skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't personally like the looks of Metro, or how intrusive it is (fullscreen) but it is far superior to classic start in basically every regard. Especially with keyboard. I think people don't like it because of change, not because they think is bad.

The bitching at it reminds me of people using Gnome 2 or at least complaining how great it was. It's people hating change. Gnome 2 is crap when it comes to usability and configurability. Its only advantage was speed.. but hey, Windows 2000 might be fast on today's machines as well.

And while it might look sketchy it's not a glowing review but rather a list of configuration options that user changed in order to avoid metro as much as possible.
Yeah, a payment plan would be key to making this work.

Another option may be more of a subscription model where there is a monthly service fee associated with this, much like an Accountant would charge someone to do their books.
I can imagine a situation where Germany levies an import tax on Facebook at the border of the secure European internet.
Rather than just drawing lines, the areas should be built up from the census blocks (or some similar thing -- zipcodes, e.g.). It should also try to keep entire small towns together.

This would tend to make areas that make more sense. They would have roughly the same shape, but people living at the boundaries would be more "correct".
My space is in social media analytics services. There is a lot of VC money here, it will be difficult to expand competing with that. But, thank you for the encouragement!
When we start embedding sensors and microchips in our bodies, it'll suck when we ctrl-alt-delete on the running processes in our bodies, and see Google Play Services in the task manager. Try to kill it and it pops back in your sleep. I just hope the current passive evil ever-present corporate interests aren't forced upon us at the biological level. I don't want my body violated by the NSA.
I agree with this assessment. Whenever I have the opportunity to get feedback from someone who has used my documentation, I make every effort to get it, and then update the documentation. It's gratifying to know that someone benefited from it.
Thanks for the link. Is indeed a nice video. Amusingly touches on the "pretty" aspect mentioned side thread.
Why strict atheism is unscientific
Bookmarked the site; I will be looking into this one latter on today.
Most distant gravitational lens helps weigh galaxies
On the designer front I can think of Entity Framework designer and WWF designer, Build Template designer (or however this thing from TFS is called?) and possibly a couple more.

My biggest gripe are all kinds of wizards, most notably "New Project" ones. They do generate a lot of cruft I have to clean up later and pull way too many dependencies.
Machine readable code in iOS 7
It's there like it was in Windows 8 if you don't have Internet access during install time.
Another -- also "never going to happen" solution is to just grow the House. It used to grow with population and then we stopped. If districts were smaller, it would be easier to make them less gerrymandered and pseudo-proportional representation falls out as a side-effect.
The total cost of the U.S. government shutdown? $24 Billion.
Oh god, not this conspiracy theory paid shill nonsense again. If I had a dollar for every time I was called a shill for saying anything positive about Microsoft, well, it still wouldn't make me a paid shill.

There's an alternative to your theory that requires fewer assumptions and only requires reasoning based on the types of people involved in the discussions you mention. People who like Windows 8 were comfortable using it in new ways, people who didn't want to change didn't like it. The people who don't want to change still don't want to change and so of course they are still complaining. Me? I'm tired of debating people on whether or not Windows 8 was an improvement over 7 or not. Usually it comes down to dogmatic beliefs over how they think Windows should work and those beliefs are at odds with how Microsoft thinks it should work. Why argue with dogmatism?

As evidence for the dogmatism of this belief, look no further than your own comment. You simply cannot believe anyone would think Windows 8 was good, or that Windows 8.1 is good.

You and the House stenographer would get along.
That is so cool, I was dying for a site like this.
Support for large projects/solutions was greatly improved. VS2012 added deferred loading for some items so you can open and get into code faster.

Of course, this is purely an artifact of overly large solutions. If you've inherited any of those, as I have, it's worth the upgrade for the improved performance, IMO.
I call out to setxkbmap to get this done. It should work with any window manager and desktop environment.[0]

setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

[0] https://gist.github.com/Spoygg/3122226
> In the 20th century, the boss system selected such presidents as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. I was struck at how a self-evidently corrupt and undemocratic system would have selected such impressive candidates (albeit along with Warren Harding and other less impressive ones).

That's very curious. My guess is that the boss system and the petty ambitions that fuel it is easier to game for those with real ambition. I don't think FDR would have been able to do what he did in today's political climate. The best we can hope for is Obama.
I'd suggest for you to change the title of the page so it looks better on my bookmark bar. :)
Nate Silver's new employee gains 20 Twitter followers/min after announcement
Even good code rarely describes by function and variable names alone what intent and business purpose is being provided. Code is the 'how', documentation of some other form usually provides the 'why' (comments, specs, tests, external documentation, whatever).
right-click on new windows_menu_button opens same menu as win+X
I think their philosophy has always been to show as little as possible for as long as possible, to avoid spoiling things... I get the impression that they have a story and a concept but no actual gameplay or content.
Door May Open for Challenge to Secret Wiretaps
Regex101: online regexp tester and debugger
Last time I checked IE was free.
Microsoft opens Windows Store to developer submissions, VS 2013 instructions
Getting started with libjit – part 1
Nonsense. The scientific method says that the burden of proof lies on those who make extraordinary claims, not those who do not believe said claims. And that is all.

