skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but he's critiquing it from the perspective of a tablet OS. The majority of the intertial pushback Windows 8 suffered was from desktop users who absolutely did not want a mobile-esque interface on their desktop computer. His usability points are good--from a tablet user's perspective--but it completely misses the point of Windows 10, which is to regain trust from desktop and enterprise users. He further complains that this sort of cultural entrenchment is very much like the pushback Microsoft received between the DOS-to-Windows era--ignoring, of course, that user interaction with a touch UI versus mouse are substantially different. Plus, like you and the poster you replied to, I highly doubt that "tablet mode" in Windows 10 is completely finished.

I get that the author is probably upset with the changes coming in Windows 10 given his nearly exclusive use of a Surface (it's understandable--and also ironic that early on in the post, he mentions that "learning is uncomfortable"), but he's also forgetting that his favored use case is probably in the minority. How many Surface users are there versus enterprise/business/desktop users?
It seems "ready for the desktop" when applied to Linux means something different from "ready for the desktop" when applied to, say, Windows.

Windows: It can come with crapware pre-installed, such as "personal firewalls" and "antivirus" software which are mainly ad delivery platforms for the partners of whoever sold you the hardware. It can require you to go to malware-ridden sites with deliberately deceptive webpage designs in order to download some kinds of software. It occasionally requires maintenance in the form of digging through sometimes deliberately obfuscatory registry settings. It only runs Windows software; if you try to run Mac or Linux software on it, people laugh at you like you're insane. That's ready.

Linux: It must have no deficiencies. It has a package manager which performs dependency tracking (something alien to Windows, as far as I know) and contains no malware. It can never requires maintenance of any kind. It must run Windows software flawlessly. Only then will it be ready.

MacOS X: It has settings you can't change. It does things its way. If you disagree, you're wrong. It runs nobody else's software. That's ready.
I would say that to really use OpenBSD as a desktop OS, the login.conf tweaks are non-optional. Otherwise you will find "big" software like browsers with more than a few tabs open, Office suites, etc. being killed due to the default memory limits.
I use the same laptop (Thinkpad X201) as my daily driver. It's got several generations old Intel wireless and video, which is supported out of the box just about everywhere.

When I installed OpenBSD on it, I could get Gnome 3.10 working but I was unable to find a good way to use the wireless working without having to use the console.
Emphasis on SUBJECTIVE before you indicate my opinion is wrong because you have a different opinion. That's pretty-much what subjective means. I thought HN was smarter than this.

Yet you spent your entire post claiming that the interface is objectively better. But people don't like it because it was change, it is "scientifically superior" (as if an interface is quantified only by the size of click targets), people just needed to learn it, people don't like their cheese being moved.

Coach your post in the disclaimer, but every other word you wrote was absolutely in conflict with that.
Coincidentally, I spoke at length with a grad student software developer for the RoboCup challenge in which autonomous robots compete. In this particular league, Nao robots are supplied to each team as the standard, making the performance emphasis on software that runs in the robot.

So I asked the developer, does he use the famous ROS software for running the robot. He said, no way, because the robot had only an onboard Intel Atom of relatively low performance, all the complex multi-threaded behavior had to be written in low-level C. No space nor execution time for anything more.
Honest question: does throwawayvictim have an obligation to take part in that due diligence process by reaching out to the investors? Regardless of his own attachments to the code, and his emotional response to its false attribution - a response I think most of us would have, by the way - the investors "don't know what they don't know", and I think any good samaritan would consider it his duty to inform someone who is at a possible informational disadvantage, especially when that information could prevent the investors from dealing with a loss or a future liability. It also reflects the character of the startup using the code, an additional and relevant piece of information that the investor is disadvantaged not knowing.

Think if it in alternate terms. And, yeah, it's going to be highly contrived, but I'm trying to avoid overreaching the bounds of this metaphor. :)

Someone at a party you're hosting (we'll call him Stuart Upton) stole a car that you recently offered to loan to anyone who wants it, because - hey! - free car! You have an OBD key installed that lets you track it. You're not certain if they're intoxicated, or if they're intending to commit a crime, and there's a risk they could cause harm to person or property. You believe you know their destination, because they discussed going there to "have a chat" with someone named Victor Curtis (we'll call him "VC" for short) about some money they believe they're owed earlier in the evening.

