skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quote The Princess Bride: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

You say that both me and the guy from Prismatic are trying to "justify" his actions, but that's completely false. Nowhere did I say that doing something like that was acceptable behavior, nor did he. I agree that impersonating a user and posting to their social media accounts without their approval is unethical and immoral.

However, he said that it was an accident, a bug - that the intended behavior was not this unethical and immoral action, but something else entirely. You proceeded to accuse him of justifying it and being "in a state of delusion, blinded to ethics and respect".

And now you said that same thing to me, more or less.

If anyone here has questionable ethics, it's you. You COMPLTELY MADE UP these actions of other people, MALICIOUSLY, and used it to libel them.
Well I guess here it is really about tastes because I think the bug tracking system is one of the best features of the site.

The feeling you have of them not moving in the right direction probably is about their development model where internally people think at improvements and submit a pull request or something alike, but I guess they also have some long term projects that try to pursue as a whole.

But well the real point here is that we are talking about different things. I mean, you may not be happy with what they accomplish and I may be happy instead, but the company is in general focused into evolving their product while not annoying users.
Apple has never been about the hardcore. They've always made as appliance-like products as they can for the everyman.
Everpad 2.3 brings Evernote access to Linux users
Because it is better to have the link open where the user specifies. This is why browsers should control where links open.
Web Programming in Haskell
I took the course and I found it very useful even though I had done good amount of work with databases before.

The sections on relational algebra and relational models are really good. The course covers the basics of db - sql, constraints, views, triggers and authorization very well. I particularly liked the coverage on transactions, an area that most web programmers will benefit from.

With respect to xml, I found the level of detail to be quite good again but I don't really use much of xquery or xslt these days.

While the course does cover Olap and nosql, it is quite light compared to the relational and xml units of the course.

I see that they have added a new section on json in the new version of the course. Some of the questions in the homework and exams are slightly tricky but nothing too hard.

I didn't really get to see the office hours videos, so can't comment on that. Overall, I think it is an excellent introductory db course. Just make sure you don't fall back on the schedule as some of the material can be quite heavy.
Well, there is a very real problem with putting cell towers on the ground. T-Mobile has that, as well as spectrum, to offer a potential buyer. And those two things are extraordinarily difficult to build out yourself.
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The big questionmark I see with Apple is: They artificially reduce the usefulness of their products. Can this strategy work out in the long run?

They market themselfes as uber-user-friendly. But thats not the feeling I get from their devices. I often feel frustrated by my ipad. Examples:

* I was on holiday in a hotel. Before leaving in the morning I looked up the road map of the local subway stations. They had a nice PDF so I wanted to save it. I didnt find a menu entry for that. I thought "Whats going on here? Where do you hide something as simple as the save command, Apple? I dont have time for searching!". In a hurry, I went to the internet for help and Googled "ipad save pdf". Answer: You cannot do it. What the fuck? You sell me a computer and then you dont allow me to save files on it? A real pain for no reason. I grabbed my android phone from my pocket, saved the PDF and was ready to go.

* Some days ago. I went out for lunch with a friend and wanted to show her a couple of photos I recently made. So I plugged my ipad into my notebook with the usb cable to copy the photos over. When I dragged the photos onto the ipad i got "action not supported". What? I got a strange feeling... googled "copy photos to ipad". And again... not possible. Is this a joke? Ok, so started a webserver on my notebook and then copied one by one in Safari.

Yes, I probably could achieve those actions with additional software. Itunes on my other machines and some apps on my ipad. But I dont want to. I dont feel comfortable with that. I have certain expectations about the basic functions of a computer. I have enough other tablets, phones and notebooks laying around.

* Development. Last year I hired a programmer to write a special tablet software for me. When we planned to go ios or android, from what I understood with ios you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get the software on your tablet. While on android you can just get an apk file and run it. So it was a no brainer to go with android. And it worked like a charm.

I heard similar stories from people who wanted to copy mp3s over to their ios devices. And from people who wanted to use their iphones for tethering. I told them "Well, on my android, theres a button for that. It must be on your iphone somewhere too". Just to find out, that even the iphone hardware would support it, there is no software for it built in.

Can that work? Artificially reducing the usefulness of your own product? Even though the competition is offering fully functional products?

