skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The W7 phone is an immature device on an immature OS in a market with mature devices and mature OS.

Google Chrome iterated through six versions in the entire time Internet Explorer went from v7 to v8, and Android moves as fast as Chrome. The W7 phone is missing critical features that iOS, Android, and Blackberry already feature. It's trying to break into a mature market with a device that doesn't outshine existing products in ANY way.

Copy/Paste

Multitasking

Electronic Compass

Socket access

Flash, HTML5

NDK

Short version: Everything they offer has been done, better, elsewhere; by the time W7 version 2 rolls out to add features, the other mobile OSs will have futher additions that W7 lacks.. they'll always be playing catch-up.
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> Don't worry Zuck, people will forget this movie just as fast as they forgot to delete their facebook account.

Is this sentence ironic? Care to paraphrase it? Thanks.
And it was the abusive use of flickering, garish ads that brought them into popularity.
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Which is amazing since that was an absolutely wretched game.
Best job description I've seen in ages. I especially like the semi-technical and open ended questions.
Lots of congratulating and patting in the back amongst Hacker News Users

Is there any tradition establsished for Programmer's Day? We should maybe try to follow in the steps of whyday and say: "It's your day, be creative with your code and have some fun!" or something like that.
That is an interesting article, but sloppy writing.
The nice thing about NoSQL is you have no idea of what format the data in the database actually is. So, you'll never actually know how much worse it is. Ignorance is bliss!
"This can't be sustained forever. If we want legitimate content producers to take the Internet seriously as a platform, we need to start forking over money."

Right now there's only a tiny trickle of good content being created on the Internet. Of the hundreds of thousands of posts being written each day, there are maybe 5 at best that don't completely suck. What we really need is a system where the authors of the best 25 articles of the day each take home 100K or so. For the nominal cost of less than a billion dollars a year we could spark an intellectual renaissance to rival any other in human history.
I think it has very little to do with the original question.
What should Nokia announce at Nokia World tomorrow?
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Kind of reminds me of how they made the HBO "Starship" intro video from the 80s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Et_LsxlX8Y

It's boggling to think about the amount of time and energy spent to make each of these 30 seconds of work. It's never going to be done this way again.
After reading this, I don't think you understand what the Daily Show is.

This is probably the best discussion about what the show is all about (note: crossfire was canceled almost immediately after this).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
Have no fear... we're not so nationally ranked anymore.

I went to Virginia Tech specifically for their extensive co-op program and large & effective career services department; nice to see that they're still running on all cylinders 10 years later.

NB: Having a good engineering & Comp Sci curriculum didn't hurt either.
Economics has not yet seen it's Newton.

'Where there is science there is no argument.' - da Vinci
But it doesn't matter if it's client side only:

* It might not be in future

* It's not using SSL, so anybody in between can make it stop being client side only whenever they like

* It's a terrible, terrible idea to teach users to trust things like this.
What is the relevance of the quote? Near as I can tell, the article is not engaging in economic forecasting, they are simply looking at historical data.

(Note: I haven't read all of the paper, so please correct me if the details involve forecasting.)
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You don't like the Daily Show because it fails to provide serious, non-partisan, in-depth and balanced analysis of current events????

Did you miss the part about it being being a mock news program?
1. According to a study, Daily Show viewers are more informed about current events than those that watch FOX, CNN, etc.

2. They are a comedy show, so it's ok to do that(even though they don't abuse that). FOX on the other hand does more than that, and they are supposed to be a news channel. i.e. take that Hannity clip from a few days ago: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-9-2010/are-y... (fast forward to 5 minutes)

3. Everything doesn't have to be objective, just because you have a scientist on talking about evolution, doesn't mean you have to bring in someone who wants to talk about creationism. This whole "balanced" reporting that you want is one of the reasons all these fringe nut jobs get their legitimacy. "Of course the president was born in Kenya....I saw someone say that on a news show".
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That's why USA are so attractive to foreign students who want to work hard and get the best education. There is an always weakening local competition.
> Of interviews with politicians which they obtained under false pretences?

Why do you say that? I've watched TDS since before Stewart was the host. I think it's pretty clear they are a comedic satire show when they do their interviews. They stage and prompt their interviewees to make the interviews more fun.

"Say, 'I like Cocaine'"

"I like Cocaine"

Only morons believe it's a real news show. But it does a fabulous job, through comedy and satire, at revealing the uncomfortable hypocrisy that underlies an awful lot of news and politics.

