skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best part, Nokia gets shafted in all of this. Nokia got dragged along in this clown show and we lose out on getting great hardware. Not to mention the software side of things that drowned as Nokia got torpedoed. Here's hoping they can rise from the ashes again. Maybe their spin off services like here maps are a sign of life.

Edit: Maybe I speak from a position of ignorance about the industry. But I also remember thinking how greatly awesome it would have been if I could run Android on the new Lumia hardware. I also remember the fact that Nokia was worth 30 bn before the new ceo, ex microsoft employee, came in and within years it was left worth 9 bn; pop culture facts I suppose.
And he was right, they had to substantially lower the price almost immediately.
> What's the big deal?

It was tasteless and disrespectful at the time and in retrospect it is laughably hubristic.

You can celebrate a good thing without dissing another good thing.
I'm amazed MS have dont this with before a genuine attempt at phone that docks and becomes your PVC.

Microsoft are so well placed to create and distribute what is bound to become a popular from factor. This would work on so many levels. The light-weight basic consumer that doesn't need a gaming/ or other high power rig at home. Developing countries where people can't afford a laptop and high-end phone could now get a phone plus a screen/keyboard at home. And the biggest sell is at the enterprise level. Companies could issue phones only and have a heap of docking stations. It wouldn't suit everyone but many would.

Time to re-visit Ubuntu Touch and see how they are getting along I guess.
I'd had the idea of moving processing off the eyegear and into your pocket, connected by cable, but using a fibre optic cable is even better.

The scanning display also enables different resolutions for different parts of the field of view (the retina center "fovea" is high resolution; peripheral vision much lower). Eye-tracking allows them to tell where your fovea is looking.

But I fear we're still not ready for camera always-on constant surveillance. And that seems necessary for the light-cancellation of solid blacks, and of course for object recognition. But these are severable, and the other features will still work.

Pokemon Go helps prove the ground for all this.
Second, I think; North Korea has their own Linux distro. This, similarly, is an Android distro.
By that time, though, it was hard to trust Microsoft. They had screwed so many little companies over the years. On the consumer side, Windows was phoning home all the time. Apple and Google seemed so - nice and innocent, I guess. Of course, they spy on their customers in a way Bill Gates only dreamed of in the 90s, but at least they paid off their competitors instead of just outright stealing their products the way MS did.
> Men haven't had that liberation

Liberation from what? The "burden to provide" comes with a lot of benefits, and I know I wouldn't trade them all for "liberated" homesteading.

In many ways, what you call "the true form of feminism" for men is just a long way down, a fall from grace, in the same way as Enlightenment was for aristocrats. It's not surprising that most turkeys refuse to vote for Christmas.
Right and that guy ultimately reports up to Obama.
Snapchat feels like the next generation's Twitter, and its engagement is still limited compared to Facebook.
They've always chosen divisive political figures?
Love to see that when you finish it, but why not blog along the way?
Taken alone it could be viewed as light hearted. Taken in the context of their past behavior it's another example of arrogance. Look at what Ballmer said about Google and Eric Sshmidt in the early days. Look at their complete mismanagement of mobile. They always believed they could just swoop in and win the market. How else can you explain the many years after iPhone was launched for them to launch a competitive mobile OS. I would call their approach to mobile an embarrassment. How could the worlds largest software company release such crap for so long? How could they go to market with a confusing array of mobile options (looking at you RT)? They thought they could win just because of past performance, and thus had no sense of urgency or humility, and that is why I think this is arrogant.
VIM. Enough said.
As far as I know, the emails have not been disputed. They aren't doctored and are what actually was sent. This is factual information that does make the DNC look bad, because frankly, it was really bad.

"Dismiss evidence that makes Trump look bad out of hand"

What evidence? This is what I'm talking about. There are claims that it's the Russian government with no actual facts besides a trail that ends at a sordid VPN service.

