skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Click on "Report a Problem," select other and let them know the images are out of date and missing buildings.
> There is no way that MS actually thinks people want the button, not the menu.

We have decades of "click the start button" training drilled into peoples' heads. They'll find their app whether it's in a menu or a screen, but stranding them on the desktop without any button to get there was a problem. That's who the change was made for, not the tech enthusiasts that have been doing most of the complaining.
I think a good degree gives you both. It's important to learn how to study and think on your own, it's the only way to keep yourself from becoming obsolete. This is even more so important in technology and computing.
It's just a screw up that RoR got security wrong at the start and had to change their paradigms to fix it. Following a few principals (no in-band signaling), newer frameworks are secure by default and just as simple to learn.
The pride UI isn't on the homepage, and shows up when you type in a query that indicates you're interested in gay marriage, gay rights, HRC, etc.

During the holidays a holiday UI sometimes shows for [christmas] that has appropriate Christmas decorations
A really cool hack would be to put the electric meter for that data center on the web. You can't hide 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.
Every time a post like this hits Hacker News, the same conversation gets re-hashed again and again. "How is this copying?", "How are these two sites not just following standard design trends?", "So what. This layout isn't unique. It looks like a Wordpress template.", "Design inspiration isn't enough. Show me the copied code."

And each time, I'm baffled by these responses. How can you not tell, when comparing the sites side-by-side, that Kintek was more than just inspired by Infinum's design. Sure, neither site really trend-sets, but there are numerous similarities between the two which, in combination, are highly unlikely to have been arrived at independently. And that's the point. The site was carefully crafted, each detail at a time, to look, feel, and act a certain way. Not every detail will be unique to this site and this site alone, but in combination the details add up to a unique experience. Which Kintek then co-opted for itself.

Everything from the fonts, to the way the page starts to scroll, to the width and spacing of the grid, the curve of the main image slider, the order of the content, the actual copy (almost word-for-word on the "Services" page)... Seeing all of this, and then seeing someone on HN say "so what"... it just boggles my mind.

I'm not even a designer, but perhaps I just tend look at the world more through that lense. I don't know how else to explain it. To me, it's so obvious and glaring, but maybe when others look at these sites they just don't see the same things that I do.
They are doing what they are extremely good at :)
Prediksi Mitra Kukar vs Persela 27 Juni 2013
Pada pertandingan lanjutan ISL kali ini tuan rumah Mitra Kukar akan menjamu tamunya Persela Lamongan, bagi Mitra Kukar sendiri yang bermain di depan para pendukung nya akan sedikit lebih diunggulkan,
This was always going to be the way with Windows 8....and continues with 8.1. Now that the consent decree imposed by the US gov. has been lifted, since Microsoft's monopoly looks far less threatening these days, and Apple and google are getting away with it in the mobile space I think it is game on for vertically integrated software and services from MS.
Al-Qaida said to be changing its ways after leaks
I thought it was called the "Start screen"[0]. I cared more about booting straight to the desktop than the loss of the start menu.

[0] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/start-screen
There are a lot of ruderless - granted smart - young people out there who were essentially abandoned to the education system by their parents. If you don't have any plausible goal in mind when you go to university, is it really surprising that you end up nowhere after university? All the education in the world won't help you if, at the end of the day, you just don't really want to do any particular job.
I like the start button, but don't care about the start menu.
Interesting how all of these folks are cool with someone taking photos of them and posting them to the internet, particularly since the site states that the party is illegal.
_NEWS_ to me ;)
I wonder what the performers/songrwriters think of the fact that I purchased (used) Aerosmith's Hits CD about five years ago for $3.00. I've probably listened (in various formats) to that CD about a hundred+ times in the last five years. There are 10 tracks, so, 1,000 plays for which everyone (Songwriters, Publishers, Performers, Distributes) - all received $0.00.

