skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Probably even UCS2 - I stopped doing a lot of Windows API stuff before I was running into situation where I need characters outside of the basic multilingual plane, so I couldn't say how wcslen("💩") would behave.

But I was talking about the build of the software. The old was probably a build linking against the old ANSI API ("A" suffix), whereas the new one is using the wide version ("W" suffix), usually referred to as the Unicode variant of the API - hence my incorrect terminology.

Looking at the screenshots of that application, if I had to take a really wild guess, I would say that the application might have been built in delphi which moved to the Unicode API with Delphi 2010 IIRC.

That changed the byte-width of a the standard Delphi string (and the more basic PChar type) to 2 bytes and switched over to using the W-suffix API.

I guess all those years of doing Delphi work are rubbing off.
I don't think they should be teaching that at all. It's a bigger waste of time than teaching differential equations. At least diff. equations are there forever and might one day come in handy if you end up writing some software for modeling physical processes. Ruby, on the other hand, will be replaced by some other trendy language in a few years. Plus, if you already know a couple of programming languages with different paradigms, picking up Ruby (or Python, or PHP, or Java) is really easy to do on your own, you can start writing production code in matter of weeks.
I swear by AngiesList for services like moving companies.

They just called us up a couple weeks ago and sat on the phone for over a half hour (because we were willing) taking reviews from us on a bunch of companies that we had used.

This is why it costs money; they actually provide a service. If they don't have enough reviews, they hire people to call you up and write up the reviews for you.
This is the one with a full silent update? Soon most people will be running one version of Firefox? Chrome + Firefox means 40%-50% of the Internet is getting a browser update every six weeks. This will be a boon for software developers.
I appreciate your reply and your point, but my tone was intentional and I believe in this context it is well warranted.

I think it's great to be excited at the potential for success, and the reason I come to HN is because it is invigorating and motivating to see the success of others, and to learn from their experiences.

However we must not forget that the vast majority of small businesses fail. In the best case, that's the entrepreneur's money and time expended; hopefully on the upside some lessons were learned and the financial hit is not too bad. In the worst case, it can be the life savings of investors that may be family and friends, as well as relationships, that are lost; furthermore, bankruptcy is a distinct possibility. So, my feeling is this is extremely serious stuff that requires direct, hard-hitting commentary - not a softened message that's potentially easily dismissed.

Business is combative - it's always competitive. If people are quick to ignore the realities of the most basic details of business (the profit & loss equation), and take offence when that criticism is presented, does that not seem a bit of a concern? Would you invest in somebody like that?
God is just. That's all you have to know.

God says...
Microsoft how_hard_could_it_be yikes now_that_I_think_about_it
fer_sure Percival how_could_you dude_such_a_scoffer losethos
these_cans_are_defective I_forgot music OperatingSystem
unemployment umm you_think_I'm_joking zoot meek are_you_feeling_lucky
get_to_work yuck it's_my_world Yes_you_are I_quit don't_even_think_about_it
I_donno Give_me_praise
If Facebook stagnates, their IPO and future earnings wouldn't generate enough cash to compete with Google. This is the long term view.
Yahoo's genius content strategy - The Oatmeal
Repo Man’s Alex Cox: Move Sites Overseas To Kill Copyright Complaints
Will there be a Lion fullscreen-mode and Lion-style floating scrollbars? That would make my day!

Edit: Apparently, not so. A pity.

Does anyone know when we will see them?
I agree with everything you've said except "doesn't have a further scalable business model". They've already created an advertising platform, they've already got hooks into websites all over the web, is there any reason they can't expand their ad network to compete directly with Google? I see nothing stopping them. Advertisers love the demographic information facebook has, they just can't leverage it appropriately with the limited advertisement offering facebook provides.
pdenya, can Hellofax do without the auto-complete feature? I rather sacrifice that so I don't have to give up my personal contacts.

Plus... most of the people I am faxing won't be in my contact address book. Those are usually to some random numbers. If you guys can remove the request for address book, it'll be a no brainer to sign up.
Being combative, antagonistic and argumentative doesn't make you weird. It makes you a bully.
Hopefully they'll fix sharing a public collection in Docs now. I have not been able to send a link to a docs collection that someone without a Google account can open and see in its entirety, like, since forever.
In talking to other photographers what I've learned is that there are two different approaches to take upon confrontation:
One, defend oneself about extant rights as if life depended on it.
Two, take a more practical approach, explain oneself (even if this should not be necessary) and if their objections remains, back down calmly. Fight another day.

While one would prefer that people not try to exert power where none exists, life will proceed smoother, if approach two is taken (as it regard photography)

Approach one can lead to agressive behavior by [guard|police|public] and has resulted in detention/citation. Approach two can and has resulted in some understanding and acceptance.

