skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Google to "go to war" I think one or both of following would have to happen:

(1) a non-iOS competitor will have to take non-trivial market share from Android. [Or iOS making huge gains in the low end market I guess.]

(2) an Android handset maker of note drops Android phones due primarily to licensing costs.

At that point you might see the "Open Handset Patent Alliance" formed with a pretty big patent club to deter lawsuits.
And, I think that it's okay to insult people, for example it's okay to call someone who assigns "femininity" to character flaws a male chauvinistic pig.

Do you really believe that there are no linkages between sex and certain character flaws? Or is it just that this is one of those things that people should know better than to talk about when being polite? [I'd probably agree with the latter, FWIW]

Because in my life, the character flaws that I've seen in people absolutely tend to cluster based on sex. The stereotypes of the violent alcoholic boyfriend and capricious hypersensitive girlfriend come to mind as patterns that I've seen played out way too many times for the correlation to be a statistical anomaly, given that the inverse situations are very rare. I'd never say that women can't be abusive drunks that cheat on their SOs with 20 year olds and pay more attention to their jobs than their kids, but if you heard that a person of unknown sex was described that way, where would you put your money? Is it really so unfair to make that assumption?

In the end it doesn't really matter w.r.t. the current debacle - it's flat out wrong to refer to people as "bitch", and even more wrong to do so at a professional conference, and I just won't stand up for that. I do, however, think that it's fine and proper to consider certain personality traits to be more prevalent in women than men and vice versa, as long as the correlations are real (whether or not they're to blame on genetics or culture); to do otherwise is to pretend to live in a world that only exists in our imaginations.
I think the important bit here is the time/money tradeoffs. I mean, sure, I can live on two grand a month, but that means I'm cooking most of my own food, repairing my own car, etc... I mean, those are all fine things to do, but if you are investing in my business, it might be worth the cash to pay me enough that I can afford to pay other people to deal with my personal needs. I mean, if I spend the money on a new BMW, that doesn't help you. But for the same money, I can have someone come by and clean my house once a week, and have enough left over to get takeaway on busy nights. Both of those things will free up time for me to make money for both of us.
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Well, the question is if Apple would be making even more if they didn't have to compete with Android.
Is it just me, or is this writer ALL OVER THE PLACE?

That's kinda the point. It's comedy.
He was being tongue in cheek, or sarcastic. Private messages in FB are basically like emails. You have a private inbox that you can decide (based on your privacy controls) if/who can send private messages to you. This inbox is in a "Messages" section which isn't connected to your wall or profile in any way.
I am the main author for a static analysis tool for a dynamic language on the JVM. My tool also has many rules that could be considered controversial, some rules that conflict with each other, and (I hope) many rules that are genuinely useful. Our message has always been: configure the ruleset based on the coding guidelines that you want for your project. There is no one ruleset to rule them all.

I, myself, have written many rules that I personally would never apply to my own codebase, but perhaps someone else might. My belief is that the world can benefit from static analysis tools and that adoption will be faster if we focus on providing as many rules as possible even if some are (in my opinion) questionable.

So CSS-Lint can be configured to only enforce the rules you want. If a user can find 5-10 rules that they like, then it seems like a good idea to start using the tool, especially if the team is larger and less highly skilled. But it seems petty to me to lambast a project just because you disagree with the name. Yes the intent of CSS-Lint is something different than base Lint, but I can say from experience that people looking for static analysis tools often google for "css lint" or "java lint" before understanding that Lint is a product and Static Analysis is the general term.

To summarize: CSS-Lint is just a name and the product is aggressively marketed. That doesn't mean it can't be useful.
Wait, this is serious? It smells like satire, or at best a troll. If you have a legit startup why in god's name would you act like RIM is the source of value and innovation in mobile? Why would you wed yourself to a company that's doing so poorly?
You would have explained the origin of the encrypted data on the laptop, and they would either drag the person who was the origin into the case as a defendant or have him testify. It's really quite simple

Assuming the original owner can be identified (I've bought a laptop off of craigslist with no way to find the previous owner even a day later), found (contact data is still valid, person is willing to cooperate with the investigation), is willing to corroborate your story (what if the laptop was, unbeknownst to the buyer, stolen property or the seller pleads the 5th and/or lies about the encrypted files), and that the prosecution is willing to believe the both of you.

It is simple, but relies on a WHOLE lot of faith in the system.

you would rightly be considered to be lying because that's the most plausible case for that behavior.

