skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just FYI. While Bitmessage is not a fast option (anti-spam proof-of-work per message may take a couple of minutes), it is a remarkable example of a very secure messaging tool in every aspect. Its design even gives you better privacy than Tor.

More info: https://bitmessage.org

The idea behind Bitmessage is that messages are fully encrypted (including recipient's address) with per-message random DH key derived from recipient's key. Then message is transmitted to everyone in a p2p network. Every node tries to decrypt the message with its key and if it succeeds - that's the message for them. If not, it passes the message to other nodes. Propagation time is quick, but to prevent DoS, each message goes with an expensive one-time proof-of-work proportional to the message size. Another measure is artificial separation of messages and nodes in "streams" so that message is only propagated within a smaller part of the network. As network grows this will not hurt privacy, but will keep amount of data flowing around in check. Bitmessage in principle is like email (that is checked every few minutes, not seconds) rather than real-time chat. But the idea could be brought to real-time chats too if we solve DoS and bandwidth issues in a different way.
Wikipedia suggests a different etymology and meaning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_(name)#Etymology
Everyone will wait the last second to get their data back (and complain about the cramped service) anyway. And it's not like an OS upgrade which could potentially break your apps or lose your data. It's just a mattee of pushing the sync button to get all your data back on your local drive. People will largely have time to find an alternative solution or buy a small storage device until EOS. Afaic, Ubuntu is pulling the plug on a very good service in a reasonable fashion: we should be thankful they kept it running for so long.
Your comment highlights the far more unsettling truth -- that a company with a great deal of resources, research and user-feedback still created something that the market rejected.

I deal with this fear by believing that users crave a personal vision. They can get into a product that is foreign to them as long as it represents a singular designed and cohesive flow. They reject 'design by committee' or data-driven designs because they represent the average of what all users want, not what any single user desires.
These types of bombastic headlines certainly show that a (bizarrely-motivated?) segment of the New York tech scene has confusingly concluded that there's some value in claiming to be the "heart of the new digital economy"... even if there was, this article has mostly just left me convinced that the same subsegment of New York's tech scene also believes that they're the "heart" of everything, and they're willing to pick inapplicable statistics to prove it. They'd do more for the tech companies in their city by letting the work of those companies speak for itself.
Just tuned in to see Leo crying. I guess it was some pretty profound stuff.
TBH I still find it very ugly, but then again I've disliked flat design since the first moment I've seen it.

I know I'm pretty much a caveman (and a minority) in this sense, but I really like the old, classic, sober windows 9x look and feel, so much that I doubt I'd use a new version of Windows that wouldn't allow me to use it. I'd rather do away completely with Modern UI in the desktop, but it seems some people like it; the more config options given, the better, at least for power users.
If I do "conda search ipython" then for each of ipython, ipython-notebook and ipython-qtconsole it shows that I'm at version 1.1.0 on python 2.7. It also shows other previous or later versions available (but not 2.0.0).

So I think the answer to your question may be "not today."

Probably the simplest thing is to wait until a version of Anaconda with the new ipython is available, then update Anaconda itself.

Someone please correct me, I'm a newish Anaconda user.
Before W8 was released, Metro may have just been something Microsoft was pushing. Now, however, developers have released third-party Metro apps, and people have these apps installed. Do you think Microsoft would unceremoniously disable access to every Metro-only app?
Love at first sight. The only thing left is deciding whether to buy the desktop or the laptop version.
There's even a text editor that runs on all those platforms!
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When making such a major change its hard to know if people don't like it simply because "its not like it used to be" or if it really isn't good. Only way to distinguish between those two is to wait.

I still see people today who configure windows explorer to show the menu bar, this was removed (default to hidden) in windows vista and there's basically nothing on that menu that can't be done in fewer mouse clicks elsewhere. These people don't even use the menu themselves, they are just used to seeing it there.
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I think this concern could be addressed. Simply scale down the tiles, which is the greatest unused aspect of metro. Those tiles can be big and touchable in a touch device and small and efficient on a non-touch device.
This sort of contest announcement is not really Hacker News material, even though it is an appeal to the HN demographic. The trouble is that such posts are not themselves intellectually interesting. If something cool gets built as a result, that would be interesting, and well worth posting here.
The company I'm with operates on 3 remotes day per week. It's a terrific balance for me. The on-site days are spent pair programming, sprint demos, meetings, and being social. The remote days are distraction free work.
C# is a much higher-level language than C, with a much richer set of libraries that can be relied upon to be everywhere. That's why it matters.
Pretty cool: http://firetv.com
Yeah. 2 totally different experiences in one OS? That reeks of design-by-committee.
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Might as well never change anything, ever. Sigh..
at least until they decide to take it away. I'm still not convinced anyone should spend any of their resources toward the platform when there's no guarantee they'll uphold this deal in the future.
Thanks a lot Zach. I was pretty sure that Github was not involved in any way with this. Your support team has been helpfull by answering any of my question. Now I just need to deal with internal drama and get the project back...
But even with the latter there is lag for pausing/playing.
Rob Pike: Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (oldie but goldie)
http://vimeo.com/49718712
I actually read through one of those links, and wow, they really really went through great pains to explain every single decision with data and tracking. This really puts today's announcement into a new light. How DID they so blindly ignore the voices of users and trick themselves into believing the metro UI was better using all that data? There's so much of it that purportedly supports their old view.

