skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(preface: You're not wrong. I'm just adding more links, some data, and quotes to the conversation)

> "If I did, it was a mistake," Bloch said, "and I'm sorry I did it."

> The nine lines of rangeCheck code were removed from Android in version 4.0 of the operating system.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/19/2961128/google-chief-java-...

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I know it's not good when linking to FOSS, but could not find another source: http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/04/andy-rubin-knew-that-clea...

> Andy Rubin wrote:

> My reasoning is that either a) we'll partner with Sun as contemplated in our recent discussions or b) we'll take a license. I think a clean-room implementation is unlikely because of the team[']s prior knowledge, and it would be uncharacteristically aggressive of us to position ourselves against the industry.

> The only thing we give up is a little leverage in the discussions where the threat of a clean-room implementation is of some value.
The best way to combat friendly fraud is extensive logging and 3DS.
Why wouldn't they support USB 3.0? Is that a typo in the article?
Hard reality: a thing is worth exactly what another is willing to pay for it.
is there anything chrome os can do that another OS can not already do?

Stay maintenance and virus free?
128GB UHS-I SD cards are about $100 these days, so you could just add a permanent one as Ubuntu's /home. You'd expect to lose at least a factor of four in max transfer speed over an SSD, though.
(balanced employee) This is absolutely true, the additional snarl here is that Balanced works directly with the company/marketplace that the customer is interfacing with.

Our policy, as much as possible, is to defers to that company with regards to customer contact because we don't want to interfere with that customer relationship/experience. We support their customer support, we don't supplant it.
>Both these machines seem better than the Chromebook Pixel in every way

Other than not having a touch screen.
Since I've had nothing better to do that look at the pictures for a bit, I'm confident that it was Sunday, 28th October 2012, with one set of photos starting around 1pm facing north and another one used for filling in gaps a bit later - starting somewhere between 3pm and 4pm (harder to be precise - there are fewer clocks visible from this one).
A lot of EDM artist do play instruments. A lot of them grew up with classical training in the piano and to a fairly high level.
Billboard Makes YouTube Part of Hot 100 Formula
This shows how to do dependency injection on controllers (using Guice) with Play 2.1, with a sample Play! app. The Java implementation is similar. http://eng.42go.com/play-framework-dependency-injection-guic...

For Play! components, they don't hole you into one DI framework or another. Instead, you can use your favorite DI framework (or with Scala, the cake pattern) on top of any Play API calls.
The Death of Aaron Swartz and the New Hacker Crackdown
I have a link, but it does not currently work in any browser:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...

So search for "Full specs" on the page and click on it.
VoiceBunny is hiring a business developer in SF
PrivCo has absolutely NO short positions in any private company we cover. These are PRIVATE companies and with rare exception do not trade. Nor do we earn any fees from private companies we cover (and we do NOT accept paid advertising, unless you count a the standard Google links).

We have no agenda other than to try and publish facts, and what LivingSocial announced yesterday immediately struck us as misleading and fishy based on everything we knew about the company and it's dire financials. The press release and memo to employees (imagine you are one of those trusting hardworking employees, or a local daily deals merchant they owe money to "soon") - over $300 Million worth actually, but have only $76 million - made it seem as if the company was doing so well financially that their happy investors who had invested at a $5.7 Billion valuation wanted to double down on their investments and bet even bigger. NOTHING WAS FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. The company was NOT doing fine, lost over $400 Million last year, was running low on cash, and had to take a massive valuation haircut and grant all sorts of special preferences in order to get this last lifeline of cash.

Their financials can't be papered over...and they verified to the penny as public Amazon.com owns 31% now of the company. Look them up...if you know anything about finance or accounting you will reach the same conclusions as PrivCo did. LivingSocial will soon require mass layoffs, and will be insolvent or sold for pennies on the dollar by the end of this year is our prediction. (And we hope we're wrong, and don't make a dime either way, as we don't want to see 4,000 trusting employees lose their jobs).

