skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, I have no idea what our bookmarks bars would look like without favicons, especially if you used firefox's extension that shows just the favicon (which was one of the reasons I held onto firefox for so long).

There's a video somewhere of Mark Zuckerberg and some co-workers discussing ideas about Facebook (in it's earliest days), and in the video they are trying to decide on what options should be available under the relationship field, one guy says something like: "I feel like we should make it possible to say that.. like you're not in a relationship per se, but nor are you free, like it's complicated..."
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This was pretty much almost expected.
What microsoft did was made nokia very much dependent upon microsoft.
Then it buys it, a stroke of genius i tell you.
How about we use language and imagery that most people understand.
700. Missed Tagalog, Slovenian, and Amharic. Also, dude, you could do with another Lao clip, or a better clip-selection algo, 'cause I heard the Lao clip twice. Would've been good if it had been a different clip, but giving me the same clip is just a gimme. Great game, though.
That's basically the same isn't it?

If Microsoft owned the patents they could enforce them against others. As a licensee, they simply protect themselves from Nokia enforcing it against them.

As I said elsewhere in here, a Nokia with a big stack of patents and no hardware business is going to be an ugly thing for the industry: They can go gangbusters with patent assaults while having nothing for their victim's to attack in return. All the while Microsoft will be enjoying their 10-year license.
He's English.
Why? His video software is on OS X. Learning a completely new workflow that will provide no benefits in the long run? Money is cheap. Time is not.

As a programmer, I won't use a non-OS X machine as my main computer. I have a desktop with Windows 7, but that's basically for games. I need Unix to feel comfortable (Cygwin doesn't cut it) and I need a desktop environment that doesn't feel hostile to just-pick-up-and-use (and that knocks out every Linux DE out there). It is the only choice that really fits my needs.
But they were together already. This past time Nokia only developed Windows phones and Microsoft paid for the marketing of the Lumia. Nokia had Stephen Elop as CEO, for crying out loud. We already knew Nokia was a part of Microsoft. This is not a move, just a formality; the low price gives you another hint. If the partnership Microsoft-Nokia could have changed their positions in the mobile sector, it would have happened years ago.

Nothing will change as a result of this.
The corporate tax rate in the United States is 35%. The corporate tax rate in Ireland is 12.5%. (This is why multinationals like to incorporate their European subsidiaries in Ireland.)

If Microsoft moved money in the United States, it would pay the difference in taxes -- namely, 22.5%. But if Microsoft spent the money outside the United States, then it would not pay this difference.

Incidentally, Finland will be reducing its corporate tax rate next year, from 24.5% to 20%.
Yep. I hope this accent meme on HN dies soon.
I spent a lot of time getting OS X running on a Dell Mini 9 netbook.

At that time, I think it was regarded as the most compatible OS X netbook, and (IIRC) absolutely all the hardware worked 100% correctly. Wifi, sound, sleep/wake, external monitor, etc.

I used it extensively for 3 years as my main machine, and it never once crashed or had a single problem.

The more I used it, the more I was absolutely certain of one thing. My next machine will be a genuine Apple.

I bought a 2012 MBA 13inch for ~3 times the price of the mini 9 and am extremely happy. Apple hardware is spectacular.
That is not a first party Instagram app.
The costs to transfer a H1B are less than the costs to get it in the first place (the legal costs are the same, but it takes less work to get the materials together, and you don't need to pay the employee to move).
I didn't build my desktop to be a Hackintosh, but it took me about two and a half hours my first time. The second (and last), it took me an hour and fifteen minutes. It's really not that rough.
I think this is where the message gets mixed. It's not about how much Microsoft makes, its that apparently Microsoft makes more from Android than Windows phone[1].

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/android/microsoft-makes-more-andr...
>I toyed with the idea of building a Hackintosh to replace my 2011 iMac, instead of waiting for the 2013 model

The prices are comparable if buy an iMac in the launch window. But the 2011 iMac is still being sold today. If you were buy a computer now there is a huge difference.

It's also worth considering overclocking given the stagnation in processor advances over the last generations. Getting a 40% clock increase out of a chip is like jumping ahead multiple years now -- it used to be that you could always wait a year and catch up, so why bother overclocking. But an inefficient old i7, originally 350 dollars, at 4.5ghz from 3 years ago is still faster than anything Intel is even selling today at any price.
Without Javascript, MEGA's website is a blank white page. Without knowing exactly what MEGA is, why should a sufficiently paranoid user allow js from it to run?
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I wonder who knew?
Slightly off-topic: Does anyone run Mac OS X under VirtualBox on Linux (or tried to)?