I'm one who's never adapted to the new Windows 8, and prefer Windows 7 any time I have a choice. I actually feel that I use my laptop a lot less because it has Windows 8 on it.
Do you know about PythonSD? I'm sure they could get you in touch with a female engineer.

http://pythonsd.org/

(I used to work at Cuker, and all the PythonSD guys are pretty great.)
I am not a WP user, but this makes me want to give it a shot. Microsoft Research has some of the best researchers and some really impressive projects. I'd really love to see more of that research being put to use like Google does. I guess it is starting to happen now.
JS Inheritance is awesome, and you're doing it wrong
Oh? We try to be really out of the way. You'll agree that it is far less garish and intrusive compared to other sites right? This is what it looks like for me in chrome:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m73m3et7uyli8ud/Screenshot%202014-...

What does it look like for you?

next post: how to improve blog quality :-D
Yup, you can download all of stack exchange (or any subset of it) in a zip file.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
The title had been modified. Go away with your snark.
Yes, it is. Using a library is a transition of abstraction layers. It's expected that some understanding might get lost at that point. It's also expected that you understand what the library promises to do when you make that call - i.e. that you read the docs.

Copy/paste lives at the same abstraction layer as code that you actually write yourself - the same level of understanding should apply. (Of course, if you don't understand any of the code you write, you're in the clear ;)
Sorry, duly noted; and I also apologize to 'peteforde for said snark above.
The problem isn't the start menu. A fullscreen searchable start menu is something people have likely gotten used to - except for a vocal minority.

The problem is the context switching. Some apps full screen (even when they don't make sense or I want them part screen). Some control panel stuff in 'apps' (which requires full screen); some still in the old control panel. Some in both.

Somewhere along the way someone started thinking the whole 'single task at a time [or at most two]' was a Good Thing - but then someone else said that we can't do that, and what we got was the ugly bastard child of both.

I've stopped booting Windows, haven't done so even for gaming in a couple of months now. It's just too annoying at 8.x.

edit: before someone calls me on it, why no I did not read the article - I've since gone back and done so, and it sounds like they'll be offering windowed mode for metro apps as well.

So I take it back, this has the potential to make it far less annoying (if they consistently make it available for all metro apps).
Well, PS2 with much higher definition. That's part of the problem comparing Android gaming graphics to consoles... they're high-definition but comparable to SD-era consoles like the Wii and PS2.
this guy is pretty awesome, might be just the hack candy one might like to have if one is into hardware hacking.

TL;DR: here is the video from a conference where bunnie and his friend hacked flash card controller, so you can see the qualities that the laptop will possess.

http://youtu.be/r3GDPwIuRKI
Microsoft Updates Visual Studio
Oh well that's just fine... It's the thought process that's important to me!
I believe they were tricked by the data. "Only 1.2% of users use this feature, so we got rid of it!" And they did that 100 times with 100 different features. And pissed everyone off.
>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.

Yes, but with the caveat that it's line based (1 dimensional) not 2 dimensional so a VERY long line can still choke vim and Emacs.

--- long time primary Emacs, secondary vim user
I'm in the same group with you, I've gotten past those early Windows 8 woes, and now I like the new Metro start. Although my use is fairly narrow to just hitting the Windows key and typing the first few letters of the app I'm trying to launch, other than that it stays out of my way and if I need to look for something, its just as easy as launch pad on OSX.
Why not use windows 7 instead of 8? What can I get from 8.1 that 7 doesn't have? Other than a UI that I don't like very much.
Carbonhire exposes mysql password + sources in broken landing page.
Bitcoin Creator Comments on Shia LaBeouf Performances, Praises Dogecoin
We actually talked about that feature a good bit when working on Bespin (in 2009). I haven't used it in years, but you may find this bookmarklet helpful:

http://ajaxorg.github.io/ace/build/textarea/editor.html
What a well-structured and bullet-proof response. Congratulations, you're now revered amongst your peers and are considerably more employable thanks to your insightful observation. High five!

