skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, I got a payout once a year of something over $100. This year, I am still way short of hitting a payout.

But I would really like more info on traffic, content, etc from the guys reporting serious dough from this.
Really? There's big difference between someone not choosing to pay for an app and exploiting people who may have no other choice or fallen in hard times.

Do you have any articles about this? I would be interested in reading the arguments for/against.
> "We believe every person deserves the chance to live a healthy, productive life."

> What if something like this was the purpose and vision for Microsoft?

They need to combine what they are good at while still focusing on what made them.

1. The XBox was a success, prior to big brother concerns about the One. They need to get back to basics: the fastest and best technlogy and the best games.

2. Their OS and enterprise apps were mostly a success, prior to cloudification (or SAAS-ification) and mobile. They failed at mobile and need to cut their losses and go back to focusing on desktop/server systems.

3. .Net and C#/VB.net and their development ecosystem has been a success. They should continue this, enterprise product lines and development support.

4. Office was a success, prior to cloudification. They should go back to software and focus on usability.

5. Things to drop/split off/sell to gain focus: Bing, Windows Mobile, any hardware, software, or services unrelated to the top 4 above.

There is something that I think brings some of these together: home automation. Not cloudified home automation, but developing an OS that supports it that is capable of running without a net connection. People need to believe and understand that it is not big brother watching from the NSA. They could buy up existing home automation companies and maybe a security company or two to get a hold of the market and be able to take advantage of much of the technology they have developed so far. They could utilize Kinect technology and their Windows OS tech to run it. By running the home, they serve the apps and licenses from there as well, completely removed from the net if desired- just a local network.

The vision would be "Microsoft enables products that your family uses so that you can be free, happy, safe and secure."
Even with all the money being printed by Fed (>80 billion usd per month!) there is not enough money for the biggest military+police government on Earth.
adding a meta tag with name="generator" content="Google Web Designer 1.0.0.924" was enough for it to open for me.
I'm glad this was posted here, otherwise I never would have known.

Something all hackers should be paying attention to, certainly. Many implications for how we write our software, the future of networked communication and more.
You have a lot of things mixed up. This isn't about not enough money. It's about Congress having to pass a budget in order to run the government. Maybe you're thinking of the debt ceiling?
You get this a lot in Google Play too, was wondering why this is not possible in Apple Store

e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cdeguet.sm...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cdeguet.sm...
Last time I checked MS was still making the big money
All the news sites in the world to choose from and the one that hits the front page is the one with interstitials before articles and broken, ugly design?
US Government Shuts Down
Surely you would not confuse WinRT, the API, with Windows RT, the ARM tablet product. Why, these names are totally unambiguous!

(Microsoft is not great at naming products.)
In an office environment. If employees don't work well together they get fired. Why is there no accountability ?
According to the fairly suspect Alexa they are in the top 100, world wide (regardless of technology). So by traffic I guess yes, they are in the top 100.
Perhaps this is a good thing? (Forgive me if it's not and I'm being insensitive)

Before human beings developed external memories (photographs and now digital records of everything we do), trauma and negative memories were supposed to slowly fade away, and they did. Only mildly emotional residues remained. Our psychological itch to keep experiencing sights and sounds associated with a thing or person lost could not be scratched no matter how tempted we were.

Now we can. Not only that, we consider it some sort of obligation to carry the burden. We scratch the wound just as it starts to heal and it's like experiencing the loss over and over again.

or may be that's just my experience. I used to be in a permanent state of melancholy because I always reminisced about past losses, even when the present was good. I don't do that anymore. I've a rule, in fact: never replay a negative experience more than once unless you have new data to re-evaluate it in a different light.
> For someone who has no clue what they are talking about, you are remarkably dismissive.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

> I get the point that he doesn't like javascript.

Actually, that wasn't one of my points.

> Why should anyone care about his personal preferences?

I have no idea.

> it is him insisting that javascript should not be used

Read again. I did not insist that JavaScript should not be used. I said I did not feel it was a good choice. As you pointed out, and I pointed to some obvious signs of why it might not be. My opinion being what it is, that is no basis for insisting upon anything, but even if my opinion was law, the fact that something might not be a good choice is no reason to insist it not be done.

> Having thoroughly debunked that one piece of evidence he had, what's left?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

> Resorting to calling me "some kid" is pretty classic though. Did you run out of real things to say, and decided to resort to just dismissing me with ad hominem?

Hey, one more dismissal! I think we have a record.

Seriously? You're going there? Did you forget that you bolstered your argument with "old man" just yesterday? One might be concerned about projecting so much...
How significant is this though? A quick wikipedia search shows the government has shut down 18 times (including this one) since 1976.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown#Federal_gov...

