skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is unlikely.

Samsung and Intel need to learn how to cooperate on Tizen. There is no agreed Tizen road map. No unified governance.

HTML5 is an unproven, and some would say disproven, mobile app platform. Browsers, compilers, SDKs, and frameworks are immature. There are no success stories despite several tries.

Samsung, and its likely carrier partners, have no ecosystem comparable to Apple's or Google's. The only 3rd party ecosystem success story is Amazon with the Android-derived Kindle Fire.

I believe it is possible to compete with Apple and Google, but Tizen is not close to being able, as it is today. At this point Tizen is well behind Windows Phone, Blackberry, Sailfish, B2G, and even Ubuntu in being ready to compete.

Having a decades-long duopoly will be boring in many ways, so I hope somebody gets their act together. But it's serious business. Hobby projects will go nowhere.
It would run on GodZilla instead of Mozilla.......
Replying to my own comment...

Regarding Touchwizz and Android app compatibility - without the core Google services (maps, play, etc), many popular Android apps will not run. The differences in the underlying platform is also likely to cause many errors and incompatibilities on non-modified Android apps run on Tizen. This means more app crashes and more uncertainty.

In any event, full Android app compatibility and Android apps as first class apps means that Tizen basically is Android in any case - it will have to have Dalvik, Linux ARM compatibility, identical OpenGL interfaces, identical Linux interfaces, etc. Seeing as Android is Apache licensed anyway, I'm having difficulty in seeing the point? Why not just take Android, create a fork, and rename it to Tizen? I don't see any benefits in re-inventing a platform that will just mimic Android (and have all the same limitations to keep compatibility).

Legal issues - I can't see any legal difference in forking Apache licensed code and renaming vs starting from scratch.

Usability - both Samsung Android devices and Tizen devices will have the same Touchwizz UI. Far as I can tell, Samsung is actually aiming for identical usability here.

Compatibility - all of the Google Maps based Apps won't work. Users won't get the great gmail/gtalk/google now integration that they can on Android. No free best-of-breed navigation. No Google Play - users will have to rely on devs uploading their app to Samsung store along with Google Play. Seems like a big point against Tizen here.

Control (for Samsung) - Samsung can already add/remove whatever they want to Android. I'm guessing Google puts certain demands on Samsung to use the Android name and Google apps, but Samsung can just use a different name and no Google apps. In Tizen they're going to have to do this anyway.

The more I look into this, the stranger it becomes. I can't work out what Samsung is trying to accomplish here. This smells like a project they inherited with Intel with the likely purpose being rivalry with Nokia and perhaps internal politics. Maybe some misunderstanding of how much freedom they actually have with Apache licensed Android?
Perhaps the largest hurdle is convincing users it's worth giving up all the apps they invested in by purchasing that won't carry over to the Tizen ecosystem. Granted that many Android apps are free, but that's only one part. Most users would hate to give up the apps they are used to having and the data they have stored in them as well. Users already mull it over when they switch between iOS and Android (or vice versa). Committing to Tizen or anything else is for many users, too high of a risk with the costs of the hardware and also the time to set it up and find app alternatives.
If you believe that about Android your conclusion doesn't follow; Android and The Galaxy line was selling well before your 4-years-in point of niceness.
I don't see why Tizen could get any traction against Android even in China. Android has been incorporated by manufacturers, especially those smaller ones who used to make feature phones. Unless samsung were ready to make huge amount of subsidies, it would hardly happen, IMHO.
One of the major factor that makes ios and Android so popular is no. of apps in their respective stores. Even if Samsung comes with their own OS building such a huge repository of apps takes time. So i don't think so that Samsung would launch it's OS without comparable no. of apps in Tizen too.
The point of a backup is to have redundancy, if backups are too integrated with their target, it becomes one complicated system together (that needs backup). This holds as a general rule.
Will Google Glass replace the Stethoscope? Perspective of an "iPod surgeon"
Samsung should have made their Bada smartphones eligible for an upgrade to Tizen as the OS is supposedly capable of running Bada apps. This would at least establish a user base. Instead all of Bada adopters got screwed badly. I don't think anyone is going to fall for the same trap again.
A good friend of mine (actually back then, my boss) decided to roll the dice in that situation instead of just cashing in 15mill. He lost that game, and he only told me a long time later that he was offered that choice.

