skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My conclusion does not stem from articles. It comes from actually using it next to 7, doing the same user and admin tasks I usually do. Without third party software to reign-in Metro it dominates and cripples the experience for a PC use case.

The ONLY thing I wish 7 could steal from 8 is the task manager...
Maybe a startup, but not a top tier company like google or apple, and definitely not for more senior hires who already have tons of experience.
I agree. I just logged in to see my files and pull anything if necessary.

Looks like the last time files were changed was Sept of 2009. Obviously, I haven't used it since then.
Pyth0n.org (pyth-zero-n.org) down
who is the maintainer there?
Nexus 5: The Phone I left Apple for
The making of Lords of the Fallen, next-gen's Dark Souls
It's been fixed, but that was a bug in Chrome's NSS glue between NSS and the OS X native key store. (The fix is under third_party/nss, but no one else carries that particular file.) As far as I know, it works fine on other platforms and in NSS itself.
"are on the rise"

Yes, on the rise. I see a lot more supposedly private photos from those services on /r/gonewild and 4chan and the like than ever before. Oh wait, perhaps by on "the rise", he meant there are more gullible users incorrectly thinking they're ephemeral, not the actual outcome of a trend of more "ephemeral" messages becoming permanently archived and publicly displayed.
Raindrop makes bookmarks more vivid and functional.
Save important pages, articles, video or photo in one click!
Organize collection contents and share with friends.

Raindrop saves not just bookmarks but associated content depending on page type.
If it's an article, it will be cut and saved with the bookmark.
The same applies to video, photo and presentations.
So you can organize thematic collections with different content.

Collections can be made public and used in your application or a website using API.
I'm assuming their smart enough to know that and that the article was just glossing over the details.
Aren't you sort of conflating democratic debate with social pressure? I think it's okay to have loud debates against someone who disagrees with me politically, but it's not okay to refuse to hire them for that reason. Boycotting their products is sort of an intermediate case, but I feel that it's closer to the latter than the former.

> Social pressure is not less democratic, it IS democratic in its purest form - it's a group of people standing up for what they believe in.

I think I slightly disagree with you on that as well, but it's a subtle point so it's okay if people miss it. Basically, by your standards civil war would be the most democratic thing ever. Groups standing up for what they believe in! Yeah! But to me democracy is at least partly about preventing civil war, like ritualized aggression prevents killing in the animal world. Two armies agree to settle the conflict by counting the soldiers on each side, instead of having a battle, and agree to not escalate the conflict if they lose. In other words, if you pressure your political opponents by any means outside the political process, then you're moving away from democracy as I see it. (Though of course there are Prisoner's Dilemma considerations because your opponents might use these tactics even if you don't.)
I use Quickbooks at the office but have used GnuCash for years for my personal finances and side businesses. Just a couple of days ago I decided to give Wave Accounting a try. It seems pretty simple to use. Almost too simple but I haven't really tried to do much reporting as I'm still in the middle of importing transactions. The javascript interface does seem a little slow when you're clearing a long list of transactions.

Just a first impression. I'm excited to start using something that my wife can access as well.

I'm importing just transactions starting January 1st. I imagine importing years worth of transactions would be difficult.
The daily walk across the Harvard bridge was long (about 365 smoots as I remember), cold, and often wet. The smoot marks, repainted every semester by the Lambda Chi pledges, were a very a nice way to mark the distance as I walked to class at MIT
^this. The $39.50/hr they quote (~80k salary) isn't much for NYC, especially with a family. I make more than that in my small town working remotely for a SF bay area company and I wouldn't move there without ~$125k minimum.
"Today we are announcing plans to shut down the Ubuntu One file services. This is a tough decision, particularly when our users rely so heavily on the functionality that Ubuntu One provides"

Ok, so do users really rely so heavily on Ubuntu One? If so, then why do you shut it down? If no, then why do you say they rely on it?

I believe they don't rely on it.

"The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately. The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted."

1.5 months? Really?
Nobody complains about death of something they don't use and I think it is a bit early to tell if actual users will complain.
None of the people who put that question on hold were moderators, either. You can identify a user as a moderator by the diamond next to their name.
Imagine if nobody had it installed, it would be lost forever. Or until someone rebuilt it from the spec.
for the record: dang is Daniel Gackle, an HN moderator, not an ipython person
Designing a RESTful web API
Actually looking at wave too right now! I don't see anyway though to do a bulk import of all accounts/transactions, are you doing it manually?
Brendan Eich toughs out backlash over opposition to gay marriage
Typical thought process for deciding what features a candidate needs to have.

