skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan Builds Ice Wall To Stop Leaks at Fukushima
I looked around for a chart of the iPhone's market share by year, but couldn't find one. I remember the iPhone having trouble in its first year or two, and most of WP8's credibility comes from the ~2 year old Lumia line.
Jikoda - "Automation With a Human Touch"
Or, they'll end up like Apple
It's a bullshit article. Kid runs a little consulting agency.
Progressive enhancement is faster
Yes it is for Zanda :), I agree SEO is one of the most important things or maybe the most important thing. I keep improving and optimizing everything and I am working on it all the time.
Just bought the book, thanks for the tip.
"That bit of social engineering led to a huge force multiplier"

Its possible to use this technique to predict the next set of attacks:

1) High levels of security theater mean long entrance lines in front of (perceived) high value targets. Therefore instead of attacking the high value target the security theater is protecting, the line of people waiting to enter gets attacked. I get nervous waiting in lines knowing any terrorist who isn't an idiot has their sights on me.

2) Whats the prevailing wisdom for suspected violence in a school? Lockdown, shelter in place, sometimes for hours. Perfect target conditions for a poison gas attack and/or arson. Yeah yeah I know what I'm told, but under actual attack I would have no desire to die so rather than shelter in place I'd GTFO as soon as the cattle herders start yelling. The safest armor against a weapon is being well out of its range, not a cheap door lock.

I would predict the odds of both of the above as near 100% in the near future. Its just logical. The next step would be to identify the perpetrators as mostly Saudi citizens (yet again) and therefore invade Iran. Or Syria. Or whoever else needs an excuse right now, while the bubbas back home wave flags to support the troops.
How is this worth $3.5M? Is it just a 1 man shop? Not to be a hater (if true, I am jealous and proud of this kid), but it seems like the media made up this number. Kudos to him for building something as a teen (When I was his age, I was doing web design and programming work freelance).
now please rotate the flag 90 degree anti clockwise. ;)
What would you choose: small profits, or no customers? That's the choice.

Of course it isn't. What about "the potential for a great deal of customers"? I'm certainly not suggesting that MS has executed on this, but they're in the best position out of any second-tier OS. They have huge resources, the Xbox, a music subscription service, the whole suite of Live services, Office...

Like I said, they haven't exactly been successful despite these advantages. But if I were a failing handset manufacturer that had to tie myself to one available ship...
Those are expressions. They only work once you have picked the table(s) - FROM - and determined the rows you want returned - WHERE. The query then groups and orders the results and calculates the scalar value of COUNT(1) which it repeats on every row, then it determines the weekday for every row for the column created_at and uses that value for output.
Does it sell more as a PDF (via web site), Kindle, or paper book on Amazon? I've done the traditional publishing route before, too, and agree that the advance is nice but the percentage cut of sales is miserable.
Consider that the majority of people aren't familiar with RFC 1591 -- I think that would nullify any argument that the use of a country code TLD is "misleading".

Numerous countries in fact permit and promote international registration of their ccTLDs as a product for creative domain names, including .co (Colombia), .cc (Cocos islands), .fm (Federated States of Micronesia), and .it (Italy).

And importantly, conventions change, and RFCs are a starting point for an evolving set of standards. .net isn't limited to "only the computers of network providers" as RFC 1591 states. Is everyone with a .net domain doing something incorrect?
Well, Android has all of this, and then some more. Except maybe for the Nokia Maps. Haven't used it and can't say, but Google Maps on Android is FAR better than the iOS counterpart. So why Windows Phone and not Android?
You already pinched them from Brighton. Now you know how it feels ;-)
This is so goddam stupid.

"Because you can" does not mean "you should ever" create, sell, or buy such a thing.

Maybe if the iPhone screen had an 8K screen, it could be interesting. But come on.

Why don't we photocopy ourselves, take a picture of that, and fax it instead?
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High Performance Web: Asynchronous HTTP
Ember.js: Going back to school with Ember.js
The problem is that an Android phone is a commodity.

All phones are commodities. Going with Windows Phone just meant that they were a commodity with an incompatible OS.
After spending the weekend playing with the new web component stuff, I have a feeling that HTML is going to be written for humans again. Layout and Interactive 'sugar' can be hidden away leaving the content and hierarchy that we want to read or write.

On the down side, it's adding a fractal dimension to an already complex system, and things will probably get 'weird' until developers come up with new working patterns.
When you treat adults like children, and children like babies, you get exactly that. And that's why a hundred years ago 14-year olds were captaining their own ships, and today you have 40-year olds who can't do their own laundry or balance a checkbook.
He wasn't arguing against <div> elements. He was arguing against using wrong elements.