I think this is one reason why VCs want young entrepeneurs, because VCs need people who think that they get many more opportunities to cross that line in case the current startup tanks. Because VCs will ALWAYS pick box B if the expected value of B is larger than that of A, even if A is a 100% thing.
What we desperately need is far less people _wanting_ to do a PhD, and its not because it would reduce competition - it's because then the entire postgrad student environment would be forced to seriously consider how it attracts students.

Unfortunately its very hard to make a rational sort of choice at the junction point where you choose, because by then you've already decided you want to do a PhD and so any offer seems like a good one.

But you really shouldn't do this: you need to turn a critical eye to the facilities if you're looking at physical sciences, get a feel for the environment (basically, if people are joking something is always broken, that's a red flag because it won't be funny 18 months in), and try and figure out where your supervisor is at regarding publications - anyone who's established but say, lacks a Nature paper, or has one, needs to be treated suspiciously because their incentive to help you get papers published is low compared to wanting you to pursue high-risk/high-reward type activities. You also really need to pay attention if the project you're being asked to do matches up with what the lab/group you'll be in can do.

A PhD is taking effectively a massive paycut for nebulous future earnings potential, not to mention is asking a lot of your enthusiasm and creativity for a long duration.
From the article:

| New refs are pulled down to the downstream
| repository; all updates, including forced updates,
| are mirrored to the downstream repository.

| As a result, making a mirror clone essentially
| bypasses the safety checks in the repository

And

> If someone force pushes to a centrally shared
> repo, all hell breaks loose.

This would happen to users pulling/pushing from the central repo, but not to the mirrors.
Dear millions of people that have our Galaxy line devices as the center of your digital lives would you kindly switch to this new os, while we convince all the devs to support yet another OS and iron all the kinks. It will go smoothly.

Microsoft are playing the OS switching game for a few years now and this is working great for them.

While I do think that Tizen may be a future, there are huge investments in Android already to make it the future. While their support for Tizen makes some sense as a way to keep google's feet close to the fire and have alternative in case G start to move the OS in wrong direction, a major push to replace Android will be stupid.
> ...the reality is that it is incredibly difficult.

Looking at the industry history it seems more a problem of mindset, that implies a failure understanding a different industry (e.g: hardware != software, ISP != Web). For example, before the new Windows Phone 8 it was incredible that Microsoft insisted with an awkward UI that came from the Palm era. There are a lot of other examples like Nokia/Ovi, Telefonica/Lycos.
I can't imagine a worse android experience than what TouchWiz offers. And if you remove the android ecosystem from that they will have nothing an enthusiast or power user would ever want in a Samsung phone.

Building cheap entry-level phones seemed like the right thing to do, Tizen won't be polished in the beginning (as no OS is) and people buying high-end devices today expect that it is. I'm assuming they don't want to associate Tizen with budget or low quality phones but I really can't see how Tizen will be anything but a spectacular failure in america and europe at least.
Alfred Dev Doctor – An Alfred workflow for documentation search
Isn't this simply an acknowledgement that having an entire OS (at least in a traditional sense) is overkill? I remember a couple of attempts to make the JVM run on bare metal (JavaOS was one if I recall correctly) and I think that, to a lesser extent, ChromeOS, FirefoxOS and company are trying to eliminate some of the bloat that's occurred.

The other day I spun up a CentOS6 server on a VM and it required a minimum of 512MB of RAM. I remember building RedHat5 system (not RHEL5) with 32MB or 64MB. What is the new server doing differently? Functionally I have the exact same machines (yes, the newer machine is more secure, but should that really require 8x the memory?).

