skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7 parallel lines can be achieved by creating an 8-dimensional Riemann space (R8) and then drawing in it. The bill for the particle accelerator to do so is on the order of $1,250B. We'll just assume that you're OK with this and add that to the project budget -- invisible Red and Blue ink, easy. Phosphor dyed UV ink. No problem. It will perfectly meet your specification.

If you want the visualization and detailed description of the solution, we can engage Rand Corp for a nice slick to show you how this will work. It'll be about 1250 pages, and we can add this to the budget for a little over $400M.

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If there's any lesson to take from this... When confronted by people who don't understand the scope of the problem -- don't communicate the problems OF the problem. Communicate the actual scope of the solution. It will tend to focus the dicscussion rather rapidly.
Dalí must be ejaculating in his grave...
Or at least i think that is happening something along those lines.
Yes I'm aware of that, but can universal apps be written in native code? I don't see any mention of it in their announcement.
THIS.

I think Scott Hanselman put it best with his recent 'Microsoft killed my Pappy' post...

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
Works great for poker, where you play lots of hands. Works less great for the situation in the article. Just how many North Korean missile launches do you need a person to predict before you know they are lucky or not?
There are ~195 sovereign nations on the planet. Billions of people don't live in a US-style panopticon.
> Like any other commercial vendor.

Like any commercial vendor optimized around selling software licenses. A commercial vendor optimized around selling software-backed services and complete solutions has different incentives, since they end up eating the costs of churn. Unsurprisingly, lots of companies that do the latter are built around (and often sponsor) open source software.
Considering all external signs, I think "feeling" too much about it will be a career-limiting move.

I still think most of their stack sucks, but I am quite surprised with this new Microsoft. It'll be fun to compete against them again.
First, bravo! This post is made for HN.

Second, posts without urls (i.e. Ask HNs) have an automatic rank penalty applied to them. Could you please put it up at an external url—even just a pastebin would do—and resubmit it? It'll have a much better chance of making the front page, where it belongs.

Alert readers may notice that I have to resort to this because we don't really have any tools for making stories go up in rank. It's upvotes or nothing.

Also, I've got a sweet plan to get all the good Show HNs the attention they deserve. It's a matter of finding time to implement it.
That invocation is precisely right. On my system, it's a shell script called `cleanWhiteboardImage`; this is an actual command I've run, taken from my bash history:

cleanWhiteboardImage IMG_20140208_175541.jpg zoomedOut-action-flow-chart.png

Also, yes the time it takes to make this work can be problematic. That can be mitigated by shrinking the image, though that decreases the quality of the cleanup.

In reality though, I'm fine with it taking a couple seconds. My main motivation wasn't so much to make this 'fast' as it was to automate the process.
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It's a common problem among external facing engineers. A source of great stress also. I think it is critical for engineers to discuss this topic and re-shape our view of working with the external world. We don't operate on an island and we cannot keep going for long with a condescending view of the business types without developing issues. Figuring out a mutually beneficial / acceptable operating procedure is key. The default is too negative and helps no one. With some skill, we can leverage our position, really solve big problems, and have a better working relationship. Just my 2 cents coming from b2b where my projects have 100% external impact (i.e. if we fuck up, they will have egg all over their faces - brings out the control freak in the business types).
Just IMO, but perhaps it doesn't "stick" because none of the other folks spent years trying to use their effective OS monopoly to extinguish everything that wasn't their proprietary browser.

Also, ActiveX. ;)
WinRT lets you write native Win 8 apps in C++, however it doesn't use LLVM or .NET bytecode. If universal binaries are supposed to be supported across different architectures (like x86, ARM, etc.) I don't know of any other way to support it than fat binaries.
No need for an of audit TextSecure... just go to their github issues page. Plenty of open bugs and regressions, some of them as serious as some of the ones in the latest CryptoCat app audits. For example, one issue where some messages sent are not being encrypted.

Even with 'amazing' contributors, bugs are still there in TextSecure.
Hanlon's Razor is something I've never heard before - but it's a philosophy that I've tried to stick to in my life.

