skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to compete is mostly having an app platform on par with iOS or Android. Precisely the point where Windows Phone is lacking. This is a situation I don't see changing, especially not without hardware.

Furthermore, releasing a phone with good hardware at a competitive price point means either losing money to push into the market (which I think MS has done the past few years with their mobile offerings), or having a supply chain to have good hardware at a low-enough price (something which Apple and Samsung already have).

I kinda doubt there will be a good third mobile option again. The choices currently are to target iOS to make money, or Android to reach more users and for most apps there's isn't much point in supporting anything else. Plus, there aren't that many apps built upon frameworks that would allow easy addition of a third build target.

There also doesn't seem to be much point in offering an open-source mobile platform. The partners you need to convince to offer phones with your platform don't care (much) whether it's open-source or proprietary. In Android's case the open-source-ness pretty much only matters for Amazon and a tiny fraction of users that install custom builds. Google has certainly tried to wrestle as much control of the platform back, both for control reasons, and to be able to provide a better user and update experience (Things a hardware vendor won't care much about. They make money when you buy the phone, not when you use it.).
Flawed? Where was minimum wage discussed? That's a completely separate topic that has no bearing here.

Any argument depends on context and in this case, none of the GitLab employees are facing minimum wage, working in hard labor conditions, or facing removal of their last chance at employment. The reality is that they're paid a very transparent amount without much negotiation hassle and they can easily choose to work elsewhere if they want to.
Maybe because it's too risky.

Alibaba wants to do that once, they made a phone[0] (in Chinese) and a operating system called YunOS[1] which forked on Android.

However, that phone was not a success. So eventually they cooperated with phone manufacturers in China to build phones that have YunOS pre-installed rather than build a phone on their own.

After seeing sale counter of those phones[3] (Also in Chinese) though, I don't think they had a lots of fans.

[0] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%98%BF%E9%87%8C%E4%BA%91%E6%...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yun_OS
[2] https://yunos.tmall.com/p/rd169008.htm
as an American remote worker that interviewed there from Argentina, it was really frustrating for them to tell me they wanted to pay me $50k less because I choose to live in a cheaper city. Even though I was currently making market rate SF money.

They had the budget for me if I lived in SF, but they stuck with their lowball offer.
> For some reason people were reluctant to talk about it, even in private.

- Everyone who comes to my restaurant loves my food! They all told me that!

- So why is no one here?

- I don't know. It must be the decor!
Yeah, a $80-$100 Nokia ran as smoothly as an expensive Android at that time.
Author here. I made this almost five years ago when I was in high school. The Scunthorpe problem is real - "shit" is used in a lot of good compound swears.

The code isn't public because I was concerned about people taking it to make a more popular version of the same thing. Not that it is difficult to glue together the two APIs. It is also an embarrassing mess of around 150 lines of Python.

One issue with linking to the commits or repo is naming & shaming. The other is, as I mentioned, people trying to get on the bot intentionally.

It scans a GitHub API once a minute so as not to put noticeable strain on their API. I think the firehose of constant commit messages has only gotten worse.
I recall they announced promotions like that as well. At one point I recall they would auto-cut at least in half for some amount of time if your app was chosen for the front page of the Store.

Since the Anniversary Update last year, sideloading has been enabled by default, too, if you wanted to sell apps outside the store, and that didn't magically attract indies either.
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If the rest of the binary is bit-for-bit identical, you can just tack the signature on to the OSS binary.
I wrote one of these hackertypery-presenters a while back:

https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/a267b97a52f7a1f70c46

some slight differences; doitlive drives recording for you; I used ttyrec, so you get some more natural typing, like me editing the command line. I set it up so events within 20ms are fired by a single keypress; this makes for quicker typing in the replay while letting you insert natural gaps between commands. NB if your command output is slow, you'll need to type to make it replay, which is a bit weird.

The other thing is, I used this to intersperse the 'demo' portions with slides (the slides were just 'echo some text|figlet' recordings). In order to support multiple files like this, at the end of each recording, you need to press 'return' to move forward; but also, you can press backspace to go back to the start of the current script, or if at the start of a script, backspace again will jump to the start of the previous one.
When you respond to private trolling by publicly counter-trolling, you're not so much taking a stand on principle as you are jamming the thread with noise. If it's PC BS, it doesn't deserve discussion.
Names Matter
I think that was the idea of Nokia. You get high end hardware with MS services.

