skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's indeed a very, very interesting design. And it looks good to booth. I hope they're not abandoning that idea, this is the kind of innovation that really benefits the consumer.
"911 Truth for Dummies": http://www.911sharethetruth.com/images/cards/CR13-740h.jpg

Quote from 911sharethetruth.com:

"""Initially, most of us fell for their version of the events.
But then came the slip-ups. The leaseholder of the World Trade Center admitted on PBS in 'Rebuilding America' that WTC-7 was 'pulled' on 9/11 (See video here in Windows Media Format - http://www.911sharethetruth.com/extras/SilversteinBdg7.wmv), which is the standard slang for controlled demolition.

Look at the tapes from that day when TV anchors, Aaron Brown and Dan Rather first said the very same words about the collapses. Firefighters and rescue workers talked about explosives and bombs going off, all over in the buildings.
Recall the horrific images of the over 100-story towers coming down at free-fall speed, defying the laws of physics.
Recall the engineers who first stated that the planes and fires alone could not have caused the deadly collapse.
Now the evidence is gone, witnesses silenced, and an independent, real investigation never happened. Sure, it is hard to accept that we have all been fooled so long, but only discovering and facing the truth will set the U.S. free."""
- 9-11 Truth Activist of Northern California
+1 I don't think there is a proposition as powerful as the entire Microsoft ecosystem on the business desktop.

There is also support, training, excellent literature and documentation, large quantities of staff, functional software at a reasonable price and as you mention: Active directory (which is awesome if you actually understand it).

If you've seen some of the shit I've seen wired up to Office in the last few years, you'll get it. It's just awesome. Entire businesses hang of it. It might not be clean and squeaky but it's functional and does the job. Google Docs + iWork + LibreOffice are precisely zero competition.

(I have to add this to each of these posts to avoid the shill downvotes: I am primarily a Linux user which suits me but I don't think it'd suit most people).
Yes, unfortunately. Apps take time to show up in search results even after they are officially on the store. (The time before visibility, either in search results or even at a direct link, can vary by country as well.)
its logo!
Apps tend to retail for just a few dollars and there's only a few exceptions. This means the max per-unit profit is just a few cents (or perhaps a dollar or two). P90X on the other hand makes several orders of magnitude more per sake. So even if we saturated the app fitness market, we'd still be far from P90X in terms of revenue. Whilst app stores do assist in acquiring users, the effect is tiny compared with having a marketing budget of potentially $100 a user.

That sort of thing. It's probably quite a long answer I'm afraid. I suppose the TL;DR would be "don't take part in a race to the bottom".
I was surprised that the whole page is only 3 MB. Nice PNG optimization.
Yeah, the app store can be really glitchy the first couple hours after an app is released (our app once showed up in two spots at the same time on the top 100 list!)
Hinge Wallet / Let It Be
Upvote just for "Most of management's problems are management's creation.'
1 Million Dollars in VC funding in Palestinian tech startup. A First
EE to launch 4G mobile services in 16 UK cities in 2012
Should I Be Listening to Music While I Work?
I'd go out on a limb and say a majority of steam consumers are not the hardcore gamers you're talking about.
I also think $5 is way too cheap for your ebook. OK I understand you don't want to turn a profit. But price is not only for you. It is also for the market. It is viewed by customers/users as a quality element. Low price = Ho! That's just a tiny ebook = Why should I care? (I bought it, looks very interesting)
Why isn't this headline "US government forces Apple to sue Polish grocery store"?
That's the problem with a company heavily based on the charisma, creativity and the aura of a single person, no matter how great he or her was. When that person passes away the company loses confidence, and poor decisions ensue.
It matters to me, but then again, I'm one of those very rare "enlightened consumers" who actually gives a crap where my money is going.

For every one of me there's probably a thousand Apple fanboys who wouldn't mind Apple building land mines for for fun and profit.
It's never been a loved language, but there it is, pretty much all over the place so many years later. I wouldn't have guessed that either!

I'd be more interested in reading on well-rehearsed, current predictions about Java. Many enterprises are starting to consider (mostly JVM-based) alternatives these days.
There is certainly the fans that will buy anything Apple because it's Apple regardless of what Apple does. That being said, like you, I'm not sure if I can bring myself to support undoubtedly one of the most unethical companies in the world. They haven't have a big product release since the Samsung case but any sales lost were certainly more than made up for with their patent winnings.
Sorry, but please explain how is this issue somehow elevated by node when it is a part of language standard (ECMAScript standard linked in the article it posted)? Does V8 break ECMAScript? This is a gotcha of a language. It uses + operator that does something completely differently than what it usually does on almost any other language with similar syntax. It's the definition of counter-intuitive.
Apparently this may be about one of a.pl's brands, fresh24.pl, whose logo looks like this:

http://fresh24.pl/Images/logo.png

Personally, I think this is a storm in a teacup; Apple have to enforce their trademark, and be shown to be doing so in order to maintain their trademark rights.
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Logo is veryyyy simlary to Apple is all about Apple logo

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/4c/1a/be/z12458572X.jpg
Damn right. Plus: way to get the quote wrong. It's about stealing some concept and making something of YOUR OWN with the inspiration, vs copying somebody else's work verbatim. That is, it applies exactly to this situation.

