skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reason: Tech "journalism"

Once you show a normal Windows user where and how to get to the new start menu... they get it, and move on. The bloggers and writers for tech review sites however did not. They might have "got it" but they didn't move on, and MS had to buckle or suffer review after review that complained about the "missing" start button.

Once you get over the newness, Windows 8 is just like 7 but that doesn't make for a very exciting or controversial review.
Free sample is not really a sample at all. It's just a hook, an introduction. I would be willing to buy this if there was a real sample, even one page.
"... they're going to have to lose a ton of fat and get a good understanding of what it means to ship consumer level embedded products."

Isn't that what they've done with Windows Phone?

I understand the view that full-fat Windows on a consumer device like a tablet doesn't look like a good fit, but the Surface Pro seems to be disproving that. Or at least rendering it arguable.
And he tutored Champollion at age of 11!
Oakley airwave ski goggles
It’s a Man’s Phone - large smartphones can be hard to use
Because when you iterate on an existing product and you try to do something new you will always have people complaining about the new system and want the old system back, no matter how good the new one is. Some of them will be more vocal than others.
I don't see how Bitcoin could go down to $0 (assuming that it's not the philosophical scenario with $ growing to infinite), unless the entire thing is somehow compromised and exploited in an abusive manner; thus, destroying the trust of anyone left with Bitcoin holdings.
PayPal is to worldwide online payments what Microsoft was to OSes in the nineties. Bitcoin is Linux. It's free, and by some measures better, yet nobody wants to use it.

They're essentially a monopolist.

Nobody else has what they have: access to nearly every country, worldwide.
Braintree and Square, too. Maybe more so than Stripe.
What about Groovy?[1]

From the website:

- is an agile and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine

- builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk

- makes modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve

- provides the ability to statically type check and statically compile your code for robustness and performance

- supports Domain-Specific Languages and other compact syntax so your code becomes easy to read and maintain

- makes writing shell and build scripts easy with its powerful processing primitives, OO abilities and an Ant DSL

- increases developer productivity by reducing scaffolding code when developing web, GUI, database or console applications

- simplifies testing by supporting unit testing and mocking out-of-the-box

- seamlessly integrates with all existing Java classes and libraries

- compiles straight to Java bytecode so you can use it anywhere you can use Java

It has also recently entered the top 20 on Tiobe Index and it's the only one amongst other well-known JVM languages ( Scala (#36), JavaFX Script (#41) and Clojure (#76)) [2]

[1] http://groovy.codehaus.org/
[2] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Yes, please do beef up the page a little. I am fine paying that with refund and all, but it would be nice to get a idea on how serious this is.
Brilliant! Suggestions: 1. Can you enable keyboard navigation for the dropdowns? 2. Currency seems to default to my language setting, not to my location. Can this be configurable? Bugs: 1. Sorting doesn't seem to work. 2. Your blog seems to be having performance problems.
You're the creator of SignalR? Good job man. I mean it.
This is why I like my Motorola Defy, it is very small and near indestructible (people have even filmed videos from under water with it).

I don't even have a cellphone plan, just use it with wifi for development testing, etc.
Couldn't agree more. Perfect modern example is when Facebook changes ... well just about anything. Users revolt, protest polls are held, and plugins are written to bring back the "old Facebook".

However like always, users get over the change and their uproar and continue to use the product, eventually unaware that it was ever any different.
Any insights are appreciated. It seems like people look at the outcome first (steady passive income) which is a good strategy, but hard to do if consulting is the first master. At larger places that I worked, either the skills were missing for the SaaS switch, or there wasn't a stomach for the investment involved.
right click - inspect element - select "<nav>" element following body tag. right click -> "delete".
IIRC, Stroustoup uses a non-monospaced font in his C++ book.
I'm guessing that a good chunk of that came from either reducing the actual complexity of their UI, or from simplifying horribly-fragmented old code. And I would guess more of the former than the latter.
Hi, Author of the referenced blog post [2] here (and one of Felten's grad students).

Let me lay out the argument from our post in a more technical way: the biggest problem with the Eyal/Sirer paper is that they don't think about the problem as an equilibrium problem, but rather argue about what's best from the perspective of a particular player. This leads them to propose a strategy which is not even optimal for any player (we prefer to think of Bitcoin as a kind of consensus game, in the game theoretic sense. See our earlier paper on the topic [1]).

They argue that Bitcoin is not incentive-compatible by virtue of the strategy they demonstrate. I think this question needs to be the crux of any Bitcoin research paper. I'll define "incentive compatible" to mean one of two things

(1) (weakly incentive compatible) If people follow their incentives, rather than the rules of Bitcoin as written down and understood by the community, then there exists an equilibrium in which all players follow the rules.