There are tons of comedy shows that dip into politics. Lampooning politicians is probably one of the oldest and most common forms of comedy. I won't even attempt to list some, you'd have to be willfully trying to avoid it if you aren't aware of this.
This is crazy talk.

If it's a major security risk, don't sync it to someone's pocket. By syncing it to someone's pocket... it's out. Especially if it's on their personal phone, you can't control what they (or an attacker) will do.

Either that's an acceptable convenience / risk tradeoff, or it's not. If it's not, you need to focus your efforts on tagging confidential data and keeping it inside the "walls" of your organization... but that's not a technology problem, it's a people problem.
If you bought software from me and I sent you random bytes instead, would you be satisfied? According to you, they have the same value.

That's clearly nonsense. Would you buy a house and expect to show up to move in and you find a vacant lot and a pile of bricks?

There's real, cash value in organizing random stuff into coherent patterns.
What Is Total Cost Of Ownership, And Why Should You Care?
NASA Commons
It seems (unsurprisingly) similar to the versioning used on Google AppEngine file system.
I think I made a mistake in my statement: it's not some random markup like textile or markdown, but the idea is more akin to a LaTeX-y interface, a WYSIWYM web-based editor. You have a good point, however, 'cause, coming to think of it, I wouldn't be targeting very non-tech people after all and they might very well expect stuff that's already done in git.
> The whole fucking video pisses me off – it is such a complex subject which he is making light of (and painting a wrong picture). WTF? But yeah, let’s make fun of extremely complex and delicate subjects because our viewers will laugh!

That's called comedy.

Just like a caricature exaggerates features of a person to look funny, comedy often exaggerates or simplifies complex situations for laughs. (my god I can't believe I have to explain this, I'm suddenly teaching humor to Data from Star Trek).
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Yea, I don't understand at all how this list is made. It can't be based on average-recruit-quality, in any sense, because the highest-average quality schools will always be small ones (simply due to averaging and statistics).
Pretty amazing website. He also built a scale model solution for the BP oil spill (while most people were just waxing philosophical about what to do):

http://douglastrumbull.com/bp-spill-fix-prototype-solution

Can't believe I didn't hear about this in the news.
You're right, it is a pretty strong assumption and I agree with providing a WYSIWYG interface, even though the language in question is WYSIWYM-oriented, I think the editor could be a sort of what lyx is to LaTeX.
Search Takes a Social Turn
NearbyNerd - cool Australian startup
Pretty cool has anyone seen anything like this?
I just wouldn't want to actively encourage anyone to enter their password in a webpage like that.

We need to train people to behave more securely.
There are a number of people who foresaw the problems brewing in the CDO market. The book "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis provides a detailed portrait of a number of them. As usual, even when someone knows that the generally accepted wisdom is bunk, no one listens.

Another comment that comes to mind is from Warren Buffett, who famously called derivatives "weapons of financial mass destruction" years before the recent blow up.
I use Bruce Schneier's advice and keep them on a piece of paper in my wallet. Always safe and available. Of course, I only have a few dozen, not the hundreds some people claim they have to manage.
Adding hotkeys to HN was relatively painless from the set-up point of view. Of course it doesn't do any heavy-duty message passing, but I suppose it could be a good example for those who want to build something that is heavy on the content script side of things.

Here's the code in case anyone wants to use it as an example: http://github.com/dtrejo/HN-hotkeys/
Where does this put OpenJDK? I doubt Oracle is thinking of open sourcing JRockit parts...
I try and watch BR at least once a year. Future L.A. is a place so detailed that it seems absolutely real.

Not only is it a brilliant movie, it holds up amazingly well given its age. It could probably be released today and nobody would know the difference.
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Samsung won't quietly cede ground to Apple
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I think the main reasons are cost, and less red tape than other states. Though that might just be historic, and other states might have similar offerings.
If you have relatively few passwords, use Bruce Schneier's advice and write them on a piece of paper that you keep in your wallet - safe and available.
> Journalism does exist, but you have to go to the locals to find it. By narrowing their focus, they're able to limit the costs.

There are many facets of journalism (including regional papers). Regional papers are surviving. But the fact of the matter is that all papers addressing national and international issues are fading and declining (almost as fast as my Karma today).

> I can't find any reference to that day's episode or the clip you mention. Can you be more specific by providing a link?

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-5-2010/oliver---w...
Paypal have returned the money "stolen" from Minecraft developer Notch
According to a study, Daily Show viewers are more informed about current events than those that watch FOX, CNN, etc.

Would love to see a source for that statement. If true, it's very interesting.
You take an example of people stealing a product and giving it away as evidence of the free market at work? wtf?

