skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if your Google+ Profile picture was your JitBit Name + Logo, you would have done better.

I think it is your face that is the problem. Not because it's ugly, but because it's obviously a face, which is out of context when searching for "macro recorder". We naturally gloss over things that don't sync with what we expect.
For a second there I was thinking the experiment was to see how little information they could provide and still get people to sign up for their (rather ambiguous peer-review) service.
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Came here to post this. I rememver having to disable hardware accelaration in windows to take screenshots of videos.

It was actually pretty weird the way the picture apeared in paint. It was like having a "frame"in the editor. Everything was fine until you closed the media player.
My brain went through a few things when I saw that result screenshot:

1. I thought it was giving results for a guy named Marco.

2. After realizing it was Macro, I thought the #1 result was a blog or review.

3. I then focused on the 2nd result because it looked less cluttered.
Other exception: really cold cities.

See the Calgary +15:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B15

They get around the foot-traffic problem by basically bringing the commerce up as well- it's like a giant indoor mall on the second floor of interconnected buildings.
> but it's harder to learn random details of your life.

I wouldn't lean on that assumption for too much longer. It's becoming easier and easier for that to happen, especially when one naively gives out those random details to any form that pops up on their computer screen (...even if the creators of that form have a cool story about making amateur breakfast cereals).
My wife has ulcerative colitis and it always surprises/annoys me when I ask the doctor about fecal transplants and they bring up the "ick" factor - how they think it is disgusting. They usually say something like "you really want someone else's poop in you?" At this point our only other option is for my wife to be cut open and have her intestines removed - which I find much more horrifying and risky, but they mention it as if it is just the normal thing to do.
Every time you see a big, free, ad-supported or VC funded startup with millions of users, just know that there is probably a place for a paid application that is basically the same app only charging money.

Even for social networks and things, people will gladly pay money for value you provide.

The problem is that it's not the kind of thing that VC's will get as excited about, because unless you can grow into many millions of dollars of revenue fast, it's probably not an interesting way to turn over their money.

So, GMail, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, even something like Groupon could exist as a successful paid app with a one time or recurring revenue stream.
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Could not post the link in the URL...maybe I am not supposed to?

The Mobile version is not uploading either, though files are accessible.
> I think that labels become problematic because the more things you label, the closer looking at "All emails labeled X" looks just like a search.

Labelling is a way of demonstrating intent, though. I want to see tax-related invoices for the organisation I'm helping out with; not everything actually has the words "invoice" in it, or mention the organisation.

Either you need to introduce AI for me to teach, or let me impose search information on the email itself. Tagging is just a way of doing the latter.
Not really. The situation now is labeled "proprietary", the situation then will be "we just use standards". It shifts the framing.
“seems like Windows 8 might have been the biggest beta testing project ever”

Gmail, Facebook, iCloud and Siri have way more users than Windows 8 does. The last two are in their entirety beta products. The first two have introduced major changes that didn’t turn out great. Even when Google rolls out a new version of Gmail in phases, it easily covers more users than Windows 8 (which has about 60 million users).
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I think there are more than 3 video player which could play DVD on Mac. So why we use this BAD application? BTW, the new retina macbook shipped without DVD driver, there is not that much which we need to worry about.
I've been using Windows 8 for months now and just about every update mentioned I am completely uninterested in. The only exception is IE11.
> Very few experienced programmers will have these beliefs.

You're over-generalizing your personal experience: I've run into quite a few experienced programmers who just haven't spent enough time working on geo code to understand how treacherous it can be, particularly if their past work hasn't been sufficiently international. This is particularly bad with low-level / overly-academic developers who think the problem is that previous attempts failed because they didn't model addresses sufficiently rigorously.
I disagree with your 2nd point. This seems like over generalizing. You're saying that every Airbnb host that is upset about this change is suddenly using Airbnb illegally? Definitely not true.

It sounds like the verification flow has some serious design/flow problems. If I'm an Airbnb host in a major city and I have an affordable and highly rated place, I'm likely to attract all kinds of guests: both sophisticated and unsophisticated. For example, the most frequented place on Airbnb in San Francisco has probably seen hundreds of guests from around the world:
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/33577

Different people are different. Not everyone actually has a government issued ID. This does not mean they are necessarily illegal or untrustworthy. I think many people are going to freak out about these requirements... not just people without IDs, but average people who find the process intrusive. Do I have to answer security questions and upload my ID when booking a hotel? No.

