skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously? This is the earliest beta of this release. Only bricking twice a day sounds "pretty stable" to me.

I've had an iPhone5 since it came out and I've had one instance of needing to hard-reboot the device. Can't remember the details.

OTOH, My previous phone, a Galaxy S2, had far more issues. Multiple times in my ownership -- at least 4 that I can remember -- I literally had to remove the battery to restart the device.

In many ways I wish I had a hybrid device. The fit and finish of the hardware itself is much better from Apple. Some OS features and especially Google-provided web services are much better on Android. (Speech-to-text for one..) But having owned an Android for 2 years and an iPhone for 8 months, the iPhone is definitely, definitely more stable.

In some ways it seems like Apple v Microsoft on the desktop again. Apple controls the OS and the hardware so yes it BETTER be more stable. And it is.
Obama's ConnectED Initiative
Google Fixes Mobile Web
Doesn't it matter that the guy giving the orders was President-freakin'-Washington? Even putting aside the Constitutional questions of the Whiskey Rebellion, I don't think that's reasonable evidence on the fair-mindedness of U.S. military personel.
Even Gruber at Daring Fireball has heaped praise on Windows Phone's design since it came out.
Hmm maybe you could donate bone marrow then?
Google Offers Some Detail on How It Transfers Data to the Government.
> The NSA doesn't need to break Google/Facebook/Twitter's private key.

Bill Binney has already said [1] this is exactly the case:

"No online cipher is safe...

Simply because if they don't have the key, they will come across and get it from you (that's assuming they didn't already implant it in your system).

The safest way is to do encryption offline, then go online and send it, and do decryption offline... If you don't have an air gap, you're not safe.

...I don't think they have to break [the encryption keys] at all. They already have them. That's my point. No online system is safe."

[1] http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/21783-the-government-is-profili... ~33 minutes
EdX President Anant Agarwal hopes that edX will become the 'Linux of Learning'
decline and fall of IBM? IBM transformed itself from a manufacturing company to one of the largest services company in the world. HP, Dell, everyone is getting out of the hardware business (low margin, etc.) and following IBM's lead (HP bought EDS and is trying to get rid of their hardware business. Dell bought Perot Systems 4 years ago and is in the process of going private so it can transform itself into a mini-IBM).

IBM's return on invested capital grew from 14.92 (2003) to 31.39 (2012).

HP from 9.98 (2006) ROIC to 14.97 (2012)

DELL from 43.33 (2003) to 11.32 (2012)

GOOG from 30.56 (2003) to 15.29 (2012) <=== going into the hardware business (MOTOROLA) is a bad idea for GOOG

MSFT from 17.66 (2003) to 22.66 (2012)

AAPL from 1.55 (2003) to 42.84 (2012)

If you noticed, IBM's ROIC is higher than other tech companies except Apple.
That is such an accurate summary of what I was trying to convey that I will change my name to Patrick to make the rest of your comment correct. :)
one of the things i liked about Microsoft is that you can move teams (pretty) easily. i myself have had different experiences/practices in both the teams i was a part of.
The readme mentions that the issue is reproducible in OSX and Windows which further supports your theory.
Along those lines... I was once asked to essentially "speed up a report" but after asking a few questions discovered that the user of the report actually needed only about two values out of dozens of pages of detail and summarized totals on the report. Everything else on the report had been thrown on in the initial design as "someone might need that" requirements.

We created a new report that delivered what the user actually needed, and it ran in a fraction of the time. The speed difference was so great the users in fact doubted that the report could be correct, until they verified it against the old one.
Hey there, author of the post here. Yes I believe there are different realities in Dev and Test organizations and this may be the pure source of my experience (in both positive and negative aspects). Thanks for pointing that out.
Love how you put that... Long hot summer.
I found it suspicous because in most other threads I've seen a large portion commenters are more worried about the details of the surveillance than Snowden's motives - here it seems reversed.

Additionally, to me it seems very possible that this is part of the smear that Snowden will have to endure, the point of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5868853.
Check their financial reports, desktop is 25% of their income: http://business.opera.com/company/investors/finance/

> Opera 15 is not a fork of Chrome either.

Are you thenwhat? Just on the off-chance that you're not him: What you described is exactly what a fork is. Please don't try to comment on software development until you've actually gained the experience that job entails.
The other side - often forgotten
Sounds like we're going to see CISPA and CALEA-2 pass, especially with such a large emphasis on public-private partnerships and 'embedding' security methodologies/frameworks into products and services.
I'm pretty sure this is Asok from Dilbert.
exactly.

