skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second this with my WP preference. I have a device for the major platforms, but my WP experience is better than the others. It's more intuitive and has is already where the others seem to be trudging towards, in terms of content first. The consistency across apps and within the platform make for a cohesive experience that is moving closer to being seamless with the desktop experience.

I don't know if I would suggest they can get on top on phones, but they are definitely putting forth a very strong proposition for everything down through tablets.

If they can get just a big chunk of enterprise-supporting apps along with the top non-game apps over one way or another, they'll have carved out a sustainable chunk of the pie. This along with their casting of bread and butter like Office onto Android and iOS gets them into an enviable position going forward. But, it's a massive slog to get mainstream consumers to retrench when we aren't looking at something similar to the difference between a Blackberry and an iPhone.
"Rich" people have a real advantage here.

For historic reasons, I have an overdraft facility on one of my checking accounts of $15,000. This means I can time dividend payments from my company optimally for tax, large investments, and so on, without worrying too much about personal liquidity, which saves and makes me money. The interest isn't free, but we're talking "daily latte" sort of expenditure.
I would argue that using such tactics to inflame an existing controversy constitutes the same thing, at least in spirit.

The notion of sincerity is nullified by the conflict of interest inherent to page views.
i wonder how these new technology will affect people's vision, but in that world there's no use for good vision since everything will be right in front of you
Probably meant a tarbomb but seems like there's no .zip equivalent.
More interested in the algorithms of Google than a copy and paste of MySpace.
Isn't there any way to analyze and get some of these speedups back upstream?
That was my first big ? as they were rolling on this set of features. But, in terms of languages, the uptake for MS with another language seems like merely a bandwidth issue at this point. Build 2016 could feasibly include Swift? What if they could bring the quality of Visual Studio on OSX to Swift and have the easy hooks to get those apps running on Windows?
Not sure I agree with your characterisation of women as grave and prudish. Surely human beings of all creeds can see the funny side of being absorbed by a giant circle labeled "COCK".

Or maybe it's just me.
Before you write your own book, I would recommend taking an assessment of the number of books that are already out there and really making sure that you have something to say that isn't already being written about. 99% of books are trash. Don't write one unless you know it will help someone better than all those already existing books would.
That's it, MS is the new Google, Google is the new Apple, Apple is new Microsoft.
I Found My Boyfriend at a Hackathon
Thank you. i thought that a hundred years ago basic literacy was already a solved problem (at least in the US and Europe).

Now you mentioned the Flynn Effect; are there any studies that do check if the improvement in IQ scores is correlated with an improvement in performance of piagetian tasks?

However you are right that now there is a higher percentage of people who finish high school and college.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...
I haven't used Airbnb, but VRBO.com is rife with false listings, the main issue being incredible properties with great prices, you click to email to confirm, and you then receive a replay saying sorry it's booked, but check out our other properties, always at a much higher price, and they'll even often send you to an external website!

VRBO really has no way of contacting support, and I kind of assume their revenue is derived from listings rather than bookings, otherwise you'd think they'd crack down on this.
Has anyone used [faban](http://faban.org/)?
Agreed. Up to a certain point, a single server is going to be considerably more cost effective than multiple machines, as well as requiring less devOps time. (Especially nowadays when you can easily lease a server with, say, 16 cores and 48GB of RAM.) I can recall having to restart our production server exactly once in the past 12 months for a kernel update. Every month would be an irritation for sure.
Visual C++ MFC wakes up
Show HN:  The pitch deck we're raising $800k with
I believe strongly that information should be shared as freely as possible. This is one of the big reasons I started Localize, to make it an order of magnitude easier for information or knowledge to transfer from person to person, despite a difference in language.

On openness, we've decided to share things companies normally don't share.

We're starting with the pitch deck we're using to pitch investors for a $800k seed round we just started raising, plus snippets of our traction and growth charts.

Why do this? The more we share, the more exposure other people have to our work. If our work is good, they can learn from us, if our work isn't good, we can learn from them! It's a win-win.

So check out our video pitch, our deck, and let me know what you think.
I'll concede the point on the R&R paper. Didn't know there was so much controversy about it, and the accusations that some of their findings were due to a technology glitch are pretty damning.

But still, the median age of the US population in 1950 was 30 years old. Today it's over 37 and climbing. And (not to beat a dead horse) the savings rate is half what it was then.

To me that indicates that a far larger percentage of our population is going to be living on (paltry) fixed incomes than at any other time. Inflation would be crushing to our aging population.

I just don't think you can compare our situation to the 1950's.
I believe strongly that information should be shared freely. This is one reason I started Localize, to make it an order of magnitude easier for information or knowledge to transfer from person to person, despite an incompatibility of the languages they speak.

