skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want the freedom to control what software runs on my device. One straightforward way to do that is for the play app and service (or at least the service api) to be Free software.

So, I would like to run Free software on my devices. Thankfully the kernel is still Free software, so there's still hope we can have open distributions going forward. It seems a shame to double the work to achieve that goal, so I think it makes sense for the software to be opened up.
Yeah, sorry about that. I'd planned a little more infrastructure work before submitting it to HN. Wish me luck :)
>>Programming is still challenging. That won't end in the next 50 years.

So is building cars. Or anything for that matter. Problems in every profession have just gone to a whole new level.

When automation kicks in, you won't need humans to go and solve trivial issues. And there fore what will be left is jobs for people who would like to work on things that can't be automated. Stuff like solving problems no one else has solved before. And creating something or improving something. And things on those lines.

Such jobs are always going to stressful, with high chances of failure, will require thinking and working very hard, with repeated sacrifice to your personal and social life. But at the end if you do it right, you might win big.

Currently that is programming, tomorrow it will something else. So as long as our species exists we will have problems to solve.

And that won't end in the next 50,000 years or probably ever.
I speculate that Microsoft snapped up Nokia because they threatened starting an Android line of phones.

Remember that MS makes money off Android phones.

MS also gets a nice patent bonus along [..] Apple admitted defeat in its patent fight with Nokia, something it hasn't done with anybody else

Apple has (well had but I'd bet dollars to donuts it was renewed) a patent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft so this could be a win for Apple as well.
So now the Nokia employees who aren't let go can now experience the pleasures of Microsoft Stack Ranking.
Theory: Nokia went to Microsoft and said "we're going Android". This was the (intended) result?
Good piece; this whole thing, though, reminds me of something I read in Carl Sagan's "The Dragons of Eden":

"The defect that hinders communication betwixt them and us, why may it not be on our part as well as theirs?" - French philosopher Montaigne

Now Montaigne was talking about non-human animals, but it works the same for people: is it the fault of the person with the accent that you can't understand them, or your own? Why must that person work to get up to "your level," when it's as much their fault that they have an accent as it is your fault that you have trouble understanding their English?
I remember their developer evangelists were running around showing off some $3000 Samsung tablet PC prior to the Surface and Surface Pro being released.

People think the Surface is expensive because they compare it to the iPad or Nexus 7/10 product lines, but it seems like Windows RT is closer to a port of Windows 8 to ARM than anything else, which makes it seem odd that you'd think to run Windows Rt on a $200 tablet.
I'm recording GeoIP country and the Accept-Languages header from their request. Hopefully this generates some interesting data to pore over later. Monthly data snapshots might be useful for researchers.
Nice! I noticed that I tended to identify the languages by their "fingerprint", certain phonemes and accents that characterize the language. It's probably not surprising that all three languages I missed were African languages. I've heard plenty of European and Asian languages, but rarely have I heard an African language.
The simple logistics of the deal make it very likely that the remaining Nokia shell company will become a patent aggressor. The only reason companies like Samsung and Motorola aren't firing off patent attacks daily is that their own substantial businesses fall risk to the same sorts of attack, leading to a sort of detente. By unloading the hardware business, the entity that remains will have all of the benefits of being a patent aggressor, with none of the liabilities.
Lithium (PHP Framework) 1.0 beta
Student Solves Sol Lewitt Drawing Assignment in Pseudocode
Headline is wrong. Vodafone is not being sold to Verizon, in fact almost exactly the opposite - Vodafone is selling off its existing 45% stake in Verizon.
Not sure how not ready, not shipping on devices, no app support makes it "key to success". With that argument sticking to System 40 and System 60 would have made more sense.
lmakeppleave is saying that the amount that used to be stolen was "income" the employees were making (albeit illegitimately). like, I as a waiter make $100 per shift and steal $20 per shift; my net is $120 per shift.

