skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One point I haven't seen anyone discuss yet in the comments below: the author mentions that, after seeing that the phone was sold out, he kept refreshing the browser till he got a copy of the webpage that allowed him to buy the phone.

I'm wondering if perhaps that copy of the webpage was an out-of-date cached page from a server that hadn't been updated recently enough (or that the page was created based on a copy of data in a cache that hadn't been updated recently enough) and that buying from such a page somehow led to a phantom purchase being created -- since there were no actual phones left to buy -- which got pushed through the system to the point of creating a UPS record for a non-existent phone.

Obviously, one would hope an ecommerce system would catch issues like that so spurious purchases would not be allowed through in the end, but -- in any case -- should the buyer perhaps have realized (in retrospect, at least, if not at the time) that there might be a problem if all his previous attempts to load the webpage were telling him the phone was sold out?
My Xbox is the only product/service I use where I feel that I am directly interacting with Microsoft. For me, the Xbox is the last area where Microsoft is relavent.
Have you notified his wife and apologized for lying to her? If not,
you are still hurting her today.
He has a massive point -- "Why can’t I write a game for xBox tomorrow using $100 worth of tools and my existing Windows laptop and test it on my home xBox or at my friends’ houses".

I am wiling to guess that game development will follow the path of app stores. Consoles like the OUYA [1] will start to take over. The cycle from development to distribution will be cut by orders of magnitude. xBox needs to get on it and so do the other consoles!

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-...
Same here (Version 24.0.1312.56 Ubuntu 12.10 (24.0.1312.56-0ubuntu0.12.10.3))
It's still at the high end of what these services offer, though.
Beautiful graphs.

I really wanted this to work for me months ago when it was first posted on HN, but ran into trouble getting it setup.

Will definitely re-visit - thank you!
That's because they are having five conversations at once.

Click canned response one
Switch to conv 2
Click canned response 5
Switch to conv 3
Click canned response 1
See there is a response from conv 1
Switch to conv 1

Ad infinitum

The systems (especially for tier one support) have complete conversation templates. The people supporting the products at tier one often have no clue beyond trying to search for keywords in the knowledge base. Turn over is high enough that training is too expensive (of course, turn over is high due to lack of training).

In short, it's a complete joke.
Ok, i didn't get your point then. Well, i definitely agree on that the pattern/trend of auto-generating getters, setters and constructor parameters for every attribute in a class without considering if those attributes should be visible (or, worse, mutable) from the outside is pretty hideous.

About the nullary constructor + init() method for deserializing purposes, i don't have any strong opinion really, as long as consistency is kept throughout the code base/module that relies on that. Using Java's reflection API though, you can extract all necessary type information from non-nullary constructors in order to call them with the required dependencies, which is not essentially more complicated than instantiating the class and then setting its properties thought setter methods.
You have lots of complaints, but you present no solutions. Not even a hint of one.
It totally does. I always thought the official was "XBOX"; "Xbox" looks like the way someone uninformed would write it or that it was an afterthought of a product.
For the love of all that is holy, please make the font darker.
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"how it is crushing its original console competitors"

Previous gen:

> Xbox sales: 24 million

> PS2 sales: 153 million

Current gen:

> Xbox 360 sales: 76 million

> Wii sales: 100 million

> PS3 sales: 70 million

(all data from each console's respective Wikipedia)

How is it "crushing" its competitors?

Otherwise, I bought an XBox360 recently to get the Kinect for openFrameworks hacking and played a little bit with the console. All the points in the article regarding the UI are spot on - it is TERRIBLE to use. Nintendo's UIs are no reference either, but at least they're functional, while Sony's XMB is actually quite good (although the PS Vita's OS is a horrible thing to behold, which is scary for the PS4).
Crawford has his rights violated and may be innocent or not guilty
Full Stack Marketing
Claiming that the Xbox (360? since that's what's shown in the screenshots) crushed its competition is disingenuous at best, since the Wii outsold it massively, and the PS3 has outsold it even after launching a year after.
"I wanted 65 hour weeks in a high pressure corporate environment. I wanted the tailored suits, the chance at a high income, the BMW, the prestige, the respect, and the power. I wanted to be someone. I wanted to be able to afford to donate to charities that are important to me. I was considering children, marriage, the house, all of it. It's not happening."

Do people really expect to get something like that by the time they're 30? There are very few industries where that's the norm. Perhaps some of my peers have totally unrealistic expectations! Too many movies, too much TV, and too much time spent reading about other people's lives on Quora.

