skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly can happen that something reasonable gets a lot of downvotes. But not nearly as often as it happens that something unreasonable (or stupid or irrelevant or otherwise unhelpful) gets a lot of downvotes even though its author thinks it's a useful contribution.

I think "I know I'll get downvoted ..." usually just indicates (not a long tragic history of getting downvoted for insightful comments, but) roughly what it says: the author expects to get downvotes -- and probably hopes to get fewer by saying s/he expects them. HN is better off without those preambles because (1) they're a waste of space -- learning that the author of something expected downvotes tells you nothing useful -- and (2) they distort the scoring system, which (for all its flaws) does help to order comments well and identify ones that aren't going to be worth reading.
It's a high end phone, after all.

Nokia should aim lower. Cheaper Androids are there already
That kind of vision doesn't exist in the music industry. They shut down Muxtape. They'll shut down this.
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At least you get a <person> tag. I deal with a web service that returns a <dataset> <row> ... </row> <row> ... </row> </dataset>
I'd say the idea makes sense, but you might want to check out http://postmarkapp.com/.
Open Virtualization Alliance adds 65 pro-KVM member companies
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How netbooks died the death of a thousand cuts
Another point is that humans change environment to adapt, while other species must change themselves to survive.
Hence we are not diverse genetically, but our technology evolves rapidly.
Yes, check out the Partition I 12.1 table 6 of ECMA-335 standard
I just don't believe it "leaked". Probably pro MS fraction inside Nokia let it go in order to diminish N9 success. It looks to me like some people there don't want non Windows phone to succeed.
I'm not sure the market has said this so much as it's said "I'm scared to buy anything but Android and iPhone". I have no doubt Microsoft will be able to strong-arm their way into this market the same way they were able to do in search.
License or public domain for public sector information?
Paperjs: scriptographer ported to javascript
In what way is it high end? I know that Nokias usually have excellent cameras, but other than that, what?
I think the magnetic thing was from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2462355
nyan cat demo at http://paperjs.org
Beyond the self-serving statements that most everyone involved in this story are making, there's a real issue here. That Silverlight has (or had) vulnerabilities of the sort that make Microsoft hesitant to implement WebGL is ironic, but it's also interesting because it shows that they've got a point that such vulnerabilities can be a problem.

This storyline, like so many others, serves as an occasion for people to line up with one team or another and make whatever arguments support Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, or whoever they're rooting for.

But obscured behind all that smoke is a subtle, nuanced conversation to be had about the problem itself: What are the essential performance vs security tradeoffs? What can be done about them? And then there are larger issues, like this: A curated app store model where code is vetted and apps are run in a sandbox might significantly reduce users' vulnerability to attacks like this, but at what cost, both to users, developers, and those running the app store?
Why RIM is no Nortel
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This site is addictive. Love it.
To be fair, buying Nokia will be much cheaper. Phase one of the plan is complete and now phase 2 is under way. In a few years, Nokia will be so dependent on Microsoft an acquisition will be unavoidable.

OTOH, RIM's market cap won't last long. Eventually, they will be a bargain.
The panning indicates that the camera was indeed likely mounted.

Also it seamlessly cuts between two angles.
Great post, more informative than the article.

As far as I know, the adaptive radiation theory is now held as correct for hominids just as it is for every other group of species. The "classical" teleological viewpoint doesn't hold up to scrutiny for the reasons you cited.
And yet they have allowed 8track to exist.

The founders are hoping they can exist under the protections of DMCA streaming radio.
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Dilbert- I want you to use 'black hat' methods to raise our website's ranking
Big touchscreen, multi-tasking smartphone with Nokia quality? Doesn't look like they have many fancier models.
possibly, but probably also less legal hassle. You are in fact selling a 'legit' answer to a real problem.

Yes, it's extortion, but it's taking one of the talking points away, if nothing else.
Time Zone Hacking
It occurs to me that Upskirt is released under an MIT License, and is hosted on Github. So it would take approximately one click to create a fork and rename it to something else. The names of the files under the src/ directory are things like "markdown.c" and "buffer.c", nothing pornographic there.

I agree that when creating an open source solution, you should name it something work-appropriate. On the other hand, picking a name that's unique tends to get it to stick in developer's minds (who read about lots of open source solutions on a daily basis).

I guess I'm just saying: it sounds like you spent a lot of work on a "mammoth" task that could have easily been handled a different way.
"with this move Apple proves that free speech and the right for palestinians to be free from Israeli occupation are not granted at Apple."

Apple has never granted Free Speech. No company has.* Or any other rights.

The best you can get is a contract that states how each side benefits from the transaction. Without a contract, you're playing by the company's rules on the company's property.

Why anyone is ever surprised at this is beyond me.