But MS services weren’t as good years ago, and they didn’t have many apps, and they kept burning people by not letting them upgrade to a new major OS release.
Dictionaries are not the only places you find definitions. E.g., the IEP has a dozen definition of concepts with "moral" in them, like "moral luck": http://www.iep.utm.edu/moralluc/

It doesn't have anything for moral rights used this way.

I think your google-counting approach is an ineffective way to get at anything. If you read the citations that come up from your suggestion, it's not at all clear that everybody's talking about the same thing. And some of them are definitely doing what I think seankimdesign: puffing up some other perfectly good concept by adding the word "right" to it to make it stronger.

So no, I definitely do not agree that the normal definition of "moral rights" is what you get when you subtract the actual normal definition of "moral rights" from the search results.
but isn't Wechat basically all the apps?
"especially if the FBI is the one hunting" is very true. Even using TOR, I remember a college student who made a bomb threat over TOR to get out of a test and got caught because they were able to see the activity on the TOR network during the time the threat was made and traced it back to his dorm.
I’m into science, not quasi religious hope in the face of the terror of our own extinction. If we leave Earth, we’ll be solving nothing, we are the problem. At best we’d be delaying something, not solving the underlying issues of what led us to flee Earth. If you think of Mars as a backup for Earth then think again, it needs to be independent of Earth, and that’s a dream for now.

Less hope, more rational thought might save us; hope lets you ignore reality and live for a dream.

Just live.
I'm sorry, in what way is the word "fuck" creating a hostile environment? It depends on context. Compare this commit message:

"Get the fucking login button working"

"Fuck painbody, they don't know how to wire up a login button"

I write a lot of commit messages with "offensive" language, but it's not directed at anybody and it's just to blow off steam. How are stay-at-home parents supposed to feel welcome in this community? Release the death grip on their pearls and realize that people swear and that there's no way a "bad word", on its own, can hurt you. Unless someone is directing harsh language at you, you have no reason to be offended by the word "fuck". Good god, it's just a word.
Note: [2014]
This. I knew everyone from seniors, the a police chief, to tech folks carrying Windows phones. The apps we needed were there. But Microsoft had a nearly-useless approach to hardware releases, they constantly missed the boat.

I currently carry the last Windows Mobile phone on Verizon (the US' largest carrier). It is from 2014. (Actually, a new Elite x3 is coming out next week, three years later.) This is ridiculous. When the Elite x3 originally came out, we wondered what insanity was someone releasing a phone "for enterprise" that didn't work on Verizon, the main carrier of enterprise users.

We didn't need apps, we needed phones.
> one bored Microsoft programmer has built a Twitter bot

Hmm, I'm not sure I would want to be labeled, in public, as a "bored Microsoft programmer." His manager is wondering "Did he write this on Microsoft time?" "What else is he doing to alleviate his boredom?" "I give him plenty of work to do so why is he bored?"
I had the same reaction when I clicked the link. Probably the video is the heaviest part. IMO landing pages should load instantaneously.
> Players have different preferences when it comes to video games.

The point is why they have these preferences, and what these preferences lead to in terms of how different people might approach the same game.

You could present a counter article instead of just telling us how much you don't like the premise of this one.

Anecdotally, I know blasting the crap out of demons in Doom does a pretty good job of channelling my anger. It's cathartic and not something society typically caters for.

A lot of games are about building efficient systems, which naturally would attract people that like solving problems with designs and creativity.

You are dismissing the entire premise of the article based on a dislike for one man that tried (and failed) to convince America that GTA was a murder simulator. A man that (if you bother to read up on what he is up to now) doesn't even believe any of the shit he said back then and actually apologised for it.
Yeah, in-place upgrades between CentOS releases are not really supported, just as they are not really supported with RHEL.

However, this also comes with a perk. CentOS releases are generally the "current" release for at least three years, as opposed to two with Debian. Also, major releases are supported with critical security updates for years after they are no longer current. For example, CentOS 6 will still receive patches until November 2020.

