skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The killing of Silverlight is a particularly accurate example, in that while Silverlight's end point adoption was never really there, the adaptive streaming was so much better than Adobe's that it should have been a home run. But that's definitely not the case; Adobe now owns the market (except Netflix) and anyone trying to work with Microsoft's has to figure things out without anyone at the company who knows how it works.
SharePoint is a fat cash cow. It's not going anywhere.
... by siphoning it through their startup.
Finally! Not having Blend in VS was always odd to me. Merging them makes sense for everyone. I can't say I ever used Design or Web, nor knew anyone that did. I have an odd workflow of Paint.Net and Powerpoint for design (yes, Powerpoint).
Tcl's EIAS can be annoying at times, but it also allows for an amazingly easy to use language that provides for some amazingly powerful abilities. For example, the ability to build arbitrary control structures with little effort. Most other languages, dynamic or not, can't come close to it's flexibility and some of the things you can do with it.
The Exit Hustle
Should probably make sure website links open in a new tab.
Sure, theoretical investigations on things begin many years earlier than anyone starts actually using them, but somehow "concurrency" wasn't something available to your everyday Joe back in 60s, right? Multi-core wasn't the norm, there was no elastic cloud, what so on.

And I am not really claiming that software development changed much in 3 years, but I think people's mindsets are changing faster than that, especially of those who are actively involved in thinking about these things.
>I want to be really clear: Instagram has no intention of selling your photos, and we never did.

So they have come out directly and said they don't have a way to make money then?
this is so Microsoft... all we need is visual studio to be even more "bloated" ...
City grid combinations
Portugese is far enough from Latin that many of the English cognates are not immediately recognizable.

"Sangue bom," for example, is not visually translatable to English.
Some interpretations put the date as 23rd December. So I'll call it a bust when we all wake up on the morning of Christmas Eve and find its the silly season just like all those years past.
Microsoft killing off Expression suite of Web and design tools
Why Rails Developers Should Take DCI Seriously (and disagree with DHH)
I ran into a lot of these issue (especially onScroll vs. requestAnimationFrame) while creating a Path style scrollbar menu. It's amazing the performance gains you get when you start to model things like a game (animation loop vs event driven animations). Take a gander at the source for all the optimizations I did: https://github.com/Jetsetter/PathScrollbarMenu
Manipulate images of different file formats using Saaspose File Format REST APIs
Zazen is essentially Samatha (Zen <- Ch'an <- jnana). Ashtanga Yoga is Samatha or Vispassana while using body posture as the concentration object, similar to Zhang Zhuan from the Chinese traditions. The devotional practice of Bakti Yoga results from Samatha and Vispassana, using the meditational diety or compassion as the concentration object.

There is the practice, and there are names like "samatha" and "vispassana". The basic practice is the same, regardless of the tradition. Different traditions will have different maps, different flavours, and some will work better for specific individuals simply because they were designed for that individual's hangups.

About the only thing does not fall into samatha or vispassana is guided meditation. But that's actually samatha in disguise. That is, guided meditations are not as effective without being able to hit some of the deeper jnana. Without skill in samatha, guided meditation is more or less a relaxing daydream.

ALL of them require mindfulness. It's not that you find a specific practice that exercises mindfulness; it is that you are mindful of your practice -- be that sitting on a cushion or coding on a computer.
Microsoft is a bulti-billion dollar company that doesn't much care for developers and users of its products. Oh, it says it cares, and for the incremental cost of an MSDN subscription it can buy the silence and obeisance of influential developers for years.

In the end, it will always suck to be a developer using Microsoft technology.

