skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft should have bought RIM years ago and bundled their sharp enterprise focus into their Windows Phone strategy. Together they might have had a shot at being the bronze medal winners. Separately, they're on the way to winning the wooden spoon jointly with Bada and Maemo.
Career story, trajectory and context
Google Play store reaches 25 billion downloads, creates a 25c sale
Could you make the design "pop" a bit more?
That thread also predicted the weird and unrealistic "let's-stay-inside-the-existing-boundaries" responses:

> SGML does provide an official way of doing this folks
and even if Dan C ain't here to round us up we maybe
ought to stick to the track.
>
> <!ENTITY ICON6 SYSTEM "http://blah..>&ICON6;

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0202.ht...
DNS Lookup Failure in Argentina.
I've had Windows 7 running at peak performance for years in boot-camp, on my early '08 Macbook Pro.

My understanding is that any general-purpose desktop OS is susceptible to slow-down over time unless you properly maintain it. In the case of OS X, it was slow from the beginning (at least, relatively...compared to Windows, on the same exact hardware).
The Truth: India is not producing enough
NASA releases stunning image of our universe's distant past
Adobe releases open source font for programming
It also shows here in his comment how 'small' the internet was: maybe everyone having fibre to their home was some far-off imaginings of crazy people.

"I somewhat prefer ICON since it implies that the IMAGE
should be smallish"
also of VSFTPD fame
I find LibreOffice to be good enough for all my needs.
Evolving Search Engine Marketing - Where Is It Heading?
Show HN: Our approach to promoting our Facebook page
Phone OS has direct ability to query the manufacturer for updates and download them if available/requested by the user.

Works for Apple. (Until iOS 5 download to PC and install with iTunes was required but now phone can directly download.)

Works for Sony TVs (and probably many others too) that are connected to the internet. Broadcast (with digital TV at least in Europe) can also be used to update OTA but may need broadcaster approval. In this scenario using both approaches makes sense as not every TV is connected to the internet or broadcast signals.

A better question is how to make it happen. I would suggest that Samsung is big enough and their phones high profile enough that they should be able to insist and still have their phones offered by the operators. However they would need to consider it an important point worth arguing for and may have to trade something else whether it is price or customization support or something else.
While it is true that LibreOffice still cannot compare to Microsoft Office (esp. Excel which I think is an impressive piece of software), I think LibreOffice fills the French civil servants' needs fine. It's not like they're consultants or bankers making the most out of Excel or Powerpoint, and the savings are significant. With the debt we have, these kinds of moves go in the right direction.
So why doesn't this guy just use status.net, the software behind identi.ca; identi.ca IS the premier FOSS microblogging site, after all.
I was at a talk recently about some C#/.Net framework aimed at .Net developers and half the laptops in the room where Macs running Windows. Even the lead developer giving the presentation had a Mac.
Apple responds to iPhone 5 scuffs, says scratches and chips are ‘normal’
On building an analytical culture for Big Data
For future reference, uploading a video to Dropbox when you are on the HN front page is a bad idea. My account was suspended almost immediately. Switching to YouTube...
Sorry. It's back up.
As chrismdp said, great thoughts.
Have you considered changing the background and/or the color of the text? Reading was very unpleasant to the eye.

Edit - Personal preference
Do you know if your code is bad? Learn how to detect code smells.
My main computer is a 3½ year old Dell laptop (2.5Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM) and Windows 8 boots and runs a little smoother than Windows 7 does. Not enough for me to stick with 8 though, I am quite happy to keep it restricted to a virtual machine.
You missed the flippant humour in the parent.
If i had one dollar for every time i saw a "Government X installed open source Y" post... it's started in 1999 and still haunts me
Scripting Ximea machine vision cameras in IronPython
I suspect this happens a lot. Many drugs should be dosed by weight and even gender yet we only see differential doses for adults and children most of the time. I'm smaller than your average male, so I often tend to reduce my dosage of certain drugs to below what is recommended on the package insert.
RIM still has quite a bit in cash reserves. Traditionally the haven't listened to their users since they've been on top. They had the rug pulled out beneath them and hopefully are starting to listen. I'm interested to see if BB10 can really make a splash. I think aiming for #3 is a achievable goal. If they become a true #3, I wouldn't be surprised if some loyal customers coming back if BB10 works.
Ask HN: What are your experiences with Clojure?
In spirit of the last few weeks of Go posts, I'm interested to hear about other people's experience of building larger things with Clojure.