When you thought it was damning of Apple or ironic that people accuse HP, didn't it trouble you that the quote presents copying in a worse light that stealing? I.e didn't it occurred that stealing, as defined in the quote, must describe something much more creative than mere copying?
Not this shit again. Don't we all know why this happens by now?
Please add the date...
2/10 for effort on that icon
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rails/cake/etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaffold_(programming)
Automatic face-blurring in images made easy
Too bad they don't spend the time fixing the abysmal site performance and broken log-in system instead.
This blog post explains how to keep people privacy in photos by automatically blurring their faces.

A pixelization effect is applied on images. Together with automatic face detection, only faces in a picture are blurred as intensely as you need.
Image transformations are transformed on-the-fly in the cloud.
Code samples in Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP and Node.js are included.
It's the year that makes this story interesting. He predicted what would happen to the language (and as a side effect of that, the whole ecosystem) and he was wrong.

His reasoning looked good and really made sense but his predications were just not to be.

I'm extending one of the worlds leading eCommerce platforms that's written in Java, for one of our many world leading retail clients as I type.
It's about this logo, I think:
http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/...

Still not similiar enough, IMHO.
We will deliver defect free software every time - is this motto workable?
I can see why they don't - because it would likely make no difference at all.

As you say, the rules on trademark protection are crystal clear and understood by anyone who takes 30 seconds to read up on them.

Any journalists running this sort of story are either unprofessional enough not to do the necessary research (and would likely not bother connecting the story to a press release) or, more likely, understand exactly what's happening but are just click whoring (in which case they'll just ignore it).

In either case though I don't see a press release from Apple would do anything - a lazy journalist won't care and nor will one just looking for the sensationalist story.
>such as the S3 which singlehandedly outsold the iPhone in August.

You mean it outsold the iPhone in the month before the announcement of the NEW iPhone, that everybody interested in one expected and hold off for?

Doesn't sound that big of a feat...
And now you're guilty of the same thing he is: overreacting.
Your last sentence isn't really true. Or should I say, you can't really prove that this is true for "most".

My company has some pretty big telco and retail clients that are migrating their eCommerce platforms. Guess what technology the newer eCommerce platform is using? All Java baby... Same with the hedge funds down the road from me, all that automated low latency trading.. All Java.
It's a trademark dispute. Apple doesn't have a choice, they have to defend their trademark or they will lose it. And they aren't disputing use of the letter 'A'. The article's been updated to show the Polish companies logo is an Apple, similar to Apple's own logo.
> And if so, how much is impacting sales?

If it's impacting sales, it's positively impacting them, since sales have been growing year after year together with the legal attacks. People may still be seeing Apple as the Underdog? :)
Quite good points except the major one : "I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language"
That's a slightly different scenario - you're exercising client protocol functionality. (Incidentally, you don't need a webserver for that, you just need a very stupid socket server that will return a file. Also, file_get_contents looks like it can access ftp/ssh/gopher URLs so if you need a webserver, you also need servers that speak those other protocols).
Also - Apple is almost non-existant in Poland except for iphone.

I don't have data, but from anegdotal evidence Mac OS-X has smaller desktop market share than Linux here.

So Poland is unimportant market for Apple.
boring..
Cambodia deports Pirate Bay co-founder
nice idea. found it a bit annoying that I had to scroll to get some details that could easily sit above the fold.....i recognise the need for some sort of virality and share-ability, and also that the idea is users will send tech support the link, but perhaps it could be tempered a little and you could push some important details above the fold - for example browser and browser version and javascript on or off.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer for both a bit of context and some background on the practical impact (for end users of products and services) of these sorts of disputes.
The lottery ticket has $20 billion winner written on it. I gave you a range of probabilities that the ticket can actually be cashed. The point is that this probability is clearly not exactly 0.00000... given others have cashed theirs.

But YC assigns it a probability of exactly 0.00000... that you can cash it, given any amount of "seed" money.

However, if you lie and claim the ticket has "$20million winner" written on it (you are misrepresenting the business plan by a factor of 1000 in this case) their ears will perk up and they will assign a non-zero probability (actually an extremely high one), and give you a seed to go ahead and cash it, in exchange for owing them 7% of the winnings.

