skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UPDATE: A Microsoft spokesperson has responded to Google saying that:

"Internet Explorer in Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 use the same rendering engine."

It appears that http://maps.google.com worked fine on Windows Phone until Google started blocking it. In fact it is still working on the Lumia 920 if I go to http://maps.google.co.uk as it looks like they forgot to redirect that one. Are there differences between how it works on Windows Phone and on webkit based mobile browsers? To say that "Since Internet Explorer is not a WebKit browser, Windows Phone devices are not able to access Google Maps for the mobile web" is simply not true. Internet Explorer on the desktop is not a WebKit browser and it works fine with Google maps.

It seems as though the reason that Windows Phone can't access Google Maps is that Google decided (for reasons they would need to explain) to start blocking Windows Phone users.
I want to learn a lisp variant. I'm okay in several scripting languages--Python, Ruby, PHP.

Any obvious choice? (If not, I imagine I'd like to learn the most widely-used)
FWIW, I really enjoyed the article, and appreciated the example dataset -- usually this literature is quite dry. Do you know if there is any monoid documentation that enumerates the various properties as something like C# interfaces and then explains what the derived types are? I think that would help me and a lot of other people who don't know as much abstract algebra or find it hard to connect with their day to day work.
> I'm all for innovation, but don't pretend that this is
> some altruistic plan by Google and Apple to move the web
> forward. It's about the same thing it was for Microsoft,
> keeping users tied to THEIR browser.

If Google cared about keeping users tied to Chrome, I suspect they would do more to discourage use of their greatest competitor's browser (Safari).

> Let's take Google Chrome's NaCl. It's eerily
> reminiscent of ActiveX is it not? Sure, Google open
> sourced it, but Mozilla and others have repeatedly
> criticized it. The web is not about sandboxing native
> code and creating some kind of Frankenstein platform
> within a platform where one can execute "native" code
> in a web browser. I mean, it's friggin' stupid. But
> it's OK because Google open sourced it and proposed it
> as a standard, right?

The difference between ActiveX and NaCl is that ActiveX can only be used on IE and Windows, by design, but NaCl could be implemented by any browser vendor and run on any OS (so long as the user has an x86 processor).

Also, NaCl is more of a prototype than a marketed product. Its obvious potential security issues prevent a more widespread adoption, and criticism from Mozilla (et al) are generally more on the technical aspects. The underlying goal of being able to safely execute native code is extremely important to the continued development of browsers as general-purpose operating systems (a goal I personally disagree with, but whatever). Someone needs to figure it out, and having an early first step proposed as an open spec is a good start.

> Or how bout Dart? Let me rush out and build my next
> application in Dart, because it's going to be
> standardized right? I mean, Google open sourced it so
> everyone could implement it!

I don't even know what you're arguing here; if NaCl is a prototype, then Dart is a tech demo, and one not even officially developed by Google. Chrome doesn't support it, and probably never will. You're essentially complaining that Google allows its employees to work on personal projects related to web browsers.

> There are some good things (WebM, SPDY) that have come
> out of Google, but those were incremental improvements
> and they allowed for graceful degradation or were
> alternatives to existing things.

Everything is an incremental improvement, or an alternative to existing things.
I never understood how the Precautionary Principle wasn't just Pascal's Wager and subject to the same logical problems.
Are you saying that the pressures from people like this aren't causing California counties to ban GMOs? I think it's a great thing that someone who has been focusing on this stuff for 16 years is finally coming to terms with the consequences of his writings and actions. The fact that one person turned around is a good sign, IMO.

Yes, much ink has been spilled about the dangers of GM soy and soy in general. The issue that the article suggests is that people not only form opinions on food based off of no evidence, but even go so far as to expound their influence in matters that are not trivial. It's easy for Americans to pass up food, but a kid who is starving in Africa and eating Cow dung isn't given this option, and starving these children based on belief and no science is just morally wrong.

I'm looking up some of those articles as well. The one point of interest, for those who are only looking at the titles and seeing "danger," this is from the abstract from Burns, J.M.:

The results of the 13-week subchronic feeding study show that rats fed diets containing corn
event MON 863 grain responded similarly to rats fed diets containing the nontransgenic
control LH82 x A634 grain and diets containing grain from reference control nontransgenic
commercial corn varieties. There were no test article-related changes based on the
evaluation of survival, clinical signs, body weights, body weight changes, food consumption,
clinical pathology, organ weights, and macroscopic and microscopic pathology.

