skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's clearly nonsense, tho'. In school you teach at a level of abstraction, it's the same anywhere. We don't require someone to make paper and ink before they learn to write. We don't make people become mechanics before they learn to drive. People with the interest study those things after their basic schooling is complete.
I have one. They just cloned some of iOS with even a similar form factor. This is pretty much what the article is about. Theming is probably the biggest innovation.
Something is very fishy about that incident. They aren't even the same aspect ratio. Either Koh held them at a strange angle or Sullivan has a problem with his sight. I don't believe that anybody who is familiar with the devices would not be able to tell them apart at 10 feet. The Samsung even has SAMSUNG written on the front, and Apple have a giant Apple icon on the back.
> The reactions stop at 56 because Iron has the highest binding energy of any element ...

Not exactly. Nickel-56 is produced in great abundance by the nuclear fusion of silicon. It then decays rapidly to cobalt-56, which then decays quickly to iron-56. The element with the highest binding energy is nickel-62, but it is not as easily formed during a supernova explosion.
Noob question here, but how is OT different from using, say, websockets?

I get that it's cool, but the question is why? What are the advantages??
I think every workstation should be able to run the lat4st first person shooter.

PS - I learned this benchmark of workstation from a VP of eng.
IANAL, but, so what? If you build a stapler using your own internal mechanisms for stapling, and I design my own stapler with my own internal mechanisms, I'm infringing on your ideas just if they both look like staplers from 10 feet away? Or if Firestone patents a certain type of tire, I can never invent my own tire because, from a distance, they both look like tires?
Implying an ideal world of free choice.
Because none of the developers does that themselves, I suspect, and because said developers probably personally believe that paper is "obsolete" anyway so resist adding features like that when asked.
Buy a roku or Apple TV for $99?
> Until that happens it will be hard for any Western company to take them seriously.

this begs the question of whether they really give a shit if western companies take them seriously

obviously you, being in the west, think that the western opinion is the most important in the world, but unfortunately, the rest of the world doesn't necessarily agree with you.

... and they also have $Trillions.
It should be noted that MIUI is also a rampant GPL violator. They have taken a lot of open source stuff under the GPL, among other licenses, and closed it off or even claimed as their own. This probably isn't shocking given the article.

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/11/android-community-demand...
I'm a Go convert. And I have learned and understood the concepts of a lot of other programming languages before, including Haskell, Scala, Rust, C++, Scheme, Common Lisp, Smalltalk, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Lua, JavaScript, Groovy, CoffeeScript, Dart, Java, C#, Objective C, C, Pascal, Basic. I understand higher-order functions, currying and sectioning, parametric polymorphism, monads (including the option/maybe monad), product and sum types, pattern matching, multiple dispatch, meta-programming etc. Yes, Go lacks most of these, it's a "dull", imperative programming language without parametric polymorphism or an ML-style type system (which is not "modern", btw, it's from the early 70s just like C) and with nil pointers. Nonetheless, Go is the most enjoyable programming language I've ever used. It strikes the right balance between features and their cost. I'm tired of being told that I'm just too stupid to see the light.
By this logic, everything is because of dying stars. That kind of scientific explanation is thought-provoking if you're Carl Sagan. Otherwise, it's just annoying and unproductive.

This was clickbait. It didn't even try to disguise itself.

Articles like this are cute, but they're just intellectual masturbation. There's a list of problems with this article:

1. It has no significance or relevance. Essentially, you can replace "barn" with "X" and the article still makes sense. The next time someone asks you why something is the way it is, answer that it's because stars die. They're going to facepalm.

2. It makes sweeping generalities about how stars operate that isn't realistic. @splat answered this well, but basically, that's not the way most iron is formed. Most materials don't come from late stage supernova, they're consumed by the resulting implosion.

3. If the goal is to save money, why not just not paint the barn? Bam, problem solved, with even less money spent than the already cheap red paint. The conclusion doesn't add up.

I really, really dislike this article in its entirety.
The charity will almost certainly receive more money through this mechanism than donating the car -- the intake businesses keep the lion's share of the money. My dad donated a car a while back -- the charity got like $150.
PhoneJS - JavaScript framework for mobile hybrid apps
And do they get shipped to you shortly before you die?
The front line is everywhere.
Yes spot on - many restaurants, especially the smaller places do not take credit cards. Even a large chain of Convenience Stores (FamilyMart) do not accept credit cards for payment.

(Way off topic) Japan can be quite strange with banking and ATMs as well. Unlike, for example, the UK, your ATM cards usually will only work on the ATMs of your bank or perhaps in some convenience stores.

For example, my Citibank card only works at Citibank ATMs, and 711 convenience stores, but won't work at a MUFG ATM. You also get charged for withdrawing money outside of "office hours" at an ATM, and some ATMs stop working after 2100.

