skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, they just say "Smartphone", and have an iPhone (am I mistaken?!) lurking behind the Android device. Similarly, on the part where they had their marketing department create a "Gaming" sample, the device used as controller looks very much like an iPhone, even the connector does.
Of course Facebook didn't promote this properly. It's not in Facebook's interest to promote this properly.

Those of you who care about this sort of thing should be asking yourselves why the Facebook privacy advocates didn't or couldn't promote this properly on their own - after all, the sharing mechanisms built into Facebook work pretty well. That's the far more interesting question here.
The point is still moot if we're talking about Austria (just like the reference of Germany was useless so is the US one).

To add some real data: Over there it seems that this organization is tax-exempt, but not recognized as a church or religion. [1, found as reference on Wikipedia]:

Sensitivity to and fears of Scientology in the country remains an issue.
The Church of Scientology reported problems obtaining credit cards,
and individual Scientologists experienced discrimination in hiring.
However, Scientology leaders also noted that the Vienna Provincial
Tax Authority granted them tax-exempt, non-profit status.

Well.. Now this is a nice US centric view here that probably _is_ based on this stuff being a religion in the US after all. Scientology members being discriminated, a paragraph between a reports about Muslims and Jews. Hilarious.

1: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Austria
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27825.htm
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So my company is providing a Platform-as-a-service for mainly Flash game developers, where we provide storage, hosting, multiplayer, and payment services.

We have lots of customers who are happily building games on top of our platform, because they do not have the skills required to make their own. They're small companies who can't afford to hire a bunch of guys to make scalable storage services or payment integrations or whatever they need. So if not for us, the games they've made and are making quite a lot of money on, would never have been made in the first place. They make money, we make money, everyone's happy!

Of course, if we fail, our customers will fail. They're tied to us, but that's the risk that comes with the benefit of getting our services cheap.

And on the flipside, we in turn use other PaaS solutions, we use Amazon S3 for a lot of things, we use a bunch of different CDN providers, and we rent dedicated hardware instead of buying and running our own datacenter. We stand on the shoulders of others, our service could not exist without them. And our customers stand on our shoulders, their products could not exist without us. And that's ok. There are risks, but there's also opportunity. Building your own platform and owning the entire stack is also risky.
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"You’ll notice striking similarities between the peaks and troughs in the graph below."

Correlation does not imply causation. On the micro level most stocks go up and down together simply because overall market sentiment is a factor on all stock prices. It would have helped if the chart had included the S&P 500 Index.
Hmm, maybe that was to be expected from visualidiot.com? An interesting take idea on how to spin a blog post nonetheless.
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> Using python. Case in point, Pypy.

Yes, PyPy is an excellent example of doing low level tasks in a high level language. It's also quite rare. I think in the future we'll see more examples of self-hosting dynamic languages that have a JIT-compiler based execution environment that combines interpretation and compilation.

However, in comparison to the stuff that the PyPy guys are writing, C programming is easy. And I bet all of the PyPy programmers are excellent C programmers, because they have to be good with low level stuff anyway.

I still advice learning C programming, and how interpreters and compilers work.
There's nothing wrong with baling hay. If anything, it should free up his mind to think about better things. At his age, he has plenty of time to figure it out. Not everyone has to be at a starting line for someone else's race.
That being said, most UK banks suck (having tried a few, I know), and I am in fact seriously considering switching my company's bank account from Lloyds to these guys, since presumably they are not ass-backwards retarded when it comes to simple tech things that you expect in 2012.
every time i see "hello world" argument in such article i'm doing facepalm and closing it.
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For what it's worth, Facebook does the same thing with big corporations that pay it millions of dollars for year-long advertising deals (from which GM famously pulled out in recent months). As far as I can tell, paying them a giant chunk of cash gets you a dedicated sales team that occasionally visits your office, helps you acquire "Likes" for your page, and tries its best to explain how to maximize uptake of your posts via the context algorithm.

