skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've experienced this also. You'll be mid sentence, but it will start putting new letters at the beginning of the textbox.
I think the takeaway is that founders with strong accents will have a hard time getting acceptance in YC, just like single founders. Not because PG is racist, but just like single founders, the empirical evidence shows that they aren't as good of an investment.
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> Apple already lost to Android.

That's not true. Apple's mobile devices are more profitable than any single line of Android devices. Also, sales of the iPad vs any other line of Android tablets, ie. Samsung's are not even close.

Your comparison is no different than comparing Windows Server vs Linux servers. Yes, it might have hurt the market for WinServer a little bit (and Apple's iOS devices), but it's not like anyone is making a killing off of all those Linux/Android powered devices out there.

When comparing what Android itself as a free platform (mostly free, there are contracts for Google's services that most sign onto)- iOS is far more profitable for Apple than Android is for Google.

What you're repeating is common man nonsense.

Secondly, FirefoxOS and Ubuntu Mobile will be cheaper devices and likely only cut into Android's marketshare. Add in Tizen, which is being specifically created to STOP paying fees to Google for Android, and you will see your 'zero chance' of Android's 80% marketshare changing. And sooner than you believe.

Android has the most precarious position as a 'free' choice. There are many more entrants on the way for the cheap market.

The war is just getting started, and I'd rather be in Apple's shoes than Google's (but you act as if Google cares about Android, they don't- it's just a delivery mechanism for their services).

Signed by someone who uses a GS3.
I know a couple of savvy guys working for Intel's competitors moaning about how Intel is going to demolish them. Haswell and its descendants, it seems, are the real deal, and in the long term, they hold out little hope for ARM in the mobile space, let alone the server space.

I dunno about Microsoft, but I wouldn't be betting against Intel. (Just to be clear, I have no stock in or position on any of the companies mentioned on this entire thread.)
You say it never crashed, but then you were certain to buy an Apple next. Why?
I'm confused, but maybe you can enlighten me: This article talks about using a tool called KeyTool to manipulate the keys stored on the machine. But if software is capable of doing that, wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of UEFI to begin with? How is it ensured that it's the user operating KeyTool and not $MALWARE?

Why does KeyTool even run on a locked-down-by-MS machine? Have they signed it as part of the Linux Foundation bootloader? Why would they do such a thing? I don't mean for protecting-the-monopoly-reasons, but for straight security reasons as this clearly circumvents anything they were trying to accomplish.

I seem to be missing a piece of information here.
Often a bike or access to some form of group/mass transit is going to do you much better in an evacuation situation: you can navigate through debris-clogged streets, standing water, and above all else, traffic jams.
> Are you saying the world doesn't need a common language?

It is very easy to say that common languages are good when you already speak that common language.

Common languages are great when you've reached the point of doing the job, but they cause extra burden on large parts of the world population and are a barrier to entry for poor people.

One response is to say "Let's teach a simple international English to as many people as possible". Another response is to say "Let's create excellent quality documentation, and then translate this into the majority languages." These need not be exclusive, we can do both.

My misplaced anger you see in this thread comes from my perception of the tone of the 'learn English' side.
Slightly off-topic : For hackers outside the USA/EU I think Microsoft succeeding can be a bad thing since Macs are really expensive here and Microsoft silently allowing piracy means that everyone uses Windows. I feel that ISVs better supporting Linux would be a nice thing and one of the important things to happen for that is for Windows to loose its monopoly ( second is of course some sort of agreement between all Linux distros around some standard ). I can't but feel that is to be a distant dream, since Microsoft seems to have infinite pockets and can buy their way out of any trouble for years to come.
Nokia accounts for 80% of Windows Phone sales.

The "other OEMs" are basically HTC and Samsung. Both of which are primarily Android companies.
Interestingly, they recently adding a Content Security Policy, which I would have thought would have prevented this bookmarklet.

https://mega.co.nz/#blog_19
Um, Samsung makes/made Windows Phones, too. They're heart might not have been in it, but if the platform was ever going to scale quickly they had to be involved. It would have been easier to convince them to make more/better Windows Phones than to get a big slice of their flash and RAM production some other way...
The fall of giant. A domino effect may result in Samsung buying Microsoft in 3-5 years.
The Portuguese one also had a word sounding like "portuguese" in it that made it trivial for me.
It's not that it's shameful to use Lynx. I love Lynx. However, the web is continuously evolving, and things like Lynx are not keeping up - I mean, does it support WebGL and HTML5 video?

