skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's written by a author who has very little clue that Microsoft's primary customers are large enterprises, and not the "average consumer".

"Users have embraced the productivity of simple and mobile… And there’s no going back!" - Does this even make sense? I work for a large bank with around 50,000 employees - and it is absolutely essential that we are provided with an operating system which is familiar, supported, stable and able to run the thousands of applications already being used internally. The company will never ever - at least in the next 50 to 100 years - switch from Windows simply because it does not make any business sense to do so and will come at an immense cost to shareholders.

And let me add that I use a Windows 8 mobile, and it is one of the finest mobile operating system I have ever used. Apps run in 512MB RAM as smoothly as my wife's Android Sony Xperia which is almost four times as costly (and four times or more as powerful). I have never been satisfied more with an OS.
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Opuss, once voted "App of the Week" by iTunes is a ready made community of published and unpublished writers is up for auction on Flippa. https://flippa.com/2965077
"Very much agree that Caps Lock should be diminished in importance.... Many of my colleagues and I simply disable the key outright."

Augh! Don't do that! Remap it to something useful! CTRL is popular, but I'm loving backspace, personally. It's a key that never comes up if you just count keys based on taking text file samples, but I for one like having it available where it does not rip my fingers off the home row. (Since I use Dvorak, the home row is actually meaningful to me, since it is useful, unlike the standard QWERTY homerow.) But I don't really care what you remap it to, just don't leave such valuable space sitting there!

Backspace (the original one) I remapped to switch active windows. I've really been eyeing that Tab key, too; it is not unused (many emacs programming modes use it as "reindent this line to the proper level"), but I've wondered if it couldn't be a bit more effective. Not sure what to reassign it to yet, though.
There is no "root access" implied in this article. Read about RBAC to understand this.
Umm, the holomodor was under Stalin in the early thirties, everyone alive then is dead now. edit - well, everyone who was old enough to be involved in the politics, anyway.

Also, it is illegal in France to deny the communist mass atrocities, just as it is illegal to deny the nazi ones.

What are you talking about?
Looks awesome. Is it possible to list explanations in the same order as they are in the command line? For example, options for "tar xzv" are listed in the "v, z, x" reverse order.
It's not just PHP, if you're stuck in Rails 2 (let alone somehow Rails1?! ) you're going to have similar problems.

It is a problem -- I have apps that i only barely got upgraded from rails 2 to 3 before 4 came out. Hopefully upgrading to 4 won't be as much of a nightmare... but I'm still procrastinating it, even though I know if I wait too long to do it it will just get worse.
This. I still do not understand why the OSX terminal is so damned slow.
Except that is the whole primary thesis of his book, and it is based on trivially falsified premises.

(At the time ordinary people had probably no real conception of the general order of the universe, being uneducated illiterate peasants. The educated at the time mostly viewed the Earth as sperical, because of the ancient Greek philosopher/scientists, and the Earth as the center of the Pysical Universe, again because of the ancient Greek philosopher/scientists.)
I hate to throw cold water on an otherwise appealing idea, but this would make absolutely no business sense for Microsoft. Windows is Microsoft's core business. In fact, if anything, Ballmer's tenure was successful if only because of the fact that he grew Windows and Office profits by such a huge amount. If they start giving Windows away for free(which they would have to do in order to open source it, or give it away for free with support contracts) they would lose tens of billions of dollars in revenue immediately. Which would be tantamount to just saying 'Fuck it' and going home.

I love open source, and there are times when it does make financial sense for a business to open source something, but this is not one of those times.

The reason Google gets away with giving away Android for free is because it gives them a channel to promote their search business. The search bar on Android and Chrome, which always has and will always use Google by default, cultivates their core business, Google search. What third product beyond Windows and Office does giving away Windows for free serve? There is none.
I have an HHK Pro 2. The Topre keys are great, but they are considerably different than the Cherry MX keys that most mechanical keyboards use (and they're more expensive). The layout is absolutely fantastic. It led me to remap the control key to the capslock key on all of my laptops as well. If anyone is looking to buy an HHK, I would highly recommend buying it from amazon jp to avoid the high markup. Even if you use a third party shipper (like Tenso), you'll still save over the prices that elitekeyboards charges.
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More on PS/2 vs USB speeds: http://superuser.com/questions/16893/do-usb-or-ps-2-keyboard...
Wow! This is a genuinely new and very useful idea! Congrats
Have you asked a representative sample of writers whether they write this way, and would like to use your site to write this way? Outside of business, collaborative writing seems to be pretty minimal (I say this as a novelist)...

