skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
which for me is 2pm-10pm, perfect time to bug me about what I'm doing right now!
There are many of them. I use Spectacle. You can move windows to the right / left / top / bottom, maximize it, send it to another monitor, etc..
I'm going!

See http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/whos-going-to-microconf-eur... as well
You end up seeing a canvas, does it matter what application was used to draw it? (by the way I don't like Flash either for different reasons)
This is somewhat like the 10/GUI concept from 2009: http://10gui.com/
I did my own design idea on the next version of windows, but didn't go so far as calling it "Windows 9"
http://pedalpete.github.io/windows_idea/

This design is much 'nicer' than mine, and probably more progressive. I would have liked to have seen what was returned in the search, and the layout of a search.
You can still do that though.
I like it! :)
Can be improved, but the basic idea is good.
So then what's the problem? That works exactly as it did before.

And the first ten do have keyboard shortcuts - Win-0 to Win-9.
They have maintainability across a wide number of devices as a requirement. They have low powered devices with existing, third-party, potentially closed source graphics drivers as a requirement.

I don't know about anyone else here, but every time I set up a new system I have to waste hours getting X11 and the console resolution working right. Sometimes, they never work right. Add to that modern features like display brightness, backlit keyboards, power management, external monitor outputs, and touchscreen input with gesture support and it's unrealistic for X11 to spread to the vast number of new, lower powered devices with less technical users without some serious further work to standardize and normalize handling of differences.

Therefore I am glad, for the nontechnical majority of the world, that someone out there is bothering to try to make a reference open source mechanism for removing these problems so an install doesn't end in crashes with weird kernel boot messages about drm and BIOS upgrades and X configurations and input device drivers... even if I continue to use gentoo myself.
Touch really lends itself to interfacing with objects.

Using a mouse, in particular is a little bit foreign to our natural instincts.
A few years ago, there was a couple of people from the UK going on holiday to somewhere in the US. They joked (on Twitter andn/or Facebook) about how hard they were going to party, using some unfortunate slang terms. Something about setting on fire a whole city (or something like that) a whole city, it was obviously a figure of speech. As well as digging up some celebrity's grave (either Marilyn Monroe or Elvis, I forget).

Anyway, they had paid for their tickets to the US, crossed the ocean, were stopped and sent back (at their own cost of course, I bet travel insurance didn't cover this).

Sorry that I don't have the link to this story.
This is an obvious and accurate criticism. But it's also worth considering that large financial firms are both the best equiped and most motivated to obscure their transaction activity, so I don't think it should be dismissed trivially.

The question is: how could one find evidence that justifies or refutes the idea that the scale of firms does in fact fit zipf and that measure is being obscured at the tail?

Also, I'd point out that the original post did not differentiate between financial and non financial companies in the way you do between points 1 and 2, so your characterization of what fields are related or "semi-related" is your own creation and not part of the original claim.
Get busy my friend. Start with a small project you can finish in a few days. Launch and give it a little marketing love. Rinse and repeat until you have some revenue streams coming in. Good luck!
There's a good reason for that. If someone's found a profitable niche, there's no incentive for them to reveal information which might attract competitors.
This is not an article about software freedom.

Did you even read it?
FWIW, I wrote a short post on my experience with self-publishing (real books, that show up on a palette the size of a table, intimidating the cat and wife): http://www.ac4d.com/2011/03/21/bootstrapped-publishing-diy-f...
I wonder if this has anything to do with Intel's decision to stop supporting Mir. Might've set them back just enough so they won't be ready to ship it on time for 13.10.
Simulate a Shell in Vim | Run your test suite inside Vim.
Have you noticed that you keep dancing between tabs on your
terminal window?
If you happen to do TDD/BDD this can be quite tedious plus
you have that feeling of “I am repeating myself”. Hackers/Programmers/Bakers do not like repeating themselves
over and over again (unless they’re mastering at something).
The C# ecosystem doesn't really interoperate with the HN world. There's a bunch of friction around using it - I don't want to run windows (it's not configurable enough and I'd miss lots of X features), so I'd have to use the relatively weak MonoDevelop, and my dev OS/VM would be different from the production one which would be a recipe for awkward-to-diagnose bugs. There's probably a way to get the software for free but I'd have to start at least thinking about licensing (and that means I can't just fire up a local VM in 30 seconds to test something). Maybe my cloud provider supports windows (though it's unlikely to be as well-tested as their linux infrastructure), maybe not; certainly windows is a second-class citizen for puppet. And what's the library ecosystem like? I get the impression that open-source libraries are a lot less common for .net; is there even an equivalent of cpan/pypi/maven central/etc?