Are there any historical examples?
A vector is a 1d container in which each element is the same type. It's like a numpy array in python. Matrices are essentially numerical vectors with a dimension attribute. They are for numerical calculations, in particular matrix calculations. The only similarity between Data frames and matrices is that they're 2D. Think of a data frame as a spreadsheet: one column can contain dates, another floating point numbers, another a categorical variable (factor). A list is a 1d container in which each element can be pretty much anything. Suppose you had a list in which each element was itself a vector, and all those vectors have the same length. That's what a data frame is.
I would agree with you if it wasn't for the data.table package in R. It is a game changer. Really.
Can you point me to where on their blog they mention they're using native font rendering?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/12976496 shows me that they aren't using native font rendering.
I use Spotify frequently, but I just use the free service, the ads don't bug me too much.
I'd be more than happy to listen to audiobooks with an advertisement or two between chapters/sections.
As for paying... not so much.
Not if you count all the executives. I think the GP has a point.
On HN and in San Fransisco bay, I'm sure. The rest of the world is choosing Android, as seen in all sales-figures reported this year.

Needless to say, "the rest of the world" is much bigger than San Francisco. Apple has already peaked.
Even if the GP forgot that... CEO compensation < executive compensation.
and bash supports vi mode.

$ set -o vi

I use it always.
FWIW, my mom died on her birthday, and my sister died on her birthday.

I'm still alive, and I plan to outlive my birthday quite a few more times, thank you.
This looks a lot cleaner than Nevernote/Nixnote, thanks for sharing!
> To all of those complaining about the new Apple devices, this is what you should do. You should vote with your wallet.

But then how will people know I have Taste?
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McAffee, trial, 30 days

Haha I see what you did there :)
Indeed, London and surroundings are abnormally expensive to live in. This was one of the reasons for me to forego working there when I had the chance, even though I would gave gotten a slightly more interesting job and higher pay. So I stayed in the Netherlands, where living is still somewhat affordable.

I also wonder about the high difference in pay comparing SF to anywhere else. It's interesting how much geography still pays a big role in a supposedly 'flat' interconnected world, especially in job types that could easily be done remotely. I guess the 'flat' world is a myth up there with other modern myths such as 'meritocracy' :-)

I always imagined the future as moving somewhere where land is cheap, buy a house with plot of land, and then work remotely. No commuting, no busy office crap. But it's still very hard to do, even programmer jobs seem to all (well, mostly) require sitting your ass on a chair at a specific place. Usually in a city where it's expensive to live.
Number of people who own TVs, cars, refrigerators, air conditioning, dishwashers, microwaves, ovens, appliances, entertainment devices, mobile phones, copy machines, personal computers, laundry machines, among the plethora of several other consumable goods have gone up substantially. Try buying a personal computer in 1970, and see how much it'll cost you. Each device I've mentioned have also substantially improved.
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I don’t agree with the point on convergence. It seems clear to me that Apple is not turning OS X into iOS. It’s still very much a WIMP interface best suited for keyboard and mouse. Windows 8 is a good example of PC/tablet convergence, and however much you like or dislike that approach, it’s the opposite of what Apple is doing.

On some other points I do agree, like the gluing down and lack of expandability/repairability.
Agreed. The Maps fiasco is a great illustration of how Apple have an institutional blind spot around the complexity of doing online, data-driven services right - and won't invest (despite $120bn in the bank) properly to deliver these. This is the single biggest thing that relegates them to "just a consumer electronics" firm - and as we know, CE firms are lucky to have 10 years on top.

The other interesting data point is the bidding for the new TLDs in summer 2012 (http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/rss/1136468/Amazon-G...). Amazon and Google bidded on 150+ new TLDs between them. Apple? With $120bn in the bank, they applied for... .apple. Even Microsoft understood the potential importance of this more than Apple (they applied for 5 or so - .live, .docs, .bing etc).
The mistake I've seen a few companies make is hiring in the wrong kind of experience (and I'm gonna use that word instead of "old" since I don't think the "old" bit is actually the issue).

For example - say you want to "build a worldwide sales channel". Go find somebody who's running a worldwide sales channel and poach 'em... right?

Nope. Coz running a successful worldwide sales channel is a very different process from building a worldwide sales channel. There are folk who are very good at the former who are lousy at the latter.

The mistake I've seen multiple times is folk going out to hire the people who work at the companies they want to be like, rather than going out and hiring the folk who were there while those companies were growing. That growing bit is darn hard. Find folk who've done it before.
Have you taken a look on Jobserve lately? Contract rates in London of 500gbp per day are easily achievable with your skill set. You have to be good though...

Here's an email I received just a couple of days ago from a recruiter:

"Are you interested in the following contract or perm position..?

Key Tech: C++, STL, Boost, NAG, Real-time, Multi-threading, Parallel-processing, GPU (GPGPU / CUDA / OpenCL), Grid Computing, Agile, TDD.

