skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Windows Phone does web and email better than iPhone.

The primary way it is better is that the screen is so much bigger. This is easy to dismiss, but it makes a ton of UI hacks done for the iPhone needless. For example, the fact that the address bar isn't on the screen all the time is a hack to compensate for the small screen. Then that leads to a need for the hack where you click the top of the screen in the browser to rapidly scroll to the top. Sometimes that's a nice feature, but only if your screen is so small that they can't always display the address bar unless you've scrolled all the way to the top. Sometimes it's the most annoying thing in the world - like when you've scrolled past 7 pages of information reading in the browser and then accidentally click the rapid scroll-up button. There is no rapid scroll-down button to undo that.

My wife has an iPhone 5 and honestly it feels like a tiny little toy when I use it. The screen is ridiculously small.

Now for the other nice things... I can copy music to it without the iTunes bloatware. I plug my phone in, something pops up and then I just copy music to it. With Windows Phone, I have two copies of my music - my computer and my phone. With iPhone I had three copies - what was on my computer, what was on my phone and what the iTunes library. Keeping three things in sync was a massive pain.

The integration to Skydrive is much better than iCloud as well. My Lumia 928 has 32 GB of storage but with SkyDrive I get an additional 125 GB (of which 25 GB was free). I can seamlessly access pictures, video and music right from it as long as I have a signal.

The Nokia maps are the best maps application I ever used. Much better than either Google Maps or Apple Maps. Speaking of signal - the maps application have online and offline capabilities. So if I have no signal whatsoever there is a local copy of map data on my phone so I can still get directions.

I have three young kids and my Windows Phone has a KidZone. I put certain apps in there and then put it into the KidZone mode and my kids are locked into those apps unless they type my password. No more deleting icons accidentally, no more sending emails on my behalf accidentally, no more doing anything I don't want them to do like they did constantly with my iPhone.

This is long enough - the bottom line is that Windows Phone is superior in every way that matters to me to any iPhone I ever owned.
Great work!

How much of the book is useful (probably wrong word choice) if the reader does not know Rails?
I think the exact opposite holds true. If you're a MySQL / Sinatra shop, being the best at MySQL is the goal - double this if you're working for clients.

If your job is to provide the best possible kitchen device sync platform, then doing on the job research into improving that is essential to the business.
As an ex-hackintosher im always thrilled to see people pull great stories like this off! I gave up on rolling my own due to the small irritations (system error when my logic mouse's USB dongle was removed) and the upgrade-paralysis; Every new rev of OS X would met w trepidation as a carved out a weekend "just in case".
Either way, I hit a point where investing in an MBA was more economical... Now I can get by with a MBA; if we're talking about a MacPro then the value trade off might still be there :)
Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds
Severe case of "startup disease" combined with "old timers disease".
The ideal solution would be somewhere between a massively scalable system and a system that just barely meets expected capacity. When an engineer is designing a bridge they over-build just enough that the bridge is solid even when packed with 18 wheelers in a snow storm. Most of the time the bridge won't be anywhere near that load. A great developer builds to the expected capacity + some additional capacity based on the uncertainty of the prediction of capacity. I don't see either Jack or Dianne as perfect developers.
Khan Academy + Chromebooks = Low cost solution for Education
I was just about to say that! Truthfully this is a good introduction but is definitely not everything you need to know about SQL.(Obviously) Handling nulls is just one of many sticklers people using SQL frequently screw up.
First yes, monolithic kernels aren't any harder than microkernels, they are actually easier. That was the main reason for Linus' choice when redesigning the Minix microkernel into monolithic Linux.

Second, yes again - UI was integrated due to performance improvement. Earlier versions of NT had microkernel architecture.