It was a little bit of a shock moving from London where I walked around with 10 pounds in my pocket to Tokyo where withdrawing and walking around with 500 dollars worth of yen seems pretty normal.
The article here is spot on:
1. Market share
2. Unfamiliarity
3. Technical gaps

Of these, perhaps #1 is the most important, and to some extent impacts #2 and #3. Linux has a 1% usage share [1]. Schools would be doing students a disservice by teaching them such a marginal desktop technology, when the opportunity cost of teaching them a mainstream operating system is so high. To the masses, Windows skills are more valuable than Linux skills. I'd love to squeeze my own favorite esoteric topics into the curriculum, but there are only so many things you can teach in a day or a year, and you have to choose based on maximum benefit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
If I am remembering correctly, Outlook should let you use a custom domain. However, I've never used it because I use Google Apps.
> We don't need this anymore

My understanding is that AC/DC conversion is lossy and rule of thumb figures online quote 10-15%.

> I also suspect the reliability is not there yet for 20 year operation.

A lot of products already on the market have 20 years lifespans quoted, eg. Socomec FLYWHEEL, Vycon.

> I've read about a large number of companies that have tried, and yet they all seem to vanish.

Sources? I am genuinely curious.
This article, while correct in that red paint is "cheap", misses the real reason why barns are painted red.

Iron oxide is a natural fungicide which protects the crops and animals inside the barn.
The central point of the tablet part of the case brought against Samsung was that they had deliberately attempted to confuse customers intent on purchasing an iPad, into purchasing their product instead, while still thinking they were actually purchasing an iPad, by making them visually difficult to distinguish from one another.

I don't necessarily agree with either side and I am also NAL, but when the case hangs on visual recognition, the ability of the legal team to tell the product they are defending apart from their competitors' probably becomes relevant as a microcosm of Apple's contention.
US prisons got bit crowded. How efficiently you can pack people?
Yet another GUI rewamp without vertical tabs.

sigh
Congratulations!

One thing I miss in Bitbucket is repo discovery. There's no way, or at least I can't find it, to browse the repositories filtering by language, popularity, etc.

1 million users, I don't know how many repos, but I can tell you I've found lots of cool projects in GitHub thanks to to their search/browsing features. I may be wrong but I think Bitbucket needs that.

(there's a bug report: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2934/browse-reposito...)
It's ambiguous the other way:

(defn some-string []
"is this a docstring or a return value?")
I currently work on "student facing" products in higher ed. Find courses. Register for classes. Degree audit. Etc. My work is just a small slice.

It's all open source. I took the job because I believe that open source solutions for government and non-profits are the Correct Answer.

Now, a few years later, I'm disillusioned.

The work I do, one cannot push harder. Like an octopus, the harder you push, the harder the problem fights back. Rather, you have to come at everything sideways. Covertly lay out a tarp to the side of the problem. Sneak up on the problem. Whack it on the head. Hope that it falls onto the tarp. Once it's unconscious, drag the tarp in a generally useful direction. Quickly. Before the problem wakes back up. Before it starts to wander off in some random direction and resumes eating everything in sight.

The IT needs for higher ed are so varied and complicated, there is no one size fits all. I don't see how any code I've written could possibly be used as-is any where else. It's barely useful across all our colleges and departments.

My prior real gig was basically a lot of ETL for medical records for regional health organizations. The higher ed stuff I do now is far more complicated, overall. Which really surprised me.

The community governance model for collaborative development of open source software is very, very, very inefficient. I came from doing startups. Working higher ed, I can't believe how long stuff takes. And what does get accomplished is lowest common denominator stuff, stone soup style. Imagine doing pair programming XP style with the stupidest people you've ever worked with. Now have those people do "software architecture".

I don't know so much about K-12 and community colleges.

But methinks continuous improvement, cultural change for higher ed IT is hopeless.

First, it's wicked hard problem. Scheduling, resourcing, registration, financing, payroll, etc. You'd never guess how much work goes into determining if a class is open (for enrollment) or closed. Now imagine that deliberation for absolutely every function within an organization as heterogenous and weird as a university.

Second, every single mailstop within the organization insists on their own unique super double plus awesome way of doing things. Not better or worse, just different.

Third, there is no existential crisis which can be used to ram change down every one's throats. A president or provost or whoever really is just a fund raising figure head. They're not an executive like a CEO. They're more like the secretary general of the UN.

