skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would it be sad to say goodbye to Nokia? Companies come and go and all of Nokia's problems today are of their own making. Sure they made some nice phones 6+ years ago but they could have easily of competed with Apple, hell Google managed to do it without even having a damn phone they just made the Android platform and worked with other companies to make the devices. Nokia should have embraced Android from day zero, if they had they would most likely be the number one Android phone supplier instead of Samsung.
Shoehorning startups into the VC model
Well – that's the problem with service related jobs. Customer contact and production are so close together that production of your product becomes very distributed/de-centralized. As chains like this compete on price and have grown quite large, they are forced/decide to pay their workers low wages. Low wage workers have less concern, loyalty and often less insight into the ramifications of their choices.

The last claim is predicated on the idea that many low-wage/fast food jobs are held by teenagers who, biologically/neurologically are not wired to consider longer-term consequences. I'll find a cite if needed.

So, I'd ask, how responsible is BK for developing a business model that puts low-wage workers front and center as their primary point of production and primary point of contact with consumers?

Lastly, if BK did bring suit, what do you think they'd be able to recover? At best, garnishing minimum wages – if the person had better financial reserves or means, they'd likely not be working production at BK.
Further to blinders: A layperson is more likely to try many avenues for the reason that they don't know it "won't work" or has "already been tried".

I had numerous "genius but not quite" moments around the time I started university: I'd come up with something that seemed fantastic, only to move on to the next chapter in the textbook to either find that the same method was invented 30 years ago by someone who didn't have the benefit of having all the pre-requisite knowledge lined up for them.

Or I might find researchers had spent years lining up by now well known problems with would-be spark of genius. I'm sure that's not a unique thing - once you have a certain foundation of knowledge, a lot of things suddenly become obvious to try.

As I learned more about my field, the "genius moments" became more and more rare: I knew better. For more and more things I can instantly give reasons why an approach is highly likely to fail. Far more options are closed off from the outset because I "know" they will be fruitless.

Most of the time this is sensible pruning of obviously meaningless avenues of research.

But sometimes, through chance and sheer volume of attempts or by coming at things from slightly different angles, someone will try a slight variation that has very different implications, or stumble upon flaws in the accepted "truth" because they don't "know better" than to try something that someone well versed in the field would immediately dismiss.
Microsoft profits take a beating in spite of record fourth quarter
Microsoft has one of its best quarters ever -- revenue is up and growing on all their major devisions -- but end up taking an accounting loss (and tax credit, I assume?). Kudos to the accounting team for that one!
MacBook update fixes an issue that can lead to increased CPU power consumption
Microsoft: The Shoes of a Giant
http://wumocomicstrip.com/strip/2011/04/15/Abuse
concerning sex objects
Microsoft comes under fire for five-figure Xbox 360 “patch fee”
According to what I've read, it was thanks to Anonymous

http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-4chan-burger-king-let...
what? how does this impact privacy in any way?
> It's hard to get right, in practice, but that's the theory.

That's not even the theory. That's wishful thinking. Or, it is true in a tautological way if you define "what the customer wants" by "as shown by attaining market leadership".

Also, even if it were the theory, it's as useful as saying "the way to make money in the stock market is to buy low and sell high".

Google's customers (advertisers, mind you, NOT users) want access to users with an intent to buy. Microsoft can't provide or manufacture that.

Apple's customers want something that "just works, does so intuitively, and is what their friends and all the cool kids have". Microsoft does not know how to deliver that. (You can argue about the "just works and does so intuitively", but I would say that they failed, with the possible exception of WP7 -- which I don't like, but is not as horrible as other MS stuff).
This will let you load MonoTouch projects is VS and compile but the compile is only for syntax checking, etc... You still have to do the actual binary build on a Mac. Still, with this you can use all the refactoring tools, plug-ins, Intellisense, etc... that VS has to offer.

https://github.com/follesoe/VSMonoTouch
This doesn't solve the problem.

If food safety is their top priority, why did this happen?
Of course, you can write C in any language if you try hard enough.
Your post just reminded me that a strategy will not work forever. Competitors and the market adjust around it to restore balance. I guess the same goes with companies as it does with nature, evolve or die.
For product design projects, kickstarter requires that you have a working prototype and a manufacturing plan. Most of the other project areas don't have that requirement.

I just launched a kickstarter ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1402474606/the-ilex-edc-... ) and it was clear there was at least some human involvement in the approval process.
Why would anyone advocate this? The Office division doesn't need to protect any other division. They should make the best product they can on whatever OS's that are profitable to make it on. Office is a cash cow, they don't need to defer to any other division.
Get off my virtual (VRML) lawn!
Zapier... ;-)
I really don't know.