Here's the Microsoft bandwagon graveyard:

* 3D Movie Maker
* Active Documents
* ActiveX
* COM
* COM+
* Courier Tablet
* DAO
* dbWeb
* DDE
* Desktop Gadgets
* Encarta
* Expression and Expression Suite
* Frontpage
* HailStorm
* LINQ to SQL
* Live Labs
* Live Search Books, Live Search Academic
* Microsoft Bob
* Microsoft Equipt
* Microsoft Kin
* Microsoft Live
* Microsoft Live One Care
* Microsoft Max
* Microsoft Passport
* Microsoft Repository
* Money
* MSN Music
* OLE
* OneCare
* OS/2
* Remote Data Objects(RDO)
* Response Point
* Silverlight
* "Smart" Watches
* Soapbox
* SQL Server DMO
* SQL Server DTS
* Tablet PC
* VB
* VBA replaced by VSA
* Vine
* Vista
* Visual Basic
* Visual FoxPro
* Visual Interdev
* Visual JPlus Plus
* Visual Source Safe
* Web data access via IDC
* Windows DNA
* Windows for Tablets
* Windows Live Spaces
* WinFS
* Word Basic
* WordHelp (.hlp)
* XBox Live Service
* Zune

Many of these probably deserved to die. But Microsoft's propensity for suddenly marooning thousands of developers and millions of users at a single stroke is unconscionable.
Is Google Following Its Own AdWords Policy for Sitelinks?
It's the difference between someone who has a lot of exposure to software bugs deciding 1. this is something we need to work to fix versus 2. this is a potential way to make money as long as it stays broken if we take a role as middlemen in the problem.

I'll detail the analogy more in another comment below.
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She doesn't attribute malice to anyone. She describes the belief that the issue with models in the meltdown was inaccuracy as "maliciously" wrong, which I take to be hyperbole on her part to emphasize the category flaw she sees in this (namely, that if it's just inaccurate models, then better mathematicians are what's needed; in her view, the financial system at the heart of the meltdown was "corrupt and criminally fraudulent", so it's not mathematicians that are needed, and concentrating on them allows criminals to go free).

The fundamental problem she sees is that incentives in the financial industry are not aligned with accurate models, that inaccurate models were deliberately used to further short-term performance at the expense of further inflating the bubble.

"most of the misallocation of capital was done by firms doing things like trusting AAA rated securities"

On this, she links to specific evidence that the "trust" they were exercising was knowingly misplaced because the incentive was always to get the next big bonus.
Too late, I have already deleted my account, as have countless of my friends and family. Switched to Flickr, was already a Pro member there, might as well use the service that I pay for :-)
I wish that was the complete list of EOL products from MS.
I can vouch for this. I work for a large corporation who has tied all of their development to Sharepoint. The CTO has told everybody several times, in no uncertain terms, there will be no changing from Sharepoint or Microsoft and to just deal with it.

The only glimmer of hope is in the 2013 release I've been told we can build a decent CMS layer on top of Sharepoint.
Ask HN: Cheap High Bandwidth Solutions?
Relevant:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3363104

I'm running into the same problem as this guy , but my game mods are only 50mb.

New releases get around a 150k downloads and run between 5-10TB a month in total. (for now)

There doesn't seem any well priced solutions between the 10TB - 100TB tiers.

Any suggestions?
Penetration Testing with Smartphones Part 2: Session Hi-Jacking & ARP Spoofing
>I have a Zojirushi that I use from time to time to make rice, and have been experimenting with more complete one-pot meals.

That's funny, I just got one in order to replace a random $15 rice cooker. Have you written more extensively about your experience elsewhere? And when you say, "steam several types of vegetables in the last 13 minutes," does that mean you cook rice, then add the vegetables with 13 minutes to go? Or does it mean something else?
Nothing wrong with Java as such. The red flag is the "rewriting" part. Assuming that your current server code is running well and meeting all the requirements, the decision to rewrite has a "smell" and statistically such rewrites are doomed.

If there are good reasons for the rewrite and there are competent resources on the project, then perhaps you could consider Scala or Clojure. They allow you to use JVM and gain many other benefits. Check out the respective web sites if you are interesting in championing such an approach.