The only way I can imagine higher ed IT can be "solved" is for GATT style agreement for how stuff should be done to be forged. But I don't want to see that. I love universities for their complexity, weirdness, variety, unruliness. To become an organization with straight forward IT needs, it'd become just a diploma mill. And that'd suck.
It's hard to say since they don't expose the internals of their OS or other products, but one must assume that something interesting happened below in the surface in Windows 8 and in Windows Phone. They also manufacture the xbox360 and are probably working on a next-gen console in addition to that. They run a cloud platform (Azure) that again, probably has interesting things going on under the surface. Etc etc.
Once a day? Any idea why? For a while, mine was due to memory issues but they did some seriously awesome work fixing it somewhere in the high teen updates, ever since then it's been solid.
> First, the car is worth whatever someone will pay for it and not a cent more.

Right, if I'd sold it via Craigslist I could've gotten double the money I would've gotten at auction, you seem to have missed my point :)

So not only would I have ended up with more cash in my pocket, I would've ended up with more cash in my pocket to pay taxes.

This is why donating a car is dumb.
New A/B testing API in Google Analytics allows server-side variant selection
WebSockets is technology used for real-time updates.

OT is an algorithm that allows sending only changed parts of a document and resolving conflicts made if multiple users are editing the same thing.
Another teen that has built a submarine is Håkan Lans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kan_Lans). He built a submarine that took him close to 100 m deep (I find different sources, 90 - 110 m). This was in 1968 while he was 18-19 years old. He subsequently was drafted to FOA, the Swedish defense research institute, and is probably the most famous (to Swedes in general) now living Swedish inventor.
I'm visiting India currently from the States and the biggest hurdle to launching delivery sort of services here must have been effecively locating homes.

Addresses that most "western" countries consider expected (ex. 1 Apple Loop, City, State Zip) don't exist here. Companies literally print on ads "On ____ Road, near ____ Terminal behind ______ City, State".

If Amazon somehow figured this out for India delivery - they'll do great.

Lastly, a 30 day return policy (or any return policy) is unheard of here. Electronics, clothes, anything I bought here strictly said no returns no matter what (even if defective).
Well, to be frank, sites like Saholic are trying to improve stuff.... Saholic offers 'x' days delivery (generally 1-2 days) and then fines itself (giving out gift vouchers for every day that the shipment is delayed)
When Word 4.0 was released, 99% of the documents it was used to produce were intended to be printed. These days, I doubt even 10% of Libre Office documents get printed. As people have gotten more comfortable with and more able to exchange documents electronically, the word processor using population has bifurcated -- 99% going into a group which produces documents for mainly-electronic circulation to a small set of people, and is not very concerned with presentation; and 1% going into a group which produces documents intended to be printed and circulated to wide audiences, and cares deeply about good presentation.

The first group is the Libre Office -- and Office 2013 -- audience, and they generally don't need to do anything sophisticated with headers, footers, and page numbers. The second group uses LaTex or Adobe InDesign or similarly more "sophisticated" software, which of course provides all the requires functionality.
You can use the organization issues dashboard. Its almost impossible to find though (you just reminded me of it and I had to hunt down how to access it: https://github.com/organizations/[Username]/dashboard/issues.
The book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy by William Janeway has a fantastic history of speculative bubbles and venture capital, and then some. It's a tough book to read if you don't have a background in finance and econ, but it's well worth the effort if you want to understand Western capitalism in practice.
You have taken one book, but in most general cases foreign author books are quite expensive in India.
I wish they had gist functionality like on GitHub. Otherwise, good service.
Sort of going against the grain here, I've done two mobile apps that are doing well. I was able to grow them because I know Facebook virals really well, and we iterate like crazy, do lots of split testing, and they are in verticals that are sort of amenable to such things. No money spent on promotion of any kind either.
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At Microsoft I work with an organization named TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) which places volunteer software engineers with schools to teach intro computer science & programming classes to high school students. The program has greatly supplemented the intro CS teaching resources available in the Seattle area.

However, the volunteers run into massive roadblocks with school IT departments. Want to install a new browser or (a god forbid) an IDE on lab computers? Expect at least a semester of hand wringing.

This isn't the fault of the IT staff, it's a result of massive underfunding of public education. Everyone does the best they can but school employees are stretched so thin already that it's very hard to drive change to computing resources that are a prerequisite for computing education for those students who don't have access to their own DEV environment.

Long story short: school systems that are strapped for cash don't have the capital resources to bring an alternative architecture up to parity as a teaching tool. They don't even have the resources to support volunteer teachers.
I don't quite understand your spreadsheet. Founder shares are usually purchased well before the investment, but here you're calculating them as a function of the total number of shares. Because the number of founder shares is already established, price per share absolutely matters.

