skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same issue:

Failed! "this name is clearly not in use due to the random string of characters it ended with ~agsh1das82S~" may exist, try another name

Perhaps the system is overloaded, or they use a dynamically generated unique identifier with each room, such as a short URL of 3-6 characters, if they're numeric only HN and Reddit could probably fill it pretty quickly - but without any more information, this is all guess work.
Totally agree. On that point, I'd strongly encourage everyone to make sure they check the boxes for every platform they want to play on, not just the main one. Hopefully this will let the developers know that we really appreciate the effort they've put in here. note -- you can update this after you've made the purchase.
> if you throw out an incandescent bulb, it's really just some glass and a little metal

Actually, one of those metals is lead (Pb), which is highly toxic, so be sure to recycle your incandescents! If nothing else, to lower crime rates...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2013/2013/01/lead-a...
Ah yes, the mythical Mirai 1.5! I'm afraid nothing will ever come of it. Last update to anything from Izware(nichimen) was in 2005 and even then was a bit of a surprise and it was an update to Nendo. Mirai belongs to the history now. We now have far superior software and features than we had with Mirai, but Mirai was still a cool concept.
I see where you’re coming from but honestly the Roku remote feels pretty good to me. It’s not too thin like the Apple remote, the round back feels great in the hand, the buttons are good, and it’s a dead simple layout.
Πρωτότυπη συνταγή για παστίτσιο με σπανάκι
Δείτε πως θα μαγειρέψετε παστίτσιο με σπανάκι για να απολαύσετε μία πρωτότυπη νοστιμιά χωρίς να αισθανθείτε τύψεις από υπερβολικά λίπη!
2700k isn't bad, but 5000k? That's grow light spectrum. I've seen people complain over the "too whiteness" of 3000k bulbs never mind 5000k.
fabulous , very funny........
enjoyed a lot.
You are sampling outside of Microsoft's market. For eg.

* Instead of GitHub they use Codeplex [0]

* Instead of web servers they sell network servers, a much larger market. Windows still holds 73% of this market, and growing. It is worth $20B a year and is much larger than the web server market [1]

* Outlook is still the most popular mail client in the world (27%)

* Office is Office, one of the most profitable business units in the world

* 550M PC's are sold each year and 85% of them run Windows

* Still 39% of the browser market [3]

* There are Microsoft clients in the Fortune 100-500 that store more data than the entire public internet (taken as being 5 petabytes - most investment banks store data in petabyte scale)

* Visual Studio is not only the most popular IDE, but also the highest selling and grossing [4]

Your data points are based on open source and web servers, which are only a tiny fraction of the total computing and networking market. It is the remainder of that market where Microsoft dominates. I don't think they are even going to pretend to attempt to infiltrate that market, they have a much larger market to defend.

I don't work within the Microsoft ecosystem any longer, but I did for over a decade. I agree with OP that Azure will win, all of my Microsoft development and admin friends are raving about it and moving their clients/organizations onto it.

[0] http://codeplex.org

[1] http://blogs.computerworld.com/16263/windows_widens_lead_ove...

[3] http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/web-brow...

[4] http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3616626/Whats+...
Technical orders are the always the word of God in civil aviatio, too, at least that's my experience.

I can't judge what a military is like, but some big organisations tend to crack down on critical thinking pretty successfully. At least in a military environment I can understand it somehow....

But I suppose without ANY flexibility you would actually drum out the last bit of motivation, right?
One extra mail for an explicit user action? It doesn't sound very infuriating to me. and if it is, well, at least they won't hear from you again.
See http://groups.gaglers.com/chat/wordfilter/ for the data is loads as profanity
And before anyone asks, you can easily access the menu contents with the keyboard.
I think you are smoking crack. Our AD is on azure. Its not designed for http specifically. The azure web instances bit is but the whole platform is IaaS style.

So hadoop with SQL server (even ESENT if you want a key-value store) and MSMQ/BizTalk are not used? Only the entire health service in the UK runs on their 'poor offerings'...

Deep sigh. I think there are two views of reality.
I bought for Super Hexagon, and gave all to money to the developer. I used to give a split to Humble, but since not getting a refund for games which didn't run on Linux (or were very poorly ported), I won't.
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Chrome Canary (perhaps, the Dev channel, too) supports navigation to CSS selectors, property names and values (Ctrl-click them) in the corresponding Sass resources (the Sources panel). You can edit Sass and save it to disk (right-click the editor, "Save as...").

Now, if you have the "Support for Sass" experiment enabled, you'll see the "Auto-reload CSS upon Sass save" timeout setting to reload re-generated CSS files after "sass --watch in:out --sourcemap" (or equivalent) has updated them on the local disk.
> . As I distinctly explained in my previous post, iPhoto comes installed on every every single Mac that Apple sells with the sole exception of the server configuration of the Mac Pro. Go to the Apple web page and click on any Mac and look at the "Built-in Apps" section, you will see iPhoto displayed right alongside "system" apps like Mac App Store, Mail, and Messages

However, reinstall MacOS, and you will notice it doesn't install iLife.

