skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that your reasoning only works for those capable of producing their own software. If I'm a normal user, my "freedom" is strongly limited by the fact that I will only ever have access to functionality provided by programmers - I can't produce it myself. And if you remove one of the big motivations for programmers to produce software, you have effectively reduced the freedom of end users - they will be able to do less with their devices, not more.

I have seen projects canned because we needed to use GPLed software to do an implementation in a reasonable timeframe, and management didn't want to give a leg up to our competitors by publishing the code. If the code in question had have been under a BSD license, the project would have gone ahead.
How is iPhone a dumb smartphone? The fact that it's not open (in any mean) doesn't mean it's dumb.
It's ridiculous that this service has plans that allows you to "log in from 9am to 5pm, max 5 hours per day"

To be fair, they offer "Anytime" plans which cost more, but let you log in any time you like :)
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This might be a good missing link for PhoneGap Build - https://build.phonegap.com/ - which requires that you have a Mac for your certificates. I've seen a few people complain about not being able to use PhoneGap to build an iOS app because they don't have a Mac and don't want to buy one.
@alezozov: many congratulations on the interview opportunity.
I would suggest the B1/B2 visa used for leisure-tourism and/or business. Ideally, if you can get a multiple entry visa valid for a few years, it would enable your visit for the interview, as well as a stay for three-odd months during the Winter session as well.
That said, USCIS tends to be dodgy and unpredictable about these matters, so fingers crossed on that one.
All the best!
The graphic claims that the data is as of the end of October 2011.
Does this assume, that all available girls are available for the whole experiment duration?

Because if "better" girls are "taken" earlier, then it can explain preference to marry earlier seen in real life.
> Why do they now insist that those other financial assets are no longer liabilities of Greece, but liabilities of somebody else?

Because they think that the other party is more likely to live up to its obligations than Greece.

It's pretty clear that it's better to be owed $1 by the German govt than by the Greek govt. However, it is probably better to be owed $1 by the Greek govt than to be owed $0.10 by the German govt.

Somewhere between those points, there's an equilibrium.
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That's a bummer. I thought we were making progress in that regard, but maybe we aren't.
I feel like this story sounds a little like something from Robopocalypse :)

Seriously though, kudos for them if they can capitalize on natural cooling.
It'd be shocking if it wasn't, given that there's a number of FPGA based implementations of more recent and far more complex machines (in terms of gate count at least) than the Alto and early generation lisp machines, such as various incarnations of Commodore Amigas.

Some of them use external CPUs, but newer generation ones such as the FPGA Arcade can hold pretty much the entire machine include the CPU in the FPGA (usual exception is RAM, and a micro controller to bootstrap).

See FPGA Arcade, Natami, Minimig, C-One, Chameleon and others. Natami is the most capable of the bunch (aiming to be a faster, better Amiga), while Chameleon is probably the smallest (the size of an old style Commodore 64 cartridge, and can plug into a real Commodore 64, since it started as a C64 expansion on steroids, but it can run standalone too), with FPGA Arcade a nice middle group (fits in Mini-ITX form factor boxes, but isn't deep enough to fill nearly all of the box).

FPGA Arcade: http://www.fpgaarcade.com/
Chameleon: http://www.vesalia.de/e_chameleon.htm
My (not wild) guess is that there was already a contract. Not sure who's paying who, though :)
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Do you agree with each point?
Sad but true. Keyboard or Market or Launcher or something crashes every day on my N1. These are core OS components on the reference device sold by the platform owner.

The ridiculous thing is that these apps relaunch and work fine on the 2nd or 3rd try, so why does Google give me an annoying crash popup instead of relaunching (like Browser is sometimes clever enough to do)
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I particularly enjoyed this part of the rider:

"
Bus and train tickets:

If you buy bus or train tickets for me, do not give my name! Big Brother has no right to know where I travel, or where you travel, or where anyone travels. If they arbitrarily demand a name, give a name that does not belong to any person you know of. If they will check my ID before I board the bus or train, then let's look for another way for me to travel. (In the US I never use long-distance trains because of their ID policy.)

Don't give them your name either: please pay for the ticket in cash.
"

It's fascinating to see how far into the experience he lays out his expectations and concerns. The "no Coke" mentioned elsewhere here is also an interesting requirement.
> TVs are different, because with a TV you don't really care about how it looks.

Eh? Where did you get this from?