Multiply that by 1,000 Aerosmith fan's who bough a used CD, and you have 1 Million plays that generate $0.00 for the music industry.

I wonder if the Music industry feels that they are being treated unfairly by the Used CD Marketplace? Or how they feel about people just purchasing $4-$5 CDs used (S&H included) off of Amazon - the combination of low cost + convenience.

Ironically - in the last year, I signed up for iTunes Match ($25/year), so in theory, every time I listen to this CD the various contributors are once again receiving revenue.
As someone who has ~20 kbps upload speed this news is very frustrating. :(
> there was a lot of marketing around the high Mhz of the Mac CPU compared with PCs

Em, no. At a time when Apple used PowerPC instead of Intel processors, Apple wanted to de-emphasize Megahertzes because the PowerPC chips had lower clock frequencies than the Intel chips of the day. Instead, Apple would advertise the PowerMac as being twice as fast as PC workstations, and it would speak of megaflops and ‘the first desktop supercomputer’. See also ‘The Megahertz Myth’[1].

So yes, Apple did compare the performance of their pro models (PowerMac, PowerBook) with PC counterparts, but they didn’t use clock frequency or memory speed to make their point.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth
Do you mean to imply you read all three, notably W&P entirely in three weeks? Good God man!
Wow, I never saw that video, but your analysis is spot-on.
It should still work like a normal folder, even if you're offline, no?
Even Al-Qaida is trying to discredit his move ?
And the organizers stated clearly that photography is expressly forbidden.

EDIT: ha, I missed that part, my eyes must of just skipped over it, figuring it to be more about not taking pictures.

I just like the idea of exploring the "old" abandoned places that are literally beneath our feet.
Yeah, I completely agree. It starts to get a bit confusing when you have a BackEndInCSharp that goes through a javaWebServer before reaching iOS. We tend to have a hard time being consistent once we get to iOS, but that's due also to the fact that we've just merged three different teams (each without a specific standard...)
In the comments section, the author explains that he shut down comments by others due to them exposing the location of the event. The responsible thing to do would be to take the blog post down. I'd be very surprised if he got an invite to the next event at this rate...
Many people do not know the level of surveillance, propaganda, and violence that is carried out on their behalf using their money. Even more people are not aware of the consequences that this has on their own lives- in a social and economic sense.
Likely, but we don't know for sure.
A company must live atop a mountain of stupidity to call a free upgrade a "service pack". It is really fun to watch Microsoft walk out of it's own echo chamber and create interesting things. It is an interesting time to be the software business.
It's very unlikely that the state wants to pursue a trespassing charge based on a poorly-lit photograph. "Do you have any physical evidence that this is my client?" "No." "I rest my case."
If you view Metro as a tablet OS, which many do, they are not monopoly.

How easy is it to match the iCloud experience on iPad?
On a second reading the author did include this footnote:

"In practice it's not clear if Apple devices encrypt to this key directly or if they engage in an OTR -like key exchange protocol. What is clear is that iMessage does not include a 'key fingerprint' or any means for users to verify key authenticity, which means fundamentally you have to trust Apple to guarantee the authenticity of your keys. Moreover iMessage allows you to send messages to offline users. It's not clear how this would work with OTR."

So I guess the need to send messages to offline users ruled out the use of OTR.
And it looks like it will be a massive annoyance for the user, kind of like how OS X now insists on showing me iCloud first every time I save a document, despite the fact that I have never stored any document in iCloud and have no intention of ever doing so.
The site seems to stop after having one of the language icons selected. There's a "Loading..." graphic, then it disappears, then nothing. Is anyone experiencing the same issue?
So where was this? The author claims it's in DUMBO, but I don't know of any abandoned subway stations there.
The photographers were professional hired photographers for the event. The author was asked to cover the event.
Is that really any worse than Google? At least with Windows, the Microsoft account is optional; you can't even create a local ChromeOS account without a Google account (which is a little bit more disturbing these days).
This is an amazing step forward for the Open Source community, good on you Valve, you've proven you're in it for the long run.
I'm not sure that the author entered college at 1983 given that he's 48 and 1983 is 30 years ago.