Given the size of these seeds this behavior doesn't make any sense at all. It is like refusing to take 7% of big winners, only small winners, when most of the lottery payoff is in big winners.
Whatsapp for iPhone uses a MD5 hash of mac address taken twice. For details look at http://www.ezioamodio.it/?p=29
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Yes, I'm 100% confident that every single decision from their legal department went through Jobs. Enough with this crap.
First off I must say that I like reading about past predictions. It can provide insights into how well current predictions may pan out in the future.

It interesting that all the points made 11 years ago can still be made today, with the exceptions of #1("It has been so energetically hyped") and #8("It's pseudo-hip"). I guess it's true that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Is there any word on when the Mac beta will roll out?
Simple: I never downvote for disagreement. If somebody's wrong, people will tell him (or I will). If he's wrong repeatedly you can tell by looking at how deep he's getting in a thread.

Downvotes, in my opinion, are to indicate things that don't belong here. Usually because of tone, sometimes because it's a one-line throwaway comment that doesn't add anything or is a joke (that also doesn't add anything).

I think this is sort of the consensus way of downvoting here. Sure, there are people just arrived from other forums with different norms who still downvote for disagreement, but they're the minority and they tend to change their ways once they realize it.

The end result is that if you find yourself being downvoted, it's usually because of the way you made your point rather than the point itself. The exception being certain contentious topics that to be honest don't belong here anyway (global warming debate, apple vs. android, etc.) that are more likely to attract the newly arrived "downvote for disagreement" crowd.
But how many readers of HN will be likely to shop in Poland?
Plotting geographic data on a world map with Python
Unpublished Photos of Silicon Valley's Early Days Finally Surface
Jeux paralympiques 2012 : adieu Londres, bonjour Rio
La cérémonie de clôture des Jeux paralympiques 2012 a été magnifique. Rihanna et Jay-Z ont assuré le show. Sebastian Coe et le comité d’organisation sont satisfaits. Londres a passé le relais à Rio.
The fact that we have a fkg Fields medallist having to deal with overzealous mods makes me sad.
Those familiar with LaTeX may find the following tool useful: http://www.unicodeit.net/ It takes LaTeX symbols as input and outputs the unicode for them. There is a mac app available too, which will convert it in-place for you too.
The cookie law is dead, you’re welcome
Last week we laid down a bitter ultimatum to the guardians of the cookie law: Go Ahead And Sue Us.
We stripped our sites bare of cookie warnings and begged them to do their worst.
Drip[1] takes a new approach to solving the same problem as Nailgun.

1. https://github.com/flatland/drip
I find it hilarious that this question can even be asked in regard to Apple.

Apple benefits enormously from the public perception of "the Apple brand", and that translates directly into massive profits for Apple's bottom line. If the public became more Apple skeptical it would put a dent in their business to the tune of billions. Look at Microsoft and the difficulties they are still having due to being saddled as an uncool company.

Edit: People are still proud to show their support for Apple. How would that change if people changed their perception of Apple? Apple is one of the largest and most profitable companies in the history of Earth. And they are guilty of no small number of abuses and crimes, against their workers, against their competitors, against their users. How would Apple's business fare if people began perceiving Apple in the same way they perceived Exxon?
Not available on the German App Store (yet).
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Running a Billion Dollar Startup with Twelve People?
Hmm... Android uses java. Therefore, Android smells suspicious?
I like the small Steve Jobs in the first slide. Are the others also identifiable people?
Thanks for the feedback. We have gotten this feedback from others as well and we will be improving the layout shortly.
Of course not, but the aggressive legal strategy that we are witnessing nowadays is something that has clearly been decided at the top in my opinion.
Who said George W. Bush was running the show? He was just a puppet. Give the guy some cocaine and he'll say whatever the hell you want him to say. Think about it. Who had the biggest geopolitical motive to invade Iraq for its oil and Afghanistan for its minerals? It's not the people calling shots in front of you, it's the guys with the money behind them.
Java might appear to be more successful than the (2001) article suggests, but it is geared towards java "the language." Its not a great language, but has found itself at the right place at the right time to address certain technical concerns (a "better" C++ at a time alternatives were being sought, concurrency with the rise of multi-core processing).

Java "the platform" (the JVM) has been a bigger focus in recent days especially with additional language support (JRuby, Jython, Clojure, Groovy, Scala). This support has been expanded in each recent release and seems to be the basis for the majority of the articles that appear on HN (or at least that I notice).
Never mind the security aspect, how am I going to uninstall the damn thing or upgrade its components (which other things in my system might use) with a custom installer?

There's a reason I don't install things that don't use apt.
"If you stop defending your trademark every time, then you lose it.."