1. I am a good programmer.

2. I have/am X.

3. (Optional) Just-so story about how X makes you a good developer.

4. Therefore, job candidates must have/be X.

I've seen this taken to stupid lengths, where employers want someone who has done professional work with the exact toolchain in use. I don't like car analogies, but it would be like hiring a driver and saying "well, we need someone familiar with the Ford Fusion, and you only have driven a Ford Taurus."
It's quite different honestly. Google is a services company, and they make you eat advertising everyday to support their products. Ubuntu provides an OS for free (you can turn off the Amazon nonsense anyway) and storage was just an icing on the cake - it was never a key component of their strategy.
Indeed, but then proceeded into calling for action: "Move your repositories away..."
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TOS in general are vague but encompassing. I guess that's the point though
And even Gentoo has reasonable systemd support if you want to use it, and Sabayon (the largest Gentoo derivative) uses systemd.
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...then you have people who disable crap like javascript for security, performance and sanity reasons.
In general these are valid remarks. But we're not talking about random clueless people deciding to play statistics, the research is obviously conducted by people who know how this kind of stuff (statistics) works. This reminds me of laypeople trying to poke holes in theories of physics (and I'm not talking about quacks and lunatics, just well intentioned people who think they have a better explanation based on rudimentary high school or even undergraduate science and math). It's such a charming, cute naivete. Do they really think their simple ideas never occurred to a single professional physicist who immediately saw it was wrong for a number of reasons?

So, do you really think the researchers in this case hadn't thought of this? I mean yeah, it's OK to doubt and inquire, but come on, this is so rudimentary...

> If the questions are all yes/no questions

The article says (or at least implies) that the subjects give probabilities of "yes" to each question.

EDIT: Oh, and to add, the article clearly says they're not just making shit up and randomly coming up with probabilities. They collect open source info on events and base their estimates on that. So it's not just blind guessing.
> How can we know if a law is religiously motivated?

If it can be justified through non-religious means, then the law itself can be described as not being religiously motivated. Opposing gay marriage cannot be justified through non-religious means. And it's not through lack of trying, just look at any of the recent court cases.

> There's not much point to freedom of religion if you're not allowed to vote according to those beliefs.

Sure there is. You can do whatever your religion dictates you to do, so long as it doesn't require /other/people/ to follow those dictates, or prevent other people from following their (lack of) religious dictates. This seems a reasonable compromise. I certainly can't think of a better way of peacefully resolving the conflict. Apparently neither could the writers of the US constitution.

> But people are turning this into a black and white issue. It isn't.

The particular issue of the legality of gay marriage is a black and white issue, just like womens and minority suffrage were.
How will the programmer know that the professional service is doing a good job? I've seen recruiters -- supposedly experts in what it takes to get hired, and are motivated because the only way they get compensated if I get the position -- completely butcher my resume.
I'm with noname on this one. 99.99% of those excellent engineers are NOT going to be billionaires.

They'll be lucky to be millionaires (and I'll envy them if I can't join them).

For those marvelous engineers to become millionaires, they need to have the luck to be paired with an excellent business team, build the right product and have a large dose of luck.

I'd rather have a not-so-brilliant engineer and an excellent team, vision and execution (as in build the right thing at the right time and produce value), for most products (very especially for your AirBnB or Facebook examples) you don't need top-tier talent to build it (you do need some to scale).

Edit: some of these marvelous people, which have actually built a succesful startup, tried again and FAILED. So it's not just the person, the idea must be right, the timing must be right and luck has to be on his side.
What Really Killed William Henry Harrison?
I hope it works out for you.

I'll be hesitant about the productivity pitch though...a lot of developers don't truly care about productivity in the way that one would expect. Often what opinionated developers want is something that conforms to their opinions, productivity just becomes a convenient excuse for the choice of a particular tool.

At least as someone who's spent a lot of time pitching productivity to developers I have become skeptical that developers value it as much as one would ordinarily expect. I am the developer of HiveMind (crudzilla.com), a web app platform that literally allows you to get a whole bunch of things done with writing little to no code. I find this pitch simply doesn't fly with a lot of developers :)

The open source pitch for instance is something I am sure will get you some followers, though how big a following is not certain.

