skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did the same a few months ago with one of our products. No one complained yet so I guess people seem to accept it.

Though we left the old version in the app store (with a warning in the description for new would-be customers) so people can re-download their old version.
While overall I agree that Microsoft is really missing the mark when it comes to creating products people want, I disagree on the premise.

The goal of a company is to profit from products that sell. It doesn't necessarily mean they're building for what customers currently demand, but knowing what customers will demand.

The canonical example is Apple. If you listen to tech reviewers, Apple never makes the product that people "want". Yet they continue to lead profits in almost every product category they market.
Those neighborhoods are so far away[1] from job centers (FiDi, SoMa) and so effectively suburban that they are on par with living in suburbs (Daly City, South SF, etc.) in many people's minds.

[1] Not just distance. Thanks to the lack of freeways/BART, travel times to downtown are on par with being as south as Millbrae.
I don't always backup an entire system with 'dd', but when I do:

dd if=/dev/da0 | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=backup.dd"

or maybe:

pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"
Mario + NodeJS
The Distraction Chair and Other Habit Fields
No, traffic is not traffic in advertising. If you have a popular blog on home improvements, advice on mortgages or home purchases, the price you get for advertising is going to be orders of magnitude higher than advertising on random lolcat blogs, which in turn is going to be significantly higher than ads on porn blogs.
The page reads maintenance. But it is a service interruption, wether planned or not, it is also an outage.
Awesome, I will try it out. I'm using a private Facebook account + Timeline to achieve the same, but it's a total pain to maintain multiple Facebook accounts.
The market seems to be voluntarily making a massive hole for an adult-content-friendly blogging platform to fill

There is so much euphemism in that sentence when referencing porn that it's almost palpable.

That said, I agree. Doesn't everything on the internet start with porn?
As the update to the article makes clear, that's wrong. Switching safe-mode off shows both NSFW and adult content.
> every human who has ever lived

How is that, exactly? Doesn't the picture only contain the light captured at that moment?
I am unsure how to clarify, but I will try. I have been an embedded C developer for the past 7 years. And have gotten some interviews with Amazon, Qualcomm and other companies and the lack of C++ experience seems to be a big deal. I am full confident that I can learn it. It is just a matter of exposure.
I was skeptical of contract-to-hire situations until I did one myself. I got a significant increase my salary in the contract phase (even including what I paid for benefits) and got an increase on top of that at the time of hire (not counting benefits).

I was toward the top end of what I could make being traditionally employed locally (Helena, Montana). The remote contract-to-hire opportunity put me on par with folks living in cities, save places like NY and SF, or those working for huge companies.

Definitely a good deal for some of us that don't have professional networks that would support consulting. And whatever you might think, I'm not a coaster or I wouldn't have been offered full-time employment.
I read and loved Mindstorms. Thanks for the recommendation. Would love to hear what your child thinks of Isla.
Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph [pdf]
I'm not sure you read my post the way it was intended. I wasn't in need of a TL;DR.

My whole point (though admittedly tangential to the issue at hand which I already indicated I find plausible) is that it doesn't look to me like the mentioned critical acclaim could have come from nowhere - if the book doesn't sell at least a few copies it seems unlikely it would be reviewed at all, much less by prestigious critics.
Poverty is what’s crippling public education in the US—not bad teachers
What were your issues with fastmail?
Can this be used for node.js development? If so, any example projects out there?
One of Microsofts flagship products is Microsoft Office. It's a great suite of software, it's ubiquitous, people are familiar with it, etc.

But the selling point of it is that it's familiar. When we recently starting transitioning to google apps at my office, people damn near rioted.

It wasn't that MS Office offered something that GA didn't, it was that they were scared that they wouldn't know how to work the new interface.

So...think about that, Microsoft. People aren't holding on to your product because it is the best, people are hanging on to your product because it is the most familiar.

