skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people not realize you can "hit win key and start typing" in windows 7 too? I haven't clicked on "all programs" in months.

It does seem they made the type-to-search faster/more comprehensive in win 8. But there's no need for that to be full screen. A win 7 style start menu with win 8 style search is the best of both worlds.
How do you know Amazon is forking Jelly Bean?
What language was it?
> Imagine how much more popular C# would be if it wasn't tied to the Windows platform?

It's not. Recent versions of Mono are quite good. You will have to pay Xamarin at least $299/year to deploy on iOS or Android, though.
Bokeh (http://bokeh.pydata.org) has excellent IPython notebook support, and provides interactive, live plots inside the notebook.

It also has matplotlib support, so you can trivially turn Matplotlib figures into interactive web plots (e.g. this interactive plot built via Seaborn, which is a statistical plotting package that uses matplotlib): http://bokeh.pydata.org/docs/gallery/violin.html
Supreme court strikes down cap on overall campaign contributions
Historically a huge amount of effort went into making PC hardware enumerable at runtime and hotpluggable: BIOS, then ISA PnP, then PCI/PCIe, and ACPI. eg. There are BIOS functions dedicated to telling you, in no uncertain terms, what RAM you have and the addresses it appears at.

ARM's architecture is still quite firmly stuck with the embedded approach where you get your memory map and peripheral availability at compile time, probably by reading addresses from a manual published by your SoC manufacturer. Usually at early boot there is nothing which will tell you where your RAM is, what peripherals you have and where they are, etc. You either just have to know, or have some non-standard configuration mechanism which tells you.

Things are improving, but slowly. ACPI exists for ARM and is being actively worked on, but isn't widely deployed yet.
They've been dogfooding for decades, that's a very core part of the developer culture at MS. (You can say many bad things about them, but they really do dogfooding all the time.)
If Matt says it's good, then it's good.
> Especially since MS is acquiring Xamarin

Is this certain? Was it announced?
This is by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis , who's done some amazing documentary work in the past, asking a lot of "big questions" like this.
It is totally understandable -- and totally disappointing -- that this custom work of art in hardware comes with regular, bloated, unhackable linux. One can dream..
Is it forward secure yet?
@korzun My name is Danny and I'm a co-founder of RaisedBy.Us. Thanks for your question!

Regarding the 3rd party issue:
All donation methods (RaisedBy.Us or otherwise) involve a third party. Even when you go directly to a charity's website to make a donation, you will use a third party payment provider. The most common method is debit or credit card. This method actually involves multiple third parties that all take fees (an issuing bank, a merchant bank, a settlement bank and a network such as VISA, Mastercard, Discover, etc). This fee is called interchange and it typically inovlves a flat fee of 30 cents per transactions plus about 2.5% to 3% of the total value of the transaction. We thought this was pretty expensive. Donations through RaisedBy.Us charge 0% and no flat fee per transaction. We accomplish this by using a back-end provider that settles transactions with charities using checks and ACH methods (which are much cheaper the credit and debit transactions) and we charge the companies (not the donors) to access the service.

Regarding tax write off: RaisedBy.Us does not get a tax write-off for the donations that are processed through our program. Only the initial donor (e.g., an employee at one of our participating companies) gets a tax write-off for donations.
Inverse Hanlan's Razor.
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I'm a man and I modelled my professional self on a woman, so I have some difficulty with this.

I believe that choosing to limit one's role models by gender is a problem.
Good news: a moment ago, I was just able to install IPython 2.0.0 with `conda update ipython`. I'm excited -- it looks great.

Interestingly, if I then do `conda update anaconda`, it unlinks IPython 2.0.0 and re-links 1.1.0 after confirmation (which I decline, of course).
What about their tablet and phone OS - Android? Is there an app-store for those 'webapps' (not the Chrome app store)?
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Anyone interested in porting the Ubuntu One code onto a new free, open source decentralized cloud network?

The spec is amazing, including client side encryption, fully anonymous, no single point of failure, no way for the network to be censored or shut down etc.

If interested check out [MaidSafe.net](http://maidsafe.net) for overview, and if you want to talk code join us on maidsafe-developers Google Group. It's launching soon and it would be fantastic to have a Ubuntu One government as one of the first apps!
It looks like it could take minimal effort to map controls to the controller or remote. This gives existing android games and developers a quick in-road to the living room.
> He has committed the sin of not throwing his arms around gay marriage and he must pay

This is a frighteningly disingenuous interpretation.
Win+x, U, U

Much better than ANY other version of windows ever.

Then again I'm a power user.
"unhackable linux"? What?
Not entirely fair, considering: (1) these are marked as issues that need to be fixed, and (2) many of them are related to IE implementing the CSS-grid W3C draft, vs. coming up with their own proprietary technologies.