Welcome aboard the entrepreneurial train!
And now you have three places to look at instead of one.
It is probably a bad sign for the project's culture that people acting like assholes towards each other gave it an air of legitimacy.
Why do I need to quit my job this year?
As well as Gitorious and GitLab.
It's entirely plausible that the people using it rely on it heavily, but that there aren't enough people using it to justify its existence.
> yeah, although I question the sanity of doing this.

the sanity of access control?

> is this related to #3?

Not necessarily.

> yes, but IMO VCS should be used for source files (mostly). large assets should go in an artifact repo

Great, so now the code and the assets going with the code, both being used to build the product, are completely out of sync and essentially unsyncable?
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It's been made just for the video :)
The fact that enough people are choosing to buy stuff there, making it a sustainable business model is praise enough.
YNAB. The UX is very nice, you get free courses, and there is a nice community around it. It's not an accounting but a budgeting software though.
>A hosting service like Mega with the security of Tarsnap that could host and de-duplicate torrents would be very interesting.

Tarsnaps security is based on client-side encryption. They cannot read the plaintext. Therefore if more than one person uploads the same file, they will have two different encrypted versions of the same file, which can not be deduplicated.

You could use convergent encryption, but then users can query each others files.
maybe try one that's not getting taken down every other week?

http://mikew.github.io/ss-plex.bundle/
Performance, maybe. Security, no. Disabling JavaScript for the sake of security is a placebo.
I'm in the UK and use Kashflow (http://www.kashflow.com/ or http://bit.ly/kashflow if you're feeling affiliate-link-friendly) -- it's been rock-solid and has plenty of hassle-reducing features beyond the usual invoicing and book-keeping stuff, including inbound online client payments and good VAT support with automated return submissions.

My accountant also has access and it makes that side of my business very very easy to manage.

They've recently dropped their prices (now £5/mth and up), but it should say something about KashFlow that I've been happy to pay the old price ( > £100/year) for it for the last three years.
When it comes to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, internet discussions are like the old biased coin toss: "Heads the 2nd law is true, Tails the 2nd law is not not true". I wish Karl Popper was still around.
Apple’s Jobs Declared ‘Holy War’ Over Android
Well, that's hilarious. Many UK houses to get their hot water from a tank heated by the same boiler as the central heating system, with both turned on and off by a central timer plus individual thermostats. It sounds like the Nest can't handle that, meaning you still need a separate non-Nest timer for the hot water as well with its own user interface.[1]

[1] See the comments on http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nest-thermostat-officiall... - I thought it was odd the Nest PR stuff didn't mention hot water anywhere.
I've yet to see one that's genuinely useful, and no, replying to a forum thread etc without a pageload doesn't count.
So no then. You can't. Because it doesn't make any sense and it's a bad idea. I'm sorry you had to be the person who had the idea and I'm sorry I had to be the person to call you on it.

Okay, to be honest, everybody has this idea about VR. In your mind you see a glorious 3d representation of person you are chatting with, if your imagination is powerful enough, you can even feel the frame of the headset on your face and the wash of the display glow against the contours of your nose. But everybody who ever thinks about this idea, and is in a position to try and do it, runs into the same fundamental problem. Because in their imagination and their dreams, they're never in the place of the person they're chatting with, to see what they're seeing and they never realize that what the other person must see is them with a headset on...and then they realize the person they first saw in their dreams must have one on as well and the entire illusion shatters. You can't achieve the kind of telepresence we all wish for today or anytime in the near future.

I know you're struggling with accepting this scenario, but I've watched this same scenario play out for 30 years. There's nothing new about the Rift except it's consumer cheap. I've personally used systems better than the Rift and the moment you get the headset on, you realize VR telepresence, via video, won't ever work.

Nobody wants to have that kind of chat experience, so the only other possible mode is to do it with avatars.

Guess what, that's what's currently being done.

https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=5...

http://www.worlds.com/index2.html

https://www.activeworlds.com/index.html

http://someyworks.com/vc/vc.html

http://www.vr-fun.net/

The experience is obviously not what you or I are talking about though, even the first link which actually uses a VR headset (the Rift). But there's a very long list of well known issues to surmount that haven't been solved yet for very good reasons. No amount of "let's suppose that..." will make some of those very hard things a reality. At least not with the goal of something the general public will accept in enough volume to make it worthwhile.

Sorry to be a dick, but there really are unworkable ideas. You're a consultant, you know that you sometimes have to break bad news to the people you work for when they simply can't do something because it's not possible. You might come across as an asshole when you do, and people's feelings might get hurt, but somebody has to break the bad news.
Quick books online just did a massive design refresh it's actually very nice and usable. I recommend it.
> But the problem is not technical, it's a social problem that must be resolved with public means. Any technical "solution" is just a workaround that potentially makes the situation even worse.