Confrontation one: You have no right to inquire about what I'm doing while on a public street. You ignorant $%#^# I'm going to call my lawyer, I'm going to sue you for harassment, etc...

Confrontation two: Are you familiar with street photography? It has a long tradition. You might have seen some of the photography on gallery visit. Have you heard of Winogrand, Cartier-Bresson, Frank? Here, I have some examples --carry some print-outs or load some into your DSLR.
So I read the complaint, and that thing that was clearly stated before is now reiterated. If it doesn't bother me, I go ahead and buy your app.

Good reviews are worthless to me as a consumer. What I want are details, good and/or bad, that I can use to evaluate my purchase ahead of time. "This is great!!!", "I would use it again!" are devoid of information.

If negative reviews are more informative, then I assure you, you should welcome them over a bunch of five-star "great!"s.

Besides being informative for me, the user, they should be valuable to you, the business owner. Nobody maintains an "attaboy" database, but you better keep track of bugs and fix them if you expect to grow or even survive in this economy.
Flying object propels itself by flipping inside out
You're right... it could also be used to oppress people.
we built the 1995 version, but online: jig.com ... everything old is new again?
"The biggest threats are [...] Google, Facebook because of the extent of the data they gather about you."

What if the government has the power to gain access to all the data gathered by Google and Facebook and every other company?
What about busy beaver numbers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
What do these hardware control permissions mean?

"take pictures and videos
Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This allows the app at any time to collect images the camera is seeing."

Doesn't this language bypass the point that the images/videos can only by captured when the 'user' initiates the camera app?
This is my personal experience, obviously.

Was your campaign successful? I heard bad things about return rates.
It's true that this makes the VDOP generally higher than the PDOP, which leads to lower precision in the vertical direction. The 10-25m figure is a complete nonsense, though. It's more like 3-5m.
300 comments and not one mention of megaupload.

Fascinating.
The problem with the proposed solution of verifying ID is that people who leave honest bad reviews often enough get harassment sued by angry dishonest business owners, who it turns out are more likely to harass and sue companies than the honest companies are.

The main problem here is that Yelp is a racket as well, this has been known for some time. Those using it, well caveat emptor.

There are other review sites out there that are not as morally compromised as Yelp due to their business model being modeled on a mafia protection racket of "Pay us and we can help these bad reviews go away."
Regular expression puzzle: egrep -o 'x\b' vs. egrep -o '=\b'
According to this Yahoo! News article:
http://news.yahoo.com/super-secret-hypersonic-aircraft-flew-...

"While the test was very public, the details of the HTV-2's design, stability system and potential purpose remain highly classified."
Commerce isn't a bad thing, but exciting new technology to try to separate me from my money faster may be a cool thing for Google, but not for me--the consumer. Maybe I'm weird, but I already know what I want to buy, I don't need technology to try (and usually fail) to generate some new consumption desire.
Extremely tempted to buy this, but wondering if I should possibly just wait for the next nexus as the specs, while still nice are starting to get outdated, on an Atrix currently.
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At last something promising that will help me unclutter the "read it later" webpages I bookmarked and wanted to read for ages but didn't have time to read them.
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The major change to updates in Fx12 is that the Windows UAC prompt will no longer appear for every update (by default). Some additional changes (like finishing the update in the background instead of at the next startup) are coming in a later version:

http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/133/
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Twitter's not a site, it's a protocol (2008)
What did SOPA have to do with privacy? I'm only aware of provisions for shutting down websites accused of copyright infringement.
Rovi is looking for a User Experience Researcher in Burbank, CA
I got a certificate in GIS back in 2002. Dusting off my brain: All GPS readings are only accurate to within about 10 meters if they are quick and dirty. To get accurate readings, you need multiple satellites in view for up to several hours.

I am assuming that has not really changed. Anyone with brand spanking new credentials or more current industry experience feel free to correct/update. Thanks.
Lion fullscreen is coming in Firefox 14: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639705

You can use it today on the Nightly builds from http://nightly.mozilla.org/ or in a few days on the Aurora channel: https://mozilla.org/firefox/aurora/

Lion-style scrollbars are still in progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636564

You can test them on the UX branch: https://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/mozillas-ux-nightly...
If you read Daniel Goleman's Social Intelligence, he claims that being awkward will make you a bigger pariah than if you were just an asshole. Not sure how true that is. But I was certainly both awkward and weird in high school.
A Public YUM repository served over Google App-Engine [RHEL5, CentOS5]
Ad Sense is not the work horse at Google. I can look up how much percent it is from total revenue, but it is not that high.