Of course, whether this is important to you will vary based upon your needs. For some, the 2 year releases with an easy upgrade path between major releases will be the more important factor.
You can't compare a Disqus (commenting engine) to Equifax. I would also argue that disclosures on a broader set of systems, with multiple security layers, would require a lot more time. The Equifax situation demanded complete top to bottom sweeps by internal and external resources. Not a good idea to communicate anything, that's a non-fact externally at that point.
They tried everything, except for open standards, foss, focus on user privacy or anything that would have have made them different.
In Pursuit of Honor (1995)

> The movie follows the plight of the officers as they attempt to save the animals that the Army no longer needs as it modernizes toward a mechanized military.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113399/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Pursuit_of_Honor
But the calculator is based on rent not cost-of-living. For example rent may be 6% lower in Zürich than in Geneva but Groceries are more than 12% more expensive. [1]

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
I'm sure this isn't what they meant but I think technically you could steal a bike from a 10 year old player in GTA Online now.
Not sure it would have helped. Any rational high-profile dev will compute that 70 % * 100 000 downloads is better that 100 % of 1000 downloads.
Can't say better!

Actually, the Bank - most of the big investment banks out there right now (Hello Goldman!) - are selling themselves as technology companies but they're far away from being or getting even close to that!

If you think of yourself smart enough and want to make an "impact" (at least a tiny one) or at least work in a nicer, more friendly and more technology focused environment for sure an investment Bank is not the place to be - even if it's in the electronic/automatic/algo/quantitative trading area(s)! Go to Google, FB, Amazon, Apple, etc. The biggest 5 market capitalizations in the world right now are technology companies anyways, you'll get the knowledge and the money (if it's your purpose).

And always remember, banks were, are and will always be
primarily bankers/traders or whatever you want to call them place! Software engineers are at best an asset/tool even if software is eating the world and everything tend to be automated.

If you want to make it within an IB as a software engineer, you should spend lots of time learning and educating yourself (books - always read books folks!, blogs, side projects, hackatons, etc.) and not relying on internal projects or teams you're working in/with and if you want to make it to upper level - either go get yourself a master in Financial Engineering or any other Economics/Financial master and more important add those few words to your daily dictionary (forget about best practices, code smell, SOLID, etc.): "governance", "tactical", "strategic", "process" and lately "agile" (the word thrown everywhere and most of the people don't ever know what it means outside the Oxford dico definition.
Great. But the "unified UI" lead to touchscreens which are now a staple on laptops and they won't go away alas :(
I think it's very telling that you don't consider what the user might want.

As a user I don't want to be tracked, but I want suggestions, and I'm willing to give up a little accuracy. Example: on DuckDuckGo, if I search for "int ball", it includes results for "int-ball". It doesn't need to know anything about me personally to do this.
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This is why I'm always telling my boss I should be allowed to work from home more.
Just a quick comment for those taking this as advice:

You probably wanting something in the 40:60 to 20:80 THC:CBD range if you're looking for less intoxicating pain management. In genearl, CBD > THC will lower the intoxication (though not completely remove it!), with the higher ratio lowering it more. However, having some THC will make it much more effective at pain management. (Too much lone CBD veers into being psychoactive-esque, as an anti-psych.)

(The interaction between cannabinoids and you is complex.)
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I think they understand their business well, but I'm not sure if they understand market salaries well, given that our culture is notoriously opaque about salaries and one would hope that senior leadership at GitLab is not in the habit of applying to individual-contributor jobs at other companies to get a sense of what offers look like. That means that hearing people complain about their pay bands is probably one of the only good ways for them to get information about whether they're significantly below market or not - as I mentioned in another comment, I just didn't bother applying to GitLab because they were so far below what I could get elsewhere, so they have no information from their normal HR process that I even exist, let alone what a competitive salary for me would be. Once they have that information, then yes, I trust them to make decisions that are good for their business (I wanted to work there, after all!), but I still think that it's appropriate for users to express opinions if we think they're making poor decisions.
TIL they also support U2F. Interesting.
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Comparing doubles with == ?
I would not feel right lying to them about my location. I currently changed countries every 1-2 months so maybe I could of worked something out for them to pay me in USD, but they also said they wanted to pay me in local currency.
> They may have an additional 25 to 30 apps installed, but only five of those are heavily used. The five non-native apps vary from user to user

Doesn't that suggest that while individual users only use a few apps, the union of apps that see significant use is much larger? So you need a wide variety of high quality apps to please a majority of users.