I am very happy to see that other users are sharing the same views as mine on the subject. I also believe in public means for resolving privacy issues not technical (which as you said, could turn the situation even worst).
PredictionBook [1] does it that way. You get a chart of how many times you assigned a certain probability and what percent of times

[1] http://predictionbook.com/
Yes thank you for down voting, what's incorrect about my statement?
Has anybody tried this? Thoughts? How well does windows compatibility work IRL?
> Ok, so do users really rely so heavily on Ubuntu One? If so, then why do you shut it down? If no, then why do you say they rely on it?

From the article:

> Additionally, the free storage wars aren’t a sustainable place for us to be, particularly with other services now regularly offering 25GB-50GB free storage.

In other words, they can't compete with Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, Google Drive, and whatever flavor of the week is next week. It's a distraction, so they're focusing on making the OS better and getting out of the cloud storage business.

They can probably tell that there are people who rely on it (active usage logs and all that), and to those people this is a Big Deal. But those are also the people that would be underserved by U1 going forward, so it's best if they get out now.
> A bloc of /any kind/ can vote away everyone else's freedom.

Under the US constitution, this is blatantly false. See, for example, the First through Fourth Amendments, which place restrictions on what sorts of laws can be created.
@danielweber i agree about what you're saying, but i tend to find that only happens when a recruiter gets their hands on your CV. If you generally allow yourself or HR team to have direct access to the CV's, they tend to know what will make a good hire, and won't be looking for people who have only driven a Ford "focus"
This is sort of my point about incremental improvement being hard-won, though. It's really difficult to make something that is actually better than other things, even for pretty narrow criteria. That's why I'm always suspicious of things (like the OP) that claim they will bring a major sea-change of betterness across broad criteria.
I set up a daily backup with Ubuntu One just yesterday. Oh well. A USB pendrive should do the trick.
Well there's a little more physics to it, namely that biases towards certain distributions are small -- i.e. that systems always have paths to a large number of states. The laws of physics has to be such that they exhibit asymptotic equipartition.

In your example, assuming that particles positions are iid over the entire container generates the second law, but only because the dynamics of the system allow such approximation -- imagine instead that particles liked to almost irreversibly "stick together", then the system would converge to most particles on a single side.
Why are the two mutually exclusive? You can set up redirecting proxies and mirrors and simultaneously take to the streets to bring down the evil dictator.
Maybe I should have tried that when I was working at a company that used gmail, as their IMAP is so slow it can only be described as glacial.
Agreed that there is really no distinction in most cases (software engineer = software developer = programmer = guru = ninja etc), but it matters to the people in positions to hire you. I bet someone with a job title of 'software engineer' is perceived to be more 'prestigious' even if the job is really the same.

I am sick of job ads that use words like 'ninja' and 'rockstar', btw.
Well, the problem is that polygamy is not good for society, even though it is good for some individuals. You end up with a bunch of rich older men with multiple wives, and very limited romantic prospects for younger men. And you definitely don't want large numbers of sexually frustrated young men in your society. We've been moving in that direction (toward de-facto polygamy) for 50 some years now, with the pill, breakdown of traditional marriage, societal acceptance of premarital sex, etc. Luckily, entertainment outlets (porn, video games, etc) have also improved dramatically, providing an outlet for some, but I don't think that is necessarily to the benefit of society either.
I use it to backup my entire machine from /

It's only about 2MB per day to upload.
I have a daily cron that does the backup and deletes all but the latest two images.

Quality of service, along with Colin's amazing pricing, make it an easy win for me. I never feel like I need to stop and waste time thinking about other options.
Sorry for negativity, but is it really a code editor or yet another notepad clone with syntax highlighting? There are too many of the latter and almost none of the former.

I believe code editor to be called one must be designed to work with the code and provide standard facilities to manipulate upon it. The rest is for particular language support module that'd recognize semantics and do the transformations.

For example, the very core must have option to bind language module-provided semantics data to text fragments, so, say, highlighter (a proper one, not a TextMate-like mess of regexps) would base its work upon knowing not only "syntax regexp says this is a variable" but "semantic analyzer says this is a variable `foo`, and it's also used here and there, too (but not there, it's another scope), if that matters", while remaining generic.

(Edited: minor re-formatting)
It's not like 95% of exploits rely on either javascript or flash to work, is it?

Oh wait, it is.
Shutting Down Ubuntu One File Services