skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Windows 8 was at least part, if not the biggest part of the problem.

Yes I agree. But ultimately the OEM's produced a bunch of touch-screen laptops and needed an OS to make use of them. Windows 8 fit the bill.

My father-in-law actually resorted to running programs from the Program Files folder because he couldn't figure out the start menu!

> Windows PC hardware is fine, drivers are more difficult because there is so much more Win PC hardware out there, but in general I have very little difficulty supporting a multitude of windows hardware/drivers.

PC laptops are 95% crap. They have low-res screens, poor batteries, low memory, etc. It actually took me a long time to just find a laptop with decent specs at a good price in store and it was an Asus Zenbook Prime.

That HN topic about the trackpad driver was actually started because of a post I made here -- that exact issue was what I had with my laptop! I also had serious issues with the Intel wireless drivers causing blue screens (seems to be fixed now). The problem is the platform owner, Microsoft, isn't responsible for quality control. And even when they are, like with the Surface tablets, driver issues and problems still crop up.

So you have mostly cheap hardware, mostly cheap driver software, and Windows 8. No wonder the PC market isn't doing so well.
This list is weird. How did Fannie Mae hit the top list annually in 2013 with $84bn but not have a single quarter with at least $21bn (=84/4) that year?
Or maybe didn't read any Poe.
Couldn't sit through the whole thing because of the weird camera movement. I assume they're trying to simulate an in-game style movement but it doesn't feel like a human operating the camera. Other than that, very impressive!
The "capture" part of the phrase necessarily means corruption. It's where incumbents control the regulatory process to keep competitors out. Unintended consequences from regulation is not "capture."

In every city I've studied, incumbents are bound by the same requirement to build-out their network as potential competitors. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but the only one that comes to mind is Google Fiber: they get a pass on build-out requirements. These requirements curtail the most obvious route to competition: deploying in dense, rich neighborhoods where the incumbents generate most of their profits.
By the way, is MPEG-DASH* patent encumbered or not? I didn't find clear answer on that. Youtube is using DASH (on the server side) to implement adaptive streaming.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_ove...
I don't think your experience has anything to do with my experience. That fact that on your hardware you felt html 5 video works better has no bearing on whether it work for me, on my hardware.

The fact that somebody down-voted me for adding a relevant anecdote, but happens to go against the tide of this threads opinion(ie: FU Flash), it's pretty indicative of the extremely poor voting etiquette around here.
I work for the largest ISP in the UK Education sector and concur with your points. Also, the IWF system for us is mandatory and we purposefully have to ensure that if our systems are unable to enforce the IWF list they must stop serving requests.

We are seeing a large increase in the number of users using things like VPNs or attempting to use TOR etc.
This is where we get back to the Firefox DRM support, and kind of vindicates them. Sure, we'd love to have no DRM, but we can't get that so at least let's provide native support and axe Silverlight.
Windows XP is my standard example. We remember them fondly, but things we take for granted today (WiFi, 64-bit, multiprocessor support, advanced power management including frequency scaling) all had to be kludged into XP because it was forced to stick around for so long, and was never as good at these things as Vista or 7. (I know we all hate Vista, but it did these things well)

A long lifecycle doesn't allow for the rapidly evolving hardware & software environments.
Not that I've ever noticed (my work computer runs linux, and I've found the music players there are, at best, barely useable in terms of what I want) (banshee's the best, but it's RNG is total garbage)
I really feel the burn with simple "find globally" in my IDE... but I won't use this unless it can integrate into an IDE or advanced editor.

Is there a sublime or textmate plugin?
> I don't think I could find a single person, technical or otherwise who didn't use the same operating system for more than a year.

You can. Think AWS systems (as an example) where you don't log in and patch, you spin up a new instance instead. This can't apply to everything (stock exchanges, MRIs, etc), but for the software affected by glibc, absolutely.
FogBugz always seems a bit... anachronistic and old-fashioned, but I don't know if that plays a role.
That rule (SDOT 2-2009) was repealed in October, 2014 and replaced with new, better requirements, including removing the "abstentions/no answer counts as a 'no'" when seeking a permit to place a cabinet, removing almost all restrictions on small-height cabinets, and stops owners of property adjacent to the easement from being able to block the entire process on their own.

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/seattle-approves-bill-allows-fi...
I wonder how difficult it would be to write additional frontends to this. A documented API would be huge.
I'm presuming the negative results they saw from "rendering with JavaScript" meant, specifically, they moved certain page rendering tasks to the client side vs. server side. (It wasn't explicitly clear that was the case, but implicitly so).

If so, that's a big reinforcement of the importance of server-side rendering for SEO purposes or, for you JavaScript fans, isometric applications.

