skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please inform the user. It is called "being nice" even though you probably are not legally bound to. In fact, you could very well be within your terms to charge them because that's what free trials are for right ? If I was that user and you sent me the email, I will do these things:

1. Be really happy that you informed me.

2. Cancel my subscription if i really don't need your service. Renew it *happily* if I want your service.

But the most important thing that will happen is that I will remember you/your company that you employ good practice. If it comes down to choosing b/w you and someone else and the difference is marginal, guess who will I choose ? If a friend asks me for a service similar to yours, guess who will I recommend ? Happy customers (even ex-customer) can help you in many ways even if they are not paying you.

Now, let's look at the other side of it. If you do not email me, you will make some money from me in the short term. But I will ensure that I remember you for the wrong reasons. I will also ensure that if someone asks me about you, I will tell them to stay away. Heck, if I really took it personally, I will even write a hate blog and submit it on HN. Imagine the PR issues you could potentially have.

So be nice and it always comes back to help you. Even if you are not making money from a user in the short term, who knows that user might be able to help you indirectly in securing a lot more users who will pay. May be.
I get the startupland thing. The point I'm making is -- couldn't they have tried Flippa or something? Startupland isn't "valuable asset land" when it comes to folding.
POWER still has life in embedded/SoC applications and IBM's mainframes, I'm sure. There are CPUs in places you'd never think existed.
yep, from the title i thought he lives in Ukraine or in some war-torn country

You may want to emulate Balsamiq's Peldi, or at least shoot him an email and get some perspective from him

Start your own projects and take the initiative, or like others have pointed, just switch countries

gl!
As one of those raving HN'ers (although not an MS employee) who now uses an iPhone, all of those things you mention are legitimate issues, and I don't know many WP owners who would disagree. The real heartbreaker is that even with these seemingly show-stopping issues, WP combined with Nokia hardware is so good that it's hard to turn away from. Even though the software has so many issues that have been unresolved for so long, it's still that good. It was a tough choice to give it up, I only did so because it had let me down on more than a few occasions where I really needed it.

The last time I found a mobile OS that instilled that level of "so good it doesn't matter that it's bad" was WebOS, and I frequently compare the two. Unfortunately, I see the same future for WP as what WebOS got.
He's probably got the timeline a bit mangled in his head and is confusing app compatibility with device compatibility (which WP8 did break). Although XNA apps did get stranded in a legacy quirks mode.
I didn't really discuss this in the article at all, but frequently we hack up a test version (or a simple graph visualization) for internal evaluation, without showing to users at all. To your point, lots of things that sound great don't end up being that great, and we can catch a lot of those things internally before even showing them to users.

What if we graph this thing over a month? Hmmm, sort of always looks like a straight line for all of our test client datasets, and you can't really gain any insight from it. Let's try something different. etc etc.
Actually changing your "legal name" in many places isn't a "legal process" at all. Not if you mean a state-managed, form-filling exercise.

In the UK for example the law only specifies you must make a public declaration of your intent to use a new name (a notice in a local newspaper will do), and then completely abandon any all use of the old name. Even the venerable old 'Deed Poll' service is just a mechanism to make that initial declaration, it's actually a private register.
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I believe that is emacs powerline: https://github.com/jonathanchu/emacs-powerline
When we (Sanmina) owned the manufacturing contract for X-series servers we built them in Mexico and Hungary. When we sold the manufacturing contract for IBM PCs (Netvista), laptops (Thinkpads), and X-series servers to Foxconn & Lenovo in 2008, Lenovo was manufacturing in Mexico & China and Foxconn in Hungary (and probably elsewhere). No one has built any PCs or servers in the US since IBM essentially divested themselves of their huge presence in Research Triangle Park. Dell used to manufacture PCs in the US but moved the last of their stuff overseas in 2010. I'm not sure if there is any HP manufacturing in the US, but I suspect not. Dell, HP, Foxconn, Lenovo, Flextronics, and Sanmina all have a large presence in Jalisco, MX, in and around Guadalajara. ... and in/around Shenzhen, Bangkok, Shanghai, Singapore, ....
Yeah things like that are a good way to immediately discredit any other content you had, regardless of its legitimacy.

I also read the word "triggering". A term I can never seem to figure out in it's context. It seems some people believe they (at least ought to) exist in some Utopian society where everyone should know what may upset everyone else (even in the slightest way) and endeavour to avoid at all costs. I mean it's maybe a nice concept on the whole, but the over intricate levels these people take it to are ridiculous.

The whole article smacks of entitlement. Simplifying a name, or even a gender is not a personal attack or an attempt at discrimination, it's just in truth a simple system. If you use ten names and five genders, then why the hell should things like this cater to you? Not specifically to ignore you, but if everyone has these over indulgent massively personal requirements then all cannot be fulfilled.