Copyright is a monopoly right, not property right. People don't steal, they crack and make copies. This is somewhat analogous to me making a bunch of Honda cloning after reverse engineering one. I am not depriving of the car dealership their cars, only made cars exactly like honda more abundant.

Maybe you think people stealing away your profit is unethical, but it doesn't matter to economic forces. You will lose trying to defend yourself from massive piracy.

Most of the "free" stuff on the internet is paid for by advertising (which you pay for when you buy products) or serves as a loss leader.

You don't pay for it. You are the product.
Ask HN: FOSS that asks you not to use it on MS or Apple?
Have you ever installed an openly licensed application on your computer, only to run it the first time and get a message like this?

You appear to be running Remind on an Apple product. I'd rather that
you didn't. Remind execution will continue momentarily.

remind works fine otherwise, but you get that extra output every time you run it. I find this genuinely odd, and I'm not sure what to make of it. remind[1] is licensed under GNU GPL v2. However, it ships with a text file[2] asking users not to use it on Microsoft or Apple products, and there is a similar message on remind's website[1]. The developer admits that he can't stop people from using it on a Mac (I think he means in practical terms), but nevertheless he builds in this semi-hobble message that prints every time I run remind.

I could hack it out (the message), but I wonder what people make of this? As I say, I've never run across it before.

[1] http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

[2] MICROSOFT-AND-APPLE (in the tarball)
The Threadless Story: How an Internet T-Shirt Company Went XXL
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-09-28/entertainment/comedy.poli...
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I'm an American, I used to watch the daily dhow regularly, and you are spot on.

The show pretends to be giving the news, t itbis dishonest, and it essentially tells lies about others in order to mock them.

If it mocked them for things they actually did, it would be one thing, but people believe that it is accurately portraying them and so it spreads misinformation as part of a hate campaign.

I've studied leni reifenstahl as well, and this is propaganda of e highest order. Only instead of targeting Jews, it targets anyone who is not a socialist.
So here's the deal - you're not likely getting contracts to do banking systems. I'm guessing things like websites and maybe mobile apps etc.

The thing is if you're a bit smart and know how to code, there's very little you probably can't do. The question is how long will it take you to figure out how to do it. You will much more likely be wondering whether you are doing it right.

So now its a question usually of scheduling. When you start getting in doubt about your ability to deliver on time, thats the time to raise your concerns. Tell them you might need to bring someone else on, maybe you can do this on budget or maybe you might have to eat some hours for free. Again its not perfect but if I hired someone like you and they went that route - I'm pretty okay with that, and I'm going to respect your honesty. Also if you're setting schedule make sure you build some buffer time in, and try to avoid projects with super hard and fast delivery dates.

Some people may flip out, but if you manage to keep them as close to on time and on budget as possible thats okay.
Doing this every 200 hands would add a minimum of 0.75 big blinds per 100 hands to your winrate - more realistically it would be well over 1 big blind. That is very significant in a tough game.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=244009 (Ask PG/YC: Why a Delaware C-Corp?)

http://www.mcstartup.com/blog/2008/3/6/what-state-should-i-i...
syncing to someones pocket is fine if you can remote wipe it
It's free software, so you are certainly free to hack out his message, and redistribute a version without it.
> I think it's pretty clear they are a comedic satire show when they do their interviews.

Nope. They often have interviews under false pretenses (the interviewee doesn't know he is from the daily show). The questions and the persons facial expressions) is often edited in afterwards.
Can I incorporate in delaware as a non US resident?
This reminds me of the time php.net went funny and started outputting all their PHP as text/html - they kept their DB credentials in a file included from their public_html directory and we were able to read the host details and username and password for their CMS.

Never ceases to amaze me that even big sites make little mistakes like that!
Here's a citation: basically everything Stewart has said about beck is a flat out lie. Of course, Stewart is a socialist and to them, beck must be a theocrat and so they portray him as such, but realitybis, he believes in freedom of religion, not theocracy. He supports individual rights, unlike Jon stewart.

So Stewart makes stuff up about, selectively edits things out of contexts, and makes fun of him. The liberals who watch think it is real and beck gets less credibility among them, even though vie yet to meet one who could accurately describe becks actual positions.
Shameless, but not entirely off-topic self-promotion:

I have created a Google Chrome extension the other day for collapsing comments on Hacker News. You can find the source code on Bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/drjokepu/hncollapse as well as you can download it from the Chrome Extensions Gallery at https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bbkfcamiocfccgmc...
Yes totally agree.

