skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is the reason. I think the main reason was that many of those companies were invested in their own platforms, so most likely every new technology or project would be evaluated in terms of "how does it fit with our existing platform strategy".

Even Nokia kept their Maemo tablets as a hobby project even though they were taken by surprise at their popularity.
being asked for money is not really threatening

It can be, if it's someone who won't take no for an answer. I've been approached in public by mentally unstable or drugged men sometimes (certain neighborhoods here). They can be persistent. If they choose your table to sit at, they won't want to leave. In a country that took better care of its poor, they might get treatment, but that's another issue. It's unpleasant in any case.
You're being unnecessarily hostile. Obviously our experiences have been different having used the same tools on different projects. I find plenty of problems with both IDEs, but for me Xcode has been the more painful because of bugs.
Skyrim developer teases new downloadable content
Good use for the Http-Accept header?
This is very interesting. Though I think everything is defunct because of the presentation of the whole thing. If he made the slightest change, i.e was holding a microphone, people would not only stop what they were doing and allow themselves to be recorded, but they'd let him ask them questions. I think there's enough evidence of this in other YouTube videos where one person calls a random person, puts on their best over zealous voice, tells them they're from a radio station and asks them embarrassing questions that the call-ey couldn't be happier to answer. As outlined in many books it's just a very basic principle of social engineering. People want to give their information out, it's just a matter of asking for it politely. If he had gone into one of those classes and asked to sit in and record it for 2 minutes, even without a purpose, I'm sure they would have been much more open to the idea. A surveillance camera is on the opposite side but the same in many ways, it's not asking anything from you and it's far enough away that people don't feel threatened by it. There is fault in both the creepy camera mans and the people he's recording's logic. The cameraman thinks that they have a problem being filmed at all, and the people think that they're less safe because they can see that they're being filmed. You can bring to their attention the fact that they're being filmed every day all you want but that doesn't change anything because it's so out of site and out of mind that they don't (and won't) see it as a threat.
Silk Road has implemented this because it is a market between sellers and buyers. BitcoinStore is a company selling stuff, having escrow would have no point at all.
Sounds like you're after Autodesk's Revit:
http://www.autodesk.co.uk/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=45293...
Game developers, start your Unity 3D engines (interview)
Yes, Tamejs and CPC indeed do exactly what I had in mind. CPC is particularly amazing for doing this to C.

Considering NCD: you might have noticed that NCD was never meant to be a general-purpose language, but rather a simple scripting language for controlling other programs and OS configuration. My thinking was that extending a language with the features that define NCD (asynchronous execution, backtracking and extended statement lifetime) would essentially require a complete rewrite of a language implementation. However after seeing tamejs and your CPC I'm not so sure anymore :)

P.S. Check out the Read File example I just added to the NCD demo page; it shows how backtracking can be used to handle errors elegantly.
It's a completely normal thing there

No, it really isn't, and I'm not sure what motive there is to claim otherwise, especially as you clearly don't live here. It's been in trial/used in a few boroughs of larger towns, though in fact there have been a number of boroughs that have removed them after complaints (Richmond which is a London borough removed theirs in 2011, with the councilors themselves disliking them).

I've lived in London and a couple more large towns/cities over the last 4 years and have never seen one or heard of one being used in a local area.
That might be true, but it doesn't mean there won't ever be...
Um dude there's police "CCTV vans" everywhere.
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Sticking to a philosophy like a zealot makes it a religion. Keeping it as a philosophy means it encourages a certain approach, not that it makes it an absolute unbreakable rule, plus it would only results in bikeshed/flamewar arguments.

as PEP20 says:

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
There is an interesting report that says marketing generates 65% of the leads of B2B companies and inside sales makes up the rest.

The book Predictable Revenue talks about this as well and makes a strong case for building an outbound lead gen process in order to achieve, hence the name, predictable growth.
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Reintroducing Extension SDKs for Visual C++
Have you ever spent time in a security station with decent cameras? I can only imagine what they are like now, but in the late 90s, after we put up our new headquarters, that included a NOC (and therefor a 24x7 security station), we had the bubble cameras with really, really amazing zoom. The security team, having absolutely nothing to do (this was sunnyvale on Mathilda Avenue, not really a hot bed of things to be worried about) - spent all of their time using the camera to intrude on people's privacy, in a very intimate manner. They zoomed on apartments, they zoomed on cars, they zoomed on hotel windows. They were able to count the change at the fast food restaurant across the road. And this happened all without people ever being aware.

