skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this guy. Great example of someone who does it for all the right reasons.
Prior to the 950 there wasn't a clear new "flagship" for nearly two years, of course it had a year over year decline. Again, this isn't new or surprising information. The possible news here is that the 950 probably isn't selling as well as we (happy users) would like.

The app situation doesn't really concern me as a happy user, and I realize I'm in a bit of a minority opinion there. First of all, there is not a single "killer app" I feel I need and/or am missing out on. Mobile websites are largely reliable for most of the "app" things people need, and most of the major apps exist. Sure, some of these aren't seeing the updates they should be, and it does amuse me that Windows 10 Mobile is the last bastion of fave stars in an official Twitter app, but the UWP should help straighten out a lot of that sooner or later [1]. People are using the apps on Windows 10 Surfaces, laptops, and desktops, and devs should soon get better at realizing that getting a mobile app "for free" from the UWP is a good idea.

[1] I assume Twitter, as the continued example, hasn't unified its Windows apps yet because some of the things like the People app integration haven't yet entirely made their way back into the larger UWP ecosystem. Hopefully that happens sooner rather than later. (As a WP fan, I want the social integration for People working on my Surface again.)
Yep, it conjures up "angry" without saying it, nicely done! :-)
I mean a really simple solution (simple to say, maybe not to do) would be for package managers to require a "backup" repository from a different domain, than if you get a 500 error try the second remote repository. Use git for its advantages.
I'd rather not subsidize an interpretation of idealism through my mobile bills.
> Sometimes it is a lot easier to write a simple, hacky, throwaway regex.

I mean, yes, but I'd argue that "I am writing software which will spend a significant amount of its time parsing code" is not one of the times when that is an appropriate instinct.
Where's the heat in DevOps?
I feel like this is a cool hobby project, but a pretty rough/bold idea for a company to form behind... out of curiosity, which is it?
There's absolutely nothing stopping you from continuing to use your preferred streaming provider. On an individual consumer level, the worst possible outcome is you continue to pay the same prices you always paid to access the same service you always used.
1. This is pretty irrelevant to whether the mechanism is that some magical bigwig exec decides a project "doesn't add value", which is what was suggested might happen.

2. Plenty of companies kill plenty of products.
They just don't bother to announce it, they let it die quietly and silently
I find that Pivotal is pretty opinionated with the workflow you use. Specifically, it is meant for an agile process that is exactly that Pivotal (the consulting group) uses to develop their client products.
Munich is much more expensive across the board.
The crates.io index is in a GitHub repository. Does Cargo fetch it directly from GitHub or from a set of redundant mirrors?
Your Fitness and Motivation
You're mixing up cargo features and the crates.io package system. Cargo does allow git dependencies but primarily you're supposed to use versioned crates.io packages, which are indeed provided by crates.io (even if they are actually hosted on S3 or whatever) not GitHub.
I don't get it - are you arguing that because you think your opinion is unpopular it's okay to be facetious?
My Jesus. Well, an old Jesus. VBA is in need for a refresh. They haven't even changed the color of a single icon.
Ed Yourdon, Bodhisattva of Y2K
It shouldn't matter. If T-Mobile hasn't got a BingeOn agreement with a provider, they should be connecting to it just like they would if BingeOn were disabled. But that is not the case.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/eff-confirms-t-mobiles...

"The first result of our test confirms that when Binge On is enabled, T-Mobile throttles all HTML5 video streams to around 1.5Mps, even when the phone is capable of downloading at higher speeds, and regardless of whether or not the video provider enrolled in Binge On."
Devil's Advocate argument attempting to answer your 2nd question:

Because the [total cost/user] value is much lower on streaming video. They can charge thousands-millions of customers a small amount to be able to stream the same sets of videos. A similar comparison would be a shared, public concert vs a private concert for your family alone. Those things have much different costs.