Seriously though: not only is C# a much easier language to learn which includes features and libraries that most developers expect from a modern language, that probably wasn't even what gum_ina_package was "Wow"ing at.

To me, the point is that the barrier to entry for writing apps across all platforms has now been lowered for C# developers - a group of developers, by the way, which is numerous.
Did anyone else receive spam from an app called "Sway" and get this page? This happened to three employees where I work and we were all very confused as to why it was referencing people at our company.
And sitting in front of a computer for an extra 16 hours a week learning to program at the age of 12 instead of having normal social interactions is supposed to enable her to have "healthier relationships with other people"?

> blowing off your obligations

She is 12 years old. Are you people mad? She has very few obligations and that's a good thing. Let her have some fun before she needs to start being an adult.
And every single piece of that news started under Ballmer's tenure. The new guy has been there < 60 days. The stuff they're announcing now was started months if not years ago.
The problem is that TextSecure is not seriously trying to be the next messaging app, and Threema and Telegram are.

It would be nice if there was actually anything better than Telegram I could recommend to my friends, but there just isn't.
Certainly true. (I'm old enough to remember TRS-80 word processors, only one or two of which were able to handle files larger than memory. SuperScripsit's ability to handle files as large as your floppy disk -- all, what was it, 180K of it? -- seemed amazing!)

Re: FoxPro vs. VS, it's probably quite unfair to suggest that it's in part because FoxPro didn't start its life at Microsoft, but I admit it was the first thing that came to mind...
To me it's a particularly intriguing move because Cortana's story wasn't a happy one. I know that most of the people aware of that fact also won't be fazed by it (if you've played that much Halo, you can probably distinguish the assistant from the character), but it's a surprisingly deep choice to take a name from a character who faced AI decay and all kinds of other scary techno-ills.
Tips for naming S3 buckets
There's a quote I saw in a users' forum signature that's stuck with me; "My best code was written with the delete key."
UI - users know what they want

Functionality - users think they know what they want
I don't even look at databases before Aphyr verifies it they keep their promises...
I was speaking more to the capabilities of the hardware than specific games or apps, and it is absolutely true that most games optimize for the lower end (in vertex count and texture size), so they don't really show off the high end. As higher end hardware becomes more commonplace the standard moves up, especially for things like models and textures that are simply resources that can vary.

In this case while I was hoping it would be something really compelling like a Tegra K1, it's a 1.7Ghz quad-core Krait 300 APQ8064 with Adrena 320 graphics. That pushes about 225 million triangles per second, while the PS3 pushes 275 million. The PS2 pushed about 35 million. Of course triangles per second is an entirely incomplete metric, though the PS3 and the Snapdragon feature similar memory bandwidth (and fill rate), though the PS3 has dedicated video memory while the Snapdragon shares it with the CPU.

Overhead of Android and OpenGL ES eats into this significantly of course, but the fact that such a comparison is at all viable is pretty incredible.
Hopefully they'll have an option to use a smaller start menu, like in the past.
Oh, are we already jumping on the bash Microsoft band wagon so soon? You seriously think a company like Microsoft did no usability testing? That'd be quite shocking as Metro itself utilizes a ton of new research on UX and interaction design.
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Microsoft has nearly 100,000 employees. The company moves at a glacial pace, so changes like this that might seem small to you, will actually take quite some time.
What's to say, once they complete the purchase of Xamarin, that universal also includes OSX, iOS, Android and even Linux?
Stop trying to find a growth hacker
The Microsoft conundrum: Every UI, interaction, and functionality must always stay the exact same and never change or be iterated upon/refined, but why aren't they trying anything to meet X demand or Y new thing.
I actually like this. By removing the tree structure of the traditional menu, you allow the machine to do it's best to populate the screen with tiles it predicts are useful. Instead of forcing everything into a specific box, let the OS conform to the users history.
Even if they do not take a cut, they will still get a fat check from every tax deductible donation you will make thought them.

I rather donate my self, keep the tax deduction and donate that again instead of giving it away to a third party.
Having worked with bunnie and xobs at chumby, one thing I can vouch for is that they intimately understand the risks and challenges of actual real-world hardware production at scale.

The fact that they went ahead with the crowdfunding on this is a really good indication that it will actually ship (if the goals are hit), and with a much higher probability of being on time than your average Kickstarter hardware project (where the people behind it usually have never had hands-on experience with actual production runs).
Is there any sort of "archival background sync" service that encapsulates Amazon Glacier in the same way Dropbox encapsulates Amazon S3?
Hi,

I know there are other lot of services like this. But I like yours. Its simple and quick. Thank you for your hard work. You planning to keep this as free service?

