skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to buy it all in, but seem to be sourcing more and more internally and algorithmically derived from public sources. This is good because it gives them more control and licencing flexibility, but has led to a (temporary?) decline in quality and some very odd errors e.g. fictitious villages based on typos and roads in the UK having french names.

I wouldn't judge OSM by US data by the way. Each country has different levels, partly based on what their Governments have released and what the community is like. Which is partly true of Google as they rely on volunteers to contribute in some nations.
From what I recall, the long delay seemed to have much more to do with XPCOM than with the CSS engine.
At work in roughly 1990 I had a maxed-out Sun 4/330 with 96MB of RAM - that was quite an expensive box for one user. Someone actually flew up from London to Edinburgh to install the RAM. :-)
> "absolutely positively we will turn this product into a world beater, we will utterly dominate this industry soon"

Yes, exactly. It's one thing to make an ambitious and bold play for a new market. But this is Nokia's main bread and butter at stake here. If WP7 doesn't gain huge market share then Nokia is going to have a disaster. It's quite breathtaking to see them play russian roulette with their future like this.
As ugly and annoying as Objective-C is, I find it's still an order of magnitude better than C++.
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to be fair 31 users out of 200 visitors doesn't sound like a bad conversion rate. Reckon it would be better with fewer required options (I kind of understand why you need a display name and login name, but it would be better if it was the same thing)

Facebook Connect as a login option would lower the barriers to entry for new users willing to use it as well as increase the virality.
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There are a few meanings. If you haven't heard it before, I am guessing you hear it in a context like "the LAMP stack." Basically, web applications are complex systems these days, and they rely on moving parts on top of moving parts. Stack describes that collection of programs/technologies.

For example, Bingo Card Creator uses a fairly typical Rails stack: application code in Rails(a web framework based on the language Ruby), MySQL for the DB, Nginx proxying to mongrel for the web tier, memcached and Redis for for a few purposes, DelayedJob for queuing, all running on Ubuntu.
Isn't Qt covered under GPL? Could someone else run with it for their development platform? Or would there be patent problems etc?
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It's funny how now most people seem to know Maciej Cegłowski as "the creator of Pinboard." His blog, Idle Words [1] is one of the best I know of. I would even say that the piece about Scott and scurvy [2] was the most interesting thing I read on the Internet in the last few years.

So, I am very happy about Pinboard.in being successful, but I think it's a bit of a shame that such frivolous endeavors take Maciej's time from writing his blog :P

(A bit more seriously, it's really nice to find a compatriot doing something cool in more than one domain.)

[1] http://www.idlewords.com/

[2] http://www.idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
You could find one answer here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(data_structure)

In short: a data structure where the last thing you put in is the first you get out.

To others it means everything you can pile up in one or the other way. Like MySql on Linux with Apache and PHP which gives us the LAMP stack ...

To some weird people it might mean this: http://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/media/blogs/rth/MarshallSt...
It would be so cool if Google could engineer that process the other way around. Instead of me giving Google my number, why can I not dial into a phone number of Google (with my own number hidden). I think that would a) get more friction you need against the spammers and b) retain my privacy (at the cost of a phone call).
I have some foreign language partners, and when I tell them I'm going to a programming conference they always ask if my co-workers are going, and each time I have to explain that I'm going for fun, not for work. (Of course, I program at work, but sometimes the conference isn't applicable to my job.)

To be fair, I'm pretty sure US-based friends would ask the same except that most of them are technically inclined, so it's not usually necessary.
That's actually a very cute story. It would make a nice blog post, or Calvin & Hobbes type comic strip or something.
This is true, but this guy is paying $1000 month in health insurance. The savings would fully cover my deductible in 5 months (assuming such a plan is available in NY). There's no question it would be worth taking the risk, especially because if I truly couldn't afford to pay the deductible and something happened, most hospitals would let me enter into a payment plan and cut the payment.
IIRC, the Afghans see/saw him as a hero from the war with the Russians. Apparently there are stories of him bravely manning the front lines, etc. Whether those things are true or not, being a folk hero brings something to the table when one of the major factors to success is recruitment.
All your buildings were hewn out of raw granite by neolithic cavemen, amirite?
I think Nokia even relicensed it under LGPL (http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing). And Qt is made by a Norwegian company, and as far as I know at least the Norwegian patent office doesn't grant software patents. They might have patented it in other countries, though.

