skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be suffering from some sort of tunnel vision that lets you see only two options here: the miserable status quo or everyone getting fired.

I am not advocating firing anyone. If someone enjoys sorting cork, or if they are just too afraid to make a transition to more interesting and fulfilling work, I'd have no problem with them staying on.

What I do advocate is actually asking these people if they want to stay on or be trained to do more interesting and fulfilling work. For those who do choose to do something else, I think it would be a good thing to make this option available to them, especially when the same job could be done by machines.
Twitter can't enforce a "consistent experience" on third party clients, meaning they can't be sure that promoted tweets, accounts, and other forms of generally unwanted advertising will show up in timelines that aren't rendered with Twitter's own code.
What Is Windows RT? Redmond, We Have A Problem
We in the USA pay triple what the continent does for LTE.
no maps but Google maps has street view.

A similar feature to Streetview has existed in Bing Maps since 2009 [1]. Google was first, but others are chasing hard.

Plus, they are moving into mapping shopping malls, parks, stores, and even tourist spots

Bing Maps started adding malls and building maps in 2010. They also had birdeye view and 3D "photosynth" views predating Google's implementations [2] by 2 years.

[1] http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2009...

[2] http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010...
This is so backwards but so are many of the laws that are on the books in many states.
Now, here's a comment where I would think it makes sense to have karma visible. Because I suspect your comment should get some upvotes and that might influence OP's interest in doing a blog post, but we are also discouraged from "bump" comments. And instead, here I go, meta.

bump.
The Reason This Game Was Rejected From The App Store Is 'Nonsense'
Is there a use case supporting native (iOS, Android) apps?

To me, the site seems to be targeted at web platforms (Which I'm considering using for a current project).
Programming, Mother****er, Do you speak it?
And what if someone uses it for illegal activities? The buck would stop with you (or at least start there). I'd be very wary about an Open WiFi these days....
No they don't suck, they rock. This isn't windows, and I shouldn't have to lost my setup to upgrade to the latest distro.
Considering it lists usb3 and 1.7GHz, both of which are unique to Ex5, i'm pretty certain that must have just been a mistake.
I think you're essentially saying Apple pays $5 million or so to have the first right to go through the 20 person development team? From there they can make any type of offer to anyone they like or not?
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Probably more positives here for Coursera than negatives. It'll get them more press and won't stop anyone from taking classes.

Hopefully it'll even make someone in the MN Office of Higher Education realize they need to update their policies.
Thanks for making these, but I wish you would have also acknowledged the sources in your LICENSE.txt.

As for the license itself -- even though I used to work on licensing and UI for Wikimedia Commons, I acknowledge this can be quite confusing, so I sympathize. I've rewritten this comment a couple of times already.

It's not clear to me if you can re-release everything under any single license. It's also unclear to me if you can assert copyright over the whole thing, as you must if you are going to use a CC license or the BSD-style license you used.

However, I would suggest that whatever you are doing, you should not arbitrarily reassign the work to a BSD license. They are not designed for graphics, since they require publication of the license wherever the graphic is used. Imagine if you wanted to use the icon on a postcard; according to the license you'd have to include the license text on the postcard. If you want these to be used widely Creative Commons Zero is much better... assuming you can assert copyright for the whole thing as a derivative work.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

The really pedantically correct thing would be to list the licenses for each and every flag, but I acknowledge that would be no fun at all, and as far as I know Wikimedia Commons doesn't have tools to make that easy with large collections.

Sorry for the legalese - I think you did a great thing here, I'm just trying to help you share it with others.
Perfect for Grandma except..... no skype.
There was some discussion about doing this in D, and there was some in C++11, too. I argued that the presence or absence of the ; did not visually stand out very well, and so would be a source of confusion and errors.

Hence, ; remained as a statement terminator, and the return keyword served to indicate returning an expression.

However, the D lambda syntax does not require a ; when the lambda body consists of only a single expression:

http://dlang.org/expression.html#Lambda

and in practice this has turned out to be well liked.
More important to me, HOW upside down? How did you do that?
A few details from one of the developers: https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/6MDhf9Hu... "...getting a regular u-boot on these to use as generic linux hacking platforms isn't all that hard..."
Hey a lot of good romantic comedies have made millions at the box office on this same type of premise.
Nice try, Bitbucket marketing team. ;)
Why doesn't coursera take the same approach as Uber and respectfully disagree to comply?
Native column support will probably satisfy 90% of my objections. Until then, css seems like another hack(perhaps a better one) for a previous hack.
At LayerVault, each migration always happens on its own branch separate from the feature. We've been operating like that since day 1, and it hasn't been an issue yet.
I think you don't understand individuals. We just want to eat - Individual developers really only care about making money.

If a fart app is going to make an individual developer good money, nothing you can say will stop them from being made.