Third - well, this is a philosophical question. There are a lot of different people involved in ReactOS and I guess each of them have slightly different reasons for their involvement. "Critical mass" might be unavoidable though, considering the offering. For now Windows 2003 is targeted due to its simpler kernel architecture (NT 5.2) compared to later versions. After that will be achieved, well... we'll see.
As an Emacs beginner and budding Clojure programmer in early 2012, I benefited greatly from Bozhidar Batsov's Emacs Prelude:

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

I highly recommend it, and have been very pleased to see it get better and better over the past year+.
Definitively Turkish. And pretty standard dialect.
U.S. Marines website hacked by Syrian hackers
Why do you watch those videos on Youtube?
I didn't say they run on top of Dalvik, I'm saying they share some of the lower level foundations like e.g. "the Linux kernel with the Android patches so it can use the OEM binary drivers", which is important because that kind of stuff is what separates a smartphone from a brick.
What is your website about? Is it a consumer website aimed at teens, moms, father? Or a GNU hacking blog hosted on Jekyll? CONTEXT is key here.
In my experience, building a non-trivially transformed sequence with the builtin C-backed list and list comprehensions vs iterators and generators, the iterators and generators win.

Maybe I'm doing crazy stuff, though!
15 year old in St. Louis has a 3 year old tech company worth 3.5 million
Would you mind telling us how long it took you to write? The impression I get is that people routinely underestimate how long good writing takes by orders of magnitude.

Thanks again for publishing this.
I made a direct reply to your comment as well. Sorry if it looks like I am accusing you of being part of a deliberate PR attack on online communities. I still agree, however, with joe_the_user's comment: your claim looks a lot like what an astroturfer would say.
Actually, after each try you could have a snippet about each language, e.g.

Kannada
Primarily spoken in: India
# of speakers: 38 million
Language family: Dravidian
Writing sample: ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಬರೆಯಿರಿ
Is awesome because: Reduplication! You write the word
twice, replacing the start of the second one with 'gi-',
to get "and related things". So if "books" is
'pustaka', "books and related things" is
'pustaka-gistaka'. Awesome.

You get the writing sample from ka.wikipedia.org, and the awesomeness from places like http://wals.info/ , http://www.ethnologue.com/ , http://omniglot.com/ (or just searching google scholar for the language name and clicking random articles, always fun)
The memory advantages are key to performance when you have a non-trivially sized dataset, in my experience.
> 50€ per hr. is a german student designer/programmer (first uni year) price.

I've definitely doubts about that price for a german first semester student.
As a student in first semester you'll be a non payed trainee in germany.
A hackintosh is only an option when you don't mind breaking your word. In fact, this is why I bought a Mac mini instead of built a Hackintosh; I even wrote Tim Cook about a "system builder" license being something I'd dream of. The license explicitly states that you agree to install OSX on only Apple-approved/sold hardware (paraphrased).

I'm aware of most the arguments why EULAs are unenforceable, why/how to bypass them, etc, but is any of that honest?
A ruling that is very controversial. The browser ballot was enforced based on the idea that Microsoft had a dominant share of the market, which this very thread goes out of its way to disprove. The EU decision was a cash grab, nothing more. Microsoft has no market dominance, and other more dominant players aren't forced to live by the same rules. If Android has 80% market share, why isn't Google forced to present a choice of default browser at first start up (simply allowing alternative browsers in the ecosystem was not enough for Microsoft in this case)?
Moto X vs. Apple iPhone 5 Dogfight
You know that it's very easy to get your book on Amazon through their subsidiary CreateSpace, right? You already have the PDF... Also getting it into the kindle store is free and easy. If you're just selling the ebook on your website, you're missing a trick.

I haven't really done any marketing except for the initial announcements. Most people find it directly on Amazon, or find the website by searching for "<language> book".
استمارة النشر | مجلة جامعة المدينة العالمية المُحكمة….
This is clearly very dated. Everyone knows that Jack should be a ninja, not a rockstar.
As Apple fans are often quick to point out when someone mentions Android's share, market share is not the only (or best) measure of a platform.
Awesome. It's a site-idea I have myself been toying with but never gone with. Maybe you can extend the scope of your site beyond programming-related topics? For example, I'd be interested in exchanging driving lessons for programming tutoring.
Not bad points about HTML/CSS maintainability...but I'm disappointed that the homeopathy analogy wasn't actually used. Now I'm racking my head trying to think of amusing homeopathic-like coding practices...because even coding has its share of superstitious rituals.