When they put in cameras and I start upselling instead of stealing, I need to upsell 20 / .15 (15%, the traditional tip amount) to have my net remain at $120. That means I need to increase the restaurant's gross by $133 to maintain my extra $20 of income. lmakeppleave is arguing that it's easier to steal $20 than to increase the restaurant's gross by the amount needed to make $20 legitimately.
Stephen Elop Is Now Microsoft CEO Candidate to Beat
oops sorry for the premature reply. too much hap in a day :( a wysiwyg / rte is something we worked hard towards since that was the most easiest way to fill in data. we will have a closer look at it and get back.
Of course it is, but a far greater proportion of medical effort goes into fixing problems like ED than would be prescribed according to the utility of fixing them. The reason these things get the focus they do is because they're profitable.

And that's the point: war makes research into treating basic trauma profitable in a way that everyday life doesn't. It's not worth it, but those are still the apparent facts. I mean, look at how low hanging the fruit described in the article is. If that were a device for making a man's penis hard, it would have been invented 15 years ago.
So, is there any Nokia left after all this?
And, naturally the one pulling the strings will be MS.
Who do you think is doing the abusing here? The Amish I've met (where I grew up in northern Michigan) didn't seem controlled by anybody. It seemed like a lot of internal discipline, and they were very community-minded, but it didn't seem cult-y at all.

Even though I'm a technologist through and through, I have a lot of respect for what they're up to. I am also very careful about what technology I let into my life; there can be subtle poorly understood effects. E.g., we've been using artificial light for generations, but it has been linked recently with depression and breast cancer.

To me, their restrictions don't seem arbitrary at all. I think they are rooted in different values than mine, but I've learned to respect that.

For those who want more, by the way, NPR did a nice piece today on Amish technology adoption: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/02/217287...
The combined company makes a lot of sense and will be well-positioned to compete in mobile, blah blah.

I'm sad, because Nokia stood for something: something I generally liked even though I didn't own one. As did Microsoft: something I disliked mildly, but that needed to exist.

Now those two brands can't stand for two separate things any more. The combined company will stand for maximizing shareholder value through leveraging synergies, or something.

Meanwhile, the iPhone has lost most of its personality, and Ubuntu phone isn't shipping (and it'll be a watery product anyway).

Can someone please start a smartphone company to make a phone I care about?
To build on this, the drag force varies linearly with fluid density and quadraticly with velocity, so the four-fold increase in fluid density from airplane altitude to sea level corresponds to a doubling in velocity. Which is actually the difference we see! Cool!
pg was like a role model for me. I was so inspired by his early essays that I have read them time and again. And I was really disappointed by pg's recent essay. Yes, I agree that if a founder's accent is so strong that he couldn't be understood, he is less likely to succeed. There is no controversy here. I am not disappointed on what he said but how he said it. "...anyone with half a brain...","they must just be clueless if they haven’t gotten rid of their strong accent..." These phrases seem so arrogant to me. Can pg speak Chinese without strong Chinese accent? Does he know how difficult it is to get rid of strong accent? How would he just easily judge these people with strong accents as "half a brain" or "clueless" so easily? "...Everyone got that? We all agree accents are fine?... " Yes, we all got it, since pg is always right 200% of the time, and everybody who disagree are just idiots who don't get his scientifically obtained and proved "empirical evidence".
Pneumatic power tools are nothing new:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tool
"Air tools were formerly unpopular in the DIY market, but are becoming increasingly popular, and have always been ubiquitous in industrial and manufacturing settings."

Its sad that my statement is being down-voted without being refuted in any way.
Tried to read a recent post there, but stopped after the statement “Nikon just recently said it plans to launch its own smartphones”.

That looked like big news, so I looked it up. Turned out, Nikon's president said something along the lines of “We want to create a product that will change the concept of cameras. It could be a non-camera consumer product” early July—that is the most reliable citation on the matter I could find.