(Your comment was modified since I hit reply, but I think my point still stands, especially that it isn't strictly MS-extensions, but actual standard drafts)
Looking at twitter it seems like XAML is getting a ton of love from MS. Go back 2 years and many were predicting that HTML was going to win the war on Windows; what gives/what's changed?

Disclosure: written more XAML than I'd care too.
I beg to differ. Sure, some problems still remained even though the systems changed, but I find the situation has improved significantly in the past 15 years (I'm not counting the neo-communism years after the 89 revolution).
There still are corruption scandals, but for better or worse people have learned they have their rights, and if someone breaks the law they can be held accountable, no matter who they are. And as bad as we like to think our political class is, the democratic process is not really being undermined.
And economically, sure, the living standard is still well below the EU average, but the economy is functional. And if you're talented and hardworking, there is nothing stoping you from becoming wealthy.
My grandparents were in a similar situation to the one described in the article, and the communist state persecuted them throughout their lives. Simply knowing for a fact that one's rights and property are respected can make a big difference in the quality of people's lives in my opinion. So yeah, I think there are systems that are inherently better than others. And while there still are things to fix in Romania, we've changed a lot in the last 25 years.
I didn't say strongest indicator, I said negative correlation. These are people I hired because they interviewed well, I liked them initially -- or I wouldn't have hired them. Yet, out of the small handful of people I have had to fire, they make up the vast majority.

Over time (around 15 years), I simply had to accept a negative correlation. It is something me and my peers spitball ideas about often these days. Our working, but entirely booze derived, theory is that the high GPA kids are generally able to keep top marks because mom and dad pay for everything, so they can devote themselves more easily to getting an A. But, this ease gives a sense of absolute entitlement and bitter, useless arrogance... versus the kid working a job, helping at home and struggling to lock down that B. But, just a theory and all that.
I don't carry a sign language dictionary with me. The driver might have had one in his car. But regardless, the problems are now solved better than before and that is a little surreal.
"the need to offer a relatable role model is more important"

My point being that I don't actually believe that people need to be the same gender (or skin color or etc) to be relatable as role models.

I think making role models less demographically binned would be an important and positive step.

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"Female students have generally related more to my female colleagues"

Do you have any reason to believe that this isn't because every time they're getting started someone carefully creates that situation, as is being created here?

Measurements are frequently measurements of effects, rather than of causes.

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"Which is perfectly fine"

How can you be sure that refusing demographic cross pollination by intent is not a negative thing?
Exactly what I was thinking. Its quite insulting to suggest that girls are so myopic they can't possibly be inspired unless they meet someone of the same gender.

For the record, I'm a female engineer who moved to the USA from Ghana when I was a smaller.
I can't stand this ridiculous patronizing attitude there is towards female engineers, as if we need "extra help" or something. Even worse are the feminists creating us-vs-them politicization of the issue.

When I was learning to code, ride a bike, tie my shoes or something, I never thought "gosh I can't do that since none of the role models are female". In fact, if there are no role models of the same gender or race, its usually even more inspiring as you want to be the first one.
I clicked because I thought this was going to be about actual apps that delete themselves. I was a bit disappointed to find it was about ephemeral messaging apps.
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Companies that chose not to go responsive face great adaptation costs and, ultimately, performance suffers. This can be attributed to three things: loading performance, rendering performance and programming performance (read more about web performance here). In this article I want to focus on how to avoid the most popular mistakes people make, but first, I want to introduce you to a few unwritten rules, which define when an application can be called “fast“
The technology to give this deaf man hearing, and eliminate the need for drivers is the really interesting thing
I have WP8, as do most of my contacts. Right now I'm stuck with WhatsApp whether I like it or not.
Does Tesla Really Need a $5 Billion Battery Factory?
Are the table tops standard or did you have to drill holes in the Ikea top to get it to fit?
When an idea for running a project that is based on
making it as easy as possible to use and waste as
little time as possible.

Having to use a term like: "metamethodology" is crazy.

Check out http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/ for a reality check about Agile from one of its inventors. I quote:

"However, since the Snowbird meeting, I haven’t participated in any Agile events,1 I haven’t affiliated with the Agile Alliance, and I haven’t done any “agile” consultancy. I didn’t attend the 10th anniversary celebrations.

Why? Because I didn’t think that any of these things were in the spirit of the manifesto we produced. Having conferences about agility is not too far removed from having conferences about ballet dancing, and forming an industry group around the four values always struck me as creating a trade union for people who breathe.

And, unfortunately, I think time has proven me right. The word “agile” has been subverted to the point where it is effectively meaningless, and what passes for an agile community seems to be largely an arena for consultants and vendors to hawk services and products.