So these micro-systems allow the user to go "back to DOS" if they think Windows is too overblown. And if you don't need a windowing system, and you have the language tools you need, why not treat the VMs (or hardware devices) as embedded systems.
Less focus on "boredom", more focus on unstructured time. Boredom implies the child's own attempts at entertaining themselves has failed.

Then again, I consider myself a pretty creative person, even though I insist on plenty of instructions when it comes to work -- but that may come from needing to deal with other people's expectations vs. my own.

"Creativity" does not win out over pre-existing brand guidelines.
The real question here is how important the bottom line is. I think this is more like Cold War thinking - Let the west put up all the costs for research and development, if works - we will borrow it. Using this method, your competitor wastes time and money developing something and you come in and take what works. Is it efficient? Yes.

However, by following the non-risky approach means you are always second and never first (to capture largest market share).
The internet: .com for US vs .co.uk, .co.cn.
The telephone: +1 for US, 011+86 for China.
I am blown away by this study! Kudos for all involved, it must have been a huge effort.

After having read it one time and reread parts a second time, here is my take-away:

1.) When having to chose a file system I would go with Ext4: (a) It is probably the most used Linux file-system, (b) it is 2nd in number of patches which is a very good sign, while it has half the code size of XFS (which is the 1st in number of patches).

2.) When dimensioning a file system (a) be generous (space, number of inodes) (b) use reliable hardware
in order to NOT run into bugs that will be provoked by lack of resources.

Here are some facts and quotes from the study that marked me most:

1.) "The patch percentages are relatively stable over time; newer file systems (e.g., Btrfs) deviate occasionally; bug patches do not diminish despite stability."

2.) "A high fraction of bugs occur due to improper behavior in the presence of failures or errors across all file systems; memory-related errors are particularly common along these rarely-executed code paths; a quarter of semantic bugs are found on failure paths."

3.) "Concurrency bugs are responsible for nearly all deadlocks (almost by definition) and a fair percentage of
corruptions and hangs."

4.) XFS development seems to be quite active (the study goes just to 2011). How comes that the amount of XFS patches is so high? Higher than for Ext4 and BTRFS? Is this FS used so much or is this driven by companies?
I don't know if european commission == european union but PyPy was funded by the EU initially.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyPy#Funding
Would it be somewhat fair in this situation of disability as described to say that disability is a bit like welfare with an excuse? "I'm not too lazy to work or study, my back hurts."

Easier to say in front of peers/parents/etc.
I don't think this is about how much money in taxes the state collects. I think the average tax revenue per citizen is higher for the US than for, let's say, Finland (please correct me if I'm wrong). It might be about how this money are distributed to education vs healthcare vs army vs ... But my hunch is that it's not even this, it's about how the system spends the money and not about how much money (for healthcare it's definitely not, as I don't think anyone spends more than the US on average per citizen, but for education I really don't know anything about the figures, that's one of the reason I've asked this...).
every instance can export its monitoring information as 9p virtual filesystem, which easily can be mounted from outside

we debug server code in BEAM, Erlang on Xen is a deployment platform, if instance crashed we simply restart it.

intruder has very few chances to find breaking in beneficial - there's no shell inside which gives only minimal chances to snatch control, instance simply will crash. also, having of no OS leaves no holes to dig deeper

You're correct, it's exokernel-like approach.

We gain simplicity, much better resource consumption characteristrics, manageability at large scale and much better instance mobility. And, well, security.
Explain how the patent provisions in GPLv3 are 'absurdly dangerous'.
Well, the graphene seems easy enough to manufacture. What are the obstacles to start using this technology right now? What is still missing?
You're essentially punning on the word "monopoly."

Not that it makes it right, but it should be noted that Thomas Jefferson called them "monopolies" as well when discussing the Copyright Clause of the Constitution.
Before I leave the house, I always try to line up a set of topics to think about while I'm in transit to where I'm going. Usually, these are design challenges in the projects I am working on or plans for the next thing to work on. Sometimes, I even allow myself to think about blue-sky type applications as a reward for getting more down to earth work done. Yes, I am a nerd, through and through!

