skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh. I don't actually miss the onscreen start button (although I can imagine the discoverability hit to casual computer users). I miss the actual start menu, which was vastly more useful than the gimmicky thing they replaced it with.
How about a freemium model. Some services are free and for some better services you charge something,
If any of you have followed my posts, you'll know that I've been a big fan of what BlackBerry have been doing with their platform.

I think this is a bold move on the part of BlackBerry and I'm not sure how it will play out. On the one hand, the problem many users had with being on BlackBerry is that their non-BlackBerry using friends couldn't be reached on BBM. On the other hand, BBM is also the thing keeping some users from jumping to another platform. I think BlackBerry is hoping the net migration rate is in their favour, and for their sake I hope it's true.

Personally, I love my Z10, and it fits my workflow wonderfully. It's also a sheer joy to develop for. I think there are 10s of millions who agree with me. Will it be a larger number than iOS and Android users? Likely not, but I'm not sure it has to be.

For those knocking the platform, at least try it before you do. And keep an open mind about it, knowing that it fits for many people. I love what iPhone and Android do, but they're just not for me.

Finally, everyone needs to understand that BBM is much more than a messaging platform. While it may have similarities with the competitors mentioned, but the fact is that it does things that no one else has matched. The tight integration at the OS level allows really amazing things to be done by application developers. With that in mind, the BBM released on other platforms will likely be mostly about messaging simply due to the OS integration required. Doable on Android, hard on iOS.

All in all, there's a lot of excitement here at BlackBerry Live. I think they're doing some amazing things with the platform, and I am happy to continue supporting and championing them.
Comparing NoSQL database
All those jokes about how Windows 8 resembles Windows 3.1 and now this...
Boston is an underrated startup scene. I've only been getting involved recently and it's amazing how many quality tech businesses don't make it to HN, especially ones out of MIT or ones started by older professionals (often with phds, etc)

They don't make it to techcrunch but they have really, really smart people working for them and are tackling wicked hahd problems.

BTW tried to follow you on twitter but blocked? haha.
no offense taken just wondering why
> In some countries public broadcasters don't have to stop the program every 15 minutes to beg for money, like the PBS does.

PBS only does this during short periods.
Etsy shut down Brendan Byrne's shop (Part 2)
read this http://www.getelastic.com/7-business-models-for-monetizing-d...

what is your website about?
If they don't get served with a notice, they would be the best place around to exchange USD and Bitcoin in American bank accounts.
Delta Debugging: From automated testing to automated debugging
Agreed.

I watch only a couple YouTube channels actively and there's a common thread in almost all of them: the 'host' has an interesting personality. Sometimes that personality is completely fabricated and sometimes it's real - it doesn't really matter since viewers don't care. It's a lot like how the Stephen Colbert on 'The Colbert Report' isn't really the real-life Stephen Colbert. The videos also are typically more throwaway than TV - and that's why production is so low and the comparisons don't hold up.

It's the allure of a la carte TV, where if you want some girl talk, gun videos, a let's play, or funny cat compilation video, it's all there and easily digestible at any point in the day.
Seems like a decent idea IF you can make it real easy for me. Right now I host my website on S3. I would probably prioritize hooking into services that (unlike github) don't already have a built-in free way of hosting a site :)

And be careful you don't fall into the "unlimited hosting for a fixed price" trap.

Didn't there used to be a 3rd party Dropbox app that published a folder as a website? (Not the "Public" folder which, I suppose, is another option for some people).
Yeah not enough Object for 96, but still it feels like an old language to me.
I'm always hazardous when building something on someone else's infrastructure. If they can shut down your entire income stream "just because", that probably isn't a good situation to be in.
I've basically resigned myself to using JavaScript for new client-side development, since it's the native language of the browser, which is the most restrictive of all platforms.

I considered C# a few months ago; I know that things like Script# and JSIL can translate C# or CLI bytecode to JS. But I figured there would be subtle semantic mismatches that would require anyone working with such code to know both C# and JS anyway. So arguably JS requires less working knowledge.

The most obvious semantic mismatch between JS and other mainstream languages is that the other languages usually (if not always) support multiple threads with shared state. Consequently, the standard libraries of these other languages tend to have blocking APIs. This seems to me like a good reason to use JS for new client-side development, rather than trying to make another language compile to JS. One can convincingly argue that not supporting multiple threads with shared state is a good thing, anyway.