(2) (strongly incentive compatible) The above equilibrium is the only equilibrium in Bitcoin.

The question of whether the current Bitcoin ruleset is incentive compatible strikes me as the most important Bitcoin research question: it answers whether Bitcoin, as a system, will continue to be stable over the long term. A secondary question is to ask "what rule sets could exist which would be incentive compatible?" Obviously, if the answer to the first question is "no" then the second question is more important.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5874786

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6689254
tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment
What's the stability of this like? How much traffic can I send before the RPi falls to it's knees?

Awesome project.
They're not. It's the same result. The rate of emissions is growing, but the rate of increase of the rate of emissions is falling.

It's like you've reduced your acceleration from 10ms^-2 to 5ms^-2 - the distance you're travelling is still on an upward curve, and you'll still be hitting higher and higher speeds, but you'll be taking longer to reach them than you were previously.
Kickstart our residency program to get artists hacking
Looks very nice, I see there are no Asian courier service provider, hope to see them added soon as I can certainly see real world usage of shippo
I created an API directory as a side project a few months ago. I manually posted new APIs submitted to the site on the Twitter account at first. It was kind of tedious, so I wrote a script to auto-post new APIs to Twitter.
Having watched his talks as well, and having dealt with news media, I'm hoping that there's a bit of a lens being applied by the author. In my head as I was reading this, I paraphrased the main point of this to read that there was a pessimistic bias amongst British respondents which caused most of them to answer fewer than 25% of questions correctly (the most likely score to achieve by random choice).

His message is astoundingly positive. Admittedly he does like to poke at the western world a bit, but I doubt he was throwing as strong of a jab at Great Britain as the author would like you to believe.

Edit: Nevermind. I just read it again. The chimpanzee comparison is really obnoxiously contrived. We don't know what the full conversation was, but it certainly looks like the author is pulling the conversation back toward sanity. Regarding Brits answering worse than randomly, the author says:

To be fair, so did the Swedes, the only other nation to have
been polled so far. In a speech to TED downloaded almost six
million times, he points out that he also put the questions
to some fellow professors, and they were on a par with
chimpanzees, too.

I still like the overall message, however. As a whole the world is in a golden age of prosperity right now. Yes, there are awful, horrible atrocities happening on a daily basis, but on a global scale the quality of life of the average person is improving year over year at a very fast pace.
I prefer 2 space indents (tabs)
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We built a product that we built about 7 years ago using SOAP web services. We built a large front-end (something like 500 screens) in Adobe Flex. Now, we're rewriting it using the latest JavaScript web libraries, html, css, etc... We wrapped the SOAP/XML service calls inside a JSON parser/interpreter...

Bottom line, it's amazing how easy it has been rebuilding the front-end when the original app was already built from a backend API. I don't think we purposely knew how future-proof we were making our server APIs.

Now days I thought this was an obvious choise. Even if the API is for internal applications.
That depends: who's "we" and what's "this"?
RCSwitch implementation for Raspberry Pi
Your "This field is required" validation labels obscure the postcode lookup dropdown for me when I submit before inputting any details. Otherwise, very nice!
Is it clear that you have any kind of legal property when you "own" a bitcoin? I mean, it's just some numbers in a distributed database (and not one with legal backing the way the banking system has).
In Twitter IPO, Wall Street reserved best info for top clients
> It's better to train yourself to get used to seeing code bases formatted slightly differently, just one of the things you have to get over, IMHO. Like camel notation version underscores versus dashes.

That's a pretty good point. Indentation is indeed just one small aspect of the overall code style - why would you want to have that configurable and nothing else?
It's OK when entrepreneurs believe they’re artists.
Every sharp uptick will have a corrective period because upticks have momentum.

Now is a good a time to buy as any. No one knows if the correction is going to drop below the current price or not. So it really doesn't matter when you buy, especially so if you're holding for the long term.
PayPal is still running on something they call XPT and their admin tools are built with something called Maxcode (Max Levchin wrote it).

As of 2 years ago they revolutionized CSS by having it being generated from Java because their fellowship of the ring wanted control over which properties you can use and how. Everything they do from a tech perspective has been to allow them to hire cheap labor while restricting which HTML/CSS they have access to. It's probably a good business strategy (like making sure they don't get classified as a bank) but it fosters an abysmal tech culture.

I have no way to prove the points above you'd just have to trust that I worked there as a UI dev.
If you look at the differences page, it is equivalent in power, but does not have the same expression.

Pragmas now sorta start with @, and type classes are (in my opinion) kinda funky coming from Haskell.
Thanks, much appreciated :) Keyboard navigation should work already. Which browser are you using? About the bug: thanks, will fix it now!
Live Stream of Twitter Opening Bell
Skype founder launches Perzo for secret communications
What are Derivatives?
I have to agree with csmuk. I have four browsers installed on my laptop (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and IE) and IE does not take 10 seconds to open the MSN page and Bing searches return results instantly. Something is wrong with your system.
My motto for writing is: words count, not word counts. What I mean by that is my books are informationally dense. Giving away a chapter is giving away a lot of information.

