skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carriers and manufacturers have no incentive to deliver a good experience on Android phones past the first few months. It's a high three digits dollar device at best with a profit margin probably in the double digits, and customers don't care enough to reward carriers for doing it.
Hey Alex, I'm always happy to hear about specific link schemes or websites that spammers are using.
The only real issues I'm aware of are slow startup times and a bigger app distributable. (Try out Bounce Away: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.friendlyvi...)
There are tons of high-paying jobs for qualified engineers and tradesmen with relevant experience. Let's not pretend a guy with an English PhD can get a well-paying job in Fort McMurray without years of costly retraining.

Even engineers without relevant experience (SAGD or at least site exp) will have a tough time getting O&G industry jobs.

When the industry says "skill shortage" it means that engineers are starting to ask for 1/50th of the CEO's pay, not that they'll actually hire any comers.
That list doesn't seem to answer the question "How many of those people killed by cops were trying to shoot back?"
The replies are interesting indeed:

>Actually, Jobs was not fired. He could have been well funded to develop any product, even something like the NeXT, right at Apple. He was removed from running Macintosh because he had no good constructive ideas that were needed to save the company. He felt that some small adjustments in pricing, and diverting funds from our revenue source, the Apple ][, would make the Macintosh an instant success. The Macintosh was great and was the future in the eyes of those who displaced Jobs. But it was time to be adult and realistic. Hard work to build a Macintosh market would be needed. I’m sad too that the Macintosh wouldn’t sell just on its own.
A side note: the term "Tower Defense" is already trademarked in case anyone cares lol. Can't use it on the app store :(
Hey Matt, just wondering what your Username on BHW is?
Faster, nicer UI, better multi-monitor support, better touch support, improved tools. Basically the same reasons you've upgraded to Windows 7 before that.
Model S has a fast pulsing green light around the charge port when it's charging.
I didn't down-vote your comment (or your other comment) but I can see why someone might think it's a bit harsh. I tend to agree with you in at least one respect ... we only need a certain number of English professors and while the complaint is universities and colleges hiring instructors instead of offering tenure track positions, the ability to staff their institutions this way is strictly due to an abundant supply.

My wife followed her dream 25 years later, I'm still supporting the family while the work she does is primary for the benefit of society as a whole. We're not surprised and therefore we're safe so long as I'm employed.
Talking to investors at the moment. Then hopefully hiring!
"I spend almost all of my time in the desktop, and the few times I need to use the new Start interface, the workflow is exactly the same as Win7"

OK, then why is it a "clear upgrade"?
It's very different, because there are enough parking spaces for everybody, but they don't happen to have sockets in them.
Just to join the chorus: it's not a hard problem. Intel intentionally adds code to the executables produced by their compiler so as to limit their performance on non-Intel CPUs. They lost a federal lawsuit filed by the FCC on deceptive practices because they did not inform their customers, who thought they were buying a working compiler, that they were doing this.

Instead of simply removing this code, which serves no purpose other than degrade performance on non-Intel CPUs, they reached an agreement to put legal disclaimers on every web page mentioning their compiler that they reserve the right to do this. But because of the slick legal language of the disclosure, most people get the impression that they are simply failing to make AMD specific optimizations, rather than intentionally preventing non-Intel CPUs from utilizing the optimizations already present in the code.

I think we all agree that at this point Intel's practice is fully legal. Their engineers should feel proud of having built a really solid compiler. But Intel-the-company deserves to be shamed for its slimy underhanded practices, and the engineers should feel a certain amount of revulsion for allowing themselves to be used in this way. Perhaps if they stood up for the obvious right approach, they could help change the company for the better.
"i promise you that you don't program a computer with empathy no matter how hard you try"

Perhaps non-intuitively, I believe this is not true. You can tell the programmers who lack empathy -- they write code with no consideration for those who will use the end result or work with it later on. It requires empathy to make an effort to be understood and to be useful to others.

And in the case of anything with a UI, empathy shows up in spades (or doesn't). Just compare that app that seems to anticipate your every need and "just works" to whatever alternatives it's usually competing against. You can't just get away with it by copying whatever Apple does or having a cargo cult "design philosophy" -- you actually have to develop some kind of empathy for the people who use your product.
I use it on a three monitor desktop. My favorite new features are file explorer and task manager.

Also the skydrive + settings sync is really nice. Whenever I install on a new device, everything's set up on first boot.

Lots of other features that don't make headlines but are genuinely useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8
the cognitive disarray caused by the metro menu is the worst UI innovation since mystery meat navigation. that being said, disabling it in favor of a classic start menu makes Windows 8 on par with 7.