<div> is fine for layouts. It's not fine for labels.
Digital Den wants to bring a computer museum to the Boston area
In a letter from the CEO, on the company's website, he states that a few "informal valuations" estimated the value at between 100k to 3.75million.

edit: here is the link to the letter: http://bit.ly/14VcIDP
120€/hr in Germany for a 1st year uni student? I find that hard to believe..
Privacy and Big Data: Making Ends Meet
Bruce is always the voice of reason. Too bad the people in charge are the voices of insanity.
Is that available?

When I read ScottGu's (a fantastic manager at Microsoft!) blog I always think: If I was ever using cloud, that would look nice.

I was not aware that I could run all this stuff on our own servers!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was stupidly high for a college student...
On the other hand, the low end lumias are more usable than most of same priced android phones in Brazil, I know that here and parts of africa is the way the market is going. I hope they don't stop serving this market.
Minimizing initial load time in AngularJS
Watch The Colony (2013)
Virtual Reality is finally becoming reality
"I should be grateful that at least I have a job in this economic climate"

Really? How about you test that theory by seeing what hits you get in a job search or with a recruiter. You don't need to quit your job to start your search.

"Also I do not know"

Start a job search then you'll know.
Emacs is one of the most powerful and impressive programs I have ever seen. It just lacks a decent editor.
Google was a huge hit since it was hosted on Stanford's servers. It was just so obvious from the beginning that it was easier to use, and produced better results than the incumbents.
What do you do when bugs show up in that module? rewrite it from scratch, introducing god knows how many new bugs? Or only address bugs when a rewrite of the entire module is necessary?
That's like suggesting that Mercedes Benz have lost already to Ford because they have smaller market share.

Which they have, when you're talking about market share. There's some cognitive dissonance going on here- Windows Phone can't succeed because it has a low market share. But Apple succeeds because it has a low market share.

Basically, if low market share isn't a problem for Apple, there's no reason why it would be a problem for MS.
Looking through Google Glass, peering into a surreal augmented reality
How sorting came into picture here?

I am just looping onto a list how is this related to complexity of sorting etc..

Sorry, but I didn't understood you properly.
SOLID UI: Bringing Development Thinking to User Interface Design
I can't find anything to back that claim up. The only thing I can find that's even close suggests that Nokia had 19% marketshare in Mexico for 2012, but based on other stats that's by far accounted for by Symbian devices:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/245193/market-share-of-mo...
A comment that clearly doesn't understand our political system.

Party fragmentation is a non-issue, as they'll get combined. We are suffering a communist takeover - in everything but name - from some of the biggest parties around (including parties that used to have "liberal" on their name just shortly ago). Those parties that call themselves communist are quite divided, some supporting and some opposing the takeover.
Great article, though mis-titled.

A more appropriate title might be something like, "iOS vs Android native app design, similarities & differences".
Is it an unfortunate side effect of an aggressive banning algorithm? The particular people downvoting were not 'out to get you' perhaps - just a side-effect of folks downvoting as usual to show disagreement, a valid HN behavior.

If your account had lived a little longer, others might have chimed in and restored balance. But an algorithm that works that way would leave HN open to griefers etc.
Help me create self study BSc Env. Management & Technology curriculum
Environmental Management and Technology
I have been looking for a way to marry my interest in programming ( and general love for technology) with environmental protection. I have come across a program BSc (Honours) Environmental Management and Technology offered by some universities. Unfortunately I am unable to afford the cost of attending a university at the moment and I cannot wait untill I get the funds. What I do have now though is time. I am therefore trying to build some sort of a curriculum from freely available online courses and books (I am willing to by any books needed) which will enable me to come as close as possible to acquiring the kind of knowledge that a formal program will provide.<p>I'll appreacite any advice or resouces. Thanks.
I'm a Googler and would be glad to show you around one afternoon. Shoot me an e-mail (address is in my profile) and tell me a little more about yourself and we can work out the details.

(Edit: También hablo Español si te hace sentir más cómodo.)
Seems your assets aren't available over SSL which is making the page render plainly.