I'm sure there are people in the same situation that haven't had this problem, so how it isn't user error is beyond me. It's a free service...
The changed name is NOT a "lie". Changed name is her new name. As far as law is concerned, new name is the truth about her identity.

And I'm not sure that court would take it against person if that person uses alias online. After all, it is general advice for teenagers not to reveal their names online.
Nice!

For vim I like to use

" remove the toolbar
set guioptions-=T

" remove scrollbars
set guioptions-=L
set guioptions-=r
In some zones yes, in other nope. Anyway it seems that now worldwide they are under 3% (at least reading the article) and in the previous trimester they were around 3.4%, so they are losing ground.

As other said in some sites, it is necessary to have a critical mass at least in US OR in CHINA. And in those markets wp is really... nothing.
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Only 10? I've backed almost 700 crowd-funded projects. Almost all video games. Even accounting for those sure to say "I give up and can't finish the game, but I'm keeping your $50k" and those that have to delay their project into 2015 or 2016, I plan to be playing two or three dozen crowd-funded 2014 games this year!
Give The Mirror a try. It is highly autobiographical so it is probably not his most well known or well liked film but its cinematic techniques are some of the best. Poetry in motion is how I can best describe it as well.
Apart from the fact that you're typing in a title, not a command.
You can get great paid GOOGLE customer service if you just sign up for Google Apps.
In the U.S. anyway, you have the right to use any name by which you represent yourself consistently without intent to defraud, much akin to a common-law marriage.
Sadly for Nokia, the majority of their sales will likely be the low margin 52x and 62x Lumias.
Uh, no, "I don't remember doing X" and "I didn't do X" mean exactly the same thing. The first one is just more explicit.
These come up on HN all the time, and I want to defend the crunch. If you have a small group of people working on a startup where everyone knew what they're getting themselves into, and have a lifestyle that allows it, what's the big deal?

Just because you don't like working overtime doesn't mean it's the wrong thing to do.
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How Would You Build The Next Internet?
Yeah, you really should have considered what Google would put on their social network when you signed up for an email account a decade ago before "social network" was even a thing.
Sounds like you're planning on making it free. Any chance of an open-source license?
Wait, someone is actually still voting for MFC?

Anyway - developers have long complained about Microsoft moving their cheese; when that's how Microsoft makes money it is guaranteed to be never-ending!

http://realworldsa.blogspot.com/2011/11/microsoft-moved-my-c...
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Compatibility means you can take a Win16 VB program and run it on Win64 with a very high confidence that it will "just work". This is something grown-up OSs do... If you had a program that broke between Solaris version Sun would consider that a bug in Solaris and fix it for you.
I'm in Portugal and understand how you feel, as it's basically the same thing here.

I've also got some experience under my belt that proves to me that, if you want to do something meaningful, you have to start it yourself, otherwise there's a strong poossibility that you'll get trapped in one of the "drone" jobs you mentioned.

But you have another option, that's been mentioned here. There's more world outside of the US. You can start applying to great companies doing cool stuff in the EU (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Paypal, etc) and you can even get a job now that allows you to build the skills you need to work on one of these companies in a year, if you don't have them already.

The only thing that seems to stand in your way, apparently, is your anxiety about an eventual lack of options, which is understandable.

But you do have options. Actually, being "in computers", you have more options than 90% of the workforce, as there's demand for your skills.

So, just trust yourself, give it a (serious) try.

Start working on getting out, or starting something of your own. Otherwise, I agree that you risk wasting a lot of time and emotional health on a dead end job.
The rate limiting exists for a reason. It is a bit arrogant of you to assume that your comments are worty of evadin site controls.

And is it actual rate limiting? Try clicking the [link] url, whic should give you a reply text box.

Disclosing company affiliations is polite.

Not making comments in public fora, but letting company spokespeople do it, is a practice I dislike but which I understand having seen the mess you've made with your comments.

The violet blue article is lousy. If there are errors it should be easy enough to find corrections. Take the time to do it properly - find the sources, pull out relevant quotes, build the post. Put that as a blog post and get hits, or put it as an answer in the thread and get upvotes.
Blimplike surveillance craft set to deploy over MD heighten privacy concerns
> The number one reason teams go into Crunch Mode is that their leaders have failed to understand and/or set realistic expectations for the time it takes to complete a project.

