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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FusionCharts EDIT: This seems to be heavily used in industry as well as in Federal IT dashboard...etc. So it appears to be a good choice.

It seems, new Microsoft is sharply focused on consumer part (aimed at Apple and Google) and enterprise part(aimed at Amazon cloud and others). Article conveys the same. I won't be …

No one is forcing openness here. You are not in "follow it or else" situation. You can just ignore as if nothing has happened. Where is force applied? It is imaginary. In many case…

All societies, at some point in the past, may have started at similar level of privacy ...etc. Due to various reasons, if we see now, some societies are more open than the rest and…

This is more freedom and more transparency. What is wrong with that? Remember, openness and transparency has many levels. You may be at different level than Wikileaks. If this leve…

Support people at Bloomberg must have been really busy today and phones may be constantly ringing. Wish we get post mortem report later on.

Can anyone share financial details of this company like, is it VC funded or public enterprise ...etc and sources of funding?

Honest questions: How people can write such long articles? How many hours they might have spent in writing? Does anyone read it from the top to bottom completely? Is it not possibl…

Thinking of make as an example of "declarative programming" helps in appreciating its functionality. This aspect needs to be highlighted to those who have knowledge of imperative/o…

As long as this industry exposure is low, bubble bursts may not impact main stream economy but if the exposure is more, then as previous financial crisis shows,---due to inter link…

>>> Do you talk like this in public? Honest question: What is wrong with above sentence?

My understanding is, the more hardware/software reliability,durability increases, the less may be the need for humans to intervene. If we look outside, technological trends and int…

If they are licensed to operate, why they are less secure than human driven planes? It is one more area where automation may drive human jobs away. May be self-driving planes is ne…

We need self driving planes too. Google and Musk, please do the favor. Thanks.

>>> Is it being withheld? Have you asked? Does it needs to be asked? Isn't it transparency in operations and responsibility to people who believed and invested before in terms of e…

>>> Why so many globally reaching, internet based, in every home in the world companies think that they absolutely must be positioned in the mecca of startupdom Why people join twi…

>>> Public urination is quite common in Germany This is surprising. I thought it is only a third world problem and Germany is very clean. What are other developed countries where p…

>>> Seed is raised on the dream. A rounds are raised on the metrics. If you don't have the metrics, you don't raise an A round.... These are golden words which all budding entrepre…

Compared to stripe[0], balanced[1] took very less funding as per the data. Reading from the comments here, their service seems to be liked by users. In that case, may be they shoul…

We expect freedom and transparency in all aspects across the world irrespective of personal/social costs associated with it. Isn't it? So why exception in this case? Just because i…

>>> Oh, and be sure to get your regular work done too. In a fixed day, is it possible to do regular work and also extra projects? I think, if offered solution appears reasonable to…

If you visit a doctor with a problem, will you go along with possible solutions or you will point out problem and expect solution from doctor? If you are QA engineer, you will poin…

Similar to the one on most useful chrome extensions [1], this is to track and list most useful firefox extensions. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158448

what, Ruby is not in the list? Is Harry Potter popular enough?

I also feel the same. If the patch consists of executables that are in use, then it has to give prompts to admins on the usage and to patch it later. Another concern may be, system…