skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Globaly, yes. But if you want, per example, to target China, IE6 is mandatory.
http://www.ie6countdown.com/

(and even Japan is at 4.7% according to this site. 4.7% is significant enough.)
Should this become commonplace in the future, we'll have to have a way for either everyone own a 3d printer, or for people to easily be able to find a 3d printer.

Incidentally, I'm working on something that does this and more. Details coming over the next few months.
The notion of Microsoft getting rid of the desktop in favor of a locked down OS which only allows applications which running in sandboxes will make sense when Visual Studio is converted to do so.

Or to put it another way, don't expect Microsoft to change the dogfood's dog food's to something they cannot eat. As a corollary, Windows 8 applications and RT devices will be suitable for the sorts of corporate tasks non-programmers at Microsoft perform in the course of their work.
'K, I'm totally cool with the downvote.

But I'd like to know, was the downvote (or votes) related to:

- Pointing out that Microsoft has gateway approval authority is old and tired.
- Using the term politically incorrect is old and tired.
- Boobs (including porn, fine art, vacation pictures etc.) should be hidden.
- Fart apps are too low brow.
- No legitimate user needs surveillance evasion tools.
- Microsoft has a social or corporate responsibility to prevent the spread of surveillance evasion tools.
- Only unsavory users need to know how to make bombs, or learn about how people make bombs to understand those people.
- Microsoft has a social or corporate responsibility to prevent the spread of information on bomb making.
- Microsoft would never disapprove an app based on anything like the above.
- Other.

Yes, I am free to avoid the ecosystem as a developer and consumer, and honestly I probably will. But I think discussion of corporate throttling of expression is necessary.
I think that Django support will probably speed up a lot the Python 3 adoption
Is iPhone 5 the most defective phone ever?
A 100% width <video> keeps its natural aspect ratio. Like an <img>.
But the author claims that something is equivalent to P=NP! Now, P=NP does have a very "literal, narrow interpretation" (read: it has a very precise meaning), in fact, this is the only interpretation in which it makes sense at all.

So if you claim that something is equivalent to it, you better be prepared to define what exactly "something" is, and give a rigorous argument as to why it's equivalent. Some hand-waving with vaguely defined and ambiguous terms just doesn't cut it.
There isn't much of a programming community in Japan for Japanese people, too. Most employees work "in-house" and don't have the type of open culture for discussing work and doing things related to their job outside of work that America and other nations have. This is in addition to Japan just catching up(I think) to the whole startup business model.

I was in Japan for 2 years, btw.
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Track element is coming. We thought it was not a blocker for a first release.

Note: I'm one of the developers of Flowplayer.
The PSoC is so highly configurable internally that power consumption will totally be up to how you set up the internal clocks and analog blocks. Cypress has a great set of technical notes about all of these aspects. This TN even includes a spreadsheet to help you estimate power draw and battery life:

http://www.cypress.com/?rID=64554
The best Microcontroller?

Does it works on Linux or mac?.

No.

It that software opensource?

No

Why then I should choose this thing instead of more powerful and closed micros like this?:
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_P...
But the author's point is that the carrier size (as a fraction of total naval resources) concentrated in a single ship only makes sense when you need economies of scale for building a sea/air interface. And that heavy concentration in an ultimately vunerable place like the carrier is a defining feature of naval warfare.

If we could launch single air planes from tiny cruisers efficiently, there would no carriers and naval strategy would be completely different. There aren't similar economies of scale for supplies, living quarters, extra fuel, and so on.
Neighborhood pubs/bars of the sort that are attended primarily by people in the neighborhood are actually beneficial to neighborhood security and quality of life.

Anything that gets the people who actually live there out on the street, particularly in the nighttime hours, increases security.

Our modern, sterile "city planning" where everything is separated and zoned off into their own areas is a huge factor in the decline of our quality of life.

For an extensive treatment of this thesis, see the work of Jane Jacobs.
Also, 10 year registrations are typically only $80

If you have a serious domain, why not just grab the decade.

Domain prices will only go up, sometimes $1 a year, so there are savings too.
That's essentially what I was thinking- its going to be low-ish power consumption, but its all going to be about how you set it up.
It's definitely possible (and not really hard), but I understand the mindset: if you're coming from an other platform, why bother with switching when you can wait a bit and just start with Python 3?
Yes, and it's spelled "they're". See Muphry's (sic) law on wikipedia.
15 years?? :)))
> That would never work correctly on os x, unless you have a huge display.

That seems like a non sequitur. The whole point of a tiling window manager is that you can map windows in and out of the grid -- they don't all have to be on screen at once.
Your numbers are off.

