skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I haven't. Alcohol is my drug of choice and now that I think about it, in terms of use is probably the closest thing we have to SOMA.
And why would a programmer know it was for the NSA? Just tell your underling, "We need a backdoor for <Plausible reason>"
> Then again, while I absolutely love doing work with big data, I've been having a bit of an "existential crisis" since the NSA leaks

Book recommendation: "Who owns the future" by Jaron Lanier.
The career path for engineer is engineer. The mindset of most people at your company is going to be criminal-like desire for money and power while minimizing effort. If you share that desire then maybe you would fit those other roles. Don't think for a second that anyone at your company cares at all about your "career path." If you mention those words in the workplace you'll be ridiculed behind closed doors. Why don't companies show this? Because they're run by the shitty people.
> Elop needs to go now. What an ass clown. It's been a while since we've seen someone with such bad ideas making such horrible decisions, one after another. He reaped what he sowed, and the board can thank him for decimating a once fantastic phone company.

Shipping phones running Android is far from a guarantee of success. Indeed, only Samsung is doing well with Android right now, and even then only in the last year or so. Every single other Android handset maker is struggling. Android turns your hardware into a commodity, just as Windows turned PC hardware into a commodity. It's very hard to overcome this simple fact, even if you do make great hardware (see the HTC One). Don't take my word for it, ask HTC, ask LG, ask Motorola/Google, and so on.

Elop surely doesn't deserve to be dismissed as an "ass clown" for adopting what almost every critic agrees is a first rate phone OS. If Windows Phone had just a tiny bit of momentum, partnering with Microsoft would be a great strategy for establishing differentiation from Apple and the various Android phones.
Just a note on readability. You have a font color of #555 against #fff; Its a light grey against white background and very hard to read.
I'm located in Germany and when asked I (and others I know) always say 25869. That's Germany's smallest zip code, a remote island with only 5 people living there. Stats should look funny for that zip :)

What's the smallest zip in the US?
So if Nokia wants to stop being more than a niche smartphone player in the future, they'll have no choice but to at least also adopt Android. It's the right strategy for the Nokia board to pick.

This is exactly the same thing that everyone was saying about Apple in 1996. Apple's board had to decide between several OS alternatives to replace the failed homegrown Copland project. There were BeOS and NextStep that could be bought outright, and they also considered licensing Solaris or Windows NT.

A lot of observers were saying:

"Microsoft has won. If Apple wants to be in the computer business, they have to adopt Windows. It's the right strategy for the Apple board to pick."

Would Apple be around today if they had decided on Windows NT instead of NextStep? Not likely. The obvious popular choice is often not the right one -- it's "skating to where the puck was".
Only when their sexual maturity is in doubt.
The radioactive elements in fossil fuels is less of a problem than you think, because
a) coal plants, etc. have to filter these out (at least in germany they do)
b) they have short half-times.

And storing the radioactive waste for a few thousand years is by no means an easy/cheap task.. just look at the two experimental radioactive waste sites in germany.. both turned out to be a huge disaster in less than 100 years.
Also I am not convinced that breeder reactors help you that much to get rid of thousands of tons of radioactive reactor assembly.
Samsung's Galaxy S4 orders cut from 12m to 6m.
What, exactly, is "an average criminal"? There are laws against causing damage to property that's not yours. No one is saying let all the criminals out. Just stop putting people in jail for hurting absolutely nobody except themselves. 30k a year is a bargain? That's a laugh. regular people live on much less than 30k a year in furnished houses, why should an 8x8 cell and one guard per n inmates cost more than a large number of people make in a year? Why do you and I foot the bill for their medical and education costs? I can hardly afford my own education, much less an education for inmates. If you're not disturbed or angry, or at least critical of the current situation, you should consider a reappraisal of your view on what a bargain is.
Nokia hardware is pretty legendary. I echo other comments that Nokia hardware combined with Android would give Samsung a good run for its money.