"Why Warren Buffett Keeps Buying IBM"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gurufocus/2013/01/08/why-warren-...
Not all markets have these, and some phones are hard coded to specific markets even if unlocked.
Here's something I've been thinking about, let me know your thoughts: I'm thinking of the nuclear bomb analog. Other people have nukes, so we need nukes, and we have to trust the government not to turn nukes against us. Is it possible this is a similar example...and what we really should be doing is having oversight on the analogous launch codes...etc?

Note: this is not saying what they did was legal.
Hasn't Apple's process always been to take other successful things and offer a very polished and high quality feel of it?
> Fortune 500 companies tend to be trigger happy lately and not backing their employees.

All the more reason to speak his mind rather than try and feign some sort of loyalty to the man, which will never be returned.
I agree that Snowden's credibility is incredibly important here. However, the NSA's credibility (and transitively, the administration's) is also incredibly important since almost their entire defence boils down to "just trust us". Currently I haven't seen anything to suggest that Snowden is lying except that some of his claims are fairly outlandish and some are contradicted by what Google et al are saying - however they're fairly highly incentivised to at least fudge the truth a little under their current constraints. On the other hand it's pretty clear that Clapper lied under oath to a senator ("least untruthful"? Seriously?) so the onus is on them to recoup their credibility. I'm also anxiously awaiting more slides.
Sounds about right to me. You leave university with an understanding of how things should be done. But reality is nothing like that. Adapt and move forward.

I would like to offer one other realization that you need to make early on. Your bosses are your bosses because they are better at playing politics than the people that came before them, not because they are more skilled or talented. The best part of working for a large selective company like MS is that you get to work with skilled/talented Type A personalities. Start building your rolodex. This way when you want to move into a director position or start a company you are miles ahead of everyone else.

Cheers!
The NT kernel is well designed. Windows is full of a lot of other cruft though, a lot of which isn't.
Does the Big Bang necessarily mean we’re part of a multiverse?
Well put. This scenario requires the least assumptions.
There's also the "Featherweight Firefox" browser model in Coq
http://www.the-inconsistency-principle.com/upenn//browser-mo...
Cloudflare is supposed to solve that problem but instead serve a page saying they can't. Not a positive endorsement of their service.
This is why there should be fewer laws, with proper penalties for those laws. Many of our laws are designed to prevent us from doing worse things.

Imagine driving on a residential street at 60 mph. That in and of itself is not a problem (other than noise), but hitting something at that speed most certainly is, especially in a neighborhood. Likewise, drunk driving is not a problem until you hit someone or crash yourself. Not coming to a complete stop at a 4-way stop sign. (all traffic examples, sorry)

Those traffic behaviors are not destructive, until something goes wrong. So if we reduce the law count but increase penalties, we're on the right track. For instance, if we really want to stop the effects of drunk driving, we have 30 days jail time for the first offense.

I think that if we had the proper (minimum) set of laws, then we should have no problem with 100% enforcement.

Now, on the issue of privacy, actually achieving 100% enforcement would be impossible without a complete surveillance state (or zero laws, but this is the trivial case).

We do have the power to change the direction of this country, and the author of the article points to gay marriage and pot use to champion this idea of liberty. But the author also points at the sheer scope of federal law as a huge problem. If the government has a problem with you, they can (probably) put you behind bars -- and this is a problem indeed.

So how should you vote? Vote for candidates who want to reduce the burden of government on the people and enhance personal freedom. I contend that gay marriage wouldn't even be an issue if the government weren't involved in marriage in the first place (and it shouldn't be). The Left loves tearing down the moral codes of previous generations, claiming bigotry, homophobia, etc., but it also loves to build up government in a huge way. The Republicans, unfortunately, have lost the way of small government, but I believe they are a better hope than the Dems, in the long run.
really curious what you mean when you say rape can be "needed"...
I've experimented quite a lot with Coq, and am still struggling to get value from it in a distributed systems context. TLA+ (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/tl...), on the other hand, was useful to me from the first day that I tried to use it. It's model seems better suited to demonstrating properties of distributed systems, and often the exhaustive testing approach of TLC provides much of the same value that Coq's proofs do.

Coq and TLA+ obviously solve different problems, so comparing them directly isn't possible. For a first step into formal methods for distributed systems engineers, however, I'd recommend TLA+ based on my experiences.
"...the atomization of society, the loosening of social bonds ... deep suspicion of authority, the strong belief that hierarchies and organizations are suspect, ... the assumption that individual preference should be supreme... the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism, the fraying of the social fabric..."

It's the culture wars. The issue might not be inherently about left and right, but the way David Brooks is framing it is straight from the culture wars of the 1960s. I think he's slightly in denial, but he seems to argue with himself and then take reliably conservative positions.
Gosh, it's almost like WWI where two of the largest most interconnected economies in the world were also bitter enemies who nearly destroyed each other.