Edit: I looked it up, everything they call Google Network (probably Doubleclick, Youtube, AdSense) is less that half of what the search engine makes. It has also a lower margin i assume, i don't have Google shares otherwise i would know the details. If you think about what you said, competing directly with Google means having a better product.
Such a great mental set of exercises. James is an awesome writer, I've really been enjoying his stuff.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/ - "Franz received a Dr. sc. techn. degree in Computer Science (advisor: Niklaus Wirth) and a Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH degree, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich."

So Michael Franz can hardly be considered impartial to this matter.
I don't think this is a good idea. What is the bottom of the page? In their example, they cut off most of the CNN site on the first jump. I'm not sure tabs are the best, but this would be very confusing and I can only immagine how many ways this could go wrong.
You might be oversimplifying, because the same thing could have been said about MySpace.

You said it may be a problem with the friends you chose, which is correct, but when a social net grows too large, real life social pressures start inducing you to include people who aren't interesting, and that has an overall negative effect on the network. So the choice end up being between manually filtering spam and snubbing people who you have to interact with on a daily basis.
I certainly hope you're right. Glad to know it's working for you. I haven't yet received access, so I can't tell.
Agreed. I signed up anyway to try it out before recommending it to some people, but the request for contacts will be a dealbreaker for some.
We're going to have Firefox 50 in a year at this rate.
Lion scrollbars landed on the UX channel a few days ago.
Then I would read the terms of use VERY carefully.
If you "like" more things that you are actually interested in, you will start to see more targeted ads.

I never "liked" anything for a while and I was getting those same generic ads (because they didn't have enough data to target me) but once I gave them the data they wanted, I started seeing ads for things that I am actually interested in (comedians I like coming to my city, adventure races in the area, movies that are opening soon). I find the ads on Facebook to be way better than the ads on Google (I actually click and buy things with ads from Facebook).

However, if you go crazy and click the "like" button every time you see it, you will go back to seeing irrelevant ads.
I'm one of the "voracious" readers that Charlie mentions and while I really like the Kindle DX hardware, I'm increasingly concerned at being tied into an Amazon ecosystem long term.

I have an atavistic attachment to paper books, [1] but even so, I have a Kindle that I use primarily for Instapaper and, more occasionally, for out-of-copyright books. I'm reluctant to buy DRM'ed books for the same reason you are, and for the same reasons Stross articulates: no one knows what the publishing / reading landscape is going to look like in two years, let alone five, but the paper books I bought when I was 12 still work quite nicely.

[1] http://jseliger.com/2012/02/16/amazon-com-daniel-kahneman-an...
They are absolutely right about how shared folders could be abused by non-paying customers. For example you could create ten dummy free accounts and make them all share with your account, and then have lots of storage. That is why they count your own and shared for free accounts.

But they do the same counting for paid accounts even when all parties involved are paying. No amount of discussion with support would get them to even acknowledge the issue. If you go into your account settings you'll see the bar graph and details of how shared files are being counted against you.
With silent updates in place , I think even 100 is a possibility !
AWS rates are all negotiable, and large users always negotiate. Doesn't mean you're far off, but that's a point worth considering.
Especially complicated when you realize that their mapping system is completely broken for numerous addresses. I used Yelp to try to find a good local cafe to eat at in Irvine. Drove right to the spot indicated on the map and found an industrial complex. Had to look up the business name on Google Maps to find that it was about five miles South of where Yelp told me the cafe was.

Same thing happened again in Vegas, looking for a nice place to eat, find something that looks interesting and then see that Yelp places it in an industrial complex nearby. This time I don't expect to find the place, but I drive by and find myself somewhere in a dark alley full of closed-for-the-evening auto shops.

I'll still use Yelp to find the name of a business, but then I have to switch to Google Maps and do a reality check to actually see if the business is near by and how to get there. A real PITA.
Google Drive launches, but why not run Internet storage yourself?
Any review on Yelp that says "We" or mentions the name of the person that assisted them at company is most certainly fake.

Example:

"We were really worried about where to stay on Las Vegas, but then we called hotel X and Margo sounded so nice and welcoming on the phone that we just knew it was the right choice."
>Don't have a cow, man, it's nothing personal.

I think that impugning the professionalism of someone's work because their project's home page was down once is pretty darned personal.
I've heard that elsewhere, too. But as a Facebook user (not advertiser) I have to agree with OP. I can't remember ever seeing an ad on FB that seamed targeted to me in any meaningful way. I'd be interested to hear if my experience is atypical or I'm just not a typical FB user.
Maybe you should change the bootstrap theme, or make your own. The same default bootstrap design is boring.
Both Firefox and Chrome increment their version number every six weeks, so it's easy to see that at this rate in a year we will have Chrome 26 and Firefox 20. :)
Planetary Resources
Unlimited storage is a farce, and places you in an antagonistic relationship with your provider:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-stora...

