skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking at it from a "stop the bleeding" point of view. When he took over, Nokia's stock was a little less around $9... down from it's high of almost $40 3 year earlier. Things had somewhat stabilized, but it was clear that Nokia was no longer going to be the top tier phone maker they had been for a decade. The strategy at that time was to ditch their Symbian and Linux platforms and jump 100% into the Windows Phone world. When they starting making only Windows smartphones (not including feature or dumb phones here), if things didn't improve, the obvious exit for Elop and the Nokia board was a Microsoft buyout (plan B). Now that they are trading at less than $4, it's pretty clear that something isn't working, so they need to just skip all the presences and just join Microsoft. I'm not sure how Microsoft's own transition is going to play in this, but I bet that hurried up the deal a bit.

So, the benefit for the shareholders is that they won't loose any more money than they already have. Microsoft has provided a decent backstop to stop the loss in value.

Plus, I haven't seen what Microsoft is actually buying... they may end up leaving the backend infrastructure products as a separate company, which would probably leave shareholders with some value.
Have to second this. I've got the Nehalem i7-875k in my Hackintosh/Win7 machine cooking at 3.8GHz (with no real work from me - the motherboard had a "smart overclock" button and it's been completely stable) and I am thrilled with the perf.

The bigger problem is that it only supports 16GB of RAM.
I was up to 800 points, and I got server error... (edit). Retried again, and since that was my last life, I've got it wrong. I was lucky though, as I got two times Bulgarian, and I'm from Bulgaria :)

Played second time, 650, and third time 950.

I've got lucky again, since Dutch was twice in a row, and few other languages.

It's cool, reminds a bit of Google's find this place on earth, by "driving" around until you see a sign, or some very known place.
Microsoft has already done that end-to-end experience thing with Surface and that didn't turn out all that well. Windows phone has been critically acclaimed but that hasn't really made much dent on the IPhone/Android duopoly. And the relatively more successful windows phone devices aren't exactly sub-standard, infact they are quite high quality handsets made by the same manufacturer they just acquired. I'm doubtful how much of incremental improvement end-to-end will do this case.
Just got a 502 error, but really like the custom 502 page.
It's not. It mostly depends on how pedantic you are.
> As a licensee, they simply protect themselves from Nokia enforcing it against them.

Hmm that sounds rather a lot like mafia. "Pay up or else, no matter whether we're owned by you."
>IMO we've already seen the automation of web-CRUD. It used to be a lot of work to set up even a simple CRUD app on the web, now a brain-dead simple CRUD app is 15 minutes in skilled hands.

hm. so what tools would a skilled developer use to, say, write a simple invoicing system in 15 minutes?
According to Bloomberg TV, Elop is returning to Microsoft, and Siilasmaa will serve as Nokia's interim CEO.

My guess is that Elop will become MS CEO, and is not a bad choice. In his interviews, he comes across as someone really smart and eloquent. He is one of the few CEOs in the world with both enterprise and consumer experience that a future MS CEO badly needs.
I wonder if such bundling will be an issue with their existing anti-trust issues?
Doh! Thanks. TBH I just pick the first fun polysyllabic word that I figured foreign speakers might find difficult to pronounce. On a different day I may have chosen another word.
Sildenafil was invented for angina, for which it was ineffective. However, it was noted to cause erections (as a side-effect). This side effect was then approved as the primary indication for the medication.

So the historical research into the drug was actually for the purpose of curing "serious" diseases, although I agree with eru that ED is a meaningful problem for those who are affected by it, and there is some serious utility gained from fixing the problem.
I'm 3ish months into my first post-graduation development job. It's really hard to go from school, where results counted, to an internship, where there was far more emphasis on getting shit done than how it was done (enterprise back office systems) to a professional software development job on a fully functional profitable web app.

It's not so much that the skillset that's required is different, though that's certainly part of it, it's that us junior devs are simply not used to having our code scrutinized very much. Sure, we've done some pair programming and group projects, but that was with other inexperienced undergrad/grad students, and it was difficult to just say "this code sucks, do it over" to an equal, just as much as it was difficult to hear that.