Makes me happy. Would be sad if a nice (commercial with GPL option) product had ended up as unusable for everything but GPL-ed applications.
That and the fact WP7 still doesn't support less than WVGA screens really makes me question how Nokia is going to compete at the low end with WP7. Honestly I think a big part of the threat to them is not even the "smartphone" market but rather that their low to mid range phones where all their volume comes from are going to get knocked out by Android.
I'm probably being unfair, I've never actually done any development in Objective-C (I have in C++), so I'm going on how it "looks" from the code I've seen, I just find it very unreadable. But in fairness I haven't tried to get into it, and I'm probably biased toward the C#/Java style syntax...
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Windows Phone 7 is a solid result for a first iteration product; although I see a lot of negative sentiment here (not sure how many have used it). It is missing some features but I am pretty sure they are being worked upon right now (considering the platform is so critical for Microsoft).

Here is what it has going for it:

1. Ease of development - Writing WP7 apps with Visual Studio is very easy; probably easier than any other platform.

2. Games! - The most downloaded apps have always been games. WP7 is a solid platform to write games and MS will _eventually_ bring in their considerable clout in XBox/PC.

3. "Enterprise" Apps - are still unexplored territory. WP7 is the first platform where the countless in-house Windows teams can put out something in languages they already know.

And finally the Nokia deal is a breakthrough for MS. Outside the US, Nokia has an exceptional market presence. Around where I live (Bangalore), there are 3 Nokia exclusive shops and all of them are going to showcase their new WP7 phones soon. With a good enough product, you can make up for everything else with marketing.

As for Nokia, they now will a product I might consider buying at some point.
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I definitely want to emphasise that I agree that love, family, etc. are the most important things. Only people who have never had such could disagree with that :-)

Just wanted to highlight that I think it's important that work be more than simply a means of obtaining money to fund pleasure in your spare time, that it can be more than that, which as your reply indicates, you clearly agree with.

The vast majority of people (talking about those lucky enough to live in the very privileged western world) have the attitude that work is a misery that you cannot avoid, and I think it's important to emphasise that there is another way :-)

You've created a successful business through hacking, your analyses demonstrate you are very sharp + competent, I think that alone qualifies you as a great hacker. And your humility only makes me think that more so :-)
Why would you sign up on untrusted sites?
The entire point of a civilized society is to overcome evolution. For consistency, do you at least hate all our technology that lets e.g. babies that would have died 50 years ago lead long productive lives? They obviously had bad genes, right?
If a mob overthrows the government that means that there were a lot of people upset with the government and it can be taken as the 'will of the people.' If a single person overthrows a government it could be seen as a dictatorship. I think that the Rand-ian sound byte fails here.
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So, this is ok if the payout in 4. is sufficient compensation for the existence and effort you put into the company.

If, 4. is a desperation move, and you're hoping bigco is going to help your company reach heights you're unable to reach on your own, then you're rolling the dice.

I've had exactly this experience. The founders expected BigCo to take them to new heights, but eventually bigco dismantled the company piece by piece.

Literally the economic winds changed slightly, success wasn't immediate and so the BigCo CEO got all excited and went off chasing something new and shiny.
Which, if true, will bring even deeper market penetration. Never thought iPhone discussions could sound so sleazy.
When I read this kind of article I can't think that the current cost of an iPhone is less that $180[1] and it's sold at around $600-$700 without contract around the world...

So how much has to cost a smaller iPhone to Apple to sell it at this price?

[1] http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/New-iPhone-Carri...
I use DDG except for local sites, which it doesn't index anywhere near as well as Unca Googs.
I think the "the same happen without any risk to MS" is an excellent point - the downside for Microsoft is limited and the upside is pretty good. For Nokia the upside is limited (at best you are yet-another Windows Mobile 7 handset manufacturer - it's not like they have an exclusive) and the downside is huge.
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This post is so true and so sad.

> most of Nokia's brand loyalty is because of the indestructible and unbelievably reliable phones they made in the 90's, since then they've been steadily dropping on that front

Nokia phones are still the most reliable and solid, by far... for now.
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I think the post is unnecessarily harsh on both Nokia and Microsoft. Windows Phone is now a lot better and is comparable with iOS/Android, only thing it is lacking is apps.