So I think it is time to retire the word “Agile.”
Well, they're certainly catching up, but they have a bit to go to before they match clang or gcc: http://cpprocks.com/c1114-compiler-and-library-shootout/
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This is interesting - Xbox one is their most interesting platform right now.
I am glad to know there are others who see it the way I do.

I draw great inspiration from people who do not have my gender, my race, or several other role model limiting demographic factors.

I feel very sad for people who are set up to not have the advantage of looking up to everyone of value.

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Edit: why is this being downvoted? Is it disagreeable to say "I have learned from people unlike me?" Are we now saying it's bad to argue for inclusion?

It's a polite, friendly comment, stating a positive opinion that says "I think people of every gender, race, etc are of value and should be available."

I feel like people are using downvote to show personal frustration.
Press windows key + X and click shutdown. Or press the power button
I can almost guarantee that, if your code bases version history is too messy to find old code, then it will be even worse if you were to favor commenting out to deleting.

That said, I do see where you're coming from. Part of the issue is that we (well, most of us) don't have good ways of searching old code. There is Codeq ( https://github.com/Datomic/codeq ), which is prettydamncool™ ...hopefully we'll start to see more systems like it.
I think you are right it helps explain NIH, but I don't think it justifies it. In the article, Naur says:

I shall use the word programming to denote the whole
activity of design and implementation of programmed
solutions.

So 'programming' is not just 'producing code', but also everything leading up to that. It is very well possible to design a solution for your specific problem and then conclude somebody already implemented (parts of) it for you. You get NIH if you need to implement (part of) the code to discover how you can use software to solve a problem and subsequently cannot let go of your code. So there are two opportunities to get rid of NIH: 1) become sufficiently proficient that you can design software without needing to write lots of it already and 2) be able and allowed to throw your code away.
When you would have otherwise said, "WTF dude?"
If you're looking for a turning point in American sentiment, I think the Vietnam War is a good candidate.
This.

I did a comparison photo (I can't find it any more) with my HP50g help up next to the Windows 8.1 calendar on my 27" display.

Embarrassingly bad.
Google scaling twitter to see the actual requirements of their system.
I don't know how you got that impression, but inside Google people use hash tables far, far more often than B+trees. In fact, I don't think I ever used B+tree once in my entire career inside Google.

It's pretty hard to beat "expected O(1)".
Wii didn't just sell Mario games though, it also sold a plethora of carnival games and the like. I mean, the bundled title was Wii Sports, and they made huge splashes with Wii Fit and Wii Music.

And meanwhile, there are phone games that are comparable to the big headline titles of the Wii etc - Bard's Tale, Oil Rush, GTA, etc.

If Amazon pushes the gamepad hard for the Fire TV, we could definitely see it in that space.
"A better analogy would be considering someone getting into a good college because of their connections & wealthy parents vs someone who didn't."

In that case, isn't it absolutely imperative to start making those connections, by not demographically binning mentors?

Connections don't just spring out of nowhere.
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What do people think of commits as a metric? It's becoming more popular for managers thanks to github's graphs.
This is the exact reason I just ordered one. I was on the fence about getting the HDX due to cost, but with this we can attach it to an old TV, get the subscription, and have a hopefully well thought out limit system built into the console.
@korzun Federal law does not allow for charitable donations through payroll deduction to be done pre-tax.
I just so happened to have been researching this today to find out why it takes seven full days as it was becoming quite the snag for the cash flow situation. I didn't personally receive this Email, but I can holy hope it's legit.
But as OP point out, iOS and Android are not the only platforms, there is also S40, symbian and Blackberry, which is where whatsapp shine.
> no longer being able to search without going full screen

Press WindowsKey + S to slide in a sidebar on your current monitor. It took me a short while to adjust but I use it naturally now.
Yeah, but I'd buy a lot more "Nintendo-like" casual-ish games if they were $5 a pop instead of $60. Add the fact I can sit comfortably on the couch with my wife and play, and I'm in.

I just hope there are enough 2 player games worthwhile.
What is there "to navigate through"? In Win7, press start and type. At least the whole screen doesn't puke on you when you do it. I don't think I've clicked that 'All Programs' button in years.

But more realistically, all the apps I want to run are always already running. There's nothing for me to "Start". If not for installing security updates, my system uptime would be several years.

What I actually want is major improvements to Alt-Tab. The most frustrating thing is how it frequently screws up the z-order when I'm switching back and forth between multiple apps. It seems to forget where I came from, and a single Alt-Tab sends me to the wrong place. The window 'latching' and Win-<arrow> shortcuts they adding in Win7 does help a bit with this, but doesn't obviate the need for much better Alt-Tab.

I think the second major flaw is, just because I happen to have 10 different excel sheets, 10 PPTs, 10 notepads "open", does not mean each one needs its own blank square in the Alt-Tab view. They figured out how to stack properly in the taskbar, but it didn't translate to the Alt-Tab view?