I think that time will erode that.
They need more work but I use browser REPL or Bodil Stokke's Node REPL http://github.com/bodil/cljs-noderepl if I need to do an intensive session of interactive coding without refreshing or waiting for recompiles. I contribute a bit to core.async now and it's definitely a goal to make sure that core.async works transparently whether you're coding against the browser or Node.
Your dumb.
I see no evidence to the contrary

Which would be proving a negative. Charitability has nothing to do with an effective argument, which depends on actual words engaging the actual subject at hand. If you have to clarify by saying "I was only talking about some people," it wasn't an effective argument, because you left out the entire scope of the subject you're describing.
These kind of posts are useless at most. Lets say 2 months from now FastMail is doing 90% of the things the author didn't like. What then? Switch to yahoo and then do another post why I switched to Yahoo?
For those interested in this subject, I highly recommend "The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation":

http://www.amazon.com/The-Apollo-Guidance-Computer-Architect...

John Pultorak built a Block I AGC (think "version 1") and provides all of his work in the Public Domain here:

http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/
Ten years ago Microsoft was just getting into the video game business, now they essentially own it

I almost fell out of my chair when I read that. The xbox180 will surely turn customers around ;)
> this is harder to read than the callback approach right now

Why do you think this is (I'm asking honestly, not trying to be snarky). Is it because you are not familiar with reading Lisp? The notation used to access channels is confusing? Unfamiliarity with the go-block concept?

It took me a while to fully internalize the combination of syntax and power of go blocks, but now that I have reading core.async code (I have not yet had a need to actually use them, and no time to port an existing codebase) is much easier.

I question whether the statement that callbacks are easier to read and understand is merely due to being accustomed to them. Core.async represents a radical departure from existing designs, and that can be jarring. Does this mean better syntactic sugar won't be created as developers gain experience? Or course not.
If we're talking about the same incident, the owner was handcuffed, and watched helplessly as things unfolded.
I suggest keeping an eye on the Atom-based Windows 8 tablets. These tablets run full Windows 8, with the ability to run Win32 apps, not just Windows RT. I haven't tried to run Visual Studio on such a tablet yet, but it seems feasible.
Google Glass has new rival in GlassUp smart specs
Not to disparage the idea but this can be expensive to set up and time consuming to use. Also, it can take a while to get the process down and/or have someone who can properly interpret what the user is actually doing.

I have found that in early stages of a startup that one or more subject-matter experts who are hopefully involved with the space can give much more direct feedback in the early stages.
It's not naive at all. There are a plethora of situations/reasons where one may want or need a block level image backup.
@schrodingersCat, well, to answer this, may I first ask you, can you use Firefox alone without an external code editor or text editor? LIVEditor integrates the code editor and the web-kit based browser together to make writing webpages easier.
That $1B nummer includes software sales to Amazon, Rackspace etc so it's not really comparable to Amazon (which also lumps AWS together with other stuff).

Generally though I find it interesting that there is almost no mention of it either here on HN or other places. When AWS has an outage, everyone notice because lots of high profile sites and services go down. Azure has had a few outages and we've barely heard about it.

I think the difference now in the new markets is that Microsoft has talented competitors, including Google which has copied the strategy you mention with the twist if giving their software away for free.
WiFi is no good outside one's house anyway. Every store/public-place sets up their WiFi to require you to agree to a terms of service, which is an annoyance. Best to just turn it off anyway; 3/4G always works. Why bother with intermittent WiFi that some companies are still trying to charge you for?
How about this one ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8pyzOkTiAU
Just kidding.
They clearly think they own the market too despite the fierce competition from Sony and Nintendo, because the Xbox platform is now clearly about benefiting themselves and rather than selling a product to their customers. Hence the emphasis on things like digital sales with heavy DRM (although now that's gone, its an important point that they completely thought they would get away with that), Television, Kinect, Excessive amounts of Advertising, etc.