There are plenty of other things that Trump says to make him look bad, I don't need even more evidence based on hearsay and opinion.

If we let things like this go on, a Sanders candidate will never have a future. If someone is bad, let the facts speak for themselves.
When did they Exit from the Phone Business? Did that actually happen? I think Microsoft Stores still showcase Windows Phones?
Yeah, they really screwed that up. RIP Nokia.
Whenever someone I know is breaking up I ask, "Money or sex?". It's always one of these reasons.
Becoming a profession also means developing ethics.

Those "childlike things" are amazing, but not at the expense of other people. This is especially important for people who develop line-of-business systems for paying clients. Unless its an explicit part of your value proposition, wasting your client's money is pretty damn unethical. And if becoming a profession makes us more ethical, then it can't happen soon enough.
Um... Those two were Presidents. Harvey milk was on a city board of supervisors. Big difference.
When will HN fix the dumb issue with pre text being maxed to 50% width on android. Having to scroll each line means I don't even bother.

Thank you for taking this time to post it though.
Nokia's software was garbage before and after Microsoft.
That was already posted [1] but received essentially no attention.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656028
Article says Android and iOS have 84% and 15% respectively of the market. It's still hard to sink in the fact of how strong a duopoly the mobile market is. All of WP, Blackberry, Ubuntu, Sailfish, Tizen, and probably more, all share the same 1%!
Ah I should just have googled it. Thanks!
I don't care about Microsoft, but it's a real shame what happened to Nokia. The phones were rugged, feature packed and were willing to sacrifice form in order to gain function. They had thick, chunky phones just so the battery life would be awesome.
Anyone have a link to the actual study?
Was your signing bonus a ~5x multiple of your annual salary? It just smells to me like the company is effectively paying for two employee positions, one at another company.

Back of the napkin calc says John R. Walter's compensation + forfeited shares in 1997 added up to maybe $7MM (being generous, perhaps $10MM if he had stayed through vesting), so the reimbursement by AT&T was easily 2-3x the real-world numbers.
I said it was the politicization of our armed forces, and it is.
Another comment linked the Wikipedia, I understand now. Thanks for responding!
> Google won by making Google a destination in every web browser, and Facebook is winning by making Facebook the destination on everyone's phone.

This is not true - Google won by being associated in people's minds with "I want more information about XYZ". Facebook won by being associated with "I want to see what my friends and family have been up to".

> And the desktop browsing experience is fading and fading.

Google has a very strong grip on mobile. They own Android, they own the most popular browser on iOS [1] and their margins are so big that they can outbid competitors to be the default search engine for the second most popular browser.

> One has to consider the question, what would the marginal cost of adding quality search to Facebook's infrastructure be? And what sort of margins would their search product need to return to support that?

It would probably cost Facebook as much as it cost Microsoft, and the return on investment would probably be similar - ie. not great.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/03/18/study-shows-chrome-be...
I was disputing your claim that brains are less efficient than vNA based computers. My point is that for vast majority of tasks we face on a daily basis, our brains are vastly more efficient than our computers. Note that a brain is a general purpose, non vNA based hardware.
My conclusion: we should try to build a brain-like hardware out of silicon, as soon as we learn enough about how brains work.
The exec behind Amazon's Alexa
It's pretty cool being able to get this setup on my Mac and easily play around from the command line. It makes it much more accessible as a language than when it was more closely tied to the Windows/Visual Studio ecosystem.
Sure, but their hardware was always great and their software could have been Android.

Look at HTC. What do they do besides great hardware? In the early days of Android, they were the go-to vendor for a close-to-stock Android experience. That could have been Nokia.

Now HTC is making the best VR headset and has a fairly bright future.
This is a very good point. These are the fruits of past coming to bear, it would be interesting to see where Microsoft ends up in a few years with Satya Nadella
It's sad if this happens, because I bought a used two year old Windows Phone, and it's more pleasant to use than any phone on the market today. And given that it gets updates the same day as desktop PCs, and doesn't wait for any manufacturer or carrier approvals, is probably one of the most secure.

