skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The client who tries to give his own clueless estimate of complexity of the job - automatically gets into no-reply/spam list:

"...and i think it's not that complicated"

"...it shouldn't take more than ... to complete"

"...Joe Blow said it's simple and let's assume that"
Sometimes I think Mysql has corrupted everyone's brain.

Postgresql and every other database that I'm aware of stores dates internally as a 4 or 8 bit number anyway, so you aren't saving anything by using an (hopefully) bigint instead of a datetime column.
Nice, but this constantly crashes Safari when the content goes below the fold. The whole page goes white and then the browser dies.
Yup, I had to delve deep before I realised it was bash aliases for Linux commands. It was actually the list on the right hand of the screen that lead to the realisation!
I'm not sure whether things are better generally, but most other developed countries use imprisonment much more sparsely than the U.S. does. Fewer crimes carry prison sentences (and especially fewer nonviolent or first-time-offense crimes), what prison sentences do exist are typically shorter, and prosecutions happen more rarely.
Ah, I wasn't sure what you meant by "single family home".

Of course renting houses is more expensive than apartments.

I am sure you will find something that makes you happy. I have had a few house search adventures in the Bay Area. Best of luck to you!
After reading that you had send passwords via mail, just one quick question: Do you store passwords encrypted?
WinRT/WinPhone are not B2B OSes. B2B lives off the ability of a business to deploy their inhouse software that they (or somebody they contracted like Accenture) deploys on their infrastructure. A lot of these applications did move to the Intraweb. However Microsoft restricts the choice of web browsers that WinRT/WinPhone users can get, so if IE RT/Phone lack the capability you need, you're out of luck.

The WinRT/WinPone strategy is aping 1:1 after the Apple B2C business model. Your "analysis" that this was a B2B solution is spot on wrong.
Thanks for the info. Very helpful. Will check out those sources!
This is awesome. Care to share some details on the implementation?
This feature has rolled everyone, by default, into a dating service ("Single females in San Francisco who like Radiohead") and a marketing database ("People under 25 who like Coca-Cola").

This assumes that the advertisers didn't have access to searches like this already. That seems very unlikely.
They are shipping an MVP.

The first iPhones didn't have an AppStore, or 3G.
Would you ever consider being a cofounder before the MVC is built?

I guess you're saying that you'll only build MVCs for cash, but then will consider joining as a cofounder afterward if the project looks promising and you can work out a fair equity agreement?
Yeah, even writing ditzy consumer apps on Android we're usually stuck with the number of milliseconds the system has been up if we want a reliable, step by step, count that doesn't jump around. Use something else and your animation delays will be screwed up occasionally, etc.. Of course then that number is useless outside that system and outside that boot of the system. Would have been much handier to have something better.
The model is to eventually have thousands of varied hosts within the storage network.

That said, it is to launch under one single unified host in NZ.
Businesses work on desktops and active directories.
WinRT makes no sense on the desktop, and it offers no AD.

So MS has nothing to offer here, B2B wise.

They made a huge mistake, pretending that desktops and mobile devices are the same beast. And they're gonna pay for it, in sales and market value.
At the end of 2013, they should be a even less relevant than today.
Seems it still works if you go directly to the IP address. http://94.242.253.38/mega/
Xbox is "B2C", in a very big way.

The impression I got was that it was intended for consumers. Why else would you only sell it in a Microsoft store? (I did see one in a Best Buy. It was buried in with the other tablets, while there was a shining white table with iPads a few feet away, with actual people around it fondling the merchandise).

It's true that MS did give most of their full-time employees free Surfaces. I assumed this was to promote internal use, and hey, who doesn't like free stuff?

The hardware is great, but the Windows group really, honestly didn't know how to ship a tablet OS -- they're a B2B group trying to do B2C, but not really understanding what it takes. The result is emabarassingly bad in spots. My wife was having to deal with The Scourge That Is the Windows Registry, using the event viewer and task manager to diagnose some bug in WinRT. They really do not get it . . . or if they do, it's not at the level of design and management where it matters.

You don't have to do this kind of mucking around on a Xbox. There are good reasons for this. Yet the Xbox is based on Windows. Interesting.

Windows has been institutionalized inside MS to the extent that you can't ship a platform that doesn't use it. You need to use a /lot/ of it, and it's a procrustean bed, at best. Windows is getting really old and creaky; things that you might be able to justify on a desktop (e.g., a corrupt registry, or a service horking and needing some TLC) are just death on a tablet, and having consumers drop into desktop-level tools to fix stuff is just sad.

(Don't get me started on WinRT).
Maybe there's an obvious answer, but why can't they sell it in a non-upgrade version for download too (even at $200)?