Well... Yes and No. In an ideal world, the team decides how long it would take to complete a project. More realistically, I guess, the team is often given a work to complete before a predefined deadline.
Slow update cycles are an advantage to some buyers, and some people prefer stability over churn. Among consumers, that's a minority though.
Nope. iPhone traffic alone still crushes all Android devices combined. And there are certainly many more Android devices in the US.
who is simply a lead generator

The busines model of lead gen is $/per Y. Y is typical a matrix, with quality as the main variation. In plain english, high quality leads are worth a premium. The business of assessing quality, at scale, is through indirect statistical techniques (ie, loose correlations of observed characteristics to perceived quality). "Not Black" is a piece of observed data that loosely correlates with higher quality for many high-net worth customers in the following market segments: ebay, air-bnb, fashion, dating, and real estate. The nexus of {fashion, dating, real-estate} is pretty strong if you consider the perspective of evolutionary psychology. Alternatively, you are talking the more important parts of a hierarchy of needs pyramid. Or put another way, this is the stuff rich people are most likely to "irrationally" throw money at. Expensive clubs, fancy cars, and flashy homes. Precisely the target market for 1st class travel, which is not business class (obviously).

This is a devils advocate position, but its worth thinking through. It (was) not meant to be just a "shock and awe" type of analysis just to get a rise out of people.
Stickers are as crazy as hats.
Mike Rogers won his last election by 20 points. The unelected FBI seem to have pretty much denied his allegation. Obama's first pass at answering the outcry was pretty weak, but at least it was an acknowledgement.
This is simply one expression of the corporate protocols in which privacy does not exist. It's not a bug. It's not an honest mistake. It is an implementation detail of a higher level abstraction.
Does anyone remember that Bradley Manning went to a meet-up in Boston at some hackerspace? He was hanging out with David House.

It's NOT beyond the range of possibilities that Snowden was (loosely) affiliated with other hackers who were interested in the subject of government surveillance. It's also not beyond the range of possibilities that help was provided to him by a friendly person who Snowden HAD NO IDEA WAS providing that assistance on behalf of a foreign government.

So when Snowden insists that he was acting alone, how does he know? This sort of thing has been done before you know, and the Soviets are particularly skilled at concealing their hand when it would impact the actions of a cultivated asset.
There's a big difference between (a) doing text or image analysis to find out what I drink and then providing advertisements to me for that drink and (b) telling anyone I have ever, in any way, digitally interacted with what I drink!

I have no problem with the first (and in fact prefer it to untargeted ads) and a huge, massive, deal-breaking problem with the second.

I don't disagree that people are responsible to a degree for their own data security. But this case highlights that there is a limit to an individuals ability to maintain their own data security. This woman intentionally shared one name with people associated with one account. If the allegation is true, google then shared a different name with people on that account.

Saying this woman is responsible is like saying I'm personally responsible for my credit card information being leaked by Target. Yes, I used a credit card at Target. Once Target has my information, they should be held accountable for their security and handling of that information. In the same way Google should be held accountable for their security and handling of this woman's information.
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This was the feeling I had when I had played with the recent versions of WP. It felt like a fantastic OS, and the hardware ran it brilliantly.

My own personal showstopper isn't a fault with the OS, but with how the phones look. Nokia just seems so far behind in terms of designing an attractive phone.

If Nokia were to release a phone that looked as nice as my Galaxy Nexus, had a large screen, and didn't cost an absolute bomb I'd probably go for WP over Android.
Nope, my basic statement is true. You didn't answer the question and by "code" you don't just mean the GPL code. The GPL tries to affect all code in the project not just the GPLed code.
The duplicate submission detector was messed up by the noncanonical URL on the submission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105815

that reached the main page of HN yesterday. I shared this on my Facebook wall after seeing yesterday's HN discussion.
On Windows Phone, one thing that I like a lot is Nokia's HERE suite (maps and turn-by-turn navigation). Free and really good. The hardware is good and the OS is nice too.
One thing I was impressed is that it seems actually easier to develop for Windows Phone than for iOS or Android.
I'd bet on a clang/gcc evolution, emacs has made adaptation/absorption a native specialty, LT will probably give it a push.
any Bitcoin integration plans?
I'm in Denmark, and I actually find the Windows Phone to be a nicer OS than android.
I had a Nokia Lumia 920, and then later got a Nexus 4 for free, that i'm using for now, since the Lumia had a broken screen after I dropped it.

Android feels like a messy phone, with enourmous screen space waste, and only few apps have a widget that is half decent.
It reminds me of some iphone knockoff, that for the most part has the same bells and whistles, but it's just not polished.

PS.
Denmark has a 67% iOS, and something like 30% android & 2% WP
It is strange how words lose their meaning once the concept becomes common-place.

We don't say motor-vehicle anymore, electric lamp, and so on. People would probably think you're weird if you do that :)

Sometimes I think computer science history need to be at-least an elective subject for software engineering/computer science courses.
They do things like create web-based health insurance exchanges that are complete failures

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/12/20/faulty-mnsure-softwa...

