skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to see major players beginning to compete on the level of privacy they offer to their users. "Personal information" has become one of the currencies on the web by which we "pay" for free services. Microsoft now seems to try a "low-cost" strategy to gain market share.
Nope. It's hardcoded to work only on terminal emulators. It should be possible to provide a Windows implementation of the few commands used, though. They map fairly trivially onto the Windows console functions.

That being said, I'm now thinking about creating a PowerShell implementation of this.
"more advanced" depends on what problem you are trying to solve.

If you want something that's quick and easy to adjudicate, I don't think you'll find much of an improvement.

If your goal was to reduce "producer surplus," you might use an annual auction system for each domain. The expensive domain purchasers could subsidize free domains for everyone else, with enough left over to... do... I dunno, wonderful things, I'm sure.

Aside from that, it's not obvious who should own domains where there are competing reasonable claims, certainly no general solution to the problem of "subjective fairness."
Shared it with the old link, as I found it really to be a great idea, one that I will incorporate at home.

Thanks for sharing this tip.
very nice, are you going to offer colos from there? that is about 6 minutes up the road from me!
So? Where's the breach? An algorithm knowing the subject of the message doesn't worry me, as long as all they do with it is display ads from the same broad category. If they're doing something they're not telling us, well, any other email provider could also be doing this.
> I wrote a web scraping program

Better to ask beforehand, many websites are quite happy to hand you data if you ask nicely and your goal is something non-competitive.
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Hi there, Just a quick comment, we're using LeanSentry to monitor 50 servers and it's being great! We are a brazilian e-Learning SaaS solution provider and the information that we're getting is helping us polish our application and ensure our customers a great service level. We find new uses for it on a daily basis. Our Product manager, sales, developers CEO, CIO, CFO... everyone uses it as the information is "readable" to everyone, not just tech gurus...
As you can set things up in matter of minutes it's definitely worth a try.
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Sorry, we crossed paths, by the time I deleted the original yours was already posted.

Glad to hear you like the idea. It was an eureka moment for me :)
"Hi, I'm Insert Name, pleased to meet you. Can I borrow your phone".

"No"

...

"Erm, what do you think you're doing, get your hand out of my pocket!"

No-one touches my phone.
Some models don't even exist, so you have to make your own.

I'm working towards an all female Dark Eldar force (why? because!) and Lady Malys has no model.
This happens to me sometimes in Opera, Chrome and Firefox, and it's extremely irritating.

I remember the good old days when dual-core processors were just starting to become mainstream, and browsers would just use one core. The browser could crash all it liked, but the system would always be responsive. But now browsers take advantage of all cores, meaning that if they crash, they can block your entire system.

I wish there was a way of telling the browser to strictly use only K cores on Windows. I'd instantly switch to a browser offering that feature.
Many European VCs will invest in cities where they're not based. Most will have offices in a few major hubs but for a lot of the time VCs will be on the road travelling to other cities to meet startups.
Ask HN: How do you shift focus among applications on a Laptop?
Do you use your apps mostly in maximized state?
Do you click to move focus or ALT-TAB?

This is one thing I still find slightly annoying. Both clicking and ALT-TAB seem very uncomfortable to me.

Any innovative ideas on building a better experience?

Do not restrict yourself to software only ideas, dream of new hardware if the need be?
The problem with asking "Why?" is that you leave yourself open a retort of "Why not?". Unless your argument managed to cover that possibility (which yours didn't) it's not a meaningful question.
It could be timed for the end of life for windows xp in April 2014. Its still a large chunk of the installed os base
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
So maybe the point is that if you can't keep everyone of these on windows at least you can keep them using office.
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You are right about drivers but I'm not so sure about kernel. Are you sure you are not confusing Ubuntu for Phones and Ubuntu for Android?
I admire Jeff as a person, the whole Stack Exchange network is amazing but Discourse needs some serious thinking applied to it. If Jeff wants to release a decent forum application, he should look to Vanilla for inspiration: http://vanillaforums.org/ — in my opinion, Vanilla is probably the cleanest and best forum application out there today. PHPBB and MyBB feel horribly dated and vBulletin is expensive and looks like it hasn't been updated in about 15 years.

The forum market is ripe for disruption on the same scale Wordpress disrupted the CMS market, fancy Javascript is not enough to disrupt the market. I personally find infinite scrolling to be buggy and highly annoying when you're scrolling and trying to read text, then BAM! scrollbar gets longer and the page jumps.