But the numbers don't lie and we stick by our prediction.

The PrivCo Team
www.privco.com
I'm not saying the earlier gen synths, controllers and laptops are any less legit than newer gen stuff. I'm thinking strictly from the fan's perspective, the non-musician's perspective, the concert-goer's perspective. That is, how visually obvious is your live performance gifts from the floor? To a digital musician, it might sound reductive. But live performance is it's own beast.
I like the Stations on Rdio, actually. I've found some cool artists through the Echo Nest-powered discovery stuff they have.
Not sure about play!, but with Grails most changes are picked up in < 1 second. Grails 2 is better than Grails 1 about reloading and dealing with domain changes (which by default are hibernate classes) - it used to be that most domain class changes required a restart - not so under Grails 2. I rarely restart my Grails dev env throughout a day - 95% of my changes are as fast as write/save/refresh with PHP.
> Jungle at its peak twisted the mind with intricate rhythms that really blew minds.

You can't just throw something like that out there and not make recommendations ;)

I gotta admit, I can't stand about 98% of EDM, but some small amount of it actually is really good.
What the Tesla Affair Tells us About Data Journalism
Actually, tweed blazers are bang on trend as we say in England these days. They've been sported by numerous celebrities and fall squarely under the still popular Hoxton farmer look. Fashion man, it's an odd beast.
Apparently the codename for the Pixel (in the chromium os issue tracker, svn, etc) was Link[1], and recently they've added a metallic (i.e. chrome) android statue (without a corresponding android update) [2]. I might be just over-analyzing things, but there might be some software update in Google I/O signalling a merge between Android and Chrome OS (where the latter is already starting to get features like Google Now on that mobile-convergence pathway like Apple's OS X Lion).

Android has arguably more high-performance, graphics-heavy and touch-enabled apps, and has the toolchains to compile more sophisticated applications (IDEs, etc).

[1]: https://plus.google.com/100132233764003563318/posts/exCKa13F...

[2]: https://plus.google.com/+PaulWilcox/posts/23QtTfiVrtk

Also, Google has a weird ironic naming paradigm. First is Chrome which is named as such because they want to minimize the browser's chrome (tab bar, menus, buttons, etc.), and now is the Pixel which has a HiDPI display so people kind of forget the pixel. It would probably be a bad idea to call their self-driving car Crash though.
LivingSocial Claims ‘Straight Up Fiction’ in Research Report
LivingSocial response to original report:

http://www.privco.com/livingsocial-receives-emergency-110m-c...
“For more information on levels of prociciency click here.”
I can't say I disagree. They displayed some pretty aggressive, and possibly unethical tactics here. But honestly, I don't much care about their account (as it seems to be inaccurate). I do care about LivingSocial's account, which is interesting to me, and paints pretty much the same picture.
Thanks for posting this. With some new hardware we purchased we'll be doing the same move Broadcom -> Intel, so I think I'll actually be bookmarking this to come back to later!
It sounds as though they are keeping the routing but giving users more info about it so they can make better decisions when designing their apps for the platform.
> it gets flagged in our security monitoring tool. And when it gets flagged, I have to make that action stop

Or... get your security monitoring tool to stop reporting legitimate P2P protocols as a security threat.
Boards At Startups
Using Guice with Play! Framework 2.1 for easy Dependency Injection:
http://eng.42go.com/play-framework-dependency-injection-guic...
Seriously. The guys who made it run a toy company.

The problem is, the toy is seemingly imperfect and pretty simple, and yet it's gotten a ton of praise, and a ton of money. Some of the rest of the world then gets mad because they didn't think of and capitalize on this seemingly simple venture first.
If you don't like GoDaddy it would be nice for you to use your service to also educate users on which registar to use. By making GoDaddy the default, you give it your approval. What might be helpful is a page explaining the registrars, or simply selecting your favorite. No reason for GoDaddy to be the default if even you don't use them.
This. Under no impression from the Spotify website (although Im sure its buried in the T&C somewhere), or from what people say about it via word of mouth etc etc..what the application is MARKETED as; that it streams music to you for your listening expereince.

