skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Samsung statement -

Samsung Mob!lers is a voluntary community of active Samsung mobile device users, who are offered the opportunity to participate in our marketing events across the world. At these events, all activities they undertake are on a voluntary basis. No activities are forced upon them.

We regret there was a misunderstanding between the Samsung Mob!lers coordinators and the relevant blogger, as we understand he was not sufficiently briefed on the nature of Samsung Mob!lers’ activities at IFA 2012. We have been attempting to get in touch with him.

We respect the independence of bloggers to publish their own stories.

via - http://asia.cnet.com/should-samsung-have-stranded-a-blogger-...
It's only a receiver. You'll need a transmit capable radio to do everything this does.
You failed to interpret the page author's 100% custom scrollbar (on the left edge of the screen) as an indicator that there was more content? That's ... odd.

He clearly had your interests in mind when implementing that, since browser vendors just think about themselves with their annoying scrollbars that look the same on every page, even. Simplistic fools.
"Welcome to the Information Superhighway!"
Many big companies out there has links with this sort of thing.

IBM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust#IBM_busin...
Apple — FoxConn
Disney - The allegations of Walt Disney's pedophillia.
And so on.
http://www.pythonect.org/
FTFY
HN does actually use a cookie called "user" when you login to keep you logged in. But for page to page state it uses an id in the url. That's why a lot of the internal links have a "fnid" in them and why you can't share those urls.
NSA Utah Data Center 2012
Whilst you are technically correct, I don't think this is what most people would have in mind when they are thinking of "open" systems.

Have a think about the types of application that are trotted out when people want to point out the advantages of open android :

a) new virtual keyboards - not possible with sandboxing

b) new launcher screens - not possible with sandboxing

c) access to data from other apps - not possible with sandboxing

Or rather, if you can do these things with sandboxing, then sandboxing is not providing the protection that you need. How do you guarantee that the funky new keyboard you just downloaded isn't actually a keylogger sending all of your passwords to a server somewhere for nefarious purposes. Or less nefariously, how do you know that the new keyboard hasn't forgotten to implement a special key that is necessary fo you to use application X. How do you go about backing out that installation of the keyboard, including the reinstallation of the default keyboard?

On the other hand, if you protect against these problems of security and confidence that an app won't break the system, what exactly are the advantages that such a system would have compared to a closed system such as Apple provides?
I'd wish he didn't. It's not a "thermonuclear war" until there are iCBM's flying everywhere. Some phrases have too profound/big meaning to be hijacked by business marketing like that.
Not only that, but jslinux, qemacs, tcc.
All by himself.
He might be THE best software developer on earth!
You might want to explain what this is actually for?
Cool, it's from the same author (Fabrice Bellard) who coded the PC emulator in Javascript: http://bellard.org/jslinux/
("How much time takes your browser to boot Linux?")
It would not involve humans directly, but collaboratively and unknowingly, they would be coerced into selecting the most efficient variant, for the benefit of the app designer.
Business model is ads only (well you can pay to get rid of ads but it only generates ~$40/day)
Doesn't Fluid JS do this already?
I'd just like to point out as a KDE user, I had much less problems with the graphics drivers that with Gnome 2.x or Gnome 3.

The thing that make to change from Gnome 2.x to KDE 4 was that Gnome was running at slug speed with VESA driver (ATI drivers not working well in a barebone that was making for the TV), when KDE/KWin was running pretty smooth. Plus in this last years and tested that when the crap ATI drivers introduce some instability to the GUI, KDE at least self-recover alone very quickly and I don't get unusable GUI, like I saw with Gnome shell + ATI privative drivers.

Finally, I love how I can customize my desktop to my needs... It's like the old times when Enlightenment was the cool and beautiful wm, but easy to change anything.

KDE 4 isn't perfect, but I think that it's much better that the crap that Gnome is actually.
programmer == artist
I love this idea (there would have to be careful thinking around patent resell/value restating to avoid sneaky shell company tricks).
It means you don't have the problems of special-casing software (no software patents) or vice versa special-casing like big pharma stuff (only patents on drugs - which most people seem to think is a needed case for patents) - big pharma would be much happier to claim up front that drug patent is worth millions on pay tax on that.

It also means that you'd get lots of press around big stated-value (and so big potential claim) patents, so people in the same industry would know which patents to avoid infringing, hopefully much reducing risk of accidental infringement.
Most is even better. Unlike other paging programs, most is capable of displaying an arbitrary number of windows as long as they all fit on the screen, and different windows could be used to view the same file in different positions.

In addition to displaying ordinary text files, most can also display binary files as well as files with arbitrary ascii characters.
I started with Clojure a few days ago. I mostly like it but:

1. I often need to do something like a = foo; b = bar; c = combine(foo, bar). Using "let" for this in Clojure results in nested and realatively less readable code.

