skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually use a hackintosh system since 2010 and I would not overstate enough how much it is a pain in the ass, I've had all kind of issues although I've always carefully chosen my components, moreover you cannot easily test previews of OS X, if you're a developer it can be a problem. And because generally xcode requires the last version of the system and also often the last version of iTunes which in turn requires to be up to date you are then forced to make every update and each update is a new risk to break something.

In short at one point or another I've had issues with the graphic card or the integrated gpu, with USB 3, with the audio, with the screen resolutions on my two displays, various kernel freezes, networking... And to this day some of these issues are still unresolved.

Moreover you generally should always buy a Gigabyte motherboard for maximum compatibility but with the new Z87 chipset if I were to buy a MB I'd like to buy an Asus I prefer their current lineup. So in the end you don't even buy what you really want to buy. And also if your mb have something fancy, forget it you'll likely have troubles make it work.

After 3 years, my conclusion is it's not worth the energy I'm waiting the new mac pro to ditch my current setup, I can't take it anymore.
Hear hear.

A black T-shirt today. :-(
The old fat couple in the room had a dance and #microsoft just ran out of things to say, so in order to avoid an awkward moment (high end sales are abysmal) he proposed. #nokia looked around, didn't want to die alone, and like any scared middle aged woman, said yes.
Ha! I too assumed this was on programming languages :)

By the way, I will bet some of those people talking about founders with thick accents are not doing too well on this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
You forgot

3. Jolla http://jolla.com/

where (at least an earlier version of) the OS was actually shipped on a decent phone, the – Nokia – N9.
Paul Graham talks about the "founders", not of the whole "IT workers" community.
Why would MSFT highlight the fact that the cash is coming from overseas in the PR? Is there a tax benefit to doing something like that?

Specifically:

Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will pay EUR 3.79 billion to purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, and EUR 1.65 billion to license Nokia’s patents, for a total transaction price of EUR 5.44 billion in cash. Microsoft will draw upon its overseas cash resources to fund the transaction.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/Sep13/09-02An...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3985981
WP8 suffers more from a perception problem than anything else. I just switched from android to wp8 and the way i see it i got the smooth interaction and ease of use of iOS at the price point of android. The US market is a special beast because the subsidies erase most of the price difference, but in markets where people buy unlocked I think WP8 can take a lot of market share away from android by virtue of its better experience at the same price. The apps are a red herring. The Nokia devices ship with so much out of the box functionality that most people probably won't even install any.
There is also the option of localbitcoins.com to sell to people anonymously (but in person). Or you can use the bitcoin-otc irc channel.
Oh, no, I agree... this was all set in motion years ago, and it's all now coming to fruition. I just remember thinking at the time that this all seemed a little too pre-planned. I'm just amazed that it really seems to be happening as expected. Nokia's board knew that this was a very real possibility when Elop was hired.

The real question will be what Elop's role back in Microsoft will be. If he ends up succeeding Balmer, everything that was predicted 3 years ago will end up coming true. I thought it was far-fetched that Nokia was really just the warm-up act to taking over Microsoft. But if that is really what happens, it was certainly foreseeable.
Ok, then go by profit.
An accounting trick to keep the debt off the government books.

A project of that scale could not possibly happen in Japan without whole-hearted government support.

(I know I sound like a grumpy cynic, but I've learnt from experience that one can rarely go wrong being cynical about powerful Japanese institutions.)
It is amazing how big of an ass you are. Make an assertion --> people provide counter-arguments and downvote you. You --> provide no explanation to your initial assertion and ass-ily mention that downvotes are meaningless.

Be a man and get into the argument if you really believe what you are saying. Otherwise keep blowing yourself to fool yourself into thinking that it is the same thing.
That applies to a zillion other parts of Mac OS X, too, but does that matter?

If it matters: to be fair, Android was around before Google's involvement and they purchased the source + hired the developer (1), and the Linux core of Android also wasn't developed by Google, IIRC.

(1) they probably did more work on Android than Apple did on CUPS, but that's a gradual difference.
same here. 522 error. reposting has no effect. still 522s or Method Not Allowed errors.
Surely a non-profit, who have no shareholders to pay, should be more able to behave in this way?
If you want to play a fun game, switch "Apple", "Google", "Microsoft", "Samsung", etc with the names of toothpaste and deodorant brands. It pretty much shows these oddly passionate arguments for what they really are: weird tech company zero sum games repackaged as religious wars. So long as any of these companies have appreciable market share and are profitable they're winning.

If Apple goes out of business it'll be scrappy MS v.s. Giant Google. Or if Google goes out of business it'll be the underdog MS v.s. the 800lb Gorilla named Apple. Even AMD, who has really no business competing with Intel at this point, and also has to deal with the higher performance ARM chips manages to survive and sometimes be profitable. Ultimately none of it matters because history has shown that there's always going to be competition. And ultimately thats exactly the way we want it to be.