It's so great to be able to put an "official" term to something you know but can't associate with a title!
Well... A lot of hotspots potential comes from runtime profiling, this is not necessarily the same as having an optimizing compiler generating code at compile time.
It'd be great if there was a compiler that would compile TypeScript to asm.js [0]. Adding type-safety in TypeScript is only for the programmer -- when you compile it to Javascript, you don't get any performance increase. But, if you could compile it to asm.js, you'd actually get some performance increase out of it. (Note: I don't know much about TypeScript or asm.js, so if what I just said is completely untrue, I'd love to know why.)

[0]: http://asmjs.org/
An example of why this sucks:

http://try.buildwinjs.com/default.aspx#toggle

"GitHub issue 9: This control currently works only in IE due to its dependency on IE-only styles ::-ms-fill-lower, ::-ms-fill-upper, ::-ms-ticks-before, ::-ms-ticks-after, and ::-ms-tooltip."

Another reason why this sucks, you can even't copy that stupid text from that page in Chrome.

/me smashes monitor with keyboard, then ragequits.
Definitely the best looking API documentation site generator I saw out there..
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As someone who identifies as Bisexual and has been invovled with a few gay relationships, I have no intention of ditching Firefox nor do I plan to stop supporting Mozilla. While I don't agree with Eich's personal beliefs on the matter of same sex marriage, it's his PERSONAL belief. It seems he has and still wants personal matters distant from Mozilla or Firefox or anything else related to his career. Everyone will disagree with you on something, doesn't mean you should always shame them for an opinion.
One of my domains could be worth a lot – what's the best way to sell it?
Hello HN,
as of subject, I just discovered that one of the domains I own (very short, named after an emerging technology) could be very worthy.

Could sound stupid, but an evaluation website evaluated at more than 84 k$ and I would like to dig deeper in the topic.

The question is: besides GoDaddy's auction system, what is the best way to sell a domain and make the most out of it?

I'm mainly interested in auctions, but everything is welcome.

Thanks in advance,

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And their Alerting system is called Koalabird(picture of manhattan db - Section Alerting :))
Space flight???
If you substitute "ActiveX" for "Native Client", this almost describes one of the new kids
asm.js requires you to manage your own memory. TypesScript doesn't, it's a pretty thin layer on top of JavaScript.
Agreed. The guy really seems to "get" things, which is always great to hear about an artist whose work you enjoy.

In addition to being a great album Wu-Tang Clan's album Forever was the first CD to offer multimedia when inserted into a PC! Not to say "enhanced CDs" are the pinnacle of technology, but it's an example of them being forward looking, so their willingness to try new things doesn't surprise me.
Because its origin is as stupid as the origin of MtGox...

...and hopefully it will die the same kind of burning death.

Use HTML5. End of discussion. If Microsoft want to work hard to get their ideas into HTML5, then go for it. PLEASE. HTML5 could get better with their help.

Instead, we get this flaming pile.
Absolutely highlights "record label" adds no value. Here they are being outsourced. The promo work is being turned on its head (buy promo to sell record vs give away record and get the promo). If it works it seems brilliant.
I wouldn't say it excuses it, but rather it explains it. People (Men, really) who frequent a website aimed at NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training), recluses, loners, etc. A site that in their own words: "This site is Wizardchan, an anonymous community for male virgins."[1], and where they have specific "rankings" based on how much of a virgin you are (KV - kissless virgin, HV - hugless virgin, HHV - Handholdless virgin), and "wizard" status based on age, with your level being your age when you were still a virgin - a site where you can get banned for making posts about romantic/sexual activities, social activities, or even just alluding to the fact that you have had sex[2].

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to suggest that these people have some serious problems with women.

I also think that the article kind of tries to depict this thing as the norm in the gaming community. But, wizardchan users are not really representative of the gaming community as a whole. Yes, it sucks that she received this abuse from these people who have psychological issues, or other mental health problems (let's not forget the screenshot is from their board dedicated to personal depression), but you can't judge the whole gaming community based off the actions of this community.

Now granted, there are a lot of problems with the gaming community in general, but using wizardchan's warped perspective userbase is a very poor example.

I think those users are suffering from some serious psychological problems, and need help. And I don't think shaming them about their actions is enough to get them to stop. These people already have no social activity, no romantic partners, and have never even had sex, and for this they place the blame on society, but more specifically on women. Whatever their actions of statements about women in general should be viewed with that in mind, and I don't think there's any way of getting through to them.

[1]: http://wizardchan.org/faq.html
[2]: http://wizardchan.org/rules.html
Exactly. I am as big a Canonical fan as they come, but the UX for Ubuntu One was so bad it bordered on unusable.

