skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they didn't years ago. it's standardized some, but it was a nightmare 15 years ago. this "oh no there's so many devices!" is what I hear from people that never had to implement one site for IE3, NS2 and WebTV at the same time.
Does anyone know what the success rate is for Kickstarter projects to actually deliver their products on time? After my absolutely terrible experience with Lockitron (I know they're not a Kickstarter project, but they are similarly funded) and some of the other horror stories I've heard, I just don't have faith that these types of projects for goods deliver on their promises.
it would be perfect if there was a manual way of doing it.
It was barely used and very easy to replace with free services like Dropbox. I'm sure the few users it did have are savvy enough to migrate off within the relatively short time frame.
I'm shocked this didn't happen sooner. If you ever wanted to point to a problem with MS vision you can ask yourself why this didn't happen in 2005.
Poor choice of words on my part, but when I said "in a technical sense", I meant it's data model and architecture. Bindings are just a feature that can be written at any time, data model and architecture are something that can never be fixed.

More importantly, I specifically alluded to use cases that svn is better than git for. In no way did I ever "argue that there is no single use case which wouldn't be affected by this".
Only one height? And they claim it fits anyone from 5'2" to 6'2" tall?

I'm 6'3" and my girlfriend is 5'5". Watching her try to use my standing desk is comical. I think those guys are being extremely optimistic, if not outright deceitful.
Only as far as the IRS i considered.
I thought that was part of the deal with Windows phone. I thought they would be more on the Apple side of supporting updates on old hardware than the madness of Android. I don't seen any mention in that article about any of their current support phones being left behind. Did I skim past it?
Introducing Your Application with Shepherd
Why do you assume underpowered? My iPad 4, which is a few years old now has amazing graphics at higher than HD resolution. I don't know enough about the processors to compare them directly, but I don't see any reason to count out the Fire TV.

By making it easy to port Android apps they could do well with this.
...where every email or message to a friend has to start with "Tudo bem?", to not seem rude. And the answer? "Tudo bem!" Like in French ("ça va?").
> It's my suspicion that the age of these warhorses may help them here rather than hurt them:

Of course it does. Back in the day one couldn't take a megabyte file and say, "I'll just load it all into memory." When I worked in Visual Studio, it annoyed me to no end that VS had trouble loading large text files when ancient FoxPro (another MSFT dev product whose origins are from the 80s) would load them just fine. FoxPro didn't try to cram the whole thing in memory, just the parts it needed. I'm guessing vim and Emacs work in a similar manner. Don't use VS anymore, so I don't know if they ever fixed that or not. Particularly annoying is that it ever needed to be fixed, rather than being designed correctly (for which there was plenty of prior art) from the start.
> You are claiming that Amazon is on a wide variety of platforms and that's a reason to choose their ecosystem over Apple which encourages the purchase of an Apple device.

Correct, can't wait for the counter argument.

> I don't agree.

Great, here it comes...

And then the rest of the post is about how the lock-in strategy is more profitable. Not sure if that's true or not, but doesn't have anything to do with my argument that being available on many devices is an advantage for the consumer.
> It is definitely a free speech issue, however, I’d argue that the compelling state interests in preventing corruption and ensuring fairness and access in elections, is a great enough one to merit modest limitations. Indeed so did the Supreme Court until only recently, after the upholding in Buckley. My comment is more about the overall nature of the issue, but I do want to point out first that today’s ruling over aggregate monetary limits, is frankly a small issue in the overall challenges faced in reform.&

Thank you. My opinion is the opposite of yours: I think this and Citizens United are the right decisions and free speech should be only be limited in a few restricted circumstances like immediate incitement to violence or terroristic threats. Yet, it's important to be honest about the trade off here and not misrepresent the decisions (e.g., saying that CU determined that "money is speech", etc...)

> Now what would be a solution that doesn’t infringe on individual rights to free-speech, I’m not sure. Perhaps we should go back to completely publicly financed elections, though that obviously benefits the current two-party dichotomy over independent challengers, and would likely require serious constitutional amendments to be considered. I admit that more thinking would be required here, but I don’t think its a stretch to say the current system is severely broken, and in fairness to all here, was broken well before this relatively modest change.

Ideal solution for me would allow donations to political organizations, including those that endorse candidates or lobby for bills (I don't like rent-seeking by Comcast, but I very much like the ACLU, EFF, and others). At the same time, the candidates themselves would rely (as you suggested) on public financing. I think this would take a constitutional amendment (as would overturning CU, but unlike an amendment to overturn CU it wouldn't set the precedents of amending the constitution to curtail rights when they are inconvenient), which should also mandate non-partisan drawing of electoral districts (California went that route and with great results).
D-Wave and the Rise of Quantum Computing
They can. Use strong point-to-point encryption. Of course, doing this over email/IM requires special setup that can be pretty clunky and certain habits which require discipline to maintain, and you can not rely on any third-party providers, but in principle that is possible. It's just inconvenient.
Was very surprised to not see MLB.tv listed despite their willingness to support any device that has a screen.
I use Stack Overflow (and to a lesser extent, Google) to help me with problems large and small all the time. Why break your neck to find a solution without finding out if someone else already did? There's never a point when you can't learn from others.
> Remember that there was a time we programmed without copying our work.

