skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a meaningless number. Maybe I want to know compare the frequency of two terms, then Google's estimate of results is pretty useful. On the other hand result number 230,000,000 is certainly not useful. Well, it might be a little useful, but there are 229,999,999 documents that Google thinks are more useful to me, so it is a reasonable optimization by Google to not actually prepare a results page for it.
It supports Airplay but not mirroring, which is unique to the latest AppleTV.
You can't sell a right you no longer have. At least you shouldn't.
No, but it might be a violation of the DMCA.

It's not necessarily a "social good" to provide tools like this. It obviously annoys nerds to no end that companies use software to detune hardware for price segmentation; the nerd worldview is, "what hardware you sell me is mine to do with as I please".

That's utterly sensible. But in the long term, it means that either consumers will have to pay more, or that companies will have to waste time specializing hardware to perform the same segmentation goals. In other words: it's a win for a tiny minority of hardcore nerds, but a loss for everyone else.

Also: consider carefully that similar techniques are used throughout many different industries. For instance: recreational boat engines are detuned in software to provide multiple performance categories at different prices.
As it seems like is always the case in these fairly naive benchmarks. (Not specifically about Go here, it seems like people often cite python when they're really using some optimized C code).
Thank you very much for the link! Didn't know about that one. I have always used:

http://www.zip-codes.com/

They do charge a nominal fee, but the data quality is excellent and they have monthly updates.
Is there a link to the C&D or the court case details? I'm sure we can agree that helping people with zipcode data for free is laudable, but reading only one half of an argument isn't a good way to make decisions.
In losing, Apple is likely to wind up under significant antitrust oversight. Given some of their other business practices (like the app stores), that could be a big issue for them.
You'll probably also want to add the following to serve the already compressed assets

gzip_static on;
I wouldn't really call it "locking out". The Bluetooth stack in iOS was extremely incomplete before that update. If Apple had offered it at release, it would have only supported the Headset profile which is near useless on a touch. At the time Apple genuinely believed that with their accounting scheme, they couldn't give away hardware features without charging. To strike a balance between those concerns, we got Bluetooth in the iPhone OS 2 update for a fee.

Either way, that isn't what is happening here. This is just CPU manufacturing 101. New chip, new processes, high bin rate. You mitigate this as much as possible by disabling features on binned chips to make them sellable. Intel has done it a number of times, typically when making a big change like the introduction of the Core Duo.
No, no, no, a thousand times, no. HTML is not easier to parse than plain text. Plain text is easily transferred, stored, parsed (with grep, or whatever you use for regular expressions), and, as a bonus, is easy for humans to look at. HTML helps with exactly none of those things. There's a reason that Erik S. Raymond emphasizes the power of plain text in The Art of Unix Programming. There's a reason that The Pragmatic Programmer has a chapter devoted to it. That's because plain text (more specifically plain ASCII text) is the closest thing we have to a universally understood format in computing. For something like e-mail, plain text is by far preferable to HTML, XML, JSON or some other structured format. You can't know that your target will have a parser for a structured format. The only thing you can assume is that your target is capable of reading and transferring plain text.
They also talked quite a bit about specific price points ($12.99 and $14.99 instead of $9.99 according to the complaint). That's more than the ability to set end user prices.
I think it goes back to a cultural problem with government. They don't acknowledge hobby research as legitimate or useful.

So they release data to universities and charge everyone else an obscene amount.

This kills a lot of start up ideas.
Things are changing. Technology is cheaper, internet is prevalent and small organizations disrupt the ways of the dinosaurs. We've seen that with newspapers, we are seeing that with Hollywood and we'll soon see it in education. The dinosaurs are big and powerful, but we all know what happens to them eventually. Sooner or later technology wins. Always.

Having said that I hope Geocoder gets help with PR. I'm no PR expert but the fact that this post is not on their front page is the first bad sign. And the media, which always loves a David & Goliath story, apparently hasn't covered this; that's another bad sign. Swaying public opinion to your side is the way to win this, not litigation. If Geocoder lets Canada Post drag them to court they've already lost.

As a Canadian I'm one of the owners of Canada Post and I hope I lose.
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Okay, email works at the expense of my time, server time, storage and network throughput. So what's your brilliant e-mail replacement? Heck, pg himself has talked about these very same issues and has noted that YCombinator would jump at funding any startup that came up with a credible replacement to e-mail.