Still annoyed about the N900 and Maemo/Meego/whatever it is called now.
My biggest issue with digital downloads is the cost.

My experience with Xbox live is that digital releases are launched at a price and stay there, apart from limited time promotions, for a long.

I can go on to Amazon or into HMV and get major releases from a couple of months ago for half the RRP, normally significantly cheaper than download. Plus i can give the disc to one of my friends when i'm done.
Yeah. What a ridiculously one-sided deal. Heads I win, tails you lose.

If Nokia had done well, Microsoft would have acquired them for an artificially low price. Now that they have crashed, Microsoft is free to walk away. Nokia can't get out of the deal without making ruinous repayments to Microsoft. Meanwhile, MS is developing its own hardware, which will compete directly with Nokia. In the long term, who knows? They might even perhaps to scupper the whole Windows Phone project, like Windows CE before it.

As I said at the time, the absolute best case scenario for Nokia under their current course is to become another white-box OEM for Windows, operating on razor-thin profit margins. And we all know how Microsoft treats its OEMs.

Probably the best thing they could do now is go declare chapter 11 (or whatever the Finnish equivalent is) and sell the component businesses. NAVTEQ ought to be worth a lot-- after all, TeleAtlas went for several billion a few years ago. Bankruptcy might give them a chance to get out from some of these pound-me-in-the-butt contract terms, too. At this point, the company is probably worth more broken up than whole.
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this is much closer to a mid-range desktop a lot of people have been asking for, except it's going to cost an arm and a leg.

Kind of like Apple is pulling something like this:

Mid-range desktop you say? Hmm... Yes, I've got just the thing- How about a mid-range desktop with the price of a top-end desktop?
That neither contradicts my point nor validates your earlier assertion. This conversation isn't going anywhere so I'm abandoning it now.
I just realised; If you opened a website with a linked in share button, your cookie might be compromised as well; you didn't even have to go the the site while under the DNS Hijack...
The main issue is how badly Microsoft marketed the XBOX One. They completely failed to get their message across. As a result they were getting shit on by Sony.

Facebook and reddit have seen a huge number of anti-XBOX posts.. I don't know what pre-orders were looking like but I would imagine they aren't great because of all the bad publicity.

I wonder how things would have looked if Microsoft had a decent marketing team.

"We are going to revolutionize how you enjoy games. When you buy a game you can share it with up to 10 friends. When you sign in to any console anywhere your games library will be available. Here's a first. You can transfer digital games to another person!"

They could then talk about the caveats.

"To make these features possible and promote the development of awesome games we have introduced a developer revenue sharing plan for used games. This means you can only trade in games with registered partners. We have already signed up Gamestop, blah, blah and blah. We are adding more every day. On average an American will only be x miles from a vendor."

"The XBOX One allows you to play games online and offline. Just like any other console. However, to make use of game sharing and portable games library both XBOX's will need to be connected to the Internet so they can regularly check in."

"We believe the XBOX One will allow you to experience more games. We are the first vendor to let you share digital games. You will never need to walk around with your disc's again. The games will be right with you. This is the XBOX One"

OK.. I added in offline play. I think it is ridiculous that they didn't allow this. I would have got behind this. The problem is that Microsoft hadn't worked out what they were doing before their launch event. Everyone was confused. Then there was the death trickle of hit and miss information from MS and XBOX support. Meanwhile deafening rumors drowned out everything else.

The Internet didn't make Microsoft kill anything. They did all this themselves with some of the worst information delivery and brand management I have ever seen.

"The Internet" made it clear offline gaming and the ability to freely trade and share games were important to them. I am happy that a lot of people sent a strong message in an attempt to defend this right. It is a shame that Microsoft couldn't get across that what they were providing was in fact not at odds with this.
Half-Life 2
(or so i remember)
Senate overwhelmingly bans US surveillance without court order (1978)
> Now you have two people playing the same game at the same time with only one copy of the game bought.

And?
I've just recently started to dig into stack-based programming languages and would love to get hold of the Leo Brodie manuals.