Nope. I remember specifically copying from known solutions in large organized reams of marked paper (a "book" we called it). They used to have whole rooms, and personnel, dedicated to storing them. Now, you couldn't just ask for what you wanted, like "clojurescript core.async examples". Oh, no. Research required either knowing how to search through the "books" or remembering previous solutions to similar problems. (And, I'm not that old.)
I wonder how many civil, patiently explained responses that live up to your expectations for HN standards would have appeared if the request was for a male-only engineer.
Also, coolest 404 page ever!
That's what I meant. I personally hate interview questions revolving around "reverse a string" and alike, but really like open ended questions, which result in many options and discussions, AKA "design questions".
I don't know if I would have made it past the first few hurdles without the Internet. I am self-taught, so the first years were doing as much searching (pre-google, I used Usenet a lot I think), as much as checking books out of the library and typing in the code by hand. Doesn't having access to an ever-growing library of code, some functional, some not, ultimately make us all more productive? Having said that, I do agree completely that you need to get a full understanding of what the code does: read and type, don't copy.
I didn't say that it "granted" anything. I said that in the US was founded on a specific idea of freedom. You're not being pedantic because what you say simply does not apply. Explain where I attempted to make a "Constitutional argument" - I didn't mention the Constitution a single time.
I'm not grumpy at all! Just wondering, because as someone who is not an avid boater, I have no idea what a Kiteboat is, and it was not exactly self-explanatory. I did have to click around to find out the answers to my questions. I'm just pointing out that the website could be better, and that as a non-boater, I was confused.

As a techie and HN user, I'm interested in technology and websites, and one thing I want is for websites to appropriately convey their messages. This one simply doesn't convey necessary information to people who don't know what they're looking at. Is that a problem? Not necessarily. It depends on the audience.

Also note that at the end I offered a solution to the problems I mentioned. If I were grumpy and a jerk, I would have simply complained. It just so happens that I'm trying to help.

Thanks for the downvotes though! Carry on.
> Professional programmers get paid to solve problems. It just happens that many problems can be solved through google.

This. Also, the web has largely displaced the bookshelf of resources that used to come with most language implementations (some with first-party documentation on websites, and some with web forums, etc.) So I really don't see any difference between using Google to find information when programming today than RTFMing when programming in the 1980s.
Agreed. Upvote. And those banks get their legitimacy from the federal reserve system which provides a stable interbank payments system as well as deposit insurance. Also, money is created when the federal government spends more than it taxes.

You are right in pointing out that there is a lack of understanding of what modern money is and where it comes from. For better or worse, its a creature of the state.
This article touches on some of it :
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-real-reason-the-u-s-dollar-has...
Why? Amazon wants to make money on the blades (content), not the razor.
In this day and age, I feel being 'smart' is much more about your ability to find and apply information than it is about memorization.
They could insure against that problem by using off-the-shelf parts so you could just go to Grainger for replacement motors or whatever in 20 years.
When I was researching building my own standing desk, the biggest cost seemed to be getting quality actuators with a long throw at a low price.

Compare this to the a similar looking Ikea Galant workstation at $180-$200. You're getting the motor(s), electronics, actuators, and slide bearings for an additional $200 more.

I'm curious as to how they managed to do away with the horizontal stabilizing bar (this is mentioned as a feature in the video). Without something connecting the legs together, it seems like the left and right tracks could potentially get out of alignment and potentially bind as the desk top raises.

My current verdict from my home built sit stand desk is that it's great for a change a couple times a day. What I found, though, is that my hip starts to hurt after an extended period of standing in one place. I'm now trying standing on an EVA foam pad to see if this helps with that problem.

Incidentally, if you're curious as to how I added sit-stand capability to my desk for less than $200, check out my blog post: http://planiverse.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/building-a-sit-st... .
> We are going to have individually issued currencies. We already have corporations issuing currency: frequent-flier miles, although people don’t see them as that from a legal perspective.

Imagine that A issue A-coins and send them to B, then B sends the A-coins to C, C send them to D and D sends the A-coins to you. But a few days later you discover that A was a fake account of a scammer, or A goes bankrupt, or A an all his family died in a car accident and he was renting his house, or ... Then the A-coins are worthless and you are screwed.