Not a single person here should hope Apple and MS go out of business. Otherwise we might find out how evil Google is willing to be. The same holds true for the others. 90% Apple market share wouldn't be particularly good, even for the most rabid Apple fans. iPhone 5SSSSS anyone?

Ultimately what I find the most amusing about the rhetoric, is that post iMac and pre iPod/iPhone, Mac users were just happy that Apple wasn't going to go out of business. Pre Android, Samsung users were happy they were buying quality air conditioners and TVs... People would do well to gain some perspective on this stuff.
Out of curiosity, what are you using as your main phone?
The not-yet-existing Ubuntu one, one of the two just-released-still-very-beta-and-low-spec FFOS devices, a closed source Blackberry/feature/dumb phone, or one of the three big names (MS/Apple/Google) you're criticizing?
Never heard the term. Very interesting, except that now I think what we call imperfection is just lack of depth in perception from us, kinda like old music theory that rejected some harmonies, with time you grow to see beauty even in the 'weird and broken'. Thanks for the link.
This particular deal point is interesting to me:

Microsoft will also immediately make available to Nokia EUR 1.5 billion of financing in the form of three EUR 500 million tranches of convertible notes that Microsoft would fund from overseas resources. If Nokia decides to draw down on this financing option, Nokia would pay back these notes to Microsoft from the proceeds of the deal upon closing. The financing is not conditional on the transaction closing.

Sounds like Nokia may be running into a cash crunch? They specify that the financing is not dependent on the transaction closing - so it seems as if Nokia needs the money either way, and if the transaction closes they will repay MSFT.
> This may not be a battle you're going to win.

I think the war on this phrase has already been lost to be honest.
I don't see how zfs can detect the problem any sooner than any other filesystem.

If the problem is caused by the controller wrapping at 2tb then I wouldn't expect zfs to figure it out until later when it tries to read files back and finds damage.

Lets say zfs writes a file at 2tb but due to wrapping its actually written to 0 tb. Then zfs reads the file at 2tb to verify that is good. But the file appears to be fine because its really reading it again at 0tb. At some point zfs will detect a problem but I don't see how it can catch the problem instantly.
No shareholders to pay.
> Not that long ago, every Weebly customer would have meant a programming job for someone.

Isn't that kind of like saying that every pirated album == a lost sale?
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Hey, this is really cool. Awesome work!

One tricky thing I noticed was that there was one audio clip that was in Urdu, but it was discussing something written in Arabic. Indeed, the clip had more Arabic than Urdu. Fortunately, Arabic wasn't an option, so I got it right.

That's the kind of edge case that might appear in other clips as well, and might be something to watch out for.
Thanks guys, apparently my server is overloaded: https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/23670002-Error-522

I'll see what I can do about it.
She just analyzed the syntax tree of the sentence. Where I'm from, that's a normal school day in middle school. Of course this is a long and convoluted sentence, but the process is not more complicated, it's just longer.
Some people prefer Windows to Mac OS, too, so I really don't see your point.
Do you have an Israelian ip address ? In the first few questions, the main language of the area of my IP occurred.
Yeah, it is standard Opal, but I just use FileVault 2. I find AES-NI supported FileVault performance to be more than adequate. I don't know of anything but Wave which does Opal key management for OSX, particularly for boot drives.

I use Fusion Drive with the 1TB drive I already had, too, so SED on just one of those drives wouldn't help.
http://wtpl.heroku.com/
git for excel
> Apple hardware

What exactly is that?
Route the hidden bay
Well, as I like to say, pseudocode is for pseudoprogrammers

But in this case it it appropriate
I think (s)he was talking about what used to be called "Surface", which is now called "PixelSense".
I suppose I'm the only one who read that diatribe with a bit of sardonic whimsy mixed into it?
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I ran OCR over the text (using the first website I could find that takes image urls directly), so you don't have to.

A quadrangle which is formed and enclosed by four lines, the first of which is drawn from a point halfway between a point
halfway between the center of the wall and the upper left corner and the midpoint of the left side and the upper left cor-
ner to a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the upper right corner, the second line from a point
halfway between the start of the first line and a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the upper left
corner to a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall and the lower left corner and the mid-
point of the bottom side, the third line from a point halfway between a point halfway between the start of the first line and
the end of the second line and a point halfway between the midpoint of the left side and the lower left corner to a point
which is on an axis between the lower left corner to a point halfway between the midpoint of the right side and the upper
right corner where a line drawn from the center of the wall to a point halfway between the midpoint of the right side and
the lower right corner would cross that axis, the fourth line from a point equidistant from the end of the third line, the end
of the second line and a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall and the midpoint of the
bottom side and a point halfway between the midpoint of the bottom side and the lower right corner to a point halfway
between the start of the second line and a point where a line would cross the first line if it were drawn from the midpoint
of the right side to a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the upper left corner.