So it was author's speculation, which he presented as fact on his blog. Maybe there is some useful information there, but the hassle of verifying each statement wasn't worth it for me.
Microsoft to Buy Nokia Cellphone Business in $7.17 Billion Deal
Check out Douglas Crockfords book "Javascript the Good Parts" and/or his talks at Yahoo http://yuiblog.com/crockford/
Remember that MS makes money off Android phones.

Purportedly. I engaged in a debate on here before which involved trying to find the supposedly enormous sums of money that Microsoft makes from Android in their quarterly financial statements. At best it has to amount to what would be chump change to a company like Microsoft.

Instead we hear about supposed agreements where vendors who all happen to also be Windows Phone makers pay some unknown sum to Microsoft, which for all we know is used towards their WP licensing.

If Nokia released Android phones it would been devastating to Microsoft's mobile platform. It would have ruined it.
The case design is really phenomenal. I've been inside mine (2009) a lot lately trying to fix a stability issue (the north bridge is possibly getting to 120˚C, the ATI Radeon 4870 was running very hot and disassembling showed 4 years worth of dust jamming it up). Swapping components with nary a screw and the general cleanliness (no SATA cables snaking around, air channels from front to back) is excellent.

I'd like for Apple to carry both lines going forward, but I guess that is unlikely. The issues I'm seeing now discourage me from dropping another 3-5k on the new ones knowing they are even further from being fixable.
What do you mean by design?
It is always a failure to interpolate the future linear from now on.
History was never linear.
It is more like waves between extremes. Therefore my estimate would be a new Biedermeier period.

You obviously did not study history. Look up Germanys history (Nazis, Stasi) if you want a picture of what a gov't can do with you or your children.
Jeffrey Bezos aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper
Among other things, he may have a financial and training investment in Mac software. E.g. Final Cut only runs on OS X.
To fulfill the Amish model we'd have to get better at relinquishing as a group. Social relinquishing. Not merely a large number (as in a movement) but a giving up that relies on mutual support

This is interesting. We have regulations (eg smoking bans), boycotts, fashions and individual choices. How fundamentally different from all that is what the Amish do?

Understanding their take on technology requires answering this question. This article raised it, but did it answer it?
Key to success since it allowed Nokia developing modern and versatile system. Not sure what you meant by no support and not shipping. It was cancelled, obviously. What kind of support do you expect from a cancelled system? Elop cut off that road for Nokia, and their independence was doomed ever since. It was probably the plan all along.

It's good that we have Jolla folks now, who continue Meego heritage. But now they will be increasingly threatened by Microsoft trolling.
So, it's lesser than the price for Skype? Wow. This makes no sense to me though. I mean Nokia has a lot more value than Skype!
I can think of three reasons for interviewing at a "B-list" company that have nothing to do with putting oneself on a pedestal.

1) You might actually like the work/environment/personal growth opportunities/company health at the "B-list" company once you see it in person. Admit it: your initial classification involved a healthy amount of guesswork and is probably not fantastically accurate.

2) A stupid mistake in your A-list interview hurts both you and the A-list company, potentially dramatically so. You help both them and yourself by practicing.

3) Your increased bargaining power decreases the chance the A-list company lowballs your salary, shooting both you and themselves in the foot (hiring your replacement is expensive, lost productivity due to dissatisfaction is expensive, envy-poisoned work relationships are expensive).
Microsoft's own press release makes clear that they are not buying any patents. They are buying a 10-year license to Nokia's patents.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/Sep13/09-02An...

This is almost certainly to lubricate regulatory approval, and because it unleashes a Nokia patent monster upon the lands.
They aren't hired because they are good, they are hired because they are cheap, just like in the article.

if you transfer an H1-B, you are no longer cheap.