Similarly, most Windows computers seem to ship with that 30 day trial of MS Office these days; does that mean that 30 day trials of MS Office are part of Windows?
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Because it's redundant. man mdfind

If you want, of course, you can turn on locate, but it seems strange to have two local indexing things.
The amount of lead in an incandescent light bulb is absolutely minuscule - if there is any there at all.

I doubt there are any facilities at all that try to separate out the lead. All the metal is just melted together and the lead (if any) is diluted among it.
When me and a friend of mine were experimenting in creating a web chat we realized that inserting new messages into the beginning of page (or div) is much better for both users and developers. No bothering with autoscrolling. No user distraction of autoscrolling when he reads previous messages. It was really a good decision.

Anyway IRC is much better. I don't want to live my life in a multitabbed web browser window.
I think the last time a lot of people used it before jumping ship for iTerm was about 10.4, where it was pretty horrible.
The easiest and most accessible way I've found to do this is as follows:

Let's suppose that sqrt(p) = a/b
That means that p = (a^2)/(b^2)
That means that p * b^2 = a^2

Now since you've covered primes and factorization, look at how many times p can turn up on each side of that equals sign. It must be an even number of times on the right, and an odd number of times on the left.

Another way to say this is that every time you take a fraction and square it, you never get a prime number.

And yes, I know there's a lot missing from this explanation, but the things that are missing can then be expanded later, rather that muddying the waters now.
The ones that died early while being overtaken probably didn't leave much in the way of remains.

I doubt that Gowalla and Foursquare were the only 'check-in' apps at the time but we don't hear about the ones they surpassed. In other words, I'm suggesting that what you're describing happens all the time.
How does that work?

"non ne ho idea" (Italian for "I have no idea") triggers the filter, which is a non sense.
You can redefine the scrolling behavior in other applications as well. The same thing as this page exists on an excel sheet scroll which adjusts to rows. Conclusion: I still blame the designer.
Same here, doesn't bother me either. I think the people it bothers might be bothered partly because they were annoyed at being spammed in the first place, and this is just another drop in the bucket. Sure, it'll trigger annoyance, but the real cause lies elsewhere.
As stated in the post, the db migration was a large enough change that having both codebases working on the migrating db would have been a high cost.
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Hacking flights - buy two weeks before, even during holiday seasons?
Ugh. The image viewer hijacks alt-left and -right, i.e., browser back and forward. What were they thinking?
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Definitely. SaaS can be ridiculously profitable if you provide enough value that customers stay with you for a long time. I wouldn't have paid "$100 for life" when I signed up to Basecamp, but I picked the (old) $12/mo plan. Considering I've been happily using it for 6 years, I've spent close to a thousand dollars already. Pretty crazy.
"the biggest thing since the light bulb". Keep reading their marketing, and you get "it's a bulb that lasts longer than a normal light bulb, and consumes less energy".

So let me get this straight — the light bulb took us from expensive, unreliable, dangerous light (candles) to instant, cheap, reliable, safe light. The light bulb is one of the greatest inventions of humanity. You made it a little more efficient, and you invented the biggest thing since the light bulb? Gotcha.
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He could have just installed an email filter instead. Though I can imagine a situation in which confronting the sender might be worse. Frankly, I don't understand why people really case so much about manually forwarded junk. I mean, it's trivial to identify; I don't even open it if I don't care, usually. Since it's manual, it's unlikely to turn into a real flood, so I've never noticed this to be a problem...
It certainly seems hoarders have pushed the exchange rate up in the past 1 or 2 months. But overall, if you look at a scale of 1 year, Bitcoin spending has clearly increased: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5296889 More and more people are spending bitcoins.
compare to the slow progress of Google TV and Apple TV recently, Roku’s evolution pace and focus on entertainment (rather than crappy "social", or vague “second screen") is simply amazing.
Hmm. I've seen a few that were just straight up puzzle adventure games, or "some guy walking around a puzzle world." Though one of them, Braid, was one of the top most creative games of the past 10 years, I would say.

Then there were some action or action platformers.

Then there were some puzzle games like World of Goo or Osmos which are very much not "some guy walking around", but more abstract puzzle type games, and fairly creative.

There was Aquaria, where you had a female mermaid swimming around an action-adventure world.

There was "Gratuitous Space Battles", which is what it sounds like.