Spend two minutes in any busy electronics shop anywhere, you'll hear people caring about how it looks because:

i) because they don't know how to compare the technical stuff

ii) it's going to stuck in their living room for the text five years
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Inspired by http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/ with some additions.
Yes, it does play to the carriers' customer retention biz plan for folks to upgrade HW to get the latest OS annually rather than when the contract runs out.
That assumes that the 3.5 billion people alive on 11/11/1967 are still alive today, which is not the case. The number of people born before 11/11/1967 and still alive today would be quite a bit less than 3.5 billion, and the number of people born after that date and still alive today quite a bit more.
Here, I'll fill in a data point you missed:

Motorola Milestone XT720 released June 2011 (USA: August)

Runs 2.1

No bugfixes

No updates

No upgrades

Buggy as hell. 2.2 upgrades and flash support pledged by Motorola sales/support at the time of release in the US -- later clarified that those employees had been "confused" when the mothballing was made official in late November.

Those Apple green bars look quite nice, but I'm not a fan. Maybe add some Windows phone.

The problem as I see it is that since Android is Open Source, the manufacturers don't abstract their innovations into a HAL. For example, Motorola's FM radio and HDMI support is peppered all over inside the core eclair framework. So, someone has to mix it all together again with each new release. Usually in the FOSS space, we like to believe that the effort of maintaining private forks encourages companies to contribute their efforts back to the open source project. That doesn't work here, because manufacturers like Motorola also have the viable option to simply abandon their forks. Which is even less effort.

Apple has a huge economy of scale--only four or five devices (most very similar) with relatively humongous market share per device. The personnel/device ratio obviously supports a much better customer experience than any Android device can offer (with the exception of perhaps the Android developer phones).

I can only assume Microsoft knows what they are doing and enforces abstractions and barriers that limit the scope of manufacture monkeying.
You saved me writing a post. Totally agreed on the features part which matters most for the updates second to security.

The only open issue with Android is security updates. Manufacturers often release minor patch level updates (HTC did recently for their logger fiasco for e.g., My Atrix went 2 minor updates before getting Gingerbread etc.) but that still leaves the phones vulnerable to browser based attacks at least.

With Google making Browser and many other system apps uninstallable/replaceable in ICS may be they can update it like every other app - through market.

With Android 5.0 Google should focus on near complete modularization - all user space apps / libs can be updated by Google independently of the phone just like GMail. This may not be 100% possible but they should do as much as they can practically.
You can hide it within preferences which is probably the main issue with many users. From what I've seen these apps matter very little in terms of storage.
Excellent, to the point visualization of an insight. I love it when journalists can use the table-chart format to create a data-deep yet simple graphic that tells a better story than any plain narrative can.
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Hello HN community.<p>Recently we've launched a new IT geek oriented job board.<p>http://gowork.at/ (Gowork@)<p>I have shown it to the IRC community and they pointed out some issues regarding the market niche and since we didn't have any posts it became an chicken and egg problem.<p>We currently trying to solve the niche, but we wanted to be design, web dev job board mostly.<p>And to start having some jobs post we integrated other job boards listing that could be used in search.<p>Our main feature currently is: a boolean search engine, that let's users save it and get daily/weekly updates based on that. Which is cool, for instance you might want to get web dev jobs but not PHP related, so you could just setup an search like "web dev -php".<p>In a nutshell: I would love to know your guys opinion, advices, what we could do to improve it, and things we are doing wrong or not all.<p>Thanks

BTW: We are giving away free job posts, if you want to try it out free of charge try 'GWFREE' on discount code.
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18 months is the support lifetime I read. The next 6 months is just coasting until the next contract.
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Hello HN community.

Recently we've launched a new IT geek oriented job board.http://gowork.at/ (Gowork@)

I have shown it to the IRC community and they pointed out some issues regarding the market niche and since we didn't have any posts it became an chicken and egg problem.

We are currently trying to solve the niche, but we wanted to be design, web dev job board mostly.
And to start having some jobs post we've integrated other job boards listings that could be used in search.

Our main feature currently is: a boolean search engine, that let's users save it and get daily/weekly updates based on that. Which is cool, for instance you might want to get web dev jobs but not PHP related, so you could just setup an search like "web dev -php".

In a nutshell: I would love to know your guys opinion, advices, what we could do to improve it, and things we are doing wrong or not all.

Thanks
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stay classy australia. i'm surprised at the lewdness of images used in the keynote.
You say: "The world doesn't work like that..."

People who have FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED THE WORLD are in a position to critique the ways that the world works. A few decades ago, everyone agreed that "Open Source" (giving away code) just wasn't how the world worked. And RMS changed that. (Not alone, but he was a vital seed for that change.) So he's got every right to speak up on the subject.
MeeGo was a huge chance for everyone. However that which was featured on the N9 wasn't so much the MeeGo experience as it was the Nokia experience. It's a shame, a huge shame as I would like to see a free and open mobile operating system stand up tall against the likes of Apple and the advertising company that is Google.
Interesting idea. I wonder how the UI would feel, though, given the considering amount of compositing that Mac OS X uses.
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Not exactly. There were 3.500m people alive then, and about 7.000m now, but because many of the 3.500m died and were replaced over those 44 years, you would actually be older than more than half of the world with high probability.