The only limitation in JS that really bothers me, if it still even exists, is that AFAIK the largest possible integer is 2^53.
Or you can get it on a new PC after it comes out.
Well, I built something similar which supports almost all languages and is available as a free bookmarklet. Compiles your code using CodePad with one click. Do give it a look http://akshayagarwal.github.io/EtheRun/
This will totally blow if you have to install Windows 8 just to install Windows 8.1. I hope we are talking about a stand alone installer.
The French were inspired by the American Revolution.
FooCorp may not care about Bobs opinion as a non-customer, but I do (or rather, I don't want to be spammed).

And no, I am not going to be a customer of theirs, but if somebody I know needs help putting together a webpage, then they would likely come to me for recommendations. Weebly might have been one of them before, now it will not be.

My guess is that most of the readers here are in the same category.
Part of their description was the following...

Is the Crypteks USB™ Patented?
Definitely! Patents covering the unique locking mechanisms as well as iterations for future implementations of varying possible internal electronics have been filed with the USPTO with international coverage. Crypteks Inc. reserves all rights with respect to the use of Logos & Slogans as well as the design concepts and iterations covered under our patents

Do these patents actually exist?
I haven't used Windows in a few years but I remember XP SP2 included several new features. Security Center was a major one but I know there were a few others too.
George Carlin said it the best:

The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs.
13 year old Firefox bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63895

Ran in to this for the 2nd time recently. Is firefox the new browser to work around? It's been working properly in IE for years.

Clear example: http://jsfiddle.net/YjHaB/9/

How is it that some bugs go neglected for this long?
I don't know if its hard or not, but the difficulty to monetary reward is certainly extremely unfavorable, and that is a pretty big governing factor in where most startups dedicate their efforts.
There are no Windows Store accounts, there's only Microsoft Live ID which you can use to sign in to the PC. You can also run and browse the Windows Store without signing in to a Live ID account, so this may not be the case -- you need an account to buy/download a new app, but probably don't to update Windows.
Have you paid your "Fascist Party" dues lately?
/sarcasm

This is simply disgusting.
Is a hand craftsman actually a threat to the MegaCorp?

I just don't see why this would happen.

[edit: I just read part 2]
Were I you, I'd start making another one and have a friend photograph the process.
Hurry. Time is of the essence!
The expectations some people have about crowdfunding are unrealistic. It has to be clear from the start that when you donate money to those projects the money will be spent and the project might fail anyway. People have been using Kickstarter as a pre-order site which I think is not ideal in many cases. The option to preorder should be different from supporting a project in general, but Kickstarter sadly doesn't offer that kind of separation.
Hmm, once having worked on a USB device that had encryption on it, it required an ARM chip and a circuit board running a custom software stack. Even if the creator thought they were going to create one of these, for their original target of 12k I don't think they had a clue about what they were doing.
"The problem with Microsoft is that they have no taste." (S. Jobs)

The reports of still insisting on Metro for big monitors and computers instead of keeping it only on phones and tablets confirm this. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

(And forcing people to get an OS update over the Windows Store is as spammy as it can be.)
Dr. Julie Gurner Joins SquarOne Mail
Show HN: EtheRun, Free Bookmarklets to run code from EtherPad
I love these cover letter type pages, and this is a particularly nice one.

I just made a similar switch from a job and it's been wonderful so far.

Good luck!
I realise I'm probably feeding a troll, but why do you think that?
Say I don't necessarily want to be ripped but I just want to do the minimum amount of exercise to be healthy. So I can go to the gym twice a week and do the program you advocate, or go to the gym twice a week and swim or run on the elliptical for 45 minutes. Your program will be better for me--unless I injure myself, and the risk of injury is much greater with free weight lifting than with swimming/ellipticals. Are the beneficial effects of free weights really that much better that they offset the risk of injury? Honest question.
Of course, that's certainly not Larry Page's fault...
> inflation is hardly a bad thing

The idea that inflation is always and forever a bad thing, PERIOD, is religious dogma for some people; they will not be budged, nor swayed, nor convinced to look at any evidence that inflation is part of a healthy, growing economy.
I don't see how this solves the problem of accountability at all. All it can do, maybe, is mitigate the backlash from the backers a little bit?
I tried to measure HN interest in Crowd Sourcing challenges to Patent Trolls (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5573778).

It is very commendable that rackspace is taking this to task on both fronts, individual patent challenges and lobbying efforts to change the law. However, this also has the immediate effect of encouraging trolls to go after the little guys and no longer companies who can afford litigate.
I'm with you!

I seem to recall a time when "ly'ers" (lawyers) were prohibited from assuming political office...