So, yeah, while the puzzle platformer is something that's fairly popular in the indie community, it's by no means all of the games. About the only things that there weren't were 3D shooters (which I think indies avoid because they're done to death by major studios with bigger budgets), and straight up abstract arcade games, which this one provides with Super Hexagon. What else do you think is missing, that an indie shop could do well and which isn't already crowded out by the big companies?
It can be annoying to have multiple "layers" of volume control: one for the player, one for the TV, one for the receiver/sound system, etc. It's arguably a lesser evil to leave volume completely up to the user's TV or audio system, the way Apple TV does.
I own a website that gets 15% of your pageviews but I'm having trouble finding any advertisers. The website is on BuySellAds but isn't getting any bites despite a highly educated niche audience.

Does anyone have any tips for finding advertisers? You can easily find the website by going to the domain of my email address or my submission history.
Interesting. I've been working on a very similar concept but based on IRC. There's a version running here: http://lalo-g7stltno.dotcloud.com/

Once authenticated with your Twitter account you can join a room using the URL, the path represents a room/channel. The cool thing is that you can also join to that channel using a standard IRC client as well.

The code is here: https://github.com/malditogeek/lalo
It does seem faster than the response lag on the Apple TV, although I'd obviously have to use one to be sure.
On linux? C++ is coded on Windows mostly, isn't it?
Your example still doesn't add up.

AFAIK there's no liquid market for BTC derivatives, but let's assume it comes to exist.

> Call options is when Mr. Shark comes up to you and says "Hey, I'll give you a BTC on Wednesday next week if you give me $20 today". Since Bitcoins cost $40 today, its a good deal, so you buy these contracts.

That sounds... unusual. A more usual formulation would be "I give you the right to buy BTC from me for $20 on Wednesday if you give me $x today". The fair value of x (the premium) depends on other factors besides the current price. But, more importantly, there's no "good deal": if you set $x below the fair value then the buyers will arbitrage the hell out of you.

E.g. if the fair price for the call option above is greater than $20 but you sell it for $20, then a buyer will happily take your offer: they sell 1 BTC short and get $40 in cash, pay you $20 and put the remaining $20 in the bank. Come Wednesday, they withdraw $20 (keeping the interest) and use that to cover their short sell: at worst they have to buy the stock from you for $20 (but they still make money on the interest), at best the stock has crashed and they make even more.
Thanks for your thoughts. Yes, we would provide https, password protected groups and a nice dashboard to view the transcripts.
With veal you get further issues.

Dairy cattle males may not be suitable as commercial veal, like not all sheep breeds are suitable as meat sheep.

If they are suitable, then you've got to deal with either raising them from birth as white veal or, allowing them a bit more freedom in movement and food, as rose veal.

Just to add another animal to the mix, the same problem can be seen in dairy goat herds in countries where goat isn't consumed by the majority of the population.
Atlantic.com (Apr2012) "The Problem With Wikidata"

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-pr...
Good idea! thanks.
Is Agile Elitist?
If we're going to start sharing personal opinions, I think you're naive, insulated inside a Microsoft bubble and unable to comprehend the written word.

I said "majority" of services going on the cloud will be HTTP-based services - feel free to provide any evidence that contradicts this (and no, "But we host our AD on Azure!" doesn't count). That's also where the most of their Azure marketing efforts are going (which has historically had a strong impact in how .NET devs behave)

I said "relatively non-existent", not that they're not used at all. i.e. MQ's are sparingly used in .NET than say compared to the JVM platform which has a metric ton more quality MQ solutions than what's offered from Microsoft. Also NoSQL is effectively thriving on most other platforms which benefit from active communities and solid language bindings, in contrast, most of .NET still uses SQL Server for most things.
Just wanted to follow up this comment by saying that I've been playing with the latest Firefox nightly this morning and it's much more inline with what I want out of a browser's inbuilt dev environment. I'm really impressed.

Two things that still stand out as lacking when compared to Chrome are the JS console output and the Net panel output (really hate those popup windows).

But these things can be ironed out. Well done for getting Firefox moving in the right direction.
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Great article. I think Gowalla would have had a better chance if they aggressively pursued the things foursquare wasn't doing, like conquering Europe for instance. I always had the feeling none of the two companies was trying hard enough in Europe.
The light bulb was invented in the 19th century, but did not become important until a massive electricity infrastructure was built in the 20th century.

If the joke was about the horrific web design (and it was horrific), I didn't get it.
Let us talk. Can you send me a email? My email is in profile.
You lack the knowledge, so it's fascinating for you to learn it for the first time. They already have the knowledge, so it likely gets increasingly tedious the more questions you ask as reciting what they already know lacks the fascination of discovery that you experience.
I always advise my staff to simply stick to the facts. Anything that can be disputed will be. This results in statements like:

"I'd like this changed because I believe it's a mistake to use globals in this context"

rather than

"You're/It's wrong to put a global here"

The difference is subtle, but important. It allows personal opinion to be used without the debate being personal.
They must not have shown up in Yahoo!'s VPN logs either. ;)
In a similar style Fujiya & Miyagi is great.
It all depends on how people will react - if they panic he'll maybe double his investments, if not he'll lose it. If you had 50% probability to these two outcomes would you take the gamble?