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/01/07/legislative-auditor...
The E at the end of doge (Venetian ruler) is not mute.
My ex-neighbour is 'high' up in Nokia and I can remember having a conversation about how the Lumia would make a fantastic Android phone. I think he mentioned in passing that there was a team that briefly looked into making an Nokia Android phone, but this was killed off before the Microsoft buyout.

It's one of those phones I would buy immediately if they did an Android version. It's a very very nice piece of kit (in particular the camera) but if it doesn't run the apps you use on a daily basis, you are not going to touch it with a barge pole.

Unfortunately this will never happen. Microsoft would, in effect, be admitting their mobile platform is a dead end.
From an agnostic point of view, there is something worth noting: the whole world heard about the story.

That really does not seem "spy-ish" to me: spying is a game, the goal is information. In that mindset, since the whole world got the information, the straightforward explanation is: Snowden is playing for all of us.

In my opinion[ * ], the only plausible scenario where Snowden is a Russian spy is: the Russians did not want the intel for themselves, they wanted it public. It probably does not make much sense that it was to undermine the USA's international image or to cleanse their own; the remaining possibility would be to play on their domestic image (saying "hey, we Russians are more libertarian than Americans"), but that seems like a bit of overkill (and a lot more subtle than what Putin used us to.

[ * ] The sole alternative is: Snowden gave more info to Russia than he gave the newspapers. That would make the whole story worth becoming the next James Bond screenplay (or would have made, in a universe without Daniel Craig), and would give it a nice antique Cold-War aura; however, I fail to imagine what kind of intel could justify such a twisted plan.
> Snowden visits… China and Russia… These can all be explained away as coincidences.

I don't think visiting China and Russia was a coincidence. He simply chose countries less likely to extradite him. Finally, it was US who revoked his password while he was traveling. His plan was to continue to Ecuador.
I recommend reading Roadside Picnic[1] if you’ve watched Stalker (movie is based on the book).

There is also the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series[2] that’s loosely-based on both. Also recommended if you’re into post-apoc and want a different perspective on it than western video games.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R._(series)
I wonder what the fad-editor in LightTable's place will be called in a few years?
>What's difficult about "going on Amazon and shopping around"?

It makes people have to think, and in a lot of cases people don't want to have to think. I posted something longer on this subject recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105674

>Why even go there?

Because I needed a cable today, not tomorrow or the day after. Amazon can't match that in my location. That's where I ran into the issues that DisplayPort is not mainstream, and Best Buy only carries things that Uncle Joe is going to need for the TV and laptop he bought at Best Buy.

I understand you used the word deli to mean quality, but there's a reason Apple still has less than 10% marketshare of desktops/laptops. People are more often than not satisfied with "good enough".
That fringe is neat. Anybody know if Vim supports something like that? I've never been able to make complete sense of vim's line length options. They never seem to work quite "right".
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Apologies for making the assumption that based on how OP stated it, assumed that he had full control over disclosure. I'd still prefer to hear from OP, as Facebook can say what they want or could be mistaken on the finer details of what was or wasn't agreed upon.
Microsoft's products were never an example of open architecture; the meaning of open architecture didn't change much in the last decades.
It's pretty hilarious watching various shills deliver this "Snowden gave Russia our secrets" propaganda. To believe that, you'd have to also believe that Russia's FSB is totally incompetent and failed to notice all the changes in the world of spying over the last couple decades.

There is simply no way the FSB - successors to the KGB - is that inept.

/bonus: if we are in bizzaro-world and the FSB somehow missed what their main adversaries were up to over the last decade, then must not be much of a threat and we can scale back all our expensive spy programs.
Great post! Thanks for sharing. Ive made my way with backbone in a similar way to optimize rendering, and I learned some new tricks with this post. We use trello on daily basis to review our app and system development.
I disagree with you. Although I stick to "they" as I think it's perfectly fine grammar wise, you getting upset because of your own bias and thinking it's an issue because the author wrote "she" instead of "he" is a bit silly, in my opinion.

Edit: Oh, and language has a massive effect on our thinking patterns, so yeah, you actual could possibly make the case that pronouns matter. They don't to me, at all, and if they "don't" to you, why express frustration or call it "BS"?
I agree with the other comments that it would be 'nice' to warn them (and give them a 1 click unsubscribe)... but most companies (in the UK) allow you to sign up to free trials online but to unsubscribe you have to call them.

I presume this is because by making the barrier to unsubscribe higher you get fewer people unsubscribe, and probably some people who don't use a service but remain subscribed because they don't notice.

It's also common to require x (where x is 28?) advance notification for unsubscribing, so even when you do so you usually end up paying for another month anyway.

Some services (e.g. The Times Online) give you a free (or reduced price) trial, after which you agree to a 12 / 18 month subscription. This seems even more evil, but I guess they do it because it 'works' and they're about making money rather than being nice.
Not surprising at all.

Nokia should have move to Android 5 years ago when Samsung did.
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