EDIT: That is, price per share isn't an independent variable (it can be calculated as a function of the other variables) -- but it can't be arbitrarily set.
This didn't seem like an egregious example, because I didn't sense it was meant to be taken all that seriously. "Just So" stories are alive and well in evolutionary psychology. How could you verify that X behavior came about because it helped humans get away from tigers in Africa 20 million years ago? It sounds plausible, I guess, if you take for granted that it must be explicitly coded for somewhere in the genome. But I don't.
Indeed. But "Should we trust journalists?" is less popular for some reason.
This is a huge problem for us also, and I've considered moving things over to Jira several times over the past couple weeks because of it. The only quasi-solution I've found is to feed multiple repos into a single chat room in Hipchat so people can get some idea of progress. More broadly though, I'm quite dissatisfied with GH issues (UI, poor search, clunky milestones, no burn charts, etc.).
It is an extremist position (and one that will get you absolutely nowhere, like it or not) to demand the FBI disclose information about ongoing investigations.

I don't think that's the position the parent is taking. As it stands now, the FBI does not disclose information about investigations, even long after they are completed.
I would guess that it's possible that the way X works prevents this from happening. At least, easily.

I use an offbeat windowing manager (WM) (aka, the client to Xorg that actually draws the base-level windows for the GUI). The WM gets to present titlebar as it pleases, and given how my WM works, there's 0 chance that Firefox would be able to draw it's own stuff up in there.

Given that, perhaps some WMs can allow the client window to draw up there and some can not. I get the impression that, at a minimum, the titlebar is not guaranteed to be fair game.
No, the reason it will never happen is because every single interest that sells any baby anything will oppose it (unless they are written into the bill to sell to the government at 110% retail). Even if 99% of the population wants it, Target gets a veto. That's why all these great programs that anyone mentions have started 50+ years ago; back when something could get done even if you could find one large corporation that it wasn't in the best interests of.
Sadly doesn't provide any filtering on tags, which is the only way to assign priority. In fact, all I really get is a list of all open issues.
Tabs are a bit too small to display much useful info though. A page yes, but which song is playing - already too wide. It would be a major improvement if tabs became about twice as wide by default, only shrinking on demand (like they already do).
Firefox still doesn't support the built-in dictionary introduced in OS X _10.5_. :(
"Well, if this is a free for all troll thread, then let me jump in." I'd suggest your earlier comment[0] led to this being the case. So you are in fact continuing to set the tone.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5823335
I think you’re mistaken. iPhone 4S was available on October 14, 2011, iPhone 5 was first sold on September 21, 2012. Given that release cycle, I seriously doubt a new iPhone model will be announced in the coming month. However, since the iPhone 4 import ban won’t be active for another two months, the effect will be minimal for Apple.
The new ui update has the specific goal of reducing configurability, so new users dont get "confused".

Such changes include the inability to edit any of the UI except a row of buttons on the top left, shockingly just like chrome!. I'm sure these changes will help focus their design vision, or something.

So in short, no, you wont be able to configure your client to look exactly like it did before.
"A lot" and "rampant" seem like exaggerations. Based on that link, most of MIUI's changes are to the Android source code, which licensed under the permissive Apache license.

Only their modifications to the linux kernel need to comply with the GPL license.

edit: Here is the relevant quote from the parent's link

>While the kernel modifications [to the GPL licensed Linux kernel] are only a small part of the modifications Xioami has done to create MIUI, it does include the low-level work Xioami has done to push things like performance and energy efficiency.
Another might argue that markets quite often fail, rather than produce the efficiencies they should in the ideal world, let alone the socially optimal results.
The Oil Drum has a pretty good reference on flywheel technology and reasonably recent developments as well:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8428
Amazing to see the on-prem chops of a company who is so cloud-oriented.
Ah, so your argument is a semantic one.
And the point of having curved tabs is... ?
I was mainly referring to function arguments. Any function that takes a pointer type has to have null checks at the beginning, since any of the pointer arguments may be null.
What does this monitoring achieve, though, exactly? If the parent is correct in that a high end eruption at Yellowstone would kill >50% of the US's population, saying "hey guys, it's gonna erupt soon" doesn't do all that much for us.

Now, if our monitoring of earthquakes was advanced enough that we could say, "hey, San Andreas is gonna go nuts approximately 3 days from now in this general area", we could meaningfully evacuate people and save lives. But we don't have that kind of prediction accuracy.
Thanks for pointing that out, while I was reading the article I was wondering how they could brand themselves as apple-like when they must surely be selling and Android phone.

It's sad that every tech story about China has to be given an anti-Chinese spin, to the extent that the tech angle is completely overlooked.
Hmm, makes me think there should be a way to keep the taskbar when you press F11. Sounds like that'd be an easy solution for what you're doing.

(Offtopic: Oh wait nobody wants a taskbar anyway, ain't it so Windows 8? :P)
>it's a shame there is no more status bar as well

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar...
You know, in Switzerland, if you own your home outright, the money you are not paying in mortgage is counted as income and taxed accordingly.