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You see I do understand that they try and I do applaud that. yet on my windows 8 machine I still haven't received IE11, even though I just recently did got a notice that IE has been updated, it is still IE10. To make matters worse even if I visit their website to download IE11 manually [1] they're telling me that I already have IE11.

So that experience alone tells me that not everything is done right yet. And even if everything would work, they have to keep doing things right for some time to regain trust.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/ie-11-w...
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> I could see some of them shaking their heads and looking at each other. They were very obviously bothered that they had not seen this before.

To me this looks like engineers that had foreseen the problem but were promptly ignored by UX people. Or maybe the other way around.
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What is a 51 percent attack and why is it a threat to Bitcoin's future?
Two requests:

1) I'd like the titles to be Markdown-friendly headings instead of C comments, personally.

2) I'm not sure if this is within scope - maybe this is just something to do on my own in Dropbox - but it would be neat if there were an 'archive' button. Let's say I'm done with one of my files and I want to clear it out. Push the button, and that file would be moved to archived/DATETIME.txt or something like that, and cleared.
I don't believe it's Windows only. It works and scrolls with Mac, but the other gestures don't work.
We don't provide instant confirmation but that does not mean you can't spend your funds without it.

The minimum is 1 day or 144 blocks, default to 90 days, max is max block size.
It is an attempt to prevent a tragedy of the commons. NY doesn't have enough road capacity to handle all of the taxis that would be profitable in a free market. Therefore they limit the number of taxis to ease congestion.
"I wonder if an Android device as a service would work"

Doubtful it would work any better than the custom VM solution that Genymotion (mentioned in the article) does (for this specific pain-point).

I would still need to adb deploy my apk to the device (which is a process that really drags development even when doing it to local devices) and now its even worse because it is remote. Also this remoteness would add all sorts of new issues like that fact that if I'm developing a server in tandem with the client app, now I have to jump through hoops to make the server remotely accessible (so your service devices can see it) whereas otherwise I might just be running it locally in a non-publicly accessible way for development purposes (solvable problem, but still a lot of friction and this request for a simulator is all about removing such friction).

Android devices as a service is still a good idea for other things like testing & QA because while Android fragmentation isn't as bad as it used to be, you still do see device-specific bugs (or at least platform-specific, like TouchWiz bugs on Samsung devices that don't impact other versions of Android) quite often when developing and having access to specific devices would help in such situations, but I don't think it addresses any of the main problems that are driving this request for iOS-style simulation (which, FWIW, I totally agree with Jake Wharton on).
There have been several attempts at device testing as a service. I don't know of any that have really thrived. To be interesting, some have tried offering testing in diverse locations. In theory, they could also move their testing rigs, heat and cool them, pressurize the room, and/or rotate them in order to test sensors.

There are some kinds of sensors with variable quality that some developers claim leads to a need for testing every device. I would write code that characterizes performance instead, and possibly blacklist some known bad devices.
The creators clearly got sick of their bikes being stolen. Good to see people doing something about it.
Careful spouting that off (if you're US based), it sounds like, though you're both ok with it, your employer could be liable for incorrectly classifying you as an independent contractor. You may have been aware already but if not I'd take a look at it if you're in the US.

EDIT: Checked the link in your profile, just leaving my comment so US folks are aware.
> It's admirable that MS is responding to criticism of their device and working for a solution.

It is, but it isn't some trade secret, they could open source this and have 1,000s of people converging toward the solution. Why are they so hung up and being The Ones Who Deliver The Software And The Hardware?
I just kept on reading this (not knowing anything about the Bitcoin Foundation) hoping this would allow for something like the automated corporations that feature in Accelerando (and other books, for sure). It's okay, I'll wait :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
This is cool and all, but instead of spending money on this project why not try to improve their search engine or just not spend this money since bing loses so much money. I don't mind waiting half a second extra for my search results. It seems more like their thinking is we got a lot of engineers we are paying a bunch of money to lets do some project.
"Building a product for the Internet is now the easy part. Getting people to understand the product and use it is the hard part."

This feels like a meta-Dilbert joke about how business guys perceive technology & development.

As if the "product" is somehow separated from "getting people to understand. . . and use it"
I'm on the opposite end of the market, but I'd be curious to see who would use ML as a service. I've never seen the use case for it being in the ML space myself. Anyone care to step up and state their use case?

How much data do you typically throw at these APIs? How effective have they been for you overall? Did you need a super accurate model?
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I agree that monitoring and quick recover are important. It is hard to eliminate all points of failure.