Now they've taken over.
Unlike the housing bubble no one loses in the end. Sure, the Youtube revenue stream will dry up but that's the nature of the business. Either the content providers will move on to The Next Big Thing(TM) or will just be replaced by someone else. I don't think any of them believe that they can continue doing this for 30 years.
In addition to the author's points about how the videos are constructed (thumbnail tricks, headline bait) to gain views, you also have to consider the basic mechanism involved in getting views: accessibility to a large population of people. If your videos are created at such a high level that only people with an IQ>130 can understand, you won't get that many views, and even fewer subscribers. If you target the crowd with average to below average intelligence then you have a much larger market. What do people with average/below average intelligence care about? They want to see people doing stupid stuff. They don't care about production value that much. They want to see someone looking like an idiot because it makes them feel better about themselves. This is the singular reason for low quality crap on YouTube and TV. The audience that can truly appreciate high quality shows is very small and can't sustain that much programming.

I'd also like to point out that not all YouTube channels suck. There is a solid community of educational YouTubers which make good stuff [1]. Also, SourceFed is where I go to get caught up on news that other people want to talk about and I only have 5 minutes to spare. Phil DeFranco's empire is an example of a business built on YouTube.

[1]Maybe that should be "who make good stuff" or "whom make good stuff." Maybe I should watch more YouTube videos on grammar and less about NASA.
I think that was what Libertarian-Socialists thought bitcoin would accomplish :)
A project failing and a project going completely silent are two different things.
By setting expectations that there is none.
The store can do whatever Microsoft wants it to be able to do. Updating and installing apps necessarily involves more permission than the apps themselves have access to.
I wish you could have your GMail, YouTube, etc, and I could have a way to use the internet to access a wide variety of writings without my having to deal with a system so complicated or unreliable that users are being invited to learn a new health-monitoring subsystem for it.

ADDED. An argument can be made that my operating system is already a system so complicated or unreliable that it requires its own specialized health-monitoring subsystem (of which Unix commands ps, free and top and OS X's Activity Monitor are a part). My response is that I resent having to deal with two such systems instead of only one.
God says...

meats? 7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that
defileth the man.

7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, 7:22 Thefts, covetousness,
wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride,
foolishness: 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile
the man.

7:24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and
Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but
he could not be hid.

7:25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit,
heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 7:26 The woman was a
Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would
cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it
is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the
dogs.
The products sold on etsy are valuable because they are hand crafted. That is their value-add, if any mass-production products make it in, their brand is diluted.

That is - they are really selling the hand-craftedness of the items, rather than the items themselves.
If you go down this road, just let project creators decide their milestones and timing, and then release the funds. Different projects have different cash flow problems, so each creator should be able to decide.

Want all money upfront? Fine, but people will know and decide accordingly whether to back your project.
We're in the Kansai area, were you with the JET program by chance? Not that I'm in a position to give advice, but there's no need to wait to find a project to work on or to start your own. I found the best way to learn was actually building stuff. Hell, I spent the better part of last year building a web app that I later abandoned. It was still a great learning experience for me, and I learned a lot more than I would have just reading tutorials.
I'm not sure why it's depressing that someone would enjoy coding and not business + coding. Some people tend towards specialism, some generalism. It's probably good that we have both sorts of people.

Me, I'm a specialist at heart - I have no interest at all in business. All I want in the world is for someone to come to me with an interesting problem to solve, and to help them solve it. Fortunately, I have that, and I get plenty of enjoyable interaction from helping less technically able (but more customer-focused) people to produce what they want to produce.

Classifying specialists as not-people is condescending and pathetic, every bit as much as it would be for someone like me to dismiss generalists as morons because of their lack of technical depth.
Unfortunately, this project creator hasn't provided any proof that the money was spent working on the product. If there were photos and records of work and progress being attempted, and at least some communication with the backers along the way, I suspect the tone and deposition of the comments would be different.

It's a lot to read through, but there's pages of people just asking for transparency to see the status and to understand what challenges were coming up. There's just as many comments from the creator that things are going great and we should be ready to ship in no time at all.

Trying out a new project or product and failing is one thing, never attempting it and running off with the cash is a different matter entirely.
I agree 100% with your first point. It should be spelled out.

Your second point I am less sold on. Transitive dependencies (pkgA imports pkgB@v1 but my code need pkgB@v2 which is incompatible with v1) are the thing of nightmares in large systems development, which is what Go is designed for... that lack of versioned imports wasn't an oversight, it is a feature.