One time I needed to make something around 5 GB publicly available, and since Dropbox's free plan was too small, I used Ubuntu One.

Only after two days' worth of painful, oft-restarted uploading did I discover they require logging in to access publicly available files.

This is a mercy killing.
Yes, there always is the possibility of "full fail", but look at how difficult it is for autocratic regimes of the world today to suppress human curiosity. My faith is in the endless reaching and searching embedded in the human DNA, though one worry is that we could reach a future state which may not be obviously dystopian but still represents a far from optimal resource configuration. We may in fact we approaching that now. One trump card humans have always held is violent revolution, but the TV shows keep getting better and better, and as long as they aren't murdering union members and forcing children to work in dangerous factories, our corporate overlords may be able to escape a new round of safe guards.
Can anyone suggest an accurate title that isn't linkbait?
It's for building HTML + JS applications that can only run in Internet Explorer.

You seem to be misunderstanding.
coming back to say the same thing, then saw your post. The rest of the problem is easy for the engineer: how to get into 7 dimensional world?
/bias rant/

I'm writing this on a brand new, never used, lenovo thinkpad loaner with windows 7 because my 3yr old macbookpro decided to die. (Took it to apple in NYC, they'll fix it and send it to me in Portland, OR.) I can't begin to describe the awful feeling I have knowing that I have to use windows for the next week. This laptop has already frozen twice while using outlook. It takes forever just to figure out which packages to install to manage mssql server. I'm installing something now and am not sure it's even the right thing. I've already had to reboot several times.

Everything Microsoft does is counter intuitive, user and developer hostile and proprietary in some fashion. Just take a look at the Download Center. It's as if a horde of product managers were released into a Microsoft hunger games and the ones with the most esoteric description and versioning/ marketing scheme came out alive.

How anybody would willingly invest time, money or resources on anything Microsoft related is beyond me.

/bias rant/
There's a giant difference between "only work well on their platform" and "purposefully designed to only work on their platform."

There is NO EXCUSE for a TOGGLE to not work, cross-browser, in the year 2014.

http://try.buildwinjs.com/default.aspx#toggle
Very curious about the capabilities of that FPGA in combination with the rest of the hardware, and the high-speed expansion port.
Actually it seems there was a changeover to a new expedition a month ago and the current commander is Japanese. I was thinking of Oleg Kotov whose nationality is Russian and was prior to this but is from Simferopol, Crimea. His Expedition 38 ended on 10 March 2014.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kotov
Have you considered taking people who have passed challenges (and are excited about them) on as volunteer assistants for the challenges?
Mr. Doctor did it again in '87: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_Doll_(band)
Am I alone in wanting to get away from the people I work with for an hour every day for lunch?
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I saw that -- it was an amazing reversal. Apparently those limits have stood for almost 50 years, surviving a challenge in 1979 even on the grounds that campaign contributions can quickly turn into legalized bribery.

It does seem like something that needs to run its course though. At some point people have to think for themselves, and learn to ignore or deconstruct the commercials which result.
This WAS predicted by many users and blogs prior to the release of Windows 8. Criticisms started a year prior to the official release of Windows 8, with the consumer preview version.

Here's one of the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU

This article was written shortly after the release but it does one of the best jobs of explaining how poor the usability of the OS is.
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...
Apple doesn't actually offer free food I believe. It's heavily subsidized, but it's not technically free.
> and I'd especially finger potential ideological biases there, which could affect both information filtering and the analysis

An excellent book on just this subject

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
I get a free lunch at work every day and some days I take it and eat it by myself. It's not always necessary to be social.
Wu-Tang's stunt is a reaction to your perspective on art — to reclaim some of the novelty eradicated by the commoditization of music.
I just reviewed all open and closed bugs in TextSecure's Issues page and didn't see a single crypto protocol bug. Admittedly, I looked quickly and casually. Could you point us to one?
Opencart illegally stripping license and attribution from reused code
According to this page[1], it's coming soon to the Amazon Fire TV

[1]: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index.jsp?content=produ...
Interestingly, twitter sort of does this, in that it sort of works like a web of trust. One difference is that the main mechanism of trust propagation is endorsement of statements (retweet) rather than endorsement of people (follow).
There's a big difference between being a developer and being somebody with a CS degree. In my experience with hiring developers, I always value people being self-taught. This means you made things work!