Looks like a good idea - GitLab CI recently added this to their CI component (builders run separately from the marshalling tool).
We know the US isn't the only country engaged in widespread spying. I'd be surprised if Brazil isn't doing it. We're all probably better off assuming that any country that can spy, is doing it. Of course, people can call me paranoid for saying this, but I suspect the tide is turning in favour of such paranoia.
Perhaps not everyone sees technological progress for its own sake as a worthwhile goal.
Apple's position depends on no one undercutting them with a phone that has equal or greater polish and a lower price point.
Side project on their honeymoon??? That must be the geekiest thing that I have ever heard.
I thought this was pretty cool. It would be fun to do something like this and I'm sure I'd learn a lot. I found a lot of helpful information, books, and websites on this Stack Overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224617/how-can-i-build-a...
Here's how I've solved my need to not use passwords while logging into a server
Ask HN: best UK bank account for EUR transactions?
I'm currently working on a small side project which could bring in some money (hopefully!). I'm in the UK and I've been itching to try Stripe, so this is it.

My problem is that pretty much all transactions will likely come from the Eurozone, at least initially. If it takes off I'll consider other currencies, but at the moment I only really need an EUR account.

In your opinion, which bank is better or cheaper for foreign-currency small-business accounts?
I'd prefer make that much writing, doing something I enjoy rather than the same salary or even more at a company being a pawn.
Rackspace Launches Developer Discount
> The fact that the video has been taken down only makes more people want to watch it.
I disagree. My wife doesn't use the Apple appstore, at all. If she wants or needs an app (or if I think she does and endeavor to put it on her phone), I have to do it myself. I never remember her Apple ID password, even though I set it. I am certain she doesn't know it, either.
Related: at the PARK this weekend, and heard all the following utterances in the span of ten minutes from some parents: "NO RUNNING!" "IT'S DANGEROUS HERE" "YOU'RE GONNA GET HURT" "NO RUNNING!"

Talk about instilling fear and creating risk aversion. Sometimes you just have to let a child find out for themselves what's safe and what isn't. What you can get up and dust yourself off from and what you can't.

It's hard to do (I say this as a parent of 5 year old boy), but you have to resist the urge to hover over them and caution or approve their every move.
Kids, go to college or you’ll die alone in misery | The Matt Walsh Blog
at least you're honest with yourself!
Devis mutuelle tns et assurance santé
True. In 2010 the iPhone only had about 4% market share. My only point is that I'm talking about popularity of existing devices. It may well be that Microsoft will turn it around!
Hey it's not just consumer electronics, Nokia used to develop DPI surveillance technology for oppressive regimes too!

I can't quite decide if them being eaten by a US corporation is a good or bad thing.

Nokia dearly promised[0] they wouldn't do it any more. But now all that expertise is safely owned by a US company and Nokia technically is not the same company any more, plus it's not really an oppressive regime if it's the global role model for Democracy(TM)

I'm kidding, I'm kidding. They are going to make phones. I can do some creative wildly free-associating tinfoil kookery if it's buried this deep in the comments, can't I? :)

[0] http://nsn.com/news-events/press-room/clarification-on-nokia...
Assurance seniors et mutuelle santé
Hacker who posted on Facebook CEO's Wall Hired
he was unemployed for about 2 years
"2012 was rich with large clients and strong finances for Bledsoe Technologies. Throughout the year, I received multiple inquiries on taking this company public. I answered most of these inquiries with soon! Due to these inquiries I reached out to many business brokers for informal valuations. These valuations returned numbers from $100,000 to $3,750,000. "

It sounds like a broker just drew the $3mm number out of a hat. Still cool that he is working hard but the article is a bit of a fluff piece.
Well, I didn't think of Maybe and Either as exceptions, but rather considered undefined/error. The exceptions from Control.Exception are probably the closest to exceptions in other languages, and I think those are built on error.
blah blah blah. YouTube gives the channel owner a reason when videos are removed. What was the reason here?
Or, like me, you're an internet old timer and just don't understand why people can't just take the time and type "I totally agree".
Simon and Natalie, and all the team, congratulations on your continued rise of success. Yours has always felt like one of the most human and utterly useful services out there; long may it be so. Enjoy the new phase.
In 1984, the US funded IRA bombed the entire UK government, nearly killed them all. The UK did not invade Northern Ireland or Ireland. The police investigated, made arrests and people were convicted.

Acting humanely is not that hard.
Instagram Security Update Against Botters Will Affect Innocent Users
Aside from fighting over whether Android is closed or not this is an interesting solution to dealing with the inconsistencies present in the Android universe. The freedom everyone wants to love that comes with a fully open source Android platform is, in reality, a real pain when you're trying to develop apps. There is at best a plurality of different operating system versions. Phone manufactureres spontaneously stop supporting devcies, only pushing out updates to the newest of the new. OS improvements are lost on those devices left behind until the users can afford a new device or reach the point where they can upgrade.

