skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're arguing against is not the point of my statement.

If the vendor does not implement something like that, it should still be available as a third-party software. It doesn't need to be a security problem using a system like permissions. If they had a reasonable system there would be multiple options for blacklists.

I'm not irritated that they choose to implement feature X over feature Y, I am irritated because there's no way to implement feature Y at all without their most holy consent.

Something like a blacklist is simple and useful, why can't we have it? Why can't we have mobile interpreters for our scripting languages? Why can't we have apps that download articles while we sleep, without us babysitting the phone to make sure they are open, and add them to a reading list?

It's a small computer. It's ridiculous to restrict it as it is.
In the videos the position in the map is fixed. The video only shows only two uses of pinch to zoom, but it doesn't show any example of drag to move. (I don't have a Win8 phone to try :( )
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I haven't tested WP8 devices but the default browser on WP7.5 didn't support pinch gestures so google just displayed a page saying "Your device is not supported".
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Common Lisp is the obvious choice
Another example that I encounter semi-regularly is Google Groups. It does user-agent sniffing to block Firefox with Javascript disabled. Change the ua to something random and it works fine without javascript.
Wow, interesting detail. Thanks for the research.
While I have no special insight, I genuinely think you're attributing to malice what can more easily be attributed to stupidity. And even really smart people can be very, very stupid.
Without a doubt MS used anti-competitive measures, but I grew up and was using their stuff during the time (late 90s), and I'm still not convinced bundling a browser made that much difference for the average person who was buying a new computer at the time.

I say this because I used to help out a lot of family/friends with their computer issues, and the vast majority of them during the time were using AOL or Compuserve for their internet access which had its own browser and didn't use IE at all (until several years later when they started using it).

Similarly, packages from BT (in the UK, the main phone line provider) shipped installs of Netscape, and to use it, the average user would have to use that (because they couldn't cope with the Dial-up-networking part of Windows as it was too complicated). They'd just double-click the "BT Internet" icon on the desktop, which would start Netscape and automatically dial up to their ISP.

In fact, I distinctly remember trying to convert several people from Netscape to IE, and this was with Windows 98. (I remember showing them active desktop).
How do the new results compare to Mayzner's?
If you've hired/been hired for a "Data Scientist" role recently, what are the main skills and accomplishments you look for? I could do with a better idea as to whether we're talking someone who's a statistics fan or a distinguished PhD expert.
What about Opera, Firefox, or Chrome on Windows Phone 8?
You are not supposed to use it on your desktop, not for the stuff you do on your desktop today anyway.

Hypothetically, if Apple were to allow the ability to run OS X apps within iOS and bundled a keyboard with their iPad, would people use it?

I would.
Are we there yet?

I know Hanselman is very sophisticated and tech savvy, but this is utterly naive. We won't be "there" for years and years, this is still just the beginning. I suspect that the computers that people use in 2030 will be more different from the computers of today than those of today are from those of 1996. There will be many familiar elements of course, from desktop, laptop, and mobile hardware and software, but there will be just as much that is unfamiliar to us today.

The system-on-a-chip based computer is as much a revolution as the cpu-on-a-chip "micro-computer" was, and this will result in people using computers in new ways, people owning and using computers who never have before, and an explosion of innovation in computer software and technology.
Given Disney's successful lobbying history (see: Mickey Mouse Act for copyright extension), they might be one of the few organizations who could enact some change to the patent industry.

Whether those changes would be positive (for industries outside theirs) is another thing.
Great use of iTunes api and Levenshtein distance algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance)
Google's decisions around Windows Phone are probably why:

(a) Ubuntu for mobile will not radically alter the mobile OS options for carriers and hardware manufacturers (despite its appeal to many hackers).

(b) Apple is suffering the pain of developing their own maps application.
Please engage with substance or just misquote "do no evil" and be done with it. If you're just providing a counterexample to "universally accessible": as I already said above, maps clearly doesn't work in Opera Mobile and it's barely useable in Firefox Mobile. It probably doesn't work on a teletype or a Speak & Spell either.

"Universally accessible" doesn't seem at odds with the fact that there's always going to be a browser support cutoff point. Google just picked a poor cutoff point in this case. It's only in light of google's commitment to cross-browser standards that this disappoints me.
That gets on the front page? I guess I should just post everything I program here from now on (like the Tetris I programmed two weeks ago)
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Oh yes way.
Amusingly, before Chrome, Google used to contribute a lot of engineers to Firefox/Mozilla. They decided to do their own after deciding they weren't happy with it. I don't quite recall the main reason, might have had something to do with some sort of mess for cross compiling or variable sizes or something mainly.
Then what is the point of a touch screen on machines like the Dell XPS 27?