Given this, we've decided to share things companies normally don't share.

We're starting with the pitch deck we're using while raising our $800k seed round, plus an overview of our traction and growth charts that have been confidential up until now.

Why do this? The more we share, the more exposure other people have to our work. If our work is good, they can learn from us, if our work isn't good, we can learn from them! It's a win-win.

So check out our video pitch, our deck, and let me know what you think.
Question is, will any VC want to fund them again in the future?
"I would like nothing more than to spend the rest of my career working at a single company that gives me interesting problems to solve, pays me what I'm worth, and lets me stick around long enough to forget what its like to worry about whether or not I'll be unemployed and unable to take care of my family next year."

Damn straight. I am thankful to have one of those jobs for 17 years now... although I've had different titles as I've been promoted.
still doesnt work in Chrome, but it works in Safari... how funny
Swing was crap at the time, but it got significantly better.
Another Airbnb host learns the hard way that being an Airbnb host is a sucker bet. It's the meatspace equivalent of running a Tor exit node.
It's not just cheap hotels either, this is pretty common in well known brands - each country has their own policies on how things should be, so (for example) at a Hilton in London you may get free wifi in your room, in Australia the same for $40 a day, and in Brazil poor wifi only in the lobby.
I sure do love me some victim-blaming.
Discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9460872
A paid service, but the best I've seen is https://blitz.io. You can choose region(s), number of requests, multiple endpoints, and lots of curl like options.
So you are knowingly breaking local laws?
>>That's like the WORST possible way to run your finances if you want to get out of poverty!

People in poverty mostly don't even see themselves as having any hope of getting out of it, so why bother trying to save? These are the people who spend 40% of their income on lotto tickets because there's just no light at the end of the tunnel unless a miracle happens.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-05/microsoft-...

Either way, Nadella didn't orchestrate the Nokia deal, Ballmer did.
irssi in tmux on a cheap VPS.

I know this might sound snarky, but this is the combination a lot of my peers and I use.

I'm wary of the "yet another proprietary new messenger", all of which are only compatible with themselves. I can not understand why none of them implement protocols all the messengers can agree upon like for example tent.io, remoteStorage or ZeroNet.

Distributed messaging is hard and a lot of people are giving it a try, leaving us with lots of different half baked walled gardens. Yes, I'm looking at you, threema, telegram and your friends...
Ravilli's law of JavaScript
I've heard concerns about getting fired for under performing if your tips don't cover minimum wage and the company has to make up for it. So they keep quiet and don't make minimum wage.
How Random is Ransomware?
YMMV, It looks it can. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=9322
I take your point, but renting your home out to strangers just seems, to me, like a very strange thing to do. I'm a little grossed out even by public toilets, so to have people I don't know with who knows what hygiene habits doing god only knows what in my house is just something I'm not interested in.

It's not the negative outcome; I just find simultaneously calling your home a sanctuary and renting it to strangers for cash to be passing strange. I have friends who aren't particularly attached to their house, and the wife even has a massage studio there; they rent it out on airbnb all the time. But they already have all sorts of strangers passing through anyway.
With a tin ear no less. It seems that these types of statements focus on a small world vision devoid of a taste for, or experience, within the walls of mid and larger corporate entities whose systems are windows 10x over. Knowing that a massive client like a retailer, financial institution, etc. could put heat on an app developer to bring it to Windows because of the bigger savings that way for the client is big. This isn't about Candy Crush. This is about integrating that app which some business unit loves into the larger IT structure of bigger orgs.

Consumer myopia misses the billions related to "boring" apps that corporations use. Today's keynotes definitely balanced target markets. This wasn't a consumer-only sampling.
My perception on MFC is that it was neither thin, nor particularly well thought out. It felt like something Microsoft started developing for internal use and that they decided to turn it into a product for developers, with all sort of idiosyncratic oddities that make perfect sense when you are Microsoft and none to anyone else.
The kind of people who deserve to be pissed off.
Building C++ Universal Apps with Visual Studio 2015
That's exactly right. When the above piece of advice was told to me, the suggested phrasing was something like "If you don't mind, I'd rather discuss this out here with you," and as you say this, pull the door closed behind you.
You replied, but you're still a douche. With the amount of time you idiots have spent telling the community why you won't have a fully compliant C99 toolchain you could have added support for it.
Can't be entirely Atom since so far it actually seems pretty responsive.
But those tools were hard for laypeople to use in 1995. Sure, Windows now had a web browser and email program but you still needed an ISP and the email client was confusing to setup. Hell, their own Microsoft Network service was hard to figure out; one phone number to connect to the proprietary service and a different one for the Web (which never connected for me).

