skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side is that you end up in a scenario where two or three vendors can blame each other for problems. With Azure, if SQL has a problem, Microsoft has to fix it, and can't blame any other vendors, driver, hardware, or network issues.

Edit: Also, really? You don't think there's any benefit to integration? That's like Microsoft's whole deal - make their stuff work well with their other stuff. Sure, it creates lock-in, but it's also a feature users want. I want my various programs to easily work with each other in obvious ways, and not have to worry about compatibility issues.
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> With this level of trust it would be feasible to gain access to information protecting online accounts, a very scary thought.

Does he mean 'feasible to gain access to login information for online accounts'?
I have read the page, and i'm not seeing it.
Yes, according to the page they had access to some degree of personal information beyond the more publicly accessible.
But that isn't the same as having access to their online accounts, or being near to getting it.
> 80s jagged style

Hard creases are very in right now, as are sweeping contours (90s) -- today's style looks like 80s + 90s + modern facelifting.
These are my reasons:

* Zones
* ZFS
* DTRACE
* SunOS/Solaris

And it's an awesome OS!
Don't pass up this opportunity!

Mozilla is chock full of great folks with tremendous experience.

The WebFWD team is top notch.

* I was in their first "batch" and with their help I'm still building OpenPhoto / Trovebox.
For those of us who don't have two iPhones, mind sharing what you think the difference would be?
I makes sense because there is no black box for an open source OS.

#edit: also, how exactly does one get as familiar with a closed source OS as an open source one?
"Laws should always be enforced."

Like the laws that made slavery legal on US soil?

Like the laws that mandate jews business ilegal, made them move to ghettos and finally to concentration camps in Germany?

The laws that expropriated private property on Russia, made agriculture collapse and people nearly starve? Same thing in Cuba not long ago.

Like laws that make intellectual property common ideas like software patents and make small developers servants of the big entities?
How about letting us know the results of said experiment or recording a video? Your comment, as it stands, is waste for those of us who do not already know the result.

EDIT: Thanks for the video. Summary, Google's voice search is the same speed or faster than Siri for all queries tried with the results being nearly identical in all cases.

EDIT 2: Here is an updated video[1] from the same person six months after yours, but still six months ago, wherein the difference is less clear if not in Siri's favor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3T6rbGwrF8
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Working on a project right now that will deploy on Azure Platform (not VMs). It's pretty nice to be able offload the OS to a third party and just deploy your app bits, knowing they're going to take care of OS, patching, and in general, server management tasks.

On the VM side, they're still catching up, I think. For instance, you can't get multiple IPs routing to a single VM, so if you have multiple SSL sites, you'll need multiple servers in general. (SNI isn't available on IE for XP which is a deal breaker for many people.)

But that's probably a reflection more of the mindset of people wanting dedicated servers and thinking "cloud VM" is the same thing, instead of people trying to build distributed applications.
Damn, I love reading your comments. Although my early memories were from typing BASIC programs into a Commodore 64...from the back of a magazine! (I'm a little younger than you).
On the other hand, it will make it much easier for developers to create cross-platform apps that don't look like complete aliens in one OS or the other.
To be clear (because I was wondering why all these commands were required), installing a version of Ubuntu on your phone just requires Complete Linux Installer http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/03/30/2107 (and busybox and loopback filesystem etc.)

This post is specifically about creating a new image from scratch to use with the Complete Linux Installer rather than using the ones that are provided for download in the app.
They could make redesigned standard elements opt-in, so old apps would still use the old styles and continue to work.

(I've certainly seen apps change behavior simply by being recompiled by a newer SDK, so there must be something in the binary loader that sets a bunch of compability flags or something)
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Sounds like it was just because it's free. (BizSpark)
Good point. It may make more sense to initiate a connection via multiple routes (node discovery) and then direct-connect securely. Of course that won't prevent anyone eavesdropping of knowing where the call is going, just keep them from knowing what they were talking about.
Even if they did, they probably don't add to the 1B figure as they are free
So, this just gives me ads?
But then the first recipient could post it online on github or whatever.
It's true if you bend the rules a bit... Read the article and you'll notice this gem:

> Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure includes Azure, as well as software provided to partners to create related Windows cloud services, Anderson said in an interview

That is a really vague statement that could mean all sorts of things (Office 365, Windows Server licensees, etc).
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Jobs was very good at ignoring existing work and claiming Apple's version was a revolutionary new invention.
Transit police here would run down the dog and taze it for not paying the $2.75 fare, and being ambivalent to their authoritanT
Dear Gmail, please stop taking your UX cues from the spamsite school of design?
http://i.imgur.com/mG1pWSN.png

Why would I want to write letters in a little box in the corner of my screen, with the center full of a list of irrelevant information?