I don't have dreams about my current job that's a good 40-hour week (sometimes 45), lets me drive a used Toyota, and helps me pay a mortgage on a modest home, have a wife and a child, and enjoy a meal out every now and then. I can still save some money for retirement, even if it's just a tiny bit each month. I enjoy my life, and hope for something better, but I work one day at a time to achieve that dream, and I don't complain about it!
Lehigh University student sues over grade, seeks $1.3 million
Messing with HTTP headers for high-anonymity in CentOS and Ubuntu
Evil - An extensible vi layer for Emacs hits version 1.0.0
I've worked for two non-F500 (think 10-25 engineers) companies that made their revenues developing, consulting on, and licensing, their patented technology.
Adobe's Developing a Voice Driven Photo Editing App
The PS3 has actually overtaken the X360. Also note that the PS3 came out a full year after the X360... so... yeah. :)
I'm no MS fanboy. I have eight computers in my apartment. Exactly one runs a Microsoft OS, and it has an XBOX logo on its DVD drive.

OpenOffice and LibreOffice come absolutely nowhere close to Microsoft Office in functionality, speed, UI, interoperability, customizability, or anything else. Since there's a pile of posts on the front page right now about how Excel is supposed to stink for business apps, let's turn to the logical alternative for trivial-to-create internal applications: Access. To which the Libre/OpenOffice alternative would be...okay, I guess Base? But is this thing a front-end to existing database systems, or is it its own database system? HSQL seems like the default; can I email this around? Why are the functions with this different than with the one Greg made that isn't on HSQL? And how do I script this, exactly? I'm used to VBA; can I use Python? Looks like maybe I can from my Ubuntu laptop, but then the guy down the hall on the Windows box can't?

I could've pulled up similar examples from the word processor or the spreadsheet. LibreOffice Pivot Tables (formerly called something like Data Navigator or Data Pilot) are slower, vastly harder to use, and horribly underfeatured compared to Excel's Pivot Tables. The layout quality of LibreOffice's word processor compared to Word's is almost as bad as Word's to TeX's, which unfortunately also translates to the presentation module, making it easy for me to see from a mile away whether someone used Keynote, PowerPoint, a custom HTML/CSS solution, or LibreOffice.

Open source improves, but ultimately, non-commercially-backed open-source improves in ways that make the developers' lives more interesting. You're looking at something that people work on in their spare time. If it's not scratching an itch, then why bother? And a lot of the user niceties that come in Microsoft Office are not things people want to work on in their spare time, because you or I, faced with a pivot table problem, will instead write a Python script, skipping the office suite entirely in the first place.

If you don't need MS Office, great. More power to you. And there are many people who do not, so you've got good company. If you do need MS Office, then LibreOffice is a horrid substitute.
Well I did not mean to imply anything specific about the way you run your class; those were more rhetorical questions than anything. On the other hand, I am not sure how you can defend the idea that a student who fails to complete a time-wasting assignment should be punished, which is what you seem to be saying, when your own teaching style seems to be based on trying not to waste students' time. Nor am I sure how you can reconcile the idea that time-wasting assignments indicate a poor teacher with the notion that students should be completing those assignments.

Now, as for my reading comprehension, the way I read what you wrote is this: students should do as they are told because compliance is necessary for a school to function, even if they are told to work through a time-wasting assignment. I am still not sure that is the wrong way to interpret what you are saying. What I see in your comments is the idea that it should be entirely the teachers' responsibility to ensure that students are learning, and that students should just do what their teachers command regardless of whether or not they actually learn anything from it (feel free to correct me if this is not your view). Thus a student who does not bother with pointless exercises that have no educational value is just as wrong as the teacher who gave those exercises, regardless of whether or not the student is learning in lieu of doing their official assignments.

For what it's worth, if I had you as a teacher back in high school, I probably would have done well, at least based on what you said elsewhere.
Though I can't speak to the internal politics of Microsoft, I can say that as a gamer I don't remember ever getting upset at the pain points the author listed. Granted, I'm coming from a technical background (as are most people here), so I'm obviously not in the perspective of the small child the author sometimes takes in the picture captions. However, I feel there's a tension between the complexity of an application and the affordances it provides. To use one of the author's examples, choosing where to save an update (a useful affordance to have, I think) requires that the user suffer a bit more complexity. In my experience, the xBox doesn't manage this complexity poorly.