I know this is talked about a lot anecdotally, but it's interesting to see it so starkly laid out in an experiment by a major site.
At least Greece prosecuted the people who were bribed into accepting those ruinous defence contracts. In Portugal he was kicked upstairs and is still in office.
Is there an XKCD[1] comic about over-engineered solutions?

I'd be tempted to go with exponential back off for voting.
eg. the more votes, the less effect they have on the total score.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe
Hoping to Set Sail on Sunlight
Thats the kind of idiotic arguments that were put forth during the early progressivist movment. It used to be that anti-competitive meant actually doing something bad, the progressiv transformed it to 'companys who might do something bad in the future'.

How about we use common sence and let competition work its way until we actually OBSERVE bad effects instead of condemming a company because they might do something bad at some point in the future. Is this not one of the major advances that was made law in the last 200 years?

Most of the historical example of these laws in practice are so absured that you can only laught about them. Companys not allowed to unite because they would togheter have 8% of a market.

This law, since it has been on the books has served as block for competition WAY more often then it has helped. I encourage everybody to look at this history of this law and not JUST the 2-3 partial success story that seam to be the only once that are ever talked about.
It would be actually paid tax. They can externalise a lot of the tax from Australia but have to be paying it somewhere. For instance if they are selling itunes/ app store content via Ireland or another lower tax nation they will still have to pay tax there.
I'll modify that slightly,

Step 2: Take your internal messaging app and make it a commercial product.
The interest rate is fast approaching zero and yet investment is still flat. No one will take a loan to create a new company or expand an existing one if 30% of the Greek market is unemployed, and therefore incapable of buying anything.
Because they actually make me happy. Gaming, for me, was a way to numb myself. Like others turn to drugs or drink. I don't have anything against gaming. I just don't do it anymore.
"Selling off the worthwhile parts of the company in order to make stacks of cash" is just how capitalists work.
My bank prints a check once a month and snail mails it to my landlord. As far as I'm concerned it's an e-check, and I think with certain vendors my bank will actually send it electronically rather than by snail mail.
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EME is really garbage (it's all about DRM), while MSE is actually useful. They shouldn't be mixed together.

Do you know by the way, is MPEG-DASH patent encumbered or not?
You could ask her investors the same question.
Pictures of Big Data
The empty subset.

The title claims it can play chess, this is not chess.
I don't think one can by any stretch attribute Apple laptops for the sales of iPhones. Apple is 90% a phone company.

As to Macs, while their share has bumped up in recent years, its really just at the top of the historical range going back to the late 80s. (this of course depends what metric you look at and from whom but 7 to 13% seems to be the range). Can't count how many times I heard in the 2008 time frame that OSX/Apple would dominate all in the pc world in short order. Still waiting.
Not always a bad thing. In this case, I'd say it makes a lot of sense.

Do Yahoo at this point still even own any interesting assets? Not counting passive investments, such as BABA or Yahoo Japan stock
I'm really sorry you had that experience. It sounds similar to the industry sentiment: General Assembly is geared towards founders who want to quickly acquire a discrete set of business skills in a short period of time, and they're at a competitive disadvantage against coding bootcamps that specialize in programming skills. It seems like the only area where they can compete is price point.

I'm not sure why GA is pursuing this strategy because it seems to be poisoning their reputation. They really shine with things like weekend courses on marketing analytics or a two-hour course where a non-technical founder can get some concepts and vocabulary to grok what the engineering team is doing, but their nine-week courses are lightweight and don't serve their graduates very well. In fact, when I hear engineers complaining about "bootcamp graduates" it's never about Hack Reactor and rarely about DevBootcamp or App Academy -- it's usually General Assembly.
Seen in the physics department at the University of Utah, many years ago:

Do not look at laser with remaining eyeball.

My own additions:

There is a reality which exists. Statements are true or false to the degree that they correspond or fail to correspond to the reality that exists.

Human nature changes only slightly with technology.

Almost any technology can be (mis)used as a weapon.

You (plural, including the whole human race) may understand the laws of physics less well than you think you do.
Yes, we have another source of funding, from a group of awesome people that supported us believing in the project since the beginning. (you can find some of them in the comments)
On Windows it's incredibly bloated and has really bad UI design. Apple always used to trick people into installing Safari and Quicktime bundleware-style during updates as well. (Source: Every computer I've maintained over the years and asked the owner 'why did you install Safari' and the answer is always 'I guess iTunes did it')
Anecdotally it seems like ipads have a longer lifespan than a phone as well. Those with an ipad 1 will probably have to upgrade and those with a 2 might want to for the retina display.