I'm a Mac user who wants a legal Windows 8 VM but short of buying Windows 7 + the upgrade (except the online MS store doesn't seem to have 7) or joining MSDN ($700+) I can't find a legal way to do it.
to be honest, what fascinates me is that microsoft seems to have invested a lot of work the past few years to bring forward a pretty decent line up of integrated products. if you want windows and office like you had, that's fine. and much of the windows 8 UI disaster was actually made up by the press to have a great story, even that one video with the guy's dad. i was shocked when i saw that. then i installed windows and while setting up my account, it actually taught me about the new things pretty well. there's room for improvement for sure, but compared to apple, they do not only need to come up with a reasonable set of visible features (yes, this is how the masses work, not us here), but also make these mostly visual features feasible for business and consumers. people tend to forget that talking about 'business' does not mean a brooklyn hipster photography shop, or a startup (although there are just as many employees there) - it means a small shop in india, a global giant like boeing or a government system in germany (munich switched back).

and, in all that chaos, they need to present a clear thread from the mobile sales guy to enterprise software, from consumer home to consumer mobile.

apple is basically focusing on getting the story at home right. now they have the luxury of adding to that, which they become less and less effective at. the iphone was fantastic, and my home is now equipped fully with apple. but it sucks that this is where the story ends, at least for now (i'm sure they've figured this out already).

i'd love to see microsoft getting a bit more love, honestly. all these guys working hard, being the 'bad guy' since the 80's and everyone forgetting that there's a reason they're still in business, were never close to being shut down and very rarely every fire more than a few people. when they do, it's even in the news (last firing spree iirc was 2000 employees, 3 years ago or so, with +100k staff).

very sad that the 'press' still finds it lovely to tell us all how much microsoft really sucks. i love visual studio, i love c#, i love my iphone but man the windows phone 8 is so smooth and great to use, i love the macbook it beats any other notebook, but I also love windows 8 and the freshness of it.

what a drama world.
Nevertheless it's a good effort as a proof of concept.

I'd also appreciate info on whether Latex packages will be supported in the future. At the moment this does not seem to be the case, though I can imagine this would be a challenging problem to solve for in-browser compilation of documents.
Excellent slogan: Microsoft: The software stinks

or it is better suited for Java?
> Tons of people have learned to program with Java

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

> the fundamentals are the same.

Only if all your fundamentals are restricted to what Java implements. A student that knows only Java may have trouble using multiple inheritance, first-class functions or prototype-based inheritance. I've seen a lot of Java programmers who cannot grasp these ideas and get utterly lost. It's not fun to watch.
I'd like your analogy -- if Apple didn't get there in part by doing the same, e.g. attacking Samsung with ridiculous patent suits.
"Sometimes I think Mysql has corrupted everyone's brain."

Unsurprising, given how cavalier MySQL is with all the other data it "stores".
Go re-read that section. We've never sent people's passwords out to them and all passwords are stored encrypted.
"Cruel" is a stretch, and "unusual" is clearly false.
Nike launches developer portal. Yes, the API is out.
I'm not saying the current system delivers, just that I think politicians should do work that I then won't have to.
What? Edge detection is pretty much the only use for the Sobel operator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobel_operator
Formatting timestamps is a difficult decision for REST APIs to make. I polled my networks a while back and got pretty much divided responses [1]. In the end, I opted for milliseconds over ISO 8601 and I've been happy with that choice for ease of processing and debugging, especially as I'm now using the same values in the URL for caching purposes.

1. Google Plus conversation remains https://plus.google.com/106413090159067280619/posts/Wtkhk9jU... Good luck finding it on Twitter
and to summarize what I wanted to say:

microsoft should finally split up into two separate entities. a microsoft for business solutions.
and a complete separate brand (yes, new name, new logo, new location) that caters to consumers.

bridging these is probably easier, than to apply business marketing to a consumer, and consumer marketing to large businesses. if they focused just on business, many of the hater blogs would not even remotely talk about it - and the industry relevant magazines would be as they are, acknowledge the good things, highlight the improvements.
I disagree that Timezone is just a presentation issue.

When information is to be transmitted between timezones, you want to be able to determine the locale time of the sender or the information relays. This is why you'll find a time zone information in dates and time stamps in mail headers.

This is also why ISO 8601 bothered to standardize specification of the time zone.
Putting someone in jail is just as likely to turn them in a violent repeat offender as it is to 'cure' them.
Microsoft have always eaten their own dogfood. That's where Server and Office and Project came from...and obviously, Visual Studio.

Giving RT devices to employees continues this tradition. It's also evidence that this is an enterprise strategy, not B2C.