On my carrier, Verizon, we have almost no choices. There's iPhone, there's three dozen identical Android phones with different brand names, and a couple two year old Windows Phones. Not a lot of choice in the market now, and certainly not going to get any better if Microsoft exits.
I don't like to think advertising is necessary for every tech startup. I certainly don't want to be associated with the industry that rubs annoying stuff in your face as much as they can get away with.
They announced it back in May [1], but there was speculation that they were exiting the phone business late last year. I think they still make 2 flagship phones, but they aren't competing with iPhone/iOS or (10,000+ phones)/Android anymore.

[1] - http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/25/microsoft-calls-time-con...
I don't know what the laws are in the US regarding divorce but there's an astonishing imbalance in favour of women in many EU countries that causes marriages to be an unacceptable risk for me and many other men.

You can get divorced for no cause (no infidelity, financials are fine and you didn't do anything else wrong) and you'll be forced to hand over 40% of your net income to your ex-wife for the rest of your life. (even if there are no children - if there are, you get to pay even more)

I'm fine with women leaving for no cause (it's her business) and also with financially supporting children (as probably most men are) but I'm not going to sign a contract that could potentially leave me financially broke for no cause.

So even though the Harvard study might give some insight to married men on what they could do better I doubt that marriage under the current framework will even exist in a few decades.
What exactly happens when a service like WhatsApp gets shut down like that? Is there a giant firewall or something?
Sure, you have a right.

> When did I ever presume it would be simple?

Your tone implies a process like this:
1. Get a job at Amazon
2. Never be bored, and have a good chance for input.

You may be lucky and have an experience like that, but the general consensus seems to be that it isn't the most likely outcome. #1 is the easy part. The parts of #2 will be false to varying degrees, separately and together, as time goes on (every job has boring parts, for example).

And anyhow, you wrote a post that was easy to make fun of, with the tempting mix of inexperience and confidence. You can't set yourself up for ridicule and expect that no one will take you up on the offer.
Twitter's ads are like this. I hit the x, it opens the ad. I back out and hit the x again, it closes the ad. This behavior is consistent enough that I'm almost convinced it's intentional.
Yep, that's the next obvious step in the escalation game. It works.. unless sites prevent it from working.

For example, check out this link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nBcUXRz...

Unless you have JavaScript disabled, it will not let you view the cached page!
shrugs

Modern COBOL, or Ancient COBOL? Most people mean ancient COBOL, which is what I was talking about. I've heard modern COBOL is quite nice.
A man without a job is much more unbearable than a man without money.
This guide provides a false sense of hope, I'm afraid. Securing Windows from Microsoft's invasive policies is basically impossible. Cortana has now become un-removable:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3100358/windows/you-cant-turn...

And those of us who thought we were safe using Windows 10 Pro woke up today to discover that the forthcoming Anniversary Update will actually be removing our ability to disable many of these features via the Group Policy editor:

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/microsoft-removes-policies-...
Aha! The project that was missing Gandi API support was https://github.com/AnalogJ/lexicon - but it now has support.

I'll look into lego, thanks.
>Microsoft are so well placed to create and distribute what is bound to become a popular from factor.

There already is a popular form factor that companies issue, and folks in developing countries purchase (in addition to us on HN): the smartphone.

If you're not intensely inputting typed data, there's no need for a keyboard. And if you are, then likely your company issues/reimburses-for a device with a keyboard.

But otherwise, this is why smartphones are ubiquitous. Many more people are content consumers than content creators.
It would be interesting if one could predict a likelihood of divorce based upon a number of inputs, like credit scores, age differences, education levels, income, hours worked, number of children, smoking, etc. I suppose the possible set of criteria could be large.
Cuba also as a Linux distro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_(operating_system)

Edit: It is discontinued now, however
Branding them "Windows" phones was the kiss of death.
Almost every adult has had terrible experiences with Windows.
The young view Windows as something their grandparents used.