If developers can seemingly make more money by charging less, nothing you can say will make them stop charging less.

Microsoft set a price floor to attract developers who aren't thinking about 1 year in the future, when Microsoft will either remove that floor because their platform is successful enough (they don't have to court developers), or they will kill the platform itself (and your app).
I bet a compromise could be worked out if Coursera agrees to make instructional materials available via 'gopher'.
Some missed, and some didn't.
Good thing you had the prescience to foresee this.

Care to disclose your position and total profit raked in on betting against those analysts?
Stock market opinions are kinda cheap otherwise.
No, it's not a contradiction to have an agenda in mind and to also try not to ask leading questions.

An example of a leading question in this context would be like asking them "do you see the button labeled 'learn more' to your right?", which really doesn't test anything other than the fact that they're literate and their eyes work.

Compare this to asking them "now what do you see on the page and what do you want to do?" Maybe they'll want more information and hit the learn more button, maybe they want info and don't see it, or maybe they want to do something else entirely.

And sure, you can just give the app to the user and see what they do, without writing up goals in advance. That's the unscripted method that Mark Hurst popularized and I linked to. Here's an even longer article by him on the same method:

http://www.goodexperience.com/blog/2004/12/tips-on-moderatin...

But that's not appropriate for every situation. Unscripted stuff is great for getting the lay of the land and uncovering as many problems as you can, or finding out if they'd use your app at all even if you got rid of all the obstacles. Often times you already know about specific usability issues, however, or you want to make sure they cover all the bases in an app with a lot of moving pieces.
The problem I see with this is the profile of the developer. Color was a cutting edge startup. I assume developers who went there did so with the idea of tremendous upside on their stock options. Apple, while a fine company, is really at the other end of the spectrum right? So if I'm at Color haven't I made the decision to forgo the safety and security of a large company for the upside of a startup? I suppose a few, after what's happened, may have changed their mind. It does seem an odd fit though.
You damn chaos monkey ruining it for the rest of us.
I've said in other places and I'll say it again. One of the problems is that Microsoft also takes a lot of money for their dev tools. The express editions are limited with the things that can help your apps shine. AFAIK profiling is only available in VS 2012 Professional and up. $500 can be hard to justify for a moonlighting app dev. Heck I've even worked at companies where $500 for a dev tool was too much.

This is actually contrary to Apple where they give you every opportunity with their tools to make shiny apps and make their platform a joy to use.

And also I'm not saying that Microsoft should give away their tools for free. I just think that the cost is too prohibitive to individual developers who would like to make their apps "great" instead of "good enough". This could mean that the store would be full of "good enough" apps. And if it is only "good enough" why charge more?
It's odd because people think of semicolons as the end of a statement, not a delimiter between statements.
I don't think it's that they're "irreplaceable", in the sense that they could never be replaced.

It's more of a time-to-market thing. I've spent years working on distributed systems and sync algorithms, so when the time came to improve our setup to a Google Spanner-like system, it was fairly easy for me to make the changes. From that perspective, my ability to do that right now makes me pretty much irreplaceable at my company.

But I certainly am replaceable, in the sense that any other competent programmer who'd spent as much time as me could presumably be doing what I'm doing. It's just hard to find them. :)
Here's another set that goes up to 128px:
http://icondrawer.com/flag-icons.php

They're free, but require attribution unless you buy a 'royalty-free license.'
Stop giving some idiot script kiddie the attention he wants. It's probably not him anyway.
Same here. Windows 8 is a clear improvement over Windows 7 once you acclimate to the new interface (which you only need to spend a tiny fraction of your time using anyway).

I've noticed that a lot of the criticism comes from people who tried Windows 8 in a VM, where it's difficult to hit the corners, and people who dabbled with dual booting it or using it on secondary machines, without truly committing to learning the new interface.
Wrong. NOBODY should have the power to delete things from my hard drive without my permission.
aka operate illegally?
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I'm arguing that this isn't a merger or an acquisition.

The numbers don't add up for either a merger, a full-on acquisition, or an aqui-hire. It's simply too low to fend off the investors. This sounds, very strongly, more like Apple has decided to hire all of them, and is paying them the money either as a salary or as a signing bonus.
>I think NPR is seen as having a liberal slant. NPR has done some very in depth studies of this, counting liberal stories vs conservative, and determined that there was no bias.

The NYT does the same thing, occasioning much laughter and derision from the right. We can't decide if they're being dishonest or if their frame of reference is such that they really believe they're being evenhanded.

As a conservative, I'm convinced NPR is biased. I listen to it every day on the way to work, since it's still preferable to commercial radio (even donated a couple times), but there's no doubt in my mind whoever is calling the shots would love to see the president reelected.