That being said, the author has a strong point in regards to the indie game market. Game development could and should be as simple as it is on Android because the platform's support is there... it's just locked behind layers of legal and financial obstacles. I'd love to see an xBox Live market where indie games are strongly promoted, and I can't imagine the cost to Microsoft would be strong enough to outweigh the revenue gains they'd make if they took a percentage of sales.
> Is that a common thing in the US/UK? All this looked distinctly dystopian, and mildly surreal, to me.

never ever seen that in the US. ever.
> My point proven by halostatue. Who is hinting that just because I am a man, I have no right to complain because everything comes so easy to me despite him having no knowledge of my particular circumstances.

This is such a bad interpretation of halostatue it is not even funny. Here's a quote from halostatue:

> It also doesn't say a damned thing about whether you have the right to complain or not
Thirded. DO is pretty fanatical about support.
Learn how to lose weight
Losing weight is hard if you don't know what exactly to do. I would like to give you some weight loss tips and inform you about some weight loss related articles.
I didn't say that I can't define consciousness. The problem is that consciousness doesn't have a reasonable objective definition. So my definition is subjective: "Consciousness is my ability to perceive and feel, for example the ability to feel pain or to dream." HN is not very good for this type of discussion, we (or anyone reading this) can continue here if you want: http://public.enterprisewiki.co/7a8b0605-d425-460d-8b57-354a....
Agreed I get all sorts of linkbait scam for:

LinkedIn
Facebook
Google+
etc

usually tech support wants to talk to me or I won an award or have a friend request all fake phishing attempts that go to a different web site when clicked on than the one it pretends to be from.
This is great! I really wish there were a developer commentary track that you could listen to as you read the source code. Would be really cool to hear what they thought about with specific routines, or neat hacks they used to make things work in small memory footprints like that.
"If nothing else happens in the next little while, I will eventually buy something else and enter my credit card information again, but I simply do not like this way of not addressing perfectly valid concerns about identity theft and Apple ID security."

Companies will continue to ignore customer security and other, lesser customer service issues if they think you'll come back anyway.
Your worth as a Google user: $3.20
I think its brilliant. I love the balance you've created between the visual editor and the markup.

Have you considered this as an educational tool? This is a fun and useful introduction to HTML and markup languages in general.

Would it be possible to highlight the relevant markup node when you've selected an object in the visual editor? That would be neat from a learning perspective.
Being a female software engineer
How a local car dealership tried to do me wrong and why startups will prevail
Comments from this article's last appearance on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991173
If you're going to be that paranoid, what's to stop you from accusing Tesla of doctoring the raw logs themselves if they do get released?
There is already a programming language called W [1]. It's not related to the language of Mathematica but you could say has a little bit of relevance to scientific computing since it was created for the HP-95LX and the HP-200LX DOS-powered programmable calculators.

I used to have a decent collection of subroutines for it.

[1] http://www.vttoth.com/CMS/index.php/projects/49
something has to power that nice 17'' touch screen :)
Cape Town, SA
Does your copy of Office 2013 die with your computer?
Just for whatever it's worth (I assume you know this, but for the class): with no explicit statement, the default in US and EU is "all rights reserved".
It was a pre-order.

Google were out of stock, but their massive load broke their system.

The OP knew this within 2 or 3 days and could have had his money immediately refunded if he wanted to, but most of us were willing to wait.

I for one was on the 8-9 week schedule, and got my phone in week 7, so I was very happy with my purchase.
>"When we got to the office, my niece did what all kids her age do. She questioned everything."

Never really had this with our son, will wait and see if it comes with second child - when we're out I'm in a semi-continuous state of explaining as much as I know about interesting things around us and asking questions - "well what do you think?".

I do wonder sometimes if my modus is destructive to curiosity but generally he's pretty questioning in terms of things.
The article is talking about email, but in the case of live chat it varies from company to company. I did my time in chat support, but in my case I wrote my own templates and triggered them with AutoHotKey. By the time I left I'd written a bible of hotkeys for supporting our app.

You're right about there being five concurrent conversations though. Part of this is that the customers would take a great deal of time to respond, so it made more sense for me to be helping multiple people because I could juggle five conversations better than most people could handle one. The alternative was keeping all the other people in the queue while one person took two minutes per sentence to describe what their problem was.
Yes, I understand the essay (and disagree with it) my comment however, was not on the essay but on your post.

You replied "Always appropriate:" with a link to the essay in reply to klodolph.

I assume that you were replying to this part of his post:

>If your point is, "Gosh, men have it hard, too." Sure, I'll agree. But, you're laying on the hyperbole a bit thick.

By replying in this way, you were effectively dismissing any disadvantage men have or discrimination they face because they have it easy in life according to John Scalzi (and it is always appropriate to remind people of this). Was this not your reply's intention? If so, what was it?
Hell of a story Jon - congratulations!
No, and I'm not going to. I can't see how it would help anyone involved, especially several years on.