The only people who care about hiring the best and the "top 10%" is in the valley. The rest of America is fine with B through D... the reason being you selling to untechnical corporate project managers.
Terrible router firmware strikes again. Which router are you using?
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and a really bad falling out with Bill.
That would be Drunkard's Walk.
Or have ever heard of some of them. I got actually the exact same score.
I wonder if there's anywhere I can read about this. (Paging Jason Scott)
Most Windows Phones were #1 best sellers on Amazon too. Look at where their market share is right now.
I was going for either people who are 'hip' enough or 'steady' enough to run Microsoft. Fiorina would be a total, unmitigated disaster.
I doubt that. The remaining entity will be self-governed and will have -- to what I've seen -- no interest in or from Microsoft.

However Microsoft will have a 10-year license grant, meaning that Microsoft is immune to the beast anyways.
JMicron makes lots and lots of SATA controllers, that's a bit scary.
we have added a link to pdf on the home page now. thanks for pointing it out.
Can we not talk about this in terms of war and battle? It is the business of selling consumer electronics, same as it has always been. You do explain your position well but I feel the references to war and battle water it down.

No one has been killed in the development of phones. I get that the MBA crowd read the art of war and it's practical knowledge seeped into popular discussion. But the endless reference to war in consumer electronics (and other areas not really war) is tedious and uninformative.
Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and a few other languages have about five to nine distinct vowels. They also have a severe limit on consonant blends and combinations.

English has about 25 distinct vowels; it varies depending on your accent. Consonants can be placed around vowels freely without strict rules.

There are about 250 distinct syllables in use in Japanese and two or three times that many in Spanish or Italian. English has many thousands.

So English is harder, but people learn to speak it. Even babies.
I don't have any recordings of Grove from the late 60s/early 70s, but in every recent video I've seen his accent is about as strong as Arnold Schwarzenegger's. It's noticeable, but it hardly affects your ability to understand what he's saying.
Thank you!

Unfortunately, poor documentation seems to be the fashion for JS projects. You're lucky if you get full parameter descriptions and return types for API functions. And the same for expected callback functions? Forgetaboutit.

Just because the language is dynamic doesn't mean APIs should be haphazardly documented.
This is largely OT, but I consider this to be a critical factor in online communities, so...

I speculate that

I upvoted you just for this bit. Smart people who note when they're speculating are rare ##. I hear speculation spoken as though it were experience or authority depressingly often.

Reading your comment further: I agree.

## I'm worried that I'm sounding prejudiced and that's not my intention. Not-smart people speculate constantly and I doubt they recognize it; it's hard to recognize speculation in our society. Smart people are the worst: their speculations sound reasonable/smart. Smart people silently-speculating are like Homer's sirens: sounds good until you're dashed on the rocks.
Pretty bright I must say. Lumia became the fastest growing smartphones in the Asian and South American markets. For a company that resurrected itself from bankruptcy to this, does hold an impressive future if kept on its track.
Google has Motorola and the Nexus line. As for Microsoft, their spectacular failure with the Surface suggests that having control of both hardware and software does not necessarily result in success.
It may be hard to imagine, but it does happen: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/09/09/breaking-amish-one-...
I was up to 500 before missing two in a row, but then I encountered a bug where the audio track seemed to not download properly, so hitting play caused the progress bar to jump straight to the end without playing anything. Pretty cool idea overall though.
How to play multiple video using html5
Just because I don't want to spend money on a new phone or a new computer doesn't mean that I don't want to spend money on a new car.
I think the opposite is true. Girlfriend uses Facebook (I do not). When she says 'got to see this...' I ask if it is on Facebook, and, if so, decline being interrupted to look at whatever it is. As for 'this is really funny!' my response 'is this another Facebook joke?' is how I am able to filter out the lame humour - if it is on Facebook it is rubbish humour, simple as.
Yes, because otherwise no-one would work there.
Yes, hard to believe they paid more for Skype!
Considering the cost, time of construction, time saving, the project doesn't seem to make much sense. China already dropped maglev due to high cost. On the other hand, Japan is making very slow progress on cleaning up its nuclear mess and almost all of its nuclear reactors are suspended right now. Why a new railway is more important than nuclear disaster in hand?
Microsoft can simply pay that shell Nokia to do the racket for them. Patent privateering is not news. Crooked companies who have something to lose pay non producing trolls to attack their competitors. Non producing trolls are harder to fight, and those companies stay in the shadows and avoid retaliation.
Here’s why Microsoft is buying Nokia’s phone business
I got a 650. Surprising how easy it was to pick out what was Indo-European or Semitic, everything else was hard. Only got Indonesian because of The Act of Killing.
I got 550 on my first try. It's kind of fun, kind of impossible. Serbian versus Croatian versus Slavic is just a shot in the dark.
Same here, scored about 750 just by simplifying knowing kurdish was persian, so to listen for "indian" sounds, or Slovenia by listening for "eastern europe"