What did you build, what went well, what didn't, pretty much anything that springs to mind after spending some time building things with it.

I'd start with my own experience but I'm starting this thread because I don't have any.
Analyzing Financial Statements
Perl is certainly a lot less prominent than it used to be. It seems to have fallen out of favour as a web backend, it was never popular on the desktop, and I'm not seeing any interest in making it work on mobile. While I wouldn't say it was dying, it seems to be falling into the "scripting ghetto" that we worked so hard to escape.
http://www.sofastatistics.com/
I have a large chunk of friends and acquaintances who now conduct their ongoing visible conversations with each other almost entirely on Twitter, many of whom have started becoming impossible to reach by other means.

They also have visible half-conversations with a similar number of other people whose tweets are “protected” so that only “confirmed followers” can read them. I don't see OStatus doing anything with the latter, and I don't think those people are going to move to public streams, and if they don't move, the other people interspersed with them won't move because it'll become impossible to talk to them. This is more or less the same reason I still reluctantly keep a LiveJournal: the open-Web facilities for “but only show it to these people” are severely lacking (and I haven't found a good way of doing anything about this yet).

There's also the issue of social networks including things that are de facto currency-like: “number of followers” on Twitter is an obvious one. In a distributed network these usually can be faked, or at least are that way on the UI side since it's hard to generate a UI for that that doesn't drive the user's security-related cognitive load through the roof. (Or reveal more information about subscriptions than people prefer, but that's a shakier reason since some existing networks already reveal that graph.)

Is there any push for OStatus or other distributed social network approaches to handle these use cases? I haven't been able to find any, and OStatus seems to think the restricted stream case is explicitly out of scope.
Part of the reason governments are interested in open-source software is their worry about the possibility of the U.S. government's inducing U.S. corporations to put back doors in popular proprietary software.
I'm quite attached to my colour scheme :) but other feedback welcome!
Do a search (separately) for perl, python, ruby on indeed.com

perl wins AND it's not a common word unlike the other two

in fact, plenty of job postings misspell perl as "pearl" and I'm not even including them

The fact that perl has more hits doesn't necessarily mean that there are actually more perl jobs than ruby or python jobs, but it certainly means that perl is still around, whether or not you want to tease it

EDIT: I write python code every day and agree with pretty much everything else the author said.
The parent post mentions "billboard" but it is a digital road sign (at least the ones I've seen). It's on a pole higher up so people can see it easily, similar to how many billboards are done.
Formlabs: High Resolution 3D Printer
Brazillian company Buscapé sues Google Brasil
Clearly, the next logical step is to make a love song for developers.
With the defaults in place (boot to Metro Start Screen), my guess (hope) is that OEMs will customize it with Windows 8 Apps. Because these apps are sandboxed, it should be really easy to remove them without leaving traces behind (except for files in ~/AppData probably).

Their apps certainly have more impact on the Start Screen and the full screen 'immersive' experience should appeal to consumers (an OEM would hope).
This is very cool. The tutorial (the Wizard Wizard, if you will) was very well done and I feel like the program makes a lot of basic stats analysis very easy and visual. Nice work.