What's sad is how at E3 the best thing for a lot of the gamers was how they weren't going to get screwed by heavy DRM from Sony.
Did you need to do anything special? Keeps timing out when I try to use it.
They could always do the IBM. Retrench, sell to corporate, cut costs. Apparently very profitable.
I have my GitHub profile, but it doesn't have much on it except a few random open sourced projects and some random open source contributions. A lot of other work is for past/current employers which I can't exactly show off easily.
I disabled it on the web client and those labels do not appear on the Android app for me.
Commonwealth English. God you are dumb.
That's the plan - as you can see here https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/c... we pick the fastest mechanism available for scheduling tasks depending on the environment. So that's MessageChannel for modern browsers, setImmediate for Node & IE 10, and setTimeout for everyone else.
I don't see how I could explicitly support "The H!" that way. How does Heise know that the customer wants to support "The H!" with that (and not, C't, iX or Heise Online)?

Even if they don't have the right people in their team to run a donation/whatever campaign, they shouldn't have trouble finding those directly among their readers.
what i'm saying is my actual real life experience contradicts pretty much everything you're stating.

your position is falsifiable by a single example. it's not reality. it's just your opinion. you're saying "that's impossible", when it clearly is NOT impossible.
I'm grasping at straws here, but maybe it was a security breach?
Not really. Win32 API existed on MIPS machines back when Windows NT was ported over to MIPS. I'm not asking for x86 compatibility, I'm just asking for a way for Chrome / Firefox to be cross-compiled onto the SurfaceRT.

Win32 API is the only real reason why people use Windows. Take that away, and you've got... well... SurfaceRT.
There is no longer a free tier for FastMail.

As I mention in my post, Google Apps is a lot of overhead for just email. There are additional complexities with switching from gmail to google apps because of the integration with all other google services.

If someone was interested in switching from gmail to a paid service, I would argue that FastMail may be a better choice than Google Apps.
C'mon Cory, you know us better than that :)

We're still experimenting with the pricing signup flow, if it makes a large percentage of people feel there's no free plan then we'll change it (it's easy enough to do in Divshot anyway)
Society is full of positive (self-enforcing, runaway) feedback loops. It is not self-stabilizing. It tends to flip-flop between extremes. This applies to pretty much any field. It's the strongest argument against laissez-faire economics, yet it's amazing how many people are blind to it (well, that's exactly part of the mechanism that enables the aforementioned feedback loops).
> Ten years ago Azure didn't exist, now it's a $1bn/year business and a credible threat to AWS

"Credible threat to AWS"? That billion dollar figure includes all Microsoft cloud revenue, including revenue Microsoft earns from AWS: http://gigaom.com/2013/04/29/say-what-microsoft-azures-a-1-b...
I think you missed the point of the above comment. The point was that you wouldn't expect significant critics to have reviewed a book by a no-name author and no marketing effort. So either it wasn't critically acclaimed, it had some marketing effort (the above poster's view), or just got really lucky and caught the eyes of some reviewers.
i want a search for porn tumblr sites only please! you guys can have the rest :)
I think the best way would be really tiny drones that can pass for insects. Then we will be able to observe them without disturbing them.
Why give up so easily? Put up some donation links and monetize it that way if so many people here love it.
We've added a "fill in the blank" contribution option to the form.
"Stay thirsty, my friends."
Wow. A lot of discussion from a single tweet. Do we have all the information?

It's very likely a test. Google does a lot of testing that ultimately is not publicly released.
> ...some courts in the SF area to make you pay the ticket before you can contest it (read this somewhere, not sure 100% on truthfulness of it)

Yea, that's false.
Can you give some sources? Last time I checked PS had a bigger market share than Xbox.
If I am only paying for courses that I have passed and truly learned what goes into the degree--- perhapse.
Only pay when the MS gets paid. This discourages "worthless degrees but might stop caligraphy courses and their unintended benefits.