Many times I have wondered what I would do if I were confined in prison or became blind. I think, so long as I was mentally okay and had access to a computer to write software, I would be fine. I even considered that if I didn't have a computer, I would be able to entertain myself by implementing the rules of a game that exhibited computational ideas. After all, John Conway's Game of Life[1] was originally played by hand on a board.

[1]http://www.math.com/students/wonders/life/life.html
I'd love to see this technology being incorporated into Tesla's batteries. With super-fast and long lasting charges their cars might become viable in countries where charging stations are either incredibly rare or nonexistent.
Windows Blue leaks online, includes smaller Live Tiles, IE 11
It is a good point, when the load time is measured in seconds it doesn't leave one with the impression that it's fast. It would be better to see it serving with a more realistic configuration.
Conspicuously missing is any mention of energy density. Who cares about power density. That's juste how fast it can discharge. We don't need capacitors that can discharge faster. All capacitors are already much better than batteries with respect to power. We need capacitors that can store more energy. Capacitors typically suck at that and this article doesn't give any indication that these new ones are better.
I wouldn't be supplied if they used MISRA [1]. It can be enforced just using static analysis too, and IIRC it's good enough for avionics used elsewhere.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
I clicked the link, I saw something I might like and would use but I found absolutely no instructions or information on how to actually use the downloaded archive. Is it mac only? How do you run it?
I am one of the few people who's had the (mis)fortune of developing for Bada, one of Tizen's predecessors.

For a while, I was using a Wave 3, which was basically a nicer Galaxy S2 running Bada (I could never quite understand why Samsung went to the trouble of designing a very nice metal unibody handset and then saddling it with Bada).

People in the office who weren't developers would on occasion pick up the Wave and genuinely believe it was running Android. Samsung had ported TouchWiz over to it, and whilst there were some clearly noticeable differences in terms of performance most people didn't care enough to pick this up. I think you give people too much credit.

All I know is that back then Samsung put a lot of effort in making Bada look, feel, and behave like TouchWiz on Android. I haven't looked at Tizen recently, but I don't see why they wouldn't do the same here.
Hetzner provides a commodity, bare machines, it doesn't lock you into a (non-free) software stack.
Good w/e listening for entrepreneurs
Thanks for the suggestions/advice. I'll need to think seriously about whether to go with this or look for something else proprietary.
It seems great. Thanks.

Is there any possibility to integrate this with Dash? (http://kapeli.com). I like having offline documentation and being able to search dash via alfred with suggestions would be great.
"...If you’re not building a business, then what are you doing?”

Innovating, maybe?
The platform lock-in has never been about the OS, it's always been about the apps. Why do you buy a Nintendo system? Because of the OS? No, because of Mario. Why do you buy Windows? Because of the OS? No, because of Office or some PC game or maybe Visual Studio.

Samsung can't rid itself of Android until it has a way to run android apps on Tizen or possibly just to pay devs millions of dollars to port their apps.
It requires alfred, it does state that just below the download link.
Alfred is only on mac, yes.
Sure, I could try and add dash into it.
p.s. it's also on github so anyone can add anything they'd like it there :)
Here's a page which provides a bit more information than the OP:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/newsroom/more-news/archive/2012...

And here's a paper on the subject:
http://evmc2.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/laser-scribing-of-h...
Are there any tools that can read most standard formats of library documentation (cross-language) and then present it all in a standardised way, e.g. in a locally hosted web app?
It's my understanding that Microsoft's mobile efforts suffered a unique discontinuity that makes it hard to compare them to others: they bought Skype on 10 May 2011, making them anathema to carriers.
Google added a non-fragmentation clause to their OEM agreement[1] which is meant to prevent anyone from forking it in the way that Amazon has. You can fork it, but you can't make official Android phones anymore if you do. Obviously Samsung wants to continue to sell their Galaxy S phones. Tizen is a hail mary pass.