Is it your duty to call up VC to warn him about his unexpected caller? That the caller has expressed a monetary motivation for his visit, and that he has taken advantage of your good will and stolen a car you were willing to loan freely to anyone who respectfully asked to borrow it?
Backup of large amount of small files. Rdiff-backup VS Rsnapshot
Do they also make raw sensor data available for free? I.e. if I wanted to build my own forecast system based on this code, I would still need all the data they collect with weather balloons, right?
Startup Law 101 Series
The Clojure language
I'm in grad school and this is also true of the sciences. I'll make a comment about how X is metaphor for Y, mostly as a way to solidify and arrange my brain to learn. For example: The Circle of Willis is a arterial structure in your brain that keeps blood moving even if there is a clot, I likened this to a set of resistors in parallel. Oh man, the looks... I felt like I had grown 10 heads. It's natural to me to want to tie things together, but for others, no way, you either have the language or you don't, the in words and shibboleths or nothing at all.
I did miss it, so thanks for the tip. Either way is fine.
Unlike some distros, the BSDs don't do much in the way of graphical branding.

I remember when people complained about Slackware for the same issue.
Seeing them coming comes with experience. One heuristic I use is does the person try to see things from my point of view when discussing the contract. If it's a finite pie at the beginning, that's the way it will be down the road.

One of the things I've learned from Patrick Patio11 is that negotiations should be on scope not price. The implementation is that clients who expect me to deliver something they cannot afford aren't worth taking on.
This sort of comment isn't useful. You might have tried asking about my experiences before assuming things. I've lived in six different countries, I speak five languages. I've stayed in hostels, or in apartments, I've cooked for myself and I've had others cook for me.

Right now I'm in production mode with my business, and having someone else cook is a massive boost to productivity. That's why I asked. Am not interested in hostel travel right now.
Human Nature / selected poems, 2014
Technical requirements: Consciousness, literacy, internet access.
I've never seen the wifi connection issue you describe on my Surface. And I know a bunch of people who, like me, use Windows 8 in Metro mode.
> The whole bit on loss aversion (which is a tactic to undermine people's opinions by ascribing them to unproductive emotional reactions, rather than objective evaluations that have people liking Windows 8 less than 7)

I am writing this on a recently purchased Windows 7 Lenovo x220 convertible tablet with a Wacom stylus and a multi-touch screen. (Primarily to use it as a poor man's Cintiq.) With only a few specific failings, Windows 7 seems to be a great OS for such a device. One of the big failings is requiring the user to keep precise track of window focus. The other one is rejection of finger input in contexts where everything but the stylus should be ignored except certain specific exceptions. I've used an AutoHotKey script to compensate for the latter. Other than these (very glaring) few points and others, I think Windows 7 does a very good job of capitalizing on the strengths of the input devices and form factor. I can transition between laptop/workstation, touch-tablet, and Wacom stylus type inputs to best suit the particular context I am working in with reasonable rapidity. As a workman's toolbox, this thing is pretty awesome!

Comparing this to the mess that's Windows 8, it's clear that Microsoft lost a cohesive overall vision for how everything should work together. It's also clear from the glaring problems that they never quite had a cohesive overall vision firmly guiding the whole product in the first place.

A consumer-oriented tablet and a kitchen-sink/swiss-army knife device for coders/creatives are two very different kinds of devices. It's just not clear thinking to try and mix the two. (OS X seems to be facing a similar dilemma.)
How did you find the villa to rent, is what I meant.

Congrats on the exit!
Metroid Prime Trilogy had a limited run and this is the first time it's been offered digitally. It's also one of the first three Wii games released on the Wii U that don't require you to go into Wii Mode first to play. (basically, booting up a virtual Wii inside of which you launch your game)

http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/29/7946129/metroid-prime-trilo...
Changing sizes on different processors is a bad idea- most uses should be fixed-size for ease of portability, and using 64-bit ints for a "default" type isn't always the best for performance.

Also, it's unclear from your post, but to clarify: the C standard mandates that sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long).
When I think of an accountant, I'm thinking of the kinds of ones that do company structuring.

And, congratulations, you can find people who are willing to do voice over work quickly. That doesn't mean it doesn't take a lot of creative work to get the right feel and urgency for the situation. Improvisers sometimes use scripts, too, as a stage gag, and they'll read the things they're using too, but it's them that adds personality, intensity, everything.

And managers, they manage /peeople/. Maintaining a store's stock isn't too bad. Managing people and solving disputes in a pleasing way for all involved, that's a much harder problem.
> the pop music scene vs the developed music culture (the former has almost driven out the latter -- and this is only possible where there is too little knowledge and taste to prevent it)

I wonder about the idea that popular music is undeveloped, tasteless, and ignorant. Take Michael Jackson's "Off The Wall" album. It's a very sophisticated album by any measure except, of course that it is pop music.
> hot corners

I hate that too. Disabled it. That's my opinion of the feature. However, that in addition to:

> charms bar

(Which I never use) is technically good UX design. Corners are super easy to position your mouse in. 100 out of 100 times you try and put your mouse cursor into the corner you will achieve that without fail. Both corner gestures (really hate them) and charms bar use that extensively.