It's simply a mindset that is hard to break out of. A lot of us, myself included, were not ready for the reality that is a code review. I've gotten a lot more used to it, and I'm settling nicely into my role I think. Until now my mindset has been "make it work". I'm now transitioning to "make it work well. It's still hard to have to defend your code or methodology, or worse yet, during code review have the sudden realization that it is indefensible.
Maybe Jolla? :D
Exactly, the article offers no new insights and the title is mis-represented. It has just listed what we assume we need to do in order to practice for the technical interview. Nice refresher though and I like that every thing is listed out for you.
> I'm unsure of what % of Samsung is mobile devices

Samsung Electronics is a public company, and this information is public.

For Q2 2013, mobile devices accounted for 60% of sales and 66% of operating profit.

http://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/ir/ireventpresentatio...
Not to mention that the Chuo Shinkansen will be privately financed, and is being built by a private company, JR central. They almost certainly need government cooperation (you can hardly escape that with something so huge and covering so much geographical area), but this isn't a Japanese government project, and the government isn't paying for it.

From Wikipedia: "On December 25, 2007, JR Central announced that it plans to raise funds for the construction of the Chuo Shinkansen on its own, without government financing."
I'm sorry but moving this conversation towards being about Android and Android's "market share" is going off topic.

Microsoft clearly did not need to purchase Nokia to have a Windows Phone. That already exists (in partnership with multiple hardware vendors as well). So, market share of Mobile OSes is obviously not a (main) motivation behind this acquisition.
The availability of BIG to people who don't actually need it is about the principle of BIG: that it doesn't care who you are. I'd find it interesting to consider how we might let people decline their BIG stipend in return for... something.
Market Share (of a free OS) <> Profit.

Plus, Market Share has little correlation with innovation or product quality. In fact, Innovator's Dilemma presents a compelling case of the exact opposite.

So, exactly which "war" are you referring to?
What would this mean for all the Nokia feature phones ? The latest Asha series was very good and selling pretty well atleast in India. How would this figure in MS strategy? Are they going to ditch it? That would be sad, because Nokia still makes phones that can withstand rough use.

On the other side would Nokia start manufacturing Laptop in future. I would really like Nokia design team to come up with a good Windows laptop!
Play Services is an absolute win for consumers. How is it a noose for manufacturers?
Nokia's press release with details of Microsoft acquisition
What would this mean for all the Nokia feature phones ? The latest Asha series was very good and selling pretty well at least in India. How would this figure in MS strategy? Are they going to ditch it? That would be sad, because Nokia still makes phones that can withstand rough use.
On the other side would Nokia start manufacturing Laptop in future. I would really like Nokia design team to come up with a good Windows laptop!
No, you'll live another day :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4370206
850. It would be a bit nicer if the randomly selected other language choices came from different language families: one of the three I got wrong was Bosnian vs Croatian, even though the difference is arguably a political construct (just don't say that to a Bosnian or Croat...).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_standard_Bosnian...

The difference between Punjabi and Hindi is also pretty subtle. Mistaking Thai for Vietnamese, though, was inexcusable. =(
8GB Nexus 4 sells out on Google Play, and it isn't coming back
Two year time lapse of living in SF
> Edit: I wonder what is the feminist explanation for less women doing risky jobs? The patriarchy doesn't want women to be cannon fodder because they could start believing they can be aggressive and revolt against men? Or really just the media - if more female warrior movies were being made, women would be flocking to the military by the millions?

http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-...
> Remember that MS makes money off Android phones.

Yes, but I assume not nearly as much as they'd make from the sale of their own phone system tied into their own application and media ecosystem. On average, this coupling would keep producing revenue long after the original sale.
Are computer chips on the verge of a quantum leap?
If they continue to say it every year, they will eventually be correct, right?
In the sound clip for Ukraine, the person actually says Ukraine (or very similar) a few times. Also, the snippets should be normalised. Some are very quiet.
Startups fail in Marketing, Not in Building the Product
"Apple already lost to Android. Last count, Android had 80% of the market."