I'm not saying that that's good or bad, but does that help you understand the argument?
Lancet retracts 1992 paper by “father of nutritional immunology”
(author here)

Yes, that's right, at least at the source of truth on the server. Clients automatically rewrite or squash their local history a little bit prior to pushing it to the server to minimize log length and to avoid showing intermediate editing states that were never communicated to anyone else (just like you might squash git commits), but every important state is preserved in the log.
A bit dramatized, but the concept is good.
We have all of those things in Canada.
I believe it may even have made it into official marketing campaigns since then. Berlin is gentrifying fast though. The Neukölln neighbourhood is unrecognisable to the place I moved to 4 years ago.
I have a project that wish to be Cross-platform (windows, osx, linux in that order).

The only tool I could use with some decent widgets is Delphi (but cost too much and kill the idea of release the tool as open source).

After that, what exist? QT is horrible. GTK look bad and weird (equal others like wkWidgets). Doing one for each target is the best but harder.

I know some people think QT/GTK is good, but as user of Delphi, them are ugly in comparison and less featured. Even winforms is barely a match.

HTML+JS+CSS is far easier, at least, to get the look. Then is the problem in how make it attractive for contributors.

I wish exist a way to get a html fast/light html rendered for the GUI.
Yeah, okay. Until you hear stories like this.....

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decad...
Wayland has a systemd dependancy, and i3 has gone on record to say they won't support it, so I'm not exactly hyped.
I can't comment on the marketing situation, but as a parent I'm very glad there is a platform that is focused on fun and playability rather than graphics performance.

I hope they are around for a very long time.
The page deals with Lotus Notes as an email system, which is the only thing many places used it for. The email client was awful, but it was one part of a larger application platform that offered a client-server replicated database, a user interface toolkit, and document browsing. If you think of it as attempting to scratch some of the same itches that the Web and wikis do, you'll understand it more.
Show HN: Kombie: Put yourself in the middle of your favorite movies
One thing I want to know from Surface Book owners is whether the keyboard can be configured for smoother productivity.

Naviagational (Home/PgUp/PgDown/End) and volume keys are on by default meaning that you have to press the Fn-Alt-Function Key if you want to use Alt-Function. The problem with that is that an independent Fn press will lock out the function key, toggling the behaviour so that Function Keys are now the default.

I would like it if LAlt-FunctionKey was different behaviour from RAlt-FunctionKey. LAlt-F4 would close a program while RAlt-Function Key would change the volume. The requirement to use the Fn Key and the fact that the Fn can be locked (and easily and accidentally unlocked/locked again) is a serious usability issue.

Actually I'd prefer a full real keyboard... nevertheless the Surface Book and the SP4 keyboards are massive improvements.

Moreover, does anyone know if the undocking button next to the Delete key can be locked out, say, requiring a key combination instead?
> The End of Twitter

Pretty black and white. And then the next sentence after clicking through is...

> Twitter might rebound in the wake of Jack Dorsey’s reappointment as C.E.O., but the service is still in trouble.

And the article ends with...

> That doesn’t mean that all hope is lost. There are hundreds of millions of dedicated users (I count myself among them) who still see tremendous utility in the service. ... The company just needs to find the right way to show the power of those connections to a bigger audience, and the value of that audience to advertisers and partners. Not a simple task, but for Twitter an unavoidable one.

Pretty egregiously click-bait. I propose changing the title to something that better captures the article—like "The Current Problems at Twitter".

Other than that, not really much here other than speculation, and the already-known worry about lack of growth. Curious to see how Twitter does, I think there's still chance as long as they quick focusing on revenue above all else, and focus on the experience first. Unfortunately that's not easy to do as a public company.
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IzBeeuE...
My first impressions from the talk is that it looks a lot like Wolfram's programming lab [0]. Which is great because while I really like the idea of WPL the cost is rather prohibitive. More competition in this arena is definitely necessary.

