skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I have the launcher from Palm WebOS too?
I think the only thing to conclude from the article is that normal people can beat CIA analysts. This is similar to the story about monkey stock picking. (near useless FT story url http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/abd15744-9793-11e2-b7ef-00144...)
Yet another stunning advancement in the computer sciences. I wonder how Knuth will respond to being one upped.
"2) Many of the biggest changes in the U.S. since 1970 have been in the direction of deregulation, increased emphasis on markets, and smaller government."

I think the problem is there is a ton of rhetoric about deregulation and smaller government but in practice if you look very close government is mostly much bigger and a lot of the things that have been "deregulated" aren't subject to the competition that deregulation implies because of the nature of the industries involved.

Sure you can deregulate electric rates but you still don't have a choice in who carries that power to your house. On the other hand look at an industry like car dealerships where deregulating would actually improve things and people fight tooth and nail to keep it because they know there is no natural barrier to protect their profits.
Chromecast lets you "cast" a tab from chrome, but the performance will be subpar. Very subpar. Don't try to watch a video with that or anything. If your macs are all modern enough (sandy bridge or newer) AirPlay display mirroring/extending works pretty well. The latency is noticeable but not the end of the world if you're using it to consume content. You won't want to full screen a 1080p video in VLC though, the framerate will be good but not perfect. There's an app Beamer that can be used for things like that. For most video files it won't need to transcode the whole thing, rather it'll just demux and maybe transcode the audio to AAC (appletv can natively play common video formats).
Thank you. We use a very thing GWT wrapper for SVG.
Apps, games, better user experience. I have the same BluRay player and I would choose this over that. That said, I already have the BluRay player so there will need to be a game worth $140 for me to get this.
I feel like you must have (accidentally?) withheld context. Since everything is open, you can presumably produce drivers for QNX, FreeBSD, or another OS of your choice. I'm sure you can also boot bare-metal into embedded firmware of your own design.
There are a large number of keyboard shortcuts that are extremely helpful for common tasks. Windows-X is my favorite.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcut...
For less than a $100 bucks I make pick this up to put alongside my Apple TV just so I can watch Amazon video without airplay.
Where were you two years ago... 11 hours day one. It was many days before a day two.
Looks legit indeed, I logged into that account and saw this under transfers.

http://9mtr.co/image/2t2i142C2T41
The only reason it's not sustainable anymore is because send-all-my-searches-to-Amazon will be opt-in, so they will have to start paying for s3. The deal where Amazon would give away cloud storage for OS-level privacy has changes since they announced the opt-in.
> he amazing thing is that you can potentially write all your code in C and have backend/frontend logic for the web, Windows, Windows Phone, OSX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64, VAX, Arduino, Linux Kernel, Windows Kernel, Mach, Hurd, and practically every processor or operating system ever built, and even iOS/Android (via Xamarin). Wow.

Have you ever done C development like this, ever in your life?

I did. Between 1994 and 2003, we had applications run across Windows, HP-UX, Aix, DG/UX, GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris.

An awful mess of #ifdefs, compiler specific behaviours, lack of POSIX compliance, OS specific extensions.

This on the server side, and lets not forget there are ZERO portable standards for writing portable GUI code in C.

Finally, C shouldn't never had become mainstream given its lack of safety, that we are still suffering in 2014. There were better systems programming languages in the late 70's, they just weren't at Bell Labs.
So could I suggest that CIA forecasts are affected by internal politics, perceived needs of political establishment, and afflicted by biases in top secret material that cannot be easily counter-balanced.

Whereas if they put these super-forecasters in the CIA and said "if you dont predict what i want its off to Afghanistan with you" they will soon regress to the mean.
If you are interested in graphs, you might also want to look at this demo: http://mbeddr-dataflow.appspot.com/

We have quite a smart layout here which was implemented from scratch.
Thanks for the offer. I would enjoy looking at the code.
An intern? Don't pat yourself on the back TOO hard... ;-)

Who's to say an anecdotal 'employee' is any better than his 'intern'?
Bill O’Reilly Calls For Worldwide Support For Tesla Motors Inc
Same here, no issues for me on several machines, for several years.
I hypothesize that any numbers-based code metric management comes up with can also be gamed by adequately-motivated developers. In fact, if you come up with such a metric and have a developer who can't figure out a way to game it, perhaps you want to consider letting that developer go.

Were I to work in a place with a 'git commits' metric for productivity, I'd happily commit each line individually, to ensure that any potential data loss was as limited as possible, of course.