I've got no objection to microsoft/MSDN; I'm a very happy typescript user, because it slots straight into my existing workflow and there's a decent eclipse plugin for it. But for a lot of these things you live in one world or the other, and never the twain shall meet - and rightly or wrongly, my impression is that more interesting software gets written in the "HN stack" than in the "MS stack", which seems a lot more enterprise-oriented.
It's literally the same situation as with PDF.js. You can use it as a library for viewing pdf/swf; you can embed it into your browser. Hell, you can probably put it on your Node server.
Good point. It seems that if you wish to create value for end users, you should avoid middlemen, because middlemen will bundle your product with something obnoxious that adds value only for themselves. The more valuable your product is for end users, the more obnoxious stuff will be added by middlemen.
Yes, paying earlier usually gives you much better returns. Even in the manufacturing industry, you can almost always get at least a 2-3% discount paying early. Do that on many payments and you get a way better return than 2.5% yearly.

Of course at some point you will want to withdraw some dividends and then you have money sitting in the bank account again. But I see this is more of a problem of personal finance than anything. It just sucks that nothing good is out there working for everybody and not so country specific.
> Been using 8 for about a year and have no problem with the start screen without a touch interface - the workflow is pretty much identical to 7: Press the Windows key and type part of the name of what you want, with the bonus that it's significantly faster at giving results.

A full-screen menu appearing on top of whatever I am working on completely breaks my flow. It's immensely distracting to me. As a result, I literally never use it. Instead I use Launchy [1] which is well behaved and keeps within the confines of a very small dialogue box.

That doesn't completely fix Windows 8, though - there's still a bunch of touch-orientated stuff that there's no native way to deactivate.

[1] http://www.launchy.net/
We're already squarely in unnatural territory as soon as an LCD screen is involved.
Derivatives trading is now dominated by quants with a background in the methods of computational physics. Aspects of gauge theory, etc are clearly and directly relevant. Don't reject this idea out of hand because it is unfamiliar to you. It may be proven a fad eventually, but that's not at all obvious now.

As a concrete example: the Higgs result depends both on machine learning in the form of decision trees to minimize the data, as well as monte carlo simulation to generate theoretical data for comparison to what is measured. Experimental particle physics is very much now an exercise in machine learning and probabilistic simulation.
Pentagon Spent $5 Billion on Weapons on the Eve of the Shutdown
One good reason would be (as he says) that it is flaky. eg how does it handle newlines, commas, tabs and non-ascii characters in data? I've had to pull dirty data between systems before, and csv as the lowest common denominator tends to be lossy as there's no spec on this stuff. Some systems (eg oracle's csv import) do support forms of escaping, but they're not interoperable.

I see they support other file formats & json here, but a nice to have would be to use the google spreadsheet url:
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/spreads...

Grabbing data directly from Office365 is also possible:
http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/consuming-odata-feed...
My 40 Days Without a Mobile Phone
This would be interesting to see as a linux distro, and more realistic to boot (zing).
Thanks; I can perfectly understand the advantages of having a standard protocol, and if DDP becomes an effective standard for applications outside of Meteor, it'll be a great achievement. I just wish people were more aware of what REST really means.

DDP seems like a good technology for webapps, but the issue is that I find webapps a really uninspiring trend in web development; my vision for the web is much more data-oriented than the code silos we're all making. And I believe the lack of understanding of what REST means is preventing people from seeing a bigger picture.

Also, many modern apps have verbs that don't map well to REST (a RPC like transferBalance affects multiple objects and doesn't map well to the idea of updating the representation of an object identified by a URL)

I've heard that a lot, and I don't doubt that it's true in many cases, but usually it seems more representative of a difficulty in the modeling process.

For example, a transferBalance call certainly doesn't map well to updating any object, but creating a new Transfer (and passing the URLs of both Accounts) would be perfectly RESTful, in my opinion.
I don't agree with Microsoft.. but i also don't agree with statements like "Just NO NO AND NO...I want to be able to place my windows where I want...I know better than the OS how and where I want my windows" and "Wrong. Manual windows management is just what a professional needs."
At least, it is not true for me. Manually placing and resizing windows, lowering and raising them, that is sooo much mouse work which reduces my productivity, i'm happy that in 99% of my workflow i do not need to do that kind of stuff anymore, but when i want the freedom i can just fall back to that ..