Grace period (as you have pointed out somewhat) varies by registrar. The basis for what you are saying is how long a registrar has to delete the domain before they can get their money refunded. That time period is 45 days. So on the expiration date the registrar is automatically charged for the renewal. If they delete on day 45 (by a certain time depending on when registered) they will have their fee refunded. Consequently they can give a grace period if they want of up to 45 days but from a practical standpoint it's tricky to wait until the last minute before deleting (if you have a system problem on day 44 that prevents you from deleting 2000 names you're stuck with them).

After they delete the domain (which can theoretically be anytime and keep in mind that "delete" is different than "take off line" "change ownership" etc.) it goes into redemption.

It is in redemption for 30 days during which only the sponsoring registrar can submit the necessary report to get the domain back. With .com .net .org .info the cost for the registrar to get the name out of redemption is $40 plus the renewal fee.

Once 30 days have past it is in pending delete and goes into a 5 day black hole where nothing happens and not even the sponsoring registrar can get it back. After that 5 day period it's released and anyone can grab it, first come first serve.

nodejs.org as I pointed out elsewhere was simply taken offline. It wasn't "deleted" in the sense that it goes into redemption. From the registrars point of view this makes sense since it allows them (if they want) to charge a fee to restore the domain w/o having to incur any extra ($40) costs.

"the registrars theoretically start dropping the names"

The time the domains drop is not controlled by registrars. It's controlled by the registries. The registrars only control (in addition to other things pointed out) when the domain goes offline or gets "deleted" and enters redemption.

" it enters a 30 day redemption period. Again, apparently this can vary"

Can't vary it's 30 days.
> the difficulty of providing insurance for employees is hardly even discussed here around HN

That's not my impression of HN! It comes up fairly regularly, and is cited as a problem by a number of startup founders. Among others, tptacek has mentioned in a few threads that providing founders/employees with healthcare is a significant problem for early-stage, small companies, especially for bootstrappers, and for people trying to freelance (it becomes easier if you're large-ish, where you can negotiate a group plan).

I suppose it's a political comment in the sense that anything in this space is political, but my personal interest is just in somehow being able to work for myself while also having health coverage. I'd like to move back to the US at some point for cultural/family reasons, and the problems with the individual-insurance market are one of the things holding me back at the moment. I hardly care which kinds of politics fix that problem, as long as a fix of some kind appears...
Also, overall health situation tends to deteriorate as one ages, so seniors as a group would need more healthcare dollars per capita compared to the younger population groups. No wonder healthcare becomes one of the most important issues for seniors.
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As a unitless unit, when people talk about hz they almost never mean just hz. In the case of computing, "hz" is always shorthand for cycles per second e.g. a 2 Ghz computer is 2 billion cycles per second.
One of the things I love the most about HN is reading the comments on something cool (like Flowplayer) inevitably leads to the discovery of comparable and equally cool things!

Thanks for the link!
I've never used it myself, but iOS has enterprise distribution as well, don't they? I think it still works through iTunes on the client side.
If this does become commonplace, I think the likely outcome is that we see a Kinkos of 3d printing emerge.
> It's been just bloat since 3.0.

I can't make head or tail of that claim, what's the "bloat since 3.0"?
> I can still run commands that have the same API as the DOS commands, I can still pipe together commands, I can still redirect commands.

What you seem to continue to not understand is that this functionality is not provided by DOS. Its provided by a command line interpreter. In windows this is cmd.exe which _is not_ DOS. It shares some syntax with the MS-DOS command line interpreter which is command.com but there are also differences in the same way there are differences between zsh and bash. For comparison I wouldn't call 'bash' 'linux' as that makes no sense. Bash after all, can run on a number of operating systems. To make an analogy to what your saying, when I open iTerm+bash on a Mac I guess I should say 'opening linux' which is obviously wrong. Before you say cmd.exe is only a DOS thing, its not it was also used in OS/2 as the default command line interpreter.

As for the functionality (I assume to mean at this point: a command line interface) being deprecated. In fact MS has been pushing PowerShell strongly as its new command line interface. You don't generally create new and improved versions of deprecated functionality.

If you want to make an argument for the reduced usage of the command line, fine. But, there is no mention of DOS needed to make that argument.
How does apple force you to go through the public store for everything, exactly?
Idea for startup: crowdfunded translation of open source content (including textbooks).
> The scientific group is pretty much on board with Python 3.

Ah .. NO! I can assure you that we are still stuck with Python 2.x (2.7 to be more precise). I am not too sure the others would have moved either.
I know the usual answers - stability, KISS, etc, but as a newbie(ish) to Linux in general and Slackware in particular, I almost think this question (which comes up repeatedly) is almost missing the entire point of Slackware.