(only posting this comment because yours is good. This topic is, at this point, buried, but I figured I'd post anyway).
If you could BUY a download or certain number of plays of the song for a nickel or a few cents (one-click and without transaction costs making it impractical)...

Would you?

patent issued... demo built and tested... its called a pooled-user-determined account which forms the root for an internet wallet.

I'm a terrible entrepreneur but despite that the concept seems to be making progress... especially for its potential in lobbying.
Figure is flat but it is still skeumorphic. They are not opposites.
You definitely don't have to let it waste your bandwidth if you don't want to use it. You can:

a) Tell SkyDrive not to start on startup

b) Remove that folder from syncing

c) Tell SkyDrive not to sync on metered networks and set your home connection as a metered network

d) Save documents to a different folder

e) Uninstall SkyDrive
Windows 5.1 was "Windows XP"

It only came out a year or so after Windows 2K, which was 5.0 technically.
Lemonad: Functional JavaScript Library
Dojo and jquery use tabs. Nodejs and Google Closure use 2 spaces

@see
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.js
https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/src/node.js
https://code.google.com/p/closure-library/source/browse/clos...
Do you still work for CloudFlare? (your website seems to hint that you've moved on) They have ripped lots of stuff off.
The organizers stated clearly "There will be professional photographers whose images will be available afterward."
A website that, given a set of parameters and a requirements document, will generate another website.
Poky - Postgres+Clojure key-value store
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Yes, I've run into issues with things running differently in an async environment (dev) and a sync environment (prod). To mitigate the issue I now throw events at key points in initialization and wait for those events to continue. Has solved my problem so far.

Using r.js in development isn't the worst idea. It's worth seeing how long it takes in order to make that decision. Compiling tpls is much faster (grunt-contrib-jst) and adding that to your grunt watch & including it directly is a good way to save time. I think it takes a long time on my end due to the complexity of the dependencies. I only include exactly what each module needs so some dependencies may be as many as 6 levels deep, or more (haven't really checked).

SPDY makes a big difference for me (big enough to ignore the problem for now) and I don't mind using a self-signed cert in dev.

EDIT: I hadn't been compiling tpls using JST in dev until I wrote this post - a great side effect is, it actually shows me now where the errors in my tpls are! Previously any tpl's stack terminated at the code that ajaxed in the tpl. This is far better for debugging and brought my DOMReady time down to about 1.75s.
Google has contributed numerous great things to the Internet / Web / computing technology of the last 15 years, but among all of that, Google Maps might just be my favorite. It's a great product and they keep improving it / investing into it, and I'm not aware that it generates much revenue (it seems to be the grocery store version of milk). Most companies slack big time once they're out in front, Google doesn't seem to be doing that (granted they're being chased by a lot of good competition).
The plot of the TV show 24 is a bit more plausible.
Sounds like Facebook.
Wow the comment on the actual article with the screenshot of the ad banners gave me a good laugh
Potluck - social link sharing app from the creators of Branch
Did I read wrong, or was he not invited to cover the event?
The point is that this "professional" photographer doesn't seem to be acting as professional as this kind of event calls for.
I think it was less about getting caught and more about keeping the place secret so it doesn't get trashed and so that he can keep doing events like this in the future.
Not just me:

https://twitter.com/Vryohpah/status/349126411845517312

Actually, opening this very tweet shows me squares instead of characters in some places. (It migh be "my fault" since I installed something called Infinality to improve font rendering. Oh well.)
India Overtakes Japan to Become 3rd Largest Smartphone Market
Reminds me of this a little while ago:

http://micros.swindon-college.ac.uk/sites/micros.swindon-col...
I give it four hours until someone decides they aren't satisfied and starts bitching that it wasn't released under the GPL
Are you really sure those are the same people? I'm guessing not.
> It's the kind of thing that used to get them in a lot of trouble.

