skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When he took over, Elop stated that it is 'a battle of ecosystems'. Having spent significant time with Nokia devices (including Maemo/Meego), I completely agree with him. A few years back Android itself was second choice for most mobile developers, and it was almost impossible for Nokia to get them to write apps. Also, Android picked up because of Google; if Samsung made Android it would have gone the Bada way.

WP8 is the first OS that gives Nokia a fighting chance against iOS/Android devices.

- I have only seen positive reviews of this OS.

- It is do or die for MS as well, expect massive ad spend this season.

- Shared kernel with Windows. Attractive to millions of Windows developers. (Windows isn't cool anymore; but there are way, way more developers on Windows than any other platform.)

- If resource constrained WP7 is anything to go by, WP8 will be smoother than any android phone in the market.

This is Elop's first, last and only chance. I'd rather give the man a fair chance.

Edit: formatting.
They could sell this to a few geeks. But that's it. Meego never came even close to Android in terms of quality. And ern Android would probably not work for Nokia. Nokia is doing exactly the right thing - just years too late.
7 John McCarthy Papers in 7 Weeks
I think you are missing the point that I'm making which is quite simple. Requiring people to stand up is a discriminatory practice and that puts companies at significant legal risk.

Recommendation? We sit and the meetings are short or long or don't happen at all on an as needed basis.

Don't force your cure on those of us who do not have your ill.
Not entirely sure I understand what happens here.
That says it is the browser default size and that is not correct. Here, check it out: http://pastehtml.com/view/cc5nellwp.html

First line uses your browser's default. Second line is their setting (~21px).

Such huge text is definitely not easy to read for me on any of my devices.
The astute reader will also note that Five and Six were also not discussed. From the fourth paragraph, "I will be discussing a subset of the nine challenges".
It becomes frustrating when the activity stack is invisible, but still accumulating additional activities in app. Old Gmail was especially egregious with this, where you could hit the back button 10+ times and end up switching between emails you've viewed days previously before you actually back out of the app.

I love the general idea of the separate Up and Back, but I'd compare it to XP-era Windows explorer rather than a browser (though both are valid comparisons, I just think Explorer is closer). It just runs into issues where the developers have to try to divine what exactly you are wanting to do at each instance when you hit back. Sometimes users want to go back to where they were before when they hit back, sometimes they want to go 'back' to the home screen of an app - this is what the 'Up' navigation button should exist as, but seldom does. What about if you go Up in app, then hit the back button? Should you exit out of the app? Go back to where you were in app? Go back to the previous app? All are valid cases.

It really does all come down to consistency.
thank you i will give it a shot :)
My guess is that they're running it free as a sort of massive beta test, once they've got the format sorted they'll start including paying courses - quite possibly as follow up to free ones (for example Scala I is free, Scala II costs you money).

And, personally, I'm very grateful to them for hosting such excellent free courses at the moment - the quality has generally been pretty high on the ones I've done, and the format is excellent. If they start making money off it, good for them.
amazing. thanks!
FTA:

> The C source code for this is intensely beautiful, and very concise. Go look at it!

Which links to https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona

This has to be a joke - just pick a random file and tell me what is beautiful about that. LoseThos looks saner than this code.
ZTE to launch webOS phone later this year?
That depends on what the outside of a warp bubble looks like. Since it's bending space all over the place, it may not be observable from outside.
Curing the disease on a "not-for profit" enterprise requires not just rules and regulations, but someone responsible for oversight. In effect, more bureaucracy.

Money can only corrupt an organization whose purpose is not to make money.
> has deep enough pockets to continue pumping money into Nokia for making WP handsets until they gain meaningful market share.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Them achieving meaningful market share with windowsphone would shock a lot of us in the industry since microsoft's track record so far has been that they suck pretty badly at hardware rollouts.
I'm pretty sure you can't say that so categorically. If you can distort the market (specifically: have a monopoly), then in principle any means you use to do so might be illegal. Using a brand might qualify - at least I'm not aware of any specific exceptions that would exclude them.
Yeah, most of them think of their website as a online brochure. Unfortunately that's also how most (print)designers think. They've been doing the Lorum Ipsum Dance for years and years.
but how long in the play store to find good replacements for your iOS apps?

(btw, I'm not at all saying there aren't good replacements, just that you have to learn about which ones these are. The same argument could be made with regards to switching from Android to iOS).
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The problem is when you're referencing the language in other contexts or worse search engines

Example: searching for a package on aptitude or yum
I agree about the software implication in these benchmarks. It is simply not the same OS, nor browser, nor javascript engine, so I don't see how this test is relevant...
The problem with your Nintendo analogy is that Nintendo introduced a new market into playing video games (families, non-gamers).