Unlike Apple, where the iOS landscape is 100% consistent (minus physical hardware variations) Android is a mess. Before going to town on Google for "closing" the operating system, let's at least look at the problem they are trying to solve and how this attempt - I'm not saying it's correct, or good - addresses those issues.
And like always: I'm around to answer questions.
You lost me when you put "elegant" and "totally unmaintainable" in the same sentence. Does not compute.
Probably the obsession with vinyl records "sounding warmer".
And you shouldn't miss Bozhidar's blog on Emacs (http://emacsredux.com/) where he explains a lot of the very cool techniques he included in Prelude.
Ballmer confirms what we all knew: Elop candidate for Microsoft CEO job
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/03/microlop/
99% jobs are meant to at least kinda suck - that's why compensation is necessary. Being paid to do interesting stuff is possible only if your definition of "interesting" differs greatly from the society's (so there's no competition) or if you're truly great at what you do. For now, there are two things you can do (at the same time):

1. Reprioritize. Most people cope with their jobs sucking by viewing them as just a mean towards living an interesting/satisfactory life, not as a value in itself. If you can't get satisfaction out of your current job, you might as well focus more on life instead.

2. Try to develop a skill in a field that interests you. If you'll keep pushing, you will eventually get paid to do that (of course it's easier to get paid well as a machine learning specialist than as a contemporary dancer, so don't totally disregard market realities).

Also, I'd do something about that commute. Move closer to the job if you can. Or start searching for a job closer to home. Or try doing freelancing/contracted work (ideally from home) - that's the best way to have enough time left for 2).
Microsoft-Nokia highlights changes in gadget design
Watch Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Learn new technologies on your own time. Don't use the client to fund you picking up the latest-greatest whatever. That's what personal projects are for. You take the knowledge gained from your personal projects (and unforeseen circumstances in paid projects that you had to code your way out of) and do what you know will work the requirements, versus what will be exciting for you.
Ask HN: what business steps are necessary for a bootstrapped SAAS?
Assume in the US and either a b2c or b2sb (business to small business)<p>Do I need some kind of business insurance (are some people selling without this)? What kind? How much would I expect to pay? Where are some places to look for this?<p>Is incorporating necessary? How much should I expect to pay?<p>Anything else like the above that I need to think about. Answers or links to resources would be much appreciated.
But if I had to take over a project from someone, to maintain it, I'd MUCH RATHER have it be done using those technologies than MySQL and Sinatra. Yikes!

Except that isn't really an option in most cases.

The two most realistic choices are:
Take over a high-quality implementation using somewhat stale tools or an average to shoddy implementation with newer tools that the developer was learning on the fly.
I'm not sure that's true of all enlargers. The one I used in school was quite dim; the brightness of my iPhone screen would definitely out power it.
Simply replace `extract: text` with `extract: href` for the anchor's href attribute. You can do this with any kind of attribute.
Side rant: Can we please not use mm to represent millions?
Congrats to the team, both on the acquisition and being acquired by a great company.
Elop candidate for Microsoft CEO job
Smartphone Location Tracking Apps Next Wave Is B2B
and for $200 unlocked its phenomenal phone

What does this mean? You paid $200 for the phone? You paid $200 to unlock it? What do these phones cost, with contract, without?
The provided link is broken. (You probably want http not https.)
'Foregranted' should be a word, I like it.
Hey, love the look of the site - I'll try it out tonight when I get home. I reckon it'll be great if you did as good a job on this as you did on the iDitty app ;)
(It looks like I made my last edit after your reply.)

Who wants to use my new Java library? It's in the namespace `java.util` because I like coffee and utilities.

All I'm saying is that a domain name dedicated to a particular country can cause confusion if it turns out not to. I'm not saying you can't do it. Some are obvious (bit.ly) and some you don't know until you try (vagrantbox.es). I'm not advocating a hard-line approach, I'm just saying it can be confusing.

And I personally think it's a shame (like I said, I know it's an unfashionable point of view. I'm not expecting to convince anyone).

Corollary: What if I do want to register a domain about skill swapping in India? Do I have to put "India" in the name?
An amusing thought, but if Microsoft was that effective at executing covert strategic initiatives, you'd think that would cross over into their public strategic capability. Sadly the evidence of events over the last few years doesn't bear that out.
Americans have the same thing (different root though). "Shit" vs "The Shit"
Xbox didn't struggle for several years trying to achieve just 3% market share. I can guarantee you that if the Xbox only had 3% of the market today, Microsoft would've given up.

Clearly the mobile market is far bigger than the game console market, but fact of the matter is that the Xbox got far more traction early on than Windows Phone has ever gotten.
Do you see all the information when you let xev make its own window rather than look at a different window?