I absolutely think there's a place for a text-based browser still, however, one that is designed with modern considerations.
Well of course, tools for the job.
For less money than they spent on Skype.
Once more we marvel the prophecy of this designer: http://stocklogos.com/topic/past-and-future-famous-logos
First he predicted next Microsoft logo, now Nokia. Bravo!
Motorola and now Nokia, the last of the previous era big wigs have fallen. 13 years ago Lucent, Motorola, Ericsson, Sun, Nortel were huge. Now they are all gone. Even HP, Dell are no longer leading. That is a really short time span for a company to be on top of the world and disappear. Is this the expected life span of a tech company?
I wonder if this played into Ballmer leaving. Odd to have a massive re-org and massive purchase, only to have the CEO turn around and leave right afterwards.
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No, it would have been brilliant. Microsoft is horrible at personal interfaces and trying to deal with actual people. But they are wonderful at enterprise. If either Microsoft or RIM had been able to say "Fine, we'll let Apple and Google play with their fancy new devices - we'll make products that let people actually get work done" that would have been a brilliant strategy. They could have completely dominated corporate mobile for years to come and put off the entire BYOD movement for a few years.

As it is, they each wanted to play the same game as Apple and Google, and that has failed dramatically for both. If they had decided to play a different game entirely, they would have been formidable.
Unfortunately, the fact that you have to go through such an elaborate procedure will deter many people from going open-source. Before secure boot, installing Linux was relatively straightforward, and that is one of the reasons for its success. Those days are drawing to a close.
> Regarding the restrictions, anything where one doesn't understand what's going on seems arbitrary.

Just to double check you are justifying modifying simple electrical appliances such as blenders with pneumatic versions, using a diesel generator to charge batteries behind the house and using said batteries, tearing tires off of tractors and putting metal wheels, as somehow non-arbitrary and logical

> The elements and their properties look pretty arbitrary until you get cozy with a periodical table and a chemistry textbook.

So their reasons and logic for this is just as clear as atomic numbers and electron shells? It should be easy to explain then in a couple of paragraphs. You should have started with that probably as that would have saved quite a few keystroke.

> These are real people, people who won't be speaking for themselves here on HN. I'm uncomfortable with the way you're taking your ignorance and using it to justify calling them crazy, abusive, and arbitrary.

Yes they are real people and I also enjoy visiting them and spending time with them. They are more friendly (at least to visitors) than most of the other people I meet. That doesn't mean they are not crazy in their approach to technology. And apart from you calling me ignorant (which I may very well be) you still haven't convinced me of why what they do makes sense.
> I hope this portends a Microsoft phone...

I'm wondering, how can anyone buy and use a Microsoft phone, when we've learned that they partner with the NSA, killing our privacy?
All kinds of wrong here.
I hope we've learned a valuable lesson about deserting ops teams today.
>> Mr.Graham is the native speaker here himself

Mr.Graham natively speaks english, but "American" is not his native accent. He's from England.
It is a sad day. I have been joking with friends that we should have a funeral in sunnyvale. Probably, though, that would be in poor taste.

On the upside for nokia shareholders, well, when nokia switched to windows phone, it was widely reported that "Microsoft bought Nokia for zero dollars" - now, at least, the Nokia shareholders are getting paid for it.
In which case, for Elop, running Nokia really was the trial run that everyone feared it was when he started. The end-game was for him to be in position to take over Microsoft when Balmer stepped down. I guess he passed Microsoft's test then...
> Expensive but it works.
This seems to be the case all too often for me. The cheap solution so often turns out to be a stop-gap before the expensive and final solution. It might be sign of old age but I'm skipping the cheap stopgap quite often now days.
>Your comparison is no different than comparing Windows Server vs Linux servers.

I think a better comparison is Mac vs. Windows. Windows won, but Macs are still thriving, and Apple is making nice margins. This is how I see iOS vs. Android playing out.
Unfortunately what works in war doesn't necessarily work in peace. We though a couple decades ago that anti-shock garments (basically inflatable pants) save lives after trauma by redirecting blood to the core, but in reality it's likely that the practice causes harm, and you just never see them used anymore at all. (http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001856/no-evidence-that-medi...)
What do you expect it to mean?

[In March 2011] Nokia announced the sale of Qt's commercial licensing and professional services to Digia [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework)
He said 'strong foreign accent' not simply 'foreign accent.' I guess people can still theoretically quote him if they only use two of the three words but I wouldn't say they're being accurate.
They don't. They use Suite A, which is an eclectic mix of proprietary algorithms. Firefly/Enhanced Firefly for key exchange (PKI), Joeski (allegedly a pair of algorithms for encrypting and decrypting other ciphers or firmware with the interesting property that encryption algorithm cannot be deduced from the decryption algorithm and vice versa), and a bunch of others. They have different algorithms depending on the specific information channel. Permanent data storage uses one (or perhaps a few), communications traffic uses others, and communications are further split depending on channel bandwidth and presumably long-term classification needs of the data.