This sort of workaround does not make things OK for the average person.
$20/one time to file 5 requests. $40/month for 20 requests plus additional features. Full info here:

https://www.muckrock.com/accounts/register/

Slowly working on our registration flow, which is admittedly somewhat confusing now.
It was in FreeBSD!

http://www.freebsd.cz/kse/index.html

For some reason, it didn't work out, and FreeBSD switched back to conventional threads, around 7.0, i think.
Swipe gestures are a pain with a mouse, because you need to move the mouse to the right spot, click, drag in the opposite direction and then release, requiring a non-trivial amount of effort; and it just feels wrong when you're expected to do so regularly because you know there has to be a better way (like the way it used to work). Decades of desktop UI design focused on "discoverability" also mean that an unindicated need for a swipe gesture in order to access core functionality is frustratingly non-obvious to people experienced with classic desktop interfaces, and these will tend to be people whose advice is requested in purchasing decisions.

Swiping is awesomely natural on a touchscreen, but obviously sub-optimal otherwise. Reliance on a swipe gesture should be avoided in UI design for a mouse/touchpad and keyboard environment, in favor of buttons and menus, and mouse wheel/two-fingered scroll support.
There's nothing wrong with adding features and improving software, but if you're going to obscure computing idioms that are in some cases decades-old (e.g. closing and minimizing windowed content), you had better be sure that is what users want.
I'm saying it only takes one kid who makes an inappropriate joke like changing "public void" to "pubic void" when we're doing a code review. In such a situation, the boy will suppress a smile while he innocently exclaims he made a typo, while his friends all giggle innocuously

This is an expression of "masculinity", pseudo- or otherwise?

Seems more like a silly juvenile joke that some kids (or adults) of both sexes might enjoy, and some might roll their eyes.
<3 the 1st contact it sent was, "Hello, World!" Perfect.
I read this article and was astounded there wasn't a massive outcry about this. Then I dug around some more and it seems the guardian article is really quite misleading.

There is a Health Service Journal article at
http://www.hsj.co.uk/comment/more-patient-data-ultimately-me...
which gives more details.

The "pseudonymised data" is also referred to "amber data" and does not contain the postcode, DoB or NHS number of the patients.

The "red data" which contains this additional information is not available to 3rd parties except in exceptional circumstances - eg: a national emergency with an outbreak of some deadly disease where the government is trying to contain it.
Interesting bit from page 64:

"An article appeared in the Los Angeles Times, a Los Angeles daily newspaper, dated 7/18/56, to the effect that the
appointee's wife was granted a divorce from him because of
appointee's constantly working calculus problems in his head
as soon as awake, while driving car, sitting in living room, and
so forth, and that his one hobby was playing his African drums.
His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when
she unwittingly disturbed either his calculus or his drums he
flew into a violent rage, during which time he choked her, threw
pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture. This antic
reflects that the court approved a $7500 cash settlement in
favor of the appointee's ex-wife, giving her an automobile, furniture and objects of art, as well as $300 per month for two
years and $250 a month for a third year"
"Universities only admitting as many PhDs as they could possibly absorb"

This is an excellent idea, and I've also been a proponent of pushing liberal arts minors in combination with other degrees that provide a much more employability. Neither of these ideas will be embraced because each college department honestly believes their area of focus is the most important topic on earth. Add the desire of the college administrators to build a little kingdom of their own, and you won't even be heard.
Sure. The point is, "bringing back" implies that there was a period of time where Windows 7 PCs weren't being offered by HP, which appears not to be the case.
Oh yes. There are some rather ancient things still out there that give me the shivers, but you come across them time to time.
Some people are afraid of change, but those of us who aren't don't like change that take things away. Windows 8.1 did not fix the start button for us desktop users. There's absolutely no reason to take that way except to force change, which is obnoxious.
I made this app on a weekend because I needed it and couldn't find one
The problem is when companies like Stripe provide misleading or patently false guidance in order to build their business. It's very amazing when people buy-into the idea of completely side-stepping PCI by implementing SSL & some Javascript within their same origin.
Faking Git using Core Data and the Github API
Another solution would be to allow those interested in PhDs an informed decision as to whether or not to pursue the degree. Major media could make occasional reports on the status of the post-doctoral job market available to all interested parties; those parties could then be allowed to balance personal cost against expected outcome.
The future of Android Root
I am doing a small sample of that now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforce... .
It does happen. I've been reading jQuery source recently as a learning exercise, for instance.
The changes between Windows 7 and 8 always seemed terribly minor to me -- a few control panels and settings shifted around as they do every OS update, the start menu became larger and looks a bit different but functions essentially the same (right down to preserving your Program Files hierarchy from Win95 if you scroll down from the tiles screen), but nothing major in the big scheme of things.