2. Are macros such a nice feature that they justify S-expressions? How useful macros are in your experience? ML-like syntax would be some ways better (e.g. infix arithmetic operators, no parens).

3. When working on non-trivial projects, I find static typing and OOP really useful. Are functional programming languages suitable for bigger real world projects (e.g. a desktop application)?
Scrolling through that was very annoying. Page up/down obviously won't move by exactly one of the "pages".
How We Built Our 60-Node (Almost) Distributed Web Crawler
Securing your Chatroom with Lock and Key » Lifetime Blog
Indeed, from the article:

Some of the not-quite-there features include:

* macros

* threads and concurrency

* Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints

* interactive readline that understands Unicode

* non-blocking I/O

* much of Synopsis 9
There are several multi-touch screens on the market. Last time I looked, Dell had a 20" one. HP too. With Windows 8 coming on the market, I would suspect that there will be many more.

You might also want to look at the various Point-of-sale suppliers - they all have touch screens. Seems between 15" and 20" are the most common.
> many of the feature-important things are being stored as JSON blobs. ... when I add a new feature I just define its JSON schema.

Some no-sql stores work like that. You may be better off using one of them.
socialvest.us is similar to shopwisely and i think has gotten funding so your idea definitely had merit.

good luck with the future of like.fm
Rivals Jostle Before Apple Announces New iPhone
Samsung, Amazon, Nokia, Motorola announcing products this week before Apple's big event on 9/12.

Having all the other companies try to shout over each other will be interesting to watch.

Well played, Apple. Well played.
> Soon after launch reddit had performance issues and was rewritten in Python.

The reason was explained here:

http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html

I quote:

Emacs and SLIME are a killer combination, but I develop on a Mac, and reddit.com is a FreeBSD box. On my Mac, my choices of threaded Lisp implementations was limited to OpenMCL, and in FreeBSD it's CMUCL. Because of the low-level socket and threading code we had to write, reddit would not run on my Mac, and I was always tethered to our FreeBSD development server. Not being able to program offline is a pain.

If Lisp is so great, why did we stop using it? One of the biggest issues was the lack of widely used and tested libraries. Sure, there is a CL library for basically any task, but there is rarely more than one, and often the libraries are not widely used or well documented. Since we're building a site largely by standing on the shoulders of others, this made things a little tougher. There just aren't as many shoulders on which to stand.

Back in 2005 Common Lisp had a fragmentation problem: not all libraries would work on all implementation/os pairs and not all implementations would work on all operating systems (in fact iirc no open source implementation would work on windows, freebsd, linux and mac)
Funny how their name is even a homonym for "shill" :-)
No, don't plagiarise Apple, or anyone else for that matter. There is a marked difference between plagiarising and a mee-too product.
Show HN: We build a social productivity and entertainment app
Fabrice Bellard is to the FLOSS world, as Elon Musk is the entrepreneurship.
Why is it that contires such as india seems to be behind in the way of website design, the design is just too busy for me and the styles/colours remind me of early 2000 sites.
I'm sorry, how and why did your colleagues surrender their passports to a foreign company? Beyond that bizarre plot twist, why didn't your colleagues go to their native country's embassy?

If you're going to invoke racism and judge an entire nation's business practices, you could at least take the care to put together an argument that almost makes sense.

The article makes it clear that these bloggers dealt with Samsung's India subsidiary.
"Without JavaScript or CSS, or without mobile Webkit, my site may not look pretty but will still be functional."
There goes backbone.js and other javascript MVC patterns.
This is something I'm still unsure about.

What do (you) people think of keeping your "data out of the DOM"?
It can be very difficult to start building projects when you already do freelance work though. It can be very distracting plus it's probably going to be a while before what you could earn from a product gets anywhere near what you are earning as a freelancer.

That said I don't necessarily think your advice is bad, it just depends what you want.

I say this as a freelancer currently working on some products as well.
"Apple didn't innovate stuff - they bought it in and stuck it together."

That's kind of the definition of innovation. Take something that exist and improve upon it.
You haven't explained why someone in this bizarre scenario where they have given their passport to their employer can't simply go to their embassy and have the matter straightened out in a day.
> If pinch and zoom is such a trivial thing then invent some other thing to use instead.

But isn't that the exact problem.

p&z is so trivial that any other thing would be less trivial which would be counter intuitive for human-computer interaction.
The site is visually compelling--I have been unable to locate much mathematics, however. There are a few exceptions within the World of Mathematics. The top three entries under Symmetry and Space and the panel on sequences under Numbers and Patterns contain some content. Nevertheless, the little content available and the classroom activities PDFs display a transcendent level of professionalism, a superior technical mastery of apparently every aspect of digital publication and an infallible mathematical aesthetic sensibility. The placeholders look promising.

