skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this a problem in Firefox but not in Chrome? Chrome updates itself all the time and it's really hard to make it stop doing so.

Now Firefox is moving in the same direction and this behavior suddenly gets to be a problem.

Firefox releases new major releases every six weeks, but there is a period of 12 weeks for it to move from alpha to final. That should be enough time to debug, fix, test and roll out.

And if you are targeting corporate installations, you will probably disable Firefox auto-updating itself, but again, it's irrelevant to ask "which version of Firefox are you running?" as the answer will always be: "the latest possible" which is the latest stable in non-managed cases and the latest deployed in managed cases.

Hence I think removing the version number from the about box is no big deal and will help against all these "omg! They are crazy to release so many major versions in so little time" posts we are seeing all over the place.
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I've done so once before, but I've not seen in any other comments anywhere in these threads mentions of this notable insight, "Motorola Mobility held $5.5B in cash and deferred tax assets; this could put Google's (GOOG) real purchase price around $7B."[1]

[1]http://seekingalpha.com/article/278932-can-motorola-mobility...
Edit like an Ace
We're working on it... we certainly have some stiff competition! :)
I don't think Microsoft is or ever was seriously interested in buying a hardware OEM. After all, they stayed away from PC OEMS even when their market capitalization was north of $500 billion.

When asked why don't they make their own Windows Phone(with WP7) instead of relying on OEMs for it, their reply was 'Microsoft likes to create platforms'.

This is the reason that they will probably stay away from Nokia.

I think their one exception is consoles, where they went with the industry standard of vertically integrated hardware.
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I'm not sure I see the point of opening an Android release after it's developed. It defeats a primary benefit of open source software.

Well, having the code released at all, is always better than not having it. The more code released to the world under a reasonable F/OSS license, the better, as far as I'm concerned. That said, you make a good point... Android isn't necessarily developed in the most open of fashions, despite the fact that the source itself is, technically, open source. :-(

And even then, on most models (HTC, Motorola), unless I'm willing to violate my warranty and root it or unlock the bootloader, I'm not able to actually use the source.

Nonetheless, you do have that choice. That's a fundamentally different scenario than with, say, a win7 phone or whatever, where you don't have access to the source at all. Plenty of people are willing to take the chance with the warranty situation in order to load custom versions of Android, so clearly this matters to some people.
Blog entry on new 'safe' rolling release Update Pack thing: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1781
Just sent you an email (stephen at nvrforget.com)
The Coding Wasteland - Technical Debt vs. Technical Waste
How do trains stay on their tracks? Not what you may think. [video]
DC is seeing an explosion and it's great! I know of 3 co-working spaces that popped up recently. Also if you're in DC come to the meetups advertised via Startup Digest DC. There was also a group for DC Hacker News readers altho there hasn't been much movement in that there are lots of cool things going. One thing I'd love to see is an incubator program in DC proper. I know there is one that is run as a partnership with UMC CP but I've looked (and looked) and cannot find anything in DC. If anybody knows of one I'd love to check it out.
Motorola Solutions:

http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/Thomson_M&A/Moto...
> in this case an explicit social contract

It's explicit? Great! Can you tell me exactly what this explicit contract says, who signed it, and how it is that whoever signed it managed to get my power of attorney?
I find that preventing myself from reading HN works wonders for reducing procrastination.
What does this gain you? It doesn't matter what the version number is, so why not make it a simple integer? Version numbers aren't a way to communicate feature changes, you do that in release notes.

Your attitude towards version numbers is exactly what this change seeks to eliminate.
I was going to try it, but, honest feedback, the fact that I have to login before even giving it a go is a real no-go. Why don't you let me try before signing in?
Pretty ironic that confusion is brewing even among the technically savvy crowd here. This probably proves the OP's point.
I, for one, am getting tired of Florian Mueller's "anti-foss" articles here. The deal will not fall through. It's not like Google could stomp competition in the smartphone industry just from buying Motorola. It's ridiculous to even think of that.
> If things were all going to be hunky-dory as you claim,

I don't remember saying that. Nokia was doomed. Now, with Elop, it's even more doomed.

> and got a cash infusion of upwards of a billion for that

That's his only excuse

> All this was needed for survival interim while they rush out new devices. Android would've provided none of that.

Except a viable competitor. WP7 has, so far, failed to gain traction despite Microsoft's efforts. Nobody but Elop is betting on it.

> Atleast with WP7, Nokia is not competing with bargain basement Chinese phones

Do you really believe Motorola, HTC, Samsung and the other Android manufacturers are competing with them?
seems to be working fine, I update my ST2 fairly often and was under impression that I use latest version.