I think Microsoft got the point with their tablet-orientation fullscreen-only-apps, driven by touchscreen interfaces, but agreed, forcing everyone into that (currently coupled with the dual-old-desktop-mess) is ridiculous, user-hostile and typically Microsoft. This inofficial Windows 9 concept does not really help either.. IMHO they are looking for what tiling window managers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager) have implemented since a long time (without being driven by the touchy-concepts), without taking away any freedom like Microsoft always does it, because MS thinks they know what's best for their users? :

• Provide automatic placement for windows, fullscreen, halfscreen, spiraled, any layout which makes sense for you.
• Have the nice side-effect that they are much more controllable by keyboard only, increasing productivity even more (at least for developer's kind of work)
• Provide the freedom, that if you want to, you can just take windows and resize them freely like default window managers

Introducing and playing with new concepts still is the right, however i think MS should stop forcing users into every new concept, but leave the freedom for the advanced user to customize to their style... if i have ever to go back to windows i hope there is a tiling window manager with the features i am accustomed to ;)
85 lbs. on a 5'5" frame? How does that affect speed and endurance in a full-court game?
While I love the concept, I don't think Shumway is ready for prime time. It doesn't work on Kongregate, last time I tried, which is the largest flash based game site there is. Youtube works nicely, but overall, unless both Flash games and videos are supported, I doubt it should be shipped.
Which country are you located in? Why was targeting Europe as your market a mistake? What are you freelancing on? I'm a freelancer getting started in France after a few years of web dev experience and thinking of targeting the European startups so am really interested in your experience :-)

Personally after having been employed for many years and tried to build products full-time, I'm currently working on getting freelance clients and thinking of building a product later, to serve these same clients. That way you got plenty of validation for your product.

You could do the same: consult on devops for your niche, and later on or at the same time build a product out of the biggest pains you observed. Note: a product could be software but also an education product (ebook or course).

This would help with getting even more insight into the problems of your customers while buying you some time to build your software product(with the money earned from your education product) since it takes much more time to validate and build a business on.
I've seen many similarities with the group of friends I grew up with. Did we grow up and become more like each other or was our similarity (temperament, values) something that brought us together in the first place?

For example I was the first in our father's side of family to go into higher ed, but everyone in my group of pre-18 school friends ended up there.
Many other groups in our school were characterized by other things like marrying young or seeking traditional blue collar jobs.

At least there was plenty of time for conversations to mold our thoughts. Parents might actually account for less than friends.
My co-founder and I ran into a lot of logistical issues when building out a Bitcoin remittance platform. One of the biggest blocking issues was dealing with regulatory compliance and preventing people from committing fraud on the service. Turns out that these headaches are extremely common across all Bitcoin companies, so we 100% switched to http://blockscore.com/ which drastically simplifies compliance and anti-fraud.
Kevin Rose Is AngelList’s Million-Dollar Man
I used to, exactly for this reason. I otherwise have a fair deal of aversion to light (the first sunny days of spring are unbearable to me without sunglasses), but I tried to make sure there's plenty of light for me in the morning, as I knew it could have an impact over my circadian rhythm. Unfortunately, all that did was hurt my eyes when I woke up :-).
Fundamentally, yes. But practically, I can appreciate schools who find it the least-worst filter to group children into classrooms. Our son's school has weekly mixed-age sessions, but I don't think they can become the norm.
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/10/01/mysql-isnt-limited-to-n...
I guess it's a good excuse as any to finally learn powershell.
Haven't you created a chicken and egg problem for yourself? You want people to fund a journalist, but they will only be able to read said journalist's articles after they fund him. How do you get around this?
First version of TheFacebook [html]
That's very well put and I tend to agree with it.
Here you go - VLC doesn't have a Windows Store App.
Because is smarter to invest in developing a new tool to create HTML5 content than to invest in a tool that converts the deprecated flash to HTML5.
In another context jonnybgood might instead be called a "skeptic" or perhaps even "capable of applying critical thinking skills" rather than dismissed as a "shill". Instead of mocking him for not paying attention over the last 6 months, you should go back and examine all of the leaked documents. You'll note that they speak quite a bit to the capabilities of the NSA, but don't reveal much about who they're targeting, why and what the ultimate goal of targeting would be. If you disagree, I challenge you to actual provide a leaked document that shows the NSA is specifically targeting ordinary citizens like the GP was calling for, rather than a secondary article from Greenwald, Schneier, etc., that makes broad assertions that because a spying agency with collecting foreign intelligence has the technical capability to conduct the most invasive possible infractions on the privacy of people it is not charged with collecting against, they must indeed be doing so. Your armed local police force has the technical capability of detaining citizens indiscriminately without regard to whether or not they violated the law, then summarily executing them without trial. That doesn't mean that's their job.
Why does not "Ask HN" return results while "Show HN" does?
I am a bug fan of this three-episode documentary. Also I would recommend Accidental Empires which was the book on what the documentary was based.
>But for a lot of these things you live in one world or the other, and never the twain shall meet - and rightly or wrongly, my impression is that more interesting software gets written in the "HN stack" than in the "MS stack", which seems a lot more enterprise-oriented.

Oh I agree! Writing HMIs for machinery can be very boring work, but someone has to do it, and since we pick the PCs for the machine we can simply choose windows and then we have no issues being bound to the Microsoft stack. I figure once I get more experience I can go find one of those dream jobs where I can use lots of different languages on a regular basis.
Because otherwise everyone using "password" as their password would have to share an account!
What's so great about the "security model" of the browser? It's a patch work of horrible decisions.
I used to do this too actually. Throwing a bunch of windows to my secondary screen. But over time, I realized I don't use them at all over time. Sticky notes are all over it and it was just a mess.