Personally, I would just find another project / company. IMHO Java language is not the issue, it is the multitude of APIs and frameworks and the inherent accidental complexity of it all that trips up projects where suitable experienced team members are not available.
I literally cannot imagine the mind of a person who would want to do anything she's cited.
That links also mentions that his amazing 45 deg. FOV side-view mirror is banned in the US, because curved mirrors are illegal in the US. What the hell? Doesn't congress have anything better to do than shoot us all in the foot, repeatedly?
I am having deja-vu. When I was just starting, everyone screamed about pure "semantic" markup and how all css class names should describe what was contained in a node, and have nothing to do with how it was presented. People bent over backwards to comply. I couldn't make it work, but assumed I was just far behind the curve. A few years later and that roar is gone. Bootstrap.css for everything, with class names that describe structure. I can't say I'm hurt by this as it is what I had resorted to all along. But the absolute 180 without even a hint of the old battle cry in the air is startling.

I feel like that is again happening here. I can not image how fully compliant REST api's would work in the real world. And when I ask for an example? Twitter, check the Twitter API! But no, that breaks the rules all over the place in the name of practicality. Oh yeah? You want a real example? How about the whole web? The whole web is your example!. That example is so far outside of instructive or helpful I don't even know where to start. I stand agape, unable to even speak. The way clients access my blog system should be based on the whole web? Even though it itself is on the web?

I'm done chasing prophets. In five years I do not believe this REST mania will exist anymore, and not because it is so ubiquitous as to go unstated. It will have died or changed drastically in the name of actually working. Bootstrap.rest. Either I am too dumb, or the movement is crazy, or both. But either way, I'm done trying to make things in a way I don't understand. The great and holy can thump their Fielding Bibles with faith that they will be taken home soon. Me, I've given up on salvation, and find the road to hell a much less exhausting one.
Silverlight dead? Funny, desktop / laptop machines still require it for Netflix -- not a small audience.

OS/2? Learn your history, MSFT helped create it, but it was an IBM product.

XBox Live? Last I checked it was still around.

I'm not a particularly MSFT oriented person (apple household) but having been around long enough, you might want to expand your horizons around MSFT product life cycles.

And, I very much disagree with your comment of "It will always suck to be a developer using MSFT technologies" ... Assorted MSFT technologies have made developers a lot of money over the years and I don't see that changing much in the next few years. Yes, they lag at mobile, but they are pretty damn big still.
Beware of Juice-Jacking
Thanks! That was the article I was thinking of.
It transitioned people to using the same suite of products, which I think is huge for the creative industry at large; particularly with making it easier to transfer files from person to person for collaboration, delivery, etc.. Remember when some designers used Photoshop, some Fireworks, and some Corel Draw?
>OS/2? Learn your history, MSFT helped create it, but it was an IBM product.

Actually, MS did once bet on OS/2. It is unfortunate that what was originally the MS OS/2 2.0 SDK turned into an entire fiasco. I really should write a blog series about it. In the meantime, look up "MS OS/2 2.0 SDK" and "Microsoft Munchkins OS/2".
Isn't your comment rather hypocritical?

"Pay attention kids while I break it down for you"

What is that?

You "hope the original poster will get a job as soon as possible", and you hope what for the commenter? A lump of coal in his stocking?
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.mspx

If you bought it using a credit (not debit) card then there's also a shot that you have purchase protection benefits that include price protection and compensation for you if a retailer refuses to accept a returned product.

If your card doesn't have those things -- or ESPECIALLY if you're using a Debit card -- this is a good time to learn that debit cards are awful and you should be adding a good go-to credit card.

Any basic Visa Signature card will be a good start, but I'd suggest finding a Signature card that adds in better price protection. Some that come to mind:

* Fidelity 1.5% cashback Amex offered by FIA (aka Bank of America)

* Chase British Airways card -- includes 100,000 bonus miles, very nearly enough to fly first class from SFO to CDG, a $10,000 fare.

* Just about any American Express card -- unless you travel and want the access to airport lounges, the Blue card is often best. Get the variant that best matches your circumstances.