All "well p2p saves them server cost, reduces latency etc" bullshit aside. No-one EXPECTS that of the application. Its deception. Plain and simple. A vast amount of users don't expect this of the application and that could lead to plenty of consequences unbeknownst to them. Plenty of good reasons have popped up in this thread (data plans being eaten, people with limits imposed by their ISP, work environment concerns)

TL;DR
Its negligent of spotify to market for one thing, and then include something like this in such a hidden and unmodifiable sort of way in their program. You want it in there? Fine. Tell me about it up front and give me some control over the upload speed
Nope, I was wondering whether sticking Ubuntu or Mint on this would transform it into a kickass Linux laptop. It's close, but there is a measly 32GB SSD and no option for i7 or 8GB RAM.
It's a bit sad to have to look outside the standard stack for good solutions to this, but I've had great results with JRebel. The rapid iteration it brings to java easily pays for itself almost immediately, if nothing else than in not having to pull your hair waiting for classloader reloads...
As a side note, which might be better taken to email, where are you getting your garments made? My dad is a tailor so I'm super fussy about quality, so you might want a backup on the website about quality levels.

If you want to chat that privately nick@nicholassmith.me.uk is cool.
Eh, not with that resolution.

MacBook Pro = about $1,200
MacBook Pro Retina = about $1,500
Similar, but harder to diagnose: running out of inodes.
I agree it doesn't make sense. Unless Google announces something in the near future that would make it more than just a web-browsing device...
Yes, and that is _NOT_ illegal. You're quite free to unlock your phone after the contract runs out, or if you pay your carrier the fees to unlock it, in the case above that would probably be the $400 dollar difference between your price and the unlocked price.

I'm not sure I see the issue here - if you want the unlocked phone, then buy it and pay for a SIM only type contract, or do such things not exist in the US?
The evolution of personal computers (Video)
The issue is not that controllerism & live manipulation of machines is a new phase of musical performance, it is that the technology available to electronic musicians has matured to where the advantages of CPUs, GBs of sample storage, live DSP, etc. now have physical controller counterparts. This is nothing new, it is a cycle we have seen repeat through instrument design (actually all production, e.g., printing presses required fixed type, whereas freehand allowed expression) for centuries. With each technological advancement, improvisation and flexibility narrows to meet the constraints of the technology, then expands to meet the needs of those using it. Repeat.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they have swindled over a million USD for a glue gun which you can assemble at home in 20 minutes. Sure, people can spend their money on whatever they want but it doesn't make it any less ridiculous.
In which case, a cure for any terminal condition is worth an infinite amount of money given that people would, if you required them to, generally give you all of their money and any more that they could borrow, beg, or steal.
Err, why would they? I don't envision any high speed data transfers occurring on a regular basis, or really anything but a phone or a keyboard being plugged in.
I still feel they haven't resolved the Android vs. Chrome OS debate. I can't imagine this doesn't create some tension within the organization. Maybe they're hoping to sell Android to Oracle (yikes).
The problem is that Ubuntu (at least in my experience, please correct me if this is wrong) just does not handle high resolution screens right now. Maybe it's just something I have set up wrong, but I've had nothing but trouble trying to get Ubuntu work well with a high dpi screen without making everything incredibly tiny.
I don't see that. For most application the typical Wi-Fi access is enough, e.g. for music and movie streaming, working in Google Docs...

Even if it was only working on home Wi-Fi, it would be far from worthless. People pay $200 for a Wi-Fi home NAS. Having your home NAS available anywhere is a nice plus.