To clarify a bit further, see quote: "You can't prove that God exists!" they accuse (correctly). Yet, hypocritically, strict atheists are guilty of the exact same crime: belief without evidence. This is nonsense. It is not belief without evidence, it is disbelief due to the lack of evidence. An embarrassingly basic strawman argument.
What about changing voting system from FPTP to something that actually makes sense and does not produce lame two party system?
Public employees are still people, and hence have the right to privacy.
Connect the machine to Internet and let it install graphic drivers.
Vulnerabilities Discovered in Ship Tracking Systems
Isnt the second model what is producing bubbles? the profits goes to the financial sector, and (sometimes) to the founder..

Companies with broken business model, or with no business model at all get overvaluated while companies with more traditional models are worth nothing these days. (Compare the prices for Instagram, Facebook.. with big companies like Nokia or Blackberry)

In times like this the best bet is to create private companies and not open it to the stock market at all like the old days..

The SV model may create instantaneous billionaires, but someone will have to pay for this wonderland(of a few) in the end..

and probably will be the government(aka the tax payers)

my question is: isnt this model broken in the long term? will it survive? who wins? who lose?
> Al Jazeera also did a series on modern slavery

Doesn't look like they include the slaves held in Qatar. Al Jazeera has also been very light on what's been uncovered about the Doha World Cup and everything related to that.
I've been maintaining some code written with this philosophy, and I find it lacking.

Code is very good at answering "How" but often the reader needs to know "Why" or "Why not".

In fact, the maintainer of your code will rarely be reading it to figure out how it is working - almost always the next person looking at your code will want to know why it is not working, or will be attempting to change the behavior.

Comments can guide as to pitfalls that you've avoided in your implementation and can answer the all-too-frequent question, "What were they thinking?!"
Sorry this is a new account but I'm not a new HN reader. Shill argument here we come.

To be honest I'm not enamoured with windows 8.1. It's just marginally better for me than windows 7 was and I'm trying to spread some help for those who will be picking it up today who will no doubt expect it to work a bit like windows 7.

If I was a shill, surely I'd be saying "metro is fucking awesome!" and other such things which it clearly isn't based on the fact I want rid of it.

I've got 15 years of UNIX and Linux experience as well and would rather have my head in an old Sun workstation than this shit, but it's not where the world is for me unfortunately.
I came to this comments page just to check if quarterto's law was still holding up :)
Quite boring for desktop end users. No real changes. That is probably a good thing, since changes in Ubuntu usually means breakage.
Wireshark is switching to Qt
This was a mistake by Microsoft, de-emphasizing the full disk backup options. There were serious issues with it, it was pretty brittle in terms of backing up and restoring* but those problems should have been fixed rather than obscured. To find the Windows 7-style backup options, hit start, type "Backup" and select "File History". Then in the bottom left corner, click "System Image Backup". The GUI is there, it's just been needlessly hidden. :(

http://i.imgur.com/YqIn0MB.png
My random conspiracy is that octopuses are actually alien life form that crashed into our oceans thousands of years ago.

But seriously; if you're ever up in Seattle, despite the touristy nature, the aquarium is totally worth a peek. Watching the G.P.O (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypaxG8AnTdE) in it's tank is marvelous; quite majestic creatures, despite absolutely being one of the things I would least like to encounter in the wild. Countless reports of them ripping off essential diving equipment.

In the video above, if you' watch the whole thing, the aquarium employee says "this one is about half full grown."

Interesting article though, it's always fascinating from a social sciences perspective how the perception of a concept can so quickly shift public policy.
It's all those dangerous liberal intelligesia.
Well nothing needs to be done.
The beta of this has been smooth for me. I had no problems doing the upgrade (but I have used Ubuntu for a while). I am enjoying the newer versions of the kernel and some packages that are key for me. If you use Unity, the dash feels faster. I'm more pleased with this release than several past ones.
Partially, yes. Like all employment, when you take a job you give up part of your rights. When you take a job as a public servant you give up more than you would if you took a private sector job. This includes some human rights. The most obvious one is the right to do whatever you damn well please all the time, but there's various others. As a public servant you, for one thing, lose the right to practice your religion during the time you work, which is not something you lose in the private sector (this is because the government, and thus it's employees, cannot be allowed to be anything but neutral in matters of religion).

Read the contract you signed when you took a job. I bet it'll be entertaining and instructive. Don't take anything I say, or indeed the contract you signed, as legal advice.