Everyone throws this out there, but phones running 2.3 that cost less than $100 are practically a different product than what Apple and Samsung are offering, which is where the true battle is. Over 1/3 of all Androids run 2.3:

http://www.ibtimes.com/android-vs-ios-adoption-rates-jelly-b...
Meego wasn't ready to ship, Nokia needed a different OS and Microsoft needed devices. Not ideal for either case, but I don't think a Nokia based on Meego with out the infusion of cash that came in from MSFT would have gone anywhere.

Everything one hears about Windows Phone is the "lack of apps". I suspect a system based on Meego would have been a bigger challenge for Nokia than the cash and backing that came from MSFT.
Out of curiousity, how do you define "real world"? The one that's lived on Facebook?

Is it about relationships? I'd consider theirs more real than mine or those of an average Western citizen. They're developed through conversations and interaction, not texts.

Is it about society? It seems to me that more or less every life story is about being raised by a community, spending a lifetime working in that community, and eventually dying. Is that less real when the community is a village, instead of a globe?

It's hard to criticize their approach without putting unsubstantiated weight on subjective values, like global integration, or contribution to technological progress. That those are worthy virtues is not a given.

But you're right, it would be difficult to be an atheist in that community because it's first and foremost a religious community. I don't see why that would be surprising. Most atheists don't find it very comfortable to be part of a church community either. They leave.
Get your greasy hands off that keyboard
My current project involves a RasPi, iRedMail, a handful of inexpensive VPS providers with APIs that allow automated provisioning (DigitalOcean, NineFold, and Hetzner – to spread out the jurisdictions) – with the RasPi opening a reverse SSH tunnel for ports 25 and 465. Add in a DNS provider with a useable API so the 'Pi can spin up and shut down VPSes itself and update MX records to suit, and VPS images configured to not log anything mail-related (I'm learning Chef and/or Ansible to automate this), and I think I've gone as far as I can to secure my end of all my email.

(Possible over-paranoid ideas include refusing port 25 smtp connections that wont negotiate a secured connection in response to a STARTLLS command, and possibly blacklisting mail originating from any of the 8 known PRISIM participants. I like the _idea_ of ensuring none of my mail arrives from known-intercepted sources, but reality dictates otherwise since way too many of the people I really do want to communicate with are exclusively using gmail/yahoo for email - or worse still, have migrated largely to Facebook messaging instead of email)
I don't see why you couldn't use node-webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/ instead.
It's a commentary on the fragmented nature of the Google mobile experience.
HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript – Tutorials and Experiments
What Did San Francisco Look Like in the Mid-1800s?
In their goal to remain off the grid, yet modernize, some
Amish have installed inverters on their diesel generators
linked to batteries to provide them with off-grid 110 volts.

110 volts? Interesting. Why use the American standard, if they're not grid-tied? Why not use 220 volts? Do Amish homes have to pass state electrical inspections? You can plug essentially any piece of modern electronics sold in the US into 220 volt mains and it'd work fine.
> Electricity is not OK if it's on the grid, because it creates dependencies on the outside world.

So do cell phones, taxi drivers to take your kids to school every morning, and half million dollar computerized precision CNC machines. GMO corn?

> These people want to be as productive as possible.

They are taking regular Chinese mass produced blenders and sticking hand crafted pneumatic motors in them. Or tractors and then cut their tires out and replace with metal wheels. I can't see how that makes them more productive. If anything that makes them less productive, no? Isn't that the other justification for their way of life -- don't become too productive, it will hurt you, and ruin your way of life?

> It's always been about preventing harm to the community from new technology,

Unless preventing harm from technology becomes the main identity and the main occupation of the community then well, one can ask, why have the community?

> Do some reading about Mennonites (similar philosophies) in Russia; they were some of the most industrious and cutting edge farmers in the nation.