I think if given the choice between OSX versions of an app and iOS versions of an app, most would choose the OSX versions. For example, Tweetbot for iOS would be a pretty awkward experience compared to the OSX version.
Good demo and nice, readable source code. It's impressive he can make this all work in just under 300 lines of JavaScript.
"Up" arrow makes the blocks rotate the wrong way.

Source: I play a lot of tetris
Some degree of cross-pollination is desirable, at least in terms of usability for the average computer user. It would be a mistake to imagine that the particular limitations and constraints of either iOS or OS X as they exist today are global optimums.
And i curse MS for Office (or the lack of support for truly interoperational file formats).
Do you know blog/people to follow leaning right that value also intellectual integrity? I noticed it is possible to find left of liberal media that includes facts references. But most of the right media at some point use the "market is right" or "less gouvernement is good" without arguments or sources and I find it quite annoying. So if you know smart right media in English or French please give the references.
You should call the article "How My Business Failed", because that what it was.

If I opened a restaurant, even if on a new set of dishes, no one will call it a start-up, and it can be a huge business.

PG:
"A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth."
The only significant slowness I've heard of was due to the I/O library, but it was only in 3.0, so has since been fixed. Or were you referring to something else?
I prefer printed books. But for the record, SICP is available online here:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#...
Great story. Very good idea. I'm sure it was a good learning experience.
They could always do some fancy operating overloading to produce expression trees that are then converted into GPU codelike I did in this C# library I made a while ago (basically, call it a staged embedded DSL):

http://bling.codeplex.com/

The idea works well for functional code (what pixel and vertex shaders basically are) but it doesn't really map well to more imperative GPGPU code.
It didn't work previously. It loaded, but was unusable.

However, I think that a big box with notice about unsupported browser and trying about own risk would help more that redirect.
I mostly hang out with folks who run product businesses, but numerically, I'd bet on services businesses being substantially more numerous. There are probably tens of thousands of consulting firms in the US. Most of them produce bespoke software for businesses at
five/six figures an engagement. The math works out such that the principals at this type of firm become modestly wealthy fairly quickly, with little execution risk.

Think of every Rails dev shop you've ever heard of: $8k monthly salary per dev, $12k in fully loaded costs. Each dev has 70% utilization (~35 weeks a year) at a chargeout rate of $6k to $8k per week for journeymen and $8k to $10k for partners.

You can do the math yourself, but the short version is that a consultancy that would fit around my dinner table makes all partners millionaires, with the approximate inevitability of gravity.
Bad examples :). Try Buffer and App.Net instead.
It’s the “playground”. You can play with it here:
http://benvie.github.com/continuum/

As for the editor, it’s CodeMirror.
If Google will reverse the decision once IE10 is standards compliant (touch start/end) then go Google you the people's champion.

If not, then boo Google, are you becoming the new MS?

Time will tell
Oh believe me, it's already available for download.
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Which on the other hand means -- instead of black we better say gray or darker white. I don't think your position is factually accurate.
Since there are words for it -- use them. Not right means wrong.
Saying that Steve Jobs shipped frequently than Wozniak is like saying the manager of a software team ships more frequently than the programmers who wrote it, since he is the one who sends out the 'release notification email'.
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If that's how it really worked, I'm starting to get the strong sense that no one on a Windows Phone ever actually used maps.google.com.

That looks completely unusable. Considering they launched the new version over a year and a half ago[1] and there was no widespread discussion (at least reaching outside of windows phone blogs) about the pain of the "interaction" those videos show, I'm not really feeling like a lot was lost here.

I would love to see a survey of Windows Phone users and how many have ever even attempted to use it. I know if I'm using a phone that can run a web browser at all, I would never even think to not use the native mapping app.

Google was wrong on the principle, but was anyone actually in the forest to be harmed? In any case, everyone should think hard before the next time you feel compelled to make a joke about testing and Opera's marketshare.

[1] http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-maps-on-your...
patio11's made our points. Just that he does it better.
The closest I've seen, though I haven't really looked hard and it's not a full analysis, is Battery Doctor by Kingsoft, which shows current draw for apps, both active and inactive, and system. It's only good for hints, and if there's something better I'd like to know about it.
Why are there intermediary CA's? They seem to hold the same power as a CA but little of the responsibility.