Or maybe you meant we're actually in 'a weird post-post-modern dystopia epoch' and you're not simply ignorant of history and being hyperbolic...
Whenever I see a post like this I think it's circling around a different problem. It would seem that the overall task or project that a person is using the computer for in a particular moment is important but there is no modern OS (that I know of) that keeps track of this context.

Such a system might be a sort of metadata API for tasks or projects. The system would have a built in task tracking application that would interface with this API. (Which could be pluggable) The metadata for a task could hold a lot of information. For example a default directory where files for the task are stored could be created when the task is created. Other applications like a word processor could query the API to find out where to store its files. Web browsers could store what pages a user looks at for a task. E-Mail clients could offer the current task as a folder to store messages in. When the user switches tasks the currently open applications would be messaged and could open files the user had open when they were perviously working on that task. Finally when a user marks a task as completed all the files and messages related to that task could be archived together.

For the novice user of this system things like the file system go away. Their view is the projects that they are currently working on. The file system will still be there under the covers but user doesn't need to see it. The power user might have tools for developing common project workflows.
I don't understand where the cost comes from. Can't you double-spend at will until one of your transactions makes it into the blockchain? Until that point, as far as the Bitcoin network is concerned, you haven't actually spent any money. So it seems like you'd have ten minutes or so of double-spending ability, totally free, and only have to start using processing power if you want to extend beyond that ten-minute period (by forking a blockchain that excludes the transaction you intend to double-spend).

My understanding of Bitcoin implementations is pretty vague, though, so I'd welcome correction if this isn't actually how it works.
Probably, though it's hard to get a good grasp on actual power efficiency because Intel fudge their power figures so much these days...
I'm a pack rat and I will archive these photos along with all of the other photos I've taken during my life. I currently have a terrabyte (not that much, but still enough to cause headaches) of such photos that are backed up in 3 locations, yada, yada, yada.

On principle, if I am going to get pictures then I want the highest quality since one lesson I've learned is that the quality from 10 years is 1/10 the quality available today. Might as well record and store the maximum quality today since over the course of the marriage (10s of years, I hope) today's quality will be just 'average.'

My suspicion is that he plans to make profit on the prints, and he's afraid I've found a way to bypass him. I just don't understand why he doesn't price his time and skill and use the prints as add-ons.
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When I look at their net income (~16 billion) and stock two words that do not come to mind are decline and fall.

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&c...
Employers hand out bonuses to incentivise enployees to stay. Employees do unpaid overtime to incentivise employers to keep them. My point is that they are fundamentally similar concepts. It's great that you're in a position where your employer wants to incentivise you to stay around by giving you bonuses yet you don't need to do overtime to keep your job. I'm also in a similar position. Some people aren't, and this has nothing to do with European work culture or work ethics. It's supply and demand.
Twitter retires API v1, killing off TweetDeck for iOS, Android, AIR & others
IBM lays off hundreds in Westchester, Dutchess counties
Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry
Can't speak for FireBeyond or dorian-graph but I too am running it on my regular, everyday iPhone 5 and have found it surprisingly stable.

Any actual crashes seem to be a result of doing too many things at once, particularly during an animation (eg: close out of an app and double-click for multitasking before the animation is finished). The crashes seem to cause a restart of the Springbord app rather than a complete system reboot, so it comes back within 10 seconds and hasn't lost any data (it even keeps the same song playing in the background).
FYI: interesting discussions happening at 45:00+ minutes. Talking about Snowden's education and training, phone tapping and investigation, various authorities, etc. Interesting that they keep asking Alexander about what he thinks he is allowed to do or is doing?!
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thanks, these help
Watching old people stumble over so much jargon is rough. Not because it makes them sound ignorant, but because I know that it muddles the message for people who need to get it.
> Are you fucking kidding me? That's what 21 year olds do.

Not all, i have the pleasure of working with some 20-22 year olds who would be very unlikely to make such a statement.
Hey there, author of the post here. Yes I am an SDET but what does this change? Are SDETs supposed to go through all this experience? Why nobody is fixing this? So if people are escaping from being a Test engineer, what can we infer about current test engineers?
Well, true, that's what we've grown up with: handles that are clever and reflect something about us (or deflect everything about us). But who wants to use john.basketball.expert@gmail.com as a professional contact address? Unless your full name is John Basketball Expert, which is sort of what I'm getting at. I wouldn't change my kid's middle/surname to Basketball Expert, but I'd consider something like Emily Clementine Raptor Mitchell. Seems silly now, but I like the idea that my child could turn on and off her searchability, or at least tune it up or down.