... which is the last thing you want with serious backups.
I think Philosophy of science is very good and contemporary. Also skeptics and stoics can be good read.
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From what I've read, Facebook isn't really interested in cultivating investment. Look at the small float, and Mark Z's firm control of the company with over 50% ownership.

In many ways, for the man on the street Facebook isn't a good investment. At the same time, it doesn't seem to be a goal of management to create a company that entices investors. See the line "we make money to create a better product, not create products to make money."

Doesn't that say it all?
Again, not legal advice, but you can look at how ICANN resolves domain name disputes:

http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/studies/publications/domain_...

What factors guide the panelists' decisions?

-Whether the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights.
-Whether the respondent has any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name (for example, the legitimate offering of goods and services under the same name).
-Whether the domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith.

So don't try to use a famous trademark to boost recognition or traffic to your site and don't try and squat on other people's domains. If you prefer to be cautious, you can search whether or not the domain name you have (and anything similar) is already a registered trademark.
So that's like, three months? Ok, not exactly the first ones on the field, but good enough for me ;)
Privacy can exist on the web if people got together and requested changes politically. That is the beauty in democracy. As an example, there is no reason for Google to be able to read our emails, so why do we permit it. There should be a private and public option, and we should control the switch.
We should also have list going the other - things Dropbox has that GDrive doesn't:

* Linux support
* Headless (command line interface)
* Public bug tracking and feature requests (votebox)

Unsure about these

* Shared folders

I'm struggling to come up with more.
I agree. I think the reason people move onto newer sites is to escape the cesspool... but that cesspool is the one the advertisers want. So if the hipsters all ditch facebook and go to another service they will raise its profile and will attract members of the cesspool to follow to this new hotness...
Yahoo was a portal back when portals were the thing to be... until they weren't anymore.

Facebook is a social network site when that's the thing to be... until it isn't anymore....
No, no, it's to target advertising to you.
How do you assign a local fax number? Is there any way to associate it with an existing number? Small businesses might start leaping for joy...
> One of the big hurdles to overcome on a user ratings site is that people are most motivated to write reviews when they are outraged. There is a massive selection bias, and if nothing is done to alleviate this, your site runs the risk of becoming a soap box for ranting.

This is the risk we take listening to ANYTHING depending on voluntary responses. Burying negative reviews to attempt some intrinsic rating dismisses the value in actual user input, with the paternalistic view that the review aggregator somehow knows better. Who decides which and how many negative reviews to hide? You? How about letting the user figure it out, knowing that trusting any opinion is a risk and learning from experience to calibrate reviews he reads to himself? It's the best we can hope for without resorting to the review site, in effect, clobbering consensus views to get something it "knows to be more accurate." In that case the users no longer review, but the site, which is not a user, does.

> If you receive 2 bad reviews and 2 good ones, that does not mean 50% of people are dissatisfied.

You absolutely do not know this. It could be that 70% were dissatisfied. You can't assume this without taking the role of a reviewer, which you cannot legitimately do without experiencing the item being reviewed.
I think you're going to need to give us more information about what you mean. It isn't clear.

For example, one great visual hacking tool is a pair of glasses. Is that what you mean?
True, but i'm not a designer and bootstrap makes it easier for me to get stuff done quickly by myself.
Thanks for the feedback though
Ah. You may be right, there. WAAS is enabled on my GPS (a Garmin 60CSx).

Link for bystanders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waas

WAAS uses a network of ground-based reference stations, in North America and Hawaii, to measure small variations in the GPS satellites' signals in the western hemisphere. Measurements from the reference stations are routed to master stations, which queue the received Deviation Correction (DC) and send the correction messages to geostationary WAAS satellites in a timely manner (every 5 seconds or better). Those satellites broadcast the correction messages back to Earth, where WAAS-enabled GPS receivers use the corrections while computing their positions to improve [3D] accuracy.
Same here. Really annoying, actually. My docs is fairly well organized but there's also tons of random crap in there from over the years.
Yelp accused of extortion in Chicago:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/02/27/2-investigators-busin...
Oh really? That's disturbing.

Craigslist's a good idea, didn't thought of it! Thanks
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Jake Barton: "A classic rookie mistake is giving the client what they ask for"
iirc there are several short-range positioning signals (various flavors of differential GPS, i guess)
Some of the functionalities right now are:

(1) Ability to save and tag tweets with urls (kind of Delicious)
(2) Url content inline with the corresponding tweet
(3) Search over all the tweets you could have seen. In other words, you can search over all the tweets of the people you follow.
And not to change the subject, but why does my instance of Dashboard need 340M of RAM? I have maybe 5-6 widgets. Is this thing spawning WebKit for each one?