The difference with the cameraman, is he is letting people know what he is doing - there is no deception. That's the entire point, people are under _incredible_ amounts of surveillance, without their permission. Sometimes very intimate moments are being captured.

So - while it feels extraordinarily intrusive to deal with this guy, if it gets a conversation going around what's being captured, and recorded, without your knowledge - then I think some good can come of it.
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Looking for new boards and hardware so the list can be updated.
Apple hides Samsung apology on its UK site so it can’t be seen without scrolling
My opinion is that this guy is very illustrative of how screwed we are with regard to privacy, yet I'm having trouble deciding which side to be on, since I can't have it both ways.

If we could, for arguments sake, ignore the issue of different states having different laws on the audio aspect of recording. I believe the audio law I am referring to was designed to protect the public from being secretly recorded on the telephone. Unfortunately, it has been misappropriated with regards to changes in technology.

It is my understanding that you have the right to photograph/video ( again, gloss over audio issues for a moment ) anything you desire as long as you are on public property. You can even peer into private areas while being located on public property. This all comes down to what is referred to as a "reasonable expectation of privacy". Someone has already linked to explanations if these laws.

It's the very premise that allows the paparazzi to exist and be profitable at what they do. That and despite what the famous may say, it's a relationship that need exist or they would not be famous. If you are sitting inside an all glass Apple store and someone films you from outside, you had no expectation of privacy before you walked in, every passerby is seeing you with their own eyes just not recording it permanently.

I'm actually in support of this. I believe it's part of freedom of speech to be able to record or photograph things while in public.

Yet oddly, I'm very much against the rise in CCTV in every store I go into. I think perhaps this comes down to one key word for me. "Surveillance". I don't like automated surveillance becoming more and more commonplace. But a photographer or videographer is not performing such an act.

There's also part of me that feels all law enforcement should be recording everything all the time. For their protection as well as the publics.

I think the guy brings up some interesting points, as before thinking about this I was pro public ability to record, even into private spaces, asking as from a public location. But a CCTV is doing the same in many cases. I think most of you understand the internal debate in having with myself.

I think one interesting point is how the majority of people got immediately angry. Some felt they had a right to privacy while in public, for which they are wrong. And others, I believe mostly "security" took it as far as assault and either touched, shoved, or pushed the guy with a few hitting his camera.

He may be more effective if just before he left, he handed them a small flyer that brings to their attention all these issues. It's nice to see people have an opinion about something, and they very clearly have strong and loud opinions as these videos show. But they are very quiet as another 100 cameras are installed in their local pumpkin patch.
Depends on what you are planning to do with it. You need to have identified if you want to use the mobile to pay for buses etc.
Here is more on the N-1 and the explosion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)#Launch_history
Amazon Game Studios releases its first mobile game..
All I see is martian footsteps in front of it.
I like it when someone lists alternatives to the current "marketing leader".

I also like the energy of foundation for asserting itself, especially if other users follow on to confirm foundation's quality! It's good for end users and it gets the best product into the spotlight!
Correct, the secret ballot is inane. Even as a native-born American, I do not understand the love for secret ballots and democracy, in general.

Would you accept secret voting in the House?

Choose self-determination over democracy.
You’re nothing more than a mass of habits
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Apple's poisonous touch silently kills the GNOMEs of the Linux forest
Ask HN: What makes the perfect office? I'm building one. 
I run a web development agency with 18 people. The building we're looking at moving to will need extensive refurbishment, so we have a chance to spec out our office 'wish list' and then build that!

So: If you could completely design your office space (aesthetics, layout, furniture, lighting, flooring), how would you want it to be?

(We're a Rails agency, working in scrum teams of 2 or 4, doing some pairing but not full-time, based in London).
Tiny Core Linux 4.7 overhauls the OnDemand system
I do wonder sometimes if google's own site would pass its site quality guidelines. Like duplicated content; the same content appearing on multiple pages, all pages should be linked from somewhere on the site or a site map, substantial original content.

I think it fails on all three of these, so in some sense it is anti-competitive to block other sites that fail these measures whilst it doesn't hold itself up to those same standards.
I see one nearly every day in Lambeth in London. It's a Smart Car with "Parking Enforcement" written and a pole with a camera mounted on it attached to the top.
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It is not Mac v/s PC all over again because android can also be shipped without google. Windows cannot be shipped without Microsoft. It is also not mac v/s PC because a rival had a considerable share of revenue stream of android. (Much like if linux had a revenue portion of windows) And android's owner has different plans for earning money off of android. Mostly by search traffic and store sales and negligible for licensing.
"I would like to suggest that high-resolution stylus input, equal to or better than what you can do with a pen-to-paper in terms of resolution and responsiveness, will launch the next round of advances."