If Microsoft hadn't made these changes, and in the next few years became completely foreign and irrelevant to the current young generation of consumers who grew up on touch devices that work more like Win8 than Win7, would we be panning them for sticking with "what works" while their consumer base switches to Android/iOS?
What I really liked about Steve Wozniak's writeup is that he says so many things without sounding like "Hey, Jobs was an ass I am the real hero".
Your post sounds like marketing copy to my ears. You have an extraordinarily adept family that Microsoft would probably appreciate hearing about.
Can it also have space dinosaurs in it. Like, real space dinosaurs. From space.
#178: "the applicant's wife was suing him for divorce charging him with 'playing the bongo drums too much and studying physics the rest of the time'"

#184: "a deeply ingrained belief that he had a superior intellect and that he could do no wrong. <redacted> self-centered, opinionated, dogmatic and extremely egotistical. <snip> She said that her personal feeling is that FEYNMAN is without character or acceptable moral fiber."
Seems not everyone was a fan of Mr. Feynman.

Multiple references to The Communist Party and statements from anonymous informants within the party around #170. More about the Young People's Socialist League at #245
Dude - this is so brilliant! Was just going through pmarca's tweets yesterday & was thinking "damn- I wish somebody can convert this into a blog post" .

Thank you!

Let me know if you need help. I can pick a day of the week & help transcribe/collate that days tweets!
Reasons we should stop using navigation bars
Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps network this year
Show HN: Yep, it's hard for Product Management to keep the team informed
This is the part that confuses me, I guess. The business owner gets the email. It sounds spammy. Maybe they fall for it anyway and receive the article to post. But don't they then realize that it's crappy? It's not as if spammers are logging in to their WordPress account and posting on their behalf. Business owners ultimately have full veto and editing power.

So why don't they cut out the spammy stuff like keyword links? Or, if the content is really garbage, say "no thanks"? The only reason I can see is if they're terribly desperate for content, in which case they're knowingly degrading their own platform.
This. Not everything need to be solved high-tech.
The Best Punctuation Marks in Literature
Where in the Silicon Valley did you grow up?
If only we could celebrate that kind of integrity on the par with brilliant salesmanship. Think a world without Jobs, or a world without Woz, which one is a sadder place?
Postgres can query inside json. To be honest I don't care that much about logging as long as it is saved to disk.
Everything feels faster and more responsive IMO. Dare I say the scheduler has been improved somewhat since 7 (that's a guess). Also there are a number of nice tweaks to the task manager and explorer, and some other things.
It's almost like Vancouver cares more about nurses than software developers making up a significant portion of tech industry.

Think about this, an entry level nurse makes more than an entry level software developer in Vancouver, an experienced nurse ends up making more than a intermediate/senior developer with several years of experience at a firm in Vancouver.

Nurses get paid overtime, software developers are not, as overtime is almost expected with any software project.

Nurses get unions, software devs do not, because someone decided that tech jobs are not as valued or skilled as being a nurse, and that the market is efficient or protected from exploitation by employers knowing that the supply of jobs is seldom, so they treat them like commodity.
I believe he was paraphrasing Ginsburg, though businessweek may have mangled it somewhat, here's the original:

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by adwords, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the back-linked sites at dawn looking for an angry fix,

Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection

to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...
Why do they expect that there will be an ivory tower waiting for them? You gain graduate degrees as an addition to your skill set, not because you are guaranteed a job in academia at the end. This seems to be a major misunderstanding among a lot of grad students in the US.
Double Opt-In is Crazy
No - The problem lies in the fact they tried to create a "One size fits all" solution and failed at creating a usable desktop OS. Windows 8 is fine on a phone, it's the desktop that's the problem.

(before anyone jumps down my throat, yes you can mod Windows 8 so it's more usable in a desktop environment but that's not the point)
I signed up on lambda...but don't really see it helping me. I don't have client's work per say but have worked as a software developer for a few years and have done projects on github.
That's the second Infini-D reference I've heard in the past couple of months after not hearing it mentioned once in the past 10 years. Warm fuzzies.
also reminds me of http://gawker.com/5853402/apple-threatens-to-sue-tiny-german...
So let's say I discover a potentially groundbreaking new pathway that can be exploited by a new drug candidate to attack a major disease. Now who is going to go put in $350 million to get that drug candidate through PhI/II/III and beyond, with little guarantee of success, if they have no IP protection to stand on? Why would any rational investor fund such an endeavor when anyone else can step in once all the hard work (averaging $5 billion per successful drug) is done and reap the rewards?
Your username matches your comment - harsh, unempathetic, and blind to a larger, kinder view of society as you pursue a simplistic, black and white ethical code.