Also there is the screen that is higher resolution and multi-touch.
> Basically this is a tool to better inform policy decisions

No, it is actually a safety valve. If the public gets a little too agitated about anything they can go sign a petition to let of some steam. This petition site furthers couch-potato politics; it enables people to 'do their bit' without actually moving their ass. It neutralizes those who are naturally prone to apathy already.
NASA's SDO Observes Fast-Growing Sunspot
About the first ones: Unless you are a libertarian transhumanist, I guess.
I can't imagine there are that many people who want to spend $1,300 to use web apps. People use GMail, Google Docs, etc, because they're cheap, not because they're good. That's why the $250 Chromebooks sell any units--because they're cheap. This thing takes the "cheap" aspect out of the equation, which seems like a mind-blowingly stupid decision.
Yeah, it does seem a little useful for lightweight development and testing. Though I find it bizarre that anyone doing professional web development can't spare the 1MB for an Nginx or Lighttpd install.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixe...
I've got a Chromebook sitting to the right of my keyboard, and routinely use it as an SSH terminal (that and the keyboard is exactly why I have it). Remote is sufficient, but not always desirable (not just offline, latency can get in the way as well); and crouton and such are kludges vs. having a proper *nix environment within CrOS (not to mention losing verified boot, which I see as a plus overall but glad it can be turned off)
> windowed Chrome apps don't steal keys anymore, so C-w is kill-region, not "close the tab".

I just realized this was really my only major complaint with ChromeOS and I now desire one.
So I have to buy another machine to develop and test my stuff on? What's the point of a powerful laptop if it's just a dumb terminal to connect to my actual development machine?

Why not just buy a $300 super cheap laptop and do the exact same thing? Sure I'll have less resolution on the machine, but seeing as the developing is happening on another machine all together, it seems like the performance would be similar.
Thanks Nicholas! We will be playing around with some finer tweeds in future collections. Stay tuned!
Harder reality: with collective political action (including lawmaking) you can force anyone to provide you the same service for less that what he asks (if the raw cost of the service permits it).

And some services --like health-- are so crucial for the community and human dignity that they shouldn't even be left unregulated outside mass democractic control in the first place.

The same way we don't let the "market decide" what drugs are OK to be sold (e.g by letting the people "freely" choose to buy some experimental or dangerous snake-oil stuff).
It's a bit banal though, of course you should learn something valuable. Isn't that what your mother's been telling you all these years?

I think the better lesson which is directly applicable to all coders is "question your assumptions". To me this was a huge benefit of learning ruby as it happens to be one of the easiest languages to pull your assumptions right out from under you.
I tried using a chromebook and an ipad as my sole dev setup for a week or so over the holidays. I actually found it was more freeing than a traditional setup in certain ways!

Once I got a linode server set up I stopped worrying about not having my dev env. With persistent 3G I was actually able to SSH in and get work in settings I never would have considered previously.

The obvious thing that was missing from the chromebook experience was a core set of native app. 1password, skype, spotify, and a few others haven't quite made it to a web app yet. However, most of these apps have a native client ready to go for iOS. So between the chromebook and iPad mini I felt like I had everything I needed to be productive.

Ultimately, I simply wanted a nicer machine to work on day to day. Chrome OS is a real pleasure to use (I like it more than modern OS X in some ways!), but the hardware on my Samsung laptop just felt, well...cheap. This new machine fits that sweet spot really nicely. I could see myself considering to purchase this machine as a dev laptop if I hadn't just bought a new macbook pro.
> Microsoft has dark visions of what will happen if Google's big courtroom win against Oracle holds up on appeal. If Google's position that APIs can't be copyrighted stands, it will "destabilize" the entire software industry, write Microsoft lawyers

Maybe Microsoft is using the wrong legal mechanism if this ruling will destabilize the software industry? Maybe they are looking for trade secrets?

I don't really understand this argument that the law needs to change because my business methods won't make as much money.
Swindled?

Seriously?
LinkedIn is scattered. They use a lot of different technologies. It looks like they will only be using Play in a few of the services that they offer.
Yes, it's called the government and you've backed it by paying taxes.

