skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The decline of Microsoft will be a generational thing. At some point, those offices are going to be inhabited by kids who grew up with google docs, dropbox, a variety of IM options, and who have never seen a native email client.

When these kids grow up and enter the workforce, they will want to use the tools they know, and will not understand the point of in-house Windows sysadmins, or the software licensing fees.

My 21-year old daughter grew up using Microsoft products, and has abandoned them completely. Everything she does is in the cloud, (mostly google, yahoo for email). She enters the workforce in one year.

Whatever the new CEO does, he basically cannot win back a generation that has learned to do office tasks on non-Microsoft products. It's sort of like what happened with GM. They produced absolutely shitty cars in the 80s, and many people who had early experiences with those cars started buying Japanese cars and stayed there. (No, I don't have statistics to cite, that's just my impression and personal experience.)

I give Microsoft ten years until their first quarterly loss.
I'm very skeptical of them going with someone who's been with the company that long. I think they needed an outsider. I was glad when the Sundar Pichai rumor started.

Also think it's a bad thing that Gates is going to take a more active role as the technology world today is very different from when he dominated. Gates is famously (if the stories are true) the one who didn't like the Courier tablet, for example.
Shoplifting is anticipated and not at all novel. It's not out of scope of the shops primary function (one of which is to protect the retailer).

Perhaps 'trick' would be a better term in this airport case. I guess the difference between a trick and a hack is that you can't trick a machine (it does what it's told and doesn't care what your intentions are) but you can certainly trick people (they can be fooled in to misreading your intentions and responding dynamically). Also a trick is usually just about improving device utility rather than re-purposing it.
I guess you didn't read the change log, then.

TLS on by default and all:unset support seem like kinda big deals to me.
Awesome! Founder here - would love to hear from you / her! Shoot me an email tj at pillpack dot com.
"Hacking headlines for more karma"
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The problem with the Tesla screen, in a non-Swiss-specific nutshell:

A touch screen cannot be operated without looking at it. There are things that you would regularly expect to operate while driving that can only be operated by touch screen in a Model S. Guaranteed distraction.

I think the Swiss law makes sense. And if I think about it further, this amount of distraction should not be legal on any human-operated vehicle anywhere.
As a Hungarian developer with two Node based small side projects so far, it is nice to see something like this :) Too bad I don't live in Budapest. Keep this up! :)
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That is the complete, 100% opposite of reality. Charities have tons of reporting requirements that they have to meet to demonstrate--to the government--that they aren't at least a money laundering operation, say nothing about using the funds appropriately. There is no such equivalent oversight of government bureaus.
Here's the concern:
1. Everyone thinks Microsoft needs a rethink.
2. Ballmer and others inside Microsoft think they did that and just need to execute on it (devices first, etc.)
3. This guy helped develop the rethink that is in-process.

Any external candidates would have had to buy-in to the restructure already started but not fully executed under Ballmer. Since he was theoretically part of the changes started with Ballmer, he will continue the same agenda.
Well, count me outside that norm too. I work in a pretty corporate environment and nobody here uses Microsoft stuff. In fact, I've never worked anywhere where the vast majority of people weren't on a Mac.
> Value is not an intrinsic property of a thing, but is determined solely by what someone is willing to pay you for it.

Well, that's the thesis of the article I linked: out there, in the free market, you wouldn't get much if you'd try to sell a diamond and weren't part of the supply chain.
Even people in India barely remember it any more. Now a days its all about 20/20 and instant gratification.
This is a very beautiful idea and it's brilliantly executed.

Kudos to people who helped making this page, it put me in a somewhat emotional state.

Also, this reminded me another page called "Museum of Me"[1], that was nice too.

[1] http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm
And then there is the mantis shrimp:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
I think you've made the correct move posting here (since it's on the front page). If you don't get rectification this week I would most certainly sue. You shouldn't "feel bad" that they're a start up. They're screwing you over and practicing bad business.

Pretty crappy stuff from a YC company but this doesn't surprise me anymore.
The knobs are not silly. A well designed knobs-levers-and-buttons interface can be committed to muscle memory and operated without taking your eyes off the road.
Scenario: I'm on the highway, doing 80+ mph at night and I want to turn on the rear window defroster as I cannot see properly.

A touchscreen means I have to take my eyes off the road and focus on directing my right index to touch a bunch of pixels, with no physical feedback whatsoever.

Staring at the backlit display made my eyes readjust to that light intensity and now when I look back at the road, well, I cannot see that well for a few seconds while my eyes adjust back.

Hmm, does not sound that safe to me.