Your willingness to throw people to the wolves because they've pursued their dreams without strict pragmatism about their career prospects is disturbing, to say the least. Do you really think society will be better off without any English professors? Artists? Dreamers? Of course not. So this guy's problem is indirectly everyone's problem.
I'm not sure how it works in the liberal arts, but for STEM PhDs, it's not so much that they "believe their area of focus is the most important topic on earth" as much as they admit PhD students so that they have employees to do research.
Your points were taken up in the blog post:

The fact that I'm personally extremely unlikely to be killed by either terrorists or cops isn't the reason the statistic is important.

The statistic is important for public policy debate because there is 8 times more progress to be made in terms of saving lives by dealing with the problem of police killings.
That's crazy... I guess my parents got ripped off, then. :/
BBC Springwatch presenter's camera catches burglary suspect
There's one key point that I haven't seen discussed here much. If this were a simple case of Microsoft contacting content producers directly and offering these things, then it'd be more acceptable. However, these are partners of Machinima, which has a relationship with YT and advertisers (fox, adotube, cbs, etc) to provide a revenue share to content producers. The fact that Machinima is mandating these terms to the content producers is what makes everything a bit shady, and poses several conflicts of interest for them.
Scroll down to "Lists of Killings" and follow the links to see individual incidents by date.
>Security implications of technology is never a valid argument against furthering technology.

Never? So you would accept an Internet-connected pacemaker without a second thought? There are clearly tradeoffs. Saying security should never overrule advancement seems a little extreme.
I think the idea is that Windows 7 is done, new computers moving forward will have 8. In the same sense that I can't go to a Honda dealership and buy a brand new 2011 Honda Civic. (I could if they have one still in inventory, but they're not getting any new ones)
Metro apps that are full screen are a terrible idea. I hate running skype and it taking up an entire monitor (yes, I know about skype desktop, and use it now, but it's not the default). I hate the PDF reader that is always full screen and difficult to close (alt-f4 is the only way?).

Full screen applications don't work on a desktop where multitasking is the norm.
do you really not know how to use google?
How could you tell? :P
Your Tesla will restart in 10... 9... 8...
Right, but is it really a pain point to the negligent web site owner who doesn't care enough to make sure it's secure - or is it more of a pain point for Google trying to determine what's quality and not?
Does the default PDF reader allow you to print yet?
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I've been using windows 8, and now 8.1, since public release.

For me, windows 8 answers a few questions.

1): What do we do when users want to use their fingers instead of a mouse to click buttons made for the (superior) accuracy of a mouse pointer?

2): What do we do when monitor manufacturers sell 4k+ displays and windows applications aren't written to scale up that way?

3): How do we sell users and developers on using desktop applications again (instead of web apps)?

I think all three questions are answered well, and users will be less hostile to the changes once enough applications move to Metro, and consumers are buying 4k tablets.

At the moment, what I am hearing most is "Why change something that worked so well? Why do I have to learn something new?". The next generation PC hardware will answer that question.

I spend all of my time in windows, and I wouldn't want go back to 7. I like the new start screen; I find my applications a lot quicker when all I need to do is hit the windows key and type the name of the app, or file, or whatever I'm looking for. Windows 8 really shines on the surface, where a high DPI screen and touch come together. I use desktop apps on the desktop and mostly ignore metro; but on the surface I prefer metro apps which are more finger friendly and easier to read.

I like the new store architecture, and the limitations made on apps written for it. I will have to worry less installing an application from a publisher I don't recognize. I read a lot about the APIs, but I haven't written anything for it yet. I am waiting for metro to be available to enough users to make it cost effective to put effort into it.

If I were working at Microsoft right now, I would be shouting at the top of my lungs "Let's put out commercials explaining why Windows 8 is better!". I don't feel Windows 8 is a technological or UI disaster; I feel it's a marketing disaster.
Open source Chrome Extension to monitor how often you visit guilty sites
Is only just getting started. Is stuff like that that makes me sort of feel sorry for the surveillance guys. We only have to enjoy the culture, they have to try and make sense of it.
Thermophotovoltaic Device Has Potential to Reach Huge Solar Efficiencies
"HealthCare.gov taken down by virus infected Coffee Maker"

"Chinese Malware Infected Elmo takes down New York Power Grid"

"6 million spam gmail accounts linked back to internet connected 'smart pencil'"

"Northern Deep Freeze caused by hacked Nest Thermostats"

"Surge Protector accidentally leaks Confidential White House Emails"
> Cops usually have a very specific set of people they are targeting ...

Red cars, teenagers, people posessing this week's prohibited victimless drug, people failing to stop while under quota, skateboarders, etc.
>So far the one thing*

I meant that it's one of the things they have in common. Basically, the responsiveness they share stands out in a positive way.