However, maybe Airbnb has already tested this on a smaller random set of their listings and proven it doesn't reduce bookings.
`but he would put sometimes 20 statements into one line of code`

This is why Python's PEP8 recommends an 80 char limit on line length. Not because at column 81 the code magically becomes more complicated, but because if you're struggling to make it all fit on one line, it's probably a good sign that you need to factor out some complexity.

Although you could certainly still write extremely terse (read: unreadable) code with less than 80 chars per line.
I do not like to give theoretical/artificial problems in interview sessions, I like to provision challenge environment which resembles day to day work of Operation Engineers. This tool is of a great help
Who killed the futurist in you? School or you?
This comment adds zero value to any meaningful discussion. aJust because he doesn't own it himself doesn't mean he is incapable of a thoughtful analysis of his experience with the product. Keep your jealousy to yourself.
Another falsehood:

* Street numbers are integers.

A house near my university was numbered something like 3 1/2. It was between 3 and 5, and 4 was taken by a house on the other side of the street. I'm also sure I've seen houses with 1/4 and 3/4 in their numbers. Platform nine and three quarters doesn't need to be magical!

I once lived in a house that was numbered 50-2. A lot of U.S. websites wouldn't accept the hyphen. Fortunately, I could just truncate it to 50 because there were only a handful of houses with the same prefix and the postman knew where my family lived.

I also once lived at an address where the street number had the suffix "B".
Is it a werewolf webcam?
SSH is an interesting set of solutions that appear on the surface to be horribly inefficient but after a tiny amount of digging are actually okay.

I had to write an SSH terminal inside a browser, and it was full of "why the heck did they"s followed ten minutes later by "oh, that's why"s.
I haven't tried Glass, but I tried Oculus Rift a few weeks ago and it made me want them both more.

They're very different devices. The Rift immerses you in 3D worlds. Every way you tilt your head immediately changes your viewpoint. My perception of Glass is that it tries to overlay information on top of reality and add more senses to humans. They are similar means to completely different ends.
I'd say that in the US Social Security Numbers run neck-and-neck with names for causing problems, though the data is less screwed up. The problem is that they look simple, unique, and universal so they're an obvious primary key... but only the first of those is close enough for most uses. Duplicate SSNs have been issued often enough that I've run into multiple collisions in a single production DB (and confusing two people on electronic home arrest can be pretty bad). Even more common are people who simply don't have one - religious objectors, non-citizens who haven't acquired them (though some have them), etc. The net result is that people keep using them as primary keys, as join keys, and as unique constraints and then get bitten hard.
"Linux is fucking everywhere ... Even Apple devices are running a fork of BSD."

BSD's not Linux!
Announcing things that will never get finished. How exciting.
Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Pens “Letter from Loretto”
Thoughtbot performed the same experiment; their results seemed favourable:
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/51068089232/google-authors...
You and I and apple avoid taxes. They are not evading. Do you intentionally pay more taxes than the law requires you to?
I'm still a little confused as to why Haunts keeps getting used as an example of Go "failing". As discussed in other Go-related comment threads, the project would have likely failed with any language, not just because Go doesn't have a version pinning package manager.
Downvoted because you have no actual opinion on the article's content so you pick on a trivial side issue and raise its importance disproportionately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_trivialit...
The demo is going beserk at the moment; everyone is adding/deleting apps, which makes it seem very erratic.
The photo is a tell-tale to me. Each time I see one on the first search results, they get filtered out by my brain (they are either 'news' or 'youtube').

But this is just my reaction.
Dropbox is down - All page and file access down since 6:32PST
Were I in your shoes, I'd go the DIY route and try our a FMT from you to your wife. The downside doesn't seem nearly as bad as surgery.
This sounds like a "faster-horse" feature to me.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15297-if-i-had-asked-people-...
What are you interested in? I've been using Win8 since launch and I'm looking forward to:

- View all apps by swiping up

- No longer auto-put app tiles on my Start screen

- Improved windows store search

- Different size app multi-screening

- Boot to a different screen

- Change which screen 'Start' gets you to

- Edit functionality of corners
Agreed. Thats why approaching VC's does not make sense for us and we need support from our users.
For me, personally, none of these changes interest me, perhaps with the exception of IE11.