Two namespace wars in the email address: the part before @, which is where we fight over who gets to be "johnsmith", and the domain, where we fight to get either johnsmith.com, the most neutral, popular name like gmail.com, or a short, memorable, personal, pronounceable, and easy to spell domain.

And then we pitch headfirst into the coming TLD clusterfuck! It all makes for fun times and cash money.
This is like watching a super awkward scene in a movie or TV show that just won't end.

The word "cyber" has been applied to every noun, and I've apparently been out of the loop on terms like "techno-boondoggle".

This is just a little terrifying.
> Well, they've been compounding at over 10% for the investor for the last 10 years

Those sort of metrics are lagging indicators - they are about what was done in the past. There were plenty of similar companies with similar performance, right before they cratered. The Innovator's Dilemma covers this in detail. (Of course that is no guarantee IBM will crater.)
And Apple Is Doomed(tm)
GoogleProof: Making yourself unsearchable becoming more popular
PCManFM
Hey there, author of the post here. Thanks for your comments. I agree all your arguments. This post was intended to be expected vs reality and you are also pointing out the reality. So I am just sharing what my reality is publicly. :) thanks for the comment.
This is pretty interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outgroup_homogeneity_bias
I didn't think having to maneuver around passive aggression and outright blocking by current management, or having to pass full interview loops for each new position, were particularly fluid. Perhaps in a culture of hyper-competitiveness, some find those circumstances exciting. I found them good reasons to leave the company.
I appreciate the value in acquiring rights and have accepted that while unfair in general, it is the accepted practice for photography.

However, I just don't understand why copying files from a hard drive (whether the finished lightroom product or originals from DS card) is so hard. I just wondered if there was something else I was missing.
Hey there, author of the post here. Thanks for pointing that out, this is supporting and it feels good. I was also thinking about the academia path before my graduation.
I think the route is still crystal clear: use Linux. That's the start of the path that led me to becoming a "real" programmer (as opposed to just a cargo cult programmer). I think it's possible to use OSX and even Windows in the same manner, but it's not in your face like it is with Linux (e.g., it's very hard to avoid learning the command line in Linux).
Facebook to introduce Hashtags
didn't they start using @ymail.com a few years ago? have they stopped doing that?
It would be nice if people realized that the United States was built upon the premise that the individual is sovereign, not the states. Your rights come from God, not government. Many think they have all the freedom they need, since they can drive (most places) with no papers and download whatever apps they want on their phones.

The government is heading down a very dangerous path and has been for a long time. Members of both major parties are too blame, for they have allowed government to grow to a scale that is far too large to leave room for the individual to be truly free.
(NB: I fall within the gender binary. Ask someone who doesn't.)

I can't imagine many scenarios when it is actually necessary.

I just found a good article about how doing Male/Female/Other is problematic, called 'The Gender Ternary: Understanding Transmisogyny' [1]

Diaspora solved this by making gender a text field [2]. Seems like the most inclusive.

[1] https://radtransfem.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/genderternary-t...

[2] http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/
The kind of jack-ass feature that's been carefully kept by its creator despite a number of people doing exactly what you did and then complaining about it. I've honestly got no idea why.
Who's copying who now?
I don't know if anyone read the onsite comments, but I don't know if this is funny or true:

"Simple question, why wasn’t Snowden’s girlfriend a Spook? Back in the 1990s, if any nerd/geek/brain had access to Top Secret data then one of 17 U.S. agencies would have paired such a person with a beautiful girlfriend with similar level of clearance with whom he could talk just so he wouldn’t run away or leak, and said girlfriend would go on to become wife and pop out a kid or two, preventing said nerd/geek/brain from ever leaking (even if he ran away) just to avoid starving his kid/s because their mommy would lose her security clearance. What happened to America after 9-11? Fear got rid of all the common sense? lol.

Let me guess, the Carlyles went Boozing with Allen and Hamilton and they supplied the intelligence community with so many thousands of geeks and nerds that America’s 17 intelligence services ran out of beautiful women with whom to keep them in line. Ofcourse Snowden would leave his pole dancing, nature loving girlfriend of 8 years (with whom he couldn’t talk about anything and who couldn’t share the burden to his conscience because she had no security clearance) to blow the whistle and expose the alarming surveillance of innocent Americans who have no way to prove their innocence if their innocent words and second or third degree online associations mistakenly put them under suspicion and surveillance just because some computer algorithm got triggered. Just how many Americans are under suspicion right now? What are the numbers exactly? Thousands? Millions? lol."
Hey there, author of the post here. By "documentation" I mean docs for millions of lines of code written for the infrastructure running our systems internally and not shipped to public. These are dark areas that one can't easily find documentation in corporations, IMO.
What about cybernouns? Do we have those yet?
What's a bonus? I'm a top employee for my employer but I've never had this phantom thing.