A more accurate analogy to Nokia making dumb phones would be if Nintendo had created a console that appealed to legacy-gamers, people who want to play SNES and NES games. A much smaller (and dwindling) market.
Drucker on Work / Life Balance 
"No one can expect to live very long without experiencing a serious setback in one's life or in one's work.

Given the competitive struggle, a growing number of highly successful knowledge workers of both sexes--business managers, university teachers, museum directors, doctors--plateau in their forties. They know they have achieved all they will achieve. If their work is all they have, they are in trouble. Knowledge workers therefore need to develop, preferably while they are still quite young, a noncompetitive life and community of their own, and some serious outside interest. This outside interest will give them the opportunity for personal contribution and achievement beyond the workplace.

No one can expect to live very long without experiencing a serious setback in one's life or in one's work. There is the competent engineer who at age forty-two is being passed over for promotion in the company. The engineer now knows that he has not been very successful in his job. But in his outside activity--for example, as treasurer in his local church--he has achieved success and continues to have success. And, one's own family may break up, but in that outside activity, there is still a community."

Peter Drucker
> Windows isn't cool anymore;

windows has never been cool; ubiquitous is the word you're probably thinking of.
I wanted to do this but felt it is cheating on xkcd. He did not intend this to viewed as such.
But it does work for most applications, and it's quite slick. It's also very comparable to either a Browser 'back' or Windows Explorer 'back' functionality. Both can take you to places nowhere near where you are now, or they can take you just a bit further up in the current stack. Problems exist in both browser world and in Android world though, notably when developers (web devs and app devs) do things outside of spec - like constant redirects in browsers where you can't back out of reliably, or not closing out activities before adding more onto the stack.
Video matters But which hosting service to use?
That was the biggest time waster I had in so many time. My hand hurts but I loved it.
The problem with your BMW comparison is this. When buying a car, you want something that is going to last (or at least hold some value if you sell it off sooner). If you are spending $50K on something you want it to be solid, dependable. You want it to still be as solid and dependable in 6 or 8 years. The quality you get from the BMW is going to remain for the life of the car. You probably don't get that out of a $17k Hyundai Elantra. If you want it to last a long time... you need the quality build. But with a phone, meh. It'll be replaced in a year or two anyway. Sooner if you drop it in the toilet or leave it at the bar. I don't think most people (even iPhone people) keep a phone long enough to get the long term benefits of this "micron precision" beyond just that subjective "it feels nice" you might have at first. My phone is plastic. It probably doesn't have micron precision in the manufacturing. But it looks nice. And it feels nice too. It even feels like it will last as long as I need it to last before I'm ready to get a new one.
Finally - the way I wanted to explore it :)
On my iPhone 4, iOS 6 is about 10% faster in the SunSpider test than iOS 5.1.
It's kind of a spoiler.

Check out the original post here: http://xkcd.com/1110/
I've been a proponent of this approach since I first read this article back in 2006, but I think it can be generalised.

The main case to be made is for a methodology of "content out", which is to design the primary content areas of your site before your worry about things like sidebars, global navigation and other decoration. In the case of text-heavy websites such as blogs and news, this means to start with typography - when the content is the writing, the typography is the design.

If you're making a video website, your first step should be to make a great video player, then presumably video description, comments, related videos and finally site-wide design. If you're making a to-do list, make the list look great before you do anything else.
I have never failed to have fun when I hacked anything at all in J (or in Q/KDB+).

But I have also never done any hacking in J except in the context of little bits of code for personal amusement.

Once interesting observation - despite not really knowing J well (or Clojure or Common Lisp, other languages I hack around in on a limited basis), I somehow spend more time thinking about what I want to accomplish rather than how to do it . . .
Salesforce pushes Heroku into big biz with full Java stack support
7 logoff options in Windows Vista - need link
All the searches with phrases such "Vista" and "logoff" redirects me to useless support forums.

I actually looking for link (probably here on HN) to link where someone was describing adventures in Microsoft team, about common denominators and design compromise.

Please help me, people are dying!
Thanks
The other general feeling is that even when a case is legitimate, the plaintiffs often get very little per person from the settlement, but the lawyers make out handily.
Profits are smaller on simpler phones
Really cool, keep up the good work. It works in Google Chrome 21.0.1180.89, on Windows 7 just fine.
I've been very impressed with The Bug Genie (http://www.thebuggenie.com/) recently. It covers everything I need from a bug tracker and project management tool and is open source too.
Show HN:A New way of viewing news[My first project]
Hi all,
Made a little app, its at http://newsinamap.com
This is my first project and HN was a source of inspiration I thought of sharing it here.

Feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
Chrome: three finger swipe for tab overview
Creator of Plunker here. Big thanks to the Nodejitsu and Mongolab folks whose services are strong enough to compensate for my crappy code being hit by a Hackernews assault.
Previously: http://vallettaventures.com/2012/08/27/tex-notebook/
Translation is awful. Does he really mean webOS (as in Open webOS) or a "Web OS" (as in Mozilla)?
I mentioned that. It is a different physical size though, so the minimum readable size text is different, and the minimum touchable target is different.
Microsoft has already started to give Nokia exclusivity and buying them out doesn't change much - OEMs are not not dependent on Windows Phone anyways - they can keep their WP handsets a small affair but they still gotta pay Microsoft on their Android sales in patent royalties, even if Microsoft favors/buys Nokia.

Even if non-Nokia OEMs totally ditched Windows Phone - Microsoft could just take the royalty money and continue to invest it in Nokia and use all tricks in the book to gain some meaningful market share. No matter how you look at it - it looks good for Microsoft.
Let me help you out then:

I switched from ruby to clojure because jvm is awesome
and it's a lisp and I also use coffescript, backbone,
requirejs and raphael. I've been using this stack for
about a month and a half, it's awesome.

Does this help? How does this help you solve your problem? I'm going to go with "It doesn't". All of these posts boil down to that form.

The good ones start with: "Over the last year we deployed [insert stack] into production..". And then tell me what sucked because not everything is awesome.
is an absolutely baffling design decision. There is no way that users can intuitively learn what these buttons do

Says you, I picked it up pretty easily over a few days.
"If resource constrained WP7 is anything to go by, WP8 will be smoother than any android phone in the market."

What do you mean resource constrained? If anything, I think WP7 should be a leaner OS than WP8 which shares the core of the desktop Windows. Also so far I've only seen WP8 phones use Qualcomm's last-gen architecture, Krait, so of course it's supposed to be fast. As for smoothness, I think a lot of people are getting impressed by the animations. Like "look how cool the animation is...so nice", and they think that's what "smoothness" is. I remember when WP7 had terribly long transition animations, but WP7.5 cut down on those.
I've already selected mine. "Generality in Artificial Intelligence"
Just in the first couple pages I came across an idea that ties into the plot of a SF book I read a year or so ago. (no spoiler here, you'll have to wait to know the title)
Chrome 12? Where do you even get that? I'm on Chrome 23.
HTML5 Video Streaming over WebSockets using Pusher
In the 90's, having a Windows gaming machine was cool.
Skype: Try sending a message...
Scholar Karen King finds ancient reference to 'Jesus wife'
A general who has come up through one of the technical branches (e.g. engineering, signals, etc) is going to be as good a "CTO" as anyone.
>You are essentially arguing for a central planning approach, and we have ample evidence from the 20th century that this does not produce better outcomes than a market-based approach.

What "ample evidence"? The USSR? For one, they had a mighty fine space program.

Second, one example of central planning, that also carried other kinds of rubbish with it (cutthroat politics at the top level, being enforced on a backwards, non adequately industrialized country, dogmatic ideology, and having to fight a foreign superpower) does not "ample evidence" constitute.

Central planning != 20th century communism. We have much better examples of central planning, successful ones, in the western world.
OP here, I'm happy to answer any more technically detailed questions; I had to cut a lot out of the blog post!
The main reason they are "too late" is that MS has screwed them - first by limiting the capabilities of WP7 phones, then by betraying them right at the time they launched their flagship and saying there'd be no upgrades to WP8 for ANY phones, and then finally for forcing them to wait forever to get Windows 8 devices out. In my view the Microsoft partnership has been a disaster for Nokia.
Ironicly I tend to find "undesigned", plain sites handle such things best.

Doubly ironicly, TFA is not one of them, despite being just a plain piece of text. Fixed width is the tool of the devil.
Heroku Announces New Enterprise Cloud Service for Java
Why on earth would a "talented hacker" do anything other than the easiest effective method? If it doesn't work, then just try something else. They certainly wouldn't waste their time trying to hide code snippets in a GIF when you could just upload the above.

In short: the "talented hacker" is the one who compromises your system. The difficulty of execution does not matter if you get owned in the end.
Very interesting, but does anyone here feel like this would be useful to them? For example, in my limited experience with LaTeX I've also needed to generate graphs (via Graphviz or R). Even if there existed apps for these, I'm under the impression that the iPad has no user-accessible filesystem, nor allows iPad apps to talk to each other. Please correct me if this is mistaken.
"The kind of typography I’m talking about is not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography."

Is there a good solution to the first problem? I constantly find myself confronted with the problem which font I should use. Is there maybe a service that suggests fonts based on a visual design? Or even based on the 'purpose' of a site?
What garden weeds can teach us about system resilience
It's worse than that. They can only bomb if they have a 70s-era Tornado along to aim for them.
True. It would need a bit of shielding. Some of the picosecond laser papers say the total radioactivity per megawatt would be less than what's released by burning coal, which contains a little thorium and uranium. Here's an abstract that mentions that:
http://www.davidpublishing.com/journals_show_abstract.html?7...