I've had Windows 8 installed on my desktop PC since it came out as I took advantage of their cheap upgrade offer from Windows 7 (I'd not of paid full price for it). So here are my thoughts on the improvements in Windows 8.1 as someone who uses it on a desktop, with a keyboard and mouse.

Personalization: The only time I ever see the new start menu is when I quickly press Start and begin typing the name of some application I want to launch. I've never rearranged any of the tiles and my screen is always off when I'm at the lock screen so a slideshow on the lock screen is totally useless for me.

Search: "It is the modern version of the command line" What? How is a integrated desktop and web search a modern version of the command line. That makes no sense. I'd never use this new functionality anyway since I don't use Bing and I can easily access google from my always open web browser.

Apps and Windows Store: Never used any metro apps or installed anything from the Windows Store. I don't really feel that any of the metro apps have taken any thought for those who are not using a touch interface.

Cloud Connectivity: "In Windows 8.1 your files can be saved directly to SkyDrive, so you can always have your files with you." Wait, you could not do this before Windows 8.1? I've never used SkyDrive but it seems silly to me that you can now only just save your files directly to SkyDrive.

PC Settings: I can use the control panel just fine.

Internet Explorer: More frequent versions of IE seems like a good thing, although I'd be more interested in the details of what is new generally rather than just the new features for what seems to be the metro version.

Better Mouse and Keyboard Options: I see two minor tweaks, there is now a windows logo and I can now configure what happens when I place my cursor in different corners. How are these better options for keyboards and mouses?

I don't get it, they seem to be ignoring their whole previous customer base; those who used Windows on their non-touch desktops and laptops. Sure, I understand that these improvements will most likely be useful for those who use Windows on their touch based device but these people are surely in the minority so why focus the content of your "new features" announcement for the minority?
I know this isn't suppose to be funny, but I couldn't help but laugh at how you presented this. I completely lost it where you had written "My Stupid Face" with an arrow pointed towards your google result.
I'll look for those here in Minnesota, but I don't think those have been installed yet. The intersection near my home that I reach on walking trips to shop, a busy intersection between a state highway and a county highway, had all of the pedestrian crossings upgraded in the last two years. The traffic light poles include pressable buttons that activate a spoken word warning to walk or not walk, with the spoken phrases about which street to cross making clear which direction has the pedestrian right of way. This is out in the outer ring suburbs. The intersection is, I think, in the top ten statewide for largest number of traffic accidents each year (motor vehicle to motor vehicle, mostly, but some involving pedestrians too I think).

In the downtown of Minneapolis, weather has suggested a different solution since the 1960s. Minneapolis has an extensive network of "skyways," covered bridges at second-story level between buildings,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System

http://www.skywaymyway.com/

and those are so used now that many businesses think a skyway-level location inside a building is more valuable than a street-level location. There is no issue of a pedestrian running into car traffic at skyway level, and no issue of slipping on snow or ice, which was the original reason for the skyway system.
I'll probably still be using Start8 to turn it into a slightly better Windows 7.
> In case you lose interest for some reason.

I think it's that very reason he's submitting it so early.
The top two cloud-using companies are...
I had to get a new laptop for my wife, and I had no interest in educating her how to use Windows 8 (or figuring it out myself). The only way it's been usable for her was to install Start8. (http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/). It's what MSFT should be adding into 8.1

I have no financial interest in StarDock.
I guess it's more about "educating" the public that The Content is a holy cow which can only be watched and admired, solely by paying customers, of course.
What if you just want a single frame of the DVD the same way you might want a screengrab of anything else on your desktop?
Make Your Own Club
Maybe a crowd funded site to bribe Kara to never do one of these again.
Out of curiosity, what was the segment you were/are in where you built your career on Java?
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For cycling and other sports activities the Recon Jet glasses (http://jet.reconinstruments.com) might be a much better fit. I'm watching them closely, hoping to order once they become available.

Judging from the preliminary specs and information, it's a much nicer product: full developer docs available, an open system where you can deploy any apps you like, a very nice hardware platform and to top it all off, a much nicer price than Google Glass.