They have to recommend Suite B to the government and military in cases where NSA validated hardware can't be used. Examples would be military communications with allies, garden variety agencies that can't afford or can't be trusted with Suite A modules.
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To rescue an old iMovie project of mine, I used 10.6 (or whatever version last had Rosetta) in Virtualbox 4.something.
From memory I needed a completely hacked version of OS X and I wouldn't have had a chance of getting it working from my retail disc (yes, I own one!)

Given the option again, I'd rent a machine or borrow one.
Statement.

>the use of such terms waters down an otherwise reasonable well thought out comment.

This may not be a battle you're going to win.
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Apparently there's no money in being a WP8 vendor either. Why do you think Nokia is selling out? And no other WP vendor makes any real money since all of their market share combined is less than 1 percent of the smartphone market.
Well usually in macro-scale events there's enough normal, real causal flow to establish actual reasons something happened rather than "because of Everett Branching."

The problem being that if you accept the Everett Interpretation, then yes it really did happen that way.
Why yes, you're right! I totally missed that. And your rationale makes sense as well.

As for the Nokia patent monster, well... it's already been rampaging the countryside for a few months now. I haven't thought through the ramifications of this deal, but I wonder if it would allow them the same immunity that trolls enjoy?
So it smells like a very similar move to the SCO-attack on Linux. Microsoft competitors could get legally assaulted by a zombie Nokia while Microsoft itself is not associated with the legal fight.
The article's thesis is basically the exact opposite of this.

It states in no uncertain terms that "always be coding" is wrong. That you should instead spend your time practicing techniques you never use when creating actual software, and that you should also maximize your interview count for salary leverage.

"A lot of what I'm suggesting to do is pretty extreme. A lot of the skills here are not something you learn by doing a standard software engineering job (or get coming out of college). It's especially hard for more senior engineers to do technical interviews since most have limited time due to familial obligations and haven't taken CS 101 for quite some time."
First db switchover has occurred, so far so good.
I found it, good read indeed.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-who...
Microsoft Buys Nokia's Smartphone Business For $7 Billion
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Heh, surveys are only worth so much. Aggregate data is usually more useful.

FWIW make 100% of my income from iOS (<$100k range).
Microsoft hasn't had real anti-trust issues in a while. Windows 8 did lots of things they wouldn't have gotten away with 15 years ago; nobody's going after them because they don't really wield the monopoly power they once did.
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Nokia's board is the one that hired Elop away from Microsoft and was behind his every major decision. So I think the plans were set in motion at Nokia before Elop was even hired.

Read up this guy's profile, do you really think he would approve hiring Elop just like that without such an eventuality in sight?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorma_Ollila
PG said both accusations had been made in his follow up column.
He bought it for the hardware.
Facebook is useful for communication, but Newsfeed is often a big waste of time that makes people feel worse (http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2158359...). This is a compromise in the middle.
You can start here to get a sense of the depth of this man's obsession to highlight how far Nokia has fallen. I find him to be a reasonably entertaining writer, he's crafted a dramatic narrative around the foibles of Nokia.

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/08/ballmer...
Thanks for the feedback. Many of the languages have multiple aliases, I can't say I've made a principled choice in every case. But, updating to "Bengali" is in the todo list.
Google does the same and their phones seems to be selling quite well.
We already have "related education" mandated as curricula in several different grades in every school system in the country. It's not uncommonly ridiculous propaganda, with blatant urban legends dramatized for your FUD, which is widely rejected by the student body.

What we need is a non-criminalized mental health system that actually functions (addiction neural wiring being a subset of mental illnesses that can be acquired through the victim's actions), and a poverty / diminished capacity safety net that tries to redress problems in the way of marginalized people rejoining civil society.

Essentially everything else would self-resolve after legalization.
Nokia. What a difference 6 years can make.
Paul made a factual statement about the world in the spirit of helping others and his opponents responded with emotionally-charged labels[1]. This is dishonest bullying. I am responding with a label designed to attack labeling. So yes, it is hypocritical. But it does have a definite purpose in mind.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/labels.html
I just made a Chrome extension to turn off Newfeed, partially inspired by this thread: https://github.com/derwiki/NoNewsIsGoodNews
I challenge you to give Linux Mint a whirl. Unless you require OSX software or someone else is paying for your hardware, you're probably just throwing money at having sexy hardware.
Just curious, what are the pros and cons to Android manufacturer to lock down a device? Are these Android manufacturer each trying to create its own platform based on an open OS?
You missed a critical issue. Carriers don't like fully controlled verticals like Apple, as they don't want to compete on a fair battle ground. Apple is too powerful in US today, but no carrier wants another Apple. Several friends from Microsoft said this over past couple of years.