(A similar model for medicine would be great. Pay to stay healthy charge back when you are sick. It becomes cost effective to produce cures and vaccine which prevent outbreaks. Distribute the care costs. ..)
I have a guess at the perpetrators: http://nonchalance.com/
Is there a way to follow somebody without visiting the subdomain?
> Stephanie Meyer can do this as well, and critics have said she's not a very good writer at all

Not just critics. :)
FWIW, I'm playing blu-ray stuff just fine on Gentoo Linux using VLC, with booming HDMI sound.
Actually, I think most of the stuff I've seen is amateur porn, either posted by its creator or reposted by others. You might be underestimating just how much genuinely amateur porn is out there these days.
Got to agree here, despite all its talk, it seems this leopard has not changed its spots.
House of Lords debates pardon for Alan Turing
I wasn't aware of that. I actually ran into federation issues a few months ago, but maybe it has been fixed since then.

My understanding is that upgrading to Hangouts still disables the old XMPP support.
It sounds like you and I mostly agree that desktops should leverage immersion. You make a very good point that a quality workspace is a key part of the puzzle.

I personally would prefer a large, high-density monitor. I like that peers and family can still interact with the same output that I am. But I also find a wearable display to be interesting.

As I hinted at earlier, Leap Motion would go extremely well with a large, high-density monitor. I'd love that level of immersion. It's getting closer to Minority Report / Avatar. I especially find the Avatar-like UI model very appealing. For us to get there, we'd also need an application/UI model that I call PAO (which is separate rant).

Finally, I totally agree that the UI libraries need an injection of new thinking.
Biggest Virus Yet Found, May Be Fourth Domain of Life?
Great post; I'd love to try the service but I have over 10 Gigs of content in my current Gmail and can't really justify spending an extra $119.95 a year extra on email. This makes me wish I could though.
And here's an example of how it applies to the software world -

You find a piece of software that does what you need. You check the feature spec, the price, the About page and then you hit Support Forums only to see a dozen of threads, latest being from two weeks ago. And then you leave, because who wants a stale piece of software that nobody wants.

The take away is to hide any sort of activity/sales indicators from the website until you get proper traction and hit the critical mass. Low numbers make more damage than they do good.
Cohort Analysis: Data Sourcing With SQL
Introducing Smart Collections - Make Meteor faster and better
Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi
Right in the middle or renewing the our account. I need to activate the new license and, since I can't, people can't download our app from the store. Talking about fail...
Bootstrap's tabs to collapse for mobile
It's arguably point #1 that's killing the PC market. $300 isn't much money to work with, and there's a huge difference between a $500 computer and a $300 one. At the lower price-point, you're getting bargain-bin everything, every corner cut.
Although Facebook were looking to buy Opera last year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/facebook-opera_n_15...
You can use ActiveSync with Rackspace Email: http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/mobile-phone/
Relevant video content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc
Yeah I had a flatmate who was a complete Apple fanatic and would torrent beta-versions of all their software, so he always had the cutting edge revision of OSX and iOS, even though he was not very technically inclined. He just liked having the newest and latest.
I think this rhymes with the article. Basically you're trying to jumpstart as many self-enforcing (positive, or runaway) feedback loops as you can, taking a shotgun approach, and hoping that one of them would catch.
We all die.
Payments are way, way, way harder than blogs. Payments have consequences.
In my 15+ years experience, I've found 1-on-1 conversations at a shared table (sometimes even at a coffeeshop over coffee) to be provide just as actionable and informative feedback as those of a lab environment. Add in the dramatically lower price tag and the honesty of a human-to-human conversation and I head to the coffeeshop everytime. I do believe there are one or two scenarios where the lab is preferred. I try to steer away from those projects.
Adult content is said to be a particular issue for payment processors because of the reportedly-high chargeback rate. People get caught when their spouses see their credit card bill and make a big show out of claiming their charges were fraudulent.