Anyway I don't even know who she is, or if they're even married any more.
Disappeared? I still can find it here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5208009
The Dinner Kit Is Served
Oh, I see now. You are advocating we use psychic powers to know that a student didn't turn in his homework because he was off learning more advanced topics. You're right, we should get started on developing nation-wide psychic tests.
As if Mathematica wasn't a frigging egotistical steal from Newton, Russell, and Whitehead.
Why should a user "know" they got a cached page and not that more phones came up for sale? How could you possibly spin this as somehow being the users fault for not "knowing"?
Salt + shotgun = Bugasalt
IPhone 5S Specifications first look
A leaked report on the iPhone 5S or 6 as it may be called. You guessed it, it looks the same!
At the age of 29, I've likely forever lost the following opportunities due to cost and probable inability to make up for lost wages and career potential:

Seriously? Forever lost is a pretty strong statement. I don't see how any of these opportunities are forever lost just because he's 29 and hasn't had a steady job until now. Millions (billions?) of people manage to get married, have children, study, etc while in objectively far worse situations than this kid ever will be. This article overflows with a sense of entitlement. Reminds me of an editorial from a few years back, where a lawyer (professor?) in Chicago claimed destitution at $400K/yr [1].

[1] http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/09/in-which-mr-deling-res...

PS: Comment from an older thread that expresses my sentiments precisely: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991666
I can only hope you will be improving the said 'Code Review' layer in the future. The 'app' in question is nothing more than a thin layer of badly written code wrapped around a 3rd party library (PhoneGap). It can be made into (and sold as) an indeterminate number of "<insert subject here> video player" "apps" just by changing the hardcoded search terms (affirmation also enforced by the fact that the /bin directory in the zip contains a 'motorsport video player.apk' "app")
What's more, this point applies to ANY consumer device today:

"Why can’t I write a game for <device with a CPU> tomorrow using $100 worth of tools and my existing Windows laptop and test it on my home <device with a CPU> or at my friends’ houses"

If as a company you're going to push for any device (game console, tablet, TV-box, phone, etc.), that seems like a number one pre-requisite to significant market share.
Turns out escaping json suck, so I decided to lean on Python.
v2: https://gist.github.com/wmoss/4774406
I recently wrote a blog post about how we use Bayesian A/B testing for front page headlines. http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2013/02/tech-bayesian-instant-...
Psychopathy and Superficial Reliability
I think this is less about Sublime Text 2 Hotkeys, and more about how awesome wrttn.in is! Going to be using it from now on.
My guess would be the author is referring to US markets, where the Xbox 360 is outdoing the PS3 by a more significant margin.
Box allows you to download any files or folders. It's better than Dropbox in one respect because it automatically keeps a certain number of versions of a file (up to 25 I think) so you can easily backdate to a legacy copy in case of emergency.
its because rackspace is plain terrible. We had a VPS go down - and literally no one in their support team even going all the way up could explain why. Finally one of our own devs figured out that it was an issue with the VM. They talk a lot about their "fanatical" support - but thats essentialyl a whole lot of marketing hot air - support is average at best - and even on the managed levels where you pay 100 $ per month extra - there's no real managed service provided that is worth that much. I'd strongly suggest staying away!
But Pascal was awesome! CRT and GRAPH libraries were super easy to use and the syntax is so clear and easy to understand (or perhaps that was just the impression given by the small resolution of Turbo Pascal on modern high resolution screens).
"...experiencing your competitor’s stumbling failure (yes, Sony, Nintendo – you are, I’m afraid, stumbling failures)."

Can someone explain how Sony and Nintendo are stumbling failures in the console market? How extreme their failure must be, to feel comfortable stating it as a common fact requiring no explanation! I must be way out of touch.
Curious -- I see a lot of baked goods for sale that look prepared from a home kitchen. Is this legal? That's assuming many of these for-sale foods are not FDA inspected. I'm not sure I would buy any baked goods from personal storefronts if it was sold out of state.
Weekend project: First HTML5 Game, more levels added!
I see open/libreoffice as a shim product the same was as I see WINE. In an ideal world nobody would ever send me a .doc file, but they do so having a way to open it allows me to look to the future without breaking with the past.

Surpassing MS Office at it's own game would probably cost far more resources than Libreoffice could dream of having without having google or somebody throw a ton of money at it.

There are of course many projects that are disrupting office for certain use cases. Examples would be MediaWiki, Wordpress and google docs.