According to the figures provided, 77.500m humans total in 1967, 83.200m total now, so 5.700m had been born since then, but the population only increased by 3.500m, meaning 2.200m people had died since 1967. Without stronger data, it's impossible to say whether the people dying tended to be older or younger than a certain age, so it's not possible to say with any reasonable certainty what the actual fixed point is, or even the ratio of people younger or older than you.

Though, Wolfram Alpha reports the median age of the Earth to be about 27,6.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=world+%7C+median+age
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Conceptually awesome. Poorly delivered. Someone do this right and you will be making money.

What I'd like: Personal files/certs etc. on my local HD, then I log in to my cloud mac and it uses my local HD files as an external hard drive of sorts. or even uses dropbox for my files. Is this possible?
Just because the expectations are low on MS desktops doesn't mean that other OSes shouldn't have updates. Many stay on XP primarily because of the cost to upgrade. This shouldn't be the case with Android.
Just like you can't learn how to surf by just reading books. But reading about it, and getting a coach/mentor (someone who has done it for years) can help you get there a lot faster.
Interesting concept/idea but a business model? Really theres a demand?
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Ask HN: Bash on my new webapp?
http://onepix.me

I just reached what I like to think is MVP last night and I'd really appreciate it if you'd bash on my app for a bit and give me your feedback.

I'm looking specifically for a few things. First - can you figure out what it does? This has been my biggest problem so far as most people can't figure out what it does. Second, would you use, and pay for it?

Right now there is no way to pay for the service, but it would be great if you'd sign up for a trial account and let me know how the process works. I'd like to hear about any usability issues as well, or outright errors. I have tons of extra features planned, but I'm bootstrapping so I'd really like to know if you think this is viable project. Thanks for your help!
But adding that extra information made at least me remember.

Besides, I like the idea of buying/not buying a company's products based on whether you support them or not.
Yeah, that face detection blur kinda fails when it's a crowd of people.
Clickable: http://onepix.me
Ask HN: How to initiate telling your competition to buy your startup?
I am ready to move on from a website service I created a while ago. The only buyer I can think of might be interested in the service is the competition.

I am not sure how I can indicate to them that I am ready to sell. Should I pick the phone call them? Send them e-mail. I am just new to this and not sure what is the effective way of doing this.
What kind of Mac developer wouldn't just get a mac?
As a member of the Postmark team, I first want to say thanks for your loyalty.

Now onto the technical stuff.

One of the main reasons that it is impossible to compare Postmark with Mailchimp (and even difficult to compare it to Sendgrid or SES) is our laser focus on transactional email delivery.

We've been in the email business long before building Postmark, and we know the differences between how ISPs treat transactional (event or customer triggered) emails and bulk (marketing) emails.

We also know that because ISPs treat these emails differently, they need to be SENT differently. This is why we strictly prohibit bulk sending on Postmark, to make sure that the transactional email sent through our system has the highest rates of (and the fastest) delivery possible.

We know that we've had customers leave because we limit sending to transactional emails - but its to the benefit of the customers we have because we maintain extremely high delivery rates.

Email delivery is, as we've leanred, very susceptible to "Tragedy of the Commons" in the fact that it's very easy for a small number of people to spoil the value for the many. We're protective of our infrastructure this way because our customers can trust the result.

Comparing Postmark to SES on the pricing front is something we chose to avoid as well. You can drink well whiskey or top shelf bourbon. Both can get you drunk, but you'll only really enjoy sipping one of them :)
Gonna be brutally honest here, those pricing plans are shit. Allow me to log in for an unlimited amount of time and lower the price a bit, and we'll talk.
Game dev is great, but I'd love to see tools like this that let do more advanced scripting in a visual fashion without the emphasis on the visual aspect, such as sprites or animation. Processing is great at displaying things, but not so great at, you know, processing.

Similarly, I long for an easy to use scripting language environment on the tablet itself that doesn't require one to know HTML, CSS, JQuery, etc. and is not so focused on visualization and sprites, but instead just lets you create a page or tabs, get some data, do something with the data, and display a result while impacting another service. This would empower people to create their own experiences on the tablet instead of hoping some developer hits on their exact combination of needs.