If you're going to be held in contempt (as the GP seems to be discussing) just for something that is the most plausible of options kind of destroys the judiciary's position of dealing with the complex unforeseen circumstances that arise in law. The most plausible situation is that OJ killed his wife, but we don't carry out justice with such imprecision.
Switch to Profile view, click Edit Profile, and click the (probably shaded/barely visible) "Send an email" button underneath your profile picture. There are a number of privacy options here, although, notably, "anybody on the web" still means "anybody with a Google profile" (or at least I couldn't get it to work unless I was logged in).

Senders see a popup window and indeed G+ does not reveal your e-mail address, which is as it should be. Receivers get an e-mail entitled something like "Message via your Google Profile" with the sender's Gmail account's from name/address.

My comment on G+ encouraging the use of your "real" identity was just meant to highlight that apparently Twitter is the outlier as far as social networking sites go, with regard to whether you can have a completely anonymous (or pseudonymous) conversation via PM. With G+, it seems clear they just want you to use GMail.
Unless things have changed, I can vouch for the quality of iRiver's kit, particularly the high quality of their firmware. I have owned a number of MP3 players from them over the years, and all were superb products.
And you are failing to understand the 5th Amendment. You do not have to give up that information, if it is only in your head, regardless of the subpoena. That is the entire point of the 5th. You can't stop the government from doing its search, you can't actively hide it, but you don't have to give them the information if it will incriminate you.
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I mentioned trigraphs as an example of a C standard feature disabled by default in GCC, and then I just mentioned how to enable just that feature. It wasn't supposed to be included among the most important options, it just got there ;-).
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Google not working for your programming questions? Append “stack” to the end.
I see the inverse - not the FB in G+, rather the Google in G+. Something like "all of Google's sharing sites are connected now, so it's great way to talk to people and share photos".
Your defense is wrapped up in the context of the entire conversation, which is specifically about a particular behavior. Claims that you're offended by the behavior and are only defending ther person, even if they are genuine, are superseded by the enclosing context. For better or worse.
The same reason they introduced DirectX to compete with OpenGL. Lock-in.
Yes, but since sites like Hacker News have been dutifully advertising Google+ non-stop since it came out, Google can release non-news and have it covered like it's news.
Is there a hope that with more (successfully) competing e-book vendors, more DRM-free books will be in the works? As a Kindle owner, the biggest thing preventing me from considering buying a Google books based device would be the fact that I couldn't read the books I previously purchased through Amazon on it.

Is there any hope that DRM'ed e-books will have a similar trajectory as MP3s did?
"we test the boundaries, and sometimes we make mistakes just to find out where those boundaries are." But somehow I do not think you are acknowledging a mistake in this case.
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Idealab CEO: Google+ will be fastest service ever to hit 100M users
You probably _have_ seen different figures.

Chrome market share is anywhere from 13% to 20% depending on the source.

Firefox market share is between 22% and 29% depending on the source.
Good. Next time I am in the US I'll check it out! :)
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ingroup
My weekend project: MongoDB implementation in Ruby
A gallery w/ the offending image: http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/sport/local-football-in-a...
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No nonsense registration + dns zone management is something I've been looking for. Add dns management!
I didn't understand why he said "K-hole". This kind of K-hole? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-hole
"It's like Facebook, but the font is bigger."
Hmm...I wonder how far you could get with a big thermos bottle, stored underground in the coldest place you can find, with a small refrigerator designed for longevity and powered by radioisotopes or geothermal. Take "organizational failure" out of the equation, at least in terms of keeping the patients frozen.

Looting might still be an issue, as it was for the pharoahs, but at least customers wouldn't thaw out because some company went bankrupt.
You could lighten it in the darkroom, which sounds like AP would allow, but not remove it completely.
Firefox 4 was a lot faster than Firefox 3.6 in all sorts of ways.

Some of those improvements were checked in before Firefox 3.6 was even released.

The only reason it looks like they took a long time to do is because the release cycle for Firefox 4 was long, so you didn't see the improvements until the final release of Firefox 4.

So all the release schedule is doing here is getting improvements out to users closer to when the code is written.
GOOGLE+ RUNS OUT OF DISK SPACE FLOODS INBOXES WITH NOTIFICATION SPAMS
Is anyone here surprised? I downloaded the app -- like a fool -- and tried it for a day. It wasn't clear at first that my photos were public to everyone. Beyond that, no one had photos within my geographic area. It was the worst social networking experience of my life.

Once I realized that it was just a scam to take as much of my personal information as possible without giving me anything of value back, I deleted the app.
The "holes" metaphor doesn't really work; something can't be in more than one hole. Holes are also not an easier abstraction to understand than groups or sets. I think this article does a poor job explaining Google+.
4 hours? Cripes! I hope they're kidding about how long that took them. I knew security was bad out there, but that's ridiculous.
Is there any evidence to support this? The value I see generated by small businesses and entrepreneurs has more to do with market incentives, not innovation. I'm seeing them mostly create wealth by offering different mixes of price, quality, and packaging, but mostly built on existing innovation that has already been commercially applied.