It would be similar to allowing a secondary DNS provider to hold primary powers. I could start big-huge-secondary-dns-provider.example.com and edit my zones locally. The master could pick them up, and serve them out.

DNS was not made that way, so why is the chain of command in a CA made that way?

* I understand you can edit a secondary and if people are using it as a recursive DNS provider, you will in fact get back "lame" data, but that is almost never the case where a secondary is used as recessive recursive. At least not in any of the setups I have seen, deployed, or administered. [edit: spelling]
The discussion is over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004423

Alternative submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008059

Why this is not what you think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008111
I agree, and we do see plenty iOS feature appear in OSX and vice-versa (notification center for instance).

But it should be kept in mind that we are dealing with separate paradigms. The way one uses a tablet is very different from the way a laptop used, and software should be designed along these lines.
True, Chromium and AOSP are open source. I think the point is that Google are playing both games here. They can quite happily compete with the Microsofts and Apples of the world when it comes to power plays, but they also want to see what comes from giving huge amounts of code to the developer community to play with. There are logical, long term business reasons for open-sourcing projects like Chromium, AOSP, Go, V8, WebM etc.
Bullshit. The police often don't give a shit unless you start to take matters into your own hands.
In all seriousness, if you've already put in the effort to write a book, it's pretty hard to lose money selling it through a print-on-demand service. (It might be hard to make money, but it's pretty damn hard to lose money.)
Isn't HTTPS relying on a demonstrably insecure CA also only cosmetically more secure than HTTP?
Yay for that. And then they turn around and scream bloody murder about the ubiquity of -webkit-prefixing. Go figure.
No, even better: say what happened and leave the conclusion to the reader (unless it is tricky or depends on some little known facts, then you may hint the reader)

"Mr. Someone has been unable to provide the original data from where graph 5 was generated."
A Wingman app gets torn apart in reddit/r/startups.
I believe many tetris games have their own rotation setting. :) if not, I'm just sorry. lol
As a first step, you could expand to other JVM languages (like Clojure, Scala, Kotlin, ...)
It might be plausible that the CA issued the subsidiary CA cert to a government agency due to incompetency, it is very hard to chalk it up to a 'mistake', if that said government agency uses the accidentally issued CA cert on their SSL intercepting firewall. What a convenient accident...
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I don't think you are paranoid.

They went from a "mistake" in issuing a "testing" certificate that managed to propagate through their system that just "happened" to be sitting around and configured in a way to be ready to execute a MITM configuration. To me, the chances of that happening seem challenging at best. To have it happen automatically and without hitch or fail, seems highly improbable.
[A] dramatically different assertion from "effectively committing theft" and "dragging society to hell".

I disagree. The shadow reference who shot you down with the investor cost may have cost you millions of dollars. How can you not be mad about this? If someone said something that cost me millions, I'd be livid.

Additionally, concern over false references is a bit strange from the guy who just finished telling us it's a good reference for him, "or war".

If someone fires me and won't agree on a good reference, then it's on. If you're cash-strapped and absolutely can't afford a severance, fine. I'll bounce. If you decide to fuck with my career later on or interfere with future relationships, then war has been started and for me to fight back is appropriate.

In normal circumstances I don't "coach" references and trust them to give a decent account, but we were talking, in this thread, about getting fired. When someone is fired, he has a right to reach an understanding on what kind of reference will be provided.
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10 can be divided in third and quarter fine. It does 10/3 and 10/4=2.5. Well, 10/3 isn't round so people don't like it but neither is 1/3 of an inch. It's not because a lot of operations suddenly become doable with numbers that you magically lose the usage of fractions.
The discussion is over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004423

Alternative submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008059 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5012320

Why this is not what you think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008111
since there's a refresh key on every browser, I never thought about setting up a restart function... it would be easy to achieve though.
Lean Startup is really hard to apply to this kind of business. Even when he had them made 10k at a time, he was only able to eke out 75 cents of profit on each one. If he tried a smaller batch, the production costs would have eaten him alive.

That said, I could see making a first batch knowing it will sell at a loss just to test the market.
Actually what he's referring to is that Woz basically made the Apple 1, made the Apple 2, and then, having produced two once-in-a-lifetime masterworks, essentially retired.

Jobs, though less technically useful on any one hands-on task, never retired even after getting rich. He just kept shipping, ultimately an order of magnitude more projects and a way more grandiose total portfolio.
There isn't any problem with this Clojure macro. If you would like to see problems with Clojure, take a look at keep function in core.clj.