I also find the explicit design much more appealing — they don't try to hide the fact that there is a display on your face.
Eric Schmidt investing seed money into former Obama campaign staff's ventures
Small world. I was just thinking of Cafe No Se this morning because of a brochure of Antigua that I have from a trip there. Cafe No Se advertised on the back of it with a catchy phrase along the lines of "Every dive needs a good town."

But yes, I would agree with the general sentiment of experiencing the world. For me, there is not much that is more satisfying than exploring - be it traveling to new places, climbing a mountain or just trying something new.

That said, if this project removes the boredom and is interesting/fun to the OP, there is value in that as well.
Personalisation may be useful for WP8 as well..when are they planning to update WP8?
Just because Microsoft releases have been like this, doesn't mean they should! Having users up in arms is a bad sign. It means you have managed change badly. Others do this much better, incrementally and in bits that are manageable by users. Its something Microsoft fundamentally doesn't understand. Completely unlike Amazon, Google or Apple. When is the last time they released something where people were up in arms?! Even with drastic changes such as in Android 4!

Microsoft just doesn't care about its users. But it should!
One welcome change is the "PC settings" one - sounds like all settings are "metrofied", which will help the reduce the jarring flip to desktop mode when you're not expecting it.
> I'm pretty sure I wouldn't take frame-by-frame screenshots.

Quicktime allows to record a video of your screen. I bet QT leverages the same framework as the screen capture thing.
Good observation. So basically, the fact that Google authorship did this is a good thing for people who search Google, because until now his title could "trick" people into clicking on his site (because it was more SEO optimized or for whatever reason), but the "real" result was always the Wikipedia one - because I suppose most people don't have a purchase intent when searching for that, but an intent to find out more information about it.
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There is (or was, at least) a group of blind mountain bikers who used echolocation to estimate obstacles in their path. I was floored when I read the article[1] about them; that ability always sounded like a superpower to me.

[1]: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sensory-superpowers/2009...
Going where nobody else will and slogging through the swamp of sorrow to come out the other side clean can be an amazing strategy... if it pans out.

If it works out you look like a hero, if it doesn't you look like a fool.

I look at it as picking the mountain you want to climb. You can't climb every mountain at once. Some are taller than others, some might have amazing views at the top, or gold hidden inside, and some have bears that will eat you alive. Most importantly, you can't climb two mountains at once and it takes time to get down off of one mountain to climb the next.

Elon Musk is pretty good at picking mountains to climb, but he also has the resources to climb them and the will do to so. He reminds me a lot of Richard Branson or Donald Trump. When you have ambition, talent, and capital you can make a lot happen.
So, you joined this community nine days ago and thought a great way to begin would be with a ridiculous and absurd lie about Nexus sales?

Regardless, it's hardly clear why a community of people intent on founding new businesses would consider a history of successful product launches all that important.
I totally disagree with this. There's a really succinct test case on the bug: "Visit a local PC store, Attempt to buy a machine without any proprietary software".

So "the submitter" (Mark) wants to be able to go into a PC store and buy a PC without proprietary software. Even in those general terms, the bug is clearly still evident and clearly has not been fixed: saying "ah, but you can go into a shop and buy an Android tablet" is pretty unsatisfying.
Largest doesn't always mean largest user base. I'm sure a lot more money, people and other resources went into Windows 8 than the re-skinning of Gmail.
They might mean for launching apps by typing and using auto-completion.

Here's my personal story with Windows 8. I built a PC about a month ago after using macs for several years. I'd heard all the horror stories about Win8 and was going to get Windows 7, but someone recommended that I get 8 instead, saying that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as people were saying.

They were right, it's not, though it does have more of a learning curve than it should.

I missed having a start menu at first, but that went away when I discovered I could easily launch apps or control panels in a similar way to how I did it on the mac. On the mac I used Quicksilver - I'd hit ctrl-space type a few letters of the name and hit enter to launch the app. On windows 8 you can do the same by hitting the windows key, typing a few letters and hitting enter. In addition, I have the applications I use most pinned to the taskbar.

I'd originally planned to install one of the 3rd party start menus, but ended up not needing to.
It's the Vietnam war- just declare victory and move on. Better than the promise of the "year of the linux desktop".