PS Been driving in the US and Europe for more than 18 years now.
this new dude is going to do GREAT! ;)

- looks like a Nerd (i mean the background, glasses and the sweat shit - i mean SHIRT)

- don't need to sound racist but the dude is born in India! [20+ years and still has the accent]

- and FINALLY, i can't stress this enough: the page introducing him looks like the iPhone5 page!

PS: zoom out of the page as much as possible and his head get cut-off (the last image in the bio section) - love the background btw
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I never understood why we have three trichromatic vision and not tetrachomatic vision.

We have rods and three types of cones, which look like four channels to me. In very low light the cones don't fire and we see in black and white. In reasonably bright settings I can imagine that the rods saturate and we only have three useful channels. But there must be a level of light where both cones and rods are within their dynamic range. What am I missing?
Be sure to read the comment left by "askme" on the linked page. It is a similar story but it actually made me laugh.
That's the head of public relations for the Zurich police talking, on a ride-along with a journalist. It's not exactly a pronouncement from above carved into a stone tablet.
awesome! +1
I would much rather a long-term-stable product with fewer security vulnerabilities that didn't need frequent updates.
Very nice.

Lots of use cases. For example, I use Stackoverflow a lot and I need to paste code rather than faff around with pastebin. I can see myself using this to get a gist URL in one click.
Very nice. This will help many people. My mom has done home healthcare (as an RN) and always says the most common problem is the ability for folks to get the correct meds at the correct doses at the correct time without help.

Combining with some drones (Amazon or otherwise) and sensors could make some interesting scenarios for more time sensitive and ephemeral med needs...
Ruby is not standard on Mac OS X. EDIT: actually it is, thanks the_french.

I would be happy to rewrite that in vanilla shell this evening.
The map in the article makes it look like the US and Europe are having a cancer epidemic, while the rest of the world has much lower numbers. What seem more likely is the 'west' is having a cancer detection epidemic. Just because cancer is detected doesn't mean that it is going to kill you. You could easily die from a heart attack before the cancer had significant negative effects, for example.
Remind me to hire you as my cultural interpreter when I arrive in the Colonies.
10 things to know about Satya Nadella.
The same way that health issues are better discussed with a doctor, legal issues are better discussed with a lawyer.
One is a derivative or subcomponent of the other I think. Someone who still remembers his Chemistry class is welcome to elaborate.
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I read it as the above person being a SJW who has a problem with Nadella being "white on the inside."
They're not completely independent on Windows. That's why all of the attempts to make a better Windows console ultimately fail.
Same response to all those global warming deniers - the studies and science show GMOs are not harmful.
For women, certain cancers are less likely if you have a child for a variety of factors, including different hormonal states.
Yeah, this is a place where the auto industry could learn from the console-gaming industry - give the users generalist, reusable physical controls and a HUD.
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You can stream any app and your desktop, yes.
Integrity is everything | Words of a Nerd
Temperature differential should be easy to come by in interstellar space.
That's ridiculous. PowerShell's #1 selling point, object oriented streams, is only available to .NET languages! Which is why the community will never prosper.
Yes my granny had a manual washing machine and a mangle too.
Why are 90% of Indian engineering graduates unemployable?
I don't really think it can be fixed either. Trying to cure all cancers is like trying to engineer a car that never, ever breaks for all eternity. Even if you left this hypothetical perfect sports car in the garage, the belts and tires and tubes would start to degrade eventually.

Better to try to replace each part as it breaks with an upgrade! That's my immortality plan- when my hearing breaks, get an implant. When the hip goes out, in goes a titanium one. You mind starts slipping? We're going to need some sort of prosthetic neurons, I'm thinking carbon nanotubes you inject into you spinal fluid and which self-assemble inside the brain. Eventually, enough meat has been replaced with tech that my mind can make the complete jump to software and at which point I shed this frail human form and proceed to explore the universe via self-replicating probes... Well, that's the plan anyways.

But either way, to beat cancer, you going to need to fundamentally redesign the human form.

ps (Elon Musk, if you are reading this, please contact me. I'm really don't want to die and I'm willing to act as a guinea pig towards that end)
> A touchscreen means I have to take my eyes off the road and focus on directing my right index to touch a bunch of pixels, with no physical feedback whatsoever.

And there's worse, "commonly used controls" (such as airco and defrost) are at the very bottom of the touchscreen, at knee height.
I'm sorry I wasn't quite happy myself how I worded it.

"operating heaving machinery" I mean that as; While driving the car you should also use this smaller, difficult to read and use interface.

I'm not going to defend it to the death, it's almost certainly not the best implementation in the world, nothing in software is. But a massive screen lets you make input so much bigger than they ever could be in hardware. You can't take up 17" just for the radio if it were real, you can on a screen. Or have a 17" 'Object in path' warning light.