What will programming look like in 10 years? My guess is that it will look much the same as it does now. We'll have better languages for expressing temporal logic and consistency but it might not be radically far off from where we are now.

Text is still useful and certainly notations could improve but that's about it.

The idea of programming from tables using declarative or logic programming is certainly not new but very powerful. k comes to mind... which is probably at the extreme opposite end of usability. Never the less even COBOL had a sense of this.

Looking forward to where Eve goes next. My ideal environment is one where I can freely mix hand-drawn "symbols" to data and express relations using familiar mathematical notations in a single free-form canvas. I sort of do this on paper presently but I have to translate this artifact into a programming language to insert values and explore the various dimensions. It'd be nice to have a system that could recognize my notations and let me hook them up to data.

[0] https://www.wolfram.com/programming-lab/

update

Well... not quite like Wolfram Language; but the connection to knowledge, queries, and building new knowledge from queries. The interface is quite flexible too.
Sadly it's not so fast. I saw it take months for an article hearing after an investigation (the duration of which clearances were suspended). It's not until then can an adjudicator assess and with the backlog that existed prior to the extra scrutiny the snowden issues have brought, i'd be hard pressed to believe the timeline was anything under 12 months at a minimum.

Another issues is some facilities require a clearance simply to visit HQ which often times is very well removed from the actual operations. When you can get a Campus Access Badge, often times pending adjudications like this can stop even that access. The whole system is rather antiquated.
That seems to me like that would be the time to be outraged.

As near as I can tell, this seems like the #3 or 4 mobile carrier looking for a reason to make themselves appear better to a market segment than the #1 or #2 carriers. Jacking up prices seems antithetical to that mission.

I understand what people want out of net neutrality and all that, but I personally think that the outrage should be saved for things that are outrageous. Giving things away for free, even if there are ulterior motives attached, doesn't seem to rise to that level, in my opinion.
I think his point was that you CAN buy a $7 beer in a bar, but you can also buy a $1 beer at a grocery store like Trader Joes. So $7 is the high end here, not the "frugal" option.
Man, if there are any other young devs reading this, please take ChuckMcM seriously. I saw this happen to my dad in the dot com crash - luckily my family had saved enough money that my parents didn't have to make many compromises to take care of my brother and I, but it's still a damn scary experience. As a 25-year-old whose just getting started in the industry (through a bootcamp, no less), it's something I think about every day.
T-Mobile has just added Amazon Video (and others):

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/28/10859920/t-mobile-binge-on...

And:

"you've now got the option of turning it [Binge On] off via shortcodes in your phone's dialer.Typing #BNG# and hitting send will show you whether it's currently enabled or switched off. #BOF# is the shortcode to turn off Binge On, and #BON# will reenable it."
The headline says "Toronto family" but the school itself is pretty rural and not that near Toronto. I expect taxes are lower than their urban house and zoning is pretty relaxed.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Milford,+ON+K0K,+Canada/@4...

They can nearly see Mexico from their house! (Mexico, NY that is)
Bravo on the out-of-the-box thinking. Nice to see someone make such an opportunity happen, showing others that status quo need not be adhered to.

I once seriously considered buying a defunct health club for the same domestic purpose. Adapting the locker rooms seemed the most daunting aspect, but the 3-lane full-length indoor pool was awful tempting.

Notice how far out the family had to go to make it work: fully insulating walls, wood heat, and a large garden among other factors.
Jailbreak firmware turns cheap digital walkie-talkie into DMR scanning receiver
Demo today at 1:00pm (about two hours from now...)
> If you're not, it looks like gibberish. But that's true of any language.

That's not true though. I'm not familiar with C++, for example, but it doesn't look like gibberish when I look at it. Nor does Go, as another example, even though I've never written a line of it.

CoffeeScript, on the other hand, still is hard for me to parse—even as someone who has written thousands of lines for it.