I priced the book so it would be affordable to everyone, and you're also covered with a 45 day money back guarantee. If you're not 100% satisfied with the results, get an instant refund and keep the book. I only want happy customers.
Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation
That wouldn't be hard at all. All you need to do is assign a default style and create the diffs in that style.

The hard part is creating a tool that can change between styles. Such a tool would need to be made for every language separately which is a pain. I've been wanting to try something like this for years but have never built up the courage.
Keyboard navigation: I'm running Firefox on Linux. Tabbing between fields works, up/down arrow to select from dropdown doesn't work at the moment.
Audience matters to the equation.

Is it product motivated? Who is the product for, a consumer or a contributor?

Is it interpretive, art, or otherwise? In other words, as a producer, do you simply have a statement or rhetorical to present?

When conversion rate is no longer relevant, the formula is staggeringly more permissive.
Which country are you in? I'm taking suggestions which ones to include next ;) Just finished negotiating with some Indian courier services and will insert them into the database soon! Will then have a look at China next... Please do let me know which countries you want to see next.
Create on-line portfolio from Dropbox files
This is cool... but it's not entirely unlike split-tunnel VPN services, with lots of splits. And a bit of Dynamic Multipoint VPN thrown in...

That said, always great to see evolved routing techniques that can be controlled ("defined") by software.
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Cool idea but I couldn't get it to work.

It kept throwing errors saying that I needed to pick a valid zip code or city from the dropdown (despite having done so). I had 45247 and Tokyo Japan as my two selections. It also said "This field is required" with a bubble that pointed off screen with no way to scroll over to whatever the field was.

Using an iPhone 5, ios 7.
David Cameron singing Story Of My Life by One Direction
... they challenge something no one would know and would have to make a guess based on their current worldview.

That's the whole point of this article. Why do these facts fall under the heading "something no one would know"? Why are people so poorly informed about the direction and magnitude of large-scale changes in the world's societies and economies?

Naturally this has nothing to do with chimps, that was just rhetorics towards a clickable headline.
http://www.coect.net uses own Lisp dialect MetaJS http://metajs.coect.net
This is exactly the feedback I was hoping to get. Thanks a lot! I'm on it! I knew I could count on HN. Server is getting super slow though...
Disagree with your disagree. There is a difference between the actual code and how the code is styled. It makes sense to have conventions on how to format a for statement but not where to add brackets - making them be on the same line or on their own line makes little difference to noticing bugs and is purely a stylistic preference.
Not an article, but this is a good library that uses generator functions without promises:

https://github.com/visionmedia/co
Google appear to use Oracle Hyperion Financial Management for consolidated reporting and planning (search their job pages - they usually have ads) - I would suspect that this runs on Oracle boxes running Solaris.
I care because the stories are spamming up HN. You can't downvote stories, and flagging them would probably be considered inappropriate.
Philosophically, this effort seems fallacious to me. Many of the Internet's services are only free because of advertising, and while Mozilla's intentions seem admirable, they're at best short sighted and at worst naive.

As for the immediate reason Mozilla is backing off, have you ever wondered how you make money as a browser? One of the key revenue streams for a company like Mozilla or Opera is referral fees from search engines. Ever wonder why Microsoft is so desperate to make it difficult to use non-IE browsers? it's because they have their own search engine.

My own personal speculation is that some of Mozilla's search engine customers, whose business model often includes using cookies, came forward and indicated their displeasure with this initiative and pointed out that this would basically amount to biting the hand that feeds it on Mozilla's part.
Can you figure out who wrote the chapters of this machine learning book?
Thumbs up for letting me know. Sorry that it doesn't work, we're on it!
A large part of why I like Haskell is the ghc-specific extensions. TemplateHaskell, OverloadedStrings, DeriveGeneric etc.. Standard Haskell is (imho) much more cumbersome without them.
That's an interesting take, I think Twitter has long term growth potential but like the article says it's not Google and I don't think it ever will be. When Google filed for IPO it already had one of the biggest ad networks online, whereas Twitter is still growing.

Honestly I'm surprised Twitter has filed so early, I'd have thought next year would be more likely. If I was investing (and I'm not), I'd mark it as a risky venture, the business is clearly changing at the moment but it's still certainly growing in the metrics and it has an increasingly large amount of visibility in mainstream media. They do seem to have a strategy though.
Live stream: UK spy chiefs face public grilling
Has anyone had an experience with KS where:

- the product shipped on time

- the product worked as advertised

- the founding team didn't go overboard

In all the Kickstarters I've seen, it seems like the founders lose interest in actually delivering a product after they get the money. They run up against the challenges of support and manufacturing, and they seem to just skip on to the next thing because that's what they enjoyed in the first place - having a cool idea and getting it funded. Sometimes the next cool idea is just scope creep for the current product ("Sorry we're 3 months behind on shipping, but now it can also mine Bitcoins and chop salads!").