It was much simpler for users to put in the AOL disk and stay inside their walled garden - both conceptually and technically easier for laypeople.
Thank you. You are right that now there is a higher percentage of people who finish high school and college.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...

However now you need a BA for almost every job; even if you don't need this level of skill for the job in question. One also hears lamentations with regards to grade inflation etc, so it is not clear how much of an improvement there was in 'real terms'.
Subreddits, right?
They also have a high correlation with failure, burn-out and destroyed lives.
And thus began the fall of Western civilization...
I use git because I was taught it and have found no reason to transition elsewhere. I know that's not a good reason to use git. If I'm to consider alternatives, I'm going to have to set aside the 10 million other things I could be learning, many of which are actual obstacles to my workflow.

Oh, I could learn SVN. Or Mercurial. Or Node.js, Groovy, MFC, solaris, AngularJS, Adobe Illustrator, Guitar, Unicode, Python, Web Services, Satellite Radio, JNI, C#, Haskell metaprogramming, Android, Client-server models, Nuclear Physics, ASP.net, Flex/Yacc, Cocoa, COM, Blender, DOM, TCP/IP, XML, Finance, Azure, Cassandra, VIM, Emacs, Arch Linux, Regex, Category Theory, Statistics, Maya, Color models, IEEE-754, Compiler optimization, OS design, Database management, LINQ, Piano, Struts, ML, Prolog, Scheme, Homotopy Type Theory, NLTK, GTK+, X windows, WPF, ...

Why would anyone care that I know git and haven't explored other options? Do you happen to need someone who can write source control software?
I think that being able to shard the site into multiple subcommunities is a necessary but insufficient condition. Look, for example, at r/ShitRedditSays. The best you can hope for (above a community of a couple hundred) is people who will grudgingly use what you produce while talking about how useless it is.
I originally went from Borland C++ Builder to .Net 1.1, the move from one IDE to the other felt very familiar, going from MFC to .Net was nothing like this.
Not sure how this is different from hacker news.
Also everything is hard to read. Gray fonts on gray background, not enough spacing etc
The blind defense of this horrible company on HN continues to astound me.
That's a little different...
In the car analogy, I think they're looking for a way of designing cars that can have the engines swapped out for newer faster engines, and then for electric motors, and then even hydrogen fuel cells and beyond, without having to change the rest of the car.
I guess I just clicked the wrong button. Not really sure how that makes me an ass. Thanks though.

http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline
There are other unexpected expenses that can mess things up. Your home might burn down and you have to replace not only the home but all your possessions.

You might get sued and have to pay lawyers and/or settlements.

You might simply get divorced and spend a bunch of money on that.
Microsoft Edge: Microsoft's new browser
loader.io (disclaimer, it is a product of a division of the company with which I work).
sizeof(v) is dangerous - if v is passed in (as opposed to being a local), it'll be the size of a pointer, not the full array.

...which is what we get for debating C in a thread that started with an example that isn't even legal C code.
I think you are massively overthinking this. Dependency tracking and all that jazz are just implementation details of individual backends, the unifying tool does not need to be aware of that at all.

Let's say we define basic API with two verbs: SEARCH and INSTALL. When the user wants to install a package the unifying tool first queries backends with SEARCH to see if they have such package, and after resolving which source/backend it wants to install it from (a process that might involve user interaction), and then invokes INSTALL to that backend. Nowhere in this process the unifying tool needs to know what black magic the backend needed to do to get the package installed.
.NET Core team member here.

I'm glad that you were able to make it all work with the instructions[1] we provided. There are two major pieces that we're still working on, which you call out:

- Compiling managed source on OS X and Linux with Roslyn.

- Running DNU (NuGet) on .NET Core to restore packages.

Most everything else functionaly works. Once those are solved (and we are close to it), the experience will be great. In just a few commands, you'll be able to acquire .NET Core, restore packages and run your app, independent of which OS you are on.

For .NET developers, it is indeed historic. Community and corporate developers alike are quite excited and see a lot of new opportunities going forward. You might have noticed that the community is leading the OS X and FreeBSD .NET ports, with support from Microsoft. We added official FreeBSD CI[2] only a week ago, upon the request of the community.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr#build-status

edit: formatting
I would guess they calculate shipping cost on 'per phone'.