I guess the closest might be, programming by coincidence/accidental implementation:
http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/coinci...
AppCode 2.5 EAP opens with CocoaPods and Google Test
Growing Up With Technology
I have had several people work through it and stumble at points because the book assumes quite a bit of rails knowledge. At some point I'm going to add content for beginners but that's probably a few months away.
Did you know that the Stripe was a Ycombinator funded startup?

If not, I get why you posted that and guess you wouldn't have posted it if you knew. If you did know however, I don't see why you'd have an issue with this. Links following the progress of successful YC companies absolutely are relevant to the HN community. If nothing else they give motivation to people in later YC batches to keep ploughing ahead despite the difficulties that face all startups.

Witness the popularity of HN posts about Airbnb, Dropbox, Scribd etc. I don't see how this link is any different, especially given that it wasn't a Stripe founder who posted it.
Who is Installing gbrainy?
Kickstarter data 1H 2013. Analysis of successful & unsuccessful campaigns
According to Arstechnica [1] Microsoft cannot use the "Nokia" brand on any it's new Windows smartphones.

1 - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/micros...
I'd wager that our increasing reliance on technology in all walks of life - education, anti-terrorism, policing, medicine, health etc. - also plays a role in fanning our fear of risk.

I _think_ technology tends to offer us two things: (a) an illusion of meaning, as risks are reduced to a discrete set of numbers in excel sheets or databases, and (b) a false sense of control, because we try all sorts of actions (like the ones Schneier mentions) to reduce some of those risks.

Then of course there is the cultural angle.

> Risk tolerance is both cultural and dependent on the environment around us.

I'm from India and our willingness to tolerate or overlook risk is fairly high (I don't mean that in a good way, because most of the times we are fairly blasé about our personal/collective safety or about taking preventive actions almost to the extent of devaluing individual lives). But, for what it's worth, we are therefore more willing to tolerate violent risks like the ones Schneier mentions for longer.

Note: 2011 Schneier reference to a research study analysing risk and culture - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/09/risk_toleranc...
The Deal That Makes No Sense - Was Apple Forced Into Buying NeXT?
A Salute to the Wheel
Of course, the usage of both words in this context needs to die. "Jack thinks he's a hotshot developer" would have been fine.
Oouh.. that reads like he managed to get every company he worked for to fade away, go bancrupt or loose competitive strength in a very short time. This. Or he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, very often.

* DEAD: Lotus Development Corporation
* DEAD: Boston Chicken
* SOLD: Macromedia's
* ALIVE: Juniper Networks
* DECLINING: Microsoft Dynamics

I don't know this guy, but if that's the best they can get..
Nice one. Would be better if folks asking for help could be made to (or optionally) be a bit more specific about the sort of help they're after.
Here's an Irony Grammar [1] that can parse the proposed problem if the missing "a point halfway between" is added.
And a screenshot of the Grammar Explorer [2] for the lazy ones.

It was fun to write :).

[1] https://gist.github.com/guillaume86/6423775

[2] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/177896/SolLewitt.PNG
Sure. 70 hours for the first draft and probably another 70 for the editing and revisions. I had the first draft done on July 1st, then spent two weeks editing before starting the preorders. I was developing the companion rails application at the same time so it's hard to get real numbers.
"But you forgot one thing: the "Rockstars" use technology, that will be normal for the masses 2 or 3 years later."

Or sometimes they pick the wrong tech, and it dies, and someone else gets to pick up the pieces 3 years later. Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.
There's a xkcd for that! http://xkcd.com/1102/
Here we go. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
I wonder how much they paid?
CloudfindHQ a start up based in Bath, SouthWest UK

http://cloudfindhq.com/

Looking for Django/Python/Web developers
As well as anyone with salesforce and machine learning experience.