* NearlyFreeSpeech.net is impressive in its attempt at this. But even they admit they can't do certain things, like oppose the laws of the United States. I'm sure there are others that attempt it, also.
You could definitely sell these I reckon.
As mathias_10gen points out below this is the default behavior of ObjectId. You just have to be carful if you decide to override the _id field.
Sure, but a high end phone isn't over $800 (isn't that what you were responding to?). iPhone 4 unlocked is $750 on Amazon, Androids are usually in the $600-$700 range for their high end devices. But Nokias are always in the high 800s and into the 900s.
The immigration laws in the US are completely and utterly broken. My parents immigrated here (legally) a few decades ago and eventually decide to become citizens through naturalization. As I was still a kid at the time I acquired citizenship by derivation. I have held and maintained a US passport since that date. However later in life when I enlisted in the U.S. Army my passport was not considered proof of citizenship (although Executive order 610 states it should be). Instead I was asked to apply for a Certificate of Citizenship as proof. I started the process only to find out it would take 4 years (due to backlog) before I should expect the certificate to be issues. If it takes 4 years for an existing citizen with a passport to get through the process what hope do actual immigrants have?
Prediction: funding runs dry after five years.

I think only a few religious/academic institutions have managed to have ambitious projects in the 100-year range.
Similarly, I will often downvote comments that complain about being downvoted, either as a reply or an edit. I find whining about votes detracts from the discussion and has no place here and therefore is worth a downvote. People need to become less concerned about their scores - if people find a comment is valuable, it will be upvoted. If not, it may be downvoted and complaining about being downvoted makes it less valuable, not more.

Of course, by my own logic, this comment should also be downvoted purely because it is a meta comment, is off-topic and detracts from the actual discussion. Hell, if I could, I'd do it myself ;-)
JS is just not enougth lisp in that way. In lisps you have the parser in your langague (read). You cant call eval on a string and thatway avoiding this securety hole.

(You can call eval on a string but it will just return that same string)
I had a roommate in college who would write code like this. I (and several other people) tried to explain to him that he couldn't necessarily count on the pattern working all the time. His response was to say, "But it works here!" and continue abusing C++'s undefined behavior.

I stopped giving him help with his CS coursework in fairly short order.
I don't know for certain, but I think a decent amount of the Android Facebook app is now just HTML from the mobile site stuck inside the app. I know that they did that on the iOS app, at least for the main newsfeed.
I'm not so sure of that. If Mac is still the hacker (pg hacker, not New York Times hacker) platform of choice then there may be at least as many Mac users if not more.
I can't remember the last time a schema I made in week 1 was similar to the schema in week 4. That alone is why I made that statement. Modifying schemes requires modifying code all over the place that relies on it. The majority of the time, with Mongo, I can ignore those changes and only code for what I added.

That is my experience. Perhaps you have the patience and foresight to plan out your schema well before coding.
India to investigate antitrust complaints against Apple
Rails doesn't bundle sqlite3, just lists it as a default dependency for new projects.
Some/M=most Mongodb client libraries can do this for you. I can see arguments both ways to keep it in the server or keep it in the client library. 10gen does a hell of a job supporting a wide variety of very good client libraries.
They should replace it with Oracle's logo now. Just for giggles.
Could Sapiens have genetically dominate genes, and through breeding and competition wipe out the others? Do we have proof that the others like Egaster could have moved as far as we have, from sub-Saharan Africa to Iran, Siberia, Alaska, or from Iran to Indochina, Australia, Fiji and Chile?
Thanks! Feel free to reuse as many ideas as you like :) It took me more than 2 years to get it there -- it is by far the toughest system I've ever designed.
Syntax Highlighting with vim for Keynote
Sarcasm is never unwarranted.
Also, the only reason the author would expect their comment to be downvoted is because 1) its insightful, but unpopular and 2) because the author knows right well that the post adds little value, is off-topic or detracts from the conversation.

If its #1, then you must clearly state your argument. A well thought out, but unpopular, opinion normally doesn't get as many downvotes as a not so well thought out opinion.

If its #2, then maybe the author should simply refrain from posting.
I got part way through the article and started to turn off. I forced my way to the end, and I've decided - he still hasn't learned the lesson.

That is really badly written from the point of view of trying to engage and retain the reader about something he thinks is important, but the reader might not.

Ironic.
If you don't have to pay for the power or the equipment, it's infinitely efficient!
Holy crap, I did not know that.
I don't know... You make about 0.1 cents per hour mining with a in the wild CPU, that's a lot of emails that could be sent out. Even if spam has a conversion rate of 1 in 10 million it is probably more worth it.
Heisenberg Raises Money
Why down vote the commenter? Seems like a valid question.