Nokia making this decision much late in the game clearly knows that Microsoft also came late to the game. It needs MS as much as MS needs Nokia. Together with huge marketing muscle of MS, they can surely make something out of the partnership.
- An issue that you're not addressing well is that it's hard for a single person to DDOS, but it's a lot easier if you can get a group of people to run LOIC (i.e. the group's power draws from numbers).

- A group of people that decide to do something is not necessarily a mob.

- Anonymous is just a description for a set of people. The set of people most likely to participate in these raids. The entirety of Anonymous doesn't participate in each and every raid. Just the raids that they have the time, and motivation to do. If you can describe Anonymous as a mob, then you can also extrapolate that to the entire population of the planet. The entire planet of a group of people where sometimes some people decide to form a group and do things based on common interests.
Considering that Nokia's decision to stab other Symbian partners in the back form way back and do an UI and than have the failure of Symbian for years blow up in their face I would state that Nokia is about worth $0.
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Why should everyone have to purchase another OS, at a high price, just to work around another OS's problems? Shouldn't you be contacting your OS provider about this instead?
I'm not an AI student myself (I do CS, but with an interest in AI and probabilistic algorithms) and since I'm from a younger generation most of the "new" AI stuff like neural networks, evolutionary computing, etc. wasn't that new any more when it got taught. But "classical AI" (as in symbolic AI and rule-based systems) always struck me as rather dumb and inefficient after being shown the power of probabilistic systems like EC and neural networks. So in that sense I don't think classical AI will never make a comeback, and I'm convinced this is probably a good thing.

I mean, the only example we have of solving extremely complex problems is nature, and nature just doesn't work with symbolic system and rule-based inference. It uses probabilistic systems which interact with each other in feedback loops.

I, for one, welcome our new non-deterministic overlords.
There's a difference between "I trust this website with access to my primary online identity" (Google/Facebook) and "I trust this website with a made-up username, one-off password and throwaway email address".
Cognitive dissonance. You can either live knowing and regretting that you're going to die one day, of you can find reasons to believe it's not a bad thing. In time, you can come to actually prefer things this way.
How are they restricting speech? Anonymous released the information that he was supposed to release to the FBI anyways...
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Genf20 and sytropin are the best.. use them and you will find the difference youself..they are medically FDA approved too.
"A friend of mine usually said that when you see two lines in the bank, one being much shorter than the other, you can bet the short one is the wrong line for you."

a bit OT but worth it nonetheless:
my father always sas than whenever there is bureaucracy involved (i.e. the DMV, embassies, other government departments, etc.) one should choose the shortest line - it means that the clerk in place there is probably the most efficient and less inclined to play "power games" with you.
Served me right on several occasions.
The main problem of the late Nokia is the (lack of) speed in innovation.

If they jump on the Android boat they'll have to fight against Samsung, Motorola, HTC, LG, etc.. Look at the current performance of Sony-Ericsson.

On the Windows Phone 7 boat they are the big fish, and they can try to deliver some good products without to much competition (in the WP7 environment).
Check the source.

Hint: no, it's not flash. It's an animated gif.
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I'm an iOS developer who has passed on android, but I'm surprisingly (as a longtime microsoft hater) open minded about Phone 7. I sincerely doubt that it is as easy to develop for as iOS... but I am an optimist and hope MSFT has improved this regard enough to not drive me up the wall.

What remains to be seen, for me, is whether there is a viable market or not. People like to complain about Apple's AppStore, but it is a good market. I don't worry about whether I'll get paid, I get good info about sales in a timely manner, and the terms are acceptable. And I appreciate the review process (despite having an app rejected once, they were right, I fixed it, no problem.)

So, my real concern is how the stores are going to shake out, and if there is a single store for "Phone 7" (what a name! ugh) whether it is as well run as the AppStore.
Actually .. Toll-free bridging between Obj-C and C++ objects makes it very, very easy to mix the use of objects throughout your codebase. About the only 'difficult' thing about doing this is to remember that your c++ source files have to have the ".m" prefix instead of ".cpp" .. :)
Throwing around the term 'mob justice' is as meaningless as calling someone a 'freedom fighter.' Your freedom fighter is someone else's traitor/rebel/terrorist. I'm sure that Mubarak things that the Egyptians in the streets are trying to apply 'mob justice.'
After a rash of acquisitions, should we move?
This would seem to be a good thing to offer if you were a company that had any form of customer service.

If I were to lose the little thingy that lets me into my bank account, I can walk into a bank, verify myself, and get another one sent out. Simple and effective.