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Currently a small team, just got some major funding and looking to expand.

Doing exciting stuff with natural language processing. To change the way people use the cloud

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Description from job advert

As a key member of our growing team, you will be critical to the success of our company, working closely with the two founders, who have developed the beta.

Your role will involve technical architecture, software design, development (frontend, web app and data analysis), automated testing, and deployment.

Current Stack: Python, Django, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Linux and EC2. We develop on Mac with vim/PyCharm, Git, and Linux VMs (and of course you can choose your own IDE).

Product: The backend integrates with REST APIs for cloud storage, applying advanced algorithms to determine relevant tags that make sense to our users. Our UI uses responsive design for HTML5 browsers and we will expand to mobile apps and HTML5-centric desktop apps.

You will be involved in choosing the best available technologies as required, possibly including Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ, WebSockets, Sass/Less, JavaScript frameworks, and CoffeeScript.

We’re also interested in developers with experience of the Salesforce Force.com platform, including Apex/Visualforce as well as off-platform integration via REST/SOAP APIs. We don’t require Python experience if you fit this profile, as long as you are keen to learn Python.

One unique aspect of this role is the option to move into advanced algorithm development, working with specialist developers and our mathematician/CEO. Our incremental analysis backend uses algorithms such as natural language processing, machine learning, etc to improve our auto-tagging performance, while also staying CPU and I/O efficient so that new files are indexed ASAP. (However, we are also interested in pure web app developers!)

This is a chance to create a world-changing web app with cutting edge technologies, without moving to Silicon Valley.
We are developing a dynamic DNS service as well as port proxying that allows you to serve traffic on non standard ports as if they were normal. https://github.com/cznweb/deluge (Disclaimer: We can't encourage you to violate the ToS of your ISP, so if port blocking is against the rules then that is for individuals to handle themselves.)

In the future (read: when the dashboard and the aforementioned tools are stable) there may be ways for individual arkOS nodes to communicate with each other without an intermediary, mesh-style. But that is a long way off.
So, Correios will probaly hire some Brazilian IT to build this service.. okay, it's safe! :)

Should be built by National Security Agency instead if you're looking for security, right?
Congrats Simon and team! Great outcome for one of my favorite services. Can't wait to have you in SF.
Exactly. Educated English writers, including Shakespeare, have been using "they" as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun since Middle English. I believe there's even evidence of this in Old English.

It's only been in the past century that proscriptionist grammarians have dreamed up this pedantic rule and sought to eliminate English's sole gender-neutral singular pronoun. But since educated writers and common folk alike have been using "they" as a singular pronoun for centuries before these neo-grammarians dreamed up their rule, it's a hopeless and utterly useless quest.
This one is the best:

_vojto is looking for help with Data analytics.

In return, they can offer their help with Relationship advice.
When did consumers get so interested in the media business?
Diane most likely chose MySQL because it was the most popular open-source database. Popularity is often reason enough to choose a particular tool, because it means that that tool is more likely to be supported by other good tools.
Twitter's 100th open source GitHub repo - Summingbird
It shouldn't be too hard to do a SED control utility fundamentally. It is maybe a licensing or TCG membership issue though. I thought it was just some extra drive commands.
Its much easier to just start using ipv6 once you start assigning interfaces to VMs and lxc boxes.

Although there are still a few services on ipv4 only. Github I am looking at you.
Suddenly, everything I've done thus far seems rather inadequate. However, kudos for doing this! I hope you haven't stopped working on it.

Looks like you've worked on the expected base functionality.

https://github.com/SamyPesse/devos/blob/master/kernel/arch/x...
I know the phrase is pretty high on everybody's most-hated list, but Cargo Cult programming in any form can come pretty close to placebo/homeopathic solutions.
Can We Do This?
Nice article and great to read some additional validation of the Patio11/Nathan Barry playbook. A few things I'm interested to know:

- How many sales you got from this HN post?

- Have you received any consulting gigs from the book?