Imagine this on the desktop, "Oh, time to write code! Lets fire up the IDE, fill the center of my screen with my list of source files, and get to writing in a little window in the corner!"

Google's solution to this problem appears to be this:<p>"You want to focus on writing? You can do that! Here's a popup window!"

Haven't you heard of tabs? This is a desktop web interface. Users almost never want popups, as they create a mess of interleaving windows instead of a list of buttons to switch between contexts in a single click.

My strongest association with popup windows is with the "hot singles in your area" side of the internet. I know I'm not alone in this thinking, and it's a shame that Google is forcing this connection on users when their team has put so much consistent effort in the elimination of spam and noise in the actual inbox.

Please rethink your strategy?
Do you mean Emoji? I've never heard it called stickers.
Nope. You swipe through products, liking or disliking each one. We learn what sort of things you like and guide you to the right ones. We want to help you browse for products.
Also you'd really have to register first then you could publish your own works to prevent others from snapping up orphaned works and trying to pass them off as their own by registering them. The whole thing is probably hugely impractical, but you'd really have to run estimates for coding, storage, admin etc. and since it would be a govt. project it would likely cost way more then it should ;).
Can you give a little more context to what you're saying?

edit: nvm, gmail
WebFWD is a great program for startups involved heavily in open source.

-- I was in their first cohort, feel free to ask any questions.
Sure, but the parent said "it was required by the Linux kernel GPL2 license to release the kernel source code"

This is not technically true.
Yes, you can do it after infringement, but it is a pre-requisite to actually filing a lawsuit (unless you want that lawsuit dismissed immediately :P)
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Exactly. We're trying to actually learn what you'll like and showing you only those products. Not just a "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought..."
Right. This is how Aqua migrated to Brushed Metal
Not that I am an auditor, but if the data ever hits your environment then you have a level of compliance to maintain.
On the one-hand, yeah, positive feedback feels good and all. On the other hand, as Gordon Ramsay says, "My team doesn't care about the positives. They listen for the negatives." Maybe the difference is in the sense of ownership the team feels over the final result. If the look, feel, and strategy has come down from on high, listening for the negatives is of limited utility, since you can't change anything anyway. But if everything is going forward on your say-so, the negatives are a powerful tool that you should seek out at any opportunity.
I don't think the appeal is in the minimalism or the lack of visual garnishes. It's that these panes and quickly changing elements are fast and they appear thin, lightweight and therefor emphasize the speed. You can see the light glowing through the panel. It's energizing.

Metal or drop shadow or physical looking sliders imply solidity and weight. That was a desired thing in the era when we were getting used to screen interfaces. But metal implies that it doesn't move fast. You can't replace an interface with a new modal one that quickly or it looks unreal and weird, like you are flinging metal cabinetry around !
That's an odd quote, especially when most competitors provide windows virtual machines, and azure provides linux. Also, I doubt msft cancels your account if you use mysql instead of sql server.

...but I honestly agree with the sentiment. I will pay money to not deal with sysadmin headaches, which is something you get a lot of using a hodgepodge of technologies.
Yup there is. Check out our variable syntax: https://zapier.com/support/questions/119/passing-named-varia...

It's certainly much simpler than a regex but imposes more structure. We're always open to suggestions, so let me know if you've got any cool ideas on how we can parse smarter.
In all honesty, I gave the %1 number based purely on my own experience. When I was a kid/teenager, I didn't have much money and I certainly didn't have a way to buy things digitally (debit or credit card). So I pirated games that I wanted because that was the only way I could get access to them. And so did the people I knew and interacted with.

If we couldn't pirate something, we just didn't ever end up playing. It seems like the amount of money any one person will spend on games/gaming is very stable. So what game devs are really trying to do is to be a part of each of their customers game-spending pie. I know that's how it is for me and the people I interact with.
And that's what a CIO/CTO's job is. Be technically competent to understand the technology he is using, or (at least) have someone on his team that is. It isn't rocket science to figure out where the problem is (be it CPU, network I/O, some software run wild), etc. If you're involved in IT, especially if you're developing software, you should be able to do some rudimentary analysis of the software you're actually buying.
To be fair, if you have a linux problem and Google leads you to Ubuntu forums, the solutions you will find there will likely be ugly strings of misunderstood magic too.