I've known a lot of people who have great opinions and ideas and are very talented at communicating but who otherwise haven't accomplished very much. Or, as I've recently heard a career strategy, "If you're not good at doing, then teach, and if you're not good at teaching, then consult."
Keep in mind that an idle processor draws less power and therefore costs less to run. Unless your electricity is very cheap or free, I don't see how it would work.
Hi, author here.

I agree, there is a lot more that tech blogs could do to help the reader. The problem is, that kind of extra detail isn't really possible without specializing -- and if you specialize, you limit the size of your audience.

The other problem is writing the stories: it would be awesome to have a writer for every kind of topic, so that every story can be tackled with complete background knowledge... but that's just not feasible. Instead, most tech blogs have writers with 'beats' that they cover -- but even then, if the 'green technologies' writer is out for the day, someone else has to tackle it.

So for the most part, we tech bloggers just try to get a good grasp of the technology, and then boil it down into a form that's easy to read and understand. The resultant story quality is variable and depends a lot on how much time and effort you put into it, and your background knowledge -- but I like to think I do a fairly good job :)
Because JSON is well known for its ACID compliance.
Breaking it down in to mini goals taken to its ultimate is David Allen's "What's the next action" question. This one is worth the other 19 put together in my view
"nice" is going to far but it's completely workable. Better to use that than SVN in any case.
"I'm too busy to talk unless you're raising now"
This article mentions nothing about the whisper campaign that essentially touted them as not being Windows compatible, so ones with regular harddrives came out, and the price became the same as a regular notebook.

I remember going to Microcenter to pick up an EEE and they pretty much, even though I specifically asked for it, prevented me from buying one. They did the following:

1. Said "Oh you don't want that, it doesn't run Windows" (I said that's fine, I run linux)

2. Then they said "well, we don't know the price, but we think it is $699" ...... it should've been like $300 or so.

3. Then they said they didn't have any, and wouldn't sell me the display model.

The margins may well have been able to improve with scale, but I'm fairly convinced that a subtle market manipulation was perpetrated by someone somewhere because truly affordable technology pops the bubble.
What amount of genetic variance between two groups of humans would account for / trigger a classification of a different species?

That is, is there a quantifiable amount of variance between say, a fruit fly and a different kind of fly, beyond which it is apparent they are two different species? Something like "2% of genetic variance, therefore a new species"?

Any sort of search on Google only turns up racist sites - apparently "genetic distance" is a codeword for rather unfriendly attitudes towards blacks - obviously I don't know the right technical terms to look for.
Where did you get that figure from?
One last addition - I hope I'm not overstaying my welcome with all these little lectures on security. It used to be that a buffer overrun typically resulted from carelessness, like

char name[100]; //Who has a name longer than 100 characters?
printf(“What is your name?”);
scanf(name, ”%s”);

It turns out that the same kind of people who have names like "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students; --" sometimes have 150-character names with a return address and a few bytes of malicious code. That's something that you handle kind of like you sanitize your inputs. You don't pour user input into a limited space. Scanf is deprecated now, and this kind of a vuln is becoming rare.

But as I explain a couple of comments down, a buffer overflow doesn't have to be this simple. You can get a bad pointer in a structure anywhere in your program, and when you use the structure, you will overwrite the stack. It's very hard to catch that kind of vuln - basically, it's a race with you (and white hats) vs. black hats. This is why I welcome the switch from C/C++ to managed code which is happening now, but very, very slowly.
How many palestinians have iPhones? I sincerely doubt this was helping many people resist israeli occupation
In fairness, I pared down the example for clarity (and to protect the guilty).
In materials science labs around the world, researchers are performing 'miracles'.

Aerogels could eliminate most of the waste heat from buildings. Piezoelectric nanogenerators could power mobile electronic devices. Graphene transistors could attain speeds of 1THz. And multiferroics like the beastly Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10 mentioned above could replace bulky laptop batteries.

But what is achieved with multi-million dollar government sponsored research grants in controlled labs is difficult to transfer to ones doorstep.

One barrier is economic: an aerogel house would cost $50M! A pricetag that may be acceptable to the Department of Defense, but won't do Peoria Joe much good.
Maybe you've heard of something called time. That is a problem. If you think you can get it down to some kind of automated algorithm, good luck. Like I said, the input will be crap. Have fun proving Mr. Martinez is Mr. Martinez. People like us, who are waiting in line, have already provided the nec input. And paid up too. That's where you solve problems. Not by catering to the dudes at Home Depot who dont trust you, can't afford the fees, and have documentation you can understand if you're lukcy.
T-Mobile: 1M iPhones, Micro SIMs Coming
a README on the repo would be nice... #justsaying
Call Center In The Cloud: Cheaper And Simpler
Afraid not. The WSDL is so baroque, so deeply nested with objects inside objects inside objects, that no SOAP client is capable of parsing it.