A few years ago, here in Argentina each province (state) issued it’s own money, and paid all the public employed with that money. It was technically a bond, but it looked as money and was used like money. The more successful case was the Patacón http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patac%C3%B3n_(bond) . But in all the other provinces, after a time it was very difficult to exchange the bond to real money (pesos or dollars) or products, and in that case you get only the 70% of the face value. (Now they have been absorbed.)

I don’t trust in the money of the province, and I really will not trust in the money issued by Joe Doe.
One option is to put the Chromebook in dev mode and use Crouton[^1] to install Ubuntu as a chroot. It's easy to do and works well. You can use ChromeOS as usual side by side.

[1]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
You need to upgrade your router. I was using a cheapo D-Link router when I first got my ChromeCast and the connection was awful. Range to laptops and devices was terrible and the connection always dropped. I bought an ASUS router for $150 and life is incredibly easier. I can stream HD content from 40-50ft away across 3 bedrooms without any issues.
In some respects, it is more important, and I say this as someone who is more of a server-side guy. Regardless of how scalable your data system is, and how secure your code is, if the front-end that people use looks like crap, they will not use it, and they'll use some other garbage system that exposes their data and crashes regularly, but it feels nice.

Looking good is important at the start of the experience, otherwise there won't be a long term relationship to demonstrate the awesomeness of the rest of the system.
Microsoft has NuGet, which can do that. Common base is stuff for REST Interfaces, Entities etc
Actually they offer an app that lets you install updates directly from Microsoft , months before Nokia releases the update. Once Nokia releases its version of the update, it automatically uninstalls the "beta" MS updates. It allowed me to run Windows phone Black update like 4 months before Nokia released them.

The app is called "Preview for Developers" and it makes you sign into your live account.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/preview-for-deve...
Imagine life before Google, when people looked stuff up in actual libraries. Am I really an essayist, or just a good library-er?

Am I really a musician, or just a good YouTuber?

The ability to learning how to utilize resources that are available to you so you can do your job better is a huge part of why I'd hire you.
An ironing board is a great, cheap way to test if you like a standing desk. Got the tip from a friend who travels a bunch and uses them in hotel rooms.
What is the use if the content is only visible to premium users?
First Node.js Secure Development Training is April 30, at Portland
The one I have at work has two buttons to raise and lower. Fully automated.
ITYM first name. And patronym. But his last name is "Putin" ;)
https://blog.liftsecurity.io/2014/03/28/Secure-Development-T...

The team has been hard at work designing a great training experience and we are proud to announce that the first live edition of the Node.js Secure Development Training will be on April 30, in Portland, OR.

Tickets are going to be released April 1st, register your interest today! As this event will have extremely limited seating!

https://ti.to/lift-security/node-sec-dev-portland
I was specifically talking about
C-r file@function_name
All the parts are fuzzy. So if I wanted to go to function install_local_package in helper_functions.py, I can type
C-r h_fu@ins_l_p (pretty much like we use ido)

While I use Emacs for all my editing, this would have been cool to have.
There seems to be an underlying assumption that every website needs a designer. One of the great things about the web is (or used to be) that anybody can publish on it. I hope there will eventually be a backlash to the "conspicuous design everywhere" trend.
Being wrong is not a crime on Hacker News; trolling and viciousness are.
Agree, I got corrupted backup data as well, and DejaDup failed to restore a single file from a directory (but the file was actually backedp up correctly, so I managed to recover it by restoring the WHOLE disk backup on another volume and fetching it from there)

On top of that, also the backup process itself was unbearably slow... I really wanted a backup tool built upon inotify, so now I'm using Crashplan (it's not open source, but at least it works on linux)
Taking your point, if it's on Kickstarter with an appearance that it has already been pitched to investors, it's safe to say that the investors didn't touch it.
I have never, ever had video lag with my chromecast. It works flawlessly every time I use it. Netflix and HBO Go from a Moto X.
When your company's culture respect that!

Really, headphones are amazing :)
I recognize the title of this post as a tongue in the cheek, because "Googler" is a nomenclature for the Google employees, which makes the title sounding really bad. Especially if posted by a Microsoft employee. Please correct me if I'm wrong in my paranoia.
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding from people that do not know how to program "in the large". Real programming is actually heavily reliant on human creativity and synthesis. Just like good visual design.

Programmers are always automating and we are succeeding at it. Many tasks and roles have been eliminated in the last ten years by better tools and services.

Designers don't really do that, they get better tools to better represent their vision from...programmers.

I think design and art is crucial and the people that do it well are critical. But not as critical as the people that support the entire ecosystem.