My point being, I don't think KS will ever work for technology, because the funding comes at exactly the point where the project stops being fun. Besides the guilt of providing a product to backers, there's not a ton of incentive for a small team to keep building after they get funded, so they'll just delay and peter out, or punt on key objectives and move on.
If you want to get peoples email addresses you're going to need to add more info about the service.
Show HN: Whistle-based Authentication
With the rise of more and more clever authentication methods, e.g. fingerprint (Apple Touch ID), facial recognition (http://mashable.com/2013/07/25/facial-recognition-payment) and clicking in pictures (http://pixelpin.co.uk), we thought that why not take this trend to the next level:

Whistle-based Authentication: http://popdevelop.com/whistle

The project uses HTML5 audio (in Chrome) together with some basic signal processing to detect notes that are whistled in a certain order. Only the order is important, so no need for perfect pitch.

And kids, don't use this in anything close to a production environment. This project was developed during the Malmoe Music Hack Weekend 2013 and only supports the two demo users. However feel free to fork the project and add your own users and melodies.
+1 to this guy.
Trying to use Tokyo might be your problem. There is a notice posted at the top of the page saying "Supporting Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States to date" so it looks like your selection shouldn't work.
I just switched to mutt and it's freaking awesome!
Tech.eu
Serious question, not trying to be rude.

If banks are full of competent programmers, why are their customer-facing online banking websites so utterly, utterly terrible?
MI5, MI6, and GCHQ chiefs public hearing live on the BBC
That's an interesting comparison, as the things that you mention (links, telnet, etc) are very technical, low-level tools that normal people can't be bothered to learn the arcane usage of.

By contrast, Windows 8, with the big pastel tiles and simple typography is by a long way the most n00b-friendly, regular-folk-focused, detail-hiding desktop OS that Microsoft has ever done. IMHO the problem is not usability for simple tasks, it is that MS have been alienating the power-users in chasing after this mass market that seems to want simple things.

I'm not saying that the "normal people" market is stupid or unskilled - they could be lawyers or doctors. Just that they don't care about computers as much as IT professionals do, they want the computer to just work, and in a simple way while they do something that they do care about.

Maybe windows 8 is not what people want. But it certainly isn't because it's too much like telnet.
I'd say I care a lot since governments play a very large role in our lives whether we want them to or not. They have the potential to control nearly every aspect of our lives from the people we marry to the amount of money taken from our paychecks. They also have a consistent track record of violence.

I care about politics but I don’t care about “politics”. I’m referring to the politics that is shown on TV. I get most of my news through Tumblr and other various online sources and I read great dialogue about political philosophy. I see what’s really happening around the world. I see children killed by drone strikes with their legs blown off. I see ground level videos of bombs going off in streets. Meanwhile, the average person who is interested in “politics” is watching a segment on CNN or Fox News about the jeans Obama wears.
C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data
With the rise of more and more clever authentication methods, e.g. fingerprint (Apple Touch ID), facial recognition (http://mashable.com/2013/07/25/facial-recognition-payment) and clicking in pictures (http://pixelpin.co.uk), we thought that why not take this trend to the next level:

Whistle-based Authentication: http://popdevelop.com/whistle

The project uses HTML5 audio (in Chrome) together with some basic signal processing to detect notes that are whistled in a certain order. Only the order is important, so no need for perfect pitch.

And kids, don't use this in anything close to a production environment. This project was developed during the Malmoe Music Hack Weekend 2013 and supports only the two demo users. However feel free to fork the project and add your own users and melodies.
Arrrghh, that sucks. Which city is 45247? Could you select one?
>>our country has NEVER gone and attacked anyone in the past 3000 years.

Well, our country didn't exist pre-1947, but we're arguing semantics now. Still, it's kindof bonkers to define the border of a fairly young "nation" over a period of 3000years. If you do that, then you need to consider the Mughal campaigns in Central Asia as they attacked Samarkhamd (Persia) as well as Kandahar (also persian held at the time). Or do you not consider them Indian?

OK then, consider that the Chola empire conquered sections of South East Asia. But perhaps you dismiss these conquests as exaggerations? (note that there is overwhelming evidence that atleast ports were raided even if there was no lasting presence -- it's still an "attack")

But if we are going to be pedantic, even post-Independence India declared war on Portugal and is considered the aggressor state when it "invaded" Goa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Goa