> Wifi setup panel, login screen

Never had a problem with these, they do the job just fine. Just different. The Wifi panel is actually great UX because the process of setting up Wifi does not bounce all over the screen (as it did previously).

> start screen

Fitt's Law, look it up. If you don't like using the mouse you don't even have click anyway. WINKEY -> N -> O -> T, oh, notepad is up, ENTER. Done. Windows 8 taught me to let go of my mouse.
> One thing that makes overlapping windows infinitely nicer for me is a feature in a lot of Linux WMs where window borders "catch" on other windows and the edge of the screen when being moved or resized. That, and having a key to move windows from anywhere, rather than just the titlebar.

I also like the feature of using the scroll wheel to change window position (above/below), especially if I'm browsing and have a few related windows open on a desktop. I didn't realize how much I missed the feature until I tried Plasma 5 on KDE briefly (it has it, too, but it didn't migrate my configuration).
That is absolutely true. Distribution is by far not the only important factor to consider. It's just that distribution so totally dominated everything for over a century that its commoditization radically changes everything. Most companies offered other services (marketing, logistics, team management, etc) and made some money on them but distribution was an order of magnitude more important and where they made their real money. Now with distribution being essentially solved, those other things become much more important.... but those things can also be more easily and efficiently solved by independent contractors and people not hampered by the giant distribution networks and existing distribution agreements that the big publishers are saddled with. Those things were absolute GOLD for a century. Now they are a noose. What interests me now is the value of aggregation. It was mostly taken for granted when distribution was a much larger problem, but now aggregating things together and making it easier for customers to find things is far more important. When you've got millions of products available to you, learning about the products you are interested in and being able to find them all in one place becomes more important. It's a far easier (in terms of material cost, not intellectual challenge) problem to solve than distribution, though. So these companies are really going to have to radically shrink their profit margins in any case.... and modern businesses can't even deal well with slowing growth, let alone actual shrinking...
Is this article just not loading for anyone else? I have all scripts running and everything else the webpage wants, and there's no content there. Just the loading icon.
Yeah, back in the day the bitmapped display was so awesome.Look at the proportional fonts and bitmapped image!

I was using IBM 3270 terminals, in a special shared room for that purpose, to edit COBOL programs with fixed width fonts - ugh.
Also, what does the OP want to do. If you want to work with big companies, SAP is probably a good skill to have.

Startups, SMBs? not so much.
The most important part of the post was: "YMMV." Believe me, it will.
The difference is probably that Microsoft's Windows 10 demonstrations show a manually customized system, while my screenshot shows what it looks like by default, on a newly installed system? Other than that, I'm not sure how I could not be running the current Windows 10 preview, because, as far as I know, it's the only build that supports continuum.
I've been looking for something like this. I'm actually going to buy it right now.

Feedback:

● It's hard to buy because there aren't any full screenshots or product pictures of the actual calendar. I can't see exactly what I'm buying. I know you don't want people to rip off your design and re-create it in excel, but a lack of screenshots is what really made me doubt purchasing N-AC.

● Your call to action button isn't at the top, instead it's somewhere in the middle and end of the page. This just adds purchase "friction". It should always be at the top above the fold, and even in the top menu for single product sites.

● Instead of a blog format, you should stick to a traditional webpage design for selling products and services: [Anchor links menu] at the top, then above the fold right where the reader can see it [screenshot] on left [description and call to action button] on the right, with [testimonials] underneath and further info below that.

● You use way too much text to explain your product. If you use more images customers will be able to see what you mean instead of reading what you're trying to say.

● Use pictures of your testimonial authors next to their testimonials. A/B testing has shown time and time again that people trust pictures of faces over text and descriptions.

● Change "Get it now!" button to "Instant Download"

● Change the purchase button color to the same color red as the word "calendar" at the top.

● You may want to switch to GumRoad or at least A/B test it. People not only trust it more but its checkout process is a lot more smooth and doesn't take your customers away from your site.

● Include American currency in the price: From: [4€] to [4€ | $4.50], You'd be surprised by how many people get scared off when they see a Euro sign.

● Include your full name, your email, and the name of the country next to your flag (Sweden?). I don't know who you are. Your picture looks very professional and I feel like I'm getting a high quality product designed somewhere in Europe but there's too much information left blank. More information about you builds trustworthiness.

● After printing it out I just realized, it's not really a calendar. It's a planner. A calendar tells you what day of the week a date falls on. It's no big deal but it doesn't really need to be re-designed every year to be updated. So you could just leave the "2015" spot blank and people can write in whatever year they want.
From the article:
"Until 2000, the reason was primarily because more Americans moved up the income ladder. But since then, the reason has shifted: There is a greater share of households on the lower rungs of the economic ladder."