It's just a general fact that, given enough time and some trial and error, one can make problems go away even without understanding the root cause. I don't think it varies so much from one OS to another.
This seems like blog spam based on blog spam based on "sources". I'd take it with a grain of salt.

I'd also be very skeptical that Ive would create a sweeping change to a formula that works so well currently (Regardless of what the technorati think, joe consumer loves the iPhone UI. Small gizmos and refreshes are all that's needed to keep the standard consumer sufficiently happy), especially with Cook in charge.

A better article could probably be condensed into:
"According to sources it looks like Apple will follow the latest design trends and begin incorporating flat design into their products." Which is a no-brainer and hardly sells adspace.
Microsoft adds Azure to its billion dollar a year club
It looks like the Galactic Coordinate System (which, sensibly but to the confusion of the casual reader is centered on the Sun) is also 'backwards' with respect to the right hand rule. The galactic north pole is actually the galactic rotational south pole. This seems to be because the coordinate system was based on the rotational direction of the Sun.

I think I may have just exceeded my recommended daily nerdallowance of reading about spinning things in the sky.
Can Microsoft's internal Azure expenses be accounted for in sales? Specifically, if Office365 used $100 million worth of Azure services in their budget, does that count toward overall Azure sales? Does part of the marketing budget go toward giving out free Azure trials? Then, the question I ask is what percentage of Azure sales come from 3rd parties.
I would imagine that there will be some kind of 'legacy mode'. Much like the (botched) transition to Auto Layout, or the move to the 4" iPhone 5 screen.
why is it called rockerbox? what does that name have to do with shopping?
I think my objection is mainly due to the unscientific nature of the question. A question like this that is looking at the goals of the OS is very objective and has a clear answer. I would expect a question to be worded like this in a Philosophy, Law etc. exam (like the link posted by you). In my opinion, there are some questions, even in CS, that can be open-ended and be very interesting to attempt but this certainly isn't one.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5G9PZwmWq2Q/UOTbCe-zqqI/AAAAAAAAAB...

A screenshot of the new UI paradigm they're beginning to enforce, if you haven't seen it already.
My reaction?

I suppose my reaction would be to answer the question.
I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting a medium-to-low pressure environment. That's where I am too. I'll bet I could produce more/better work in a higher pressure environment, but that's not what life's about to me. It's about going home to my wife, playing fun video games, and hanging out with my friends. That said, I'm glad there are Jobses out there to give ambitious people the leadership they need -- and to give me the iPhones I crave.
If we are at a low point, it's not what people are building. People have and always will build junk. Rather, we are at a low point of what people are funding. You may not need my most excellent Twitter Bootstrap styled blogging service, but I can keep pushing it for as long as I can get funding.
No, thank you! I really liked this post and I think it's something we should be looking into more considerably. I've found it very interesting that many new programmers - many of them women, at least from what I've witnessed - create another language as one of their first projects (which is not surprising, since that'd probably be high on my list, too). While they're intended to be friendlier, they are generally under the guise of being made for children; complete with silly shapes and colors and storylines. But why just kids? Why do we feel like it isn't acceptable for adult tools to be just as fun and easy to use in their own ways? It's a lot like why we aren't doing more to utilize our collective physical exertion to answer problems in the same way computers can contribute to efforts like Folding@Home and Bitcoin mining or our eyes/knowledge for things like Snapshot Serengeti and reCAPTCHA.

What drives me in working in UX is just my own confusion and frustration with the way things are. Something does not need to be complicated to do complex things. I should not feel stupid looking at immense lines of code when I know that there are better ways to accomplish the same goal (in the same, if not shorter amount of time). Something that doesn't make sense right away probably has a problem, even though the person next to me may have the experience or luck to not have the same issue. If that disadvantage can be avoided, it should be.

Naturally, I've had a lot of ideas on how to make things better, but I can't wrap my head around building those things and I would rather find someone else equally as passionate about the issue to work with than just anyone off the street.

I think why people get so uppity by the "everyone should program/build/create/do" idea is because they are concerned about their job security. They believe that educating the masses is going to lead to oversaturation. Some are concerned because they are doers, not thinkers, and thinkers with these tools would threaten their ability to get by on the bare minimum. It's limiting them more than they think.

In reality, like any knowledge discipline, it can only create better tools, which create more/new jobs and thus create a better future.
There's a lot of development and apps that simply are not going to have any real difference based on their choice of ORM or even DB. Having it all-in-one has a lot of benefits.