-Sol LeWitt, 1974
To hold to your definition of Turing completeness would make the term effectively pointless. If you relax the definition only so slightly, suddenly it has meaning again to say that something can be Turing complete.
Wow, definitely like it.
to slow to be fun :(
Microsoft buys Nokia’s Smartphone business
So many missed appointments in healthcare, why?
Not really - that was how I understood it too, and the title just didn't make any sense. Is "defragging" a common substitute for "defragmenting"? I have never encountered it before.
> In that case, you'd likely prefer a JS based app that used its app manifest

Speaking as somebody who's been in that case, no.

1. The app manifest doesn't need "JS-based apps", they're indepedendents

2. Assets caching doesn't need the app manifest either

3. Stop breaking stuff which works. HTML works, your shitty application does not.
There is also this: http://favicon.io/
The surface is using the same CPU as the 199$ nexus 7 (tegra 3) so the internals are more or less the same.
Fantastic, I love it!
Ohh my GOD... now MS introduces the bugs, not only in OS, it will be in phone HardWare also.
Using <button> as a button? Enjoy your form submission when it's inside a form element. HTML is the most frustrating thing in the universe.
>The Nokia devices ship with so much out of the box functionality that most people probably won't even install any

if this is true, WP8 is just a feature phone with lots of features. if people are not installing apps then the developers wont build apps.
Does your company's 401k have matching, or is it just there for you to invest your own money? I worked at a place much like the one you describe and they did zero 401k match, just the ESOP, which is much as you describe with the outside auditors but still super sketchy in my opinion. If you don't do a 401k match but you do provide ESOP, then the only retirement benefit you actually provide is ESOP, which is frankly really shitty since it encourages your employees to make bad decisions. And outside auditor or not, a private company with no investors means the stock's value is, if anything, even more fictitious than a startup's valuation.
I work in the call centre space which deals with voice recognition IVRS. If there is no voice pack available for your specific country, a number of 'utterances' are collected to train the recogniser. So, yes, accents are used in the voice recognition software that I'm familiar with.
about a company that went from hero to zero largely at the hands of Android (RIM being another example).

I think iOS had a lot more to do with Nokia's decline than Android. iOS came first and dominated the high end of mobile phones for years, displacing Nokia in that niche, and then Android also undermined them, but it was hardly all down to Android. Nokia used to sell a lot of high end phones, which they made money on, as well as dominating the low-end.
>This already happened with attack on VP8 even without any acquisition. MS hand behind it was not even very hidden.

Nokia was really starving for money and wanted to monetize their patents, and saw VP8 as a threat. Instead of waiting for it to be popular and then pounce, they pre-emptively requested Google(which is rolling in dough) to license their patents. They did spend a lot on R&D in their heyday, they're not a garden variety patent troll. If a CEO didn't try to get their patents licensed while hurting badly for money, they would be called out for it.

I fail to see any MS hand in this, hidden or not. Do you have any references to back that up?
Then the code is functionally equivalent, but the first version is much more readable. As pointed out on the parent comment, the first version does one test less, a minor performance benefit.
(disclaimer: summer intern here) It doesn't matter how MOCO spends money. If no one want to bid the search engine list on Firefox, then most of the revenue will be gone and MOCO cannot operate anymore. FxOS market is not going to generate a lot of revenue at the moment. If we talk about investment, it will take at least a few years to make good revenue. And that revenue will still be really low compare to what Google, Bing, Yahoo and Amazon are paying combined.

If Google thinks they have 95% they probably can give up on us, but I don't think that day will ever come in the next 10 years. Also, while MOCO is a corporation, its mission is not to make money. MoFo came up with MOCO because MoFo members wanted to be good citizens. They wanted to pay taxes to avoid stupid tax allegation. Read Mozilla history and you will have a good laugh.

If we fail, we will restructure ourselves. You can't guarantee Google will be around forever. We just have to do what we have to do today. If we are always worrying about money, we would not be building anything. There wouldn't be any startup because half of their customers will either move on or use another service.
This is the ultimate indictment of Steve Ballmer's "I like our strategy, I like it a lot" statement. This is the final admission that their strategy of licensing a mobile OS to phone manufacturers, just as they licensed desktop Windows to PC makers, has completely failed. This must have been in the works for months, so now finally the other shoe has dropped and we know why he had to leave. There's no way he could save face over something like this.