One question to programming language experts: Is it possible to have a stack-based programming like forth but without the need for the extra characters needed in the syntax (like quotes, brackets etc..) and only use whitespace to separate the 'words'?
"First supersonic drone"? No love for the Lockheed D-21?
Join the cause (protests planned for July 4th on the right):

http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth
Another sad day where the indignant vocal minority have spoiled it all for the rest of us.

I don't think there was anything in the early schema that would have impacted the way I use the system (apart for multi day internet or server outages) but plenty of benefits

Game sharing was a huge positive step, even though I felt that most publishers would ignore or disable (like game sharing on the DS).

Not having to swap physical disks would have made life much easier and increased my playing time. I'm fairly lazy when I've settled down for an evening in front of the TV. A usual XBox session involves playing what ever game is in the drive till i get bored (anything from 15 minutes up) switching to something downloaded so i don;t need to get up (normally trials). Getting bored again and flipping to TV or a movie.

The ability to choose from my whole library with leaving my seat would have been a revelation.

Also, my two year old has lost my Forza disk, which really sold this idea.
I'm sure Microsoft did all the good things you said they should have done. However, on most tech sites there is a huge anti-Microsoft bias. So instead of the tech sites talking up all the good things Microsoft is doing, all they focus on is the negative things. Then, surprise, everyone is up in arms about all the bad things Microsoft is doing.
Not a Mac guy, but I believe the Mac Pro normally uses a Xeon chip, which I believe have used fairly stable sockets over the years. For example, socket 604 was used by the Xeon for 5 years, and LGA771 has been supported from 2006 to present.
Nokia was in serious trouble before Elop joined. Remember his "burning platform" memo? It was right on the money. Nokia's nascent smartphone platform would have been stillborn. The head start that Apple and Google had in terms of apps was just too great.

His mistake was choosing Windows phone over Android. They really were the only 2 realistic choices. With Google producing their own competing hardware and buying Motorola on one side and his former employer offering bags of cash on the other, is it really that surprising?

Looks like history will judge him harshly, but I think he took a hospital pass.
The whole news about Microsoft buying Nokia is just a rumor. It's probably something that might happen but it's still a rumor that has been circulating since they announced their alliance in 2011.

So I think writing "And it explains so much about the disastrous strategic choices Nokia made for its mobile phones division over the past year." is pretty far fetched stuff.

The author also added "citations" from WSJ that don't appear in the original article (for example "... in part because of the price and Nokia’s own strategic predicament"). So I wouldn't give much weight on what this guy is writing.
There's a free shuttle bus route in Wollongong (hour south of Sydney) which is also starting to be adopted in Sydney. Buses loop the CBD and outskirts, and arrive every 10-30mins: http://www.wollongong.com/travel-info/free-shuttle-bus.aspx
Fuck you techdirt

I've had that reaction so many times now that I eventually stopped clicking on any story from there. All they ever do is pander to their readers' preconceptions. With friends like these, we don't need enemies.
This.

I'm writing this on a 2 year old Lumia 710. This replaced a 6303i. The thing has had the crap bashed out of it but it has never faltered, not once. In that time it has never crashed as well.

To be honest, the only bit I don't like about this as a Windows Phone is Microsoft. If someone else came up with it, I'd be happy.
I don't know the light transmission properties of tape, but I'm guessing they don't transmit anything below the visible spectrum, which means this camera would have to capture UV or higher to see through tape.
But my question is: was it originally written with a vague wording with the intent of later interpreting it a certain way, or was the secret interpretation a later optimistic move given the existing wording?
Almost no human interaction.

