skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much everything the article complained about were clearly bugs. Yes, its buggy. Welcome to the world of pre-release software, the world I live in on a daily basis. Things tend to suck. But that's expected. The release preview was released quite a while ago, and as you can expect, applications weren't a main priority when they were ramping up to release these previews. Hence one of the reasons it says "App preview" when you open any of these apps.

The thing is, these applications can be updated ad-hoc through the stores application process (as many people may have seen with some of the first party apps). If I were you, I wouldn't expect them to be really polished and up to quality until soon before general availability.

But yeah I will agree with you on the fact that they're buggy, but complaining about bugs when you're doing a beta seems like a really stupid thing to do to me.
I would submit that the term "social network" has lost almost all distinctive value.

Github isn't a social network in the way that traditional online social networks have been viewed – it isn't just about "connecting" and communicating the way that friendster, facebook and twitter all are.

Instead, it's an online code repository that has social features – in other words, it's the next step in making our online selves a more effective extension of our off-line selves, doing work, building things, but doing it in the context of a social group – just like we do in the off-line world, more often than not.

This is an example of a niche concept becoming widespread enough that it almost becomes table stakes rather than a notable feature.

That's still pretty cool – but again, I think it means that the term "social network" is losing its distinctiveness.
thank you! glad you liked it.
That does look a little more iPady... However, I'm assuming that this (the 10.1n) is the model that most retailers are currently selling, and that Apple was sending letters to stop the sale of... The more salient point and the injunction that has been since been reversed is for the Galaxy Nexus which is in no way similar to the iPhone 4s.

Unrelated, who uses a tablet from 10 ft away anyway?
It tells me if they can at least minimally apply their knowledge and reason about a problem. It's a filter question. If a person with a college degree in math cannot solve this, what's the likelihood they will be able to solve an actual real problem I need them to work on?
I only see Gabriel Weinberg's DuckDuckGo : http://ddg.gg
The point is that if you know one of the languages cited by the parent ("C++, Perl, and even PHP"), then you do make your life easier by working with that language rather than choosing one which you don't know.

All other things being equal, sure, choose the maximally powerful language in whichever dimension makes sense. But all other things are usually not equal.

If you are working on a project by yourself, here are some things which are more important than the characteristics of the language:

- your knowledge of the problem domain
- your knowledge of general software development
- your knowledge of the limits, capabilities and ecosystem
of the language (aka project experience)

Also, if you're working with others, the following factors are more important than choice of language:

- your customer's expectations (if you're shipping software to them)
- the ability to recruit experienced individuals for your project
- the availability of mentors / reviewers within your organization
- the availability of secondary resources (books, FAQ, etc)

(edit: formatting)
Copying Wikipedia has been done, and nobody hears about it because it's the people and publicity that matters, the constant supply of contibutors that matters, not the copied tech or the content. And there's no reason to think that Github would bring a userbase that's either different or bigger than what Wikipedia already has now, much less a better userbase.
Well, I don't know much about the actual lawsuit, but in order to get back into compliance Samsung has rolled out an update that disables the search function from searching the actual phone. That's right, Apple has somehow patented a text-based search of the items on a device. What a brilliant, non-obvious idea! Right up there with the light bulb. I deserves a government-sanctioned, and protected, monopoly!
Ok, I'll come your way. So be it, let's assume this is a very 'innovative patent' as per your theory. Do you think they should be suing all the OEM's for such a ridiculous patent? As an end user, I lost a very important feature on my phone just because a random company whose products I don't even want to own is trying to prove how innovative it is. If you still support them, then I have nothing else to say. Have a nice day.
Some good points, but you need slightly more qualified editing. ("Principal/principle" and "noising/noisy" for starters.)
I think the problem with the Wedding Gown has more to do with the fact that there is no UK wikipedia, rather than a gender issue. The English wikipedia is an interesting amalgam with lots of peculiarities when seen from an outsider's perspective.
A/B is such a buzzword here. He recorded the results in one situation, changed something, and then recorded the results in another situation for comparison. That's what A/B testing is.
Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small ideas
I can't remember the last time I had to reboot my MacBook due to an unresponsive program. And I am by no means using the latest Apple hardware or software.