37Signals, for instance, didn't really innovate. They didn't invent groupware or were nowhere near the first to commercially apply it. They simply built a product with the right levels of price, quality, and packaging that hit the right spot for a large number of people. This isn't as much innovation as it is market savvy and competitiveness.

This isn't to say that they aren't very important though, quite the contrary. Small businesses create vast amounts of wealth, and more often directly reward those who are responsible for it, rather than further lining the pockets of the super rich or bureaucrats.
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The thing about medical insurance in the US is that you really don't know if the policy you have is reasonable for major medical events. Everyday stuff yes, but until that rare major event happens, and you actually try to exercise what you hope you purchased - it's a giant unknown. e.g. The insurance regulators in CA are having trouble trying to stamp out issues where a major medical claim triggers a company review of your initial insurance application to see if there's any way to deny that you even have a valid policy - even if you've been carrying the insurance for years.
Maybe, but to be fair, that's only part of it. OpenCL is C99-based, and MS wants a C++ solution. OpenCL introduces more problems than it solves, primarily because the standards body mandated C99 and a low-level, driver-style interface.

Have you ever seen an OpenCL Hello World program [1]? It's miserable.

[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Perfor...
Thanks, it's much appreciated!
The most important product of AP (and most serious news organizations) is credibility. Something like this is a cancer to their brand that they have to cut out in the most absolute terms possible. I don't think there was any malice by the photographer but anyone working for a large news organization should be aware how sensitive they are to this kind of thing - if a reporter made up a source or quotation, I'd expect a similar response.
If you find yourself out of other options, and Inkscape is crashing on you or you don't like the UI, you can try OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice Draw. It seems to work pretty well for flowcharts, though it doesn't come with very many symbols.
Not sure how it would look, but lately I've been seeing blog-type posts on G+ pages, so it would be cool to see support for Markdown-like syntax.
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Who has an ounce of originality in your opinion?

http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
is it just me, or does it look shockingly similar to the Kindle (overall shape, screen size, etc.)? I am a Kindle owner, and love it, my only quibble being the DRM they use. on that front, the 3mill+ public domain books on Google Bookstore is a winner. But I don't think it will be a "Kindle killer".
The author mentions PEP 8. In the Python community, there is a style checker called pep8, which implements the PEP 8 guidelines. Style only. There's also a tool called pyflakes, which does static code analysis. Obviously, it can't catch much, but it does alright. Then, there are lints: pylint and pychecker. These last two are horribly dogmatic and cannot stand Python which isn't written in their style. We usually don't recommend pylint and pychecker because of their overbearing nature and insistence on Java-in-Python code.

I recently built a couple websites, and we used Sass for the CSS, so we ended up with very nicely formatted SCSS maintained by hand, and minified CSS for deployment. I tried CSS Lint and was horrified at what it did to our CSS, so it's no longer part of our cycle.

If people wanna use it, fine, but it's not helpful to me.
Inappropriate for a start-up marketing video?
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Does anyone know what the state of PyPy with regards to Python 3 is? I had a quick google around but could only find an april fool's joke from 2008!
I'd like to see:

* filtering options for the main stream - at the very least be able to choose circles to include/exclude

* a "muted" stream (then I'll quickly mute the 90+% of the stream I find of little interest - but can still access or unmute if I want to)

* Something similar to facebook groups. I know this can be done elsewhere (Facebook Groups, Ning, reddit, etc.) but Google+ has the potential to integrate small groups into my daily workflow. More importantly, there are many people I know only because of a specific interest - and I'd like to only interact with them on that specific interest.

All 3 of these specific suggestions are under the same umbrella: reduce noise while engaging in more meaningful conversation and information sharing on topics I care about.
Unsalted MD5 as well. And looking at the list of people apparently in their employ, this could lead to some serious drama.

Seriously though, unsalted MD5? Again? Like they say in the release, anonymous can't be any more explicit. Their slogan is "expect us." That should be a clue.
I recently bought a game which I (and friends) implemented versions of in high school... in the early 80s. :-)
yeah, I actually prefer this for the use case of "I have a stupid link to share with one or two people, then we might have a few back and forth comments, each only a sentence or two long."

I think it's a nicer forum for that than even threaded email clients, but at least one friend thought it was weird to be doing it in g+ rather than email, so we'll see.
It's kind of two fold.

1) I have a large interest in teaching children how to program, and I think that getting them to build and run something on a game console speaks more to their minds than a computer. Kids by and large want to own a domain, it's just part of growing up - videogames tend to fill this role for them, so I think it's worth expanding on. There hasn't really been a game console throughout history (to my admittedly short knowledge) that a kid could just build and run stuff on.