Also, if there could be some cross-compatibility with MS Word's Track Changes (I know, I can dream...) that would be great.
When your reaction is "bravo for the daily mail", that's your clue that you've missed something. The full quote is

"I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that information could be made available to the authorities."

He was trying to have that conversation years before Snowden's leaks, and look at the reward he got: people claiming he hates privacy even though he's giving you exact information on how google cannot be your confidant when the US government is involved, and to look elsewhere if you need that.

Not many CEOs are that frank, but look what happened. Gawker quoted only that single sentence out of that whole paragraph, and everyone (even the EFF[1]) quoted Gawker, so as far as someone reading those stories would know, that's all he said. With that kind of coverage (and "advocacy" groups like Consumer Watchdog egging it on), we should know exactly why more CEOs don't speak that frankly, and why all we get is corporate non-speak instead.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...
I think you just disregarded my entire argument using a cultural taboo. Nice work.

See? I can play at that game too. The problem is, doing that doesn't get anywhere, because I'm still convinced of my point, and you're still convinced of yours, and there's no dialectic to compromise our ideas.
As a practical matter this would most likely be a total non-starter - losing all that licensing revenue in one fell swoop would probably not be palatable to shareholders.

As a thought experiment, however, it is plenty enticing.

Vulnerabilities would be easier to find (at least at the outset), but with such a huge and slow-moving install base would probably be more serious.

I would imagine "translation" projects such as WINE and Mono would either massively accelerate development, or drastically drop off depending on how many *nix users would move to the new platform.
Print Screen is the Magic SysReq Key [1] on keyboards without an actual SysReq key, for *nix systems at least. Maybe the author has only ever programmed on Windows machines, but he's not describing any kind of Coder's keyboard I'd ever use.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisub
Most major providers support opportunistic SSL for server-to-server SMTP connections, and nearly all providers require SSL from the client (either HTTPS or SMTPS/IMAPS). In that case, would that show an expectation of privacy that would allow 4th amendment protection for email contents in-transit?
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Bah, those two are firmly in 8859-1 territory.
Yeah, I type 'properly' with every key belonging to a specific finger. I can only press a few keys belonging to my left index and middle finger while pressing shift, the others require an awkward hand position.
We edit research quality publications on Bitbucket. So Git already works for writers.
I'm familiar with similar workflows. Last week, I edited via a (private) Github repo with a scientist client who use Emacs/ org-mode/ ediff, authoring .org files, editing using Git staging to create change sets and inline \NB[]{} commands to annotate changes, and ediff/git-merge to step through and resolve changes.

Some observations:

1.Ediff is a nice tool to use for resolving Git conflicts;

2. Org mode works very well with this workflow, provided you use one paragraph per Unix line;

3. Latex generation can be very nice from org-mode sources, and the org-mode -> Latex exporter allows a nicer separation of content from presentation than you get with vanilla Latex.

I'd love to hear of anyone who has success with a similar, but vi-based workflow.
I use them everyday, to suggest the apple laptop keyboard is superior is blasphemous. It's an abomination before god.
As a developer myself, I can immediately see the excitement this would bring to the dev community. As a businessman as well, I can see how this will never happen. That's all I was implying.
As opposed to..?

Are you implying that someone who has wouldn't like it?
Well it doesn't have to be instant, but fast enough where you can't reset the animation before something significant changes.
Because you didn't believe Snowden or the NSA?
Nice. Goodreads data:
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My favourite is the Macintosh Quadra AV. After that they get droopy.
That's a good point. Caps lock is where I'd like to have Control. SOLD!
Am I missing something? What makes this "maximum-awesome"? This is your average vimrc with the regular plugins you seen in every vimrc over at GitHub.
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Agreed something like

explain tar xzvf archive.tar.gz

would be great.

Author: Do you have an API?
Sure, here [1]. First video, at 2:30. He keeps using "we" (I don't feel like transcribing the video). Now, if you parse the wording very, very carefully you could argue that Jobs never exactly says that 'he' designed it, but he keeps using 'we' - the computer was designed for them, 'we'worked on it for 6 months, etc. It's weasel words and phrases, and I have no doubt that every person in that room walked out thinking that Jobs co-designed the Apple I, and that Jobs thought up the idea. Whereas in reality Woz went to a homebrew meeting, came up with the idea, designed it, and then showed Jobs. Jobs came up with the idea of it being a kit, marketed it, and absolutely made Apple what it was. The third video, of Woz, explains that history.

And then how about this quote: "This whole vision of a personal computer just popped into my head. [In March 1975], I started to sketch out on paper what would later become known as the Apple I." [2]

[1] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jobs-ashton-kutcher-re...

[2] http://www.applegazette.com/steve-jobs/steve-jobs-quotes-the...
I get the same thing. On my machine it's 80% slower.