Given how few consequences past infractions have had, I doubt Microsoft worries about that. It has made a lot of money breaking laws but no-one was ever sent to jail and the company got to keep most of the spoils.
This exact same situation happened to me in the past month. My login page and its assets were copied, right down to the Rails asset digest fingerprints in the filenames as well as the Google Analytics code, which is how I discovered them.

I sent a sternly worded "Notice of Copyright Infringement" email and two weeks later their whole site was completely redesigned.
Might I also humbly suggest what I believe to be The Best History Book: "Dreadnought", by the Pulitzer-prize-winning RKM. (It's way more interesting than the book that RKM won the Pulitzer for).

It'll probably cost you next to nothing on Amazon Used Books, and if it's the sort of book you don't like you'll probably know after a chapter.

But I promise I wouldn't waste your time. It's about the runup to the first World War, and it's chock-full of amazing digressions and vivid characters. It's absolutely captivating, and for years you'll be able to open it completely at random and be surprised.

"Dreadnought" is the book that made me track down "Grey of Fallodon" and "Dorothy Grey", and read "Castles of Steel," and read every single one of Churchill's books about the world wars, and his (now public-domain) book "From London to Ladysmith by Way of Pretoria."

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Alternatively, if you don't want a grand, sprawling epic with a cast of hundreds, please consider "Storm of Steel", by Ernst Junger, the Best First-Person Account of the First World War -- a good english translation has only been available quite recently, 2000 or 2004 if I recall correctly.
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I'm pretty sure this is their previously released SDK (though a new release for 2013) which is already available through Steam. What's new here is that they've put it up on GitHub.
Your sentence is made up of letters and symbols that are used in hundreds (thousands, millions) of books and writings around the world. How dare you copy them. Come up with your own alphabet.

(My point: It's not the individual elements that matter. It's the unique combination. Infinum may not be exactly trend-setting, but unless you can find a site constructed with the exact same combination of design details, I say that Infinum is nowhere near as guilty when it comes to copying.)
Ask HN: Is there a Yipit for Freelance Job Sites?
I havent ben able to find an aggregator of daily freelance job listings.

Sites would include
odesk
guru
freelancer
craigslist
etc

Know of any?
I kept hearing about how Bitcoin was so often used for "money laundering" and illegal activities. Are these sites what all the fuss is about?
True, you would have to write or use a Python extension written in C or C++.
It matters because in one scenario Apple itself can't get to them - it can only restore them to your phone where they are decrypted using your password.
Delete My Account (Facebook)
Should've gone Vadio.com / Terrestrial. Exposure + better pay per spin/play.
This website itself is not designed so well. The fixed top bar is super annoying and wastes space. (Yes, I know it's also a modern design trend. It's a terrible one.) Their site is too wide somewhere, and forces an unnecessary horizontal scroll bar on my browser. Their logo/header is pretty cool, but the rest of the site is pretty generic.
The founders have a post on Medium with more details: https://medium.com/p/6c2600e7bc38
MapBox announcement seems to be not more than a couple of months old. If you think that someone can take inspiration, get data, process, QA test and launch such a feature in such a short duration, you should be impressed anyway.