I've got some more stuff in this vein I plan to release over the next two weeks, should be pretty fun.

2) I love Node.js, but I feel like that's where all the fun JS is happening these days. The Wii appealed to me in this regard as it's a platform where nobody had really tread this ground - there were one or two half-baked approaches around, but due to Nintendo trying to keep it kinda secret-ish none of them ever really got that far.

In a sense, the Wii is "the other other Javascript platform that nobody thinks about". ;)
> The reasons why Color appears to be imploding can't be known for sure.

I'd guess that it might have something to do with the lack of product...
Submitted 54 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2558664
As long as Kindle has free 3g there is no way i'm going to change it. It can be bugged as hell, but the possibility of browsing my email or HN and someother sites from almost everywhere for free cannot be easilly replaced.
We're playing around with a few different "grassroots" marketing ideas and wonder if this gets a thumbs up/thumbs down? Thanks for the feedback.
> my suggestion is that ...

Here's what you claimed - "but when you weight by funding, compiled languages clean house".

Do you wish to abandon that claim?
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Actually, words like 'bitch' and 'ho' ('whore') are very common gender slurs among some groups, unlike 'bastard' or 'asshole', so it's hard to find a 'reverse' situation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitch_(insult)#Hip_hop_culture
Aha. I yet again fail to detect irony in text. The entire comment makes so much more sense in that light, perfect sense in fact.
I don't understand this. Shut down the military short of non-essential functions, shift money to bringing soldiers home now, and cancel every military contract. See how long before the Republicans capitulate. The executive branch holds the keys to military spending.

Foreign aid to Israel and Egypt is magically delayed, too. This debt ceiling could be used to hit goals that the progressive movement has wanted for years and put the Republicans in a weak position for negotiating. Everyone would hurt, of course, but it wouldn't last long before Republicans blinked.
The article on cooling techniques doesn't seem to solve the ice crystal problem.

Some guys in Japan might have cracked it though. They wanted a better way to preserve sushi. Their method uses a magnetic field to vibrate water molecules while they lower the temperature below freezing. Then they turn off the magnets, and the water freezes instantly, without crystals.

It worked so well they'll planning to develop it further for organ transplants. I'm really curious what would happen if they tried it on a live animal.

(google "magnet sushi organ")
I think this is just ranting and doesn't really add to the discussion.
At this point, I think these guys should be given a job. If they can exploit these vulnerabilities then it's almost certain that our enemies already are exploiting them.
Name calling doesn't rise to the level of expressing a concern.
Nothing jumps out at me as a Killer Feature that would make me want to own this rather than my Kindle.

I can see Google competing with Facebook, but Amazon? Seems like they should rethink that battle - going head to head is not going to be a winning strategy.
Thanks for leaving a comment. A lot of (pretty fascist, imho) people seem to have just down-voted me instead.
The article is about Google+ not GMail. Although, admittedly, they are related, I feel that you've accidentally compared apples and oranges.
And it seems pretty clear as well that Noah didn't mean to offend her with the slide. People are mad at him for the effect his presentation had. There's hardly enough evidence to establish malice on his part — much less than on Anne's, since at least she was admittedly angry when she threw the sauce. Both actions were ill-considered.
Another useful GCC extension is statements within expressions:

#define max(a,b)
({ typeof (a) _a = (a);
typeof (b) _b = (b);
_a > _b ? _a : _b; })
This is extremely week argument for CSS Lint.
CSS is not the starting point (unless you are talking about CSS sprites) for the performance optimization, and, frankly, it may never be a point.
On a normal page it would be hard even measure difference between performance of class vs. descendent selector and littering your markup with classes may offset any benefits by simply getting bigger document which takes longer to parse.

And tell me, how making id selector (the fastest) persona non grata helps performance?

"Rebutting" a single point (which was not even a point, just a note, based on how do you "fee" about the author, does not rebut anything.

I am a programmer and I tell you: CSS Lint won't make your pages faster. It may make the slower, but that does not matter, cause nobody will notice it either way.
I have thought about this as well, and I hope (and think) there will be. The Kindle DRM wasn't a problem initially, because it was one of the first widely sold e-readers with a huge company backing it. however, as more devices come out that can compete with the quality of the Kindle, a change will need to happen.

I was about to type "No one will buy Amazon e-books without a Kindle, and no one will buy a Kindle if they can't read the books elsewhere", but I'm backstepping. The current Kindle business model reminds me of Apple/iTunes, something that makes me shudder. If they can still make enough money off DRM content, then maybe the incentive to make it open is small.
Assertion rewriting in py.test
The absurd thing is that as worded it appears cameras that remove red eye automatically might technically violate their policy.