You do however, retain the right to terminate your employment (no matter what the contract says, and it must be free to do so, provided a certain period of notice is respected), and get back full enjoyment of your rights.
Completely content with that.
In Taiwan, “I need to get visas from multiple countries at once” is a valid excuse to get a second passport valid for 5 years.

:)
Turkish group linked to Wichita website has attacked other cities’ sites
High Availability at Braintree by Paul Gross
Things like Flash, Silverlight, PDF readers and other native plug-in components generally aren't open.
Rather than engaging in self-congratulation here, it might be a good idea to take a look at this part of the article (which was not submitted here with its actual title on Wikipedia): "Despite that name [the Indiana Pi Bill], the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant π (pi), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter." It's not clear to me that there has been any increase in this era in the percentage of politically involved persons who even know what "squaring the circle" is, much less who know the outline of the proof of why squaring the circle with Euclidean tools is impossible. Indeed, the whole notion of proof seems to be vanishing from secondary school teaching in geometry, so a bill about a method for squaring the circle might be even more confusing to voters today than it was then. Back then and now, it was important to listen patiently to an expert, a mathematician, to understand the flaw in the bill's proposed solution.
Ok. Yeah, you guys got in recently.

http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/commission.html
Came here thinking VS2k13 was going to be free.
Oh snap, thanks for reminding me of this. It's called ParallelJS. Here's a link to a demo video: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/intel-labs-r... :) I like the accent

I'd recommend checking the Ajaxian article[1] that sums it up. You can find the source on Github [2]. You can play around with the River Trail interactive shell
[3] too.

--

[1] http://ajaxian.com/archives/intels-parallel-extensions-for-j...

[2] https://github.com/RiverTrail/RiverTrail

[3] https://github.com/RiverTrail/interactive
Fully-integrated TypeScript support!

For me that elevates TypeScript from a MS side project to something they're serious about.
Thanks didn't know that (can't say I looked). Will have a play.
Same thought. Sent their link to a friend of mine, who said "hey, seems like i'm already registered to their beta...". That was one year ago, and he completely forgot about it.
Modern Medicine Scales Poorly: How Technology Can Fix It
AFAIK, Visual Basic was targeted at non-professional/beginner programmers, so having wizards and designers is fine there.

My main gripe with abundance of today's "visual programming" is that we have memory-managed languages with immense expressive power and ability to write all kinds of DSLs, yet what Microsoft does is it provides crippled XML-backed designers along with half-baked frameworks and class libraries.
If anything MS tools have moved away from clickety-clickery. That was something they were pretty much famous for back in 2008. MVC and EF are just a couple examples of moving away from this patter. This is nothing but imaginative revisionism.

Don't get me wrong, this type of thing drove me from the MS ecosystem a while ago now but they do move largely in the right direction, just too slowly for my tastes.
In VS 2012 MSFT removed the color for the icons in the UI. Everybody complained on the web. Now the color icons are back. MSFT's spin:

"Visual Studio 2013 includes many user interface improvements based on customer feedback and Microsoft’s core design principle of keeping the focus on the content to deliver an improved user experience. You may notice the more than 400 modified icons with greater differentiation and increased use of color,"

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/visual-studio-2013
Living Social agrees with you
I learned to love this full-screen menu, once I set up one of extra buttons on my mouse to "win" key and learned to use scroll-wheel to navigate the menu. it is fast, fluid and I do not have to focus on reading program names. became 2nd nature to me
Those things don't bother me at all. US surveillance does.

The UK has surpassed the US in surveillance - the Tempora program attempts to capture all traffic in the UK and store it as long as possible.

The only censorship/filtering here is for two things: piracy and porn.

That's not quite true - along with self-censorship, there are huge areas (for example surveillance) which cannot be discussed in an open way in the UK because of government pressure (D-Notices, threats of legal action etc).
Google Hummingbird: Practical Semantics at Scale
No, it was always there in Windows 8. It's not always there in 8.1.
Right. They're only filtering for porn and piracy, no big deal of course. But then again, the NSA is only looking for terrorists, right? If you're not a terrorist, then that's no big deal either.

Right?

Do you understand the problem or do I need to explain more clearly?
Don’t Get Hit By a Beer Truck: What Serious Founders Need to Consider
My approach is frequently to "name" a complicated list comprehension by shoving it into a one or two-liner closure function in the current scope. Then you don't have to jump miles and the code which uses it becomes readable.
Well it would if Javascript execution speed was the issue, but as the article highlights, they're using Javascript to replace slow browser rendering, and the argument is that JS is, in the case of matrix transformations, 80% the speed of native C, and using that to replace the renderer for animations in a browser is faster than the native render.

Of course, faster JS is never wrong.
I'd love to see an indie studio like this providing something more than pre-orders and deluxe editions to backers. If we're not getting any equity for the money, at least the product should be freely released upon completion.
One problem is that they had a number of interlocking visions for a civil society, many of which have also not been realized. So then it's less clear what they would do in response.