I am really happy with progress so far and enjoying using it. Since I otherwise use vim, this is pretty big thing :) FYI
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They did provide Windows CE for the Dreamcast though, before the Xbox.

EDIT: Some more background here:
http://news.cnet.com/Windows-CE-notably-absent-from-Dreamcas...
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http://lanyrd.com/2005/hcs-guest-lecture/skkr/
Google will be very tempted to design a great
iPhone compete device

Past experience shows that Google doesn't have it in their DNA to build something akin to the iPhone. And the iPhone isn't great just because of how it feels, it's the customers service too. It would be stupid if they tried.

No, your best bet for an iPhone killer is Samsung, if only they would pull their head out of their ass for a moment and realize that the SG II is a disappointment as far as software goes and they should just install the original Android on it. Samsung should just focus on their strengths and let Google worry about the software.

This is Google's best approach - their stated goal for Android was to increase competition in the mobiles market. This strategy worked well (after all, their products are now distributed on most smartphones sold, what else could they want?) and they should just continue this strategy with Motorola -- and let Samsung and HTC compete directly with Apple, making Motorola release good products from time to time, just to keep them under fire.
At the same time there are many upsides too. Northern NJ has easy access to NYC without the high cost of living, overhead, and additional city taxes. As the tech scene in NYC continues to grow, I can see some of it spilling over to the other side of the bridge (or tunnel). In fact, if NYC does ever produce a massive tech company ( a la FB, Google, Paypal, etc size) I can see norther NJ being the logical location for a campus headquarters.
You tell users to click on Troubleshooting in the help menu.
I am still waiting for someone to make a good argument that effectively counters Buffett's OpEd.

'changing tax laws is going to change capital investment' is not an argument against changing tax laws. Capital investment is affected daily by economic growth, interest rates, investor confidence, and a large number of other factors. Buffett points out in his OpEd that when capital gains tax were much higher in the past than they are currently, economic growth was higher than it is now. This implies that higher capital gains results in more effective investment. Until you can counter that, you do not have a point to make (and please, no more comparisons to Mongolia).

Also, only someone affiliated with the Nazi party would try to come up with an addendum to Godwin's Law. Sorry, I had to.
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I agree conceptually, though I happen to map different semantics onto the same concepts.

let's coin a term, "muju". What the author describes as technical debt is good muju, and a "mess" is bad muju.

I believe in the same good muju / bad muju concepts. The only difference is that I use the term "technical debt" to refer to both of them. While the author only uses technical debt as a non-pejorative term, I use it as both a pejorative and non-pejorative term.

For me, the analogy of debt still works -- its all a matter of how responsible you spend the money. Take a home equity loan as an example. Spending it on renovating the bathroom and kitchen is (at least historically) likely to be a positive ROI. That's good muju (the author would say "technical debt", I would say "good technical debt"). Spending it on a new sports car would be bad muju (the author would say "a mess", I would say "bad technical debt").
including stochastic Models, and sigmoid curves =]
I read the responses, and I felt exactly the same way. The news has been shared with the partners beforehand and all PR responses have been choreographed. I don't know what they would do exactly, though, since Android is the best mobile OS choice they have. Can't touch IOS. Windows Mobile sucks. Symbian is going away. Not an easy place to be.
I agree with this, but would also like to expand on it with something I've observed in myself and others that I believe is the root of fearing failure/success.

That thing is a lack of comfort with vulnerability. I believe this is because most of us hold onto dysfunctional value systems and we also live in reactionary state where we make decisions based on avoiding invalidation from our peers and authority figures, rather than striving to receive validation by becoming "better".
Finally there is support for this! I'm excited.
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.00037 mph = 0.0065 inches/sec = 0.165 mm/sec
Apple vs Samsung – Did Apple’s Lawyer’s Commit a Procedural Error?
Year, I believe.
My problem with the "remember me" checkbox is that I don't want the site to remember my login credentials until after I know that my login attempt was successful. If I mistyped my email address or password (the latter being both easier to mistype and harder (impossible) to verify), I don't want the site to remember that information.

Fortunately, my browser usually asks me whether it should remember the login information after the page is loaded.
Technical debt is like fixed rate mortgage.

Mess is like adjustable rate mortgage.

You might be able to pay down the former, but you may go underwater if the latter goes way above what you imagined in your worst case scenarios.
Remember the 280 North[1] acquisition by Motorola (they were a YC company)?

I don't know what will happen, but I'm optimistic as a complete outside observer. This acquisition was completely unexpected from any conventional/ conservative perspective.

Edit: I forgot to link:
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280_North
> The birth of Airbnb is a unique story. But the founding of our company simply does not compare to recent events.