In your opinion how relevant would this be to survey analysis for psych and social science research? Does it cover most of the analysis required or are there shortcomings that, say, SPSS would better fill? I'm not a stats guy, just a programmer, but it would be great to work it into our recommendations for tools for researchers on Mac (shameless plug - http://www.socialsci.com).
That solves your update problem. But you are still under control of a central entity that has its own interests and tightly controls their ecosystem and the apps you can install on the product you bought. You have replaced your carrier with the hardware manufacturer. A better alternative would be to buy your smartphone without contract to begin with, which comes down to the same price very often.
Here is the problem with Tesla, SpaceX and other Musk's companies - they depend on government loans, tax incentives and subsidies. They need them to exist, and without them none of the companies would have a slightest chance of success. As soon as the subsidies, tax incentives or loans stop - so does Musk's empire.
Is there anyone else that thinks that RIM could be the number one Andriod seller if they incorporated their security and track pad in to a phone which otherwise looks like a Galaxy?

I would buy that in a heart beat, and many corporations which haven't opened up their security for iProducts would find their employees extremely receptive to that device. They could be the #1 Andriod seller which would be quit a nice position for them compared to today.
Off topic: Am I the only one for whom the page doesn't scroll smoothly? It seems badly programmed.
Sorry, that should read "39% of that of Norway".
Renegotiating terms of loan!=defaulting
Using a Social Media Rating to Help People, Not Judge Them
I don't understand what she's saying, in French or English.
Commercial construction uses a very different philosophy than modular construction. Modular construction uses boxes whose size is constrained by the highway system, and works best when all the boxes are the same. Commercial construction treats the whole building as a single structural box, and then the walls can be non-structural and easily moved around as demands and tenants change. Reconciling those two ideas is hard, since commercial tenants like that flexibility.

These videos of fast-builds are only for commercial buildings that are inherently and permanently modular, like hotels.
Afraid not. Nothing is more general than function(all data).
I find it interesting that Visual Studio hasn't been mentioned yet even though it is likely one of the most popular in the world.

I'm going to say Visual Studio. It is polished, it is well designed, and it makes me highly productive. I've used many other IDEs in my day but am yet to find something as efficient for RAD as C# with Visual Studio.

I will say its C++ implementation is only "alright."
Have to agree. Recently I used a Windows 8 Samsung tablet at a Microsoft Store. As much as I love Microsoft, I still feel the whole Metro paradigm is a slight mistake. They are closing the doors to the tried-and-true interface that Windows users have grown to love by trying to wall people into Metro. Frankly, "Desktop" is almost unusuable without a Start Menu button. You can't get into Computer Properties easily (usually right-click Computer on Start Menu). Control Panel is not obvious. It's virtually impossible to pin things on the dock unless you can find a way to open them. Businesses aren't going to upgrade unless someone uses a touch-screen or tablet (and even then it's doubtful).

They should be trying to make users WANT to use Metro--instead of forcing them into it. It's beautiful, great for tablets, and has the apps people crave. I'm not sure what they mean by "tested and ready", because I can't be the only person who has brought this up on the Internets and I'm sure they've discussed this internally. As a Windows-fan, they're losing me. And like in politics, if you've lost your base, you've lost.
Well, there are a few good reasons for that: coding for WinRT is harder than it should be, and the developers are not fans of the WinRT UI (so they don't use it).

I am in this very situation, with an app with has dozens of millions of users on Windows (and millions daily).

The first reason is the most important. WinRT requires a lot of rewrites of your code. (and the rationale behind some limitation are often political), and Microsoft is not helping or making it easy for you Notably for networking and multimedia.

Networking: everyone uses the BSD sockets, Win32, Linux, OSX, iOS, Android, Symbian, Bada, etc... And you cannot use them on WinRT. There is a very high chance that your code or one of your library uses it, of course.
But the bad part is that Microsoft does not make easy with a wrapper exposing WinSock-like API based on their new API. Not even a wrapper than does 80% of the needs.

Multimedia and Games: your videogame that works with a C++ engine and OpenGL ES for casual games that works on iOS, Android, Bada,... does not work under WinRT, because OpenGL is not allowed... And I don't even speak about Video acceleration.

Yes, they need to do a massive change in their APIs, but helping the transition would have been a good idea...