It's not so much how the news gets covered but what gets covered. If this week's DNC talking point is Bain Capital, NPR is covering decades-old events at Bain. If it's "War on Women" then we get to hear from hoary old feminists spouting questionable statistics. If Romney raised more money than Obama this month we get stories on Citizen United, but when Obama raises more money we get stories on just how motivated his supporters are. Benghazi was a big news story until it became apparent the ambassador died in an actual planned attack instead of a mob pissed off about a movie. Then the story disappeared completely.

I don't have any problem with the way they cover stories, for the most part, though occasionally I wince at the way things are described. The big problem is the selection.
Hopefully 13.04 has a new color palette.
This might be differet for unsophisticated investors, but I've never seen an experienced technology investor invest in anything other than a C corp.

In any case, investors don't want losses to flow through to them. They want losses carried forward to reduce the company's tax liabilty in the future.
About $50k a year.
This is a misunderstanding of both why Google made Android and why they bought Motorola. They made Android so that Apple wouldn't have the ability to kingmake any rival search engine just by making it the iPhone default. They bought Motorola largely for patents. Neither would appear to add to the bottom line in the short term if successful, but without them you'd see a massive hit if Google's theory was correct.
Oh, wait. I'm sorry I was thinking about an even sillier premise:

"BORROWING" ELECTRONIC "BOOKS" and then "RETURNING" THEM, or else YOU PAY "LATE" FEES.

Someone actually mentioned that idea to me, when we were discussing how the free public library system was imploding in wake of pervasive digital media. I conceded that, yeah, it's kind of sad, but then I just shrugged and changed the subject.
I'm sorry, I certainly didn't mean to say you were actively asking for app developers to collude on price. Rather, that is the conclusion I drew following your arguments about app store issues. To be specific: (note some quotes are abbreviated, but I certainly do not intent to alter their meaning)

Your points about the app store being a race to the bottom

"There’s a tremendously negative pressure on prices … self-inflicted by developers..."

* "Microsoft set the minimum price… to give developers a clean slate on app economics"

I understand you when you say that higher quality apps are needed to get higher prices. What I am missing how higher quality apps in proportion to lower quality apps will happen. The proportion to lower value apps is that part that made me think price control (or curation, but to my knowledge the MS store won't be substantially different than Apple there.) I get the proportion part from your arguments that the app store is a race to the bottom, and has too many apps to make an impact.

I guess I disagree with your premise that the app store is broken, a race to the bottom, or that developers are having trouble making money there. All of the (anecdotal) evidence I've seen points to the opposite of that. I also don't see why the Win8 store would be any less hit driven than iOS, as I argued in the parent post.

I do agree with your articles position that higher quality apps are the key to higher prices, and I think your points about some of the scenarios win8 supports are very interesting. I'd love to read more about what I can do in Win8 versus iOS; that's just not the main point I got from your article (but may have been your intent :)
Particularly since they bought Motorola in large part to get access to its patent portfolio.
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Surely there's a Pacifica station near you. They're pretty far to the left of plain-wrap NPR. Are you really to the left of KPFA?
I realised the video wasn't aimed at me when there was a focus on the "who" and not just a list of specs
Firefox Marketplace Opens Doors with Aurora Release
Or win on 1st amendment grounds.
How to respond to YouTube's downtime? Decentralize the web
Thank you very much for this clarification.

I'm glad you're getting your feet wet.
If the government was serious about cutting budget deficits, it would immediately discontinue the purchase of textbooks, switch to ereaders (there's a company in Europe selling basic eInk readers for £8), make use of out-of-copyright reading material, abandon the practice of lecturers performing the exact same lecture term after term when a recording will do, partner with companies like Coursera to provide curriculums, move towards homework and exams that can be marked by a computer rather than by hand... And generally just run education in a way that reflects the technology we have at our disposal.
Depends on the investor, especially if it's an angel group vs. fund. lots of angels want to receive the initial benefit of losses.
I don't care how successful they are at the box office, I'm not going to model my career strategy after the contrived plots of romantic comedies.
Well that's because we accidentally took a publishing system designed for academia and turned it into the largest explosion of design and media in the history of mankind.

Anyway, use compass sass or less. Use frameworks.
California is taking the lead in this, yet again.. http://www.clrn.org/fdti/
Peer review of "Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph"
"Complying" means adding a paragraph to their terms of service, informing minnesotans of their obligation under minnesotan law... which exists as a consumer protection initiative
IANAL but it seems pretty clear to me that Coursera is exempted under 136A.653 subd 2 (https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=136A.653):

Subd. 2.Educational program; nonprofit organizations. Educational programs which are sponsored by a bona fide and nonprofit trade, labor, business, professional or fraternal organization, which programs are conducted solely for that organization's membership or for the members of the particular industries or professions served by that organization, and which are not available to the public on a fee basis, are exempted from the provisions of sections 136A.61 to 136A.71.
It's not a backwards law, it's a silly application of the law. The consumer protection angle is as valid today as it was decades ago, it's just irrelevant in the context of an entity that doesn't charge anything.
> If I were to spend years and years making the perfect toaster and I charge $1,000 for it (to pay for the engineering and design work), you're saying it's absurd NOT to buy it?