Calling it anything else would have been better.Even "Electric Candy" phones would have been more attractive than "Windows" phones.

I understand that the phones were reasonably decent.
This reminds me me that Rhapsody eventually had limited unofficial PowerBook support. I wonder if Steve Jobs ever used it.
OLED is the issue. Look into the black smear problem on Oculus DK2 and how they had to half-way fix it by overdriving for a frame and then falling back.

CV1 of the Rift headset is OLED and has the same issue. They have to run the panels at a notch above minimum brightness to work around it and as a result they lose out on true blacks.

https://vrwiki.wikispaces.com/Black+smearing
For a while I adhered to the x company has so much cash it doesn't matter if another company out innovates them they can just buy their way into the market. But now I don't think it is true anymore. If it was true in the late 90's early 00's when Microsoft was cash rich and their major breakthrough had reached it's peak (similar position to Apple today) they would have been able to buy themselves into the next big thing: mobile. But Microsoft couldn't, in reality they got completely marginalized.
Also consider ads. If you look at the progression of Google search page, it's not uncommon for a laptop/mobile screen to be entirely ads. Basically they have trained us to search for ads. It's possible one day they'll take this too far and there will be a better alternative. While I dont think it is likely , if these things aligned Google could realistically lose a big proportion of their business in a few years. It would be brutal.
Might I humbly suggest a project name? FFSS. For F(acebook|uck)'s Sake Syndication. :)
It is time for them to go for the big kill and aquire Twitter. Twitter can benefit from Google's Machine Learning competency and Google can benefit from Twitter's social network competency. They should do this before Mark Zuckerberg's offer they cant refuse.
Maemo was probably the best mobile OS out there.
> Men haven't had that liberation; a large part of society still believes in specific roles and responsibilities for men that coupled females are (at their option) exempted from.

It's probably going to stay that way for the foreseeable future. As it stands right now, women have nearly all the power in heterosexual relationships, so they are able to see to it that progress is made in removing their own shackles while keeping them firmly in place on men. This is not some evil conspiracy, it's just a natural consequence of self-interest combined with a power imbalance. (Incidentally, one of the other rigid expectations of society is that this power imbalance is never discussed out in the open, so I fully expect a harsh negative reaction to this comment.)

The only things which could change this situation are technological emergences which directly impact the power dynamic: realistic sex robots, artificial wombs, AI strong enough to put everyone permanently out of work, etc. Some of these might balance things out to a more equal level, while some of them might tip the scales wildly in one direction or another. It remains to be seen how things will play out as technology advances, but it is doubtful that things will stay as they are now over the long term, even if they do in the near / foreseeable term.
Pokémon Go player uses a bot to reach the game's maximum level
Bingo. To Microsoft tablets were just larger PDAs meant for answering emails.
Something that appears to be missing: Disable Windows Defender either way. It's a piece of garbage that is running by default, does massive amounts of disk I/O for no reason, automatically deletes false positives like community patches for games (how infantilizing) and slows down the PC (and no, my PC is not infected, this is my experience across many independent machines).
> Maybe I (or you or both of us) have a wrong understanding of soundness.

I'm using my own interpretation of “soundness = progress + preservation”, originally due to Wright and Felleisen. “Progress” means “not getting stuck” (a term is either in normal form or further reduces). “Preservation” means that, if a term `t` has type `T` and reduces to a term `u`, then `u` also has type `T`.

From a purely technical point of view, raising a NPE is a well-defined execution step, different from getting stuck. But I contend that this is just a technicality, and not really how a programmer thinks about his code. For practical purposes, in most situations, throwing a NPE is reaching a stuck state, and thus a violation of type safety.
> Look at HTC. What do they do besides great hardware?