I used Windows 2.0. I was using WordPerfect when the first versions of Word were being developed. Surface is an MVP.

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A Note about Xbox. The way Microsoft handled the RRoD issue was pure B2B. They made it right for people out of warranty. Their choice of three years was the same as the period over which businesses depreciate assets. A B2C response would have been, "You should have purchased XboxCare."

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Microsoft has been all about the cash for quite sometime now, after the scam they ran with vista/langehorn (or was it longhorn), I'll go linux before I'd spend another cent on one of their o.s.
>If they can't even manage to fix these terrible, obvious mistakes of the past, what hope for arcane computer laws?

I don't think the things preventing the fixing of past mistakes actually stand in the way of fixing computer crime laws. The CFAA is bad because it was poorly drafted originally and is now fairly anachronistic. There is no huge lobby for putting a dozen hackers in jail for decades. It doesn't happen at scale. There is no big money in it. Setting the penalties to something less draconian would not cost powerful people anything of significant value.

The drug laws are bad because they were designed to be bad. Their lobbyists are prisons who want more prisoners on a mass scale and law enforcement agencies who want bigger budgets and to seize the assets of rich criminals for themselves. To fix them you have to take on the whole system.

I am not advocating that we should not try to fix the drug laws. We certainly should. But they're not the low hanging fruit. It's worth doing what's easy immediately while we figure out a long-term plan to do what's hard.
This is awesome but I also had a problem with viewing the file in the browser. What worked was opening it in a tab and then saving the page as a pdf.

Firefox 18.0
Almost any susperstitious thought is psychotic when you look at it, but that doesn't make you mentally ill.
That assumes that a compelling argument can be made that all the legacy stuff you have can be made to work with it. Which it can't.

- No application you've written to date will run on it

- No application you're now going to write will run on it without uploading it to the app-store and letting everybody else download it.

- Your active-directory NT-domain user management will not be able to deal with these machines.

- Your own exchange server will not be able to talk to these devices e-mail clients.

- Your host of macro-encrusted MS-Office documents will not work on that devices implementation of office.

In short, nothing you did up to that point works on them.

- It makes porting/supporting these devices extremely cumbersome and expensive

- It demonstrates clearly that Microsoft was willing to break their entire backwards compatibility.
What does that even mean? They're a corporation of course they're about making profit.
Finally, some competition for Instagram?
For those interested, the minteye captcha has been broken by other methods as well.

Speech recognition: https://gist.github.com/4520930

Laplace: https://gist.github.com/4564489

Fourier transform: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/rjw57/mintey...
Thanks for your hints! I added a 'Open PDF' button to circumvent popup blockers.

Yes, I used emscripten to port it to Javascript.
It was not that hard. Emscripten had three bugs I had to fix (the hardest was to find that the %g format was not supported by emscripten's sscanf).

But it was compiled almost like for x86: first convert the pdftex 'web' souce code to c using web2c, then compile it to LLVM bytecode and the LLVM bytecode to JS.
How about comparing EC2 to a Virtual Private Server? Thats a bit more of an apples-to-apples comparison.

Serverbear notes that Amazon 7.5GB Large instances (which cost $180+ / month) benchmark at ~650 on Unixbench... with 30 MB/s for its disk. In comparison, a 8GB VM from Digital Ocean only costs $80/month. I don't have the numbers for the 8GB VM, but the smaller $20/month 2GB instance has a UnixBench of ~1900 with over 300MB/s I/O from its solid state drive.

(I presume the larger instances have more CPU power / priority in the VM scales)

That is half the cost for triple the CPU performance and 10x better disk performance. Other smaller providers, such as RamNode, offer extremely fast I/O with RAID 10 Solid State Drives in their Virtual Private Servers (500+ MB/s).

Amazon vs Digital Ocean

serverbear.com/239-large-amazon-web-services

serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean

To be fair though, Amazon's CPUs are more consistent... consistently bad, but consistent. VPS CPUs and I/O are affected by their neighboring VMs, while Amazon seems to have removed that uncertainty. Nonetheless, in practice, you will always get a better performing CPU and I/O from other providers.

And if we compare both to bare metal servers, obviously bare metal servers win in price/performance, but are harder to maintain, so its hard to do an apples-to-apples comparison. But Digital Ocean VMs can be spun up/down just like Amazon instances... although Amazon has more load balancers and other infrastructure. (But nothing is stopping you from setting HAProxy on a front-end VM to loadbalance a cluster of VMs from Digital Ocean. Even then, other VPS providers like Linode offer Load Balancers as part of their infrastructure now)

Its hard for me to see the case for Amazon's cloud offerings. They don't have very much price/performance at all. At all ends of the spectrum, low end to high end, VPS providers such as Digital Ocean offers more vertical scalability as well as a cheaper price on all of Amazon's offerings.