Also, it's unfair to say open source isn't the same. How many PHP projects fairly evaluated anything but MySQL or PHP's built-in MySQL data access libs? And why would you? If you aren't at the point where you need to evaluate, your app will probably work fine on MySQL anyways. Also, Ruby-on-Rails provides quite a bit of defaults...

Microsoft might provide more kinds of libraries, but that's only because of their size. If Zend created an MVC system and built it into PHP, what kind of uptake would that see?
For somebody who doesn't want to talk about the case, he sure does talk about the case an awful lot!
Rocker boxes used to be used by gold miners to separate gold from sand / gravel. We're trying to do the same for products - helping you find the "golden" product that is best for you.

Somewhat of a stretch...but it works.
Tineye is a simple prevention. If the photo is indexed online, the owner is findable.
I was older when I started-36 year old freshly minted Computer Engineer. Dumb lucky enough to take the first offer I got from the folks I had been interning with. Siemens Communications in Boca, 1996.

I was working with about a hundred engineers on a huge code base in an

arcane language (CHILL).
I was able to learn Intel assembly to patch live systems, pretty good proprietary configuration management, and quite a bit about the Dilbert principle.

At that time, I worked with Old guys who were great, and old guys who were less proficient than me. One of my friends who was 22, came in and ran a project.

The bottom line is, if you were adept when you started, you most likely get better with age, if you just apply yourself a bit.
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Might be because there's definitely an element of "the court of public opinion" for these two consumer product companies (and given Opera's stance, OP must feel some sense of loyalty/responsibility to defending Mozilla's name and public image)

edit: Correction by magclock. Mozilla (so far) isn't directly involved in the suit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5629534
I agree, as soon as I saw the new compose interface I was extremely put off. I very much dislike any site that tries to build their own windowing system, as it always seems to be a harbinger of more bad things to come.

Right now I'm fine with it because it actually functions just fine, but I'm quite wary of future change.
Just a nitpick:

"Stop struggling to find products and let Rockerbox give you hand."

You're missing an "a" between "you" and "hand."
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How one receieves such documents is irrelevant. Some years ago a relative passed away, leaving hundreds of such documents on her antique computer. Luckily there was free software available that would still allow us to take part of her legacy. But of course, we could just as well have burnt her computer to ashes, as something so ancient must obviously be a security issue.
Can you tell me how the premise is uninformed and/or inaccurate? I am interested in learning and will definitely keep an open mind.
But people make technical design decisions in operating systems based on trying to make the operating system as conceptually simple as possible, which is what he means by beautiful, which I hope you would know from reading the literature.

I would relish this essay question - I would have written about the history of Unix, the evolution towards Plan 9 and why it failed. These are important issues in CS, and if you are ignorant of them you are likely to repeat them. Your professor is testing that you have understood these lessons from history.

I think you need to retract your implication that it's somehow an inherently bad or embarrassing choice for a question.

All you have left is that you are fundamentally opposed to any philosophical, historical or human factor thinking in CS, and I don't think that's a supportable position.
FYI, if you view it on your phone, you should be able to use the link in the lower-right corner to zoom to your current location!
I hope he has checked this with a lawyer and that he is not giving his adversary ammunition. Good luck.
IANAL: So here's my advice: Get a lawyer.
I've heard that Ars' commenters are of higher qualities than other sites. Does this still continue despite the decline of article quality that you describe?
Yeah, there are lots of categories like neighborhood names that have their own interesting stories but I wasn't sure how to display. Definitely lots of room for improvement, there are also plenty of gaps in the streets, I'll hopefully be able to fill some of those in in the coming weeks.
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I think it's more likely that they simply haven't felt the need to update their styling much in the past decade or so. And last I checked the home page uses tables for layout, so it would make sense that it works on IE5, since that's what everyone did back then.
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Good point; from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5629255, if the sued employee is even vaguely telling the truth, unless Norwegian trade secret law is vastly different from US they don't vaguely have a case.

Then again, the cheapest way for him to win this battle is in the public arena; without the particulars of their complaint, which we'll hopefully soon learn about, it's hard to say.

But I can say it's never a good sign when a company starts to compete in the courtrooms.
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The post title comes from the @necolas’s tweet: https://twitter.com/necolas/status/329007362612555777
I think another important aspect of this is that the (relatively unchanging) resource at /2012/01/02/news/ shouldn't be moved to /archive/2012/01/02/news/ without at least a redirect.

The point being that if the resource still exists, the old URI would preferably still point to it. If you, as the arbiter of the resource, decide to remove it, of course the URI will break.