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro (8 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA, 15") that I used almost exclusively (and occasionally used a Windows 7 VM on) until this past May when I bought a beefed up Thinkpad W530 (32 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD + 500 GB SATA, 1920x1080) and installed Linux on it

I've barely touched the MBP since then and only occasionally miss it, but I did notice that OS X is apparently supported on recent versions of VirtualBox. Like the Windows 7 VM that I keep around, it might be useful to have an OS X VM that I can fire up if the need arises.
> Thirdly, Amish practices are ultimately driven by religious belief: the technological, environmental, social, and cultural consequences are secondary. They often don't have logical reasons for their policies.

I don't think this is fair. Their choice to refrain from certain technologies is religious in nature, of course, but it comes through the filter of not wanting to be distracted by the rest of the world. They do not believe that there is a divine order that leads directly to the seemingly arbitrary list of can-haves and can't-haves, and as far as I know, they don't even believe that their way of life is necessary for salvation or condemn the rest of Christianity.
Do you mean Slovenian?
and when I replied the parent lacked that qualifier; it was edited in.
It's a matter of framing the ultimatum correctly--explain that you've got an offer, and though you really would prefer to stay, you don't see how you can pass this up. Say thanks and let them know when your last day will be--they'll either come up with the idea to make a counter offer on their own, or they won't and a raise wasn't in the cards.

For this to work, however, you do have to be willing to actually leave. If you really just want a raise, better to just ask for it--you can use the offer to explain what salaries for someone with your experience/skills are.
No personal hang ups. Just expressing an opinion on the use of words that I think are overused and therefore watered down in today's environment. You clearly have a different take on it. No need to belittle me for my opinion.
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This is really fun, except now that i'm getting server errors (probably due to HN traffic) I can't play...
Definitely. Seeing how someone handles a real project, a real challenge with real consequences and timelines is arguably the better way to do it. To find the good candidates you still need to weed out the bad ones, but it's not hard to see who is the real deal by just sitting down and having a chat with them.

When I worked for the ABC here in Australia for a short contract position there was a room of about 10 people from different teams (designers, journalists, developers, managers) and each of them had a copy of my resume. They asked questions based off of what I put on my C.V to see if my answers matched. I thought that was brilliant, ask questions to see if your answers matched and if you were the real deal.

I reckon a spoken interview where you get to know the person and ask them a bit about their experience (not ask them to solve problems) will get you 85% of the way and the other 15% is if they can handle the pressure of the workplace and work well with the team. A few trial hours (unpaid) where you bring in your candidates, sit them down with your team and see how they handle things would definitely go a long way and cost nothing.

Seems I have struck a chord with someone who down-voted me. Would that person care to elaborate?
Well if you name someone a friend you have talked to 3 hours and you are sharing FB links with, than you have a totally different understanding of the meaning of the word "friend" than me.
No harder than to imagine an average American trying to be successful in an Amish community.
I switched to taking fewer photos. Now I try to get enough shots to prompt a recollection of what I actually experienced.

Exceptions would be things such as certain architecture or scenery, the details of which I'd never recall well.
The author fails to interpret the word 'foreign' correctly and thereby fails in building a convincing main argument.

In this case, 'foreign' is not synonymous with overseas.

A foreign accent is any accent that is foreign to your brain - and obviously there is a multi-dimensional spectrum of 'foreign-ness'.

The author has erred in his judgement, however I can see now why other non-native-English speakers would easily make the same mistake.

The irony of misunderstanding a topic about the importance of communication!
It's amazing how distinguishable accents are. I wonder how much voice recognition software keys off of accent? I've a few South/Eastern Asia friends that never do well with spoken GPS recognition, but if it could know their native tongue was Gujarati or Thai then I imagine it could do a much better job of analyzing their English.
I was pleasantly surprised to make it to 800.
Hands-on with the Nintendo 2DS: Surprisingly small and comfortable
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The business model is slightly different but what doesn't change is that there is a lot of value in controlling the dominant platform.
Thunderbolt is like PCIe x2, but a slot is x8. Whether you need that much bandwidth is being fiercely debated.
The Nexus line is in no way establishing a cohesive Google experience. Most opt for Samsung or HTC. Regarding the Surface: you're right, it flopped. Difference here is that Microsoft is bringing in the talent, experience, and quality product to make a more serious attempt at mobile.
Among many other things, with this, MS can now compete with Google Maps. Although they already had a partnership with Nokia, having them with a tighter team integration is a different story. I am sure both MS and Google will do drastic innovations with this renewed competition.
> It's bothering me quite a bit that his latest "To be continued" won't.