Simplicity is the key, not a large number of features and copious amounts of Javascript unnecessarily added in. Discourse as it currently stands doesn't impress me on the same scale Stack Overflow did at least not in its current form.
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This is pretty nifty; I'll be tinkering with this a bit for sure! Nice work.
And many other people have been affected (probably everyone decent sized site running MoinMoin): MoinMoin itself, Mercurial, also I think FreeDesktop. I wonder if Ubuntu was too.
Which is what I thought, but when the TechCity initiative in London was ramping up there was a lot of fanfare about it putting startups with VCs as a selling point.
Right, but some of us thought that meant the Python folks couldn't use it because Google's servers were limiting the rate of GET requests for the cached pages. I.e. the data is inside Google but difficult to get out quickly (without Google's specific help).
Maybe because DuckDuckGo differentiates themselves better. Microsoft is more of the same - maybe marginally better in one respect (allowing opt-out) but atrocious in many others - almost every article I've seen has had no trouble balancing the story with talk of Microsoft's past transgressions.

On the flip side, I agree that Google should allow you to opt out of this, but it's pretty easy to use any email client to access your gmail e.g. Thunderbird, Apple Mail, even (shudders) Outlook / Outlook Express

So the only thing those ads are actually paying for are Google's UI.
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I can see your point generally, but in this case, I can't see how being copied is anything other than flattering. It means the idea was good.

Regards your second sentence, that is what I'm saying. A large company that's put lots of resources into something fighting of another company who "stolen" their idea, while tedious, makes some sense. For an individual, I can't see how it's worth the time, stress or money to worry about copyright.
Webapps can look at using some of the newer HTML features for offline capability and caching. There's the HTML App Cache [1] and IndexedDB [2] for example.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Using_the_appl...
[2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/02/storing-images-and-files-i...
Why should domains get special treatment? Business names and trademarks are also first come first serve, and if you're too late it's time to think of a new arrangement of words or letters.
Norid used to have a rule that any company could hold on to max 10 .no domains. Of course bigger organizations with multiple legal entities could the get more domains which felt kind of reasonable.

Additionally you would need a Norwegian company to get even a single one as well as be prepared to defend your connection to the domain. (Either something related to the company name or a product you are promoting.) This has worked reasonably well so far.

Of course the most interesting ones got grabbed pretty early anyway I guess. (say.no is my personal favorite)

Maybe interesting: One decision that left me wondering was when Sony was given the domain playstation3.no a few years ago even if the retailer was a know Sony Playstation reseller. Then again I'm no lawyer.
Arguably, things are promoted to being necessary if they are easy to procure. Otherwise they remain optional.

-- V.Pupkin :)
Prior art is applicable to patent law, not trademarks (at least, not in the context of invalidating them).
Except, well, often times equality / anti-sex-discrimination law does benefit men. It's now illegal for driving insurance companies to charge men more than women (even though they are statistically worse drivers) (in EU).

Additionally there are attempted to get more men into professions where they were traditionally underrepreseted.

Here's the UK Department of Education: "Record numbers of men teaching in primary schools - but more still needed" http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a00211812/re...

So yes, equality and governmental agencies are complaining about the lack of men in some professions and trying to increase it. The photo on the NHS's "Nursing" career page ( http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore-by-career/nursing/ ) is a man. (The NHS is the UK's public sector health system and is one of the largest employers in the world.)

You do not appear to have done any research and are claiming that "no-one tackling the lack of men in some cases", when in fact, they are.

With your specific examples, you don't give any citations, so I wonder if you're cherry picking? Humanity is big and people will have lots of opinions. You're telling me that the most common response to lower grades for boys as opposed to boys is an appeal to biology? Got any citations?
That's not entirely true - this is what I had to see during the wait http://i.imgur.com/8NVrkLZ.png?1
That's a really handy little trick, thanks!
Completely agree.

I feel that we are condemned to use Windows or OS X in academia, until the day that Office is released for Linux.

This would be very, very big news for me!

RS
I can't find it previously posted to HN, is that your meaning?
In our company we don't use office at all. We only use LibreOffice - it's not as good,but it's completely fine for doing spreadsheets and basic text documents. Honestly, I don't see the need to spend money on the full Office suite.

However, we still use Windows - why?
Not because of Office - but because the only proper accounting suite available in this country runs only on Windows,and it's server can only use MSSQL as the database. Therefore, we have to use Windows as a company, even without Office.
Microsoft Office is the last obstacle preventing my wife (and my mother coincidently) from moving to Linux. They both tried Ubuntu, liked it, but Windows VM just for office was PITA. And they switched back because of the office suite.
If you're making business decisions based on how Color did things, you may want to reconsider your approach.
Could I just clarify (I like the invoice per sprint idea)

Do you still contract to work say 40 hours per week (at say 100/hr or 8,000 per sprint). Or do you say I will complete the stories in the sprint ? I take it from the overage rate that you are prepared to say well, this is taking longer than I thought - so I am charging more.