[1]http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/google-tightening-control...
A lot of the Bada models are pretty low specced. They're all using single cores with low amounts of memory. Tizen may be backwards compatible with Bada apps, but I doubt the vast majority of Bada handsets out there are capable of running Tizen without problems.
Blueprints are the same angle(better IMO). Develop the blueprint as a standalone module[1](templates, url rules, static files, before handlers...), and the mount it on the main application.

[1] Not python modules. I say module in the abstraction sense.

For eg, you can create a blueprint comments, define url rules('/', '/new', ':id/edit'...), add authentication to before handler(check before create, delete, edit), and then mount it on the main application.

app.register_blueprint(comments, url_prefix='/comments')

You can have blueprints which are self contained modules(comments), blueprints which just add jinja extensions, blueprints which bring in static assets etc etc. What does Django apps do which blueprints don't?
Oops, I stand corrected.

I was going by what I was told by a couple of Finnish acquaintances in Estonia a few years ago. My understanding was that while there was a numerus clausus procedure in most subjects, none of them were as hypercompetitive as (say) Harvard's or Stanford's admission procedures, nor did choice of university matter nearly as much for your career (plus, some STEM subjects were supposedly pretty easy to get into).

If that's incorrect, I'll withdraw my statement.
In a launcher, the hardware only needs energy during a short pediod of time, a few hours at most.

In the case of station, satellite or probe, solar panels are generally enough.
Here are some papers about software/µP in space for those who want more examples/details:

* Space Software Validation using Abstract Interpretation (2009)

http://www.di.ens.fr/~rival/dasia09.pdf

From the conclusion:
This study has shown that embedded space software are difficult to analyze due to non linearity (mainly in quaternion computations) and complex control command algorithms involved (e.g., Kalman filter).

It should be noticed that the software architecture which suits static analysis by abstract interpretat ion best is also the more readable one and maintainable one. This technique can thus be a metrics of good architectures. In spite of these difficulties, abstract interpretation techniques can greatly improve the quality of space embedded software.

* Qualification of the Atomated Transfer Vehicule (ATV) Flight Control

ftp://ftp.elet.polimi.it/outgoing/Marco.Lovera/ESAGNC08/S01/01_Clerc.pdf

A lot of information about the test process, the usage of Hadware-In-the-Loop and Monte Carlo testing.

* Requirements review, Needs for launchers, space vehicles & orbital infrastructures (2006)

http://microelectronics.esa.int/conferences/ngmp2006/D2-1200...

High-level requirements for On-Board Computer (OBC).
I completely agree with this writeup, but I believe it depends on the child. Some people feed off of the energy and creativity of outside influences. As an introvert, however, I get overwhelmed over time of being unable to quiet my mind. There are times when listening to my radio will make me feel I'll, and I'll shut it off for weeks as a result, until a time comes along when I want to drown out the chaos rolling around up there. Also, having someone constantly talk to me to try and help me stay awake on a road trip actually has the effect of putting me to sleep, because my brain starts to idle when it's being fed constant stimulation. Imagine explaining that to a loved one who thinks they're helping you out. Definitely an arduous learning experience for all parties involved.

I now spend my 6+ hour road trips in complete silence (radio turned off and everyone else asleep), and it's infinitely helpful time to reconnect with myself and my ideas and aspirations.

When I got bored as a kid or young adult, I'd do things like: learn orgami, draw something, learn a programming language, start and commit to a workout plan, create something interesting. Now my life doesn't really allow time for boredom. That's why I needed to get into grad school: to force myself to set aside time to learn and create. I would love a stimuli drought right about now.
My Dad did exactly the same thing. He ran a steel company with profits of around £600,000 was offered ~£2 mill for the company and turned it down. The recession of the 1990's came and completely wiped out the steel/construction industry and his company went under.

In the highly unlikely event I'm ever given that opportunity I'll definitely pick Box A, I've seen first hand just how hard it can be when Box B doesn't work out.
Do you mean "canvas" instead of HTML5 for your phonegap app?