What would be the point? Using touch is faster and more direct for operating a UI. As for text input, I can type a lot faster on the iPad's onscreen keyboard than I can write with pen and paper.

Granted, I rarely write anymore, mostly signatures. But I also don't print documents and I don't keep a paper archive. I think those are all going the way of the dodo.
Yeah, I realise that I'm being pedantic. I also catch myself saying it every now and then and my face looks like this D:
He is not doing anything illegal. However a few of his "victims" assaulted him, he could totally press charges for battery, and then sue them in civil court as well.
Could you please tell us which EU country is that? Or at least tell me if it is the UK or the Netherlands? We have some servers in those countries and the last thing we want is them to be searched (they store extremely personal information about our users).
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Sounds a lot like a TV show ("Person of Interest"). While the show is fiction, I think we need to consider that some day the technology might be feasible even on a small scale. Read Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother".
> There's a simple fix for this though, don't click on the posts.

There's a slight problem wrt this though, you can't really judge an article by its title.
What Will Happen To iOS As A Result Of Jony Ive Taking Over Interface Design..
I had a professor show me just this kind of algorithm almost 10 years ago, I have since seen other demonstrations of it as well. To find and follow a face is not hard, heck I can unlock my cell phone with my face.

Also claiming this is Anti-Social is the whole point, individuals can be called Anti Social because its easier for people to fight (be anti) them and make them conform. Governments and large corporations, on the other hand, are harder to fight and thus Society justifies allowing their behavior until enough people group to together to force a change.

This video is a metaphorical call to arms in that sense.
The difference this time is that there are very workable ways in which developers can target both platforms i.e. web/HTML5, and some other frameworks. Plus there's usually more paying customers in the iOS world so going "Native Android first" is not the obvious strategy that "Native Windows first" was.
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You can talk about those differences, and of course it's not a 100% analogy, but I think his main point was about the market share and the ecosystem. If Android ends up with 3 billion users in 2015, and iOS only 1 billion, as predicted (also with the whole of Windows at 1.5 billion users, from 1.3 bn now), I expect most developers will be wanting to develop for Android first by then, and it should be their #1 source for income, too, simply through sheer numbers of users.
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He needs to do the same experiment, but instead of putting it in their face, attach the camera to the wall and point it at them and walk off. see if they accept the filming then
IBM lacked foresight only in retrospect and we can laugh and point fingers only because we know the outcome. In any given year the company of that size probably has access to a hundred various technologies that have not been market-tested. No company has a record of picking winners and losers perfectly, most companies need to concentrate, and hence the whole market for mergers & acquisitions exists.

IBM actually rode the PC market quite nicely and exited it via sale to Lenovo quite timely as well.
I'm just reflecting on the fact that when I get together with a group of people, and we start sketching out an idea, none of us would ever consider using our iPads (and all of us have them) to do it - iPads are crappy for that sort of quick, on the fly diagraming. We always end up with napkins, notebooks, and pens. If we're in the office, we always go to a whiteboard. Nobody ever uses computers/tablets to sketch out a concept - too slow, too low resolution.

A good high resolution, highly responsive tablet/drawing interface would be a revolution.
the original post (with photos) is here - http://updates.jalopnik.com/post/34669789863/more-than-a-doz...

why on earth can't the nyt link to posts?
YUCK! ...this is one of those things that works great for a group of people bu completely sucks for another group: for me having "a blank piece of paper" in front of me is the most motivating thing ever (I always have a zillion things in my head or on my lists that I want to work on, so the only problem is ordering them and trying to do as much as I can with my limited time, physical energy and for some tasks money). Sometimes I even literally take a blank piece of paper and stare at it while meditating because it's exactly what puts me in the mood to start working on things. and I literally LOVE an almost empty desk or a completely empty desktop with no programs open.

...but I know there are the opposite kind o people, like fellow programmers that love debugging but are just "stuck" if they have to start from scratch (I'm the opposite, I hate debugging and working on projects started by other people, but I'm incredibly productive at starting from a blank whiteboard or imagining things from nothing)
Don't forget little FirefoxOS, our Linux in the making. Let's hope this time it's sexy and mainstream from the start. That'd be an interesting scenario.
You are making a wrong assumption here. It's no problem that you can identify that someone has voted twice. It would be a problem if that person could prove that he voted for a certain person.