Seems a heck of a lot cheaper just to churn out relevant and high-quality content instead, but what do I know? I realize I'm being fairly glib here, but your hypothetical analogy about Google is pretty spot-on. Google didn't need to hire a swarm of sales reps to explain SEO to advertisers; instead, it made search advertising fairly turnkey. It realized, rather astutely, that it was better served owning the market for search advertising than wasting its efforts hand-holding big clients on SEO. (Furthermore, it realized that getting into the SEO business would necessarily conflict with its stated desire to deliver the best results to users). And so it ceded one monetizable space for another. Facebook might want to consider this choice.
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Wow, great job. Thanks!
"Don’t have your chestnuts roasting on an open fire" lol
> that is probably a paragraph that will convince anyone that putting such rules is for the best

Of course every sane person is against child pornography, just like every sane person is against terrorism. That does not make any measure having for goal to reduce those atrocious activities good measures to take. And that does not make someone asking himself questions about the relevancy of a solution one of those wicked people, nor one defending them.

It's all too easy to see it black or white. I'm not that concerned about freedom issues (although they do exist), but also about efficiency. After all, preventing terrorists to fly by wanting to scan every single person going through airports looks like a nice idea on paper, but the result is a security theater which costs a lot for weak results.

Given the time needed for a judge (and the overwhelming a mount of work they have otherwise) to examine proofs and order a block, I'm not sure this would be efficient. And even considering that would be, it's trivial for them to move and/or use proxies. That is, if they don't use alternate DNS systems and overlay networks (which they are reportedly using, according to a paper published a few years ago).

Police forces and network managers are generally agreeing that blocking is not efficient and that actively hunting them down is much more effective.

Also this does not make it any more helpful to stop it overseas, where most of the matter occurs. Blocking is like putting a blindfold and pretending it doesn't exist because we're "safe" here.

To sum it up, I'm worried it would be both a money- and time-sink with non-measurable results, cutting of resources that would be better spent chasing those bastards down and destroying their networks.

(anyway, thanks for indirectly calling me both insane and a pedophile, that really makes the discussion more constructive)
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Obviously this is a bad move from Microsoft and someone needs a serious talking to in the Norwegian marketing department, but having seen so many pieces on this I can't help feel that it's all being a little overblown, especially bearing in mind that the company is now being run by the guy that brought you this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6304687408656696643
Leaders of pentacostal/evangelical churches, perhaps? Are they knowingly fraudulent?

There's no way to tell if most religious leaders truly believe, unless you catch one in an incontrovertible statement of disbelief. Even someone like the Pope could be going along with it for the prestige, or simply not knowing what he'd do with his life outside of the Church.

From a non-religious perspective, either someone is brainwashed, or they are fraudulent. That distinction matters in law, but it doesn't have any bearing on the value of the religious institution.
> Believe me, there are a lot of cases where a human beats the compiler.

Oh, I do believe you. I do analyze and re-write assembly code from the C compiler every now and then. SIMD optimizations are especially tricky. But the compiler still wins at least 80% of the cases.

And when you add a single line of assembly code (inline or not) to your C code, you inhibit all optimizations that could take place.

So for your innermost loop it might make sense to hand write assembly, but for most optimizations just re-think your C code and/or add compiler intrinsics to get SIMD or other CPU facilities put to better use.
Based on past experience with Facebook privacy policies, I have developed my own, very effective one: I do not give Facbook my data.
Server/article is down. Its a rather interesting problem and it generated lots of questions. One immediate question is how you determine the the nodes that sit on the rail voltages (i.e. the good and bad nodes)? Would be interesting to see if how they measured the success of this solution in reducing click fraud etc.
the page title is "Clambook iPhone and Android Laptop Dock". The whole page makes it seem very android-specific though, and i have a hard time understanding how anything like this would be even possible on iOS.
> Pah, 99.9% of programmers will never, ever, ever need to drop down to that level.

That is true. Most programmers will not need to write code in C. But they'll still be better and more versatile programmers if they know the language.
"Where do these delusions even come from?"

Probably from those of us who have found a working knowledge of C fairly useful in their careers?

I've been working for 24 years in software and I'd say that during most years I've written or read C sources. Some years it would be a lot, some years relatively little, but it's been a very useful skill for me.

I agree that relatively few people need to write C these days - but knowledge of it does, in my opinion, help quite a lot.
Prices in the US don't include sales tax (VAT). In the UK they do. Take the new iPad for example. $499, add 20% UK VAT ~$599 which at today's rate is ~£385.

The UK price for the same iPad is £399. Yes there is a discrepancy, but you're not being ripped off as much as you think you are.