Also, yes, I do often keep read at this width. Web pages usually do not span the entirety of it, so the eye movement is kept to a minimum. However, I spend most of my day in a view closer to [1]this one. You'll notice that the monitor is just large enough that 2 standard width web pages fit on it perfectly.

[1]http://puu.sh/JZDy
"The choice they made was that we need not shoehorn interfaces into desktop or touch categories."

Imposing a touch centric UI onto traditional desktops is the very definition of shoehorning.

"Why not be able to touch your laptop?"

Having a touch interface doesn't magically confer touchscreen hardware. Most laptops will not be touchscreen as this means additional cost.

"Android is the one that didn't make a choice and simply copied Apple in this regard."

Apple did not invent the grid of icons concept. At best they imitated designs that came before them and Android imitated the imitator. It made a lot of sense at the time considering the iPhone was in the middle of running away with the market compared to traditional smartphone interfaces like the Blackberry, Palm, Symbian, and Windows Mobile.
I think this is a valid concern, but as JS engines start implementing more and more of the rich web client working drafts like FileAPI (http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/), those same concerns will be valid for your browser too. I can only imagine that developers of desktop platforms like this are aware of these drafts too and are planning to utilize as much as they can of the functionality provided.

As with most security, our best hope lies in open implementations which can be audited for such problems, with consideration being drawn in during design and implementation stages from security experts. Hopefully some lessons were learned from the ActiveX desktop days!
I'd assert that most health-related studies are terrible. Anecdotes are good for figuring out what to study, but can't be used in place of a study.
I'm not sure I understand the developer incentive for releasing a game exclusively for the Ouya. As a game developer I'm excited by the Ouya, but precisely because it's part of the larger Android ecosystem. So I can release my games for a large screen console on the OUYA store and for millions of Android mobile devices on the Play Store. With very little engineering effort between the two (saved you already planed d-pad support in your game).

So why would I publish exclusively only on the Ouya store and not the Play store? Is there some partnership plan somewhere that I'm missing? Robotoki is getting a lot of good marketing directly from Ouya. That sounds like an interesting partnership. But is that scalable for the rest of us?
I work, sometimes when I have to and sometimes when I find something interesting to do. The thing is, so many well paid jobs seem to consist largely of ephemera, while the people I see doing useful things within society are usually paid less. So I wonder how many of the people who are employed in the ephemeral economy, could stop pretty much everything they are doing in their job and society would be no worse off and in many cases wouldn't even notice.
I don't think it's supposed to, and that's what's making me thing it might be time to switch to Firefox.
More relevant ones:

http://wumocomicstrip.com/strip/2011/04/14/

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2009/05/28/

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2010/06/16/

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2012/07/18/ This one kind of contradicts me

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2004/12/29/ directly relevant

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2007/05/03/

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2008/08/31/ this about stereotypes

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2009/09/29/

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2007/07/27/

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2007/03/26/

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2004/09/06/ bullseye

http://wumocomicstrip.com/2009/10/27/ this would be the last one for today and pretty much sums it.
Not sarcastic. Question: do you need convincing, or are you not the target audience?

Im suspecting that most people here, are already being served well by the EFF.

Consider this a branch, with a different tone, aimed at the facebook / youtube / 9gag crowd.

And its still usefull for us, since we can eaily integrate the "alarm" with our own websites.

My memes were an exaggeration, but they were not sarcastic. Lets just hope the people here can be practical enough to accept that maybe the tone of voice isnt for us, it is the most effective way to promote a cause we all already care deeply about.
* Odds of me using this over the hardened Chrome/ium are pretty slim.

What are you saying here? This isn't a new browser, rather a plugin on the browsers. You still use Firefox or Chromium.
That's a pretty worthless example with nothing to compare it against. Had the developers released it on iOS or Android and had more success on Windows Phone then you would have an argument otherwise you really don't.
300,000 babies stolen in Spain since 1940s for ideological reasons
Is it possible that the trolling we experience on English language forums is really the rest of the world using this strategy to tie us up in petty arguments so we don't have time to do any real work?
"but it's our thing. Get off Facebook grandma"
http://wumocomicstrip.com/2007/07/02/
Another relevant one.

There are people who were sexually injured - but then again, people die of hunger. Should we not eat or talk about food since it would offend famine victims?
If you read carefully the developer is releasing a prequel to his real game. They are trying to leverage Ouya for publicity for when it releases its real game which will not be under an exclusive deal.