To paraphrase Wally from Dilbert: "I'm writing myself a mini-van."
Great content. As someone that worries if I'm doing the right thing from a UX perspective often, it's good to get analysis of how others do this stuff!
My employer got me one of these: http://www.ergotron.com/Products/Workstations/StandUpDesks/t... and it's been really nice. You move it up and down by hand. I just grab on and stand or sit and it moves right up or down with me. I love being able to change position so quickly and easily. This desk looks like it takes a long time to move up or down.
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There are rumors that Microsoft is considering the purchase of Xamarin [1]. And now Microsoft is now previewing their .NET AOT compiler for X64 and ARM. I see great things in C#/.NET's future in mobile and cross platform development.

On another note, I wonder if Microsoft addressed the inherent limitations of AOT in C# [2]. I wonder if it's a compile-time error, or if that segment of code is interpreted. I doubt it's interpreted, as that's a giant perf loss.

[1] http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-reportedly-considering-ac...

[2] http://www.mono-project.com/AOT#Limitation:_Generic_Interfac...
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BTW there is a piece of art which contains only one character (space). It was written by Russian author Баян Ширянов (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Баян_Ширянов ). AFAIK there is no English translation, but you can read it in Russian on http://lib.ru/PROZA/KLOCHKO/probel.txt
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The average man in an engineering discipline can trivially meet other male engineers, and will be pretty much surrounded by them anywhere they work. This would be true at the grade-school level up through the pinnacle of their careers.

This is not true for women. This guy's daughter might be the only girl in her class who feels comfortable expressing an interest in engineering. She might go on to be one of a tiny (and steadily decreasing) number of women in an overwhelmingly male university-level engineering program. Can you imagine how it might be nice to at some point be able to meet and learn from someone whose life experiences more closely match your own, and learn from the experiences that they have (or will have) in common?
It's a good question because there are a handful of variables at play. Size of the window, density of objects, the layout of objects, the ordering of objects, etc.
HN mod explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7516890
I've always wondered about this. It takes about 10 minutes and $5 to start a blog these days.
Stripe now paying out funds in 2 days rather than 7
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I suppose I should elaborate on where I'm coming from.

1. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

2. https://plus.google.com/110440139189906861022/posts/EKhGyqn1... (including comments)

Don't get me wrong, I use linux everyday and it's better than the alternatives out there. But seeing a blue-sky bespoke attempt like this gets me wanting more.
the word coding is so annoying when it's used as a one-fits-all sort of thing, it's like when people use the word literally instead of figuratively
I'm glad you think so! It's always helpful to learn from the best.
I actually had to Google "How to restart Windows 8?" - How can 'restart/shut down' be a setting. That's the most ridiculous thing I've seen about Windows in all these years.
What is the go-to for windows application 'isolation' or 'sandboxing' ? I only know about sandboxie..Anythine else ?
I'll be interesting to see if the community adopts it or if all improvements and fixes will have to go through Microsoft.
No, just widely speculated.
The USA should immediately cease contact with the rest of the world. The rest of the world will thank the USA for it. DUH.
I'm using the phrase to mean something that's inconvenient for a company but ultimately necessary to make more money. Not just any task that's part of everyday business. But maybe I'm mistaken.
> Nothing a cab stand, cash, and pen and paper hadn't already solved.

You could use that analogy for pretty much any technological innovation the past 50 years.
Companies e-mail sensitive data to law enforcement
Tiles can be resized to be small, medium, large, and x-large sizes.
Did you even read how their chips work?
I'll give this a try. I've been knocking around looking for a new OSX editor, and haven't been completely happy with any of them. Current editor-of-choice is Light Table, but I'm not in love with it.

It's really interesting to try all these new, modern editors and see the subtle tradeoffs the creators made.
The irony here is that when Microsoft was developing OS/2 for IBM, the latter started requiring updates (similar to the OP) showing KLOC's written in a week, and the then Microsoft engineers lamenting at how stupid that was.

Congratulations Microsoft. You've now become the bloated mid-80's IBM you used to hate.
It's absolutely trivial to meet male engineers. Many, if not most, of his daughters role models will end up being male engineers. The effort isn't to exclude men from being involved in her career choice / education, the effort is to include a woman in it.
My girlfriend expressed interest in learning to code last weekend. You were my example of someone she should research and mimic to start off her journey.

What you've accomplished is extremely impressive and serves as a shining example of how someone can go from knowing morning to developing a true skill. Job well done!
1) we will release on premise version to address that (yes, you can deploy more machines to do HA and load balancing)

2) AWS allows us to get new IP addresses quickly and APIs will ban rather the auth key than the IP address no? There are huge networks behind NAT like mobile and companies so providers has to count with that.

3) We enforce single point of entry to the Traffic Monitor through the generated unique URL and key we generated for you. The monitors are jailed on several levels, so they can't access outside resources.

4) We are having optional SSL now but enforcing it in next days.