Unless you buy an Apple TV, that is.
This thing is just begging for Ubuntu for Android. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
The real value in this site is not "what UI/UX details can I copy" but "how can I (re)think things to add this level of usability to my work". It's a way of thinking that you need to adopt.
This is very true but in my experience it's not always a good thing. It often leads me to premature optimization for instance.
It's not especially time-sensitive, but everything is time-sentisitive to some extent. I think I'm like most people here in assuming by default anything here has just been posted unless there's a year attached.
And yet the educational system of those countries is even more focused on rote learning / standardized testing than it is in the USA...
Well, as of now, you can actually do connect your phone to the apple tv[1]. And you can connect a BT Keyboard as well. And I think I've also seen games utilizing the second screen for a different purpose then simply for mirroring.

I'm not so sure about the touchpad though.

Still I find that page a little bogus.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/airplay.html
National Public Radio Science Friday segment about the flame explanation challenge, with interview of the creator of the winning video:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/06/08/2012/what-is-a-flam...

I heard this on air on Friday 8 June 2012 in Minnesota.
How about creating a recommendation engine for HN articles? It should recommend articles upvoted by users that have similar likes/dislikes as me.

I would also like to browse HN articles/comments on basis of topics. For example, right now if I want to find HN posts related to "machine learning" I use HN Search. Can you make it better by using machine learning techniques so that I can get all relevant HN articles on a given topic sortable on basis of upvotes and time?
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This won't do me any good until Samsung releases Ice Cream Sandwich for my Infuse.
It's always hard to C a loved one Go.
I agree. Maybe a digital mockup for market testing purposes.
Well, they were on the hook anyway via Congressional Hearings, so they might as well cut their risk by doing the reviews. Their is a difference between the letter of the law and what a random congressperson or senator believes they can do.
I think the thing for me that movies.io has that others don't is the top 50. It's a beautifully designed site that gives me access to a whole load of well presented information. I don't even torrent, but I've used movies.io to look for films that I haven't seen that might be worth looking into, and I can see the torrent element almost as secondary to some users.

I hope movies.io succeeds, but not so much as to put it on the MPAA radar for a takedown.
thanks!

this makes a lot more sense now..
All the talk with regards to funding is generally focussed around either bootstrapping with customer revenue from day 1, and/or taking funding from angels and VCs. Where does Silicon Valley Bank fit into the picture? I've basically never seen any blog posts, dicussions or articles advising of the pros and cons of going down this route. Any suggestions or experiences to share?
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Ask HN: Mathematical optimization API
I am developing a mathematical optimization engine and would like to know some problems you would like to solve?

Example:
- Find the geographical point of minimum distance between multiple points (Useful for location-based application)
...
Dude (or female, not sure), that is and evil an brilliant idea. Even if it never made it on Kickstarter, it would certainly start a movement.
I don't want to let server S know which sites I have an account to. Also, I don't trust server S.

And as if that wasn't bad enough (which it is) it is a single point of failure both in terms of security and availability.
I think the article misses the point that some companies (mainly big ones) do, which is bump people's titles up so they can bill customers more. At Mandalorian we don't even have formal job titles as such. It's usually "X will be leading, Y will be on the job and Z's handling account management".
I concur, also I wonder what the battery life would be. The clambook looks too thin to be holding a battery, does that mean it will rely on the smartphone's own power supply? A smart phone might last longer than a laptop but that's only because it doesn't have a big 13" screen... until now.
Not exactly the same solution. Ubuntu for Android lets you run Ubuntu on the desktop, and no Android apps I think.

This seems to work more like Asus' Padfone, so when the phone is docked, you get ICS on the larger screen, and get to use all Android apps.
That's certainly a cool direction computing could take. Instead of having a PC and a smartphone you will only have one device.
But many of those 80% probably just haven't needed to use C, or read a CSV file, in a while. If someone randomly asked me to do that in Lisp, when I've been coding in Python for a year, it would take me a while to remember how to do it. But after working with Lisp for a week, I could do it easily again.
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Thanks what's the size like? The last time I built a Haskell application it was quite large. This is more of an issue for mobile apps.

FWIW I've done Scala/Java+Android and WP7+C#/F#, interestingly Wp7 is by far the easiest mobile to get a good functional language running on.
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This is no more true than with Green Coffee Bean Extract. I am being totally honest here. This is a run-of-the-mill presentation. That isn't reassuring. For some reason, but, in my opinion, it doesn't take a lot of brains to comprehend that. It is before I decide on a Green Coffee Bean Extract that liquidates an entourage for a Green Coffee Bean Extract. Cheer up, that's not the end of the world. Allow me explore some of the potential mysteries to toss around. What is known for sure is that was ordinary around that year. It will be all worth the price because of Green Coffee Bean Extract that you will be using.
I know the owner of a Facebook application development firm here in Poland. Based on the brand-new Maserati and Ferrari sitting on his driveway, he's done pretty well from developing for FB's platform. His house isn't bad either.