The concept of a "job" for everyone is going to become obsolete very soon.
slow clap...
But that means you have to trust power was hardwired to the light.
But then you have to trust the masking tape. What if the NSA put a backdoor in masking tape for this very purpose?
Wearing a mask at an illegal protest is now a crime in Canada
Changing Server Stacks is Not Fun: Moving from Heroku to Digital Ocean
Perhaps not like Renaissance art but the Renaissance period in terms of importance of new ideas, methods and styles.
I think most of the commenters in this thread are overestimating Nokia's capability to beat Samsung were it to switch to Android. Samsung's marketing budget is so huge that I don't see how Nokia could ever compete, unless they would release a phone that is so much better than anything Samsung can come up with that it compensates for marketing. And that is much easier said than done.
Their own CEO is former MS , that explains a lot.
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I just realized that, with the hours I've been keeping lately, I can code to Coast-to-Coast AM.
"Dart feels like exactly the type of service that Google will just drop in the future"

The difference is that Dart is not a service, and cannot just be turned off. It's an open-source language, and "at worst" could be community maintained.
Shit, I thought OnStar has already been doing the "listening to you 24/7" thing for years now?
Naked mole-rat may hold the clue to beating cancer
Shorten your e-mails into tweets Gmail plugin
Do you pay me my costs for implementing your "sales doubling" PSD back if it in fact does not double sales overnight? </rhetoricalQuestion>
egghead.io = John Lindquist :)
That's fine so long as you have a full test suite to exercise the app - catch small mail server configuration changes, apparmor and MySQL (we got bitten by that when upgrading to MySQL 5.5 from 5.1) et al - it's not a matter of saying "hey this looks like it's running" but verifying there's no regressions either.

Mind you containers don't help with this either...
Was this agreement signed by the current, ex-MSFT CEO? In that case, I honestly wonder if there's going to be a shareholder lawsuit against management or board of directors oversight on making such a fatal deal.

Even if such a suit would have little merit, I wouldn't be surprised to see one. Maybe the fact that it'd a Finnish company makes it less likely? But they are listed in US markets...
C was to be used by people who knew what they were doing. Unwittingly, it opened the door for people who didn't.
This is a master piece, thanks for submitting it.

It should be printed in A0 and glued in Law Colleges.
You should read the book before forming an opinion of it, the parts you seem to be focusing on aren't an overpowering element of the book as a whole.
not even close to truth

How so? The WiiU seems to me like the most likely to have a bunch of exclusives, if only because of the distinct architecture.
http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=tree

Start with 'jonesforth.S'
How do you even learn that?
My point being, they could easily make customers much happier for little effort. Say, by helping people root their own iPhones if they want to void warranty. But of course it's not in their business interest to do so.

Customer satisfaction may be at Apple's core, but producing the products that would make their customers the happiest is not.
Because Nokia is such a vital part of the Finnish business and economic ecosystem, I wonder how feasible it is to actually enter bankruptcy. As we have seen in the past with US companies, it's not always a pure business decision with these things (also, management always, always has an incentive to drag their feet in the ground and keep collecting paychecks).
That's definitely how this looks.

If it turns out that there are actually a range of machines, with GPU options other than Firepro, this could still end up as a very compelling mid-to-high-end personal desktop.
Not the real issue.
If Microsoft would have come out and said piracy and the 2nd hand market costs us 11 bajillion dollars in lost revenue. Which is why you the consumer have to pay 59.99 for a game. Then if the xbox one close to the same price as the ps4 with games being significantly cheaper. MS would win.. even with an unpopular strategy because people would think with there pockets. But I wager anything they actually wanted their cake and eat it. There must be some upside. And however you spin it with their initial offering there was none.
Yuan is strong because it is manipulated by the government that controls 1.6b people in a global market. But it is not sustainable because the bill printing machine is now obviously out of control.
Before starting at Nokia, Elop worked for Microsoft from January 2008 to September 2010 as the head of the Business Division, responsible for the Microsoft Office line of products, and as a member of the company's senior leadership team. During his time at Microsoft, the Business Division released Office 2010.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop
The biggest problem here is that I don't see a clear way how do you assess organizational skills of a candidate?
The article makes an interesting point.

If Microsoft had said that this is a completely digital system where you can download the games, or if preferred pick-up on physical media would the response have been any different.