Can you imagine the process that you'll have to go through to get back into your GMail account after losing your phone?

Considering that you can be an AdWords customer giving them ten thousand dollars a year and still receive nothing but computer-generated form letters in response to questions about your account, I think I'll pass on this one.
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This is often the case. My last company had software that took 45 mins to compile on high-end machines in 2010.
I found webOS to be superior to iOS and Android in most ways, only to be hindered by poor hardware and marketing. WP7 will not take off just because it is objectively better in some ways.
Just a thought - is there some reason you can't autodetect timezone information with js? (new Date().getTimezoneOffset())
Your initial reaction to Obj-C is not at all uncommon amongst developers used to C++/Java/C#. My impression is that most of them quite like it once they get past the novelty.
I am too using HGH these days and I am really looking young and cool ;)
Really? Here in Norway, people are complaining constantly about a few Nokia models that are notorious for bad reliability, and I've never heard complaints about iPhones, for example.

If Nokia phones are actually "the most reliable and solid, by far", they've got a serious perception problem in the marketplace, at least in these parts.
When I first started in ecommerce, it took us a year to get anyone to allow us to take credit cards, the rate was 28% when it was all said and done, and minimum transaction fees just clobbered us on any purchase less than $10 or so.

15% is fan-frikkin-tastic if its really as easy as they are making it out to be. Then again, it is paypal, so once I've collected about $1000 or so, I'd expect it to be frozen for no good reason until 2014...
But they already use Navteq data, so that would not exactly be news.
A pessimistic answer would be that all the people who were working on Mozilla who liked to add bloat like email and IRC and Palm syncing to a web browser jumped over to Firefox. Or that the guys who wrote Firefox 1.0 have moved on. Or that that's what happens when you write your UI in XML, render it with a browser engine, and load half a million extensions and history databases from disk on startup.

A different answer might be that it does so much more that a slowdown is part and parcel of doing all that's necessary in a modern browser.
I can see Silverlight perhaps finding a niche in internal application development - but that's a pretty big come down from the original goals of the technology (i.e. a Flash killer). So wouldn't that make Silverlight, if not dead, severely wounded?
I don't hope so either. Although GTK is starting to look pretty nice with version 3, I've always preferred QT from both a a programming and UI perspective.

Nokia seems truely cluesless.. every day, another strategy

- Maemo was GTK based

- Nokia bought TrollTech

- Maemo was said to be ported to QT

- Maemo was abandoned for Meego

- Now they're giving up Meego, and going to MS...

sigh
Nokia owns Navteq, whose data Bing uses, especially for road maps.
That's a really tough url/name.
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The whole thing feels like shark-jumping if you ask me. I'd watch Nokia stock today and see if investors don't agree. I'm betting they do. I wish I knew a damn thing about investing, I'd short this one for sure.
How about all the .Net developers out there? I'm one. Although I don't have time right now, from now on Windows on Nokia platform will be the native choice for me when I have time to play with it.

It's even better than MS + HTC or something. Being on Nokia has better visibility, especially in the eastern side of the world.

For Nokia, some Qt guys making the change + .Net ppl can't be smaller than than the current developer base.
When Lifehacker changed their layout, I stopped using it. It even broke my Flipboard. It's a fantastic site that I used almost every day, but now it's just hard. I hope they'll work out the UX soon.
Like jumping from a burning platform to shark-infested waters?
My perception of this is a bit different; Nokias and iPhones are the most seen brands on the different meetings I attend, and especially the E-series from Nokia which are considered solid and straight to the point for busy business people.

(I'm also in Norway)
Microsoft does not want a platform dominated by one hardware manufacturer. Their interest is for Nokia to be the Compaq of phones, or something along those lines.

There's no way that Nokia can really own the platform so that the same stuff that runs on their phones won't run on other phones in the future. Microsoft owns it, period. With Android, being open source, they would have had a bit more leverage.
I think he's arguing that computer vision is a research subject - most startups are doing known things (in the sense of "this has been successfully done before") or at most development ("this has been successfully done before - in the lab").
Human reflexes, when ready for a signal can respond easily with 0.2 of a second and often much faster, this is the sum total of the advantage that Watson has. This is irrelevant, what matters is that Watson has probably reached the stage where it can compete with the best of humans in a game involving abstract reasoning and natural language processing and do it fast enough where people can start arguing about fractions of a second!