There are very real differences in readability between languages.
You don't have to thank him, it just doesn't make sense to complain. As far as I understand, you have more access to those lectures than you did before, even if you have to deal with Silverlight.
A general accounting question...do all companies count revenue the same way for scenarios like:

- Product is purchased by store.

- Customer actually buys product.

- Customer returns product.

- Unsold product is returned by store.

In other words, I don't know how to compare this to anything else because I don't know if it's counting units that didn't reach real customers, or if the announcement would be a lot different two weeks from now after some people return their Christmas presents?
" no available citizen worker can be found. "

H1B stipulates this. Here is how the companies work around this. The ADs that they put for this position should have the salary too. The salary will be the bare minimum specified by the Department of Labor for that work location. eg: Arizona I think its not more than 62K per year. There will not be any American worker who will be willing to work for that. So the AD will yield zero American applicants for that position and thus they hire an H1B worker.

If your company has H1B workers, go to to your company's public notice boards usually in the break rooms. You can find notices like "Labor condition application for a foreign worker". Take a look at the second page or the third one and see the salary for that position. Usually it will be a bare minimum or minimum + ~10K.
See zube.io (kanban-like board for github).
IIRC "disparagement" has a legal definition that's roughly "injurious or misleading falsehood". An opinion cannot be false. The legal definition of disparagement is different than general usage.

For example, PA law:

* The statement is false;

* The publisher either intends the publication to cause financial loss or reasonably should recognize the publication would result in financial loss;

* Financial loss does in fact result; and

* The publisher either knows that the statement is false or acts in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity.

There is debate regarding the efficacy of non-disparagement clauses for a variety of reasons, but it's often tough to make them stick.
> I mean why bother having a desktop or laptop if you can use your personal device, plug it into different things and get the full experience as if you had a laptop or desktop?

Right now, tablet + laptop often replaces what I would do a couple decades ago with books (or notepads) + desktop. Sure, a single (powerful enough) CPU with all the various interface form factors being wirelessly-connected dumb systems could work instead, but then, it seems that basic CPU and storage are fairly cheap, and the interface bits -- particular the high resolution touch screens -- are the expensive bits, so there's no real good reason not to put enough brains in the individual devices to let them be standalone rather than relying on a common external brain.

With fairly ubiquitous syncing technology, you get much of the advantage of having a single "brain" device with greater flexibility and resilience against a single-device failure.
its definitely scalable. Could you explain to me why it isn't?

Imagine a world in which every ISP in the country had this system. Let's say that number is 1000 ISPs (with a typical 80/20 distribution).

As a video streaming start up, that's 200 ISPs that would need to be contacted and technical measures put in to place. It's likely that at least some of them are going to have incompatible requirements. So now the bar for a new (possibly better) video service is not just maintaining browser compatibility, but also signing contracts and meeting technical limitations for 10-200 ISPs.

Sure it works for exactly one company, but it doesn't work if the system is expanded to everyone. In other words, it's not scalable.
Bernal Heights, Portrero Hill, actually there's < $1,000 rooms all over the city, just look on craigslist.

Maybe not a single apartment to yourself, but definitely a room in a shared apartment.

There are a lot of cities btw where you can't get a single one-bedroom apartment for < $1,000
This is another reason to hate the banks. Goldman Sachs is a ruthless organization and will do anything and everything to make money. They make the mob look, Disney characters.

I do agree the Bakers should have done a little better, but still Goldman will take both sides of the trade as point out in the article.

This is another example of the banking system destroying intellectual property, for the sake of profit. Meaning, SIRI or voice technology could be a few years ahead had it not been for the fact that Dragon was auction off. (We will never now for sure.)

If you want to hire the leader of the goldman four you can do so here:

http://richardwayner.com/index.php/about-richard-wayner
It is, written in Go.
Are we going to argue back and forth all day about this? That seems like an unproductive use of both of our times.