I've decided that the answer (for me) is that Slackware is the craft microbrew of Linux distros. Painstakingly created, tended, and bottled by one man (with some diligent helpers). No, it doesn't have the flashy ad campaigns of the majors, or the ease of (X), but you can tell someone has taken their time with this distro, and crafted it with care and love. Pat V. has a vision, and this is it. That appeals to me in intangible ways that a simple list of the technical 'advantages' of Ubuntu/Arch/etc does not. It's not to everyone's taste, but I don't think it was ever meant to be.
Sure, but taking care of other parts of the player needs to be taken care of. Not that it's hard but it's surely not a feature of video players out there.
The "registrar" of this name is actually enom.

In this particular case namecheap is merely a reseller for enom.

Important to point out here that namecheap which is much touted on HN as being so great to deal with is the organization that made the decision to take this domain offline - not enom.com the registrar.
Research software typically have a very small user base and can quickly become out-of-date, so there's no great incentives for current software packages to upgrade. But I'm talking about the developer community of scientific Python, not the user community. The developer community includes such things as numpy, scipy, matplotlib, etc. are pretty much Python 3 compatible. This makes it easy for new scientific projects to jump on board with Python 3.
Nintendo is also at risk of free fall. If the WiiU doesn't perform well this may be the last home console unit we see them release. Not to mention their mobile gaming market has been decimated by Apple (IMO the 3DS should have been cancelled and redeveloped as a 3DTablet to compete head on with iPad)
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> The assumption is that a modern jet (turbofan) engine is highly reliable.

I was really surprised to find how true this was. One of my first jobs was working in a manufacturing plant for a company remanufacturing various parts of various jet engines (rebuilding blades, putting new airfoils into damaged vanes etc). The joke on the floor for new employees was that once you saw how badly damaged the engines were by the time they got to us you'd never want to fly again. It was also very interesting to see how much FAA regulation was involved in the manufacturing/remanufacturing process and how often people tried to skirt those rules to save parts due to how expensive they are.
I doubt that web developers are better about it, my reasoning follows:

The #1 Python web framework, Django, is a bit ahead of the curve but still hasn't released a major version that supports 3. Django's huge ecosystem of addons are not going to catch up for some time after that. And users are not going to develop green-field Django apps on Python 3 until some time after that. So the timeline for serious use of Python 3 with Django should still be counted in years, which means that the majority of Python web development will not be done with Python 3 for a while. (If Flask and Werkzeug had been out ahead of this issue, it could have eaten up even more of Django's market share, but it looks like it will actually be behind in adopting Python 3). I don't think any of the Zope frameworks or ZODB, etc. support 3. And I think between those three you probably have most of Python web development accounted for.

Pyramid, Bottle, Tornado and CherryPy DO support Python 3 but aren't nearly as widely used. App Engine needs a new runtime and that could be years. I don't think that Web2py or web.py have released versions which support Python 3, though both probably have something in the works.

Since web development is so heavily framework-driven, the majority of web development on Python is not going to move on to 3 until Django and Flask ecosystems move over, or everyone switches to Pyramid.

And due to the requirement for backward compatibility, Python 3 features will not be widely used for a while (suppose you make a widely used extension, you are not going to lock out people using 2.7, this means you are using the common denominator of features and supplying Python 2 implementations for the stuff you are using from new Python 3 libraries).

I would contrast this with the very large number of general Python libraries which already support Python 3. So I think the Python web development world is well behind the rest of the Python world.

It's a mess but I think that Python 3's improvements are worth not straitjacketing the future of the language into the decisions made in 2.
Maybe they meant to say "outdated or foreign browser" and "d. You're a freedom-hating socialist commie", seeing as it's the only browser not developed in the US? ;-)
Your first link from a year ago discusses how tablet apps on Windows RT - the ARM version of Win8 - will be restricted. Yes, that is old news. This statement that Metro apps on the flagship desktop version of Win 8 will also be restricted is news to me. Regarding your second point about malware, Microsoft is not doing this out of concern for the safety of their customers but rather to increase their own profits and control. But for PR and anti-trust-avoidance purposes, they will sell the loss of freedom as an increase in safety. It's the same bogus argument that overreaching governments use.
I could see this behavoir "if you move a window to the left/right and one already occupies that space, both are resized to fit". What happens exactly?
My exact thoughts. Wouldn't be surprised if Kinkos themselves (FedEx Office, now) pushes into the field. And that we possibly start seeing CVS/Walgreens 1-hour photo-style printing services as well.
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"10 year registrations are typically only $80"

Where are you seeing $80 for 10 years (not doubting just curious).

$80 is below the cost that the registrar pays (for .com) to the registry and ICANN variable fees. Not to mention the cost for credit card processing as a variable fee.