To write requests, I've had to resort to building templates manually. To read responses, I've had to resort to walking the DOM tree to hunt-and-peck for the fields I need.
A bit of a meta-comment: This article is so poorly edited and — as a result — so overly long that it makes me wonder if IT World encourages its writers to blather on for pages in order to gin up page views. In my case, it didn't quite work out, as I stopped reading about halfway down the third page and left, making a mental note not to bother reading articles on IT World.
They aren't alternatives: spam is network IO bound, mining is CPU bound. The smart bot herder would do both.

The main danger is that the target notices that their machine is using 100% CPU and removes the bot. It is easier to notice CPU load (heat, fan noise, prominent position in Task Manager) than network load.
if you have any questions, let me know. we're very excited about this!
Torrents cannot compete with Hulu (from what I have heard).
It is perplexing that Microsoft (presumably SQL-Server) has got so many votes. In my experience, absolutely nobody chooses to use it. They just have aggressive sales people who use it as a bargaining chip to elbow out Oracle and help win other business.
It would have been irresponsible for them to NOT pull this app. They just took down the app that lists sobriety checkpoints, which are, by law, publicly available information. Apple wants a sanitized app store, and the Third Infantada app clearly violates that principle.
Except if you want to do a nice pagination interface over a set of data. select count() in postgresql takes forever on large tables. select count() over myisam is speedy. select count(*) over innodb is speedy but an estimate (I'd still prefer an fast estimate over exceedingly slow accuracy for many scenarios, such as paginated web interfaces).
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That's a pretty telling irony.

Git seems to have broken down the social contracts around forking that kept most opensource projects cohesive. Unless the project has a great deal or inertia, it is difficult to remain the canonical source, and the project effectively disperses.
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Facebook only pulled the page after comments turned violent. Initially, they said the page would be allowed to stay. Then the posts began to incite violence, which is against the FB TOS. It had nothing to do with censoring a call from "liberation from occupation", if you can really call it that.
Ecologist here. Look into "competitive exclusion" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_exclusion). Basically two species that compete for exactly the same niche cannot coexist: the species with a higher fitness will win out, causing the other to become extinct. Stochasticity plays a role as well in determining who stays and who goes. And, as the environment and community structure changes, the definition of fitness changes as well. There is a large body of experimental research on this topic.

Throughout history there have been other hominid species and the amount of time that more than one species have coexisted has been relatively small because one species invariably drives the other(s) to extinction.
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So, then you could develop for WP7 and Win8 using HTML+CSS or... Qt?
Very true.

Of course, the exact details depend on the architecture. For example, I've been doing a bunch of PIC24 microcontroller programming recently, in both C and assembly. On these, an interrupt will store the return address on the stack, obliterating the variable. However, if more dead variables are on the stack, they may be left intact, since PIC24 uses shadow-registers to stash away the users register values temporarily so that the interrupt may reuse them. That is, they are not temporarily pushed onto the stack (obliterating more dead variables), but rather stashed in shadow registers.

Actually, interrupts store two 16bit values from the stack - a 24bit instruction pointer and the lower 8bit of the STATUS register, so would destroy 32 bits worth of dead variables' values.
Looks horrid. The mockups they did initially were much nicer looking phones:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/02/11x021...
No MacOsX support.
Yeah, I had Hulu Plus for a bit, and the thing about the commercials that got me was the bait and switch time indication. They'd have a countdown saying "Your video will resume in 30 seconds", then another commercial would start and the countdown would reset! Not impressed.
I built a similar library on top of YUI called Feature Cue while I was at Yahoo! Sadly it was never open sourced, got rewritten, over-engineered and (as far as I know) faded into obscurity.

I'm glad the Optimizely guys have released their version, because based on our user testing novice users really respond well to this kind of interactive product tour.
People Don’t Want iPads. They Want Smaller MacBooks.
"...and it's kind of the "slowest" part of the speech where he starts talking about biology and the lymbic system and blah blah blah science whatever (that's literally how I remember that section of the talk in my head)..."

This was the most interesting part of the article for me-- where you switched roles and became the listener that was deciding not to take the time or effort to understand.

Is deciding not to make the effort there really what you felt like you were doing? Or could the speaker have communicated in a different way to make the "blah blah blah science whatever" more accessible or interesting to you?

I'd be interested to read about your experiences putting yourself in your listeners' shoes rather than speculating about what it's like for them.
Immigration does not have to be free of charge.

I'm sure Jose Vargas is ready to pay for getting his legal status.

But immigration quotas should be removed (or at least significantly increased).
Microsoft has a search product?
How do you strong arm your way into consumers hands? Smartphones are a very, very personal purchase. It's not like a PC where you use what your company demands you use. If WP7 succeeds it'll be on it's own merits.