14 hour flight from China would cost give or take $300,000 on a large cargo jet. If a plan can pack in 300,000 phones, the cost of shipping would be $1 / phone for a product that costs $800. If they sell 250 million phones per year, it's $250 million in air freight cost for iphones. Even if we are generous and pretend margin for air cargo business is 20%, Apple would say maybe $50mil/year by operating their own fleet.
It really get's my blood boiling seeing that second post. I can't believe that people like that exist. I've actually had something similar happen me, except I wasn't doing an Air BnB listing. I got a roommate who turned out to be a dead beat and actually knew all these laws. I made a huge mistake not getting our agreements in writing. I never expected to meet someone so spineless. Anyways, I had a new found appreciation for these kinds of laws after that mess.
> Tenures too short? Maybe they delivered a lot of value in 6 months and were ready for a new challenge. Would you not hire a builder to build your house because they did the last one in 6 months?

No, but I'd be hiring a contractor if that's what I was looking for.
I think you'll find that, once other services exist that can trash your house, we'll complain about them too.
This is also a cultural barrier, when I lived in germany very few people had electric clothes dryers - most people had electric washers and racks for air drying. For a german it's reasonable to assume dryer meant hair dryer.

Ultimately, because AirBNB and VRBO are p2p you are accepting a certain level of risk in exchange for a rate much cheaper than a name brand hotel. The name brand hotel buys you a level of certainty in the experience you will have.

My example airbnb in Prague - a room advertised as a king size bed, but when we got there it was two twin mattresses pushed together, with a king size sheet laid over both of them.

In my experience hosts have been honest when you ask them direct questions when researching their listing. It just takes time to do this for every listing you are interested in, and there will always be things you don't think of. "Is your bed a single mattress or two mattresses pushed together?" wasn't on my list!
Sounds a bit too much like data leak...
Creating a Repository Pattern Without an ORM
Check out Demoex, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoex, where each bill is voted on by all residents, the party's representatives must vote for the corresponding bill in the same proportion as the votes received for each bill. This is how you can sneak direct democracy into a representative democracy through the front door.
Microsoft Releases Free Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 2015 RC
> Net, thusly owning an open standard can be very valuable.

Microsoft would like that more developers are locked in to their dotNet languages. And they try to influence the development of the next Javascript version (ES6 & ES7) by showcasing C# syntax ideas in their TypeScript language which then influenced ES6 - which is heavily used in Sharepoint/Office-Server365, Visual Studio Code/Online, etc.

Don't get me wrong, Google, Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Opera, etc are trying to influence the Javascript/ES6&7 development - everyone with different business cases behind them. But Microsoft is well know for what the parent poster wrote, and several newer evil things like the locked EFI on new PCs (instead of the open BIOS) that make it hard to install anything but Windows are still there, more there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459890 .
Secret is probably a very successful social experiment.
Thanks for chiming in. Really looking forward to further developments. As a 15 year+ Windows development veteran whose been doing python on Ubuntu for 3 years it's great to be playing with .NET again. As far as the HelloWorld instructions go, they worked very well, so kudos on that. I think it's super important for developers to be able to jump in and check it out. I also should have mentioned that I used docker's ubuntu:14.04 image as a launch pad for this exercise, and it worked great as well.
Like most things on the internet ;)
[Cloudflare] How did the best/coolest DNS UI in the world turn into worst DNS UI
I am super big fan of Cloudflare. I am user of Cloudflare since day 1 and I have dozens of domain name. I always loved their UI, and think how beautiful it is from day one, until yesterday's big UI change. It is just horrible.
> Then again, if I'm hiring a rockstar engineer ... If all they want to do is come in for 6 months and crank out some projects and leave, I'll probably still be grateful to have them for that time.

In 6 months, you won't know that your hire is a "rockstar". You'll know that they were opinionated and that they took initiative. You (and they) won't learn about the technical debt, unmaintainability, and latent carnage they left until well after their gone -- which is probably what happened at their prior employers as well.

If they really ever proved themselves to be that great, some prior employer would have paid them mountains in compensation just to keep them around and their resume would probably looked different.
> To me it comes off as a kind of PSA for Vice's 20-something target audience.

I pretty much agree with everything you wrote, but a major part of prevention is awareness, so I'm all for all the PSAs possible.
.NET Core is available on Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac, so you can use it for servers on Linux.[1] A lot of developers (such as myself) use Macs for their development machines, so it's very useful to have the same framework/runtime for both Mac and Linux.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr#get-net-core
doesn't matter, had sex
> The main cities cluster in the top 10 most expensive places to live in the world.

This is mainly because the Aussie dollar was so high for so long, things haven't caught up yet. Pay is a lot higher in Australia as well, with a high minimum wage.
I'm not in the know here, but maybe M-Brace is vaguely similar. Unsure about the optimization part. http://www.m-brace.net/
It's weird. Godel's incompleteness theorem is basic CS knowledge, but then we pretend it doesn't exist because it's too inconvenient.