I support T-mobile's zero rating. You do not. We can argue the technical details all day long. I no longer donate to the EFF after their campaign against T-Mobile. I also would donate to whatever SuperPAC attempts to lean on the FCC to ensure zero rating is permitted to continue (as it behooves me as a mobile customer; I don't care about your startup, in the general sense).

Too often, Hacker News gets weighed down in the minutia, the little bits that don't matter to the non-technical. That's fine, of course. We love engineering for engineering's sake. But if you want to effect real change, remember that there aren't any strings to pull here to do that. Its simply an echo chamber of like minded folks with internet points to giveth or taketh away.
> Ultimately the missing element from the market is rational actors.

Love the quote :)
Sad reality of rising kids with the notion that security is about forms and passwords and not about hacking stuff.
Supply is limited in large part because everyone wants to live in the same place (ie where there is lots of work). BI will change that too, allowing people freedom to move where they can afford to live without worrying whether there will be jobs waiting for them. The free market in action. The impact a BI will have on society means that many of the patterns we see now will be flipped on their heads.
or years.

I often have the fantasy to write "Powered by COBOL" below the logo of my company.
A loss of a carrier doesn't incur by itself any economic cost, however building it does.

Your Soviet analogy makes sense, even though their mistake was building it (and not losing it - I don't know about great losses of the Soviets after 45)

Also, IANA expert but I think carriers today only make sense against pre-missile and pre-jet militaries. IMO a carrier can only operate under air superiority and effective missile defense one of which probably even small countries can contest these days.
Yes see the other comments here and the comments on the Parse announcement. Couchbase Mobile is being used by major airlines as well as General Electric. And a bunch of start ups and other brands.
Trader+vincente:+OPERAZIONI+ESEGUITE+PERIODO+20-29+GENNAIO
Nintendo's is really the only platform worth buying anymore. Unless you want to play Boodbourne. Other than that, a PC'll do fine.
You don't need to incentivize content on the web. People's interests and need for collaberation and sharing should incentivize content on the web.

We're in enough of a media bubble already - there's so much media and so few trusted sources that its impossible to filter content anymore. Ads inject themselves after people's ability to filter burn out like a virus. Its not good for society.
I would add some minimal responsive css so its easier to click on the form elements on a mobile phone
Grocery store prices are not adjusted to local rental rates?
I think they'd have a decent argument that it's just a user controlled QOS feature, except it discriminates against certain services and applications by zero rating data.

If binge on just zero rated any compliant data streams with user acceptance they might have a decent argument they are compliant with net neutrality.

But since I can't set up my Plex server to comply, it's a violation.
>Microsoft pulls in an impressive $1.35B in revenue for Surface line

Why don't they publish the profit they made on their Surface line of products? This is a lot like the revenue they reported for Azure. Until we know what they actually made these numbers are of very little value.
I don't get it. The LOTR connection is really contrived.
Unless tomatoes are in season and I’m in some sort of hipster farm-to-table restaurant, I’ll always hold the tomatoes or put them to the side, and inevitably a companion will ask why I don't like tomatoes and I wind up in an argument over whether or not tomatoes are supposed to taste like water.

It's dismaying. Do Americans think that the flavor of tomato sauce is an additive?

Alton Brown had a good layperson-friendly bit about this in Good Eats but I can't find the episode on YouTube… anyway it worths.
Show HN: A crowdsourced list of countries from most to least “American”
Twitter is such an unlikely success. It's a product that few understand, and even when you do, it's hard to explain it. The functionality is dead-simple. But, at scale, its effect is magical.

I think closing down the service to developers was its pivotal mistake. The possibilities were endless, and could have solidified Twitter as the "utility" Topolosky speaks of...but they got greedy.
That's a 1.5 hour drive from Toronto, not even considered the Greater Toronto Area. I am sure the Globe is putting them under the Toronto umbrella to get views; who the hell could afford to do this in Toronto... oh wait it's not Toronto, but you already gave them your traffic.
This is a follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10894401, by the way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10992875