Now I try to have only two things open at once to streamline my work flow. Everything in excess, I try to have it my IDE when possible using plugins.
Well if it wasn't for the numer of turtles in the pile on the way down it'd be fine. This is a whole other layer on top...
Too bad. The browser is becoming general purpose with asm.js, WebGL etc. You can't hold back progress.
As a previous windows mobile device owner I would have to say: the touchscreen devices needed a pen to dial properly (no-go), the keyboard-driven devices were painful to do email on and had tiny screens, and both classes had horrible browsers (roughly IE4-level before the release of the iphone).

They also suffered from being too early in the smartphone / tablet market, having to make hardware/software trade-offs that precluded bringing a proper (desktop-like) OS to the mobile devices. Apple as a late entrant could reuse OS X and have developer API's with good forwards compatibility. Microsoft's only option was to ditch the whole OS and start over based on a new architecture, and it took them too long to swallow that bitter pill.
Curious to learn about meteor but probably will end up needing an up to date book when I actually get around to programming with it. So if I purchase the $40 package, will that include updates up to maybe a year from now?
Nothing at all. It's shit.

But one security model is better than having two security models.
That's what I thought, but then they shut down suddenly. To be fair hadn't checked in on them for a while, apparently things haven't been great for some time. But I still think this is a concept worth pursuing, so I'm trying to see if I can iterate on the work they did in that space. We'll see!

Anyway, I'd appreciate any feedback from HNers on the project, it's very new (went live as a rudimentary version last night).
Reminds me of http://www.datamation.com/news/tech-comics-windows-8-1.html

I'm starting to get feeling, that Microsoft consciously abandons PC as a workstation with a fully functional OS model and moving towards dumb browser-only tablet-like terminal. And I bet that some cloud based, .NET like IDE for Windows developers is on their plans.

..and I'm sooo happy that I can do all my development work on Linux machine.
As far as I know, it has always been. Unlike javascript which usually runs in a single thread, the browser itself is free to use as many background threads as it wants to load resources, render graphics etc. Only javascript is usually run as single thread per tab (unless the webpage uses web workers).
Any article that starts off quoting RMS talking about software freedom and investigating what he meant is an article about software freedom?
They're made to look like the animals died in these poses, but in reality the photographer picked them up from the shore and arranged them like that artificially.
The best thing in this article is the list of things-that-turned-out-to-be-bad-ideas!
Exactly. This is one determinant of intelligence that we can impact, but it's not the sole determinant of intelligence.
A lot changes in a month in terms of software development. Try it again and let us know if it still sucks by your standards.
Attack on authoritative DNS server with high TTLs
Part of it is the source code. It specifically scans for keywords such as SoMA and associates it with SF. Other countries / states / cities get no such special treatment.

Made me sad as my company in Hong Kong (and all others in Asia) doesn't show up.
Various people are working on this: Jangaroo and Flex-ASJS/FalconJX (part of Apache Flex) are the two most active projects.
Its another way for people to make more money. There is nothing wrong with the ones we currently have.
It looks fancy and pretty and all that, but I would probably hate using it for the same reason I hate using Windows 8 right now.

Yes. Manual window-management is tedious and in an ideal world should be obsolete, but I don't think this is the solution either.

Basically, I hate this automatic window-management more than I hate manual window-management and then we've not really gone anywhere useful.

For reference, I use tiling WMs in Linux and I'm happy with that, but I can see how that's not a solution for most people. We need to reach a middle-ground somehow.
Not a fan of this design. Its hard to distinguish what UIs go with what and everything generally seems all thrown together in one UI with no demarcation.
My friend's 12-month old baby reset the unlock code on her mother's phone and they ended up having to wipe it completely in order to recover.
I imagine what they were thinking is "maybe people shouldn't be logging on to individual servers in order to manage them."

I manage a number of 2012 VMs, and actually log onto them via RDP very rarely.

You should use RSAT on a workstation, or perhaps Powershell and Enter-PSSession (alias: etsn) in order to manage your machines. If you're a masochist you could even use winrs.exe from inside cmd.exe.

I can't think of much you can do with those two tools that you can't do otherwise, unless it involves [random third-party software]. Even with third party software, I don't see a reason people should be logging on to servers often enough that the start screen should be an appreciable problem -- especially since the start screen is likely to have an immediately obvious and clickable 100px*100px "tile" to get to the software you need to.
Similar issue to there being a colossal amount of invalid HTML out there that's never going to be made valid, so the browsers just have to do the best they can. It's the way of the web.
Mindorid - Android-like application framework for M2M and the Internet of Things