E-mail is like democracy. It's the worst messaging system, except for all the others.
I had to send the author some Bitcoins; he made it feel like the most natural thing in the world!
I was about to retweet this news while honestly adding, "Who still uses Word?" ... then I remembered that less than one year ago, while still working at Xerox Research, Word was the standard and I was the only weirdo forwarding documents in PDF (because I had not authored them in Word).

... so, besides being aware that your microcosm is not representative ... I don't see how can word die (as it should). There are too many people that cannot drop it due to all the required learning to move away (e.g., most people do not even know there are alternatives to Word).
The extension _haves_ to corroborate the state of the DOM to avoid problems when a redesign happens

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My guess is XBMC will add this soon. AirServer has mirroring support now (Mac OS X AirPlay server): http://www.airserverapp.com/
I'm not sure how a clone that is nearly as complex (minus VBA) will take off as a "widespread replacement".

The clutter in Word permeates many Windows apps (not just those from MSFT -- take a look at WinZip, for example). Most everyday windows users have become used to this and are unlikely to change. This doesn't even count businesses that base their enterprise around MSFT products...

With Microsoft's push towards Windows 8, maybe clean and simple UI will return to the Office suite. Until then, people will continue to use what they know.
The problem with trying to make an 'open document standard' is that everyone thinks they have an 'open document standard', so you end up with 30 'open document standards' that confuse the less technically inclined users and infuriate the more inclined.

Personally, until a better (read: equally universal) format comes out, I've got my document library saved as both .txt (unformatted + UTF-8 encoded) and .doc (formatted). Everyone uses both, at least.
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Your argument makes sense and I agree with you. Too bad I got so many downvotes, I thought it was a fair question.
Word "Track Changes" is still the industry standard for legal documents.
Part of the issue is that none of the publishers were willing to individually bear the the costs of not selling through Amazon. They were only willing to threaten that together.

To continue the analogy: If, for instance, the Top 100 paid app authors of Android apps banded together to force Amazon and Google to change their terms by threatening to take away their titles that would certainly raise at least a few antitrust eyebrows.
> Guitar or piano, it's still just patterns that are generally well burned-in.

Sure, but it takes much less effort to play something in different keys on a guitar than on a piano because the fingers don't change just because the key did. It takes more practice on a piano to play a song you already know in another key, not really so for the guitar if you're using movable forms.
I've read about people scheduling their laptops/phones to read them messages foreseeing any excuse and trying to argue against it.

"You think another 30 minutes will be fine, but remember how you always regret that afterwards? Remember how you spend the rest of each day wishing you'd got up 30 minutes earlier? Do you want to be that pathetic, regretful person again today?"

Of course, Sleep Self would probably reply "Hell yes, bed is awesome!"
Can you explain the need for anamorphic lenses?
Interesting idea but I don't like the execution. The thing seems to be a cheap wood piece. I would do it in aluminium or other metallic material. I would also try to find out a way to hide the not-used side of the gadget. Why don't you use for example a gadget with lights (green or red)? It would be much cooler.

Anyway, keep up the good work, you had an interesting idea.
>Can you add a picture on a female wrist?

01:36 in the video.
they built a lot of power plants in the last years, from hydroelectric to natural gas ones, they make roads all across mexico, built up a refinery for oil and gas, drilled a lot of new oil wells, and a lot more great infraestructure investment... I'm not talking about little towns getting clean water and electricity, I'm talking about the entire countre... about 8 years ago, Mexico had no oil left, the oil wells where exhausted, the roads where insufficient, the refineries too old, the power grid was overcharged. Now we have a lot of new highways between cities, water treatment plants, power plants, even a couple new deepwater seaports...
> "Ultimately, I suspect the "right" customer for the product is a medium-to-large business"

I've heard it said that Microsoft's "right" customer is themselves. They're a gigantic company that builds gigantic documents. Many of the esoteric features of Word were developed because somebody in Microsoft wanted to use them.
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Clearly getting out of bed isn't all the work in waking up, but it's a good start. If done in addition to the other things you mention, it's helpful. Getting up just seems to get your juices flowing better, at least based on anecdotal evidence.
Maybe they added it after you skimmed the kickstarter page, but they mention InPulse in text.