5) We don't want to enforce any limits other than abusing the service.
Do you have any numbers to share? We were thinking about 10req/s should be enough for everyone.

6) It should not double the response time because we are not slow as the API you are asking. Of course it depends where is your client and how many request we will be having, but we have plan for spreading the load and moving monitors around. Also 1)(on premise) is in the works which should have almost 0 latency.

Thanks! If you are interested write us a mail and we can chat how to improve things.
I saw The Century of the self and then I wanted to see them all.
Well, great, I'd love to know your product when its released, let me know if you don't mind! ;)

Apropros MOAI in the future, just let your game start with Lua tables. Doesn't matter what the game is describing, but just .. do it with nice tables[].

Then, attach MOAIProp. :)
I don't carry a sign language dictionary with me. The driver might have had one in his car.

OR A PEN.

PROTIP: COMMUNICATE BY WRITING WITH THE PEN.

Edit for clarity: I suppose that I deserve the hate for using caps, but I'm amazed that people think access to a sign language dictionary on your phone is a better way to communicate with a deaf person than a pen and paper. Sure the poster was able to learn a single sign that he ended his interaction with, but he could have nodded or waved to the same effect and would not be able to hold a conversation. With a writing implement he would be able to richly communicate with the driver, including diagrams for route choice or drawings of landmarks to navigate to a place he didn't know the address or name of. There are many impressive capabilities that modern technology provides us, but sometimes we get lost in thinking that they are revolutionary. There's nothing wrong with reveling in an experience, but you should recognize that it is only indulgence.
It's still sad that because of Mozilla and Microsoft we have no SQL API in all HTML5 browsers :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSQL

IndexedDB is fine for storing JSON objects, etc. but a relational database with SQL query syntax, indexes, etc. more powerful and means less code to write. With IndexedDB one has to reinvent the wheel to just get basic query features.
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There's also treesheets. It's a nested table editor, but the tables can also be rendered as mind maps. My description doesn't really do it justice, but it's pretty cool.

http://strlen.com/treesheets/
Suspension of NASA contact with Russian entities
Like public key cryptography.
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We will try it when doing more videos! Thanks.
That's very interesting! How did you become involved in this project?
It's funny to see how people were crying for MS to bring back the Start menu right here, on HN some time ago.

Yet now I see plenty of posts with "that is not a solution..". Can you ever be satisfied?
Yeah, sorry, crappy writing skills. I tried to elaborate in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7518682.

I'm gradually growing aware that just having the sources be open is not enough to be hackable.
Not mentioned is them directly referencing a specific AWS instance by name rather than via DNS alias, which also highlights how it's amateur hour over there.

It brings up a side point in how amateur hour it is everywhere in the dating space - Tinder's amazing lack of even basic security for example.

Is everyone just terrible at this or are my expectations just too high?
It looks like the Cubox isn't open. At least, it fails the 10 minute rule. I couldn't find the design files, beyond pdfs for the schematics of the "upper" and "lower" PCBs (which don't meet the criteria of being open) and nothing for the main board.
Shaving seconds really. But it adds up.

1. Dock/Pin primary apps to task bar (same as win 7)

2. Organized(Grouped)/stripped down metro for less-frequently used apps. Removed tiles for any apps that I do not use -> Reduces the number of apps I need to pin to the task bar -> Hit Win Key to quickly switch to Metro and select app

3. The first win 8.1 update (released 5-6 months ago) reduced the search to 25% of the screen. Hit "Win + S" for search under classic mode. Personally I just hit the Win Key and start typing, enters metro momentarily.

4. First win 8.1 release added a start button to the task bar. Hated it for 2 secs(for reducing my task-bar space). Right clicked start button and realized I could remove a couple of additional tiles/task bar pins. Keyboard shortcut is "Win + X".

4.1. Tip: Right clicking the start menu has a Quicker shutdown menu option. Tip 2: Additional shortcuts for the menu are only displayed if you use the keyboard shortcut to open the menu.
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You and your project are truly inspiring. Congratulations on everything!
Because it's full of WIN! (as opposed to fail?)

But really, I suspect the name is indeed intended to reflect Microsoft's flagship brand: Windows. They're proud of the brand and I'm sure there's no shortage of misunderstandings within Microsoft about how the public (mainly developers I believe) view the brand.
It's just a word denoting a process. Sub it with 'writing a sophisticated software' if you like.
From what I remember, they were pointing out an overwhelming majority of their users were only pressing the same 8 or so buttons at the bottom of the taskbar to start apps.

And I'm on board with that.

It's just that one needs the Start Menu to get those 8 or so buttons into the taskbar in the first place!!!!