The 3 though have been out for nearly 3 years and is still fine. Whereas someone who bought a phone at the same time may have already upgraded.
More like the market is expecting them to lose the $10 billion in the bank (spending on money losing core businesses) rather than return money to shareholders.
I'm a PhD student in one of the labs referenced in this piece, and overwhelmingly agree with Adam's main point. There are many levels of abstraction from cellular and molecular processes all the way up to behavior and cognition, and we should continue supporting and funding the diversity of research that exists across all of these levels.

Encouragingly, the planing for Obama's BRAIN initiative is led by excellent neuroscientists (Cori Bargmann and Bill Newsome) who carefully articulate this vision throughout the planning process for this multi-year initiative.
I have worked with recruiters in different capacities over the past 17 years or so. From using them to find work to using them to fill positions. Almost all firms work off a percentage of the hiring salary with a guarantee or buy back within a 90-120 day window. Additionally, they are paid a sliding fee if a candidate is hired within the next 12 months after being referred to the company by the recruiter. The fees are usually around 15-25% of the hiring salary, but I have seen as much as 30% for tough to fill positions. Also, if you use a recruiter to get a consultant for 3 months then hire that consultant the fee will be reduced by some percentage, usually after 180 days you are free to hire the consultant without any further payments to a recruiter.

The fee is paid by the employer to the recruiting firm, the actual recruiters usually make a percentage of that fee. Their take home is usually a small base salary plus their percentage paid out of the 90 day window. You'll know a good recruiter if you are a candidate because he/she will follow you really closely for 90-180 days to make sure you are happy and sticking with the company until at least after their guarantee window has passed. This helps them make sure the company is happy and you are so they keep their commission. Their commission varies, but is usually between 10-35% again partially depending on the difficulty of the position they are filing.

So a decent recruiter, that is good at networking and places people intelligently, will make a reasonable salary. Generally around $75k-$150k, with outliers on either side I am sure. Partners in firms of course will take a higher percentage of each placement.
The Great Date Debate
Use case is computing recommendations at large scale (collaborative filtering, latent factor models)
I did the same, but at the same time I don't begrudge others less fortunate financially to not be able to do so. Otherwise you get into a 'children are for the wealthy' situation which is for obvious reasons also not desirable.
That seems to be a problem with youtube in general. I see that behavior all the time. Several local friend of mine also have these seeking problems, too, so it may depend on the particular cache servers you end up seeing.

I think the problems started when they changed to the "adaptive" rate stuff; the players don't don't download the entire video file anymore, and instead they buffer in segments. Not only does this remove the ability to pre-buffer the entire video, the client seems to get out of sync with the server. The client ends up waiting forever, but the server isn't sending anything.

Fortunately, I was able to switch many of my friends over to youtbe-dl, and that fixed everything. Unfortunately, the article mentions the idiotic "encrypted medfia extensions" a one of the reasons for the changes to youtube; I wonder what additional useless hoops youtube-dl will end up having to have to jump through.
He was a bomb threat suspect so of course they would charge him with any petty crime he admitted to so they would get the excuse to further search his dorm, confiscate his laptop to get physical evidence of the bomb threat and detain him for further questioning. If he had said nothing and asked for a lawyer he'd still be in school.

This law professor explains why you should never talk to police, even if innocent http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc
I didn't realize the Flash version did not have this feature. I really want to echo this. I think this is the most useful feature to use for watching lectures and talks. I find for most things 1.5x is very usable and allows to quickly soak up content. Occasionally, 2x works well but many times its a bit too much. Coursera also allows this; I think Udacity does, as well. Take advantage of it.
Yep, that's what people were telling me an e-check was. But I haven't looked into it myself, I just haven't because I mail a check without even thinking about it. Its just been engrained in me as a habit.
Netflix and YouTube do a decent job of adjusting to the speed your connection is capable of (even if that changes during playback).
what's the difference between boot and leiningen?
"Exceptions"??
Yes. It's linked in the article.

https://github.com/bgreenlee/SublimeHound
More than 1% of the population of Earth bought an iPhone last quarter.

7.125 billion people
74.5 million iphones

74,500,000 / 7,125,000,000 = 1.05%
Never could get in to Poe, and the church didn't want me.
Did you try to google your question first? :)