In fact, the government shut down almost every year from 1976 to 1987 (only missing 1980 and 1985).
I really hate that the media has labeled this a government shut down.

Is the NSA going to stop spying on us?
Are they still printing money?
Are corporate subsidies still proceeding as normal?
Will they stop taxing us?
Will they stop giving out checks to the military industrial complex?
Will they stop military attacks? Will we still be felt up at airports?
Are they still going to throw people behind bars for illegal plants?

The reality is that all of the worst parts of the government are still running.
I learned French in a way with many similarities: I took a semester of engineering courses at a French uni.

Like the author notes, the trick seemed to be
(1) you are interested in the exact meaning of the words and phrases
(2) finding many `hooks` for memorizing. In my case, it was specific problem sets, personalities of profs, ...
(3) rhythm and structure. For him it was the structure of web sites. For me, it was class schedule.

I did about zero language specific training that semester. Got good grades, even by French standards. I did have a scare half way into the semester by doing poorly on half my midterms, but pulled it through by the end.

I did have a foundation of high school language courses, but I was about as poor of a language student as you can imagine.
Nailed it. I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this.
I kicked off a new project just a few days ago with RethinkDB -- absolutely loving it so far. This new release addresses a minor pain point and gives me confidence in my choice of data store.

In case `coffeemug is still checking in here, I'd like to put in a request to update the documentation page on drivers. The listed Elixir driver has been broken for a few months; a working one can be found at azukiapp/elixir-rethinkdb. Overall the page could be organized a bit better: putting the languages in alphabetical order and not duplicating the list (which pushes contributor names below the fold) seem like straightforward improvements. Thanks for all the hard work -- hope to be sharing my project and showing off some RethinkDB swag before too long!
There is. It happens in November every few years.
Slightly off topic, but this shutdown is one of those times where I got a very different perspective simply by reading about it from a non-US based (Al Jazeera) source. It is not that they write anything different than local sources, but the whole situation seems way sillier when I think about how this must look to people outside of the country.
You could be reacting to something biological. Try cleaning up your sleep space. Wash all bedding, dust, declutter, etc.
Yeah! Treasonous National Parks!
Ah, yes he did, except he was obstinate about using anything more fancy than email. As I remember it, though, there were a lot of ports of the GNU tools to all the unices, and the PC was still not as good as the Unix workstations. So where's the motivation to make Hurd, you know?

People weren't really clamoring for Hurd or a kernel for GNU, because they got an OS with their computer, and got the GNU tools and libc. The really major geeks would buy old, used workstations, which were built like tanks and were plenty fast for running single-user unix.
I'm glad this was posted here, otherwise I never would have known.

I don't mean this sarcastically -- are you serious? It's been plastered over my news and social feeds for the past 48 hours, but I recognize I have a disproportionately large amount of friends/acquaintances in DC.
True, however don't most large web-based applications have some sort of "warm-up" process/procedure to compile and populate the mostly used caches and pages?

A shorter ramp-up time is always welcomed but JIT is not the only cost. Depending on your application, JIT might not even be the highest/longest portion of your startup time.
You said "laying the blame on him is pretty fucking retarded", but no one is laying the blame on him.
yeah and then I had to correct them all. / the reason I bumped into this learning methodology.
One can't forget the London Stock Exchange clusterfuck, but then again that was three years ago.
a friend of mine died, and his obituary was posted on a blog he collaborated on. His twitter account retweeted his own obituary notice - presumably he had it automated to retweet things from that account that mentioned his name.
My flag privileges were lost during a flight to Cuba, and the guidelines specify that we not complain about the relevance of posts in the comments. So I won't complain.
Sarcasm can be difficult to express online; I'm glad you explicitly pointed it out in your reply.
Is this (at the end of problem 1)

(defn div-by [x y] (== 0 ))(mod y x)

a typo or a Clojure feature?
Wish i could get an extremely well paid job, do jack shit for 2-6 years and then maybe get voted out at the end of that time. Hell, give me a senator's salary for 6 years and I'd be in heaven.
Isn't there anything in the US constitution to break deadlocks? In Australia if the government can't get a bill through the senate, they can try again in 3 months and if it still doesn't go through then it can be used a trigger to dismiss the house of reps and the senate and call a new election.
Let's keep track of what technology related services get shut down. Please reply here.

For animal lovers out there, contrary to reports, the National Zoo's PandaCam is still operational (as I type), so enjoy while you can!

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/webcams/giant-panda.cfm
This is really depressing. The system seems to be designed to be strong but not infallible, with the assumptions that the people trusted to run the government would do so competently with the best interests of the nation. It seems clear that a slow process of radicalization has replaced the interests of the nation with the interests of the party and it's unclear how to fix it.