In an ideal world, you would be able to choose what your taxes were used for. While filing taxes, you could select:

NASA: 10%

GREEN ENERGY RESEARCH: 10%

<CITY> ROAD MAINTENANCE: 10%

and so on..

Just a fantasy. Please don't bash me for imagining having taxes at all 'in an ideal world.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqXayqIrAYE

=D

this goes back way before "the earlier gen synths, controllers, and laptops"

see my other comment. it's awesome you have come to this realization, but what i am trying to help you understand is that this is cyclical. it is not a revolution, it is how instruments evolve and has been for ages.
12.85" display....really. I blame Apple for all these new over priced tiny screens. At least make it a 15" and the ability to run Android apps.
Play is definitely more akin to django than lift is. Lift, as I've read not experienced, has specific philosophy for how to build web apps that is slightly different than django or play.

I'm a long time django user. I love django. I've used it in production apps. I like to try out new languages as a hobby and so I got myself the programming in scala and the Play framework in action (manning). Just trying out Play however I can't seem to get this feeling that I could do it more easily and faster in django, though that may be because I'm comfortable with django and python. There are also a ton of django apps that I can leverage to build out parts of my app. I'm not sure about the play ecosystem in that respect.

I'm also specifically looking for advantages that the language itself can bring but since I haven't gotten very far I haven't discovered any yet but I'm hopeful that I will be pleasantly surprised.

Having said all that I just saw some play love coming from LinkedIn: http://engineering.linkedin.com/play/play-framework-linkedin
Any thin laptop with a minimal case ends up looking like an Apple laptop. There's not really much they can do...
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>For the very few, the answer is: when someone wants or offers to buy your company.

It seems that way from the perspective of having never received an offer, but my own experience makes me skeptical. I haven't been in that specific position, but I have had a possibly analogous experience.

For a few years, I developed and supported myself with a graphics-tablet targeted shareware drawing program (now sadly, due to changes in the Mac shareware ecosystem, one of my backburner projects). One of the "big breaks" I imagined might come my way would be if a tablet vendor wanted to bundle my software with their hardware.

And one day, toward the end, I got an offer for exactly such a deal. A small vendor wanted to include my program in a tablet bundle for a relatively small holiday run. They wanted to know what I would charge per-license. I did some research to find out what a typical OEM markdown would be and made them an offer based on what I found. It was a significant discount, but it was a fair price, and I'd have made reasonable money off of it. They responded saying that this was far too much and that they really couldn't go over $1 per license, which would have been more than a 95% markdown. I attempted to negotiate further with them, but they stopped responding to my emails shortly thereafter.

Should I have just taken them up on their initial offer? Well, as the cards finally fell, I would have probably made more money that way. And if I'd known that I would shortly be shifting my focus away from development of that program, I might have made a different choice. But whether or not I made the right choice given the information available to me is not the point. The point is that it wasn't an easy "yes".

When you aren't getting any offers, it seems like any offer would be a coup. But that's not how the market works. If your company is worth $5000, there's somebody out there who would be happy to pay you $200 for it. You won't see many offers like that because the number of businesses worth $5000 is large and the number of people who are willing to send out insulting offers is relatively small. But "say yes to every offer" isn't a winning strategy.
Multi-core scaling: it’s not multi-threaded
Wow, no USB 3.0? That's a huge mistake.
yes yes yes yes yes and also yes.
Trial by jury: are jurors getting less intelligent?
Another article with Cathy Title but No Meat. The author of this article clearly does not understand JVM or what it does and how much it helped in the whole 'WORA' movement. James Gosling is the real hero, thanks for giving us JAVA.

- Java Enthusiast
If the mining isn't automated - that is, if mining requires a human presence - it hauling the gigatons to Earth orbit might not seem to foolish. Aside from the cost of having to ship people, equipment, air, water and food to the asteroid belt, an accident in Earth orbit is much easier to deal with than one past Mars orbit.

"Don't worry, Miner Mike - a Space Ambulance is on its way! Just hang in there for four or five more months."