There are many others, but that's a good start.
For pure cashback (a little unsure of the Signature benefits):

* Barclays' Priceline-branded card recently changed their rewards. It's a straight 2% cashback card now which is fantastic. And you get a card with Shatner on it.

* NASA federal credit union has a great 2% cashback card, too. It's changed recently and I'm not totally sure of the details but the last I checked it was 2% after you spent a preset amount each year. You can join by becoming a member of, IIRC, the Stargazers society.

Basic, no-benefits credit cards are silly -- get a good one! It's easy! But debit cards are evil. Friends don't let friends use debit cards.
I would suggest the methodology make use of not only the assignments data from the patent offices but also the data from as many state company registries as possible. It's not easy because there is no harmonization of this type of data among all US states and some (Delaware, Nevada, etc.) deliberately make it easy for companies to hide information about who owns them.

There's one more idea I had. You could also search trademark data under the assumption that short-lived shell companies do not register trademarks for their company name, unlike most legitimate businesses that offer products and services to society.
Probably mostly support.
So typical for those internet fat cats to hog up all the referrals! What about the rest of us in the 99% trying to make an honest living?
This is why I expected Instagram's change in TOU. I'm actually surprised it didn't happen sooner.
Have experience with PNG/IFF/4CC formats? I want design help.
I'm designing a new format for a sub-niche of cheminformatics. I've used ideas common to FourCC formats: blocks with a size, 4-character name, and data chunk. I have blocks >2GB so I'm using 64-bit sizes instead of 32, so I can't leverage the formats I know about exactly.

I have questions about the design, and would like feedback:

1) PNG ends the chunk with a CRC-32 check value. The other IFF/FourCC formats don't. How important has the CRC-32 been in practice? How often does a PNG chunk fail to pass the check?

1b) (Assuming the check value is useful): Given multi-gigabyte chunks, should I use CRC-64-ECMA-182 instead? I'm assuming that there will eventually be 10-100TB of data across the world in this format. Is this something I should worry about?

1c) How often should I validate? I don't want to do it automatically on load because it takes cat > /dev/null 43 seconds to process a ~3GB file. But single-lookup command-line queries are sub-second. Should it be a user-defined paranoia test? My feel is that those never get run.

2) The PNG format uses the NUL character as separators, e.g.: the "tEXt" is "an uncompressed keyword or key phrase, a null (zero) byte, and the actual text." The end position of the 'actual text' is determined by the end of the chunk. Wouldn't a NUL terminator would make the code easier for C programs to handle? Is there a reason to not using NUL-terminated fields, other than to save a byte?

3) The PNG format uses bit 5 (the upper-case/lower-case bit) on the chunk code to encode things like "Safe-to-copy". This seems cute idea, but has it proved useful? Does it work? That is, do people add their own chunk types, and find that other software mostly tends to follow those bit settings? Or does it end up that most software just ignores/skips chunks that it doesn't know about?
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Show HN: Letters to Sandy Hook
Ya, my immediate move to purchase several high quality JetBrains products was purely because of the 75%, not the silly "doomsday" bit. That's cheap.
it is a trick to get you to surrender your money in exchange for goods and or services
I'd love to keep 6 months in the bank, but my first job out of school was at a startup and I am not making a whole lot. At the moment I am lucky if I have 1 month in the bank, and it is not that I spend my money quickly, I simply live pay-check to pay-check at the moment.

Do note that about 40% of my pay check goes to paying off student loan debt, 50% to simple living expenses and costs, the last 10% goes into savings, generally so that I can afford a once a year trip back to Europe to see my grandparents/dad/cousins/uncles/aunts/siblings. So at the end of the year I have quite a bit saved up, and then I purchase a flight back home... that really hurts.
Out of curiosity, is there a process or an app that allows similar functionality with Flickr? (take photo --> apply filters --> upload & share to facebook/twitter/etc) ??
North Korea’s First Computer Game: Pyongyang Racer
Sterling silver rings
I think this would depend on voltage. Transporting 800 amps 10 miles is done all the time -- a normal house has 100-200A service.