If I were to say who would rule anything, it would be mathematicians, in every domain of knowledge - even design - mathematics is the ultimate intellectual tool to express abstraction, cardinal to the act of automating and reducing.
Meet Cortana, Microsoft's Siri
15 Free to use Fonts
The Death of American Universities
I just bought a chromecast now it's finally out in the UK. Streaming local video from my dlna server over wifi has been a total pleasure and works perfectly. Iplayer, youtube, any other html5 video I throw at it just works. What are you trying to do with it that gets that kind of lag? The only thing I've found which reduces framerate at all is the experimental fullscreen casting.
You're right, but I'm not arguing that programming can be automated as a whole. I'm saying that most rote tasks in web development (writing HTML/CSS, linking together various libraries, pushing code through processors, wiring up a basic UI to a database, etc) can be.
Windows 8: The Start menu is back
A real, fully functional start menu. Not the hacked together start menu MSFT released to quell people's reactions to live-tile only navigation of W8.
What’s next for Shopping campaigns and retailers
Not essentially different from if you developed your business application on a PaaS which went bust or raised prices. These things happen unless you keep them in mind
It works fine for me, and if I remember correctly the people having a problem with lag had their ATV connected via RJ-45 and switching to wifi fixed it.
It doesn't matter. Trying to measure these things for who's worse, etc., is a guaranteed way to fall straight back into raging. What we need are "civil, patiently explained responses" all around.
practical and cheap way to make any desk standing desk!
Comparing Startup Ecosystems: The Midwest vs. Silicon Valley
I'd imagine that these desks cost roughly the same amount to produce and the only reason they're ~£400 is because it's a relatively niche product and is sold through a reseller, not direct.
Wealthfront raises $35 million for automated investment management
I used to have a multi-volume set of IBM mainframe DB2 manuals on my office bookshelf. When we got an error code, I looked it up in the appropriate book. Google is just a much faster way to do the same.
Roku, as I understand it, derives their revenue from hardware sales. So they have such an incentive to get you to upgrade hardware that they will actually take away content[1] in an effort to force you to do so.

My guess is Amazon is doing the opposite. They're probably practically giving away the hardware in hopes they'll realize more profits on the content you buy. And a device like this is just a small piece of a larger puzzle for Amazon and with their previous hardware experience its not a giant leap for them to produce a proprietary box.

For Roku, their device line is the puzzle. So sure, they have an easy to use SDK[2] it is also proprietary. I'm guessing Amazon built the Fire TV on Android so new apps are really just Android apps.

[1]: They did this last year and as a result I will never buy another Roku product again.

[2]: I'm still dumbfounded that they based it on Visual Basic. Carl Sassenrath is an employee now. In my opinion they'd do well to scrap their existing VB-style SDK and base the next generation on Rebol.
this one is motorized too
People in "Commercials" VS People in "Reality"
I agree with you and regarding the poster to whom you were replying, all I can say is that I find it really disturbing that she or he believes publicly held beliefs from private citizens should be immune from public commentary. The consequences of this reasoning are severe and dangerous.

To disagree with someone makes me the "thought police"? I just don't see how this applies at all.

EDIT: I am adding this as an afterthought but honestly to totally disregard the Orwellian connotation of the term "thought police" I think is a very liberal application of the term.
> supports someone 6’3”

Well I'm out.
Exactly. Love or hate Goog/Bing, they are powerful tools if you know how to use them.

Before the ubiquity of spell checkers I never hesitated to pick up a dictionary to double check spelling or a definition. I've never thought twice to grab a text book, manual or encyclopedia to reference a subject I was familiar with but did not know by rote or fully comprehend. Memorization is a very useful skill, as is understanding & comprehension. There is no guilt or shame in not being omniscient.
Looks like the automatic one is not available in the US. http://m.ikea.com/ch/de/catalog/products/spr/39889771/
I think designers will rule the "visual web", which will be a huge part of the "popular web", but there will always be a market for quality. I would happily read unformatted .txt files online if it's written by somebody I admire.

See also: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
share nothing, share everything?
Guys just wait for 6 months to an year before these desks would be all over Department Stores like OfficeMax, WalMart, IKEA for $99.00 or less.
I think the issue is less with the number of tweets per second (not very impressive as you suggest), and instead the requirement that those same 6000 tweets fan out to all of the various feeds/locations that they need to show up at and in a timely manner. If it was a single page with those 6000 tweets/sec it would as you say be entirely unimpressive.
Two leg standing desks tend to wobble a lot. I'd love to see that specifically called out and demonstrated. Maybe the two legs are wide enough to avoid it.
Fostering creativity in a startup through automation
That seems pretty cool actually, but I wonder if there would be any wobble, or if it would feel a bit off writing on it.
I would bet that the only reason they're beating prediction markets is because the markets aren't "real money" or they aren't able to participate in them.

If they were, they would go make money in the prediction markets, and the prediction markets would become more accurate.