(Google will turn up plenty of full papers though.)
I think what jeswin meant was that WP7 phones are all pretty low spec, but still look buttery smooth.

> I think a lot of people are getting impressed by the animations... and they think that's what "smoothness" is.

That IS what smoothness is to the end user. A frozen screen for 0.5 seconds feels much less smooth than a well done 0.7 second animation.
Replace in Multiple Files - the Vim Way
Amazon announces cloud player in the UK
NASA wants small business ideas for future mission tech
Arista ships 7150 with Intel/Fulcrum Alta chipset I SDNCentral
I do not use J daily but would like to.

I know that many finance firms use KDB+ and Q to manage stock tick data - this is where I first saw KDB+ in action, oddly enough I was pulling some non-tick data from a KDB+ system for a data warehouse project.

I think that J is one of those languages that would really shine in allowing a hacker with a large amount of domain specific knowledge to do wonderful work with small amounts of code. So, if you are a stats hacker interested in applied modeling, maybe you could use J to very concisely build your models. Probably bioinformatics would work as well, I can see how fastq data would be easier to deal with if you just chunked it into a KDB+ backend.

There are lots of folks on HN who seem interested in J or KDB+ (see the Kona open source project) who might have better answers than this . . .
"Nokia still sells almost a million phones a day"

"Greenwich's Rehle said Nokia should focus on rolling out smartphones running on Google's Android software for millions of consumers in emerging markets who often still prefer Nokia's brand. Android models cost under $100 while the cheapest Windows Phone costs around $200"

OK, so they're selling a million phones a day and not making a significant profit. The reason is that too few of the phones are high margin smartphones.

And from this the conclusion is that they should switch to Android and sell commodity smartphones? This doesn't sound like analysis. It sounds like Microsoft bashing.
I was a bit reluctant to post this - it is not trolling, honestly.

I am fascinated by the early Christian Church and its role in Rome. I am really not trying to start a flame war (if HN have those) over Jesus' religious status, but just to flag up there has been some interesting, but not definitive, movement on roles of women in early church and how their history got edited over time (esp near 365AD)

Anyway, some links of interest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_wife
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Leigh_King

In expectation of link being dead before I type this :-0
At least they understand by sharing this information it moves the technology forward. You don't see a lot of other big companies doing that.
The Empire Strikes Back: Cisco Targeting Arista With Nexus 3548 Switch
3D printing iPhone5 case
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Top 20 Features of Code Completion in IntelliJ IDEA
If they keep trying at it - they will eventually go somewhere. Monkey with a gun - he can't shoot, oh he figured out the trigger but what about aim etc.
For example, just because I scan an old book doesn't mean I should own a copyright on the scan.

Just to play devils advocate, why not? Wouldn't that result in many more old books being scanned that otherwise wouldn't be? Wouldn't competition force down the price of the popular old books?
Two developer contests from Qualcomm
It would be pretty easy for Nokia to enter the Android market.

All it would need to do is to create 2 phone models, one for the low end, one for the high end, both with good build quality and that come in various colors.

And on the software side all they'd need to do would be to install the stock Android distribution, with the logistics and resources necessary to release Android updates over-the-air as soon as possible, while giving the insurance that customers will get updates for 2 years after they've bought the phone. They could also disallow carries from installing crap on these phones. They could further differentiate by bundling those phones with some premium Nokia apps, like an alternative to Google Maps with better offline capabilities.

Then they should also build an Android tablet, because there's really no competition to the iPad.

Like really, there are lots of Android "players" out there, but (1) Nokia still has resources and a huge distribution network available with lots of partners + (2) Android's true potential has yet to reveal itself and the pie will get a lot bigger + (3) everybody is doing it wrong.
It's concise, at least.
GCHQ in new challenge for cyber security wannabes
Miniature Map Of San Francisco (1879)
The most clueless TeX related piece I have read since their previous one. For example, kpathsea is a library that TeX engines call, so no forking is done to “grab search paths from the Kpathsea system”. And the bright future for C implementation didn't happen when TeX WEB code was hand converted into much more readable C code 8 years ago (http://metatex.org/), not to mention the existence of an actively maintained, extended TeX engine written in C (http://www.luatex.org/), wait, this is GPL “encumbered” so it does not count. Did I mention that XeTeX does not “skip the DVI step” at all, but it actually does fork an external binary to convert its ‘extended’ DVI into PDF.
Guess what, there is already a phone that works wonderfully for people who only wants to call people, send a few texts and occasionally browse the web. It's called an iPhone and my parents have one. They perfectly fit the use case you're describing.

They haven't downloaded any apps, they browse the web once in a while, but mostly they use the phones for calling and SMS (and my father checks his email). With their previous Nokia dumbphones, they never even learnt how to use the T9 dictionary.

Of course, it's still an expensive phone, but many of those older people get their iPhones for free when their children upgrade to a newer model.