"Eric and his team have been designing smartwatches for 3 years. Their first product was the inPulse smartwatch for Blackberry (www.getinpulse.com). inPulse has been covered by Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, NYTimes and more."
I agree. My hunch is yields and they will use the higher quality (verified both cores working) for the iphone5 expected to come out later this year, or maybe for the ipanel tv thing that is rumored.
Reminds me of the time I filled in a form on Microsoft.com and submitted it, I think it got sent to an internal nonexistant address, was autoforwarded, and then bounced to my email, containing the content of my original message and a reassurance to the internal person that their email address wouldn't be revealed to the outside world. It was.
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Likewise in Australia.
http://auspost.com.au/products-and-services/download-postcod...
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atheistically

Did you mean "aesthetically"?
But they aren't accessing the database. They are accessing a data structure on the client, and changes are propagated to the server. There are opportunities to reject that change at the server.

This trick is already in use in a lot of places. If you click an upvote on Reddit, it doesn't do a complete round-trip, it just increments the count in place, and then issues a command to the server to do a "real" increment. If, in the meantime, someone disabled your account, then there is a disagreement. But it's obvious that the client's idea loses.

Eventual consistency is in mainstream use on the server, with frameworks like Cassandra et al. This is just a generalization of that to the web client.
Years ago one of the VPs at a client of mine demanded that I change the wording of Qmail bounce messages because he found them snarky and offensive.

(I didn't change it.)
He was referring to Geocoder. Geocoder sells their database for commercial use for $500.
I've never worked anywhere that they didn't use Word.

I've never worked anywhere that they didn't despise Word.

Why won't it die? Why?

Why?
Nice description of method decorators. Didn't touch on class decorators, or decorators that can decorate both classes and methods (arguably very ugly wrapper functions that return decorators that decorate).
Don't be glib now; of course I didn't think "webfonts". I thought "fonts". The addition of "web" to the concept is trivial and uninteresting.
Canada Post is pretty stupid on this one. Even if you type a postal code into Google Maps you get a result.

I could imagine how old and stupid the gov't official is who filed that claim. Canada's a broke country, and the latest government budget has cut a tonne of government jobs, slashed R&D credits, etc.
Adsense is a pretty sketchy product at best, but most of the rest is just the third-party cost of doing business when you don't control what your business is based on.

Google still sees itself as a small, experimental company. A lot of businesses like to do this, and it's extremely hard to pull off. Google is finding this out first-hand. They're not exactly a startup anymore.
But what value does displaying that number add to the activity undertaken by the user?
The cpu is such a small consumer of battery compared to the screen that it would take a non-trival sample of iPad2s to say anything statistically significant. Remember, no two batteries are alike.

Then double that for the old iPad2s.
So there's one industry that's keeping it. Any others actually NEED Word's advanced functionality?

Not being facetious, let's name em.
China just cut off (almost) all external Internet access
None of the websites I tried loads, WhatsApp doesn't work, only one of 4 VPNs i have works (the one I'm using now, HongKong server)... I really hope this is just temporary, and they're not going North Koreea style.

Will update this post if things change

Update 11:57: skype seems to work for now. Might just only be the web. Yahoo and Msn messengers don't work though

Update 12:07: seems that data is being sent, but nothing comes back. Also, wsj articles load, but not any assets (css, js, images)

Update 12:20: portions of the 3rd ring road in Beijing are being closed. One of the largest "city highways" in beijing.. This is scary, hopefully unrelated

Update: 13:09: looks like everything is back to normal. Only Facebook and such websites still being blocked. phew

Additional info: yesterday text messages (SMS) containing either "Bo Xilai" or "bxl" were rejected. Apparently everything has to do with this thing: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304444604577337951998961744.html?mod=WSJAsia_hpp_LEFTTopStories
"maybe clean and simple UI will return to the Office suite"

Laws never disappear from the books, swords are never beaten into plowshares, and Word never, ever loses a feature, although some of them do get hidden.
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Always appropriate. On a side note, really hard to know whether this is a bubble or not. I don't want to take either side, but you cannot refute that a billion dollars for a startup that did not gain any significant revenue seems like a lot of money.
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I notice that the only use of "bubble" in the OP is when talking about the late 90s. Surely we want to move away from cash in while to goings good mentality the OP is promoting to something more sustainable. Otherwise we're going to see a further degradation of web technology as a good place to invest. I don't know if there is a bubble or not, but the language in the OP screams it.