I guess you are sure that there is some way to make people panic if you have 1 daily MtGox volume in BTC - but it is only because you don't have it and you imagine that if only you had it you'll be able to fool all the bitcoin market players.
"In the general purpose business IT world. Just about every small to medium business..."

Which is not the same as "outside the bay area and startups world", which is all I was saying.
Er, surely the stock price has something to do with how well the company are doing!
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I don't understand: " I really like Azul Systems' hack of using the EPT/RVI virtualized page tables as a hardware read barrier for real-time garbage collection, and with a single-address space operating system I think you can do the same thing on hardware with a regular MMU."

I understand real-time garbage collection, but what is EPT/RVI virtualized page?
"Because the majority of .NET software is not written to be public facing"

I'd be very surprised if the majority of C software is either. Most C software devs I know have no interest in publishing FOSS, and write software for business use inside enterprises.

I don't think we can really claim to know anything from some stats about web servers or github.
Well, I'm sure some guy is very unhappy his $300 quadcopter almost got broken (and knocked down a 747 with 300 people in it. Wow, a dollar per person. Cheapest weapon ever!)
Wow. I am speechless. Such a simple, but highly amusing idea. This is going to be huge, nicely done as well using CSS3 animations. So damn amusing! I tried putting Hacker News through it and it's funny because it doesn't really work that well: http://www.harlemify.com/?url=news.ycombinator.com
Tainted mode for Javascript and tools for identifying DOM XSS (similar to DOMinator) would be really useful for security testing and audits of the modern complex sites. There is a bug open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811877 - hopefully it can be given sufficiently high attention and priority!
Sorry I will be 100% honest - I misread the first paragraph in the last message you posted. My apologies.
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I love the design, and the pictures in the search results :)

What I find annoying is the search results show dated prices and when I want to book I get a higher price.

I am surprised no one mentioned this in this discussion, isn't that a huge usability issue? Worst that speed or openended textbox?
That!

Message passing is a reasonable approach. Its particularly simple to design, and deadlock-free if message processors don't block on further messages.

Drawbacks: Simplest when each message class (or queue) has one thread to handle it. But that doesn't optimize for available hyperthreads.
I think a lot of people will be surprised how good the Microsoft web stack have become. They have copied a lot from java and ruby and added great tooling. I think the .Net stack from 4.0 and later is one of the best development environments, and without a doubt the one with the best commercial support. The .Net team have really done a good job and are listening to their customers (developers).
There's already http://dbpedia.org , but it's nice to see the Wikimedia foundation finally take matters into their own hands.
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It's sad that only Gmail, and no other email clients, sanitize HTML email to ensure that stuff like this is not possible.
It's not really eye opening. People here tend to believe that startups should only be marketed online. When reality is just the opposite. With so much online marketing going on these days it's easier to go offline and get customers that way. In the age of online mrketing those who master the offine variant will be king.
You misunderstood. I was referring to encryption code. These are open source projects that have to survive the scrutiny of experts. For example, I guarantee you that if I attempted to contribute to an open source encryption code-base without a massive amount of work my submissions would be rejected. This is not my area of expertise. Could I do it? Sure. Nothing is impossible. However, I would have to devote a significant amount of time to fully understanding the state of the art before doing so.
> It’s interesting that The Simpsons have mentioned Apple a number of times, including a parody in the episode 'Mypods and Broomsticks.'

Apple products are omnipresent in the Simpsons nowadays. Whenever there is a tablet, it is an iPad. It makes me quite uneasy.
"it outclassed every opponent it fought after World War II."

Do you include the North Vietnamese Army in that?
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Increasing the size of the cages and allowing them outside, is not improving the conditions 'that much'??
I grew up in Korea and moved to the West (USA & Canada) in my late teens. I found the lighting very annoying almost as soon as I stepped foot in my first dorm room. Even when I rented my own place later on, I could never make my living room look "proper", since none of the apartments I've lived in had any lighting fixtures in the living room. No amount of indirect lighting can compensate for the lack of several thousand lumens, daylight color, right in the middle of the ceiling. I can see why other people find 2700K 60W "relaxing", but to me it feels like perpetual twilight, some sort of reenactment of Rembrandt's paintings.

Ditto for "desk lamps" that can't evenly illuminate two Letter-sized sheets of paper side by side (the typical dimensions of an open textbook), let alone the whole desk. To this day I still don't understand why students buy those. Maybe they just put them on their bedside tables in case they need to find their way to the bathroom at night.

On the other hand, everyone's computer screen is too bright for me. My screens are usually set to 25%-40% brightness unless I'm using it outside on a sunny day. So I suppose people do have varying tastes about illumination.