I am not an Apple fanboy (I used windows only up to a year ago), but the Apple user experience is orders ofagnitude greater than Windows' latest attempt. I suspect that the main difference stems from each company's design process. Apple has slowly built up all of their products and OSes, incrementally adding features only when they are rocksolid. Microsoft, especially lately with Windows 8, has sought entry into a new market (tablets/touch interfaces) and has hoped to skip all the intermidiate steps. This method is clearly inferior, and I won't be surprised when Windows 8 falls flat.
> Have you ever looked at the Mediawiki code base? Last time I skimmed a bit, a few years ago, it was an utterly horrible mess of spaghetti PHP. Just finding developers capable of doing this would be a big challenge. The Wikimedia Foundation has a lot less resources than you might imagine, considering the reach of its projects, and there are an awful lot of other funding priorities (not to mention other code priorities). They’re doing the best they can, but making sweeping changes to the code base is a lot harder than it looks.

If they lack the resources to do it, they could easily raise the money via a targeted donation drive or a kickstarter project. Telling the web: "Hey, here's what we want to do to make Wikipedia editing better, but we need $X to do it" would probably raise the target many times over. If they can't find good programmers right now, offer triple the salary or whatever. Incentives work.

> It’s easy to hate on anything, as a disinterested outsider, without making any real attempt to understand the internal processes involved, but organizing millions of people is a highly non-trivial job, and I think the Wikimedia community has done pretty admirably, all things considered.

How do you know whether I'm an insider or outsider?

I've contributed thousands of edits and was very active on Wikipedia maybe 6-7 years ago, but mostly stopped because of all the internal politics. Now I just fix typos or formatting errors when I notice them.

The fact is, if creating an easier way for newbies to contribute was a priority for the organization, I'm pretty sure they could have done it over the past many years. In that time whole companies were created from scratch. I can't believe that an organization as powerful (with such support and mindshare worldwide) as Wikipedia couldn't created a GUI editor. I could be wrong, but it just doesn't feel like they want it that much to happen, and the challenges in their way are used as excuses for not going full steam ahead...
Yeah, I know, but they used to let you try it without creating an account, and then if you wanted to keep using it you'd just give them an e-mail and a password and you got to keep the API keys and other info.

It wasn't so much a demo as it was an instant trial.
Extorting fees for every Android device sold shows restraint? Maybe by comparison to Apple, but I prefer not to grade on a curve.

And as for blocking competitors, how many vendors have looked at Android and reconsidered due to the current litigation environment and imposed fees? I don't have an exact number, but I'd bet on "at least one". So, please criticize away. :)
I don't really care about "powerful" hardware, but I have heard bad things about the GPS and camera in the Nexus, which, combined, are about 80% of the reason I use a smart phone. I'm going to give the GS3 a shot and just hope that the wonderful folks at Cyanogen will work their magic.
Law of large numbers.

We also don't know how many other bowling alleys he's gone into - he presumably likes bowling.
Careful, though. If the original license is seen by the court as a bare copyright license, rather than as a contract, then the copyright holder may be able to revoke that license. If that were the case, people with copies distributed before the revocation would no longer be able to make and distribute copies or derivative works.

This is a thorny and confusing area, and we are not going to know for sure until we have a few actual cases litigated.
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This is just a nitpick, but why is SRP (Wu) in your list? Looks a bit out of place there.
SEO for developers.
Tutorial doesn't work in ios
The website is named "techiebuzz", leak makes more pageviews than alpha build. Sad state we are in ...
Well, not necessarily. The key factors are heterogeneity and complexity rather than size.

E.g., the difference between a stick of RAM (relatively homogeneous and simple) vs a CPU (highly diverse).

In fact, when it comes to brains, larger cetaceans seem to have simpler structures when compared to human brains, even though they're larger in absolute terms.
Obviously with $100M cash, big things will be coming for GitHub. It is hard to imagine that they haven't thought about other collaborative communities.
Privacy, access to different engines (when there is an API), reactive search (refine your search within the results).
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Nice reframing. Yes, if said person was taking away the socialised healthcare that's already in place across much of Europe and replacing it with the much more business-friendly version promoted by the Democrats, they absolutely, positively would be seen as being what we term 'conservative' (or right wing anologue - in Russia, they are reversed, apparently).
Arstechnica does blog-spam. This is largely cloned from StackExchange

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/97660/what-re...
Digg wasn't really "the next big thing for a week," though. I'd argue from 2005-2008 it was a monolithic company.

Their fall, still, couldn't be choreographed better: focus on short-term products and grand, sweeping changes; neglect of the community and the emerging competitive landscape.
Because it matters!

Do you say you are a media company? Because - by your definition - you are! There are plenty of media companies that don't sell advertising (eg, book publishers).

Twitter isn't a media company because they say they aren't! They see their goal as microblogging/self expression/communication (or whatever it is), and selling ads is just a means to that end. Google is that same - they see themselves as a engineering company organizing all the worlds information, and selling ads is just how they pay for it.