This is similar to movie studios providing say, Hulu or iTunes with exclusive trailers, and leveraging their platform for advertising.
Teenager Developing Algae-Based Device That Cuts Car Emissions by 90%
> an 80 person company with a multi-page visio org chart, six departments, seven VPs

Pfft. I once worked at a place with 77 employees and 14 VPs. How we didn't wind up taking over the tech world still mystifies me.
Why would anyone pay someone for the right to only release on their platform? That seems backwards. The other bit of nonsense is $40,000 -- really? That's crazy talk. Apple does some boneheaded things but at least you don't have to pay them for updating and releasing, aside from the nominal yearly $99 fee for the dev program.

I admit, I don't fully get it. Perhaps someone here can clarify the situation.
Say what you will about MS, but compared to Apple, Google, Oracle, or most other software companies, MS treats it's developers like gods.

I can not think of any other company that pays so much attention to it's developer community. I know, many around here may not have experience with as an MSDN member, but I do.

And trust me, having to deal with the likes of Apple AND Google, I miss MS' developer programs terribly.
I just wanted to add a few more words to this from my experience with working at Microsoft and why I think people should seriously calm down more on Microsoft. http://mittermayr.tumblr.com/post/27582543470/microsoft-the-...
Yeah, I imagine if you had a stroke or perhaps are suffering muscle fatigue you wouldn't do very good at all. The security provided isn't better than a 9 character all lowercase password.
Current self would tell younger self the exact opposite, except that I was lucky enough to learn that at an early age.

You may have to get older, but you don't have to grow up.
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I have written programs using native OpenGL/DirectX that are over a decade old. You are completely correct in that the technology is not new, in fact it is far inferior. However, the one thing to get excited over (and the only reason I even consider doing this type of development) is the accessibility of the finished product. It is far easier to get people to try out your product, game, whatever when all they have to do is visit a web page.

In addition, the "connected" nature of the web, real time communications aspect of it is exciting. Sure this could be done in C, but the cost of doing it in this type of environment is far less.

So while on a technical level it is not impressive, I wouldn't dismiss it.
Ouya's KickStarter feels less like you are "backing it" to make it happen than it does advertizing to potential investors. The video is what I would call more than a little vague and uncertain of itself. Are you backing what "could be" or what WILL be?
Because BK doesn't have a mind control device that prevents their employees from being assholes.
Everybody considers themselves a geek these days. Because they like batman, board games or scifi movies like avatar.

Lets hope a majority of people will be fooled into thinking they are part of a special club of l33t interweb freedom f1ght3rs.

I am being both sarcatic ( about how everyone thinks they are a geek these days ) and honest ( about that it could actually work ) here.
I think you're misreading the TOS. That part of the TOS prohibits creating a photo sharing site that uses Flickr as its backend. The OpenPhoto site doesn't give much detail, but this tool is (apparently) just downloading the photos to DropBox and importing them into OpenPhoto. Since the actual OpenPhoto code doesn't have anything to do with Flickr, it's not violating the TOS.

There are similar "import from Flickr" tools for almost every photo sharing service there is, and I've never heard of any of them getting their Flickr API key revoked.
So you know the reputation is inaccurate (or at least unrepresentative), but you avoid the site anyway?
Well, two points here.

First, Microsoft has had to play pretty carefully in the past decade to make sure that they don't draw any more antitrust ire.

The other thing would be that they don't have to manipulate the market forever, just long enough to lock out competition.

A perfect example of this in the tech world would be Intel.

They did everything they could to keep AMD locked out of vendors like Dell for years, even when AMD had a superior product. Fast forward a few years, and not only is Intel still the dominate player in the market, but their lead in process technology makes it extremely difficult if not impossible for anyone else to compete. For example, Ivy Bridge has a slightly higher transistor count than AMD's Bulldozer, but has a die roughly half the size of the AMD part.[1] That means that even if AMD was producing a part that performs competitively with Intel, they're going to have difficulty competing with them on price since Intel can crank out more dies per wafer.

Obviously it's entirely speculative whether AMD would have been able to capitalize on increased market share and keep up with Intel long term but Intel doesn't really need to manipulate the market like they used to anymore since they've managed to put themselves in such a comfortably entrenched position.

[1] - http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-bridge-core...
The better code results if far fewer headaches down the line. Having had to refactor entire apps that have been broken because of incrementally added crap, I vote for good longer code over sloppy shorter code. Of course, this is highly dependent on the situation and application of course.
Well, I'll miss Qt. Or at least the corporate muscle that used to fund it.
It sure as hell is. You have just chosen a definition of technology that differs from the rest of the world.
Isn't this a throwback to the Windows Active Desktop? Windows actually had led the way to integrate webapp/webpage with the OS, but everyone hated it back then.
You got it; the first Ouya exclusive is interesting but the Nth is not.
Unless they go over the rate limits :)
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Rescue the lolcats from the evil clutches of the internet hate league! So load up your meme gun and blast these seniors out of congress.