It might not last forever, but why not make hay whilst the sun shines? Frankly, I'm just jealous of the guy's ability to do business!
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> Most programmers will not need to write code in C. But they'll still be better and more versatile programmers if they know the language.

I agree, although I'm not sure C should be the top priority for someone that will never need to actually use it. There are lots of other things to learn and nowhere near enough time to learn them all.

Although learning C when you already know other languages is not particularly difficult.
Could also be due to licensing regulations etc etc.
There seem to be a million and one EU directives regarding different levies placed on tech. For example if something can record more than 30 seconds of video I believe it's classed in a separate category and carries with it hefty levies.
It took me a while to understand what actually the product is. Is it just a dock? A MacBook Air like laptop? Only then I understood it was a laptop that "connects your phone to laptop" (I'm still not sure if I got it right, so correct me if I'm wrong). I'd probably won't buy it but good luck to them.

It's funny that now every laptop is looking like Apple's MacBook Air.
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This is why (good) computer science studies generally involve everything from CPU fundamentals to operating system programming and compiler design. I'm not afraid to look inside my interpreter, operating system kernel or my C compiler.
There's actually a really interesting book called Mr China by Tim Clissold. It was based about 20 years ago but a real eye opener for what it was/is like to do business there
This is the group of problems we need to solve in order to design effective government and stable markets.
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Ask HN: What do you think of Bootstrapping Design book?
Has anyone read it and can recommend it? http://bootstrappingdesign.com/

Should I buy or just improve myself on design & UX blogs around?
Why not sign-up to kaggle and do some of their challenges, that way you can also benchmark yourself against others.
I think programmers should know the basics of C even though most of them will never work at that low a level. If you don't understand C, you probably don't understand any modern imperative languages, practices, or patterns. If you don't understand imperative programming (what it is, where it is good, where it is bad) then you don't understand high-level or functional programming.

Also, C isn't a complicated language. Like any, it has faults and warts, but it's pretty damn elegant on the whole.

C++, on the other hand... don't get me started.
It's not a laptop, it's an all-in-one external display, keyboard, and battery for an Android phone.

For 90%+ of computer users on Earth, it's way better than a laptop.

This smells like the future.
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HaXe is revolutionary, people who really try it always seem to stay with it, they just have to get past the ask lets of questions and actually try some code and stop being negative and putting it in the less able solutions pile. If you want to waste days coding a game in pure objectiveC and then converting it to java just to target two phones then good luck to you! And if you code something in one language it should just be a case of switching some target specific libraries and all your work now works in another target, not recoding in another language style. HaXe is revolutionary because it in achieving what other solutions promise but normally fall short on providing - cross platform cross language, code that is designed to enable not fragment. So try it rather than assume!

You don't have show stopper issues with the compiler ( it outperforms flex compiler on flash target ). Any minor issues are often resolved within hours of reporting, unless they are language design decisions rather than bugs.

Pizzaman

The forum is not well used as most users use the googlegroup 'haxelang'. In terms of frameworks like flex, haxe for flash target does not support flex well, it can be made to work, but largely the problem is because flex is not really just actionscript but has some adobe secrets/hacks etc.. that is why it has not been ported to a cross platform solution yet, need some better engineering decisions although someone I think is working on it. In terms of other frameworks for components there are some but they could be better, try aswing, feel free to chat on IRC if you have problems getting a particular component framework running. Generally haxe is sort of tool that you can build from scratch your visual interface stuff, or if your using js you can mix it up with native libraries.

Jetz

You can add any support for mobile camera's or video you want it interfaces easily with c++/c and there is java support and there is openframework support try this site http://blog.onthewings.net/. Haxe is not really a game only language but it excels at allowing users to create visual stuff but still do complex game mechanics, and a lot of users enjoy doing games. It works well in solving the issues of having to mix technologies, being normally a more sane programming language than the target but also mixing well, so you can mix haxe php, haxe js and haxe flash ( http://haxe.org/doc/remoting ), or use NME library to hit all the phones and have a web version in flash for users to try online.
In this case (open source projects using C99) they can use mingw.
so what??? I HATE sites with no description what they do/make/whatever... WTF
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