Leading financial software house requires a number of talented C++ developers to work on high performance grid computing solutions for a tier 1 Investment Banking client based in London.

The successful candidate would be working with cutting edge hardware and state of the art software tools, delivering real-time pricing & risk applications, on-site in a Front Office environment.

Essential Skills:
Proven ability to develop and maintain large C++ libraries using STL
Strong core computer science knowledge; data structures, numerical algorithms
Experience of high performance development; optimisation, threading, profiling
Passion for technology, innovation and delivering outstanding software.

Desirable:
Use of Boost & NAG libraries
GPU programming, particularly GPGPU / CUDA / OpenCL
Java and C# / .NET experience
Compiler theory / cross-compilers / code generation
Work experience in the finance industry, particularly front office

* Finance experience NOT essential, developers from a Gaming, Telecomms, Medical or Areospace type background welcome to apply *

Location: London
Rate: £500-£650/day
Duration: 12 month contract (depending on experience)

Apply with your latest CV or call for further info...

Or if you're not looking, feel free to forward this mail to a friend.

Regards,

Jamie Burgess

IT Division
Huxley Associates
0207 469 5050
j.burgess@huxley.com
"
There's no reason you can't change the subject - you just need a segue so we (or maybe just I) know what's going on. ;)
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Something something about shaving...
Were there any rumors/news/anything today that triggered the movement?

I guess China Mobila signing a deal with Nokia for its Lumia Windows-phone 8 for it's 700 million subscribers, wont mark any improvements for Apple's already declining global market-share among smartphones.

Soon Apple's iPhone and iOS will be a sub 10% market-share actor, and then people are going to ask themselves if they are going to bother to develop for the platform at all.

Seeing as Apple currently lives on two products only, the iPhone and the iPad, both dependent on each other for its success, being in the position where one of those two products turns into a failure speaks badly about its future.
It would be interesting to have access to this by telnetting (or sshing) to duckduckgo.com.
Sprucing up Silicon Roundabout
>if they made $140 million and had to pay out $27 million.

They made $140 million in revenue, not profit. With the kind of margins they run, they almost certainly didn't make $27 million in profit. Plus, there are the losses from their legal costs, which probably runs into the millions as well.

That said, it's unclear to me if Best Buy is now allowed to continue with using the model, in which case they can probably recoup any losses.
And that is one of the reasons why I don't care about GPS in my cameras

Camera phones are a different story, but the GPS in my is so bad it is more likely to not get a location (except outdoors, oops)
This was what I was hoping for rather than an ascii terminal style search. Does DDG have an API?
Interesting library, however I can see a lot of js and svg parsing errors in IE9 console. Some examples from http://tenxer.github.com/xcharts/examples/ don't show on IE9 at all.
Loved your post. Very articulate and nicely written.
I've been amidst the academia -> industrial fun transition myself this past year, absolutely best decision i've made in the past half decade.

One point you only lightly touched on, but which I think is worth restating is this: in academia theres this frustrating sense of "if you're not narrow, you can't be deep", whereas I see a lot of the more sophisticated bits of industry really valuing folks who strive for broad depth.

Would you agree with that assessment?

(admission: i'm presently having a go at building some tech products/tools that tie into a whole range of my researchy interests)
Could you link me to an article about how MS can push an update when updates are turned off?
I've always thought that people in very expensive cities would generally earn much more so that after substracting the cost of living you would end up with more or less the same.

I live in an economically weak city in the western region of Germany and make around $55k (pre-tax) as an average programmer in a small company in my third year after graduation. However, since the region has had a population decline for many years, the housing market is quite cheap and I can live alone in a comfortable 62 m² (670 square foot) apartment for around $500 a month.

Even though I earn just around average, I'm currently not very interested in moving to an economically strong region because my feeling is that the cost of living would probably just eat up whatever I would earn more.
SwiftKey Flow beta now open
you can use lynx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
For someone looking for a direct link to the interview: http://www.newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2012/12/05/rich...
I just checked Rickshaw, their main page throws a lot of js errors in Google Chrome 24 in the console, making the examples unusable. Can anyone recommmend a more stable, D3-based charting library ?
Brazilian prison gang holds 10-hour conference call
While I see the point (and some TLD do have A records), I've never had issues setting cookies from two letter second level domains. At least with modem browsers that doesn't seem to be an issue.
PDFs are easily saved by selecting "open in iBooks". Or, you can bookmark a PDF by URL.
For saving PDFs, you can save all of them to iBooks and it will be under a PDF category there.