I'm looking at HTC - what I see is a company that did great with Android for a short while, then got chewed up as Apple and Samsung ran away with the high end of the market while the Chinese manufacturers gobbled up the bottom end. All the "Nokia should've gone with Android!" comments I see around the internet never try to explain how they think Nokia would've fared any better than HTC (or Sony, or Motorola).

> Now HTC is making the best VR headset and has a fairly bright future.

You and I see HTC's future very differently. The Vive is the thread they're hanging by, and as soon as Valve doesn't need them anymore, it's going to be over (http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/07/can-we-stop-pretend...)
And also lacked a keyboard. I mean how do you check your email without a keyboard?!?
Aiming STEM programs at girls isn't sexist. That just isn't what "sexist" means. Those programs exist to correct an imbalance caused by actual sexism.
If you can change the code, you can simply fork() and then abort() on the child. If you attach that as an handler to SIGUSR1/2, you can have core dumps on demand.
From your link:

>Applies to: Office 2007 | Office 2010 | Open XML | Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office | Word | Word 2007 | Word 2010

I feel as though the gp comment is referring to far older versions, although without clarification, it's hard to be sure.
Reactive Programming with Spring 5.0 M1
Interesting. I would have thought that looking at system call traces is something that has been done before for malware detection though, am I wrong?
I'm using group policy extensively to disable things I don't need. If they remove this from Windows Pro, that will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. At least for me.
Larry Ellison will buy a huge new boat regardless of this deal. It's just what he does.
Yeah, but the funny thing about the all red timing that I've seen is that people can beat it by going faster than they should, which always struck me as wrong.
Well, people don't have to jiggle for coins. They can just swipe the card, which is usually just as fast if not faster than NFC, and pretty much guaranteed to work 99.99% of the time whereas NFC has failed on my at least 20% of the times.
I think it was a fork of china's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
Show HN: Front-end boilerplate without overcomplication
Thankyou for writing this. As a humble seer trying to find his way in this world of bean-counters, I really appreciate it.

Doron Zeilberger has written about this aswell:

"""
The usual names are "theory-builders" vs. "problem-solvers", but these two protoypes of mathematicians also appear under various other appellations. Some other names are strategists vs. tacticians, "monkeys that climb up the tree" vs. "monkeys that climb down", globalists vs. localists, and folowing א ח ד ה ע ם, I once called them prophets vs. priests.
""" [1]

> something to help fund the Seers, à la startup incubator

The problem with this is that the Seers tend to sound like crazy people (and alot of them probably are just nuts). Especially to a craftperson, they really struggle to follow the seer. John Baez is a good example of someone who can balance the Seer with the craft, but i've noticed he will team up with someone who is more seer than he is to get those really good ideas.

[1] http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion95.html
Imagine the Uber `Rides` table, indexed on `status`

Every time a new order is created the status flows from

* unassigned

* assigned

* passenger on board

* completed

That should really be an event stream, but if you want to find all `unassigned` orders, an index would be good.

We had a similar problem with this kind of table, at much lower volume than uber.

But only when there was a two column index

`status, pickup time`

Or

`status, created at`
It's the lack of an app market. Why by hardware that only supports a fraction of the software? Yes, most apps are crap, but for most app developers, anything after Apple and Android are an afterthought.
Wish I could get a job at Google :(
Dangerous yet enticing homebrew flying chair
Admittedly I only glanced at this, but why can't the process image in question be dumped to a C string (or .S file if you really want) and then linked with the normal linker?
The guide suggests using the enterprise edition and one can always verify if the modifications are effective or not by performing thorough network analysis.
They did this already.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8513519/microsoft-windows-...
Maemo was the 2nd-worst piece of crap anyone ever ran on a phone (just losing out to OpenMoko). It was a disaster. At the time it was competing against BlackBerry OS, that ran rings around it.

Edit: and by the time Maemo was actually running on a _phone_ it was head-to-head against iOS and WebOS. I think you could actually make a good case for WebOS being the greatest ever, but compared to those two Maemo was awful.