So it's not "none of my apps are available". It's more like "that one app that my gym uses for booking is iOS/Android only" or whatever. Finding a decent WM8 podcast app was virtually impossible back when I had a Lumia, IIRC.
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It's a Nobel Prize in roughly the same way that Economic Science is a science.
Without a doubt this stunt marked the absolute death knell for WP...my God the arrogance of those people.
A few reasons: Because a Raspberry Pi and Ebay touchscreen won't be running or supported in 20 years, while the PLC will. The IO on a Pi needs optoisolators and hardening that's built into the PLC, and it needs soldering, while the touchscreen has built-in screw terminals. And while the software sucks, anyone remotely competent can go from zero knowledge to bumble into a working, sturdy product on the PLC in perhaps 80 hours. Qt has a much steeper learning curve.

Essentially, the touchscreen is an RPi and touchscreen, plus some industrial enclosure, strengthening, and connectors all wrapped up into a product. That integration is definitely worth $400. Or, if you want the name brand stuff, the Allen Bradley version of the same will set you back another $2000.
I was asserting that Russians are interfering with elections in many countries, including ours. But the story that it had any significant impact on the election is a false narrative.

Unless they somehow hacked Hillary's agenda so she never landed in Wisconsin and so that she never addressed the concerned of the workers from the Rustbelt states.
What I'm most surprised by in this thread is the toxicness. As of right now there are only two threads that I can see, one that is slamming Gitlab's salaries and one that is slamming their reliability.

Gitlab is building something nearly completely in the open, and doing it quite well in my opinion. They're the best open source reference for how to ship on premises software I've seen, and I frequently refer people to them as an example. You may not like their compensation structure, but they have certainly been quite transparent.

If we want to see more companies build around open source and bring transparency, a small touch of forgiveness is probably worthwhile. I'm a little disappointed in the HN community.

(I'm not affiliated with gitlab other than being a customer.)
I hadn't heard of etckeeper[0] before, thanks for the tip!

0 - https://etckeeper.branchable.com/
Are most journalists nowadays a bunch of edgy teenagers? I get it they need clicks but man isn't the bar low...
Yep, that’s exactly the reason why I hated it. Those animations looked nice at first but after a while they get so annoying and even launching a dialer took much longer than needed because of those flight animations.

Also I did not like the flat look and flat colors. All the apps looked the same, so did the icons. The best thing about App Store on iOS was the colorful variety of apps where each of them had a unique distinct look and it was a joy to expolore new wild apps on the marketplace.
Are Windows or Linux QA any better, by comparison?

I've been getting very disillusioned with macOS, but the workflow pain on the other platforms has been enough to keep me coming back to macOS, thus far.

Working on a Linux machine would be the closest thing to perfection (in terms of workflow), but there are so many workarounds needed, and the selection of apps just isn't there.

Operating systems suck. I'm obviously annoyed, as I've just run into lots of issues lately.
After living in SV for most of my life, I decided to move to the Southwest to work in an industry that, in my opinion, is actually a public good (utility industry). It's a bit slower paced, but the engineering problems are the same and the community is much better.
> Overwhelmingly, they believed their “representative democracy” was corrupt because it did not “represent” — at least them. And yet the campaign did nothing fundamental to address this fundamental fact about us.

Lessig sees the corruption of representation in government and the general election, and laments that Clinton didn't really want to fix it, not really.

The Clinton campaign fixed the DNC primaries, denying people the choice of who would represent them. The choice of candidate was made before the primaries started. Clinton's position on corruption was clear before the campaign started.
The description of the symptoms here has a lot of resonance for me.

I was just talking with the CEO I worked for in 2001; she's busy putting together her next startup. We had a good conversation about what I was calling "unicorn fever", the way the desire for instant massive valuation has distorted so much of what we thought good about the startup ecosystem. The article calling this factory farming seems spot on to me.
There any many different strains of marijuana each with different potencies of the underlying psychoactive chemicals. Smoking a bag of random whatever you bought in high school is not very comparable to walking into a new USA dispensary and buying a prescription of a strain that has been grown to combat specific symptoms you're trying to treat.

Some strains will make you feel dumb, make your head cloudy, and make you forget everything. Some will keep your mind 100% clear but make your body feel like its floating.

I don't think many people realize how useful marijuana is for pain management. I have a chronic illness and I've been able to get off all prescription drugs in place of medicinal marijuana.
When reading this, pay attention to section 1.2:

"Until the software and deterministic builds are audited, the entire ceremony is a bunch of crypto hocus pocus that means nothing."

I'm 100% serious, and even a year later this still hasn't been done properly.
who else would work for the low wages?