If one group defects to block voting and no compromise the other side has to also defect or be run over. This is the prisoner's dilemma writ large, only we citizens are the ones paying the penalty for dual defection.
We all spend so much time focusing on the Federal Government but I doubt many of us will even notice the "shut down."

Compare that with what would happen if your local and state governments shut down: Trash would pile up. Criminals would run free in the streets. Fires wouldn't be put out. Water and electricity would stop. Sewage systems would back up. Schools would close. We're talking about services that are the very cornerstones of modern society.

It really gives you an appreciation for what the state and local governments accomplish.
That linked article is over a year old. Each iOS device and OS release since then has gotten harder and harder to jailbreak and 6.1.4 didn't even receive a jailbreak till a few days ago.

I'd bet that Android piracy is far higher than iOS is at the moment.
[not my quote...but relevant]

In essence, America has told the world that as long as the business of this country is functioning, your wealth, as represented in Marks, Yen, Pesos, etc. is backed with performing US debt. It's like saying, "as long as your neighbor, next door, does not loses his job, you will not lose all your money!
The question asker isn't from Stripe, it's just a random guy who asked this.
Chrome extension is awesome! Our grumpy sys admin will no bother updating our Jenkins.
Sounds like a great case for standard-capacity magazines (instead of the neutered 8-rounders they want you to have). But that's just me being snarky :-) There's firearms classes out there that teach you how to effectively deal with multiple attackers, but in general it just plain sounds like you had a bad day coming your way. Sorry to hear that, and I hope karma catches up with your assailants sooner rather than later.
well, this is the case for DC. Also, there are a few things you might notice. If you are house hunting hoping for a FHA loan you are screwed for now.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/politics/government-shutdown-d...
why is this a bad thing? less spending on something pretty much everyone agrees is bloated is bad? it's like saying morbidly obese person has slightly less access to food. every person in the media seems to assume this is a bad thing. i say this is a good thing. if we can't agree on how money should be spent, it's better that it not get spent at all.
even funnier, the US hasn't passed a budget since '97.
Then I'll add another point of view, hoping that I'm not the only one: The issue for me was not that I expected a free update for iOS 7 or a universal app, but that pulling the old app AND replacing it by a paid app with the same name was very misleading. Please name it "Clear 2", "Clear HD" or "Clear+", so that customers have a chance to understand what happened. Not everyone reads blogs.

After updating to iOS 7 (and before learning of the drama surrounding Clear), I wanted to download Clear to my phone again and almost bought it by accident: after all, the icon, app name and app platform (iPhone) were the same, so I figured that the price still being displayed was an App Store bug.

It's not that I care about paying 'a cup of coffee' for an app _at all_, but this felt like a scam. OmniGroup handled this a little better with OmniFocus: They've also pulled the old version, but the new one looks different and is called OmniFocus 2.
Three or four years after the last shutdown (twenty days long!) we had a budget surplus and the lowest unemployment in decades. I'm not saying those things are related, but your pessimism is probably excessive.
How a government shutdown would affect your daily life
How do the Republicans reckon they'll come out ahead after this? It'll be a GOP bloodbath in 2014.
I see you've never encountered legacy enterprise software...
Not sure who counts as "military industrial complex", but the Pentagon has already said that troops will not be paid:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gC5rwPOPz...
One facet of the 'shutdown' is that they're not authorized to hand out federal money to states anymore. The states and municipalities are feeling it for every day that this stupid theatre persists.
The compiler you're thinking of compiles to MSIL - bytecode. The run time still needs to compile the bytecode into machine code, and this is what the JIT is responsible for.
Some people actually get paid by the federal government. When these people don't get paid, they are much less likely to spend money, hurting non-government businesses. And the parts of the government that are shutting down also won't be consuming from private business either, again hurting business and the economy.
I hope they get it started back up soon. I was hoping to visit some National Parks later in the month. (Not being sarcastic here.)

This brinkmanship is a travesty.
> Haha. Or charge for upgrades?

Actually, there are many people (me included) who don't mind paying 10$ for a game, but avoid freemium games like the plague. So there is a psychological difference between raising up-front prices and upgrade pricing, even if I spend the same money in the end.
If the state and local governments gave sufficient notice, private businesses would snap up the new market opportunities. Everything worthwhile would continue as usual, albeit with less waste.
It is worth noting, incidentally, that the DoD is the largest employer in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
My thoughts exactly. People already make fun of our dysfunctional government. It's just adding fuel to the fire. Then again, I make fun of it too... :)
"The Health Insurance Marketplace is Open"
Don't read too much into the specific example of "web apps". The point here is that the classic server app of 10 years ago was often a long-running service that processed large batches of work.