What would be most useful to me is know-how: I would like to know how to produce impressive graphics and video presentations at this level.

Oops: typo in the sequences panel.

"Nowbody knows whether 3003 appears more than eight times, or whether there are any other numbers appearing eight or more times. This is known as Singmaster’s conjecture, named after the American mathematician David Singmaster (1939)."

Rewrite the last sentence, given the audience. State the corect conjecture in full--don't say 'this', especially when the preceding sentence is a disjunction, no disjunct of which is a conjecture. The conjecture isn't whether 3003 appears eight or more times. If this is intended as "3003 occurs eight or more times" then it is not Signmaster's conjecture. The reader would not know that the conjecture is the existence of a uniform bound on all the occurrences of numbers in Pascal's triangle other than 1. The statement as it stands contains misleading extraneous cognitive load and must be corrected--there is too much to learn. Give the reader good examples to build upon. The reader can supply his or her own conceptual ambiguities while attempting to manage the cognitive load of the subject.

The success of the site will largely depend on how well it manages extraneous, intrinsic and germane cognitive load.
Huh? If you threaten to strand them in a foreign country, how is that not forcing them to undertake these activities?

That's not a "misunderstanding between the coordinator and the blogger", that is your coordinator fucking up.

I can't believe that a company still thinks that "we regret there was a misunderstanding" is any sort of apology when you should have said "we regret we made this mistake and apologize", trying to pin it on the blogger, damn...
FFT FTW!
Visual Basic, PHP & then Rails. Is Node.js next?
Cannot an admin fix the grammar mistake here? http://how-to-spell-its.com/
Agreed. The one-sidedness and irrationality of the story caught my attention immediately.
Exactly. The miscommunication is not the issue here. It's obvious that there was one. The scandal is how Samsung handled it.
Is it possible to do something similar for 2G/3g?
I think perhaps you've missed the point of free and open source software.
None of these articles seem to be about women or sex... interesting.

I got this book for my 18th birthday, and it was invaluable in shaping me into the person I am today. I don't quite understand why it costs £65 on Amazon though:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Man-John-Birmingham/dp/187598...
I'm really interested in this... just a shame you don't have a way for me to subscribe to an email list so I can see when you release it. Now I'll probably forget about it unless I happen to be online at the right time to see your actual launch post on HN.
Then until this app is ready, I would like to reccommend to you: http://thenounproject.com/
Banshee, F-Spot, Tomboy.
This looks awesome. I've been a Fireworks user for UI design for a few years now (switched from Photoshop). I'm utterly shocked anyone gets anything done in PS, it's so fiddly and doesn't serve even the most basic of requirements for a UI design app (align to canvas? pages? hello?).

Seen as Adobe is looking to kill Fireworks, it's not getting a retina update I was thinking of jumping ship to Sketch.

Weird that you didn't build the logo using it though, like Sketch did.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the LTE specs are freely available. Large consortium specs of this nature seem to be quite expensive. (cf: http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store.htm)

Wonder what the patent licence situation is with the LTE specs?
> "make available all of it's data freely"
Not "all" the data. Many datasets should not be shared. Good reasons include: a)security reasons b)ecology reasons (don't say where endangered species are) c)personal data d) current trial
OP here. This post is an expansion of my comment http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4369590 on the excellent post	'How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours' ( http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4367933)

Don't hesitate to ask me any questions.
As someone who has tried Genetic Programming I can tell you that we're quite far from this becoming a reality. However, maybe there is something to that concept: I can imagine that it's possible to generate a good part of the usual boilerplate (interfaces, function parameters, data initialization, library initializations) knowing the tests. The programmer would still have to choose the names of inner functions and variables and then do the actual implementation. You do not want to leave the implementation itself to an AI, at least not any AI we know right now.

Although, maybe a Watson-like AI fed with knowledge from stack overflow and official code examples might change that in the future ;).
Introducing Qubes 1.0
So why, if the iPhone wasn't disruptive and just pretty as you state, has practically every manufacturer followed Apple's lead? I know that a haters gonna hate, but credit where it's due.
WYSIWYG is dead
Here's a datapoint: After buying a 13 inch Macbook pro (and having had it stolen), I went back to the T420. I miss two finger scrolling at times, but I love having page up and down. I love using the pointer the pointer and scroll bar without having to leave the home keys. When I was on a recliner or laying on a couch, using the trackpad was often annoying and uncomfortable.