That right there. Tell me GP when youve found someone who can't get behind that. I think you'll be surprised.
Just dropped you an e-mail!
> if BK did bring suit, what do you think they'd be able to recover?

The lawsuit would be punitive, not for profit.

And it wouldn't hurt their PR to assure people that the safe handling of their food is taken seriously.
Once you have a large enough boat, good management becomes one of the most significant ways you can distinguish yourself from your competitors.

If you think about it, once you get past a certain size, what is remarkable about your company is that you are past that size and it still operates as a single entity. Individual differences matter a lot less than anything you can accomplish across the entire organization.
carrying on, why make all user models define a no-op?

class User
def post_created(post); end
end

class TwitterUser < User
def post_created(post)
post.send_to_feed(twitter)
end
end

class EmailUser < User
end
Well, for some web apps tabs could make sense. For example, in Gmail I often open multiple messages in tabs when I need to refer to their content at the same time.
Well, Google was better prepared to do it since their main source of income is not product sales but advertising. They can give Android away in order to lure eyeballs to the ads they serve.

To do the same Nokia should have changed their whole strategy, focus and expertise in less than 5 years, simply impossible for a company that size. Also worth noting, Google bought Android. It was not "complete" at time of acquisition but it wasn't a "lets begin from scratch" kind of project.

The problem with Nokia and Android is that Samsung will always, in every single case, have cheaper and more powerful devices. Maybe Nokia could've keep themselves in the game with a lot of marketing and a bit of luck, but eventually, down the road, Samsung would take over.

On top of that add that Google is getting in the hardware game and arguably the best Android devices will come from them. Even for Samsung the Android strategy might prove to be a bad idea in a couple of years.
They are implementing the SNL skit where Mayor Giuliani fights graffiti by adding "sucks" right under it.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/277719
Some of them do, notably Zeus. It takes quite a bit of work to make a botnet take instructions in a peer to peer fashion, so only the most sophisticated pieces of malware offer that feature.
Yeah, they are already bouncing around above their Dunbar number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number). Methinks changes are afoot (either no longer growing or no longer operating the same way).
Inheritance is not always the right solution.
That does not necessarily mean that he has the right vision/skills to lead Microsoft.
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I agree that violating people's food should be treated very harshly.

I have to wonder though—in this economy, if you're working a minimum-wage job, losing it must be pretty damned harsh, since there are so many people ready to step up to that job.
GAAP earnings are not necessarily the same as earnings for taxes. IANA tax lawyer, but I don't think you get a tax break on the write down unless you shut down the acquired business entirely. Otherwise it would be too easy to game your taxes simply by declaring these kinds of goodwill write downs.
So assuming I can mock up a convincing picture, I can get any arbitrary fast food employee fired by uploading a picture with forged exif data to 4chan?
Im sorry. But a cat signal is awesome.

And the problem with educating people isnt the quality of the informational value of the message, its the lack of entertainment value.

Consider the daily show or colbert report, do they make people read less well informed newspapers? Most of their viewers were not reading those. It is however taking attention away from reality shows.

Likewise this is not to replace the EFF, but to widen its reach, and get people actively involved, that wouldnt get involved otherwise.
FWIW, a cheap/fast one off way to bulk download all your photos would be to sign up for a free trial SmugMug account, use their Flickr import tool and then do a bulk download from SmugMug.

Using SmugMug's Flickr importer Firefox plugin (no, I don't know why they chose to make it a Firefox plugin), it took less than 2 hours to import ~8100 photos (44 GB) from Flickr to SmugMug and it preserved the metadata I had for the photos.

Definitely not the most elegant way to do it, but if you needed to do it in a pinch it would work.
I assume that one major difference is that the web apps are treated as separate applications from the main browser, so they get put in their own icon on the Unity side bar, which gives them their own keyboard shortcuts and the ability to pull up just the windows related to a single webapp. For example, maybe Super+5 would be the shortcut to either activate your existing Twitter webapp window or open it if it isn't already running, regardless of whether your regular browser happens to be running or not at the time.

If you just had multiple browser windows open, they would all be together on the Firefox (or Chrome) icon and it would be difficult to distinguish them. The important part is that the name of the executable associated with a window (i.e. firefox/chrome) is no longer synonymous with the identity of the application running in it (i.e. Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, etc.).
If food safety was prioritized above profit they could afford to hire employees that aren't idiot assholes.
Thanks for that. Very helpful and it looks like I have a new thing to research. To date, I've only employed SSDs in laptops.