So yes, writing yet another Twitter client is easy on WinRT, for more complex applications, well, it is way too hard and difficult to do it this fast.
The Problem With Lists - And The Fix From Big Data
Yeah, usually they start the time-lapse videos after the foundations are dug, which seems like cheating.
OP describes Dijkstra's “Goto Statement Considered Harmful” as a paper whereas in reality it was a letter to the editor.
HN: Help define the perfect/missing social network for me to make the world.
Mix and match existing/wishful features or interface preferances of existing networks to define the web app you wish existed, and I will make it for you.
There's not much comment in the article on the quality of the applications that are on there.

Steam has less than 2,000 apps, and no-one would say that it feels empty.

The Mac app store launched with only 1,000 apps.

I don't think that the number of apps is particularly important as long as the quality stuff is there - can anyone who has used it comment?
Those who migrated from RIM waited a few years for RIM to catch up, how long do you think they will wait for there new choice to catch up.

RIM realy needed/needs to get a application version of its email service out on androids/iOS as it is there services/key elements that make there platform and if they do that then they will still make money nomater what platform there services are run upon. Devices and services are two seperate markets that intertwine and they need to embrace the competition and leverage what they do best and upon those platforms before it is too late.
Google Play hits 25 billion downloads
The Wikipedia page of the Broad Group[1] has some PDFs with detailed floor plans and building stats. Quite interesting. Sure they're bland as can be, but as this seems the Model T of this type of building, we might get some improvements later on (although I wonder how e.g. different outside structures would mess with the energy management).

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Group

(links to e.g. http://www.broad.com:8089/english/down/T30_Technical_Briefin...)
Don't other (recently started) companies depend on government loans, tax incentives and subsidies?

I think it's a good thing that these incentives exists so that (potentially) disruptive companies can be started.
Do you think that WinRT will cause anything important to be broken in VLC, or is it just making your life harder to get it working?
It could also mean that Perl programmers are in higher demand because there's not enough of them nowdays since all the cool kids are doing Ruby or JS ...

(we know we are having a hard time finding Perl people, but then again we are not in Silicon Valley ...)
It's a way of doing business, not necessarily bad (or good)

But I assume private customers will make up for the expenses when the loans end.
I flagged this submission for its incorrect and misleading title, but Tesla does basically say they will default if terms are not renegotiated and/or their follow on stock sale doesn't raise enough money.

FTA:

Based on our current financial forecast, we currently anticipate that if we do not raise the proceeds from this (stock) offering and do not otherwise adjust our operations accordingly to amend the DOE Loan Facility, we may not be compliant with the current ratio covenant for the quarter period ending March 31, 2013
So what? 2000 is a huge number. I can't even imagine scratching the surface of those, in terms of actually using them. I know they fill different niches, but on my desktop I use maybe about 2 dozen applications on a regular basis. Those 2000 apps could be far better on average than the half-million-or-so in the App Store or Google Play.

Or they could all be junk, and Windows Store is doomed.

The numbers don't mean much.
Number one is an obviously unrealistic goal at this point. They probably believe that setting attainable goals lead to higher motivation among their staff. If asked to do something difficult, but that you believe to be possible, you work harder. If asked to do something you 'know' is impossible you throw up your hands in exasperation and do nothing.
Yes, it is pretty bad. But it is quite easy to update your phone using Odin. It is no excuse, obviously the right way would be to receive it on a timely manner, but if you can update yourself in like 30 minutes I see no reason to wait for a year.
How about a (literally) one click installation to Heroku?
New Java exploit puts 1 billion Macs and PCs at risk
>I worked with their app store previously. It was a nightmare so I see hurdles building this asse

We've published an app on the Playbook market and the experience was on par with anything else out there.
Because in Canada it's impolite to be number one :)
> winner-take-all markets with huge network effects