Another issue is Microsoft does not have profitable consumer services other than Xbox. Even Microsoft can integrate a lot of its services with Windows Phone, it is a big money sink until Microsoft can make profit on search, maps, outlook.com, skydrive, etc. They have tried for over a decade by now.

In the end, I really like to see 3-way competition between Apple, Google, Microsoft.
The talk about tech interviews reminds me of this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXRi28W-ENY
One of Microsoft's documents about the acquisition calls out that it is getting the Asha brand and a 10-year license to the Nokia brand for feature phones, so I expect that line will stay for now.
No, please, we have such hard time moving MS out of the hot field, don't bring them back!

Remember when everyone feared MS? I mean, that was really terriying time for our industry. How forgetful is it to "wish" MS could gain a third of the phone OS market shared... Apple and Google conjugated efforts kept the wolf outside and you want to open the gates?

However, I agree that a domineering Android/Google or Android/Samsumg is harmful for the market. Let us hope some other OSes can grab a piece of it. I have some hope in Cyanogenmod, which could be forking away from Android (just like Linux forked Unix). And, if you look at it, that is just what Chinese companies are doing (xiaomi, etc.): forking Android and gain market shares.
Failure? There may be problems with the Web standards process but I don't think it could be classed a failure.
The whole point of it is to help 3rd party developers with the API's, so they homogenize the API's through Play Services.

However, you're right about the user part. It will help the users slightly, better apps with latest API's will come along, but the users still won't get the latest features of the OS unless the phone is upgraded to the latest version.
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Because unless they're democratic, they're no true Scotsman right?

I guess my problem is that whenever examples are provided which contradict the model as you proposed it you decide to "clarify" the definitions so as to exclude those examples. Maybe that's the argument you originally intended to make, but it's not actually what you said.
You then also can easily detect bad behavior by watching failed connect attempts to port 22.
Ungepatched: Yiddish for "all mixed up."
I don't dispute these findings, but the entire spin on this article made me feel like I was reading a PR piece. Who were these researchers funded by? It sounds like it was funded by a company selling a product that benefits from these findings.. Besides referring to specific software products by brand name, there was a conspicuous absent of any downsides from surveillance.
No one said it can't be done, but it's far from trivial, hence my surprise in its omission.

And the Phantom.js approach mentioned below seems more like a workaround to me than a solution
thats effectively a distinction without a difference to consumers, to run android you still need an android device.
Nokia, rest in peace - we will miss you. Your phones were legendary.
I.e. even within North America there are many different accents that would be foreign to others living elsewhere in North America.

Back in Australia there are many distinguishable accents - many I detest; yet just because I find them foreign in no way make me racist.

There is a fine, but definite, line to cross for a comment to be racist, and pg did not cross that line.
I think the snarky remark that you're looking for is baldness. The erectile dysfunction discovery was an accidental discovery for a different problem.

I don't suppose you have any numbers for the amount of money spent on various medical research?
Got to 500 and had to guess (definitely Slavic, but had a choice between Czech, Slovak, Macedonian... yikes!)...

and got a 522 Timed Out error. Thhbbbbt.
I would love to do this too, but the licensing situation bothers me. Even if you owned an OSX disc, you aren't in the clear, right?
Seems like Elop stayed true to his nickname - of a trojan horse. He never really worked for Nokia. He's been working for Microsoft the whole time, just to sell it for this low price.

How the hell are the shareholders okay with this? I'm shocked it sold for under $10 billion. Nokia's total valuation is about 15 billion, and you'd have to imagine they'd have to pay a 30 percent premium when buying it, so that's $20 billion for the whole. I assume the devices division was worth at least half of that. Didn't Nokia already sell the telecom part?
Why can't this procedure be standardized and made straightforward? It's hard now, but hopefully in the future it will just be a typical part of installing the operating system.
>Apple already lost to Android. Last count, Android had 80% of the market.

That's like suggesting that Mercedes Benz have lost already to Ford because they have smaller market share. Apple produce a premium product with prices and margins that reflect that. Of course they would prefer dominant market share, as would Mercedes. But a non-majority share does not imply that they've somehow lost.
Annual cost synergies of 600MM within 18 months - sounds like they plan to kill 3000 jobs.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/download/press/2013/Stra... (page 21)
Makes me wonder if in the future there will be establishments that advertise that they are "surveillance free" as a benefit just like organic labeling on food.
I'd say Blackberry is the big loser in this deal, since it probably takes one of their more plausible options off the table.
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Ive used OSX on relatively old (2009) Intel hardware a couple of times in the past and generally only had minor problems. Certainly less than when going with Ubuntu or other Linux distros.
If youve got the money a real mac is still the way to go though!
For reference, the original HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529963
Well, that's acceptable. It is the War on Drugs after all. We have no War on Pedophilia, so we can't use it to go after the pedophiles. /s