Think, for example, about gene sequencing: JIT compile the app once, chew on data for hours. No one cares too much about the startup time because the app will be running far long enough to amortize the cost of a thoroughly optimizing compilation.

The classic server app of today is often a web app that doesn't do a ton of work relative to its startup time. Web apps often start up, do a bit of work, then shut down. Waiting a long time for the JIT compiler degrades each launch significantly.

As others point out, there are solutions to making web apps faster. But rest assured: RyuJIT helps all kinds of apps: server, client, web, computational.

--Andrew Pardoe [MSFT]
Now we can determine which part of government we did not miss and shut those down permanently.
I kind of want to build a boobietrap into this. You steal my bike, the bikelock detects it and triggers a timer, the person starts riding the bike and BOOM his ass explodes. Then I can program my stolen phone to point to my bike so the boobietrap can be sprung. Oh it will be awful and awesome.
Will they stop taxing us?

Taxes are not evil, bad, or wrong. Excessive taxes are something you can argue about, but the mere existence of them is not evidence of evil.
GOP moderates will take a hit. The more conservative members that are driving this shutdown will end up strengthening their base, so they won't feel as much pressure.
First physical evidence of why you're an owl or a lark
The truly positive contribution of a federal government (besides the questionable benefit of military protection) comes in the form of automatic stabilizers for the economy.

When there is a shock to the economy, social safety nets dampen the pain significantly. Local and state governments would never be able to provide a reliable social safety net, because they have to operate on the same principles as every other user of a currency. The federal government can operate on the principles of an issuer of the currency. That is a big difference.

In fact, you can see this difference play out in slow motion in the Eurozone, which still has not recovered from the financial crisis. Things would have played out very different had their been a Eurozone federal government that provides at least the basic components of the social safety nets.
About half the DoD is going home (civilian side). Also the IRS will stop all audits since it is losing a huge chunk of its staff.
Costs around $50 million a day to be closed.

Imagine how many people that money could help, how much health care it could buy.
I think 3 months is a bit long to wait, but I'd be all for a new election.
Reading the title I attributed the faulty electronics as being a Sonos product.
>The bigger issue, he [Vanguard Group Chief Economist Joseph Davis] said, is how much the turmoil raises the “Uncertainty Tax” on the U.S. economy. Policy uncertainty, Davis argues, is already keeping U.S. economic growth down around 2%, when it could be 3% a year.

This is what captures my frustration as well.

It's infuriating that a faction of Tea Partiers is causing such instability. Having campaigned on a promise of doing anything to stop ObamaCare, they've already played their (reckless) hand.

This is bringing a hatchet where you need a scalpel; "ObamaCare" will still go into effect no matter what, and this does nothing more than score political points at the expense of the nation's health.

This is precisely why people hate and subsequently tune out to politics - an unfortunate and dangerous reality.
I think he means the contracts are still in place for building more weapons and those weapons will continue being used despite the fact that soldiers and their families will not be receiving their pay.
Hours before the shutdown, Obama signed a bill that granted an exception to the military, ensuring it will continue to operate and troops will be paid: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/government-shutdown-se...
Which I think says something very sad about our national priorities.
Really? I though OS/2 was on the 386. I thought that the 286 had some limit on the size of a process, but you could execute multiple processes. I don't know why, but I think it was 64k per process. Also, the other thing I recall was thinking that it was a nice idea.

I was only familiar with 68k so I'm probably wrong here.
Well considering it hasn't happened since 1995 (18 years), I'd say it's pretty significant. Also, the GOP reasoning behind it seems pretty silly (defunding the ACA).
So, your process is to take some websites that you own, have them automatically translated, and then use the results to learn the new vocab?
That's gotta be about the least justifiable statement in political-economic commentating history.
"If you're out there, think about acting on your conscience as Snowden and others did. Your position is stronger than ever. You'll have support from the EFF, ACLU, Guardian, and most of this community."

I think that's an awful lot to ask of somebody, considering what happened to Snowden: he was charged with some very serious crimes and will probably have to remain in exile indefinitely. If the government ever catches him, or if the Russians decide they don't want him around anymore, he may have to spend the rest of his life in prison. The resources of the EFF, ACLU and The Guardian are tiny compared to what the U.S. government can throw at him (the government has essentially unlimited resources). Someone who is as brave and selfless as Snowden is indeed rare, and I think it's unlikely that we'll see his actions repeated in the foreseeable future.
Not so: The House, Senate and President got a military pay bill in under the wire.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/government-shutdown-se...
The most the constitution has is that, in the event of a tie, the Vice President gets to have the deciding vote.
+after you get voted out you can even get a corporate wellfare job as a lobbyist. being a memmber of congress is like an upaid internship. its just the tip of the fun.