I'm not sure what that statement means. It is not winner takes all, with your logic there is only room for 1? Mobile is a growing market, if you think there is no room for competition your betting either Apple or Android will be the only platform.
Don't punish your customer.
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Golden Tulip Hotel Yerevan is overlooking the small but beautiful Aznavour Square neighboring with the Moscow Cinema and the Artists' Union of Armenia, so if you fancy visiting exhibitions or movie premieres you will just need to walk out the hotel doors. The location is handy for tourists asking less than five minutes to walk to Republic Square, Opera Square and the new Northern Avenue linking both of the squares.
Here is the problem with GM, Chrysler and other companies. They depend on government loans, tax incentives and subsidies. They need them to exist, and without them none of the companies would have a slightest chance of success.

Besides the direct bail-out Obama gave GM & Chrysler when they were about to go under, the conventional car companies depend on a huge government subsidy called externalities. Cars depend on a vast road system whose cost is mostly paid for via income and property taxes. Conventional cars also impose huge external costs via pollution and car insurance.

If the implicit subsidies to oil-burners were to stop at the same time as the subsidies to Tesla, Tesla would be partying in the streets.
I never said that it is bad that these incentive exist. Personally I own some Tesla stock. I just believe that business that so heavily depends on these incentive will have trouble succeeding. (unless its a part of the military industrial complex)
> because OpenGL is not allowed

Wow. That's pretty ridiculous. So DirectX is allowed?

OK if you're a triple A studio with a cross-platform engine. Show stopper for most other devs.
> This is more or less the same reason I still reluctantly keep a LiveJournal: the open-Web facilities for “but only show it to these people” are severely lacking (and I haven't found a good way of doing anything about this yet).

Google Plus seems to have achieved this fairly well. I haven't had the time to take a look at their API yet, but I can't imagine it's any less than what LJ provided.
I didn't even think of that, but all mobile games on iOS and Android are done with OpenGL ES, and Microsoft doesn't even support it. That could be a major problem for Microsoft.
MarketWatch are a complete rag of a financial news site. As in this case, most of their headlines are sensationalist link-bait. I guess that makes me a fool for even reading the article.

Look at the chart and it's clear that Tesla's stock price has not 'tanked'; it's trading well within the range it's been in for some time. They are not "defaulting" on their loan, they are re-negotiating it.
My Galaxy Nexus fails the test at http://dylanreeve.com/phone.php

Apparently the bug is fixed in 4.1 (I'm still on 4.0.4). I installed a temporary fix - TelStop. It just handles telephone Intents so that you get a popup asking you to choose an application.
I don't claim to know exactly why. I can tell you this, though -- a much crazier statistic is that about 1.5-1.75 years ago I did this same search on indeed.com and while it's difficult to believe now or then, perl not only was bigger than python or ruby, it was bigger than python and ruby combined.

Among other reasons, I suspect there are a lot of older perl guys still around who don't blog/write articles because they do other things in their spare time and we don't hear as much about perl compared to node/python/ruby/etc.
Using PostgreSQL is just a damn good idea. LibreOffice, well I would say not so much.
If you right click on the bottom left corner (where the start menu button was/where the start page icon appears) you will get a context menu with most of the things you could want such as Computer Management, Command Prompt, etc.
I hope that calling this "Scuffgate" is just a poor joke...
Yeah, it's not the quantity, it's the quality. If there is a large subset of quality Windows 8 applications that's good.

Not everyone is going to put their applications on there straight away - how many put it onto the MacOS Store straight away (though there was A LOT of hype around the mac store).

Mobile application numbers don't really compare to desktop apps, noone really needs a fart app on their PC.
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"perl is doing just fine"
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Perl.html

^^ Really?
To make moystard's point more clearly–and with a chart!–, http://xkcd.com/605/
Also, it's worth mentioning that Udacity and CodeAcademy are teaching Python to thousands of new programmers.
Not to get all political here, but if I could somehow set aside social issues, endorsing Romney (and most republicans) would be a "slam dunk"...but alas,those pesky social issues persist.