Just to be clear, the strategy itself wasn't the problem, just look at Android, the problem was that technically their product was technically deficient. They failed to execute the strategy effectively. What I have always wondered is whether this was simply due to hardware limitations of the day, or whether the old Windows Mobile was deliberately held back technically to prevent it competing with Desktop Windows. If the former then Microsoft just suffered from a form of first mover's disadvantage, and a lack of foresight. If the latter then they richly deserve all the failure they've reaped. I'd love to know.
BTW, the text as given on the page is incorrect and cannot be parsed. It also doesn't match the solution.
I'm no huge fan of facebook.

But I'm less a fan of 'news' articles with sensational headlines that boil down to "The way it was was good, so new stuff must be bad." It's not hard to imagine (or find) similar articles about basically anything that's new and popular, especially when it happens to be popular with 'young' people.

It seems to me that this article plays on the fact that most people prefer established norms over change, and most people glorify "how things were" in relation to "how things are". There's very little meaningful here, only link-bait.
The comparison with the Concorde was the first thing that sprang to mind with me, too.
Cheaper to buy them with money stuck overseas than repatriate and pay taxes on it.
ICO is a kind of multi image PNG format.
Anything sounds trivial if you start the sentence with '(S)he just ...'. And you say that as though a few dozen bright students didn't fail to accomplish the same task.
C:\TAD\Text\WALDEN.TXT

ut the art of life; -- to
survey the world through a telescope or a microscope, and never with
his natural eye; to study chemistry, and not learn how his bread is
made, or mechanics, and not learn how it is earned; to discover new
satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes in his eyes, or to
what vagabond he is a satellite himself; or to be devoured by the
monsters that swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters
in a drop of vinegar. Which would have advanced the most at the end
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PLease microsoft..just make Visual Studio free and you will lead mobile market in no time..
Which one is the simplest? I rest my case.

Actually, I like neither. The code is easier to read, but the regex gives a broader overview. This is something where parser combinators can shine. E.g., from Haskell's email-validate:

addrSpec = do
localPart <- local
char '@'
domainPart <- domain
endOfInput
return (EmailAddress localPart domainPart)

Source: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/email-validate/1...

To end with a positive note: good work on the library! I think it will be useful for many people who dislike writing regexes.
Maybe a better example is the PC market, where Apple also has a small market share but huge profits?
As a Brit who has spent some time in the US, the US banking system is bafflingly backward...

* No chip and pin. You still sign credit card slips.

* You have to interact with the branch where you set up your account for a bewildering array of things.

* Sending a wire transfer overseas involves sitting in a branch and filling in reams of paper work.

* Wells Fargo branch staff (who I've found to be excellent) seem to actively conspire with you against their own bank. I have an account with a $150 sum that automatically cycles back and forth between chequing and savings, configured by the bank staff to avoid fees being charged on the account.

* Bank account numbers are treated as secret information - they are starred out in the online banking interface! Apparently, it I know your bank account number I can take your money?

* People still use cheques for things! Which you have to pay extra for (you actually buy cheques from your bank). And "electronic banking" incorporates mobile apps that scan cheques.

* As a general rule, paying someone some money (for rent, for example) is fraught with difficulty, especially if you hold a non-US bank account.

* No obvious equivalent to the UK direct debit system for automatic bill payments.

Coming from Europe, It all feels decidedly third rate. I don't think the solution is bitcoin, I think the solution is fixing regular banking.
Utterly batshit crazy, yes. We are discussing a man who has repeatedly called for the elimination of public education and the privatization of all federal land, believes that climate change isn't a serious issue, wants to eliminate social security entirely, believes that there should be no professional licensing, and thinks that there's a need to add the qualifier "honest" when discussing rape, to say nothing of his economic rants. In support of this insanity, he offers no rationale beyond an unshakable belief in the primacy of individual liberty (but not for pregnant women!) and the notion that life was better in 1900, which is demonstrably false by every reasonable metric.

Even a stopped clock ...
Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Everything you need already works just fine (and perfection will be there very soon).

If you need to know precisely about the current status:

- The most official phones: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArLs7UPtu-hJdDZ...

- The entire list (including the "unofficial" ones): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices
I can't fully parse the first point of the first line, the part in quotes below. I have added parenthesis on the parts that I can parse:

... from "a point halfway between (a point halfway between (the center of the wall) and (the upper left corner)) and (the midpoint of the left side) and (the upper left corner)" to ...

There are 4 points and only two operators, i.e., "a point halfway between". The pseudocode given has used three "halfway between" operators on these four points (on lines 5, 7 and 9). I don't know how that interpretation was arrived at.
Even better, do away with MagLev altogether, and have them "float" the way an air hockey puck does.

(You have read Elon Musk's proposal, haven't you?)
I concur, I'm just awake, good morning.
"... and IP" -- I wonder if that's the main reason.