It's never absurd to choose not to buy anything. But your analogy gets in the way of what is absurd. We're not talking about charging $1000 dollars (the same price as a nice laptop, a middling DSLR, or a crappy used car) for a toaster.

We're talking about $20 (the same price as a delivered pizza, a middling steak, and less than two tickets for an hour and a half movie) for a polished piece of software.

What's absurd is asserting that that's too much to ask for the product of months of engineering and design work. You certainly don't have to buy it! It's totally ok if it's not worth $20 of your money, to you.

But asserting that the authors ought to value their work less than a pizza, that they're doing something wrong by asking a not-unreasonable pizza-money price for it, is entitled, race-to-the-bottom mentality crap.

Engineers are expensive, iOS engineers doubly so. This meme that their work is worth less than a candy bar, let alone a pizza, is a toxic devaluation of the worth of every engineer working in the software field

coda: They're currently both the #2 paid app and #2 top-grossing app in the App Store, so the demand is certainly there at $20. Devaluing their work by launching at less would have accomplished nothing but leaving money on the table.
"If someone enjoys sorting cork, or if they are just too afraid to make a transition to more interesting and fulfilling work"

That you think life is so simple really highlights your privilege.
It is not clear to me that it is illegal. If Coursera has no presence in Minnesota, there are a lot of things that Minnesota cannot require of Coursera. For instance Minnesota cannot require the withholding and payment of sales taxes.

Therefore I'm not at all sure that Minnesota has the right to enforce these regulations. They probably can require that Minnesota residents not do business with Coursera. They can definitely say that Coursera courses are not worth college credits in Minnesota. But I'm doubtful that they can legally require that Coursera assist them one bit in their attempts to enforce those rules.
Weirdest? Did you see any developers in that video? I think you're misunderstanding who this is targeted at.

Having said that they would make nice dev machines, it'll just take a bit of effort.
My family got Newsweek when I was growing up as well. I never did after I moved out, though, because I realized if I just read the content and skipped the ads I could read it cover to cover in about ten minutes.

And yeah, The Economist takes a lot longer to get through. But the advent of the web has been particularly hard on news magazines. I wonder how much longer even The Economist will be around.
Ubuntu 12.10 still doesn't recognise my external Dell monitor which works without hitch in OSX. That aside, upgrading seems to have gone smoothly.
I don't trust Yelp.
https://www.google.com/search?q=yelp+extortion&aq=0&...
There is a Google Drive client (just unofficial). And that is completely unrelated to Ubuntu and GNU/Linux. That is Google's fault for not caring about GNU/Linux.
This is 'backward' until you meet a bunch of doctors who claim to cure cancer using cucumber juice and find that they all have PhDs and MDs from the University of Tantric Study and Life Exploration, Middlesex Town Massahoma. People in trouble DO fall for this bs.
"Nobody actually needs 4G yet, we just like it in our fancy things."

Nobody who doesn't need 15 ms latency (low jitter [low latency stddev]) vs HSDPA 90 ms+ (huge jitter, latency up to 1000 ms+). LTE truly rocks and can deliver true low latency 100/10 Mbit/s wirelessly. I got 99.5 Mbps result with speedtest.net.
This is simply a case of an out-of-date reference blog post (that 2010 #newtwitter article). Quick observation of Twitter.com today will reveal that it's no longer using the public API (at least from the client). It's fetching the Tweets from the server pre-rendered (via http://twitter.com/i/timeline). So nothing to see there. Maybe taking a closer look at Twitter for iOS, which does receive promoted Tweets, would provide more information.
The downside is that you would have to put () (Rust's version of “nil”) in a bunch of functions to fulfil the requirements of the callback's signature since otherwise the type inferred from the function would be the value of the last expression

Wouldn't co/contra-variance solve this entirely? It works just fine in Scala for example

scala> def runTwice(f: () => Unit) = {
| f()
| f()
| }
runTwice: (f: () => Unit)Unit

scala> runTwice{ () =>
| println("moo")
| 1
| }
moo
moo

Note how it expects a function that returns Unit, i'm passing in a function that returns an Int (1), but the compiler is perfectly happy.
No they won't.

They'll just use the next most popular Twitter client for iOS, which is likely free or perhaps a buck or two.
Interesting. Have you read the book? Wondering if I could use something out of this for clients who fear the change (be it UI, UX, process)
I can take credit for winning my city's marathon, but only investigations will reveal the facts.
Can installing Gnome Desktop break something in Unity?