Centralized repos are centralized points of failure, and only as good as they are well managed. NPM versus CPAN if you will. Any serious project will localize dependencies, even if they are in CPAN, you never know when CPAN will be down or other unforeseen things might happen.
How do you mean, they don't offer that kind of separation? It's very easy to back a project without ordering the product; simply don't select a backer reward level when confirming your pledge.
Royal Marine for four years. You're right about Zed now you mention it! Did you teach yourself?
What about it was more useful? I didn't change any of my habits after upgrading to Win8. It was only a cosmetic change as far as I can tell. I still just hit the start key and start typing to launch things, search for apps and files, or run commands. Meanwhile the new start menu also lets me search any app that registers itself as a search provider (i.e. search through my Kindle books, my Netflix account, etc), which is handy.
Where do you live that traffic lights are for pedestrians. I really believe you have misunderstood something.
You're right that syncing directly with the net is a problem. However, the problem is basically developer education. Go doesn't work like other languages and the consequences aren't well-documented. If you do it right, the process works fine; it's basically how Google works internally.

The basic idea is to commit everything under $GOPATH/src so that you never need to touch the net to reproduce your build.
After running "go install" you should check in the third-party code locally, just like any other commit.

Then updating a new third-party library to sync with their trunk is like any other commit: run "go install", test your app, and then commit locally if it works. If it doesn't work, don't commit that version; either wait for them to fix it, sync to the last known good version, or patch it yourself.

If you aren't committing your dependencies then you're doing it wrong.
As I understand it, Dwarf Fortress survives entirely on donations and Hyperbole and a Half survives entirely on selling products. The author of the second isn't comfortable with either donations or ads.
>Huh. I don't remember seeing any other blog posts from anyone dissatisfied with Etsy previously — is this their first negative publicity?

Not exactly [0].

I had no idea "handmade" was such a big deal at Etsy.

Regardless, the way they've handled this case seems pretty terrible, right down to the aggravatingly detached language used to correspond with him. Something really irks me about humans seemingly trying to be robotic, particularly in the process of performing a subjective review.

0: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/etsy-handmade-facto...
Korean book publishers caught inflating sales by stockpiling books
Avoiding effort with respect to transport gets you to work faster, which is most instances is the point of transport. Avoiding effort with respect to discussing ideas gets you bias, which is the opposite of the point of discussion.

So you're basically openly saying that you are willing to comment here, without considering the perspectives being put forth that you're replying to, which at the very least seems against the spirit of HN, and more realistically is against the process of rational thought in general.
Sure, but I'm not expecting much from a free service in terms of uptime.

I wouldn't expect much more from a $1/month service, but I would expect better service.
I'm disappointed to see no mention at all of Windows Phone in the post. This is supposed to be the update that finally unifies Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, which are currently quite separate from each other.
Service packs have historically ALWAYS contained new features. Otherwise it's just released with Windows Update.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Service_packs

> Microsoft occasionally releases service packs for its Windows operating systems to fix problems and add features.
Apparently it says so on their privacy page:
http://www.skype.com/en/legal/privacy/
Skype may use automated scanning within Instant Messages and SMS to (a) identify suspected spam and/or (b) identify URLs that have been previously flagged as spam, fraud, or phishing links. In limited instances, Skype may capture and manually review instant messages or SMS in connection with Spam prevention efforts. Skype may, in its sole discretion, block or prevent delivery of suspected Spam, and remove suspicious links from messages.

If phishing and malware was spread thanks to skype, what would people say?
This sums up my experience with MS in general; conversations driven by marketing and nothing else. For many other tech companies it's a much lower marketing:info ratio. Google is fairly good about it, and Mozilla is pretty good, while Apple is just as bad as MS.
I suppose it would dilute the Etsy brand. Without curation they don't really offer much that eBay, for example, can't.
Same but css/javascript etc is hosted via Rackspace CDN (Akamai).
Maybe they did and it didn't work? You're giving them very little credit.
Yeah seriously; a fragment of the first sentence:

I’ve been curious about Gottfried Leibniz for years, not least because he seems to have wanted to build something like Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and perhaps A New Kind of Science as well

I don't think I've ever encountered hubris of that level before.
Sorry, probably not the best way to point out that we do not know what the largest prime is as we constantly keep proving larger known primes and by that they are infinite and expressed as infinity being the largest possible ever number.

Hope that explains what I mean't by that term you quoted now.
How to create a KPI dashboard and stop tracking bullshit, vanity metrics.
EBCDIC A != EBCDIC A :-)

It's easier to read text on punchcards in EBCDIC of whatever variation, though.
If they look away long enough to miss the yellow then, some might say, they deserve what's coming.
It has more to do with the fact that most rich people know that they can't trust the government to use their money efficiently.
In both cases, in a perfect world the rich would be our "saviors", but in the case of higher taxes you just wouldn't know, I like it the other way, I want to know who I'm benefiting from so I can say a proper "thank you".