It may be. The blog says that they have a thick file of stuff that he meant to post and will likely continue for a while.

This feels like the passing of an era to me.
Mozilla is more conservative with money than other companies. No corporate credit cards, no daily travel allowances, no daily breakfast, lunch and dinner (only lunch and only once a week, after all-hands).

However, being too conservative doesn't work in Silicon Valley because you have to compete with companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. for talent with their perks and benefits. Whether it's good or bad in the long term I do not know but it is a fact.
Exactly, thats what I thought too!
"if you read the source code and have been subscribed to the mailing list for a year"

Not only do I read the source and daily newsgroup digests to my preferred javascript stack, I read the source and newsgroups of the other popular choices. If I didn't know all the answers, i wouldn't be a very good tech lead, would I?

The ecosystem is moving at high velocity and that is a good thing.
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Well, if you look at it... RageSpline guy (Juha Kiili) is working at Unity (on the same 2D stuff for 4.3), and NGUI folks (Michael Lyashenko & Philip Cosgrave) are working at Unity on the upcoming GUI system.

That said, some people do not want work for any company; they just want to be "independent". And that's ok.
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The one time I tried to make a Hackintosh, it ran wonderfully for weeks (after spending tens of hours getting it going in the first place). Then an OS X update came out, I installed it, and it never recovered. Nowadays, I don't have the time or desire to have to screw with it every time a major update drops and it messes up (or even has the potential to).

One of the greatest things about Apple's combination of software and hardware, IMO, is that It Just Works(TM). A Hackintosh doesn't.
Is this a question or a statement? Modern battle and war have very little in common with business. So, it is my opinion that the use is such terms waters down an otherwise reasonable well thought out comment.
I think is point is that if your accent is so strong that you are not understandable, then odds are you either are ignorant that it is a problem or are too dumb to consider it a possibility, since otherwise you would have taken steps to improve it to the point that you are intelligible.

Now that there has been a shitstorm pg can no longer delve into specifics anymore without inflaming hurt feelings, but I imagine he is talking about people who have incredibly extreme accents and are extraordinarily hard to understand. I have worked with a number of people like this, they were ultimately unable to live up to their potential, and I would characterize them as "clueless" in this regard since I would be genuinely shocked if they were at the very least aware nevermind actively trying to correct the problem. It defies belief to think that these folks could not have dramatically improved their accent had they identified it as a problem and spent a few hours each week of dedicated effort to improve it.

This point is of course lost on people who are eager to be offended. If you have a ridiculously strong accent then it's hard to argue that it is unreasonably difficult to go from there to simply being intelligible. People are instead focused on the difficulty of losing an accent altogether which is of course very hard and completely irrelevant.
It probably felt like it to the staff who got fired a couple of years back
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Exactly. As Kevin even admits later in the article, their list of allowed vs. not is determined chiefly by the observed side-effects on already existing relationships, attitudes, etc, which they put high importance on.
Its Instagram's decision to "crown" a third party developer - Instragram has never expressed inability due to platform limitations - they always expressed lack of desire, probably from a philosophy of dis-taste towards Microsoft rooted in the prejudices of the founder or the group of developers at Instagram.
To be fair, CUPS was around before Apple's involvement and they purchased the source + hired the developer.
This is true but it's not going to happen that quickly. Traditional computers are still where "serious" work like homework is done. In my experience anyone who does more than spend time looking up recipes and checking out Facebook considers their phone to be too limited for "real" work.

Some people might be happy with a bluetooth keyboard and a tablet but clearly the billions of dollars in sales of traditional PC hardware shows that the desktop is here to stay for a while.

My point, basically, is that no one is going to look back at history and say "Microsoft purchasing Nokia's phone division was the end of the desktop PC." They're going to look at the release of the iPhone and then the time that Android, iOS, Win Phone, etc became just as good (i.e. no one thinks "should I use my iPhoneLapDocTop or my Windows Laptop") for general purpose computing as Windows and OS X every were. I think cloud services and "dockable" phones with proper large screen UI/UX will be key to that. I'm pretty excited about that, assuming it happens, as I sometimes find my MBPr too large but my iPad too limited for some things like interviewing potential hires. Using the same core for each would be very handy, but I've digressed.

Also don't discount those holdouts. The fact that Windows gained so much of a foothold in the home because it was what people are/were using in the office. The Mac OS, even if it was 100 times better that Windows at any given time didn't have that ubiquity. Smart phones have the benefit of being in everyone's pocket, but until your boss/HR sets you up with a brand new iAndroidPhone OS laptop for work Windows will still have that crutch to lean on.