With traditional paper magazines it wasn't such a problem; there was less plausible deniability due to the fact that they showed up in the mail addressed to you. But now it's apparently too easy to claim you didn't order whatever it was you ordered.
Mozilla's Firefox OS phone might sell because it's cheap, not because it's open
Well done, Mr. Peschka et al.
I think looking back at computer clock rates and memory is a silly endeavor. I remember a few months ago people commenting about "why we put a 2Mpx camera on the Curiosity Rover". The simple fact is, mission critical hardware/software is a different ball-game. You need reliability and fault tolerance.

If I was going to the moon today and had the choice of flight computers. Hands down, I would choose the Apollo 11 AGC over an iPhone A6 processor based system.
There was even an impressive security vulnerability shared between Windows and WINE [1]! The bug was a particularly nasty failure of the file specification and allowed you to jump to and start executing an arbitrary memory adress by design.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
She's the USB3 maintainer, and as far as I know, there's nothing wrong with her code; Linus never even directed any vitriol at her.
I was wondering the same thing. And, I'm curious to how they sensed the tsunami coming and were able to escape to higher ground in time.
What? Some kind of cognitive dissonance here, maybe. People do not queue up around the block waiting for hours on launch day for something they do not want. People very much want exactly what Apple is making. They build exactly what people want.

If you want an example of something that people do not want, would never queue up for, and should not have been made? Metro.

In regards to the comment above on Metro fitting well on Xbox? Not a chance - Metro is terrible and confusing to use on Xbox, and the adverts make it even worse. If the xbox had launched with Metro as standard, it would have gotten very negative launch reviews.
In defense of weapons carry on college campuses
Haha, that's not the only place they are. I've seen them on the east coast too. I can't remember the exact highway, but I'm pretty sure it was in North Carolina.

I thought they were legit at the time, and it sparked a pretty interesting conversation about privacy.
I've been putting together a similar list for graduate students of computer science focusing in distributed systems:

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07...

Edited to add HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6036183
This would be trading one set of problems for another.

I routinely drive around 80 mph (15 over the speed limit) on the freeway here in San Diego, just like virtually everyone else (when there isn't traffic). Cops here don't even blink when it comes to this sort of speed on the freeways. But drones would, presumably, issue tickets at any technical infraction regardless of the "situation on the ground".

To be honest, I'm not sure which situation I'd dislike worse, the occasionally arbitrary power-tripping cop or the completely clinical and technical rule following of the drone, both are pretty bad, IMO.
The technology was there, several years before the iPad I had a PC with a capacitive touchscreen.

What Microsoft lacked was the insight to realize that just cramming a touchscreen and stylus on Windows XP wouldn't work.

Apple, perhaps with the hindsight of the Newton, realized that creating a completely new GUI optimized for finger touch was the way to go (or rather their experiments stemming from multi-touch trackpads showed them that it was _a_ way to go).
Fire as many "pellets" at this "bird" as you can. One bird alone is hard to shoot, but blasting away hundreds of little projectiles with a big shotgun increases the chance tremendously.

In other words, be relentless. Self-advertise, stay on top of things, keep pushing ahead.
And look at that, it has been flagged and pulled from the homepage.
Embedded JSON Database Engine Google Go binding available
The simpler explanation is that the cluster running all developer-related sites is down. It doesn't always have to be a conspiracy.
How powerful was Shakespeare's word processor?
> A job explicitly labeled "contract to hire" is never done right

i don't understand how you and the other guy can make these blanket black and white statements like this. have you guys ever had to hire people based on advertised solicitation only?

contract to hire is mainly done in situations where a new employee can not be vouched for by an existing one, or a large number of new employees must be brought on at once.

the reason why it's so rare among elite silicon valley firms is because everyone knows each other and recruiting is usually a personal process between existing employees and prospective ones. THIS IS NOT HOW IT IS EVERYWHERE.

outside of the echo chamber it's very common and good people can be hired this way.