Have a look at the papers of
http://www.infsecmaster.ethz.ch/people/maurer

He also has a very good lecture on information hiding/binding principles where these principles are explained.
You're saying Chrome uses 4 times more memory than FF. I call bullshit.
The Engadget piece seems to argue that Amazon and Google are engaging in predatory pricing when it really boils down to the fact that Apple and Google are trying to fight the iPad's market incumbency.

Let's look back a decade for a moment. i.e. The iPod.

Apple made the iPod good. Then they made the iPod cheap. Nobody could compete. Could companies like Diamond or iRiver have made better devices if they didn't have to compete with cheap iPod's? Almost certainly. Once Apple diversified the iPod line into the extremophile niches other mp3 player manufacturers were clinging to it was game over. Complete and utter dominance. Now almost nobody buys iPod's because everybody's phone can do the same job.

Apple knew that the key to maintaining dominance was to drive down prices faster than the competition without compromising quality. By offering premium devices at prices that are just barely above that of inferior devices Apple made the iPod a no-brainer purchase for consumers. They did this so well that it was only Apple themselves who finally obsoleted the iPod with the iPhone. They've tried to do the same thing with the tablet and have arguably built up some degree of incumbency with the iPad. Low-margin pricing on the Nexus 7 and Kindle's can be seen as attempts by Google and Amazon to fight Apple's tablet incumbency before they're locked out of the market completely.

Let's face it, if Amazon or Google tried to sell their tablets at the same price as Apple's offerings they'd never catch up. Even if they were of exactly equal quality, Apple's is the proven product because it's been around longer. If Google and Amazon made poorer quality tablets and sold them cheap, but with decent profit margins, they'd wind up like Diamond and iRiver. Only their ability to sell at low-margin and profit from ads/media sales gives Google and Amazon the edge they need to compete with Apple and have any hope of catching up.

The end result of this is a three-way battle for tablet superiority where there would have only been one choice: the iPad. Oh, and now Microsoft is throwing their hat into the ring too... Quite frankly, I think the next few years are going to be very kind to tablet-fans, and that's partly in thanks to "predatory" pricing.
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There's this thing called a GPU. Heard of it? You cannot do a driver for hardware you don't own. There are hundreds of GPUs. Guess what? If it doesn't work for all systems, everything is a waste of time. Guess what? variations in GPU features cause misery as you must cluster-fuck your code to work here and there.

God said 640x480

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My transcripts are on my site, but you know that.

God says...
C:\Text\SWIFT.TXT

his hand in a posture to show
that I must be carried as a prisoner. However, he made other signs
to let me understand that I should have meat and drink enough, and
very good treatment. Whereupon I once more thought of attempting
to break my bonds; but again, when I felt the smart of their arrows
upon my face and hands, which were all in blisters, and many of the
darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise that the
number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that
they m

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We went-over the devfintion of a vector space and all that in about 4 classes. I can almost name the ten things that make a vector space.

scaler field

addative and multiplicative identity and inverse

there's one about linearity.

"superposition" rings a bell

I've done shit-loads of transformation. laplace fourier Z .. bilinear .

Got an A in complex analysis.

I have a lifetime invested in computers and 2 years in E.E. plus a fair amount of job experience.

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God says...

C:\Text\HUCKFINN.TXT

er think about myself.
This was including Miss Watson, as I took it. I went out in the woods
and turned it over in my mind a long time, but I couldn't see no
advantage about it--except for the other people; so at last I reckoned I
wouldn't worry about it any more, but just let it go. Sometimes the
widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a
body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and
knock it all down again. I judged I could see that there
Yeah, I think the point could have been made without the jerkiness, though the jerkiness does make the expression of the point somewhat "unique". Three ways to get a better response: wear a sign that says 'security camera', have a display showing the surrounding circle of your GPS location on google street view, and give answers to "what are you doing?".
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the
snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the
hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the
ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would
exit. We had to walk uphill...
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Many photographers also sued the city/state for being arrested for photography, and won significant amounts of money.

http://www.pixiq.com/article/californian-journalist-wins-162...

http://www.pixiq.com/article/ny-photographer-wins-30000-in-w...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10...
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> That said, I'd happily pay £500 to not have to use Eclipse, but each to their own.

You must have gotten a lot of pocket money when you were 14, then.
It's widely deployed these days, throughout the country not just in London.

I'm not really sure what they're supposed to do. You don't see them working late Friday / Saturday nights (the revellers just get a bit too rowdy around the delicate camera i suppose).

I should probably do a FOIA request and see what they achieve in my area.