The issue is that this is 230 KV, vs. 230V.
Part of their pitch is that you don't have to carry your cables around (they did include 2 USB ports at the base just in case).

But I guess their mistake is pitching this as an iDevice charger from the start (see their video; very heavy focus on iDevices). And when they couldn't include a lightning connector, it became a deal breaker.
haha thanks. That book is on my list for years!
The TIP#257[1] (Tcl Improvement Proposal) explains how rich and thought-out the TclOO component is. Endless possibilities.
It's a nice read to learn more about OO-concepts like filters, mixins and meta-classes.

Some might ask how TclOO compares to iTcl's. For one the performance is in another league.[2](Version 0.3)

[1] http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/257

[2] http://wiki.tcl.tk/18152#pagetoc16f40cc9
I came this || close to buying Expression Studio for a team member last week. :/

The problem is that Microsoft still doesn't communicate it's big vision to developers at large. There's a lot of dead ends and blind alleys that people get led into...

I'm currently commited 80% timewise to the MS stack, but over the last decade alternatives have matured, and attitudes among the folks with the purse strings have changed towards other tech options in the marketplace. It was another weird quirk of timing that I read this news about Expression while installing various Python packages on a Linux box...
Your list is not accurate. Vista became Windows 7 & 8, OneCare became Security Essentials, Live is still around, Visual Basic is VB.NET, and I am sure there are more of those technologies. LINQ to SQL is like Silverlight - it's not being actively developed, but you can still use it.

"In the end, it will always suck to be a developer using Microsoft technology."

Just like in free software, it depends on what you learn. The Microsoft technologies I use at work are C#, F#, ASP.NET, and IIS. Those aren't going away anytime soon.
The Flickr app for iPhone does that for me =).
Thinking about it... Powerpoint (presentation software) could be `killer` for mockups. You could go through flows directly. Clicking on things and what-not. Im gonna play with a mix of presentation suits and mock up builders this weekend.
But you don't care enough to stop visiting the sites themselves? As if the "dossier" can't be built without ad code?

I can't think of any good reason to forcibly separate a website from its ads. Any arguments against the ads are just arguments against the website, and I think attempts to argue otherwise are just trying to have your ad-free cake and eat it too.

Somebody paid and is paying for your visit. For the website itself. It's somebody's labor. If they didn't want ads, they wouldn't have put them there. Clearly you've gone to some length to convince yourself that you're justified in your actions, but you're not. You're taking something for free that the creator intended to be paid for.
The curved mirror exhibits distortion at the edges, which doesn't seem to be a problem with the two-mirror approach.

Also the curved mirror doesn't present the image at full size, it appears smaller.
It doesn't matter whether they're military targets or not. What matters is that they're not Americans and not on American soil and thus have no rights under the U.S. Constitution.
You guys need to ditch element5 and switch to a payment processor that can scale.
DARPA's Alpha Dog Can Now Follow The Leader
They keep pulling this "communicate our intentions clearly...." crap over and over again.

Yet look at the new terms - "transferable sub-licensable worldwide license" - yes present in the new terms too.
So what makes this turd any different?
Honestly, why should someone waste time doing this ? If a person is allergic to technical jargon, all he needs to know is "its a security attack that can compromise your database".
Is there any evidence from auditors et al that says he his abusing it now ?
I had this issue but noticed it's because the Ghostery chrome extension blocks Brightcove, where the videos are hosted. Maybe you have a similar problem?
oftentimes when i'm searching through large datasets it's not for a particular reason - if i have a very large dataset whose contents is fairly ambiguous, my first step is to get acquainted with it. i like to do that by just check random rows, seeing if there are any patterns in the data, or something else that might spark my mind towards how i want to use the data
This technology in future could also be used by criminals to print fake finger-prints. I guess then physical authentication needs to be updated to something un-printable. e.g retina scans, voice.