E.g. http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/5028/can-i-open-a-u...
Getting 404 on http://www.benoitdereau.com/UnrealParis_v1.1.rar
I recommend watching Handmade Heroes at 0.5x. Its a good series but if you put it on 0.5x it is quite amusing. :)
Stock swaps and splits are generally tax exempt in most jurisdictions.
Isn't tight coupling one of the code smells?
Well, I was also referring to the browser itself, which is now a useless shadow of its former self.
Great response indeed.
Employ n-th mover advantage.
Most companies have value that would not count as "assets"
Why would users switch to this as yet non-existent proprietary DRM mechanism when free and open source solutions already exist and are widely used?
Content-addressable storage will become more and more important as the immutability trend becomes more and more commonplace. (check out https://camlistore.org/). We will also want to use the proper tools to manage the new immutable paradigm... here's looking at immutability in programming languages.
I've seen some beautiful UE4 screenshots and well-composed videos, but this was the first video I've seen of someone just walking through a scene with a controller, and it blew me away.
this might be the most thoughtful and well written comment I've seen on HN in a while. Nice.
The Art of Mental Calculation; with Demonstrations (1954)
Orginally Weapons of Mass Destruction was specifically defined under US and International law (by treaty) as NBC Weapons only (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical.) Gradually, the definition has become a bit wobbly, with some attempting to include any weapon that could be used in a terror attack (domestic law enforcement) and those seeking to include portions of their enemies arsenals (e.g. SCUD missiles) under the term WMD.

"In the Butler Review, the official UK report on intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the definition of WMDs included Ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometres and related major parts, and repair and production facilities.

Thankfully the term WMD has fallen out of favor, but the point the Butler Review makes clear is that it is an inherently Orwellian term. Its Orwellian not in the sense of dystopian, but rather that it is a deliberately ambiguous term used to obfuscate the underlying reality.

It is the politician's version of "hook up." Completely descriptive while so ambiguous that it could be describing anything at all.

Creating terms like WMD, CBRNE, NBC, only serves to undermine the underlying weapon. Like most people, I believe ordinary explosive ordinance deserves far less attention than rogue nuclear weapons.
And does Firefox support the MediaSourceElement fully (used for DASH)? I was under the impression it did not (but was coming soon).
> It simulates being very productive (which in a meta sense you are), and for me that represents "goodness" in my self image.

I think these sort of games are also excellent examples for the sunk cost fallacy [1]. They make you invest a lot of time at the beginning by slightly increasing the work and rewards, and if you want to stop you think that it would be a shame that the invested playing time would be wasted, not taking into account that there might be overall losses (such as fewer social interactions, less exercising etc.). People have an irrational aversion against giving up their investment of money/engery/time (the sunk cost), even if it might be better to give up on it entirely. Often there is an anxiety involved that the inconsistent action needs to be explained to others.

[1] http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallaci...
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Firstly it's not 'in decline' it has just reached saturation. 'Plunging' is just false.

Secondly, the slowing of iPad sales has absolutely zero to do with any open systems.
Only the wealthiest of the Atlanta suburbs, it seems. What good is "affordable" true broadband that challenges the cable and DSL companies if it never makes it to those who could most use the savings?
Not when the public sector comprises most of the economy, like in southern European countries. Without public investment there will be no growth, even with 0 taxes.
You seem to be presuming an enterprise-class user (indicated by language like "in comparison to salaries and the benefits", "you're not a qualified lead", etc).

On the consumer side, I would say that the jump from $5/mo per customer to $5/mo per user per customer would be pretty significant. The number of users in the organization enters the calculus directly in the latter case, whereas it did not before.

But in another sense, yes, the person who posted the comment you are responding to is probably not a good "qualified lead" for you, whatever it is that you do.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how Yahoo! is making this spinoff tax-free. How can a non-Investment Company spin off an Investment Company? How can this new Investment Company be exempt from diversification rules?

This is just my opinion, but if Yahoo has figured out and easy way for corporations to directly exempt themselves from capital gains taxes, this may be their most significant contribution to the world yet. And Warren Buffett should be very thankful!
Credit unions can't help with the abysmal transfer situation but at least they aren't out to get you at every turn.
Agreed. How the camera stops and starts is what gives it away more than anything,
I'm sorry but the game was not "ported" to the Amiga. This is completely wrong. It was made and designed on the Amiga by Eric Chahi himself. The PC version is a port. I know because I got the Amiga version right when it was out back in the days and it was the first one, plus I watched numerous documentaries showing Chahi working on his Amiga when making the game.

So if you want to look at the original source code (or at least understand how it may have worked) it would be wiser to decompile the Amiga binaries.
It's WIP, and you can already enable it in about:config (set media.mediasource.enabled to true). But it's still buggy somewhat. It should be finished in the upcoming release to be enough for Youtube.

See:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=881512

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617
I thought that would be a good replacement for WoW/EVE, but it turns out nothing kills that flame faster than an 8to5 job.

Now I know how I'd feel as a goldfarmer.
I work for a government, I just contribute to waste. Now I'm even more depressed.
> pure competition ... injected their own lobbyists into Washington

It's either pure competition, or they're injecting lobbyists to tilt the table in their favor, but not both.
Yes, it is.

And just like Marshall Brain's story, we are also without laws protecting people of the right to live.