Option-up/down doesn't replace an actual Page Down Key.
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I'm very much against software patents, at least regarding the UI. But the proposed Bouncebackandforth workaround is how the iOS Photos app works.
Stylus is by far my favourite in the series of CSS preprocessors. Stylus is very minimal and more powerful than all.
No. Kickstarter is to start a project. This is more like a database of ideas. Multiple projects could be attempting to implement an idea.
Damn you should try San Francisco(The bay area). The food truck business is big there ! There is food truck 'party' every weeks.
May be LA and Seattle as well.
I was looking for a website like this when i was living there.
Swarmly Debuts Its ‘Waze For People’ On iOS
Based on your stats & the size of your dataset, I'm guessing you could easily host this at AppFog on their free tier: http://appfog.com/products/appfog/pricing/
This is fantastic! :)
No, this is not a nice sentiment. This is absolutely required if you want to have any claim on being 'independent' or a 'reporter'.
IMO the rule should be: release everything unless there are strong arguments, to not release specific data sets. These arguments should be transparent and publicly discussed. Just saying "it affects public security" is not a strong argument. It should be at least said, why exactly it affects the security.
However, there are good reasons, to not publish some data sets.
I've found that the least amount of mental overhead is still achieved by doing all the necessary tests right where the 'useful' code is taking place, raising a standard Exception but with a good error description and doing a Pokemon-catch somewhere in main(). Not good enough for system programming of course, but for everything you want to fail early it's fine.

If we do talk about system programming: Error handling IMO is its main difference to 'other' programming. The necessity of deciding (and in case of security relevant systems testing) for all eventualities is why only veteran programmers should do that job.
Perhaps you might want to educate me on it with some examples where there has been successful impact on the Government.

"...one of the biggest challenges for efficiency in governance is accountability" is the problem to be solved, not a proof of success of any such initiative. Your argument doesn't seem to explain how we're going to improve the legacy system or even convince the developers to use these data-sets in the first place.

To crave for improvement in the Government (and its positive ramifications) is one thing but to get job done is an altogether different ball-game.
That should be very frustrating. Were you tempted to break with Conde and start again or some sort or change on your agreement with them?
Modularization in Rails: A Case Study
And during a quick scan it looks good, the title sums it up.
Nothing besides of polished systems and good hardware. But I do not like the type of signal this can show to the tech companies around the world: that their patents of new tech that are life changing for everyone are worth less than a pinch zoom on a touch screen, now I don't think it was a obvious gesture but I do not think it should be covered by a patent. There should be a better way to protect new UI elements.
The higher the genius, the simpler the webpage.
The only problem that is mentioned in that article is that venture capitalists are re-discovering that return rates do not scale.

Not very surprising.. most of the return VC's make are from acquisitions or IPOs, and you can hardly imagine Oracle or Dell buying one zillion companies every year, just as you can hardly imagine everyone entering the IPO's of a thousand companies every year.

The more startups you have, the less news about each of them, the less chances of success as well.

The better the ROI, the faster you hit the wall of decreasing returns.

The main reason returns are down is that there is probably at the very least 10x more money in the VC industry than 8 years ago (1 +3 due to returns, +6 due to way more people interested).

At some point you have to wake the fuck up and realize that 12% annual over the course of a hundred years equals x83, something that cannot possibly scale, much less for another hundred years after that.

That much money means that VC's are chasing entrepreneurs trying to give them money, even when their ideas are completely dumb (memSQL for one), maximizing total profit across their investments, but decreasing profit rate due to lower quality opportunities (where they would've funded the top 1%, they now fund the top 10% for example).
Because you are comparing two different categories of radios. There is a big difference between a very cheap receiver and a high quality, wide bandwidth, customizable transceiver. A bad automobile analogy would be a Yugo vs Peterbilt.
Yes, it is a big shame that this is not open source.

I wonder how much he plans on making from this?
A happy customer (The Oatmeal) could be worth $40,000
So App.NET is a twitter clone? They will need more that 17k users to compete.
I did some testing with a client recently (small local business with relatively high customer engagement and satisfaction) and the difference in people willing to press a like button is substantial between 0-100 but stops mattering afterwards.
Isn't the idea of Bootstrap that you can just get a basic site up without actually a design step.
I really think that's a gross generalization of a billion (and change[1]) people!

[1]: The "change" is about 77% of U.S. population.
You didn't add friends is why... And I assume you accessed it from the same ip as your real one?
"Its", not "it's", is the possessive form of "it". The current headline reads "India launches beta version of it is data site."
Looks really interesting, the Internet has a huge potential for making maths more entertaining. Cannot wait to see more content (especially dynamic one).

There is a bit of frustration when every time you close an article, you land on the first page instead of the page you were currently viewing (on Firefox 15).