For saving pictures, any image retrieval app works. For macs, Image Capture is standard and it will take images off any phone. The iPhone/iPad is recognized as a digital camera when plugged into a computer.
When you are using the https:// page Chrome blocks the API calls, because it throws AJAX requests against the http:// API.
Crowdfunder Indiegogo Rolls Out New National Sites and Currencies
Works fine for me.

$ google
[:21] Google
google definition: to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/google

-- Type 'm' for more results and 'r' for related topics.
$ :google
[:22] "Google" - a global search engine
Searches web pages, images, PDF, MS Office and other file types in all the major languages, and includes advanced search features, news, maps and other services.
https://encrypted.google.com/
[:23] Google
Google.ca offered in: français. Advertising ProgramsBusiness Solutions+GoogleAbout GoogleGoogle.com.
https://encrypted.google.com/
[:24] Google.org
The philanthropic arm of the company. Lists its activities.
http://www.google.org/
[:25] Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
[:26] Google
Google has expanded into many areas beyond simple web searches, including mapping and directions (Google Maps), video (YouTube), and photos (Picasa).
http://mashable.com/category/google/
[:27] Google News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
http://news.google.com/
[:28] iGoogle - Google
iGoogle is your personalized Google page. Add news, photos, weather, and stuff from across the web to your page.
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

-- Type 'm' for more results.
They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again.
...if you give something for free and don't set limits, people will find ways to abuse it ...and then you'll have limits for everyone ...I ask all web developers out there to not use Github pages for clients' websites, it's not like you don't have room in the budget for almost-free webhosting for static websites, it's probably something like 0.(...)1% of website maintenance and dev costs and there already are free blog hosting services. use github for your website/blog, you family's, your pet's, but not for your clients', please...
Time to hit the economics text books if you think a monopoly === exclusive right to sell something granted by the government.

Free markets have monopolies.
Manufacturers will come up with adaptors or compatible drives, shouldn't take long
London house prices are crazy expensive. My current flat costs me 2,000 GBP (~3,200 USD) pcm, and it's not event central London!

There does seem to be a propensity for "bums on seats" management style, and although I agree with the value of face-to-face communication there must be some middle ground which is beneficial for everyone. I guess it's hard to pay for an employee that you never see (even if you do see their work).
I dont see "open in iBooks". I have an ipad2. Does it have this?
They can make a capable and well specced Nexus 4 for $349, but they're not making any money off of it, which doesn't make it economically sustainable in the long term. It's the same thing with the Nexus tablets. They're selling them so cheap so they can gain marketshare. If it picks up and starts selling like hotcakes, they'll have to take it off the market before every Android manufacturer starts looking for other platforms because there would be no reason for them to sell phones at a loss.

Source: http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/1666557/google_said_to_be...
Something has been lost in the evolution from home pages to Facebook and Twitter. The creation part of the equation has been reduced down to nothing more than choosing a picture to stick in a predefined slot.

I miss when people I know used LiveJournal. LJ encouraged people to write, long form. Then came MySpace and the birth of the status update, which was on even ground with the blog feature. Then Facebook banished blogging to the "Notes" area that nobody ever read, while elevating the status update to the central communication channel. Then, of course, Twitter boiled it down to nothing but status updates.

I miss when more average Internet users made home pages. I miss when more of them blogged, and participated in communities that revolved around the blog format rather than status updates.
This. Here's a story of two Canadian writers who were forced to spend thousands on defending themselves for engaging in politically incorrect Badthink:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_against...
Someone are also speculating this to come from China Mobila signing a deal with Nokia for its Lumia Windows-phone 8 for it's 700 million subscribers, potentially lowering the iPhone's market-share among smart-phones to well below 10%.

It seems pretty clear the iPhone has peaked, and that leaves Apple the iPad its only remaining mega-profitable venture. A venture increasingly facing competition from much cheaper Android-devices, which people are now buying.

Apple needs to get back into the innovating business as opposed to the lawsuit-business and quick. This minor drop is just a warning about that.
>but the fact that you can do less and less with your computing devices

Actually you can do a hell of a lot more today.

Could you do HD video, real time 3D graphics, music, use thousands of modern APIs and languages with performance of several Gazillion flops in multiple cores, connect to everywhere on the planet, etc, with an Apple II, or a Mid-nineties IIci?

Besides the 1000x more powerful graphics and soundcard, you also have 100x more powerful programs, pervasive networking, tons of peripherals, from cheap printers to linux based robots and a FULL BLOWN UNIX underneath.