- How big did your mailing list get?

- Why aren't you collecting signups to your list from this blog post?!?!
No longer Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia recently bought out their share from Siemens, and now called "Nokia Solutions and Networks". It's been a solid revenue generator for them.

Just like Motorola which has a lot of cell tower/radio networking etc. that is didn't sell to Google, Nokia is a huge player in base stations/NodeB's, etc. that it's not selling.
There is a referenced piece of info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel

"The emulation subsystem which implements the Windows personality is called the Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (csrss.exe). On versions of NT prior to 4.0, this subsystem process also contained the window manager, graphics device interface and graphics device drivers. For performance reasons, however, in version 4.0 and later, these modules (which are often implemented in user mode even on monolithic systems, especially those designed without internal graphics support) run as a kernel-mode subsystem[1]."

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc750820.aspx
Am I the only one that read that as Lavabit?
WHy Yahoo's "30 Logos in 30 Days" campaign is actually brilliant rebranding
The next logical step is to create a mount for the back of a holga to replace the film plane with a smartphone camera. Or, to create a holga look-alike that interfaces with a smartphone's camera.
Hit by a bus
I would disagree in that's the working definition I've most commonly heard. Think of rockstars doing the same old thing but now with a cool trendy new sound. Yup, its just "happy birthday" again, but I've got a rockin' hairdo and a wild guitar solo (its all about the solo with these guys) and I added some pyrotechnics to the show, although it does nothing productive. None the less, at the end of the day, other than an impressive show, it was still just "happy birthday".

I don't think it involves wearing leather pants to work, although it doesn't exclude it, I suppose.
> I take it you have never used a Windows Phone.

I have. In fact, it's a perfectly good phone - works well, makes and receives calls with good quality, does not experience loss-of-signal too frequently and both browsing and e-mail work as expected.

But that is the feature set of a featurephone. Coincidence or not, former featurephone users are the only demographic where Windows Phone is growing.

"It doesn't suck" is not competitive these days. Certainly, there are iOS and Android and Blackberry devices that do suck, but there are plenty others that don't.
Cool, sounds like you're going in with eyes open and reasonable expectations.
> simplistic ideological purity

The only place in this discussion where this exists is in the nearly religious belief that all good things come from and are owed to the State.
Let's Gist Again
I've briefly looked into it, sounds like I should probably look into it more. I was thinking about doing a limited print run through Lulu but that wouldn't really help with the marketing.

Thanks!
Arukula SK
Arukula Sport Club homepage!
As long as you are the only one in your house that watches movies - or everyone who does is just as much of a geek. If you have less technophilic spouse or children, you want it to work, and to be easy to operate. Otherwise you will have to operate it for them and fix it promptly every time it breaks.
This is one of those "why I am a great developer" sorts of posts that allows people to pat themselves on the back and congratulate each other on how great they are, passive-aggressively sending it out to the team in hopes of denigrating some team member who likes newer things. In this case "judgement" means "uses the things that I know", and there seems to be little evaluation beyond that high-level use case.

Why was -- in this contrived scenario -- Jack's solution a "maintenance nightmare"? Just because.
Hi there, as a former phone support/trainer for apple support, people definitely buy things repeatedly!

I had one customer who thought each phone was effectively a burner, and he threw them out when he got a new one.
He also made sure the apple store activated his phone (before all went that way) as he thought it was useless to have a computer with the phone (because why was he buying the phone then?).

This story and many like it popped up again and again until I realized that the majority of users are completely ignorant of even the smallest details of how the device or its internals work, its is mostly a fashion statement.
He himself (presumably) writes a post in the morning . . . :

This entry was posted on September 2, 2013 at 9:00 am under Miscellaneous:
http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2013/09/an-interesting-s...

. . . then someone else finishes the day off with:

This entry was posted on September 2, 2013 at 11:00 pm under Personal:
http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2013/09/farewell/

Pohl was not a young man anymore, but it still makes me think what a difference a day makes, and if I live every day as wisely as I can . . .