My favorite failures are what I call "distributed single points of failure". An example is a linux bug that is triggered by a cron-job that is set to run at the same time across all servers.
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I somewhat disagree, it depends on how QA fits into your organization and how you scope its role. UX needs Quality Assurance too, and sometimes things get past the UX team and into a product - at that point new issues come to light during testing and should be fed back up to the responsible teams.

In general I view QA as the last line of defense before the customer, if your QA doesn't speak up about ANY issues with the product, technical, UX or otherwise then who will?

Of course, my view of the role of QA in product design may be different from others.
What are the advatages over normal servers. You can get (2x120GB intel ssd (75k iops each)/32gb ram/250 Mbit/s garanteed) servers for around 50$/Month from reputable hosters.
Hah, I wish that were true. Supermarkets exist to make money, so they can't stock items that have low demand. If you cook ethnic foods, you'll typically need to visit several stores to buy all the ingredients for your meal.
This article is a continuation of a lively discussion from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890215
There was no mention of where exactly these would go. I doubt it would be on machines serving response online ... since the bottle neck is often in IO.

Being able to index, process and learn data faster can lead to faster iteration and improve the speed of batch or offline jobs which in turn could improve the relevance.
This lag is in the software stack (mostly in UI graphics). Not in hardware.

Remember Androids ~>200ms sound lag?
DBAccess ORM for iOS updated with Async queries and Join conditions.
A significant improvement in functionality, Async query handlers, Join conditions and a near 50% increase in speed of queries when returning large result sets.
Author here. Thanks for posting! HN might be interested in the related repos we open-sourced today:

- Data-processing scripts and HTML/JS/CSS for the maps and charts: https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2014-06-bikeshare-gender-map...

- Python parsers for the various bikeshare services' published data: https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/bikeshares

- General guide to getting data from these services: https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/bikeshare-data-sources
So basically this will provide a nice DSL to deal with shared state?
(3) Our patent system grants Wacom monopoly rights measured in decades in return for, well, no societal benefits that are readily apparent.
Only US and Canada
Just finished the game, it was really good.

It would help if you can open the issue tracker on this project, like this we can discuss new features such as translations. For that go to settings and tick the checkbox for issues.
They do. That’s the support in ESR.
>QA is making sure things work as designed.

That is why I don't like describing the Test discipline as QA. It's not QA. When I worked in Test, I viewed my role as making sure things work well for the user, which includes 'testing' the specs to make sure there's no scenarios with glaring pain points. I think there's some parallels with the Obmudsman role in acting as the internal customer advocate.
The last image isn't curve fitting -- it's showing the tradeoff of the true positive rate vs false positive rate as you vary the threshold of a binary classifier.
Some of the math was over my head, but the visuals on this are amazing.
> In an eerily out-of-place sound file, a small child reads out a list of numbers.

Numbers station[0] recordings perhaps?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
This move saves money, since the servers process queries more efficiently-- “Right off the bat we can chop the number of servers that we use in half,” Burger says.

"Just improving their search engine" isn't some simple task. Google has a head-start measured in thousands of man-years. Closing that gap takes a great number of smart people a great amount of time.

I assume that Google is improving slower than Bing, since their algorithms and systems are more mature and closer to the "asymptotically ideal search engine".
I think this project was funded not only because it helps Bing, but it also accelerates pretty much any large-scale data center application. So in theory, this system could help applications that do not exist yet.
The coder, the gamer, and the office junkie are the traditional Microsoft audience from the 90s + 2000s (maybe in reverse order). Apple had the artist audience even back in the 2000s, macintoshes were really niche-y then

Seeing Apple's huge success in the late 2000s, Microsoft's grand marketing strategy since has been to try and re approach a young hip, artistic audience while not losing their traditional base.

It's a huge shift and it won't be easy, since managers who buy for their offices want a low-rent, predictable product and their feathers are easily ruffled.
It's like they finally got around to reading Dave Winer's post from 13 years ago (!) on the idea of the "strategy tax" (http://scripting.com/davenet/2001/04/30/strategyTax.html):

Sometimes products developed inside a company such as Microsoft have to accept constraints that go against competitiveness, or might displease users, in order to further the cause of another product. I recognized the concept but had never heard the term.

