skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft needs to dogfood it. By porting MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and Visual Studio to the WinRuntime and XAML Framework would a big step.

For example no high profile MS client product is written in C# using the dotNet Framework. All parts of Windows (kernel/user mode, shell), Office and various applications are coded in native C or C++ against the WinAPI. Visual Studio is mainly coded in C++ too, with some dotNet bindings. Some server products (outsourced to Microsoft India) use the dotNet Framework like SharePoint and Exchange.

It would show confidence in their WinRT API. WinAPI will be around for a long time and even WinRT-API is based on WinAPI/Win32 subsystem and COM.
I think before anyone signs up, you really need to publish some example holidays. i need to be able to compare against what is currently on the market as to what i am getting. How would your offer compare to: http://www.holidaypirates.com/holidaypackages/3-nights-in-mo... say?
Nitpick: The previous poster is assuming that all the people being hit on are women. That doesn't equal an assumption that all creeps are men.
Cost to build likely includes the cost of power, no? In other words, if building an ARM SoC costs $10, the electricity cost in the ARM SoC is under $10, so if you save $10 in electricity by running the ARM SoC, then you've offset the cost of the energy used in manufacturing.
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For me that blockbot is the only thing that made Twitter usable, and it turned it into the best community on the internet. I don't care if the purpose was some nefarious scheme anymore than I care if Uber was intending to destroy cab companies: both are useful, and so awesome.
This has been one of the most amazingly non-intuitive things for me over the years. That operating a computer that is older can be so much more inefficient than operating one that is newer, that it isn't worth it. Literally the best thing you can do is crush the chips and mine the result for gold, silver, and the few rare earths that are left over. That at least puts a finite limit on the energy consumed over it, and the value returned from it.
I've been using entirely Neovim for around 4 months now. The only issue i experienced was two plugins (out of many) that had slight issues. One was an issue with Powerline, and i forget the other. Note that i had wanted to get rid of powerline anyway, so i didn't bother trying to get it to work.

As a side effect, various things seemed to become much faster, such as Vundle installs. I assume this is due to some async work, but i never really looked into it, so this is very anecdotal.

Overall it's been a seamless transition. I haven't even bothered to keep up to date with the repo master, simply because it has worked so well i haven't needed to.

Really enjoy this project, can't recommend it enough :)
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I had a dream once. I was programming in C. I was writing great code - amazingly good code.

So I can honestly answer that I'm a great programmer - in my dreams.

I think I'm a pretty good programmer in real life, too, but the other answer is funnier...
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I was going to link to that. Instead here is Mr. Gates' take. http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Why-Inequality-Matters-Capit...
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Ask HN: How do the engineers working on open source editors get their funding?
Who pays for development of editors like ace, brackets e.t.c ?

Also how much do developers of sublime approximately make selling their editor?

I really want to work in editor space but not sure if I can pay my bills with it.
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This seems to fly in the face of the approach that Bill and Melinda have publicly claimed to have taken. Instead of "writing a big check" they're managing (very directly it seems) the allocation of funds to effective and worthwhile programs.

There may internal pressure to "give money away" but I doubt many have the freedom to start writing checks for ...anything.
Are you accepting students from outside of US for developer internships?
> At Montessori, you're supposed to like what you do. At Summerhill (and Sudbury schools), you do what you like.

False. Montessori is: there are a number of age-appropriate exercises scattered around the classroom. Every day you come into school and play with which ever ones you want, in whatever order you want. Source: I went to Montessori, and my mother taught Montessori.
> This is an "all your eggs in one basket" issue.

And that's an incredibly valid concern, but at the same time, when you look at the other baskets and they're falling apart and have holes in the bottom, it's easy to see why people put those eggs where they do.
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MSFT stock has been performing well in the last few years.
Despite the satire, this post is startlingly accurate. I can safely say that 90% of my t-shirts are either emblazoned with a tech company logo or Greek letters.

I was also astounded that non-technical students would go to CS career fairs at my school just to get a Dropbox t-shirt (yes, it had to be a Dropbox shirt)
It's a positive development, not sure the negative comments. 5% is chump change if a game is successfull. The engine is also open source (so no hidden malware), runs on Linux and WebGL.
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Do not comment on your own downvotes.

Do not interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.
Very cool. I can now go from feeling guilty about not finishing a project in Unity Indie to feeling guilty about not finishing a project in Unreal. Seriously though, I'm kind of interested in using this as a playground for the Leap Motion SDK.
If had no fan, I'd buy one for my kids.
Interesting... I wonder how much overhead it would take to keep polling like that. I'm not a software or web developer but I like learning things and I'm no stranger to throwing together ugly projects just to see what I can do.

Right now it seems like most of the Hue apps for integration with video work in one of two ways: either sampling color values for what's on screen/what your smartphone's camera is picking up or using companion mobile apps that listen for audio triggers.

The first method tends to result in lots of color changing and it can be distracting in practice. Even if you weight it to be less sensitive, I don't need the lighting to change all the time.