Compare that to something like News Ltd or NYT. They seem themselves as a media companies, and so when they run into technology problems they don't adapt well.
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And hopefully they're pushing important stuff upstream, it wouldn't make sense to not leverage the community.
He does address those things, but he notes that when losing weight, calornies in < calories out is the primary factor for any weight loss diet. For maintenance diets, 1, 2, and 3 matter, because the types of calories play a role in metabolism, dietary function, and overall health.
The fact that it's RTMing in 2 weeks is irrelevant. What you're looking at (the release preview) was released May 31st, 2012. That means that before RTM hits, there will have been 2 months and a week or twos work put into it. While I think the apps won't be that clean in RTM yet, by the time GA rolls around I'm confident that they will be pretty good.
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this as the founder of an Internet startup, but I didn't even have a smartphone until a few months ago. I had what my wife referred to as a "dinophone." :-)

Eventually, I succumbed to the pressure and curiosity of having a smartphone. Now, as I check my email, tweet, or check HN walking my dog, as I'm eating lunch, etc., I find myself wondering: is this connectedness actually making my life BETTER?

I think for me, the answer is somewhat ambiguous. Yes, I appreciate the flexibility of being able to reply to emails in places and at times I was previously unable. However, I think there is a cost. I'm a lot less "present" during the monotonous moments of life. And, I think it's this monotony --- the "down time" --- that often makes space for unexpected creativity in our lives. Perhaps that's why our best ideas often come during mundane tasks like taking a shower (http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2011/why-you-get-ideas-in-th...).

Anyway, I think the bottom line for me is this: I need to learn a new skill: how to disconnect and, perhaps more importantly, come to value these "boring", unproductive moments so I can withstand the temptation of pulling out my phone. I think that's an even bigger challenge for me.
Definitely. I, personally, can eat half a box of pasta and be extremely hungry again in a few hours. If I eat a bowl of lentils, I sometimes have difficulty finishing it.
That's not a new kind of search engine, it is a frontend for bing that can be used without the shame of having to say you use bing.

As far as I know, nobody is building a new kind of search engines, although I'd guess that a new kind of search engine won't really look like a search engine at first.
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I absolutely agree that weight is regulated by calories consumed vs calories burned.

In practice though, trying to say that is the only important aspect is complete bull. Try getting all your calories from wood chips and let me know how that work.

In order for consistent weight loss to occur, we need to eat healthy foods so that we feel good. Feeling lousy will cause you to overeat. Eating bad foods could also make you sick.
I wonder if there could be an alternative in hardware.

Could the cpu have a mode/flag where all pointers in cpu registers were treated as 32 bits (high 32 bits ignored)?

Alignment issues might make this impossible (loading a 32 bit address in a compatible way from memory/cache...) but it would be neat if it could work. For instance, if memory layout in 32 bit chunks were A... B..., there would have to be a way to load both A and B into the low 32 bits of a register.
I can see (a) and (c), but what part of this scenario leads to (b)?

(a) [Free] makes it easy for people to join initially. More people makes it more attractive to other people (via network effects).

Getting around that is going to be a problem.
Is there a list of devices that currently have hardware decoding supported?
I dont use it, but Blekko had some interesting ideas with slashtags

http://blekko.com/
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Lots of people choose to break the law every day.

How we punish those people is a separate matter.
Safari in 10.8 works in a similar way as Chrome does with the address bar. Indeed it seems to be faster too, I'm toying with switching from Chrome. We shall see.
The thing is: (blogging|writing)-about-/publishing- code takes time.
And time is really what people doing amazing stuff are short on the most.
Don't get me wrong, both discussing and publishing are amazing,
but often life is just too short for the blah blah blah,
unless you have good reasons for doing that.
Unfortunately, you don't know that the algorithm got the right answer for the letters on the bottom row. You'd have to try it on an image where you already knew the answers. Other comment threads note the there are lots of errors on that last line in the eye chart. Again, you can't recover more information than is in the image. When multiple characters look identical when scaled down, no algorithm can recover them reliably.
> Software patents these days are most valuable when you did it first, then other people redid it without knowing about you.

I think it's quite a bit more sinister than this. As a patent lawyer confided to me once:
The most valuable patents are the obvious ones (as other folks will likely think of it themselves) and that his job is to mask the fact that a patent is in fact obvious.

Pathetic scum if you ask me.