So were many German and Dutch farmers if you talk about the turn of the century and before. At least compared to many British immigrant farmers. I would also agree that in extreme conditions (far north, in Siberia, mountains) technology might not be reliable or as usable and sometimes just using dog sleds or simpler methods can work better.
Volume's been normalised using mp3gain. I manually screen all the snippets for English, music or other noise, and obvious giveaways. Looks like a Ukraine case slipped through -- it's in my todo list to remove. Thanks!
I guess I'm in the minority, but I genuinely enjoy Facebook. Sure, it has its annoyances, and ads are a much more prominent part of the experience. However, it lets me connect with my friends back in Seattle (I live in Brooklyn now) and gives me an outlet for cool photos of my life here in Brooklyn and fun stuff I'd like to share with my friends. I've built a reasonably fun little discussion group around my content and the content of my friends, and we all seem to have a fairly good time with it. I tried Twitter, G+, and everything else, but nothing gets as much "interesting discussion per post" except FB.
The Next Chapter: An open letter from Steve Ballmer and Stephen Elop
Nokia to Pay $8.1 Billion for Navteq (2007)
Javascript demo, beautiful like dream.
Why do you assume so?
That's just a normal school day at Carnegie Mellon University. :)
That was a complaint about the style of posting, not about pg, YC or Facebook.
How do they follow the rules? How does one know whether to run pneumatic tool or electric tools in their workshop. To have a cell phone or not. I don't think those are individual decision also doubt everyone automatically arrives to those decision by themselves. So whoever makes those rules, controls them.

They're not individual decisions but they're made by communities a hell of a lot more democratic than the one I grew up in. Amish, Mennonite, Old Order, they are all part of quite small religious congregations without professional clergy. These congregations decide their various policies on new technology themselves after seeing them and discussing them. Different congregations can agree to common sets of rules and standards, those that do are in communion. It's a lot more democratic than representative democracy.
They'll simply dust off the SCO playbook. Unless the new CEO is made of very different stuff; or US legislators realise that patent aggression is the last refuge of a scoundrel, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson.
Certainly. I have another excellent trick for you that I was able to use to teach my all my Chinese students back in the day how to pronounce the word "usually", which is a notoriously difficult word for Chinese speakers.

Exploiting the technique above, start with a word in the language of the audience that share phonemes with your target word. From there you essentially play something similar to Lewis Carroll's "Doublets" game from the end to the beginning. So for the word "usually" I would usually start with the city in China, "Guanzhou" and proceed as follows (excuse my poor man's phonetic spelling):

Gwan-jo
Gwan-jo
Gwan-jo
Gwan-jo
Gwan-joooo
Gwan-joooo
Gwan-joooo
Gwan-joooo
Gwan-joooo-aaaa
Gwan-joooo-aaaa
Gwan-joooo-aaaa
Gwan-joooo-aaaa
Gwan-joo-a-lee
Gwan-joo-a-lee
Gwan-joo-a-lee
Gwan-joo-a-lee
joo-a-lee
joo-a-lee
joo-a-lee
joo-a-lee
yoo-joo-a-lee
yoo-joo-a-lee
yoo-joo-a-lee
yoo-joo-a-lee

The repetition is performed until your student(s) ha(s|ve) properly pronounced the current temperoary utterance.
>Meego wasn't ready to ship, Nokia needed a different OS

Nokia had a transition from Maemo to Meego in Harmattan. Harmattan was not only ready to ship, it was shipped! While it was used, Meego could get ready to ship. But Nokia de-facto cancelled it as soon as it came out, since Elop was already in control. Nokia did not need a different OS. MS needed Nokia to say they "need" a different OS. Obviously MS owned one. But Nokia wasn't Microsoft back then. It is now, and MS probably planned that all along.
Android shuffling letters in input
When I've typed more than a few lines in any text box, Android starts shuffling letters around. I'm on an S4. I've googled for this problem and found some indications that others might experience it too, but no bug report of any sort. So my question is if anyone else here has this problem?

I'll keep on typing to demonstrate the problem, it is bound to happen once this text grows large enough.

After a while spontanious scroll events start happening and the cursor starts bouncing around. Before you know it Android has made some inexplicable shuffling of your text and you go mad.