Having some good discussion with a guy on Quora on how you would measure sucess: http://www.quora.com/Will-the-Windows-Phone-7-succeed-Why-or...
While I completely agree that Burry foresaw the collapse of the housing bubble, Buffet didn't.

Buffet never described derivatives as creating a housing bubble. Buffet's problem with derivatives is that they make accounting tricky and fraud easier. But have no fear! Moodys (which Buffet owns about 20% of) will distill the complex accounting down to a simple letter rating. If Moodys calls a derivative "AAA", you know it's safe.

Snark aside, this was not a prediction of a housing bubble. CDO's did exactly what everyone thought they would do. They behaved like AAA securities for as long as the beliefs underlying them held true ("housing never goes down").
Meh. It's ok for the programmer to ask this, it's ok for you to ignore that.
Caricature exaggerates an aspect that exists for comedic effect.

Stewart fabricates lies to denigrate political opponents for comedic effect.

One is honest,the othervis dishonest.
Personally I don't see why it's at all unreasonable for them to require money to be left in the account, as long as he's allowed to withdraw that money if he ceases operation through Paypal.

I'm not saying that Notch is scamming people, but if he did withdraw everything, never deliver the product and run off, what responsibility should Paypal have? They'd be required to cover tens of thousands of $ in refunds.
What happens though when it becomes uneconomical to produce much of the software we take for granted? Sure to an extent the race to the bottom can be sustained due to a large ecosystem of developers but eventually something has to give, developers have to put food on the table.

Sure, if you're trying to alway sell digital goods at a price. However, you could try to sell things that are actually scarce and less likely to be driven down to marginal cost such as your programming services. There are bunch of business that require custom made software and they're not going to get it by pirating software.
Great article with a lot of data. One thing that leaves me puzzled is the fact that an android programmed could earn as much as $3k/month, not the usual low salary that one would expect in china.

Edit: After a brief investigation (please correct me if my figures doesn't make sense), it seems that the salary range is quite wide, for an sw engineer in Beijing/Shangai it goes from $400/m to $1200/m.
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Are you referring to the interview with Dan Roodt?

Because if he wasn't in on the joke or was bothered by it, you'd expect to see some mention of the interview on his blog: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22daily%20show%22%20site:htt...
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What was the relationship between OpenJDK and HotSpot ?
It appears legit. Also, Russia has long tradition of professional days dating back to Soviet times. Construction Worker's Day, Teacher's Day, Paratrooper's Day, Collective Farmer's Day.. so why not? :)
I wonder if you guys realize that to republicans, Rush Limbaugh is a comedian. He tells jokes, and when criticizing him to republicans, they will often say he is just making fun.

Jon stweart is the rush limbaugh of The left. And thus as appropriate on hacker news as limbaugh.

I'd like to talk about startups and technology, why do leftists keep posting leftist news stories here and then down voting everyone who doesn't goose step along with them?

I know the answer, but I wish you would keep that kind of activity in reddit/r/politics. Not here.
Going back perhaps 20 years, I seem to remember that GNU software was never provided as binaries for Macintosh, as the OS was closed. At some point, things mellowed, but I don't remember any specifc point in time when that changed.
OK. But you have to look for them.

And the original comment was about all content, not some.
I've watched his show and don't see any divergence between Jon's representations and Beck's general manner. Beck is a political comedian, and political comedians get fun poked at them by other political comedians.
Did you seriously just compare The Daily Show to Nazi Propaganda films?

(And there's no way I accept that it's a socialist hate campaign... that's straight out of Glenn Beck rhetoric land).
Video games are such a volatile market, I wouldn't say "probably" about much of anything. That's a big chunk of the danger in dropping so much money to try to grab some market share, expecting to make the money back someday. Of course, at the same time, one couldn't expect Microsoft to stay out of such a "convergence" market, so I'm not by any means saying that Xbox has been a mistake, either.
I'm just speculating, but it's possible that the people who misunderstand the purpose of your app because they didn't read the description are people you never intended to be part of your demographic of users. For [a hypothetical] niche-puchose software, catering to idiots may be very detrimental. I could imagine a situation where intended software goals and mass market acceptance would never line up.
Just use a Markov chain, it takes three minutes to write a script to do it. There are many available on the web already, it's trivial.
Is it a coincidence that Duke Nukem Forever reappeared only a few months after this comic was created?

http://i.imgur.com/6n4x7.jpg

Could the Higgs Boson be far away?
Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers
This would have been quite handy back in Uni to make some money on the side