns about panel data regression, but panel data is the heart and sole of modern day econometrics, and quite frankly it's knowledge that every top data science candidate should have.
From your comment history, it looks like you mainly post on HN to defend India. I find it difficult to take someone who has such a narrow agenda seriously.
Different markets. Ubiquiti's software is no where near as polished as Meraki. Ubiquiti is working on a cloud controller function to reduce the barrier to entry for some of their products.
I can deal with just about any noise of any volume as long as that noise doesn't include any intelligible speech. Muffled voices are fine, the combined voices of an entire crowd are fine as long as I can't make out what any one voice is saying. But as soon as the part of my brain responsible for interpreting spoken words gets activated, I lose the ability to concentrate on anything.
It's even worse than that:

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2005/corp_011205.html

Airespace wireless for $450MM.
An Ode To W3Schools
Last I heard, it was a re-skinned and simplified Ubuntu based os. This might have changed given the rise of android based os flavors in the market.
How Software is Built (Great Interviews with Software Developers)
Huh? You could argue the netbook had as much impact on wifi as the iPhone did in 2007/2008. Both the netbook and the iPhone went from a very small number of sales in 2007 to nearly 11 billion for 2008.
Ha! A car? That's cheap!

Big companies can't risk going with a freelancer (who might go out of business or be booked when they need updates) so they put out an RFP to software firms.

A month or so of upfront design (wireframes, screen design, user stories). Another couple of weeks of iterations to get signed off by the branding/marketing group.

The development will need a team, four developers is about right (we need to get this app out fast in the ever-changing mobile landscape). We'll need a manager at half time and a team lead to handle client meetings. Throw in a dedicated test engineer (so many phones to test on these days...) and a month for formal test plans and execution (did we mention this app might be audited? test plan is 500 pages).

Make sure it is localized as well - we are a global company with global customers, all of whom we value. We also don't want to be sued, so we'll need a EULA screen that the user must accept. And a help page. And a way to register on our site.

Oh yeah, the way our budgets work, we've only got one shot at getting money for this app - can't do a minimal release and update it after it's in the store.

Conversative costs for an app in the OP's "BMW Tier":

One month upfront design at $100/hr (1 designer, 1 dev): ~$30k
Three months of development at $100/hr (4 dev, 1 test): ~$250k
Three months for PM at $150/hr (0.5 PM): ~$40k
One month formal resting at $100/hr (1 test): ~$15k
Monthly maintenance/update 20hr/month (1 dev): ~$25k
Total: Over $350,000 for the version 1.0 of your mobile app (on a single platform)

Apps ain't cheap.
Luckily pax anticipated that attack when releasing the KERNEXEC patch and fixed it a while ago.
When Players Make the Rules: On Memes and the Meta-Game
... and there are neighborhoods in the centers of cities, typically residential with little car traffic, that are very quiet.

Tokyo has a lot of these. It doesn't have a single "downtown", but rather a large number of busy centers, usually around railroad stations, and in many parts of central Tokyo, the "infill" between these is residential single-family housing or small apartment buildings. In many of those areas, streets are very narrow and windy, there's very little automobile traffic (people walk or bicycle), and it's often very quiet, to the point where one can sometimes hear people talking inside houses while walking down the street...
If you're a conference organizer and struggling to find local women to speak at your event, it's often worth putting in a call to your local Google office. If you can show that your event has a decent level of organization & chance of success, they have a well-established Diversity Grant program where they'll give conferences funding to fly in and house prominent female speakers which smaller conferences often wouldn't have the budget to do.

Interestingly, it's run totally separate from their normal event sponsorship program. A friend was organizing a local Ruby conference and couldn't get any monetary sponsorship from Google (they said they needed six to eights months lead time to budget for it), but in a month or so turned around a diversity grant package to bring in female speakers and attendees that was worth several times the financial sponsorship that was initially asked for.
Interesting, I mis-remembered the Aeronet price apparently it was $799M [1]

[1] http://news.cnet.com/Cisco-buys-Aironet-for-799-million/2100...
Wish there were more explanation as to "why?". If someone enjoys voluntarily living such an unsustainable lifestyle, fine. Everyone needs to get their thrills somehow.

But when it comes to playing with other peoples' plans, emotions, money and lives; then for "the rush" seems like a thin reason to live every day wearing a game face for employees, creditors, and family.

Glad to have Amy Hoy pointing out that Suster's view of the world is far from the only definition of entrepreneur!
The other day I was awakened by the... most... annoying... sound... in the universe: a leaf blower outside my window.

Worse! They blew everything directly into the bicycle parking row! Years' worth of dirt on my bike in one minute. Debris and filth in all the works. Earthworms. Had to completely detail the whole bike.

Meanwhile, leaves are some of the best compost available. Why do we blow them noisomely to rot on the "unused" areas of the pavement (i.e., bike parking, bike lanes)?
I know this isn't exactly related to packaging the code, but any thoughts on utilities like py2exe (http://www.py2exe.org/), cx_Freeze (http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/) or pyinstaller (http://www.pyinstaller.org/) for distributing finished python modules to end-users?
And here I am, still waiting for the old Kurosawa films to enter the public domain... for more (in English) see the brief summary here: http://akirakurosawa.info/2008/08/01/intellectual-property-h...
Steve Ballmer Hints at Microsoft Building More Hardware
I get that too, if I'm reading or writing then nothing short of shouting or a physical tap on the shoulder can bring me back to reality.

But I'm not convinced everyone can learn it. I know people who are light sleepers and get jolted awake in the night because of noise. You'd think if their brains could adapt to filter out the ambient noise then they would have for the situation. Regularly interrupted sleep is probably pretty annoying.
Unlike old-fashioned landline phones, mobile phones do not feed your own voice back into the speaker. So people adjust their speaking volume to replace the missing noise.
Was this article written by bloody McCarthy?
I was once contacted by a company who wanted to purchase my code to use for their app for their company. It wasn't a flashy app, but had a few time-consuming, and at the time, unique features. I gave my starting point - $10k. I expected them to come back to negotiate, but I think they were taken aback at the price I quoted and decided to go another way. I suspected they instead outsourced it or developed it in house. Several months after that (likely over a year) I checked the App Store for their company name, and they still did not have an app. Whenever I remember that episode, I wonder if they ever realized that the deal I offered them was actually reasonable.
Yes! This and the comment below points out the space bar is also a very loud key we can single out on all keyboards. I set my trackpad to use tap to click because I prefer it and it avoids that sound but I do occasionally click by pressing it. Now you've got me thinking how disturbing I might be with my occasional clicking on my MacBook Air on the quiet car.
Third Party Developers Take on the Wii U
Yahoo and Facebook Not in Search Alliance Discussions
It's a "quiet car", but it's still on a moving train. It's not going to be anything like the deafening silence of an old empty building that you describe. You're always going to have the noise of the train.
"young women especially"
really?