An example. Consider a company that develops both a Web browser and a word processor. The product team for the browser might get lots of input from users saying "We'd like a better editor in the browser." It would be natural to give the users what they want. So they put the feature in their project plan, but when it comes up for review, the CEO shoots them down. "They should use the word processor," he says.
Powerpuff Girls are coming back
There is a lot of advice here on how to behave, what to tell yourself and what to think. It's all nice but the ONLY way to get good at something is to actually do it repeatedly and learn from what happens.
To become good at programming you need to be programming a lot. To become good at being social (and making friends) you must be social a lot.

I would say that your main issue is not showing up at all the events where you can socialize.

You have to consistently go to places where you can meet new people. No matter how hard it is for you to go and face your fear you must do it. Start researching meetups, co-ed social sport clubs, jiujitsu classes, volunteering - anything you can think of that will give you the opportunity to meet new people.

If you'll feel awkward or alone it doesn't matter. Keep going. At this point you can start reading the advice here and books on the subject and think what works for you and what doesn't. But remember that 90% is taking action and showing up, that's the only chance something will change.
At which point, I have no reason to be using FF!

FF's plugin system is one of its huge advantages. With IE11 at a "good enough" state now, if I'm not installing ABP I'm not going to bother switching away from IE on my machines!
How is this different than adaptive streaming?
I really like this, especially that it handles the tab key properly. I find it frustrating that it hijacks ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab as well though. I use those to switch browser tabs. I'm on Linux + Firefox.
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It wasn't CRA that caused the housing bubble. It was cheap debt and public attitudes towards real estate investment.
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I dunno.

Not make or break maybe. Be a potentially big market - hella yeah.

The majority of design-ish people I know, including myself, would kill for a decent tablet drawing environment. Folk are already laying out for specialist devices like http://www.wacom.com/en/gb/creative/cintiq-24-hd-touch.

My iPad is cute and useful for many things. I do very rough sketch stuff on it. For professional deign work it's pretty much useless. As somebody who's been buying Apple kit since before Jobs return the surface is the first time I've ever been tempted by Windows hardware.

I know many folk who walk around with a Macbook + iPad + wacom tablet. I can see a lot of those folk switching if the Surface 3 worked well. I know lots of long-term Apple folk who were really tempted by the Surface 2.

The office junkies, coders and games have alternatives. Currently there is almost nothing that does what the Surface 2/3 do, on the design side, in a single device.

(I also imagine that the issues of stylus sensitivity & lag will apply to other interaction models to. Getting those things to feel "natural" is non-trivial. Pleasing the design folk will probably make it better for other peeps too.)
Most good ideas I have surface after a break from coding, be it a walk, weekend, or night of sleep. Those ideas start depleting as soon my hands hit the keyboard, and once they're gone I enter full code monkey mode. When I'm conscious this transformation is taking place I usually hit up pen and paper or a white board, which can buy me extra hours. It probably comes out to about 50% of time planning, 50% coding, and as long as I don't spend too much time in the latter I can avoid getting burnt out. I figure if I have to try when coding I'm doing something wrong though it's sometimes unavoidable.
How is it a stretch? He's a millionaire, there's no denying that.

Sure mainstream people might not know who he is but in tech circles literally everyone does. So how is he not famous?

I'd challenge you to find a more high profile person using Surface 3 and giving their public thoughts on it.

So, my comment stands; if you are a famous millionaire then it's the product for you apparently, because Microsoft will actually fix your complaints. Otherwise, good luck.
If the wild success of M-Pesa is any indication, then the traditional finance industry will reach the next billion consumers well before an obscure technology like Bitcoin will.
A chef for your startup? Might just be your most important hire.
Surface Pro is very interesting from a product management perspective. Surface Pro 1 satisfied this niche, and Surface Pro 2 improved upon the first model significantly. Surface Pro 3 addresses many of the form factor concessions of the previous model (aspect ratio, thickness) which would make it theoretically more palatable to the mainstream use cases -- however, the N-Trig digitizer and button placement hardware decisions makes this less appealing to that aforementioned niche.

BUT, you don't have to update. People that found great use in SP1+2, have very little incentive to upgrade for several reasons. Short cycles and price aside, the dilemma is now whether this niche can even commit to buying or recommend a SP2 or Surface Pro accessories even prices drop because SP3 is a clear signal of a significant form factor change. The frankly necessary blade accessories are now fragmented between form factors and the older form will not likely be supported going forward.
This seems game-changing. Can anyone here confirm that this is legit?
It's mentioned in the article, but the downsides are almost all due to the licensing and pricing model. Doesn't really make it a bad solution from a technical standpoint (and for others to do something similar).