Ideas:

- Certificate Expiry warning,maybe a month before the expiry day or so.

- URL redirection test etc.
That blue and green combo really gave me vibes of windows xp, that is not a good thing.
I also got mail from Sway, as many other on twitter. What isn't clear is why the link pointed to carbonhire.

Did the Sway mailing list got hacked in some way etc? I wonder.
On their page it states that it comes out as post tax deduction. They are not a non-profit institution.
Metro itself wasn't the problem though, imo. It's the UX of going back and forth to do simple tasks that is the problem.

Example: how do you restart or shutdown your Windows 8.1 machine when you're on the desktop? Go to the start screen. Click your name, sign out, click the screen so it 'opens', click the power button, click restart or shutdown from the menu.
You say: "Worse, they can fork the project, and create a proprietary version and start selling it"

So why not release the source code under GPL or even MPL or EPL?
But it is!
I can make a pretty compelling case that one of the reasons I am where I am today is because I was a mediocre ski racer.
I think it might be the seeming similarity to Microsoft's "strategic priority", which resulted in the W8 Metro UI.
Decide what time you want to wake up. And then get up at that time no matter what. After a few days your bed time will work itself out.

Steve Pavlina was the first place I heard of this method.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-ea...
My issues:

1) It's not that great for mouse/keyboard.

2) Having both Metro and Classic feels very disjointed. You get thrown into either depending on which application you open.
I don't know if I really mind the metro crap being there. Some of the "at a glance" stuff will be really useful (weather, mail, social, etc.) for quick views. In some ways that stuff already is useful, but having to roll out the big start menu that incompasses my entire screen to view was a bit silly, imo.
I know naming is tough, but couldn't they have called this something else? Windows 8.2? Windows 8.1.1 even?
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
As someone who has worked at Microsoft, I can tell you they spend thousands of hours on usability studies and the managers watch. Also there are countless readouts and documents summarizing the findings.

Microsoft spends an incredible amount of resources on usability studies.
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I haven't actually used Windows 8 because I've heard it's so terrible. What I don't understand is this:

> In the future, all of Microsoft’s Universal Windows apps will also run in a window.

What does this mean? Are you telling me that every program I run in Windows 8 is full screen? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The OS is called WINDOWS.
WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
Inaccurate headline. Citizenship is not required for participation.
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I am conflating social pressure with democratic debate as I don't see much distinction.

As for civil wars, you're right to a point, it is an extreme form of democracy... IF they're about the populace vs. an illegitimate minority ruling class that's blocking the will of the people. Civil wars are usually fought about who has the power to rule who, so it's all about ultimately conflicting ideologies anyway! The French Revolution was democracy in action against Le Ancien Régime, but as with any revolt, it can (and was) be perverted to create a new autocracy. The American Civil War was also due to disagreements about the scope of democracy at a regional level, with regards to slavery. Other civil wars were driven by religion, etc. that might be a minority vs. a majority (usually the majority wins, unless they don't have the guns).

Complicating matters is that one of the reasons the US (in theory) has a stable Federalist government is the checks and balances AGAINST democracy: representative government, term limits, states rights, separate judiciary and executive from legislators, different voting cadences for house, senate, and president, etc. This deliberately favours minority protection and slows progress / stabilizes the system in the face of intense disagreement in the hopes that the political process won't break down as compromises are slowly made. It's hard to argue for civil war if there's always an election coming up. Though at some point it might not work and we'll be back to civil war, especially if we ever truly get to a 50/50-ish democratic split on irreconcilable ideological grounds and have gridlock (i.e. I fear another decade of today's political situation).
You can now set the Metro background to the same background as the desktop. It's a small detail that has made the experience much less jarring for me.
Why? That's like saying that Amazon has a motivation to remove the Kindle app from iPhones and iPads so that you'll be forced to buy their Kindle. Amazon actually doesn't care if you buy their hardware or not, they only care about selling you content.
>Want to know what they missed the most? The sidebar widgets.

Some people missed widgets. By W7 widgets were pretty much dead.
Not relevant here. The NSA isn't blocking you from reading political websites.
At my last job I wrote a script to walk over git-log and add up all the line number differences (skipping merges). By the time I left, my net code contribution was something like -290kloc. I was the only person with a net negative, though it was a smallish team.

With the sheer amount of bad code people write, I expect to do a lot of deleting, refactoring, and rewriting, and I'd hope managers/fellow team members would be able to see the value in that. But sadly, they usually don't.