For example, Jefferson's set of ideals was roughly:

- Decentralized government, so people can rule themselves at a local level.

- Universal literacy and civic knowledge, through free public education, so a civil society would exist and have the knowledge to govern itself wisely.

- Relatively good economic equality, as it was envisioned as primarily a nation of independent individuals who own their own tools and/or land, trading with each other of their own free will: yeoman farmers, tradesmen, shopkeepers, etc. (excluding slaves, it must be said...).

It's not clear what his alternative proposal would be if those conditions didn't all hold. For example on #3, Jefferson viewed the social tensions produced by industrialization in Britain with alarm, but thought the U.S., with its large amount of free land and different culture, could avoid them just by just avoiding centralizing, factory-based industrialization. Instead he hoped machines would be introduced in a more decentralized manner, with farmers and tradesmen owning a few machines here and there, as was the case with the printing presses. That would avoid the problem of poor masses of urban workers and be consistent with the ideal of decentralized free men governing themselves. But of course, he was wrong on that, and the U.S. got mass industrialization anyway, just a bit later than Britain.
Hmm, note that "Urasium" in the Apple demo has an atomic weight of 238.0289, while this one changes the weight to "Michael Arrington". I think the famo.us people may have been calling Michael Arrington an ass.
Ya, I can't begin to tell you the number of times I have been made fun of by ___ text editor fanatics for using an IDE that has wizard clicky things/drag drop components etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU things like this never help
Oh, they are very much politically correct, they just happen to have different politics.
Nope, it is a great idea on mobile, at least for iDevices and I imagine most Android devices. Especially with high dpi screens, leaving everything on the CPU is too slow.
"Corporations are people" has nothing to do with campaign spending limits being unconstitutional. Congress can and does legally limit donations from anyone (people, corporations, whatever) to politicians. It can't ban any communication mentioning a candidate for federal office without permission, which is what the McCain–Feingold Act attempted to do.

The Constitution says "shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" and doesn't say it's a particular right of individuals, just a blanket ban on legislation on the topic. Protecting the freedom of the press as an exclusively individual right doesn't even make sense.
Beware, this hole goes deep. I'm currently traveling and spending my nights listening to Zizek talk about the ideology represented by our actions, since we all think we're a bunch of hard-reality-observing scientist-minded smartypantses who disavow anything unfalsifiable. I mean, I've known this about atheists and atheism for a long time, but as I say, the hole is deep.
All the fast track you need is to confer in a less-crazy space. In general, this works pretty well. You can publish in Springer journals, attend IEEE conferences and whatnot without ever entering USA.

However, it would be pretty funny to see NSA organize its conference in Europe to evade visa problems :D
See also: the strict unbelievers of the invisible, ethereal, and completely silent unicorn I keep in my garage.
I can't seem to find the dmg for mac.
I'm gonna go with 'no'; GPU's should be a lot faster (read: more specialized), and thus more power-efficient than general-purpose CPU's. In theory. Disregarding optimizations in general purpose CPU's in mobile.
Reddit Founder to Tell Waterloo Students to "Suck Less" Next Month
Are you retired? How do you know you will be happy doing nothing?
Hop, Launches An App That Makes Email Feel More Like Real-Time Mobile Messaging
Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click
Hard to imagine what they could be adding to CSS3 transforms - composite transforms can be done efficiently without calculating them manually anyway (by using the DOM tree as a "scene graph"). I experimented with this some time ago as well [1]

But even bigger question than the performance is, what kind of 3D user interface would be more effective in conveying a message than a clean, regular 2D website that everybody feels familiar with. Curious to see if they will bring some UI design innovations here

[1] https://github.com/asaarinen/spherical-map
So what? These aren't criticisms of today's release at all.

Mir isn't even used in 13.10.

I don't think there are any distributions which ship with i3 so you would have to install i3 in any case, that isn't a fault of Ubuntu's and since you are not using it anyway, who cares if it looks like OS X to you?

Ubuntu's work is open source, the code is there under a liberal license, what do you even want?

If you don't like software center, use apt-get or synaptic. Their "App Store" isn't for you but I am glad they have one to encourage a market for Linux software. If you don't like it, don't use it, it's not harming you.

I don't know what developer SDKs have to do with anything. This isn't Android, it's normal Linux. Write a Linux app and it runs on Ubuntu.

Why would I look at OpenSUSE if I do not specifically want an RPM-based distribution oriented toward KDE? If those are your preferences then why are you even complaining about Ubuntu?
yup, this is what I do with my homemade ebike
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2841/10328825565_ef951c4367_b....

fwiw, as a designer I think this team is solving some of the biggest issues with current ebike design that is holding back wider adoption in the US/UK markets. Kudos to them, hope they hit a home run.