The only languages I can actually speak are English, and a little French.
> ...they are not buying any patents. They are buying a 10-year license to Nokia's patents.

That's basically the same isn't it? A patent can only remain active for 20 years, assuming most of the patents are several years old the majority of them will be pretty close to expiration in 10 years time.

Note: I'm basing this on NZ patent law, but I assuming it's the same for any 1st world country...
Microsoft Explains Rationale behind the Nokia Deal
Whatever your personal hangups are, words such as "battle" (an extended contest, struggle, or controversy) and "war" (a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end) are entirely and absolutely appropriate for such discussions.

Your comment borders on bizarre.
Coverity finds Python sets new level of quality for open source software
Amazing three-D puzzles
Jolla might interest you, though I have no idea about their current state.
It would be a good exercise when I were in college, not enough money, more than enough time. Tinkering and optimizing a rig was what i liked to do. Fast forward to now, still a hacker at heart, but the extra time I would rather to go out for a walk, do some workout, or talk to friends. Just the priorities have changed
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on licensed Software Engineers?
I came across this article from 2012 that talks about some states in the US now offering a licensure examination for Software Engineering. The idea is to bring standards to the software field similar to the ones that exist for other branches of engineering.

The comments section is particularly negative to this idea. It seems like most of the people commenting are established software developers that are reluctant to this change.

Reading the article, I begin to agree that licensure may be a good idea. The term "Software Engineering" has such a wide span that some delineation could be a good thing. As software continues to eat the world what will delineate the differences between a CRUD web application developer and someone qualified to write code for pacemakers, satellites, missiles, etc?

How is this sort of thing handled in countries other than the US?

Is licensure a good or bad idea? I'd like to hear the communities' thoughts.

Link: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/career-guidance/licensing-software-engineers-is-in-the-works
I guess I'm not following how they are unrelated. To really stress a system and find bugs, shouldn't you be putting it under realistic usage and load? In my mind using test data that closely matches real data is desirable for development purposes. I suppose I'm now actually disagreeing with the OP's statement -- that example was a specific circumstance where perhaps more care should've been taken, but for the general case I think it's actually desirable to use realistic data.

Plus I just think it'd be cool if you could use the same service/API for both use cases.
This. Even though I personally throw in with the GTK+ crowd as both a user and developer, the competition between the two camps is definitely good for innovation and makes for strong, compelling alternatives on the Linux desktop.
This is an incredibly long piece that doesn't seem to have a particularly interesting point to make.
What does this mean for Qt?
A cool game worth a couple of plays. I found myself often making educated guesses based on the speaker's accent, not the language itself (i.e. I thought of where I'd think the person was from if the same speaker was speaking English).

A suggestion: I really don't like the design of having the next question be a new browser history entry. It took me about 20 back clicks to get back to HN to post this comment.
I think people dug into their latest earnings and made a case that MS did make a few hundred mil on Android phone licenses.

But you're right: it's chump change to MS, and Nokia putting out even a single Android phone would have been a huge blow to MS.