But is suing really the only way to defend a trademark? If what you say is true, why don't we see a lot more of these? It can't be that hard to come up with similar "trade mark infringements" that nobody cares about? Or??
Learnt Java at university and swore off it as soon as I finished my course. Had a day job writing Perl software and it has been much better. The only effect though is that I have been put off Object Orientated code to, I find that and Java too verbose and non-transparent enough to hack or maintain quickly.
IEEE study shows Indian researchers leaving India in droves
NBER study also shows Indian researchers as the least likely to return to India. http://www.nber.org/papers/w18067
You mean, except for every other scrolling view in iOS...
What is the point of commenting if pg could hellban you from HN whenever he wants?

Because the service is useful, and incidents are rare.
It would be pretty simple to mirror selected articles.

For example: If you're worried a page will disappear, go to foo.com and paste the address. If it does disappear, you can go back to foo.com and retrieve the content, link to foo.com instead etc..
Arguable how a device looks is part of that. In this case, there is more than a passing resemblance. Topolsky is defending the integrity of his bloggers, but the integrity is questionable if their reviewing skirts around undeniable facts. Doesn't matter if it's Apple or Fisher-Price!
But how many readers of HN will be likely to shop in Poland?

Those that live here I guess - there's a good number of us.
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> We will deliver defect free software every time - is this motto workable?

No, it isn't. It isn't because the Turing halting problem is known to be undecidable. This doesn't mean defect free software cannot be written, it means this cannot be proven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

A quote: "Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm to solve the halting problem for all possible program-input pairs cannot exist. A key part of the proof was a mathematical definition of a computer and program, what became known as a Turing machine; the halting problem is undecidable over Turing machines."

In layman's terms, this means a company promising defect-free software is just asking for trouble. It is to software development what an "unsinkable" ocean liner like the Titanic is to world travel.

> These questions are not rhetorical.

On the contrary, to anyone familiar with the basic principles of computer science, the question is rhetorical and the answer is "no".
Can't wait for this to bubble up to Polish mainstream media. (And it will, it's the perfect link bait / eyeball magnet.)

Hasn't Apple heard what Poland did to ACTA? We love it when some big American entity comes pushing around and stepping on the little guy. We've got our pitchforks and torches always ready. Come, Apple, come.
I've always felt that it's a language designed to help eliminate the worst of programming, which has the side-effect of limiting some of the best programming.

So great for big businesses, but poor for hackers wanting to do cool stuff.
Yep, it takes a bit of time for the search index(es) to be updated.
This was my fault - I had to abort the server updates to go deal with my unexpectedly and violently sick 1 year old son. By the time I was free to go back to updating the servers I was too tired and decided it would be better to wait until morning - after all the iTunes page linked from the "Buy Now" button explains that the app is being discontinued.
This reminds me of a few years ago when Apple tried to get Woolworths (a supermarket chain in Australia) to stop using their new logo (a "W" styled in the shape of an apple)[1].

Apple lost that one, and I suspect that they'll probably lose this one, too.

[1]: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/apple-claims-wooli...
UK universities take four of six top global rankings
I've tried, but my google-fu is weak today. It was from a good few years back (i.e. 5 or so).
No idea what she was thinking. She must have known about "Jessie Slaughter" and that they would see through a pathetic attempt to promote her porn site.

Shame they took it so far with her though
The title of the submission is a bit misleading.

PG explicitly states in the essay that it's not that much on Java itself but rather on the way hackers judge technologies (the "hacker radar" in his expression).

And these are not quite predictions but statements on how Java is (or was then back in 2001) perceived.

And I think, IMHO, a substantial part of the Java success today should be attributed to the JVM, not so much to Java, the language. Clojure/Scala/etc. are kind of clues for this.
Coming from a Perl and C++ background, Java was great because the designers dared to remove so many features from the language. In that sense, it made the efforts of the coders stand out more than the features of the language. This is an important message to an up-and-coming hacker.

That said, Java is far from an ideal language. It lacks many features and is somewhat clunky.

It does do a few things right, though. It hits a sweet spot being both simplistic and fast. By choosing a single packaging, developers could use all features everywhere, and start to rely on them. I think it certainly gave a boost to concurrent programming. IMO, Java also drove the acceptance of GC:ed languages.

Now that Java has stagnated, I think that it is time for many old Javaites to abandon ship and transition to new languages. Perhaps it's best to let Java be. Leave it as a historical language that had its glory days. Perhaps someone will admire it for what it's designers dared to do. Perhaps for what it did for the community. Or perhaps new up-and-coming coders can look in those old code-bases and see some retro-style simplistic beauty.
Granted, pg has not explicitly defined "successful" but it is clear from the context. By this definition Java is not successful.
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50 synchronized, illuminated quadrocopters flying in Austria.