The second method requires you to either edit the audio track to add cues or be involved in the production of the original video. Again, not easy to add after the fact.

Basically I want my "mood lighting" to subtly follow or complement the mood of what's on screen without lots of rapid disco-light changes but I also want the ability to throw in the occasional "punctuation" like bright flashes when there's lightning or an explosion on screen.

I figured a "script" along the lines of a sub track would be a great way to do it since a sub track is already just that: a small file with a script for when to send a string of data to the overlay at certain times. If there was a way to use srt files or the equivalent, you could distribute them easily and load them up in a VLC plugin when you fire up your DVD/Bluray. Probably wouldn't sync up with every pirate rip out there but as long as it worked with the "standard" versions on disc or your home rips with easy editing, it would be a neat project.

Wonder how one would go about writing a plugin for VLC that essentially duplicates the subtitle functionality but sends the data to a server process or other companion app that's listening for lighting values on the fly.
Someone, somewhere has to make that call: the current situation is untenable.
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It has nothing to do with resonance. It's much the same principle as a pulley where you focus little force over a long distance into a lot of force over a smaller distance.

Picture a single wave entering a V shaped harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Now realize you can think of the tide is a very low frequency wave.
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It is indeed the worst time horizon.

However, when evaluating a course of action, I think looking at the upper and lower bounds of possible outcomes is a very wise thing to do, so in that sense it's relevant...
what ever they want.. :-)

I agree, even a billion dollars, as free cash (as opposed to illiquid property holdings) is mind boggling. At IMF .9% interest rates that is $25,000 a day you would have to spend just to spend off the interest income.
Sounds a bit like "Brewster's Millions", just with more zeroes.
Wow, this is great. I really have no excuses now to not be playing with this on my downtime.
Well, had Microsoft not sold their "share" of loan to AAPL, they would have held a good chuck ~ 18.1 million shares [1]. Based off the AAPL splits, today those shares would have been 10 times more in count and 100 times more in price.

[1] http://www.tuaw.com/2014/05/20/what-ever-became-of-microsoft...
I believe Crytek stepped down from the "indie" scene.
Good article about a difficult problem. Here's an excellent series on homelessness in Portland OR: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland-homeless/#incart_maj-stor...
Like you, I doubt that they are charging anywhere close to marginal costs because that's simply not how you run a successful business (especially a capital investment business like AWS). Price is determined by the market, and Amazon charges a price they think the market will support - no more, no less. If you think you can put a product out there at a lower price than Amazon, you're always free to try. It was a genius customer retention strategy to continuously drop prices without customers even having to ask - it's basically the opposite of what telecom companies do and it makes Amazon's customers love them.

As far as customer-hostility goes, you're right, there are some customer-hostile practices that happen just due to the nature of some of these B2B markets. But they're largely restricted to "expert" markets where you're expected to know a little bit more and prevent yourself from getting ripped off. There is an element of subtlety to this, but the idea is that you shouldn't be trying to leverage your customers' ignorance in exchange for a big pay day. I'm sure there are small instances of individual marketing managers getting away with things that are against the "Amazon code", but by and large those practices stop as soon as the product is big enough to make it on executives' radar.
A demo of the astounding capabilities for those who haven't seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6PQ19BEE24
I personally have seen interest wane because of several high-profile scams and hacks. I originally knew quite a few people really interested, and I'm pretty much the only one left.
My understanding is that Crytek is in some financial trouble. It would be unwise to rely on them for future support.
That's unfortunate.

I love the way their engine renders water and had ideas for it.
Protip: It's not illegal to throw out IP address data, as there are no mandatory retention laws in the United States. Then if you get a John Doe subpoena, you have no useful information to supply.

https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-data-retention/us

Neocities currently scrambles stored IP addresses with scrypt, and (soon) after 30 days, we intend to delete those IP hashes. It's legal. Consider doing it.

Here's the code we used to do it: https://github.com/neocities/neocities/commit/4983a9b24eac00...
a $3 billion dollar return on $76 is not that impressive, this is about a 3.9% return.

to put this in perspective, in January 2014 30 year treasuries were yielding 3.92% (although they have come down quite a bit since then).
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Oh, I bet you could find something to amuse yourself. I would go with building my own city (can I get to work in ND every day in only a t-shirt) and seeing if my theory of nodal sprawl with high speed rail actually happens.

Oh, the couple of billion for Cancer Research, Brain Research, American Indian College Fund, and OpenBSD Foundation would be fun. Also doing a better OLPC.