One solution is to use a string comparison. The high number is only 7% slower in that case.

http://jsperf.com/qsmflkjtest/2
>Have any of the NSA leaks told us anything we don't know? Haven't the majority of the leaks told our foreign enemies how to avoid being tracked more than anything?

Are the two mutually incompatible?

>The fact that they know that low level employees were spying on potential love interests means that they have a system in place to track such abuses.

The love interest thing wasn't part of a leak, was it? I thought they just voluntarily disclosed it, probably to distract from thoughts of domestic spying on e.g. politcal views, rather than petty tabloid personal stuff.
I use caps lock quite often, e.g. for constant variables or acronyms. Then again, I have to remember to turn it off or else my next few key strokes will make vim go crazy.
Me either. It's really the only thing stopping me from deleting MacVim.
Nice article! Very useful!
learnGitBranching is a fantastic resource that I didn't know about. Thanks!
It's a case of the NSA's administrative incompetence: there should be auditing in place.

This has been a buried lede since the beginning: under the Common Criteria, what EAL was supposed to be in place for his role?
I don't think you're being antagonistic towards PG, but I respect your not wanting to get into a heated debate. Nor do I.

I can see a reasonable case for you to say PG should add more clarification to his words when he's in an interview, but I also think PG has already done this. In at least two other places, Graham has publicly clarified what he meant by his comment about foreign accents. Perhaps if he had yet to do that and people were making a big fuss over his words, then I'd agree. But I think he's already done the due diligence.
No, because the e-mail providers see and store the message in plain text.
Of course, but unfortunately the Minitrue sometimes confuses Eastasia with Oceania.
Um, the Windows division of MSFT brought in $19.2B of their $78B in total revenue.

Even more important, Windows brings in almost half of their operating profit. I'm going off the 2010 10-K, Windows was ~$12B of operating profit, MSFT Business Division (i.e. Office) was about $14B of operating profit ... out of $27B of total operating profit.

As you would expect, the monopolies bring in the huge margins. The other stuff just earns a normal return on capital.
First, "as you appear to be." Where did that come from? Do you have any basis for that thought, or do you just enjoy typing angry words that sound good to you?

Second, the Hacker News article headline is, "Less guns = more violence." That is an absolute declaration of causation.

The linked article makes this assertion without any backing:

And enacting legislation without proper evidence supporting that it will have the desired effects can actually result in, as these studies show, the complete opposite.

The study does not show that. In fact:

we are not arguing that the data in Table 2 shows that gun control _causes_ nations to have much higher murder rates than neighboring nations that permit handgun ownership.

As close as they get in the report:

these [laws] do not reduce violence,

While the linked article claims that they increase violence.

TL;DR: The linked article makes false claims about what the report says, and the Hacker News article headline is just as bad or worse.
Author here, thanks for the feedback guys!

- adding support for shell syntax is definitely the next thing on my todo list. It's a bit tricky since Python's shlex (which I'm using to parse the command line) is fairly limited in functionality and pretty much only handles quotes. So I'll have to write a mini bash parser which isn't trivial.

- the automatic options extractor isn't perfect and requires manual corrections here and there

- add an API for command line tools

I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.
They are absolutely the same problem. Because we can't measure productivity, we can't determine relative quality in an objective way. If we could, it would make the hiring process much more simple.

The question I have is, how is this much different than any other profession? How do we measure doctor productivity? What keeps me up at night is that it is very likely that the 90/10 crap to good ratio in software developers is probably the same ratio as surgeons.
As a writer I'd be glad to use something like this. I'm working on a book with the founder of a non-profit in DC, and it involves a lot of sharing articles, trading thoughts, and sending documents. We've been using Honey.is which is nice for small businesses but just not as collaborative as we need it to be.
Agreed. Draft tackles versioning and editing in markdown very well. The incremental save feature makes all of this transparent to the writer.
Not only that, but isn't the NSA required to have a sufficient level of auditing to detect (or at least record) those accesses before the systems are even fired up?
And this is why I hate pg's policy of not showing vote scores next to a post. OP will never know how many of us upvoted your comment, thus he will likely ignore your comments because you are just @moron4hire. Without the context that comment scores provide, information like this is lost. If 500 people upvoted you, yet only 2 upvoted his comment, that would be an important signal/context IMO.
> You have a right to property but not a right to education.

I don't believe in "natural rights", nor do I believe concept has any real value. That said, you're misconstruing their argument.

Someone who believes in natural rights would say:

> You have a right to own property, but you aren't entitled to be given property. Similarly, you have the right to get an education, but you aren't entitled to be given an education.
Thanks! Nope, claiming is free. My monetization plan is charging for featured rankings on the home page and search results.