This all assumes investors are capable of weighing up the relative merits of various investments and aren't blinded by big exits like that of Instagram. And the evidence continues to point to them being blinded by dollar signs . . .
Any publisher could set the end-user price for any of their books (speaking of cookbooks, I recently bought a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking in paper...$40, but I would not likely pay $40 for another french cookbook I'm not so familiar with, that's price power due to the popularity of that singular book, not a cartel agreement). The problem is the collusion to raise prices in lock-step with other publishers.

The fact it was 9.99 or 14.99 or .99 isn't the problem, it's the fact the publishers colluded together to artificially raise prices. If the price of ebooks was $1000 for some non-collusive(right word?) reason, the government would likely do little, but if the price of ebooks was $.05 by fiat, the government would step in.

It's a weird little world we live in, where the law recognizes multiple players in a market agreeing to artificial price fixing is bad for markets (and people, the actual reason for the law, the constitution doesn't care about markets), but at the same time grants strict monopoly rights to individual players in markets via patents and copyrights.
Nice write up Robert. Your last line is a good one.
It's great that the distortion isn't done on a pixel level but rather at the object level -- it's mesmerizing to see the edges move ever so slightly when mousing over a region
As has been pointed out, I was referring to Geocoder's rates. I had the same confusion though. The request for donations certainly makes it seem like they are beneficent, but they are themselves selling the data. Not that that's legally or morally wrong (certainly not) - it's just a different position to be in.
So acquirers are going to pay too much for companies in the coming silly season and this should be your signal to really go "all in" on your startup?

Instagram hit the startup lottery. Awesome for them. But building a biz solely because of market frothiness and hoping to hit the lottery seems like a horribly misguided idea.
The Russ Cox post is unrelated. See the last paragraph in his post.
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you need to slide all of your chips on to the table.

Is it a casino?

Thanks, but no thanks.
Neither do email bounces!
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What is the difference between buying him a claw machine and giving him money for college? Did he earn the money for the college or did the publicity about what he is doing get him the money for college?

Taking it one step further what if someone comes along and wants his input on a real arcade and wants to call it "Caines Arcade". Is that also missing the point?
I've been happily doing my postgrad in compsci, using the excellent LaTeX for all my papers and thesis. I got a job in medical research... holy shit... all the publishers require Word documents. Moving from LaTeX to Word is like moving from Python to Fortran on punch cards.
Articles like this seem to me like a good sign that we might be entering bubble territory.

This is essentially saying, "hey everyone, time to cash in right now before the money dries up." Of course in that sentence "money" refers to capital, not revenues or profits. Such misplaced focus was the hallmark problem of the late 90's bubble.

I went in all-in for that bubble and got 10 months of hope followed by 4 months of COBRA and unemployment, then another regular ol' job.
The fact that this feature of that firmware update was so hidden that it was only noticed when people saw different behaviors makes it rather the opposite of what's proposed. Additionally, I seriously doubt that Apple deliberately withheld the ability to use 8GB of RAM in software only to add it back later. Much more likely it was a bug or just something that they didn't have time to finish. Neither would apply to running a single core of a dual-core processor in an Apple TV.
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If you're in your 20's and have skills now is the best time to do something big.

You're being squeezed on both sides. The gen-Xers that cashed out are reinvesting and flexing their muscles to win again. The teens and early twenty whippersnappers are hungry and foolish enough to think they'll win.

If you love what you do and do what you love then you'll win. Just make sure you love something worthwhile.
Thanks rajdesai225 your insight gives a fresh perspective on this topic. I hadn't thought about the bullet-proof conviction you're referring to and I believe you have a good point!
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And you measure "more common" by looking at the number of results returned?
My cynicism is directed at the filmaker who I feel was being more opportunistic than altruistic and had ulterior motives.

I don't see it the same way with your bus driver. He stood nothing to gain from helping you and it was genuine what he did.

The bus driver didn't even get a thank you while the film maker will stand to gain plenty from what he has done (and he knew that when he seized this opportunity).

Nothing is wrong with that of course. It's a smart move.