Unless you need some specialized VM from Amazon (ie: GPU compute), or are locked into their vendor-specific API (oh I feel sorry for you), there is no reason to use Amazon's services IMO.
He just posted on twitter a new music video it seems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr1feJDCjPo&feature=youtu...
I'd like to sign up using github, since that's a sensible authentication method for a developer-centric community.

> Update your user profile.

Why is this required? I very much like my profile the way it is. What do you plan on adding? Is this just poor wording in the github auth API for something that really doesn't mean "change my email, location, and availability for hire?"
So HN is taking ads now?
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There is no full-version retail Windows product, and probably never will be for future versions either. If you want to install on a new PC or VM, you are to buy the System Builder ('OEM') license.

http://www.amazon.com/Windows-System-Builder-DVD-64-Bit/dp/B...

http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Professional-System-Builder-64...

Previously, the OEM license was only for installing Windows on PCs intended for sale. The newest System Builder license includes a provision allowing you to install it on a system or a virtual machine for personal use. That's why they don't need to produce a consumer retail box any more.
I tried to register 4+ times with a password that included special characters, but each time it said my password didn't match. Once I changed it to an insecure password, it went through. I could have been bad typing on my part 4 times, but... you may want to test this.

Also - It doesn't appear that the profile visibility dropdown gets repopulated after form submission failure with the previously selected option.
Have you ever seen a googler work? They do nearly everything on their webapps, and the programmers live in source control.

There was an article from a while back as to why Google wasn't working on gdrive faster and one of their engineering managers was quoted as saying something to the effect of "why are we syncing files? Who needs files, we have everything on the web". But unfortunately I can't find that reference right now.

But it doesn't seem too far a stretch to think that some web-heavy companies prefer web solutions with as "stateless" clients as possible.
Minecraft required in Swedish school
Re: where to find experienced developers with no tech connections, that's not really a problem. Here's why: It's similar to a man asking, "Hey, know any models I can date?"

Actually, beautiful women are hardly rare. But it's the qualifier that's important: "models I can date??"

Good developers might be rare, but they're not hard to find. They are, however, hard to woo. You know the drill on how to woo them, it's just inconvenient/hard/expensive. But at least it's pretty well laid out.
> A time format without an offset is useless.

Not necessarily. The time might be "floating time", i.e., depends on some local context.

For example, the show starts at 10 pm 19 Jan 2012. You don't need the time zone because people going to the show know what 10 pm means locally.
param is not really part of the bug - if I understand correctly, any argument passed to the these tags will be evaluated twice. So you have to check for message/theme/bind/nestedpath/transform tags and ensure no user-influenced data is fed to it.

And if you use a templating engine that uses these tags you'd have to trace whether they are invoked anywhere... So it's not as simple as a grep at all.
Shadow of the Colossus 500gb external hard drive
Does this presume a local Unix filesystem? It sure doesn't like the lack of a /bin directory on Windows.
OOOOooh.
What do MySQL datetime types and scrum have in common?
No, emscripten emulates a virtual unix filesystem. That's why you see this error on a Windows machine.
Having started a job board before (orangeslyce.com), one recommendation I have is to pre-seed the board with jobs to help get over the chicken/egg problem. You can hustle analog and get some posts or even copy quality postings off other sites. Sure they won't be paying customers, but it's kindling for the fire and gives the appearance of social proof.
Update thread
Hi guys

Sorry for being naive here but I have re-read this topic several times and I still don't understand. The whatsapp hack is it only available on the andriod phone ? And the phone has to be rooted ?

If that's the case is there anyway I can get that hack onto my iPhone ? Modem firmware 3.0.04 ,iOS 6.0.1?
Ah yeah, I should have stressed the download part. My local Amazon (UK) has an OEM version available on DVD which is ultimately probably how I'll have to do it and then rip it to an ISO. But it's 2013.. c'mon MS.
They didn't automatically update your email listed as alttab@facebook.com?
Because excessively long lines are hard to read.
The Onion: "Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity"
Google CEO: Facebook is doing 'a really bad job'.
The U.S. has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's jail population. Numbers would seem to indicate that the laws AND the application of the law make the U.S. much more restrictive than most, if not all, 1st world countries.
But this will still be useless anywhere else than "locally". The timezone just became implicit and lost.
Latex packages are not supported automatically.
The script has to download the required files in advance which is currently only done for the font file etc.

In theory one could search the LaTeX code for '\usepackage' stings and download the required files and mount them into the virtual filesystem of emscripten.

See https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/website/ma...