Consequently in order to charge that amount the registrar has to make money in other places (could be to charge for things that are free elsewhere as one example).
WRT to 1), hasn't our own patio11 told us the normal pattern in big companies is that their young whippersnappers aren't allowed to cut production code for a decade or more? The whole inculcate new employees in the company way thing.

It's also worth remembering the social model of low risk, high gain and high risk, low gain companies (i.e. the big ones you've heard of vs. lots of small fry you haven't unless you have some focus on the country). With Japan now coming onto a "lost quarter century" the first model has been smashed and that perhaps has something to do with these giants losing their mojo.

The other issue which you bring up about startups is related to why small fry almost never make it big; I don't know too much about that, but it's a general issue that goes beyond high tech or this sort of high tech. Perhaps surprising given how leveraged writing software and running Internet services is....
Because human beings generally have selfish interests. If you tell a person they may own and control a thing for profit, many will choose to do so.

Unsurprisingly, this is a choice made by a large number of professors
Opera is actually fully compliant.
Highly recommended. They're also available for free in electronic form at the publisher's site.

http://www.baen.com/series_list.asp?letter=H
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Do you read the terms every time you swipe your card to buy a pair of shoes or a bag in a regular store? Why should it be any different online? If the intention of a consumer is clearly to buy a single item once for a fixed fee then a forced membership buried in the terms of service is not what they expect, and not something they should suspect.

It's a ridiculous stance to blame a consumer for trickery like this.
> Can't imagine what it would be like to learn programming and not understand English.

(I read your sentence with an implied subject, which is fine for casual grammar, but the second phrase is subjunctive because the first is, so "do not" and "don't" fit poorly there, even for casual speech.)

Just imagine everything in a different language. Hydro Quebec had an application in French.

This is more evidence that community is key for programming. Community even trumps native language!
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/

Last-Modified:	2011-01-16 09:57:25 +0000 (Sun, 16 Jan 2011)
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Status:	Final
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Created:	26-Sep-2010

Until this was made final(January 2011), web frameworks that use the wsgi spec had no python 3 path short of ditching the wsgi spec.

Now that it is final, there is a path to python 3 for web-dev. Cherrpy got there first I think. Pyramid/Webob got there, and others as well, and I'm sure Django will get there soon enough.

I'd say web-dev adoption of python 3 has been pretty swift.
No- healthcare is an investment with a negative interest rate, ie you can only try to maintain your capital if you keep investing more and more - with a diminishing return since it ends in death anyway (with the current technology)

In this specific case, a better investment strategy is to put the money where you will get the most of it, i.e. on the health of people still young, and reduce the investment as the people age.
You can buy the later hardcovers and get a CD with the entire series on it. I do recommend Baen for books because they sell at pocket book prices and have no DRM.
France and all the other socialo-communist EU countries

FYI, this is where you lost me.
Unfortunately we are not quite there yet. If we were a more cohesive union, there wouldn't be such a thing as a European debt crisis. We will have Eurobonds, automatic states bailouts, a fiscal union, etc.

It might take another 50 years, but we, eventually, will become a single union. This are interesting times
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Ah, your point about English has got to be very important, it's significant that Japan is the world's worst at teaching English as a second language, and that has to be fatal for this domain.
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As an American living in Denmark

How did that happen?

Also, would love to meet up.
Before founding SEVEN, Mr. Nguyen founded Onebox.com in 1999. It was acquired for $850 million in 1999 by Phone.com (now part of Openwave)

-- Product of the bubble 1.0

http://investor.openwave.com/stocklookup.cfm?historic_Month=...

From 200 $358=> to $2 Today, so 2/358*850= $4.75million is the realized value of his company?

Sobriety and hindsight are sometimes clarifying.
Eh, releases are arbitrary points in the development cycle. There is new, stable, stuff in the dev trunk today, we just don't get to see it.

I don't see any difference between Google code-dumping (because that's all they do) "releases" of Android and iD Software open-sourcing old versions of idTech. iD is just more honest about it.
It forks flawlessly on iPad too, using the same controls as in desktop browsers.
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I think we can all agree that the arduino IDE is a terrible piece of software. It works... on most platforms. It's not bloated. It's kind of documented. That's about all the good you can say about it.

...but I have to agree, sounds like this is a neat platform, but if I can't write, compile and deploy code to it, what's the point?

Is it really that hard to provide a tool chain that lets you cross compile binaries for a platform, and a set of headers? I hate these 'integrated development environments'. It's just bloated rubbish-ware.

For all the lack of support the android NDK gets from google, at least they got that right. It's a compiler. That's all it does. You write code in whatever the heck you want, and just compile it.

I don't get why so many companies have such a hard time with understanding why this is desirable.