To me, that's the difference between a developer and a programmer. A programmer might write technically better code, but often gets stuck when something does not work as intended as is often the case in web browsers. A developer will find a way to make it work, and make it work well for the user.

So don't sell yourself short and keep on learning. You may in fact be more desirable than somebody with a CS degree.
It seems to me that all professional experts are subject to groupthink. However, could anonymous lay forecasters still make such excellent predictions without those groups in place?

Anyway, I think all this argues in favor of Robin Hanson's concept of "Futarchy":

http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
If anyone has ideas on how we could do that, I'm all ears. We'd have to mitigate the privacy issues somehow, because not everyone has given us permission to reveal that they're working through the challenges, and passing submissions to people outside the firm would be that.
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> but I don't see that "voting with your wallet" works well in general.

I agree. Would need to span all products - not just music - and mindlessly enhance my existing buying behavior. The problem is that boycott-able products are a small fraction of my total purchases. Could work, once I start buying everything with a smart phone. Then a plug-in, similar to those found on iPhone's Passbook, could pop up with a vendor rating. I would subscribe to such a service.

Until then, I’ll just boycott Guitar Center.
It's not. The example shows them crawling a page from 102jamzorlando.cbslocal.com, which is hosted by Wordpress.com. Apparently Automattic inserts that recruitment ad into the headers of every site they host. (At least, all the ones I've checked so far.)
Alpha House

And there it is, as a dropdown appears with only one entry you still have to select, and then continue to travel three menus deep to get to a point where video appears.

What are they thinking?
Announcing .NET Native Preview
As someone who has a love/hate relationship with MS, I feel your pain. I've found as long as you stick within the MS family, all is well. Try to deviate from that pseudo-walled garden and its brutal.

For instance, doing Python or Ruby or ROR on a windows machine? No way. I just started doing more MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) stack stuff and after several days of cursing the heavens and trying to figure stuff out on my Windows 7 PC, I just said screw this and went to my box running Linux Mint and within 15 minutes was up, running and coding.
For what it's worth, i recieved one of these spams this afternoon, addressed to the unique email address on my github account, and containing the organisation name listed there.
Don't forget tax advantages: if structured properly, the costs are tax deductible for the employer and do not count as additional revenue for the employee.
Ideally you use log-levels and log-sources for this. Leave the logging calls in the production binary, but on DEBUG level. If there's a problem, bump the log-level up to DEBUG for just the subsystem you care about. Then you don't even need to recompile to get your logging information, you can just flip a flag - sometimes without even restarting the app.

I'll admit to just commenting and uncommenting log lines before, though - learning how the logging systems of major programming languages work takes some time, and there's an up-front cost to starting to use them.
Sedo.com is the big name in this space.
A well-typed subset of JavaScript (such as that produced by the TypeScript compiler) follows some very simple rules. Modern JS engines will recover 95+% of that performance automatically thanks to optimizations such as "hidden classes". This is also true of code that conforms to the Google Closure compiler's "type system", and by extension to idiomatic code produced by all of the more advanced compile-to-JS languages.
Bill Gates doesn't have a CS degree.
John Carmack doesn't have a CS degree.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have a CS degree.

I bet they all wish they knew more than they do... and work at removing that lack of knowledge for themselves.

I am a big fan of education, even of the CS variety, but a degree is one way to get an education, not the only way. And 'change the world' isn't in the textbooks.
well... I mean it's Haskell.

code samples can really only give you a feel for the language, any more and it belongs in tutorials and API documents.
One instance of a popular band with a single non-label success does not demonstrate adequately that labels add no value.
The Spark project ( https://github.com/dart-lang/spark ) is porting git to work on ChromeOS. I'm not sure how far along they are.
Change from Hacker News to Microsoft news
There have been at least a half dozen Microsoft articles today. Seriously Gates, knock it off please.
Predictions are all about discerning signals from noise, and some people seem to be naturally better at discernment. I'm sure it can be learned as well (to a degree), but I'm not at all surprised that some people are exceptionally better than others.
And some developers are working on this [1] new webpage.

[1] http://popcorn-time.tv/
Scientific Proof Thoughts and Intentions Create Physical Reality
any leads on what should we be seeing?