IMO the patient is terminal but the prognosis is a drawn out death that might be lived on by Windows Phone if any of this works out.
I believe the press release only speaks about the brand. There does not seem to be any limitations for Nokia to enter into phone business. They would just need to have some other brand.
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Javascript is cancer.
It must be; Hebrew is my second language and I was really hoping it'd pop up so I could boost my score, but sadly it never came :)
How does your work compare to this?

https://github.com/pwnall/chromeview
It's more than that. Microsoft is acquiring the Lumia brand. This gives them the ability to bundle both hardware and software to create one simple, cohesive experience. They will no longer be pushing the Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 8, but The Microsoft Phone. And they can now brag about how they are the smartphone with the best camera. From a marketing perspective, this makes lots of sense.

Lots of that is speculation on what I hope Microsoft does with this, namely adopting Apple's marketing simplicity and control of the user experience.
A summary of the tax arrangements used by some large American multinationals, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, Oracle and Adobe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

As I understand it, these international profits remain in the tax-haven-resident Irish company, and cannot be repatriated to the US parent without incurring an undesirable taxation event.

It's highly likely that Finland-based Nokia is a fiscally efficient purchase for Microsoft. Both Finland and Ireland are EU countries, are in the Eurozone, and have a customs union.

(It would be interesting to compare this to Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, which was an American company.)
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> The Amish I've met (where I grew up in northern Michigan) didn't seem controlled by anybody.

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.

One can say that about any religion that has a pervasive set of rules (eat this on this day, abstain from wearing these colors, make sure to not mix this with that food) is about controlling the individuals. Of course growing up with it, it is internalized.

> It seemed like a lot of internal discipline, and they were very community-minded, but it didn't seem cult-y at all.

Oh yeah I enjoyed spending time with them. They seemed very nice to us visitors. Culti-sh is rather relative. They do shun people. That is a cultish trait if you wish. But otherwise they are just as cultish as other major religions perhaps that prescribe random rules about food, clothes, behavior, sex, life in general.

> To me, their restrictions don't seem arbitrary at all.

They are to me. I can't with a straight face say that a half a mil CNC machine workshop operated by an Amish girl in a bonnet is "ok" while a light bulb in the house is not "ok".
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> The Amish I've met (where I grew up in northern Michigan) didn't seem controlled by anybody.

Excommunication is a powerful threat, particularly when peoples' entire lives have been built around family and community.
Every thing that happens in real life is not Stephen King novel. Elop may have affinity with Microsoft given he worked couple of years there. He worked for number of other respectable companies, so to label Elop as a Microsoft man is a bit of stretch.
Exactly. My first reaction to this news was "wait, didn't this already happen?", before I realized that it didn't quite happen, but the speculation at the time Elop joined Nokia was precisely about an acquisition.
Here is the API:

http://developer.android.com/reference/gms-packages.html

The only thing there that is not explicitly tied to Google itself is the new location stuff. The rest is game, maps and Google+. I could totally see an argument that the location stuff (geo-fencing and such) would be more appropriate in AOSP, but that's about it. I'm going to keep my pitchfork holstered until I see a real pattern. Well, probably not even then since I don't see closed-source as a personal affront, but you get my drift.
If you cop Assyrian vs Turkish first up, you might be flipping a coin quite early. I had two situations like that which chewed lives from the start! The other was Macedonian vs Serbian!
Doug Stanhope calls them "tourists of life", a term I like a lot.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtbl2n_doug-stanhope-touris...
Every lock can be cracked, but nevertheless I am locking my house.
The acquisition does NOT include:

- HERE Maps
- Nokia NSN (Nokia Siemens Networks, its "network infrastructure")
- Advanced Technologies (I couldn't find any info on what this means, given the name)
I think "end game" is more appropriate than "long game"
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No, a great move would have been for Microsoft to purchase RIM/BlackBerry three or four years ago, and focus on the corporate sector. They could have had the best information security story in the industry. They could have had the ultimate Exchange email experience.

Together, these companies would have had a serious chance at being the indisputable third platform.

On their own, they came up with a dozen incompatible variants of Windows Mobile, and PlayBook. Now both companies and both platforms are teetering on the edge of oblivion.
Elop sold Macromedia to Adobe.

I used to remember Flash was cool, then it was dead for like 5 years allowing HTML5 and Unity to catch up.
Homeless children. That thought disturbs me in similar way as the thought that there are children in North Korea prison camps kept there because they were born to people kept there.