Google Earth had 3D for a long time. Vector maps is again a huge undertaking and takes time to get right. Some companies didn't take their time, some did.
Snapchat is the social media spring, clothing optional
I must need coffee. Just spent an inordinate amount of time wondering why anyone would want an image of the photographer.
I wouldn't know since I don't have Steam
Not really - I don't see any 'well developed' analysis of either side. For example, I see claims that vast amounts of US IP have been stolen by Chinese corporations through hacking. Is this true, and if so, do we really think that US corporations are stealing vast amounts of IP from the Chinese? We really know almost nothing about the nature, extent, or balance of these activities other than that both sides are engaging in them.
At this stage, Microsoft isn't a whole lot more powerful than Google or Apple, and all three of them are doing the same things. If anything, Microsoft is last to the party.
Some bugs are incredibly complex, however I do not think that exposing the user id in an HTML form and having a skeleton key style confirmation code that is not directly linked to a specific user is a complex bug. I agree that you can't just pay some large sum of money to have everything fixed before release: bugs happen. But security should be one of the number one priorities when designing and developing a new feature. This seems like little more than negligence on the part of the dev team and I think it is right that people are upset/bewildered that a security bug like this could be put into a production feature.
Serious question: Has anyone ever written a "let your husband change the goddamn world!"-type book. Cause my wife is my barrier. Sure, I'll eat junk food, sit at the PC all day, sleep on the couch. But then half of the PC and half of the couch won't be mine for much longer

"Masters of Doom" addresses this, I think, when it recounts how John Carmack stole an Apple II.

A master will always find a way. But his/her priorities may not always be shared or respected.
This is usually the point where someone comes and says:

a) Install a FOSS OS instead

At what point, I wonder, does that cease to be a snarky response? We are now apparently at the point where you have to jump through hoops to save your own files on your own computer.

It's not Windows 8.1 that's bothering me so much as projecting what this path looks like in Windows 10.
Have a look at the lines starting at line 821 in the very file you referenced. I have quoted a bit of it here:

"Computed GOTOs, or the-optimization-commonly-but-improperly-known-as-"threaded code" using gcc's labels-as-values extension (...) At the time of this writing, the "threaded code" version is up to 15-20% faster than the normal "switch" version, depending on the compiler and the CPU architecture."

They also have an explanation of the branch prediction effect which I mentioned earlier.

They have both methods (switch and computed goto) since some compilers don't support computed gotos, and some people want to use alternative compilers (e.g. Microsoft VC).

In my own interpreter, I tried both switch and computed gotos, as well as another method called "replicated switch". I auto-generate the interpreter source code (using a simple script) so that I could change methods easily for comparison. In my own testing, computed gotos were about 50% faster than a simple switch, but keep in mind that is strictly doing numerical type code. More complex operations would water that down somewhat, as less of the execution time would be due to dispatch overhead.

Computed gotos aren't really any more complex than a switch once you understand the format, and as I said above you can convert between the two with a simple script. What does get complex is doing Python level static or run time code optimization to try to predict types or remove redundant operations from loops. CPython doesn't do that, while Pypy does this extensively. It's these types of compiler and run-time re-compile optimizations which make the big difference.

Overall, my interpreter is currently about 5.5 times faster than CPython with the specific simple benchmark program I tested. However, keep in mind it only does (and only ever will do) a narrow subset of the full Python language. Performance is never the result of a single technique. It's the result of many small improvements each of which address a specific problem.
Be aware that this blog post only tells part of the story. See the discussion and linked blog post a couple days later.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5947584
They'll only get rapped on the knuckles if they succeed in conquering another space using that leverage. Regulators mostly won't care so long as all it accomplishes is Bing having 17% market share (or similar), and Windows Phone having 5% market share. Skype might be an interesting case, but I suspect the Feds appreciate it having a mass installed base (and that already existed before the acquisition).
That might be true for a few very talented and motivated people, but not for the majority. I would take a person with a theoretical computer science degree over a self-taught programmer any day, unless the self-taught one is clearly one of those insanely talented people.
what should they use instead?
Love the propaganda.
The labels would outlaw used CD sales if they could. I know in a couple of states, efforts have been made:

http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2007/05/used_cd_sales_l/
The color schemes are actually quite similar.

Where Infinum uses #333, Kintek uses #313131. Where Infinum uses rgb(34, 34, 34), Kintek converts it to hex and uses #222222. The only major difference I can find is the highlight color, which is obvious. (red vs. blue)
So they should show symbols of Pagan symbols of renewal?