We all have dreams of what we could do, its another matter of if those dreams would stay with us at that level.
I think Crytek's graphics look quite a bit better and more realistic then Unreal 4, but I don't know if the tools are just as good. Also not sure if Cryengine is competitive from a performance point of view (could be a trade-off with the better graphics).
This kind of reality check is extremely effective.
I think I'll steal this. Thanks
I vividly remember the BBC reports about the US government flying planes filled with pallets of cash into Iraq - apparently $12 billion in cash was flow in:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
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>The engine is also open source

I think you mean the source code is available (i.e., anyone can download it), which is different from its coming with an open-source license, which is what most people mean by "open source".
These are especially interesting to me for the rules--it is not crazy hard to add things to Go's `go vet` tool (or write other checks outside vet with `go/ast`, etc.), and I wonder if "assigned variable twice consecutively" or "foo() == foo() looks suspicious" are good candidates.
I thought it was always after $3000
Sure do.

Scientific article I based my device on: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936319/

"NIR has a wavelength of 880 nm to 890 nm"

"Researchers hypothesize that the success of NIR treatment lies in its ability to increase bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO) in the lumen"

"890 nm wavelength light, pulsed at 292 times/s, with a power output of 600 mW/cm2"

"The mechanisms with which NIR can alleviate RLS symptoms are not clear. One supposition can be made: light has been shown to generate NO in the endothelium, which through a cascade of events leads to vasodilation. Vasodilation is also the result of exercise, one of the few non-drug related treatment options that decreases RLS symptoms."

The above is the basis of my research. From this, I can make a device that does roughly this.

_____________________________________

My Bill of Materials are the following:

12v @500mA wall wart
30 http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/TSHF5410/751-1211-ND/1681346 IR LEDs
barrel jack to fit wall wart
perf board to fit LEDs
project box
IR-transparent acrylic (window in project box)

I used a scrounged wall wart (free), the LEDs are $20, the barrel jack was scrounged (Free), the perf board was $5, the project box was $9, and the acrylic was scrounged (Free). Total cost for non-scrounged was $34. I'm also part of a hackerspace, so scrounging was easy for me. I also used a bit of hot glue to make smooth interface where the skin would touch.

The circuit design is here: http://imgur.com/5Op2ndU

Solder them together through perfboard, and put in project box. Cut out a window on the box and put in the acrylic window. Now, all you need to is plug in the barrel adapter to the wall wart, and it works.

This is what I use. It puts out roughly 1.35W of IR light. I misremembered about using 3W. But this works, as it's a reproduction of my build.
Free until you take more than 3000 sips from the glass per quarter. So still likely 100% free for all but the successful indie devs and larger studios.
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First step would be disabling wp-login functionality and putting CMS on an isolated cluster that sits behind VPN.

Looks like it's wide-open; that should tell you all you need to know.
That change happened about six months ago. It's quite nice, they don't even ask you to file any paperwork if your revenue is under $3000 for a quarter.
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with the small print that according to their respective writings, muslim apostates or non-muslims are to be killed, while christian apostates are to be met with love and kindness (bless thy enemies, turn the other cheek, love thy neighbour, etc)
Could you tag, track, or predict a (safe and secure?) time and space to leave food instead of their identity?

Microempathic targeting of food pain points could be a healthily decentralizable dApp for Bitnation?
It's easier to achieve a high level of performance in raw, idiomatic Java than in Clojure. Eg, it's really important to be able to mutate arrays directly and use primitives with no boxing. You can do that kind of thing in Clojure, but it just ends up looking like Java with parens instead of squirrely brackets and more explicit casting.

The proper use for Clojure is to express higher-order application logic more concisely, not to implement high performance math algos.
This is fantastic. I've been looking for something exactly like this to learn DSP. My brain learns best with kinds of resources. Well done!
This looks incredibly useful, I'll definitely be giving it a try. Would appreciate any thoughts from anyone who's tried it.
That's for the first plant, the other 7 are expected to cost the same as the recent nuclear power deal for Hinckley C. That's in the BBC article.

I actually think that's pretty amazing as a first off price. By contrast, solar panels have only got to where they are today because governments (principally but not exclusively in Germany) subsidized them for decades at two to three times that level. God know how many billions of subsidies have gone in nuclear, and the strike price is still high. Or, for that matter, into traditional energy technology and infrastructure.

Many new technologies do require up front subsidies in order to develop, and that's sensible as long as there is a credible path to reducing the cost. Solar panels are just now starting to become competitive, if this technology could do it second or third time out, that is something to be lauded.
I assume you mean $76 billion. Because otherwise that would be a healthy 3,947,368,421% return. ;)
Please excuse me, but WTF (I mean -- really -- WTF) is up with that headline font? It is totally unreadable and tacky. Did someone hack the site?
So, XKCD is not actually all that funny in itself. Trying to "find a joke connecting panels together" is the wrong way to digest XKCD.

The joke in this case is the same as most of the Beret Guy jokes: He has some sort of alien view of the world which has mired him in a 9-year-old's mentality, so that when we see him appear we are seeing an overly literal concept of what the adult world is about. The humor is not "ha-ha" funny so much as a mind-state of vague bemusement.

This may be the reason XKCD has been so successful. By offering a comedic "buildup" which is insufficient to generate a "release" of hysterical laughter and all of the neurotransmittery goodness that comes with that, you are left trawling the archives for more and more humor.