I know, all HN readers are super-programmers, but I think back to the old days when folks wrote simple basic programs on their C64/Atari/Apple/etc. to solve simple problems... and how that's so difficult today on PCs, but could be brought back to life in the consumer-friendly world of tablets...
There wasn't even any nudity I could find... People should stop being offended at everything.
I'm wondering how did you find a seed for randomString function to produce "hello world" string. That's pretty strange. Could you explain the method for that, please?
Depends on the phone and how much crapware is installed. I ended up having to flash my UK Orange-branded HTC Desire because they'd installed so much that there was only enough storage left to install a few user apps.

Newer phones are much better off in this regard.
Someone who doesn't have $1,500?

Edit: Well a Mac Mini is $600 (with no monitor), but still... if you could rent a virtual Mac for $20/month that's still over two years before you're money ahead.
So, what would be a good FPGA starter kit, just to learn how these things work?
He said European users would get better performance from having a node for data traffic closer to them.

That's for sure. Did they previously have at least a CDN presence in Europe?
If you scroll down to the "Where can I save my files?" section they do mention support for dropbox and other cloud based file storage systems.
Bear in mind, when Sony say stuff like "to keep up with competitors", they don't mean proper marketing or sales channels like Samsung or HTC, they mean stupid stuff like the domestic competitor Sharp who have integration between their android phones and their TVs which looks nice on paper, but will influence absolutely noone to buy their phone.
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The graph is debatable for the 3G: its last update was 4.2.1 released 28 months into the phone's lifecycle, but it did not get iOS 4.3 release in March 2011. Talking about "major version" sounds like a lie/cop-out in that case, since iOS receives pretty major updates in "minor" versions (4.3 included personal hotspots, ASLR, a JITed javascript engine, settings rearrangements and reworks, the ability to cancel an application update or remove an application being updated mid-download, ...)
Not sure I would conclude that debain (or ubuntu to a lesser extent) is "Stagnant" from this data. The count seems to track quite positively w/ each of their release cycles -- every 6 months or ~2ys, respectively, and then settles back down thereafter; however, over all it looks like an upward growth trend (ok, w/ the exception of Ubuntu (fr), but that list has only ~1/10th that of the ubuntu(en)).
And a third person kept phoning various people's workplaces and accusing them of being involved in child pornography.

Seriously? I'm having a hard time believing that this was instigated purely because she's a female developer. Surely there was more to it than her gender for someone to stoop that low?
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Hard to say objectively, but I believe that actively updated software enhances perceived value. The human mind, even the non-technical one, is deeply attentive to change - as website iterations show, subtle improvements can have huge payoffs and even feed into the mind's reward circuitry. Every time there's a round of iPhone updates, I run into more than a few "normal" people that are delighted by tiny new features (anything from background wallpaper to iMessage read receipts). To people that don't usually keep their software up to date (but are coaxed into it by iTunes and now iCloud), getting new abilities without cost or effort is especially cool/rewarding.
Netflix has convinced me that I won't pirate if I don't have to. In fact, if Netflix had everything that premium movie networks in Canada offered, I doubt I would download any movie ever.

Unfortunately, in Canada, the government is protecting our cable networks and limiting companies like Netflix. This protectionism is lazy because it doesn't ask these providers to advance to what Netflix provides (ie, complimentary streaming with cable subscription), it asks the Canadian citizen to "not worry about it" - effectively leaving Canadians with less options in the guise of "protecting thousands of jobs".

Regulators say, "Well, since they don't get Netflix like the US, they'll keep their cable subscriptions." But instead, we're lowering our cable packages and pirating as needed. So the cable companies try to squeeze our bandwidth down to ridiculous per GB rates so we won't download. Luckily, the backlash was strong enough to hold rate limiting off - for now. Downloading torrents isn't a huge technical feat. And setting up automated processes to download your favorite tv shows and movies is becoming easier and easier.

If Rogers or Bell just built the technology necessary to compete with Netflix, Netflix wouldn't have enough advantage over cable (broadband + cable is more convenient than broadband + cable + Netflix + Netflix compatible device).
No disagreement with the basic, point, but was a bit surprised by this quote:

"So, here's our situation. We have a man (presumably; at any rate he appears to want to be identified as such) in the Australian Linux community, who targets women by sending them private abusive emails from a throwaway address and with a name that can't readily be connected to any publicly known member of the community. His ISP won't hand out information about him without a court order, his abuse doesn’t present the kind of imminent threat to physical safety that might interest law enforcement, and despite Linux Australia’s diversity statement and Linux.conf.au's anti-harassment policies, it's not clear that there’s any practical thing that either of those groups can do about him."

Is it Bayley's position that ISP's should give out information on their users in response to warrantless requests -- from private individuals, no less?

Is it likewise Bayley's position that law enforcement should be going after people for making lewd comments online?