The graphs are 1967-2014. If you look closely you can see that the "high" group goes up until 2000, but not after. That is the point they are trying to make.
2015 the year of elementary os on mid 2007 iMac! everything works out of box, except have to do source compile for emacs 24.4.
I'm pointing that out multiple times in the article :-)
Same here! It was banned in Argentina and now I can access to it without problem. My guess is that they are using a new IP (pinging thepiratebay.se gives me the IP 104.28.5.42, which seems to be part of CloudFare network). I'm reading the legal order (http://www.scribd.com/doc/232031432/cnc-tpb-argentina-pdf) and they not only ask to ban IPs from 194.71.107.0 to 194.1.107.255, they also ask ISP DNS resolvers to ban thepiratebay.se (an related domains). Good thing I'm not using my ISP DNS :)
So, thanks for the downvote. I had a suspicion, given the venom, then reviewed your LinkedIn profile.

Before saying, "There is no criminal case," review some facts - and the legal aspects of state vs nation in the US of A. If a law passes in say, New York - it doesn't impact people in my home state of California. It can be used as precedent...but, seriously.

I've gone toe to toe with multiple governments about their own legal system and Neither of us is a lawyer...right? Right. So, as I mentioned, get somebody qualified, pursue both sets of charges. Financial fraud and racketeering, given the nature of the issue (VC funding) are Federal, not State, issues.

Wow. Please, please next time if it's legal, you're not a lawyer and have zero experience...let the adults talk who have been there. My 14 year old knows the American legal system better, who hasn't lived here two years, and holds multiple passports.

What's your excuse again?
I installed Arch (actually Antergos) on a brand new Samsung laptop and everything worked out of the box: touchscreen, 3200x1800 display, touchpad, wifi, /home on a separate partition, encryption, etc...
Works OK for me - Chrome on Ubuntu.
Yes, precisely!
Were it really performance-critical, the software would have been written in assembly.

There. Top that.
I would also bet that 99.6% is based on plea bargains as well. Defending a federal case will likely cost you $1 million plus. On top of that, all your assets will likely be frozen or inaccessible. Basically the government always aims for a conviction based on a plea bargain, but if you dare challenge them by going to court, they will crush you with every trick they have. Basically, there is no such thing as a fair criminal trial at the federal level.

I'd love to know more about that 0.4% and what those trials did to them and how destroyed they were financially when all was said and done.
Approximately 97% of defendants plead guilty. Approximately 2/3 of the remaining 3% are convicted at trial. The reason is simple: The US has built extortion right into its laws. Most laws on our books are broad (one law can cover both very serious and very minor conduct) and carry absurdly high maximum penalties. When prosecutors offer a "deal" for a small fraction of the maximum, defendants almost always take it.

Why would a free society do this? Mainly because taking people to trial is hard and costs alot. If the plea rate dropped from 97% to 95%, the courts and prosecutors would be overwhelmed. The few politicians that have dared to introduce legislation lowering maximum sentences (which would have an effect on the guilty plea rate) have almost universally been eviscerated at the polls, so this situation is unlikely to change in our lifetimes.
How's your astroturfing day going so far?
I actually preferred Windows 10 in the previous build. Now everything in the desktop modem makes me uncomfortable when using it and I think it's slower as well.
Works for me here in Buenos Aires without VPN. I'm using Google Public DNS https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
> I use Windows 8.1 on the desktop every day

I also use Windows 8.1 everyday, I'm typing this message on it.

> Almost everything in Windows 8 works the same. For example, I see frequent complaints about how terrible the Start Screen is for desktop users. I don't think it's very pretty, but it works almost exactly the same as the old start menu.

My father-in-law somehow figured out he could launch applications by going into Program Files folder in explorer and running programs from there. He did that because he could not figure out how to find stuff on the start screen. I was impressed with his ingenuity; I just replaced the start screen with ClassicShell. I don't have any metro apps, I have 2 24" monitors, so the start screen is ridiculous.

> Other than that, there are plenty of desktop-centric improvements.

I agree. Those could have all been in Windows 7.1 though.

> For the most part, the average desktop user is almost never even going to see the Metro interface.

Except for the charms bar, hot corners, the Wifi setup panel, the login screen, the start screen, the associated app selector, the metro apps with associations to common file types, etc.
That would literally be the most impressive thing performed by the swedish police the past year, if true :).

Which would be kind of sad.
> Even infinitely large targets are useless if the user does not know where they are.

That I can completely agree with. The tutorial that they introduced helps, but I think something (not sure what) would have helped.