"Yes, Mrs. Bathwater? Your baby is...thataway!"
Miguel’s “Go Mobile With Xamarin” Session at Build
Nope, there's more bad code being written now than at any other point in history (I totally just made that fact up and I stand by it). If ever there was a time to be hero through code deletion, now is the time. Carpe diem!
"The WinJS is a library of CSS and JavaScript files. It contains JavaScript objects, organized into namespaces, designed to make developing Windows Store app using JavaScript easier."
Not sure if Cameyo meets all your needs, but it's worth a look:

http://www.cameyo.com/
I find it most interesting that it's on GitHub. MS not moving fast enough for the community? Fork it.
We can pretend things are equal, but they're not. If a young girl is taken to a work place and all she sees is 20+ men working there (and chances are that is what she would see), that can definitely be discouraging. Unfortunately, women in engineering isn't common enough and personally observing a status quo of there being very few women can cause a problem in what a child sees as their possibilities.
Don't forget alternating between standing a sitting a few times a day and going to planning meetings. "Okay, the next hour is when I say 'No' to marketing a bunch of times. Aren't you excited??"
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Some interesting choices, some incredibly disappointing.

A9 core rather than the virtualization-ready A15? (I'd rather have a 64-bit ARM but those are still a ways out)

Edit: and let's not hear about how closed A15 is blah blah. At the end of the day, something is closed. Did Freescale give you silicon masks? Guess it's not totally open after all.

Single SO-DIMM means max 8GB of RAM, but of course since you're running a 32-bit chip you'll be restricted past 4GB anyway.

100 Mbit Ethernet in the Year Of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen? Edit: Several people have pointed out that, thankfully, the 100Mbit port is a secondary port, while the main one is Gbit. This is actually pretty cool.

The case is actually kind of cool, but you can't really call it a laptop if your footprint is normal laptop size + a separate keyboard. Nobody's lap is that big. I think it could be pretty usable for work while on travel but you can't use it on an airplane tray table.

And then the pricing. Oh my the pricing. $700 for a case and a screen. Another $700 for an RC car battery and an SSD. Not even Apple marks up SSDs and batteries that much.

I would really love to get the laptop spec one for $800-1000--you know, the price of a great desktop PC plus a monitor. Sure, the ARM processor is going to be disappointingly sluggish and I'll be beating my head against the 4GB memory ceiling within an hour, but it looks really damn cool and the screen size is acceptable.

Kickstarter-type things are often done as "backers pay more for a unit, but they get it first and they're willing to pay because they believe in the product". However, the prices will go UP by 10% after this campaign is over! So the $2000 "laptop" will now cost $2200, despite the reduction in component cost due to time and scaling.

Edit: oh, and apparently the case, which I think is one of the cooler parts of this project, doesn't seem to be open? So I can't pay a fabricator $200 to make one, then slap a $400 A15 board in there. The totally open laptop, ladies and gentlemen!
Native compilation! This are great news.

Never got the point why Java and .NET adopted a VM approach, back in the days when we already had safe systems programming languages like Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Ada, Delphi with AOT compilers on their canonical toolchains.
Sure, but one is not always in the browser ;)
Yes. Also returning cached responses if you want. It is full blown programming language inside. Parse XML? Yes. Transform JSON? Yes :) Implement OAuth? If you dare :)
Hmm... I read this and wanted more information about what happened in the last 185 days. There's a link to the YumHacker site but not much context there. Here's a post explaining it a bit more: http://blog.yumhacker.com/post/74733516768/yumhacker-i-built...
Interesting. Seems similar—complete with slightly creepy base station—to Sen.se: https://sen.se/store/cookie/#mother

(Though it appears Karotz is a separate thing: http://store.karotz.com/en_US/)

There's also Electric Imp, but it's a bit more of a platform/DIY: https://electricimp.com/
https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/overview-apps-games.htm...

The Amazon Fire TV runs Fire OS 3.0, based on Android Jelly Bean (API level 17).
Wut? Did someone just praise XP's singular color scheme? I guess everything really does look better in hindsight.

http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/windows-xp-color-...
If you've written 0 LOC for your revolutionary artificial intelligence system, or 1,000,000 LOC for your "Instagram for Squirrels" app, I'm likely to be equally suspicious. Otherwise there's a wide range of acceptable answers for that question.

A rant probably isn't one of them.
i'd really like to get the main board _and_ the battery board, but no display (wrong size) and no case (wrong size). i'd like to use a modded thinkpad x-series case (and keyboard) and install a better display and board!
Doesn't .NET already have native code compilation using NGEN?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Image_Generator
So, this would basically be Microsoft's Windows-only version of node-webkit[1], then? (I've been thinking the comparison was pretty clear since Metro JS apps first appeared, but now that they're going to be able to be window-ified as well, it's much more stark.)

[1] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
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C compiler from a unix vendor in the late 90's.
Refactoring legacy code bases