I've had my car 5 years and can't operate the radio by touch. Or the fog light buttons on the far side of the dash.
Developers Recognize the Need for Testing, Still Devalue Testers
Yes, file the suit.

Lawsuits serve more purposes than just taking an issue to trial - they are also a mechanism to force the resolution of an issue when more reasonable conflict resolution methods have failed.

Nobody really wants to go to trial over stuff like this - but it will force them to stop ignoring the situation. (Or, if their story differs from yours, it will force their side to come forward as well.)

It is almost always less painful to settle outside of court once a suit is filed, and odds are that is exactly what they will do if you file the suit.
Can you say more about that?
I want to add that we actually get cancer all the time (like, every day), but our bodies kill it successfully. That's why people with AIDS or bad nutrition get more cancer: they are not able to fight it anymore.
IIRC ruby is in fact standard and was recently updated to be 2.0.0 on the latest version of OS X.

/usr/bin/ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [universal.x86_64-darwin13]
I think this is a very funny article because half of the stuff is simply wrong...

Disclaimer, I'm not actually using Outlook.com myself but I have a dummy account where I checked the following stuff.

1. The "delete" button, next to the navigation arrows is not a delete button. If you hover the button it says "Back to messages" and it does exactly that.

2. The top menu would be quite hard to operate if there weren't any visual cues which button you are hovering, but there are some - You can clearly see at any time which button you are going to click.. The placement of course can be discussed, but looking away while clicking will also not work on GMail.

3. It's argued that Outlook would not respect the "default" use cases. But then, I don't get why it's confusing that your e-mail is classified as junk if you click the "Junk" button. What should happen instead?

4. Reading pane is actually no mistake but used by MS since forever to name the place where your e-mail is previewed.
> my comment still stands.

My analogy is one of the best in the history of ill-advised programming analogies, the more I think about it the better it gets (of course it may be lost on people who aren't mountain biking full-stack developers). Your comment on the other hand doesn't have a snarky leg to stand on.
Sue

This is business impacting, and while emotionally, I can understand your desire to help out a new entrant in the field... they are violating your trust, endangering your livelihood, and extorting money out of you against written contracts. The off contract fee increase may be the saving grace that lets you legally out of the contract early, depending on how the contract is worded.

There is likely a set amount of time to wait for compliance, but after it is over, I would not hesitate to seek redress of grievances. You're talking about your patients data and your income, which should be your first and second priorities.

Note that I am not a lawyer.
1. Ask nicely.

2. Ask via lawyer.

3. Ask via judge.

It sounds like you've already tried the first two options.
Python grabbed the top spot again as it did last October. As a follow-up to last week's discussion job posts looking for passionate programmers[1], I've added keywords to track of the trends of posts using this langauage [2].

Also interesting to note, Angular beat Backbone for the first time as it continues its quick rise [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7156969

[2] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2014/...

[3] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2014/...
Thank you, this makes more sense.
24m by 2035 doesn't actually sound like that much. And the fact that most of the new cases will be coming from the developed world seems to speak more to the fact that life expectancy and pollution (due to development) in the developed world is increasing, meaning people are living longer, in more hazardous conditions, and are therefore more likely to get cancer.

There really doesn't seem to be anything to be alarmed about. There will be about 73million deaths in 2035 (looking at current death rates vs. expected world population). If everyone who gets cancer dies from it in a year, there will be 24m deaths due to it, although http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_survival_rates indicates that cancer seems to have a >70% survival rate, in general. In 20 years, it's likely that survival rate will also be reflected in developing countries. So really, only about 7.2m, or about 10%, of our mortality will likely be due to cancer. That's still a lot, and it's worthwhile to try to prevent as many of those deaths as possible. But cancer seems like it's not, statistically, our biggest threat.
It is, just disabled by default in the console settings.
I see no one has mentioned Firefox 27 is the first major browser to have ES6 generators enabled by default - http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/24/es6-generators-and-c.... Callback hell begone!
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Nope, I can disable the signature enforcement.

I also use CM, who are very good at reversing google's anti-privacy changes (personally, I think they should fork android entirely, but that's another conversation).
The numbers mentioned in this article are numbers of cancer CASES, for the most part, not numbers of cancer deaths. The chart lower down in the article, captioned World Cancer Cases 2012, at least shows countries in different shadings based on cancer RATES (standardized to cases per 100,000 population, as is typical for international health statistics), but that mostly shows which countries have higher rates of diagnosis of cancer (or much lower rates of diseases that kill people when they are young) rather than countries where cancer is the main cause of death. Rates matter more than the raw number of cases in a world that still has a growing population.