I need to build a larger consumer audience before I could justify charging for that though.
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I suppose I could have said "coherent and articulate" instead of "heavily accented" so you're right. But I think my point stands.
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My biggest issue with Draft is consistency in behavior. Personal anecdotes are frowned upon here, but for most of last week the ability to export files wasn't working at all for me. When I'm dealing with Markdown, this is the last thing I want to happen.

I much prefer a system that's geared to projects and not specific types of document too. For example, if this supported housing a collection of documents and an image or two - with changes able to be made on each file, it would be amazing. Google Docs I edit with others quickly tends to devolve into three different types of sharing/permissions issues, and I'm left frustrated or wondering why some people can access one thing or another.

There's definitely room to innovate here.
Forgive me if I'm missing something -- but how does open sourcing windows mean giving it away for free? They can still sell an open source OS, right?

If the argument is that it would be too easy to steal; well, it's already beyond trivial to pirate windows.
This is a good insight. Both problems relate to the ability to socially interact with other people, determine what they want, and then to technically produce product to satisfy the other people.
No he wasn't. Security is a "need to know". Just because you have a TS clearance for example doesn't mean you have access to all TS information out there. If you step over that then you get slapped down.
In 2003-ish, while I was getting my BS, the professor passed out some of those funny-smelling purple sheets. I hadn't seen them since probably second grade (mid-1980's). Apparently both the copiers were broken, but there was still an old mimeograph sitting in the corner, she tried it, and it still worked.
Okay, so given two candidates that are equally skilled, what's the middle ground between discriminating solely on the basis of markers correlating with success, and hiring people strictly according to the demographics of the world?
I've got a feeling it's something that many people have been doing on even mildly complex sites for a long time, but people seem to be trying to SaaS it up recently.

protip: Dynamically generating content by URLs is also a nice DOS attack surface if you don't rate limit in some way or try to detect abuse.
There's also traits.js, which in my view is too little known in the pro JS dev community:

http://soft.vub.ac.be/~tvcutsem/traitsjs/

https://github.com/Gozala/light-traits/
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> As a practical matter this would most likely be a total non-starter - losing all that licensing revenue in one fell swoop would probably not be palatable to shareholders.

Recasting licensing charges to large OEMs as "brand certification" charges that are required to use the Windows trademark, and incorporating support pricing schemes that encourage those who want to purchase support to also purchase certified Windows from Microsoft or with hardware from brand-certified OEMs is probably pretty straightforward, and probably preserves a big chunk of the licensing revenue.
Thanks! Ya, I definitely want to make the site more consumer focused. I get a lot of interest from the producer side but not as much from the consumer side.
Cool I also like it!

A couple of things that it should also support (or simply ignore):

- shell variables

- shell constructs (for, while, | & > ...)

- arguments followed by values without space (e.g. gcc -O3 -lmath ...)
> What we learned about Columbus, MLK, and all the founding fathers were stripped of everything controversial to create flawless heroes with views no PTA member would find offensive.

Svante Myrick makes this point pretty succinctly in this video [0]. He points out that all most people know about our history of slavery is "slavery, Abraham Lincoln, freedom". Or "blacks couldn't vote, MLK, blacks could vote". It's a ridiculously shallow comprehension of history.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ-55mJlisk
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It looks like the NSA is using RBAC in some form, but with a big gaping hole that Snowden just walked right through. Log in as a user and you get "Hotel California" security -- you cannot escape your role. Log in as an administrator and you are not confined to any role and can just walk all over everything.

Another possibility is that Snowden had the ability to create login credentials and just gave himself the ability to log in as another user.
Not SpaceX. United Launch (Boeing & Lockheed Martin).
I disagree, I was fully aware of the context, and your quote in italics.

Here are some more gems:

"We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about"

"Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever"

I think you are being too charitable to Schmidt and Google because in my view they are aiders and abetters in chief.

The quote stands on its own because what you have in italics does not in any way exonerate him. You're defending him, as in your view he's trying to drop hints, yet Google pestered people for phone numbers for years, and tracked them over the net, knowing full well what the information would be used for.

My point is he doesn't care for anyone's privacy but his own and that he is a hypocrite. I can dig up some articles on his view of consumer drones if you feel that my point of view needs more supporting evidence.

Further to the many edits I made above, I strongly disagree that the quote you have in italics is exact or frank.
To further analogize this to postcards, no one's worried about your mail being seen when it's stuffed in a mailbag that's riding in a truck that the USPS takes some care to make sure it doesn't get stolen (e.g. always behind lock and key). Using SSL for all the hops between organizations amounts to the same thing.