To me Genymotion is what Android "should" have, and it's already here.
Sorry, my comment was intended to be fatuous. I would much prefer the laws most European countries have.
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Google should buy Genymotion!
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If that were true, welfare would work.
A recent and relevant approach to addressing campaign finance is Lawrence Lessig's MayDay [1] movement, which is sort of a SuperPAC virus (a SuperPAC to end SuperPACs).

[1] https://mayday.us/
You only need to trust their signature to really be sure. That's why the Web of Trust aspect of PGP/GPG is so important. It's probably more valuable than the ability to encrypt a few emails.
Scarily true. The amount of damage malicious actors with keys can do is greatly magnified by the auto-update mechanisms that developers love.
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I cannot wait til we can sin-tax old people because they are on Social Security!!!
I'm no lawyer, but I think it's compatible with contract law...

If you wanted to create an organization represented by a DAO in this system, then you would still need to register a legal entity with your government to represent your organization (for tax and regulatory reasons). But that organization could have exactly one bylaw saying, essentially, "this organization shall operate according to the DAO uniquely identified as ABCXYZ123". Then you do all further work in the DAO.

If you wanted to create a contract of some kind, you wouldn't need to do even that. A "contract" in law is fairly general: it's an agreement, entered into voluntarily, between multiple partners for their mutual benefit. It's often done on paper, but not necessarily: they can be created orally, or via email. There's no reason I know of that a DAO couldn't create a contract, as long as you could show to a court that it fits all the normal criteria for a valid contract.

The main complication in all this is that it's unusual and, at least at first, judges wouldn't know how it works and would want proof that it creates a legal contract.
I don't think our society could handle BI. And everything I see makes me think it's getting worse.

I used to be a big fan of BI, but lately I've come to think that human desires will always make BI irrelevant. No matter how much you pay every citizen, it won't be enough to sate human greed and envy. Combine that with a society that can't stand being bored, I think most people would entertain/eat/act risky themselves to death. Very few Mozart's will arise, and very many dangerously over/underweight selfie-taking alcoholics will.

Look at modern college, which when compared to any other point in life objectively requires the least work: and it's the time filled with the most hedonism and immaturity of most human's lives.

I'd rather people learn to treat work as a noble thing now, and learn to better themselves in the remaining time before we try to pull off the training wheels. I don't disagree that most work now is absolutely terrible, but I'm not sure just paying everyone to live would fix that. As things currently are, we would just pay so much that people would be willing to tolerate the terrible work. Why not try to make jobs better now?
I've really enjoyed ractive. Simple to learn, with mustaches, and it has worked really well for our project. No extra compile steps. Figured I'd share since I see alot of buzz around React and other things, and preferred ractive.js when I researched it a little bit ago.
> The ancient Greeks had a saying that is extremely deep, IMHO. It’s not absolute but goes a long way: “mens sana in corpore sano”.

Are you sure they weren't Romans? Or maybe Greeks who spoke Latin.
Whoops: fixed, thanks.
High temperature superconductivity breakthrough claimed
IMHO the best way to bypass the middlemen is to directly put cash into the tip jars of unsigned
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Right. This is a win, because it allows you to get images that previously required airplanes over areas where airplanes aren't feasible or cost-effective.
It comes down to a simple concept. You change with progress or you get left behind.

Even when progress is, in your view, undesirable... our world isn't a private place anymore... our expectations of privacy will seem silly to future generations... its jus how things work. Right or wrong are abstract concepts, and the marching of time pays no attention to them.
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Regularly working out is essential for keeping good health, especially for us developers (or anyone who's all day on the desk). I've been working on a site for learning bodyweight fitness routines and exercises, which you can start off extremely easily at home, without any equipment.
As you progress, you need just a couple pieces of equipment.

If you've been waiting on getting a gym subscription, or can't figure out where to get started, give this site a try. It's meant to get rid of all the excuses and make working out straightforward.

https://fitloop.co/
Yeah, though maybe you could do it with FTIR instead of capacitive, so you wouldn't need external cameras.
>Pretty straight forward and to the point, right? So simply point to the article in the Constitution where the Fed is supposed to fund education, and we'll be on the same page.

I don't know about "supposed" to, but the federal government is certainly "able to" fund education.

There is the General Welfare Clause that affords powers to tax and approriate revenue:

to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;

And of course, the Necessary and Proper clause:

The Congress shall have Power ... To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Ultimately, however, the Constitution is interpreted by the Supreme Court, not lay-persons, so you really can't just say that it's "straight forward and to the point" without addressing any case law on the subject.