If we look carefully at charts of death rates by all causes for either the United States or the developed world, we see that death rates from cancer and from most causes of death are still steadily falling at all ages. Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/195977021257786739/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

Yes, we still need to do more research on cancer prevention and cancer treatment. Yes, the article is correct that smoking, infectious diseases (mostly viral, some of which are already preventable by vaccines), overuse of alcohol, and obesity all increase cancer risk, but you and I can do something about our use of tobacco, alcohol, and fattening food-and-activity lifestyle combinations today--we don't have to wait for more medical research to reduce our risk of cancer. The article kindly submitted here makes clear that making people more aware of what increases their cancer risk is one of the best interventions for reducing cancer rates and cancer mortality. As other comments have already correctly pointed out, a rise in the number of cancer cases worldwide first of all indicates that there are more people in the world than ever, and secondly indicates that fewer people are dying young of diseases linked to stark poverty. That's good news, on the whole.
If you close the wire (join the 2 points) you should get something, but certainly not as strong.

You can try that with aluminium if cooper is too hard to get. You'll probably get better results.
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If the new CEO wants to change the culture for the better, Gates could be helpful, the Ballmer regime eliminated a lot of the failsafes Gates put into it.

Without a cultural change Microsoft should end its here to now futile attempts to expand outside of its core (has the Xbox, at net, ever made the a lot of money?), put Windows and Office in maintenance mode after restoring the utility of the former for normal desktops, and mostly become a stodgy enterprise software company.
I don't think he is asking for legal advice. I think it actually shows a lot of courtesy to post here. It seems to me that he understands lawsuits can destroy a young company and simply wants to find out if anyone in the startup community has any ideas on how to better resolve the issue or if anyone might be able to offer non-legal assistance. He clearly has a lawyer to advise him on his legal remedies.
Moreover, it's surprising that the grandparent evokes Apple as a counter-example, since it discontinued iTools, MobileMe (or perhaps more importantly iDisk), Ping, Xserve, etc. With the exception of Ping, products that a large group of people relied on.
You're writing like I did when I was ~15 and trying to sound smart. Did this whole thread accomplish anything?
Yes, this family member of mine who's in the start-up world really encouraged me to go with drchrono originally because he wanted me to be able to take advantage of the newest technology in my field. This whole process has been extremely stressful and frustrating.
Yeah, he noted in the comments that he has consulted his lawyer, they have taken steps, written letters. The last option is a formal suit, which would have impact on the community's view of him and DrChrono, hence the community outreach. PLUS public shaming is a kinder ultimatum than a fomral suit, as I see it.
I think the #1 thing Microsoft needs to do in order to right itself is become a platform that developers love, which isn't the case today. Becoming fully posix compliant would be a great start to that.
Yes sue. Stop messing around and sue, today...now. Stop reading this, pick up the phone, call your lawyer and tell him to file the papers today.
> If Google or any of the other services had their own
> client that properly integrated with back-end services
> like key exchange, key signing, etc. you would not have
> to understand and implement identity verification yourself.

If key exchange and verification were handled by a third-party service, then a compromise of that service would threaten the security of all communications. To be secure, key exchange and verification must be handled offline at the level of individual users.

Pre-acquisition Skype was not a secure communications system, any more than iMessage or Hangouts are today. If you believe it was, then you have not spent sufficient time considering how to compromise such a system.
This is actually pretty fascinating that you posted this here. Really highlights how companies can't hide from a bad customer experience anywhere. People are going to find out if your treating your customers badly.

I wonder if this thread is going to get deleted soon?
If what you've said is all true, and you've thoroughly gone over with your attorney all of the grievances and have enough data to back it up, and they have yet to respond within a reasonable timeframe through a legal channel, then go for their jugular and take them out. Don't relent on these types of offenses, doubly so if they are a start-up. Without knowing too much about the founders, say this kind of activity goes unchecked, and continues rampant within their business despite still being successful. That could potentially send signals to departing entrepreneurs that this kind of behavior is OK and that they could very well get away with it as well.

Go for the kill.
Agreed, it's a collection of trivia. Very WTF-worthy trivia but if your code is doing basically any of the things listed in that talk, something has gone terribly awry.
To have that, we would need to be disconnected from the internet.
From what I'm reading in the comments using a touchscreen to do basic functions that people use every time they are driving is a very bad UI decision. Forcing people to take their eyes off the road and navigate a touch screen just to switch on fog lights is ridiculous. Why couldn't they just build this stuff around the steering wheel like every other manufacturer? It's not a broken model, it doesn't need fixed.
For SQL Server OPENDATASOURCE and OPENQUERY can do the trick too
Ask HN: how can I know the market size for developing bespoke data proc scripts?
Those in Cancer research, how far are we to actually solve the Cancer problem given recent genetics research surge?