So, thank you for showing some balance in your suggested readings. This stuff is really complicated and I hope people like you lead the charge in the future of all of the world's food choices. Unfortunately, I don't think this will happen and we'll be fed BS by make-believers and lawyers.
I guess I just don't understand why it's so hard to imagine in the first place. It's no harder to envision than, say, a yellow car with 5 wheels. Sure, in all of recorded history there may never have been one, but surely I don't have to make one or show you one to convince you that such a thing is possible.

But anyway, Medieval Iceland is always cited as the closest thing to a nation-wide private legal system. Admittedly, it's not exactly the system I would prefer, because there are still some roles that are not open to competition. But it's fairly close, and it should be close enough to help you imagine such a system.

If you can look at social arrangements smaller than entire nations, there is plenty of private (and voluntary) dispute resolution all around the globe. In fact, that method of conflict resolution is often chosen voluntary by both parties to avoid the inefficiencies or perceived unfairness of government.
Agreed, retraining and existing software costs probably make this transition not as overall expensive as it sounds. Now that being said, it would be nice to know that part of the ongoing cost-cutting would be switching specific groups to open source over time so that retraining and existing software becomes a non-issue
The unconditional opposition to GM food takes scrutiny away from selective breeding, which may itself be harmful in some instances.
> Weed-killer resistance transfers to a weed, helping boost it to invasive species?

Cannot happen. If inter-plant gene transfer was that simple, it would already be an agricultural practice.

A weed-killer resistant species becoming a weed is something to consider though.

> Some mutation makes crop more vulnerable to a particular plant virus, destroying 80% of that crop in EU or US?

No. A vulnerable crop would not have a chance to become 80% of the crop share before dying out.
And the city of Munich, which is small compared to DoD users saved $17Mill by switching all their users over to Linux.
Iirc, Windows 8 has a lot of optimization/improvements going on behind the Metro UI so it's a sound investment to keep their systems future-proof. Everyone's bitching about Metro UI but I'd think for a deal that big they could probably get Microsoft to fork over a non-Metro version if needed. Plus from my friends that work in the DoD they're heavily Windows-based (Windows Server/IIS/ASP/.NET) so it makes sense to continue that instead of retraining for a *nix based system.
Nihongo Master is a new startup aimed at teaching Japanese in a fun social way.
Yup, that's my list as well.

Android users will tell you that battery life is not an issue anymore but that hasn't been my experience at all. I think that it's a case of you can get good battery life as long as you don't take full advantage of most of the Android features. In particular GPS based apps are horrible on Android, most of them seem to poll constantly.

The article talks up the app data sharing, but I haven't found many apps that take advantage of it. Sorry, it just feels kinda gimmicky to me.
Oh? Do you have a stochastic analysis? ;)
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Interesting, Ubuntu could help if they wanted to save money, but unfortunately Ubuntu has not gone through the hoops of getting official rubber stamp certifications that say Redhat's RHEL has http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industry/government/certific...

There a good amount of money to be made selling software to the government. They are easily deceived and manipulated to over pay for support as well.

You just have to have someone full time who is trained in navigating the red tape and the network of connections.
Agreed. The films ended far more sensibly, and the plot was better thought out.
I totally know what you are talking about dude, I am in the same boat.

I was going to my local community college (over 26k students) to get an AA in Business and wanted to transfer. The college (like most in California) was impacted because of the sheer amount of students so getting the necessary classes was getting harder and harder. I am not sure about other CC's but this one (one of the biggest in Orange County) had a feeling of "high school part two" type of atmosphere. There was a feeling of its ok to take as long as I want in school....because I am in school, without getting on with your real life. I talked with other friends at other colleges and they said the same thing. It seems like our peers use college as a way to have a sense of achievement while still acting like they are in high school. That's just personally not for me.

In high school i started an ebay business which led to a fine jewelry website which i ran for a couple years. Then in college I started a skin care company, flipped the inventory and made some money. I then got another idea, taught myself some programming and got accepted into dev bootcamp. I'll be attending either the Feb 18th or March 11th cohorts once I get a small loan. I then decided to drop out because I got so fed up with the college climate. My thinking is I can always go back...college isn't going anywhere.

My suggestion would also be don't worry about companies that hire based on education. Why would you want to work there if they wouldn't even talk to you without an education? I can't personally speak for the tech world, but in general you don't "need" a degree...it's a great fall back but if you know your shit why does it matter if you have a piece of paper to prove it?

Why not continue to work where you are, save some money, and start a start up or apply to an incubator? Team up with a couple of friends and get something going.

At the end of the day, no one can tell you what to do other than you. I dropped (instead of doing the part time route) because I am a firm believer in the "burn your boat" (the boat being college) methodology. You make some great decisions when you have no other back up because your current situation has to work.