Weird way to open; what does this even mean?
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I remember when I was a teenager in 80's there are so many family trees of different British Rock bands was listed. I am wondering someone is going to dig data from LinkedIn, Venture capital fund portfolio history and SEC record to draw a family tree of all technology companies around the world.
For those following Canvas projects it is worth noting the history here, that Mozilla Bespin became Mozilla Skywriter and then ditched HTML5 Canvas altogether for divs only, finally merging with Ace.
> Firefox 6 isn’t scheduled to be released until Tuesday, but Mozilla has uploaded installation files to a FTP server...

> Update: Mozilla has asked us to remove the links to its FTP servers because the versions were not final. We’ll post the download links to the final versions alongside our hands-on review Tuesday.

Nothing of interest here anymore.
I live in New York. About a month ago, I watched a barefoot guy try to walk through Hell's Kitchen. I looked away for about a minute, and when I glanced back, his friends were bringing him napkins to cover the huge bleeding gash in his foot.

Sure, he could have watched where he was going and made sure his soles were tough. I'd just rather minimize the chances of stepping on a sharp chunk of metal, or a syringe. I think I'm at my smartest when I'm not worrying about tetanus.
The Linux implementations of ZFS are dog slow, and for the last few weeks I've been evaluating btrfs as a possibility for my home storage server, and I've ruled it out completely.

btrfs has been "Close to a stable release" for years now, but if you follow their mailing list there are still people reporting total loss of large filesystems once or twice a week (This week I saw filesystem corruption from an unexpected power outtage, and last week there was a data loss/corruption bug caused by a pool of drives with different sector sizes), I desperately want btrfs to be mature but it's more than a few releases away from being stable.
I've never seen a site that stored invalid "remember me" credentials in a way that'd interfere with normal operation.
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I agree with the reduction in expected value, and on its effect in reducing investment in risky-but-lucrative industries, but I think even as a simplified calculation you should consider the tax deduction from the capital loss which can usually be carried over several years.

If I have (say) a 5 year period to carry forward capital losses and that over that time I can open several mines (as you suggest), then the tax is essentially applied to the average profit as opposed to the peak profit. I suspect this tax-efficiency of scale is a significant reason for why you end up with huge corporations in such industries (oil and gas, minerals). Opening a single "mine", the failure of which results in bankruptcy and no future profits from which to deduct losses, is essentially taxed out of viability in an expected-value sense, whereas a large portfolio in an enduring profitable company is profitable in an expected sense.
This made me lol while taking a swig of my lemonade...point for you ;p
"I'm so glad I spent so much time on Hacker News."

...ok, not a constructive reply other than: laughter generates beneficial chemicals in the brain and it's good to be good to others...thanks! carry on. :)
Show HN:Last year I asked HN to do it, now I am doing it myself-JournalClub iPad
Almost one year ago I asked HN if anybody is interested to make a Web app to make reading and finding scientific papers smarter [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1664648].
No one did, at least no one did what "I" think is the best way to approach this problem. A a few month ago I decided to do it myself.<p>Meet JournalClub iPad app (absolutely free), http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journalclub/id443819334?
I have a recommendation engine in the pipeline that I would introduce in the next update (hopefully in a month or so).
I really appreciate any comments, feedbacks.
You know your language has failed you when you can't even agree on whether you're agreeing or disagreeing.
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I wonder if the currency conversion logic is mixed up. Google returns: 1 US dollar = 0.9839 Canadian dollars. I wonder if it's dividing by .9839 instead of multiplying by it, which does get you close to 9.16.
1st, be damned sure that decades old best practices actually aren't the best tool for your current application, developer hype be damned.
Anyone else from Montreal planning to go ?
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Yep, that pretty much invalidates the fact that the stable version of Mongo silently corrupted data.

If only we could make database software that didn't hold grudges!
I'm really happy to see this feature. Sometimes I see a small problem in somebody else's code or documentation and out of sheer laziness I don't go though the trouble of forking, cloning, editing, pushing and sending a pull request. I think this will be wonderful for exactly those situations and should help encourage more people to participate in open source.
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Layerstyles. Just like in Photoshop and it creates CSS
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Link to Apple app store:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journalclub/id443819334?
GCC just happens to not even print a warning about this (even with -Wall). That is pretty bad. The warning can be enabled by specifying -Wpointer-arith or by using -pedantic, though. (Warning: "invalid application of 'sizeof' to a void type")

IBM's xlc compiler produces a warning and compiles the code and it also returns 1. (Warning: "1506-043 (W) The operand of the sizeof operator is not valid.")