Edit: I mean the lawyer, not you :)
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Change the license to officially BSD.
https://github.com/medecau/lamson/commit/e78520b857384462b9e...

This is the last change before the introduction of the new clauses.
Is it every device? I haven't been able to find a good overview that lists companies that have signed on and companies that haven't, or details on the specific patents. I couldn't speculate on what might have been without more information.
Sorry, I don't have any good links for you. It's been a while since I've been active, and most of what I'm thinking of is spread around hundreds of AfD (deletion review), article talk pages and policy pages. Much of the discussion within Wikipedia isn't all that great, either, with a very low SNR. I'm not sure that there's a single page which only covers the really good arguments of either side.

The quotes & arguments in the articles you reference are cringe-worthy, but then again I don't think they're very serious. I think the "Rationale for deletionism" section in your [1] is pretty okay, and something every inclusionist had better keep in mind when making a policy suggestion. As usual, it pays to know the opposing side's arguments very well.

This is what Wikipedia "proper" has to say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in... (including a quote by pg that, at least without further context, is a good example of what I'm talking about)

I'm not sure that a detached outsider is in a better position to come up with what's needed to fix the system, being ignorant of both what the system is and why it was set up in this way. At least the latter is required before coming up with a new, improved system.

Newbies are good judges on the difficulty of entry into Wikipedia, but that's an orthogonal issue: it may be possible to be nicer to newbies AND have sensible notability criteria/high quality articles, but then again, maybe not. If not, as I said earlier, having less sensible notability criteria and worse quality articles may be worth it if it resulted in a less hostile environment/image.
I didn't write a search engine of any kind, I wrote a search front-end of sorts which redirects you to actual search engines (or Wikipedia if your query is an exact article title match). It doesn't handle not-ASCII text very well and there are some other bugs I should iron out and sometimes Heroku is down (hosted for free so I shouldn't complain) but it works well enough for me 99% of the time so I'm not actively working on it.

http://s.xqz.ca/
I don't think so. I am not developing this app at a great pace for a while. I changed this one thing and see a continuing impact on traffic.
I'm not talking in hypotheticals here. I'm saying that of the many, many people I know who do in fact work closely with the badly injured victims of traffic accidents every day, not a single one has been scared away from driving.
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But it's not just overzealous deletion oats. All those Linux distribution pages don't get deleted.
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Wait, no prior art was found? Did I miss an announcement, a failed patent suit, or some other piece of news, or are you just assuming things there?

If the original patent is specific enough to cover only Apple's particular method of searching a phone, then how could Android's unified search be found to be infringing without some sort of reverse engineering or source code examination? If this examination had been done, surely we'd have the results published somewhere.

On the other hand, if the patent was general enough to cover any search across multiple components on a device, then surely it should not have been granted and we should not be cheering for a company that exercises such a monopoly?

If this unified search patent can be used to stop a phone from searching through multiple data types and components, do you actually think that's something that should stand up in court in the first place? Or are you just going to argue that Apple is just making use of the monopolies granted by the system, the rules of the game, and should be excused anyhow?
Although its not on mobile didn't Google's desktop search tools cover an awful lot of this? I certainly remember it returning, emails, documents and other textual data in the result. It also had plugin support.

It may not have existed on mobile but one could argue that much of it did already exist on the desktop, bringing similar functionality to a mobile is not especially innovative in my opinion, its a feature at best. Integrating things is not innovative either.

I would love to see the fireworks of Apple taking Google to court on search patent infringement.
Low carb diets also increase metabolic stress (specifically ketosis), which is one of the suspected reasons for the additional calorie burn. Ketosis over short periods is good, but scientists differ on whether it is safe in the long-term. For diabetics (Type I or II), ketosis is not safe, as the body does not have the proper insulin response to maintain safe levels of ketosis.
Digg wasn't really "the next big thing for a week," though.

Yes, but I bet the Digg crew paid more attention to such sites than to reddit.
This is one of the most fascinating things about PyPy, and one least understood (most likely because the primary output of the PyPy interpreter generator happens to be a Python interpreter written in a static language much like Python called RPython).

I've been toying with the idea of building a little language, just for fun. The mess of building an interpreter has always kept me from it, but as I've spent some time looking at PyPy, I think I might just have a go.
No, that is emphatically not what A/B testing is.

A/B testing is a statistical technique for teasing out the significance of changing one thing, in a world where lots of things are changing all of the time. If you just change stuff and throw it out there, you can make an educated guess about what mattered, but you don't really know and have no idea how good the data actually was.

If you want to learn more about what A/B testing is, and how to do it, http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/ is a good starting place.