You seem like a smart dude who knows where he is going. You really just need to think about what it is you want and what is right for you. It took me a few weeks of constant, gut wrenching, inner monologue talks to finally drop but the pros of dropping out weighed the cons.

Hope some of this helped. I was (and am) in the same boat. It was a hard decision, but for me once I burned my boat and realized what I wanted it was very liberating.

Best of luck
I think the big advantage Windows has in large organizations is that it is secure and it supports Exchange and Active Directory. So, it might be prohibitively more expensive to switch the infrastructure. Plus, most people are familiar with Windows and Windows 8 really is not that much different.
> I imagine I'd like to learn the most widely-used

Learn yourself some Clojure for great good.
Farmers who reuse seed from last season losing that ability. Monopolization of seed production increasing food costs rather than reducing costs as proponents claim. Monopolization of seed production leading to reduced biodiversity of food crops due to typical economic strategies used to remove competitors. Rent-seeking behaviors. Food security fragility due to dependence on monocultures.

We can live without the latest DRM'd TV shows. We can't live without food.
> As an anime compared to others it stands amongst the best in my opinion.

Well, my opinion may have been tainted by having read the manga first and expecting too much faithfulness to it out of the anime adaptation - a rather common problem. And on the whole, it's definitely one of the better anime in recent years. Unfortunately, there has been a strong trend these days to go for the moé/fanservice crap, likely in an attempt to drive DVD/Bluray sales among the hardcore otaku in the face of declining mainstream viewers and ad revenues. I think I lost my patience somewhere around when Highschool of the Dead came out.

Nowadays I watch a lot more K-dramas, which have rapidly picked up in cinematography and acting over the last few years - they are definitely in a Golden Era right now, and the internet makes it so easy to rapidly obtain them, no matter where you are living. The K-drama fansubbing community is absolutely amazing, and it has been a TON of fun learning Korean through Japanese and seeing the similarities (and differences) between the languages.

But there's so much good anime from back in the day that doesn't get enough attention. Legend of the Galactic Heroes particularly stands out in my mind as a wonderful OVA (though it is quite atypical among OVAs, at 110 episodes). The use of a space opera setting as a backdrop for political commentary was very poignantly done. I've been meaning to read the novels the series is based on, but as science fiction novels are wont to do, they will no doubt be chock full of vocabulary that will probably require me to break out my Japanese-English dictionary.
> If that were true people wouldn't be killed over pocket change today.

There is no organization of individuals which routinely kill people over pocket change, is there? Obviously, single individuals can and do commit nearly any physical act you can conceive of. That doesn't mean that all acts are affordable to deploy on a massive scale, especially when you're worried about earning a profit.

I chuckled at your assumptions, because they apply equally (or I might argue, more so) to a challenge of the desirability of government. Remember, what we call "government" is really just a bunch of people that society recognizes as the sole legitimate purveyors of violence—that's the only difference. The only change I'm proposing is for society to recognize no individuals as the sole legitimate purveyors of violence, rather than a select few. The fact that people irrational and ignorant is all the more reason to not allow any of them to become the sole legitimate purveyors of violence.
You're assuming that the causation goes lead -> lower IQ -> more crime. Indeed, the Flynn effect doesn't support the lower IQ -> more crime relationship.

Lead has a wider range of neurological effects than just reducing IQ. The causation may be more likely: lead -> unknown neurological changes -> more criminality & lower IQ.
All I learned in college was how to work for someone else
Light Table implements clojure, right?

Then I can get busy with that ahead of time (I've been sweating a Python release)!

Thank you.
If you're going to work for someone else, go to college for the simple fact that you'll otherwise face discrimination knowingly or unknowingly at some point. And you'll probably learn more about life than about coursework.

If you're going to take over the world, skip college and do it. You can always go back later, and it's a major investment that will follow you around. Taking a couple years to follow your dreams will probably cost much less.
> Light Table implements clojure, right?

Yep!

Happy hacking: learning some Lisp variant is a great day/month/year/lifetime in any programmer's life.
Indeed .. My honors project was genetically modefying a common pastural legume to produce anti-RNAs of a specific virus. It produced resistance but 2 or 3 generations down the line, the genes were still there but the RNAs weren't. Something was stopping them being expressed. Only 1 year so couldn't delve deeper but it was interesting none the less.
The major problem with Government contracts, and often part of the reason the costs seem insane, is that these are about as established/regimented and non-technical an environment as you can imagine.