It is also posspossiblet the problem has somesomethingdo with the total amount of back-navigation which is perfperformed the total number of line breaks
in the text.

Going back to edit old text seems to trigger the problem as well. I went back to edit the last paragraph and it happened! Reproduction sucess!
100,000 Glowing 3D Particles Run Smoothly in Flash Player 10.1
Chrome extension to disable Newsfeed
> Guy says it's not about benchmarks

I think what he meant was that the current benchmarks are unable to quantify the benefit to users of having a GPU for computational power while the other is driving the displays. The new Pro configuration suggests you'll be working in real-time when doing graphically intensive tasks rather than waiting for something to render. Animators & video editors will benefit from this in ways that are difficult to slap a technical benchmark on.

These machines are probably aiming to scoop up some high-margin high-end workstation business, hence the demo by Pixar at the last WWDC.
Seems like it could be a great move, but it raises some questions. Given Microsoft's perspective, they know they need to increase Windows Phone share. The iPhone is on its way to become a niche device, so I doubt they would look to Apple and try to turn Microsoft+Nokia into the one-stop-shop for Windows Phone devices like I've seen speculated in many places. That's too big of a gamble. Instead, I think they'd model after Android, which now has 80% of the market, and continue strong on the OEM route, with Nokia-based devices just acting as a leader. The way I see it, this aligns much better with what's worked historically for Microsoft and what shareholders expect, especially given the Surface blunder. At least I hope so.

The problem is that Samsung, HTC and LG are all focused on Android, and Microsoft needs to change that. Can the Nokia buy help with that? I wonder. What would stop Microsoft from using Nokia's patents aggressively (rather than defensively) to "motivate" the other phone manufacturers to produce, market and license more Windows Phone devices, or face additional lawsuits against their majority-Android lines? Nokia alone didn't have the incentive to push to increase WP share outside their lines before, and Microsoft appears to already have a strong patent portfolio for mobile (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_wars). If so, this deal could be especially sweet for Microsoft, and also could benefit Nokia too, since it would retain premium WP status when a true third ecosystem develops. Thoughts?
Very interesting, since Stephen Elop was tipped to replace Ballmer after his departure.

I think the real coup is the access to the dumb phone market in places like Africa and India where Nokia is strong today but where their growing middle class will want to move to smart phones over the next 10 years.
CEO reverse acquisition? Elop 4 MS CEO 2014?
2nd attempt 1050. Had precisely the same sound sample twice in a row though?

Also, this serves as a pretty handy hint that when you're completely stumped by something you've never, ever heard before, the answer is probably "Dinka": http://greatlanguagegame.com/stats/
I guess that's a big advantage of terminating SSL at the load balancers – dedicated hardware which is unlikely to end up with exploitable RoR/PHP or SQLi vulnerabilites – is probably somewhat less likely to lose your private TLS certs to an automated WordPress/Rails/cPanel/whatever zero-day scan...
I believe it is the green card application that is the issue.
Android is about as open as it used to be. The core OS is mostly open source, the drivers are mostly closed binaries owned by chip vendors, the apps are closed binaries owned by Google. Google Play services, by its name and nature, is part of Google service. So it is just as closed as it used to be.

Over time, more features are added OS, drivers, apps. That doesn't really change the overall picture much. Amazon and Chinese companies like Xiaomi are pretty successful using the core Android OS for their devices.
Regards agriculture: there remain countries in which the vast majority (over 90%) of the population is engaged in agriculture. Much agricultural productivity has come through vastly increased inputs and capital, and not all countries have access to or can afford these.

The excess labor from agriculture was absorbed into other fields (so to speak). Not always painlessly -- working conditions in early Industrial Revolution factories were terrible (see Toynbee and Carlyle for descriptions, as well as, of course, Dickens). But once the kinks were worked out, we ended up with carpenters and welders and artists and writers and dog walkers.

My own view is that we're starting to run a bit far in that direction, but the coming shortage of raw materials and energy will likely address that problem for us, if not how many would prefer it be done.