There is a classic function:

(define (filter fn l)
(cond ((null? l) '())
((fn (car l)) (cons (car l) (filter fn (cdr l))))
(else (filter fn (cdr l)))))

The point is that stuffing more data-structures into a lisp ruins it. Somehow switching to the prefix notation and adding parenthesis doesn't transform Java to Lisp.

For the second piece of code - are't semicolons and comas somehow redundant?

Moreover, what is the point of writing something this way?
Your startup died because 1, O-N-E deal did not work out? How many other people did you try to sell to?
We're already there and we'll never be there. The goal posts never stop moving. The trick is to remember where you thought the goal posts were a few years ago and realize how awesome things are now.
Nice work.

I like to make simple games when I learn a new language.
While playing with javascript and canvas, I wrote this
http://nick-d.appspot.com/tetris.html
There is no pointer event specification, just fyi. The previous one was scuttled by Apple's patent claims before it left Working Draft status. However, the first Working Draft of the new Pointer Events spec[1] was published about a month ago, and rapid progress is being made. It's built on Microsoft's submitted spec for the pointer event system they created for IE10 and looks like it will be better than the proposed spec it's replacing.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-pointerevents-20121211/
There's also Caja by Google: http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/
A lot of foreign words are frequently met in English texts, especially in narrow domains like philosophy, biology and medicine, etc.

And seing that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft

is a research institute, one would expect tons of mentions for this word in _english_ scientific papers.

But that is an outlier, and given the vastness of the corpus those would have been sorted out.

That said, there would have been an easy way to filter non English books out of the way automatically: do a statistical analysis on each book (e.g on letter frequency) and reject the ones that stray too much from the norm -- or send them to a secondary filtering stage, e.g by word presence or a verification by a human. Done carefully that filtering would not harm the actual results at all (e.g by presuposing a specific letter frequency, because it would only reject extreme outliers that would indeed by non-english works).
The people who wear those shirts are not the ones who end up "getting laid"..
In addition, people who cary condoms around , usually have more than one. These keychains would have been better off positioned as a novelty item than a serious way to have safe sex.
Hi,
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Absolutely ridiculous comment. You added nothing to the discussion and gave no justification for a frankly ignorant standpoint. I can speak for two of them: JRuby is an absolute godsend even if you aren't massively interested in Ruby - Java libraries/classes + a REPL is a phenomenally powerful combination and makes learning new libraries incredibly easy. Groovy I am not a fan of for significant development, but it's great for DSLs, and in particular gradle is the nicest way I've found to manage dependencies and project setup.
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No install procedure for the moment. This is a work in progress. If you want to try just clone the git repo and run in a terminal: python hnreader.py
There is a setup.py file that can be used to create a Mac OS X app bundle using py2app but I am not satisfied with py2app ...
Yours is much better :)

I did consider about making my tetris game more beautiful, but my girl friend said it doesn't mean anything. I gave it another thought and indeed, it won't sharpen my skill any further.

Anyway, I like yours, its beautiful and enjoyable.
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The "Open Web" refers to the platform being open and accessible to anyone (which is why, for instance, royalty-free patent grants are essential for any enshrined web standard), but it does not refer to the content that is communicated by that platform

It's a nuanced (and sometimes nebulous) concept, and I don't really understand what the GP post was getting at, but here's a better attempt than mine to get a handle on it by Tantek Çelik:
http://tantek.com/2010/281/b1/what-is-the-open-web
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It's hard to see how the threads come together but there is definitely something there: faster and faster flow of information allows humans to produce, refactor and combine ideas much more quickly than one mind could.

On the other hand you need some people who don't immerse themselves in the stream too much so they can actually drill down on hard problems.
Err.. Opera also complained against webkit prefixes in the wild. Anyway wasn't the Touch events model held up in W3C because of Apple's patents?
I didn't expect so many people really click on my link.
In case anyone is interested, there's another game, http://pochen.me/snake

Check out the top level domain to see other few experiment works : snow flakes on christmas tree, floating ball propagating wave.
... and then make it inaccessible on Windows Phone.
I'm not an expert on how spy agencies operate, but if they were buying a certificate like this to spy on people I don't think they'd ask to have their own name put on it?

Turkey often blocks websites [1] so they obviously have a problem with some of Google's operations, and have the capability to mess with regular citizens' internet connections.

[1] http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.24/ecthr-google-blocki... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11659816
Both your and the op story reminded me of the British TV show Only Fools and Horses.
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