The concepts of "open" and "running" seem quite outdated to me. Assume everything is "open", everything is "running", and I don't need to "Start" anything. But I do need good tools to context switch and organize multiple windows across multiple screens. A full screen of identical looking icons is NOT the best solution, IMO.
I did this level of gymnastics as a kid. It taught me many things in life.

How to work hard and improve at something through many small iterations.

Learning multiple events is tricky and useful.

Dealing with injuries is an important part of life. Nobody goes through their day to day at 100% all the time. Working through the challenges is part of life.

I think gymnastics is one of those 'learning to learn' activities like chess.

I would strongly recommend looking into BJJ when she wants to move on from gymnastics. It has very similar benefits and is substantially cheaper. It can also be done at a slower pace than gymnastics, you could take a few classes a week instead of 4 x 4 hours.
Why call it Win JS? Is it meant to be Windows only? If not then why give a multi-platform open source library a branded name?
Though I like automated deployment flows and docker, the author should have stated that docker itself claims to be not production ready in the current 0.9 version. I am a true fan of bleeding-edge technology, but when it comes to production I would like to see a more conservative approach.
Even easier: use the url bar as a calculator. Google has handled math as a seach for a while now, and it's pretty good [1]. No need to leave the browser.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=y%3Dx%5E2&oq=y%3Dx%5E2
Whenever anyone says something you don't like, or you just fancy a fight. That's pretty advanced stuff. Best to get the basics right first: correct application and composition of the words "safe," "fair," "sound," "nice one," "proper" and "bruv" should be your first concern.

You may wish to consult this instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qksndNDMDOw
Since 8.1, you can actually search without going fullscreen by pressing Win+S, which reveals a search sidebar on the right side without bringing up the start screen.
What about the internals? Is it still kind of a mess under the hood?

I heard they rebuilt the TCP/IP stack so it's not user land 32 bit driver anymore.

Any ideas if/when they'll modernize NTFS? Right now it's a race to the bottom to who has the worse FS, HFS+ or NTFS. WinFS or ZFS on OS X would be a godsend.

What about the registry? Any idea if they'll make that easier to manage for regular people? Am I still fucked if it corrupts?

What about sunsetting Win32? Or improving the driver model?

They're starting to get it on the UI side, but the reason why I use Mavericks as my personal machine and work on a LAMP stack has less to do with how useful or pretty the start menu is, and more to do with the godawful internals of Windows. Or have we just resigned ourselves to a crappy OS internally that we've all just gotten used to?
For one, there's two efficient axes of navigation along the Metro start menu, you can go left-right or up-down with your keyboard, which is SO much more amazing than the "hold down down key for 6 seconds. Awp go back up five. Now hit right four times. Enter" to launch an app that is actually "pinned" to your start menu. I can orient my Metro tiles how I want, and I know I can get to it within 5-6 arrow-key presses max. This is very nice and for the first time in 6 years I've actually used the Windows key to open the start menu for something other than shutting down (have been for the last 18 months of using Windows 8.x).

Going full screen really doesn't bother me one bit. I'm launching a new app, I'm losing context anyway. I find this similar to Apple's launchpad or whatever that OSX thing is that I never use because Spotlight and Terminal is all I need from that OS.

Vaguely related to improving productivity, Win8 has significantly better multi-monitor support out of the box, with all the flexibility I'd want, and with it better window management, than either of OSX or Win7.

Just my $.02
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Curious that they include "patent application" as part of the process. Based on what they've disclosed in the Kickstarter, they're not doing anything that hasn't already been done before in existing motorized standing desks (this includes the height-position memory function--there's a standing desk out there that retails for about $3000 that has this functionality). As far as I can see, the only real difference is the cost.
How is it late? It says "April 1, 2014" right at the top.
Drafting chairs aren't as comfortable or as good for your back as a nice standard chair. If part of why you're doing this for your back and are going to sit very much at all, you'll want a better chair.
"Do you think that it would somehow be more equal for women to only have male role models?"

You seem to be going to great effort to misunderstand me.

By saying "I think young people should have access to everyone, not just people demographically like them," you seem to have heard "I think young women should only have access to people unlike them."

A call for inclusion has been misrepresented as a call for exclusion.

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"Why is it a problem for him to want a female role model for a female child?"

For the same reason that it would be a problem to only want male role models for male children. It reinforces existing problems and stereotypes, prevents social connections across demographics, limits group knowledge cross pollination, and limits the students' access to whoever is the best mentor available in the case that that mentor does not match them demographically.

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"Why do you think that "wanting his daughter to meet a female engineer" represents inequality?"

Does this actually need to be explained?