Oracle Studio compiler has the best approach and fails to compile. (Error: "cannot take sizeof void")
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You got us. You got the woman with the Coach purse and post nasal drip sitting next to me sniffling her way through a David Baldacci novel. You got the Mom with the stroller and two rug rats. You got the blind dude and his daughter, the one guiding him around by his arm. I guess that’s what being ‘leet’ is all about, huh?
My (somewhat casual) understanding is that the Solaris kernel has always, by necessity, supported modules under a different license much more deeply than Linux. Commercially significant software like the Veritas filesystem and device drivers have always worked this way. So, e.g., the Solaris kernel has a real, no-foolin' ABI.
I do think MS would benefit from vertical integration in the mobile space though.

If there's one consistent pattern to OS platforms (MSFT or otherwise) is that you can expect your OEMs to completely manhandle and abuse it.

It happened to Windows, it's happening now to Android, and without Nokia around to whip the other OEMs into line, it will happen with WP7 also.

Is it any surprise that the most sought after phones have all been vertically integrated? There's a level of hardware-software integration and polish possible there that OEM-based platforms have yet to be able to approach.
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I've contributed some changes and documentation to Ace, really awesome project, great to see it hitting Github!

Support for IE<9 older browsers is a little sketchy at the moment, but hopefully greater exposure through github will see more fixes and features contributed. (Fabian Jakobs seems quite open to new features as long as they fit in with the projects goals)
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I have several security token apps on my phone. I'm not saying that's the best solution, but it is a solution.
By having this tied into github I'm beginning to see how use Ace (or similar) instead of vim/emacs as a day-to-day code edit workflow...

Just fork a project to your account on github, edit in Ace, and then make a pull request when you are done.

Would people do this? If not, is Ace just going to be for minor edits, etc?

I'm curious how other people will use this.

EDIT: people the child comments are telling me the fork is done automatically for you - cool. I need to play around with this on other projects!
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I heard that's illegal in seven states.
I wish he would have gone through with the Golden Ticket / CD Wonka idea. Would have made for a great story.
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Also look at the Acela. Great high speed service between DC and NYC. Faster and sometimes cheaper than flying.
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Imho, if i'm going to download the code to run and test it anyway, i might as well use an editor on my computer (vim/e/sublime) and skip Ace.
Had Microsoft bought Motorola, Nokia would've been in some interesting times...
Thanks! That's the one. Only a few months after it, the first batch of YC started. I wonder if it will be similar for NYC. =)
I look forward to watching, but...

Thumbs down for forcing me to watch this video in my browser. I have other things to do right now and would far prefer to download this to my phone and watch it on the train this evening.
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It would be great if it gets collaborative real time editting.
Link to last year post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1664648
I really absolutely do not understand "verses" mentality and that if everything must support same feature set or it's "bad".

You shouldn't choosing SQL over noSQL, you choose both (or none, or other stuff as your problem requires) and use them in appropriate places in your infrastructure. Sometimes you want performance over durability.
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Awesome. This page is even better:

http://lanyrd.com/profile/paulg/past/speaking/

Much more useful than Wikipedia. For an influential speaker there ought to be a list of talks just like for a famous singer there's a list of singles.
I was already a huge fan of the Bespin / Cloud9ide / ace projects so this is great news!
What made Microsoft evil: They used to go into acquisition talks with small companies without planning to buy them. They'd learn about their technology and duplicate it themselves.

Another example of evil is cell phone carriers giving users high internet speeds but putting ridiculous caps on them. Or Apple banning apps from the app store then copying their functionality into their own software.

I don't know if Google has done or does anything like that, and that is why people tend to think they're 'better' than other companies.

Therefore by evil what is meant is the company using slimy underhanded tactics on competitors or customers (such companies usually use them on both). Maybe it can be expressed in one word: Cheating. Does the company cheat customers, partners, etc?
Ace is gradually gaining full IDE features like syntax checking, split views, and responsive behaviours such as auto-brace/bracket/parens insertion.

If you want an online-only workflow, Cloud9 already offers github as a backend for an Ace powered IDE. I think Ajax.org have hired someone to work on IntelliSense style auto-complete for Cloud9, not sure if those will be suitable to be put into Ace itself.
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If you want to speak "honestly" . . . everything you just said was pulled out of your ass.

Cold showers may influence metabolic rate but their most pronounced effect is that they make you want to avoid taking a shower, resulting in stinky, anxious, unhappy people.

Masturbating is so much fun than any health benefits or detriments are irrelevant. It increases quality of life.
At least the USD to EUR conversion is fine. Not a mixup in the algorithm, at least.