Small companies founded+run by agile hackers struggle to navigate their way to contracts under those circumstances. Or at least that's what I've seen from reading about efforts to encourage it in the UK.
Sorry, but I'd go with Spring MVC (with Thymeleaf) + Spring Data JPA :)
Clearly you are above average in intelligence, possess initiative and are not afraid to take some risks. This is a great start to adult life.

My advice, keep doing what you are currently doing. Going to school part-time and working. If the start up goes bust, turn those skills to freelancing, and work fewer hours at a higher rate and go to school full-time.

Since you already seem to have much of the practical application of Computer Science in hand, I would suggest that you try a combination like Statistics as your Major, with a minor in Computer Science. Or, if there is a domain like Health care, or geology, or marketing that interests you. Get your BA in that discipline and pick up a minor in Computer Science. The combination of domain knowledge plus computer science plus all your practical experience should position you very well.
Yeah, it is a bit weird. It took me around a day to migrate everything.
I didn't realize that the site could scroll and just closed it, until I saw your comment
The title is very wrong and the HN comments so far miss the point that windows is a tiny portion of that deal. I don't know the details, but judging by the products involved, I would say no more than 5-10%. Exchange, Sharepoint, all of Office client and server suites, SQL maybe some private cloud, virtualization, monitoring software, dedicated support, maybe some custom DoD regulatory stuff for records management and whatnot, that's what they're paying for.

I do know that the Army was making extensive use of Sharepoint on the fields in Irak for example.
VoiceOver is awesome. I wrote a guide for people who can see. I use it all the time. http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/2012/12/18/ios-voiceover-gettin...
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There is an alternative: a quick start GUI mini-IDE which allows you to type in and edit the code and press a button to run it. Such tools are mandatory on Windows anyhow: Ocaml and Python both have this for example. Most Unix editors like Vim or Emacs could be programmed to do this fairly easily I guess. I even wrote such a tool once using Tcl/Tk.

I agree this is not the same as a REPL with line by line interactive execution/editing with an environment that saves well defined symbols. Ultimately this would be tough to see through because Felix binds functions statically and lookup is setwise (like function scope in C) not linear, so recursive definitions cannot be introduced one at a time.
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My first reactions to this were "Thank god this abomination hasn't been green-lit" and "*@#& you Hollywood!"

Getting over that I can see how a looser translation could work. But don't call it Death Note. Calling it Death Note while whitewashing it and getting rid of many of the major plot characters and plot elements entirely is just asking for a colossal failure and fanbase revolt. It's like they didn't pay attention to the DBZ and Airbender fiascos.
My understanding of Windows (which I admittedly have not used day-to-day for the past two years) is that most businesses have typically upgraded on "off-years" (or to make an analogy to Intel's tick-tock yearly release schedule, let's call them "tock" years)

If I understand correctly, the upgrade path looks something like NT4 => XP => Windows 7, skipping Windows 2000 and Windows Vista.

I've not heard of a large customer like this adopting such an experimental release. It certainly seems strange to me, especially considering Windows 8's tepid reception in the marketplace.

Anyone understand the reasoning for adopting this release instead of holding out for the next one, where (hopefully) all the egregious mistakes they've made redesigning the UI will have some sort of acceptable resolution?
I just started learning 1.4! :-)
"how many unproduced screenplays get leaked?"

Pretty much all of them, to a greater or lesser extent.
I should write it up as a blog post. Basically:

1) Create the new User model, and create a schema migration for it.

2) Create a data migration to copy every piece of data you have in your users and profiles over to the new User model.

3) Add ForeignKeys to all your models that reference either the old User model or the Profile.

4) Add a data migration to copy every reference to the old User/Profile from every other model to the new FKs, to point to the corresponding NewUser model.

5) Remove the old FKs with a schema migration.

6) Rename all the new FKs to the old names, create a schema migration, go into it and turn all the delete/creates into column updates.

7) Revert your code to your last commit because you noticed you screwed something up and you can't reverse it now.

8) Done.
this is cool. thank you.
The problem isn't blocking as such but rather latency. If for example a screen refresh and reading from 10 different network connections were all done in one thread (non-blocking)

Yes, but in the sort of environment I just described, if things are done correctly, the thread handling UI updates would not only never block, it would never be waiting on anything high latency.

In the Android developer settings you can make it whine about work being done in the UI thread

Good to know.
When this happened in Egypt is spawned protests: http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/activists-protest-micro... while I would support an all linux DoD, I wish even more that one day I might be passionate enough to do something more about it.
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No...it was bakadesuyo
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreig...

I knew what site, just not how to spell it
> Well, there's some discussion whether she invented a language to sing in or if she was just off her tits on heroin and LSD.

The difference?