Or are there too many people who fear change
Yeah, I'm sure someone trying to make money off this is trustworthy http://flibe-energy.com/?page_id=87
You are always on a MS bashing diatribe. Interesting thing I noticed.

Well if they go Android, they have to include Google Maps to make their phone a viable contender to Galaxy series. And that directly undermines their HERE maps business, and navteq data source.

Besides, How do you explain HTC's slide, Sony's non existence, LG's mere presence among Android vendors?
Don't forget that Dart is not just a language, it's also a tool ecosystem, with a virtual machine that is already faster than V8 in some key benchmarks.

This session from I/O by Kasper Lund and Lars Bak is well worth a watch: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/324431687

In it they explain that they've pretty much reached the peak of where they can get to in terms of performance with V8 (no more big jumps in performance), but by designing a language that is easier to optimize for, they've already made the Dart VM faster.
Stack-based programming does not need extra syntax characters (what you call quotes and brackets) to structure the program.

arithmetic syntax: (a+b)*c
lisp syntax (polish notation): (* (+ a b) c)
forth syntax (reverse polish notation): a b + c *

In fact all words in Forth are only separated by whitespace. However, to "emulate" more complex syntax, some words in Forth are marked to be executed immediately upon parsing (somewhat like "macros" in lisp) and then access the input stream to extract more than whitespace-separated tokens. Exampes:

'(' parses comments : ( comment)
's"' compiles string literals : s" abc"
'[if]' conditionally skips code fragments: 0 [IF] bla [THEN]

Still the macro word itelsf needs to be whitespace-delimited.
The XBOX 360 is arguably the most popular console of its generation. After the PS4 launch event all my friends didn't really care. They were waiting for the XBOX event. XBOX's reputation and popularity, even with its RROD issues was massive.

It is amazing how quickly this can be destroyed. Microsoft didn't clearly present what you could and couldn't do with the XBOX ONE. They hadn't worked out every caveat. This meant after every event there were questions. Even announced features were met with. "Do you mean 10 friends or family accounts to share games with?"

For gamers I think the most difficult thing to understand was why potentially thousands of dollars of purchases would become unplayable if you lost internet connection for more than 24 hours.
it is not about switching 100% to Android. It is about, like Samsung or HTC diversification. What the h... were they thinking when they signed that agreement with MS , short term profit ?
Thus I've never had more than minimal info on my linkedin profile.

As of this writing, I only have my undergrad and grad school names listed. I don't think I even have my areas of study on there.

Works perfectly as a rolodex.
No system should refund all the cost, just the basic "necessary" costs, for example the costs of one lawyer for small cases or a small team of lawyers for large cases.

I think it is how it works in many countries. Otherwise, what would prevent a party that is sure that it will win to hire 1000 lawyers in the last day of trial just to inflate the costs of the loosing party?
Thanks for the suggestion. As far as I see, it's up to 50 PB raw data per library, and such a library needs 16 frames (frame is what we call a rack, "1,800 mm H × 782 mm W × 1,212 mm D") so it's cca 3 PB (3e15) per rack. With 2.5K racks on site (100K sqft data center space according to Wikipedia) it's still cca 8 exabytes (8e18) in the whole data center.
"Most people aren’t Richard Branson and most people have enough of a connection, however intermittent, to authenticate once a day."

Oh for...

It's not about having an internet connection, it's about only being able to play the games as long as Microsoft has the servers turned on and working. Maintenance can stop you playing, which is annoying. More importantly, they're probably not going to keep them on for 20-30 years, so everything you buy has a limited lifespan.
Ask them to write an essay.
To be fair, it's not as if MS is hitting home runs with their Windows Phone devices. What the OP is doing is just discussing reality, here and now.
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I don't see how a machine that has almost 1GB/s disk transfer speeds, 60GB/s memory bandwidth and 7 teraflops GPU power (almost double the top of the line geforce) is "mid-range" unless you're from the future.