But does that not mean you cannot complete the work in 20 hours then go look for some more clients?
> And most of it that is not (like word processing) can be done by attaching a keyboard to a tablet. The office workers that actually need a workstation (like graphics designers, engineers and programmers) is only a small fraction of the workforce that uses a computer today

The fraction of worldwide workforce that sits in an office doing work that requires both a keyboard and a screen larger than 10" includes about any office-person whose actual output is not just talking...
Perhaps the domain holder is from the Magrathean School of Business Administration, so his strategy is to go into hibernation until his customers can afford the product...
I don't remember exactly, since it was a paraphrase of something in the article. It was close to "Fire the oldest guy who has been at this company for the longest time and is still not making six figures."

Now, admittedly, it's a little baity in that people who click might expect an age discrimination screed, rather than a programming parable. But even so, I think it's obviously better than "Tom, Dick and Harry".
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There's even a certificate called ICDL (and updated MOS) from Microsoft that is required for every student in our college to get in order to graduate. It sucks really. The most useless certificate for a student to bet money and time on.
> Curtis Cooper of the University of Central Missouri moved one small step closer to Euclid’s infinity

Within the first paragraph, the author displays ignorance of math that every Korean high school student knows.
Clojure - Up Close and Personal, an engaging intro to Clojure by Uncle Bob.
This would be a good time for someone in the US to buy it: http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2013/01/15/demand-for-breast...
It gets complicated if you don't always stay in the same country. What if you topped up £10, used £7.29 of it, then went to the US and topped up $10? Should your balance be £2.71 + $10? Which currency should be used when you buy things? How should conversion be done?

I understand the motivation of wanting a separate currency.
There are three modes of contracting

1. Bums on seats - you are just a slightly easier to fire employee, and you are seen as an hourly cost.

2. Day rate. this is just 8 times the above.

3. Value rate - you own a chunk of work that you can really really link to delivering extra revenue (or saving lots and lots of time). This is usually quoted in a per project or per weekly deliverable.

There is always always some low hanging fruit in every organisation that can have 3. applied to it. Look around you for a day. Ask your bosses boss what his three biggest worries are. Why does the QA step take 2 weeks and hold up each release?
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I'm a little unclear about how this solves the problem. Why can't a copyright violator request that their site be backed up, perhaps even before the original? Or are you suggesting that site owners upload to the wayback machine as part of the deployment process?
I didn't find this post, however there are similarly-themed articles by Wired and others:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5040545
Having a strong brand is not something you can measure via A/B testing, it's a long-term commitment.
I'm coming a bit late, so don't expect many to see this... but I worked at a company and had several friends leave for other jobs, but they were sad to part with their managers. They left mostly because the direction of the company as a whole wasn't satisfying them, which is a function of management, but usually not your immediate manager.
For those who like this type of stories (domain name gold rush etc.) I highly recommend "The Domain Game" (http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Game-People-Internet-Names/dp/1...).

Also great interview from Michael Zapolin (who owned beer.com, diamond.com, etc): http://www.domainsherpa.com/michael-zappy-zapolin-interview/
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Younger IoC frameworks aim for configuration in code, allowing for a much more dynamic usage.

Examples (c#)
* Autofac
* Ninject
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OP here. I noticed that Firefox took a screenshot of my google 2-factor authentication barcode.

This barcode was stored on my hard drive unencrypted as a simple image. Whilst the image quality is 'poor' - it is good enough for my iPhone 5 to 'read' the barcode and get the token!

I bug reported it to Mozilla - but they dont seem to think its much of an issue.

you can see my specific comment + screenshot here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755996#c13

p.s. the barcode image is for a throw-a-away account I made to show the issue - obviously its not my real account :)
This is probably common in routers. It is easier for most people to buy a new one than upgrade the firmware that was 3 years old when the device was bought.
I look for this to be the year of cross platform portability even for native apps. The only entity not playing along is Apple.
Yes, because Microsoft never does anything like this:

http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...
Remember when people paid for their tools?
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You can see a bit of the chicken-and-egg problem here. You're not willing to move without an offer. Yet your chances of getting an offer are dramatically multiplied if you do move to the Bay Area, even if only for a few months. Telecommuting has a bit of a bad rap at many companies.
Happens a lot to me on Firefox / Windows 7.
That seems to suggest successful people run greater risks of dying than the average. I don't think that would hold to a statistical analysis, perhaps it would even show the opposite trend (poor people die more often). If it were true, we'd see a lot more famous people being murdered or dying from stress or disease or something similar, as opposed to just now and then managing to kill themselves with drugs and other things of their own undoing.
I missed the chance to grab steve.org, which was free at the time I first checked. A short while later I grabbed steve.org.uk which I used everafter - and it cost me $75 for the registration at that time, via register.com
Yeah, I've seen them. The key point I took from this is that Lego is at an all-time low in pricing terms, even though it seems expensive.
What compels someone to destroy documentation for an open source project?
43 seconds in shows a Thunderbolt port (aka, Apple proprietary). Clearly a fake.
I'd really like to see salaries around the world for jobs where you can work from home and VPN in.

Because, uh, idle curiosity:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-...
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>someone whose only contribution to the property was to register it early on
Why do you seem to think this has no value? The world is made of other such occurrences being valued immensely.
They've said in the other thread a couple of days ago one of the long term aims is to make this super easy to install and as part of that they want to help make Rails super easy to install.
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This. After the first paper-work week, if I had a supervisor who didn't assign work to me, I would seek him out, if only to gauge his expectations.
Actually those figures only show HN has users with career opportunities. Period. No other information. You cannot use this information about quantities of locations of startups nor anything else.
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In an odd twist, providing more information to the advertiser could also be doing you a service. The more information the advertisers have, the more targeted the ads, and thus a higher CPC. The increased revenue for Google can mean either more money for products for you (perpetuating the products->ads->products cycle) or the ability for them to show fewer ads.
We're a growing startup, based out of a real office with air conditioning, carpets and everything, with paying customers and no VC intervention. And we're based out of Newcastle.

Just one data point, granted, but we're not alone.
This is great news for Linux users everywhere and basically to anyone who has tried to convince casual users to switch.

But to MSFT this is suicide: even if Office remains the leading suite with a Linux version every company out there can save millions a year switching to a distro and paying only for Office, but not for Windows.

This is basically Nintendo giving away Mario and Zelda to other consoles.

Do any of the newer divisions at MSFT make any money? Xbox probably but there is no way Winphone and web are bringing any cash.
I love it! Summary: Legos seem expensive now because the first time you got them they were free! ;p
Wow - a lot or work went into that article. Very impressive! On a vaguely related note, here's the video that the quote at the top is taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVCOAFKjaoY
The hitching frequently happens because adding iframes to a document is damned expensive, and requires the browser to concoct a whole new DOM per iframe. While analytics don't tend to make heavy use of iframes, advertisements absolutely do.
ignorant marketer here:

Could Meteor be used to build a CMS with 90% static clean html + 10% live updating information (comments, chat, social, etc)?
Winning the hearts and minds, I see.
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http://milk.com/faq is one of my favourite pages on the web, and has been for 15 or so years.

Moo!
We use Guice which also allows that. But that doesn't address some of the key points he makes, such as
- runtime x compile time wiring
- wiring is based on types so injecting differently set up instances is difficult (we have a hell of Providers and different annotations to pick the right kind of instance injected)
- non-transparency of the wiring process (sice it is performed by the magical IoC container)

I agree with a lot of what he writes. At the same time I believe there are cases where I would appreciate some kind of automation for wiring (f.ex. if I want a fresh instance for each session or request). And there are certainly cases when runtime wiring - as in the mentioned case of plugins - is useful.
To go even deeper, actually the value of money is at an all-time low.
"I don’t think you’ll ever have to write assembly language in your day job"

Not completely true. My company for example develops embedded systems for trains.

These systems can have a lifespan of decades, where they see daily use, and there's no reason for the customers to upgrade, but they might ask a change or some new functionality over the existing system.

Not me personally but I know of a few engineers that every now and then have to roll up their sleeves and write assembly. I would be surprised if this is not somewhat common, for companies mantaining long term systems.

Nice article BTW.
Not currently. Many custom fonts look atrocious in the 10-14pt range in Chrome on Windows due to aliasing issues, and that's such a large slice of any particular market that you can't really do that.

It would be nice to get that sorted out, but for the time being, you have to be very careful about your body fonts.
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Two things I love about this domain owner:

1) He tries to expertly avoid having to give a solid number, but then he comes right out and says he'd take 10mm for it. Sweet negotiation skills.

2) The best company he could come up with to buy the domain does just 110mm in revenue, nevermind profits. There are a few billion dollar companies who might bite, but any company making less probably couldnt afford it.
When you judge someone this aggressively, expect your reputation to be taken into account when people evaluate your judgment. The difference in reputation between DDG and Microsoft is huge.