skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there's no doubt that North Korea's regime is cruel and oppressive, and that they're very poor by generally accepted standards of measuring wealth, I've also seen quite a few documentaries suggesting that North Korea is also very different than how we view it.

I've seen one where a tourist sneaks a video camera into the DPRK, and manages to take quite a bit of video, and in many ways they're not so different from us. In most ways, actually.

They drink, go out for picnics, celebrate holidays, and do alot of the 'normal' things we do. The country looks clean, and the people aren't all walking skeletons.

I think the truth about DPRK is somewhere in between our western propaganda, and the communist propaganda... With a bit of sci-fi weirdness thrown in for good measure...
24 year-olds can also be stupid, yes. Were you just looking for an excuse for a snide remark, though, or do you actually have some N years old I can reach at which point my opinions become valid?
What would you say is the minimum number of years you should "put in", without looking like a job hopper?
Why are the Apple zeitgeist all having such a fit about Nintendo right now? First it was Gruber, then Arment, then the various hanger-ons and followers, and now Siegler.

I just don't understand why that company has suddenly become so interesting to them? Might they offer some guidance on the great PS4 versus Xbox One decision?
Considerably fewer hats.
Well, so many reasons ... until 4.0 the whole framework was ugly and the tools were very immature compared to where they are now. Few developers, especially ones who care about design, had much or any experience building apps for Android. A lot of early Android developers were either people with no experience at all or iOS developers who tried to apply iOS principles to Android development and failed hard. And it's possible the Android user base in general cared less about design so that in itself was not such a high priority (perhaps this is not so true now).

But aside from all that, this discussion is not really about quality per se. It is about figuring out your business idea, getting it right. Whether you then go and execute it well after that point is a different point.
It's easier to relate to this. We hear about the torture and mass executions, but it's not something we can see. But you can see and experience moments like those described in this article.

Also, everything I've seen suggests the reality is slightly less bleak than our propaganda machine leads us to believe...
(Note that this is also very old.)
Is this a fact?
I wonder if the next thing Yahoo! does is build a huge office complex. That's the thing big silicon valley companies do before they die, although Yahoo! should have done it in 2005-2007 on this timeline.
The Play store has more apps, so the per-app revenue has not necessarily grown

The overwhelming majority of apps on both platforms are free. Among what I could charitably call "pay-worthy" apps, my personal impression is that there are probably a magnitude more on the iOS platform. Indeed, this submission seems to talk to that, pointing out that there is more of an opening for quality apps on Android.

I've never respected any number of apps metric because they are overwhelmingly chaff.
@baddox, my fingers' comfort level when looking up a contact and phoning them on my Nokia 3100's is indistinguishable from my ambient comfort level. Why should switching to a smartphone provide any useful data?

Sidenote: the question for any new technology should always be "Why not?" Not "Why???".

For this particular anecdotal case, I am not claiming I have the answer, but please consider trying it before raising an indefensible argument. I have tried a bunch of keyboards and layouts. Surely my derivations are fallible, but empirically, they should carry more weight than a "keyboard enthusiast" who has not even tried a different keyboard layout or any of the well-known ergonomic keyboards.
If you don't like being subject to changes in your UI, then stop using a webapp that you have no control over. Use a sane client over IMAP and be done with it.
Teen sleep zombies: Should high schools have later start times?
+1

I don't think he's upset about LWW being characterized as a weak safety constraint, but that the perception that what's provided by Cassandra is equivalent to per-key LWW. While it doesn't serve to completely eliminate the chance of data loss caused by conflicts, breaking a complex data structure into atoms that resolve independently vastly improves the average and P99 (and probably many more 9s) case. The argument being made is that while not as correct as vclock+sibling resolution, this is within the threshold many real life use cases are willing to tolerate.

The other thing I think is mischaracterized is that the choice to use timestamps over vector clocks was done out of ignorance or that there is nothing gained. This was a conscious choice and made with the trade-off of performance in mind. We should strive for the largest amount of correctness given the constraints of performance and/or availability. While the CAS operations in C* 2.0 are useful, they sacrifice a lot on those fronts to gain that correctness. Systems that needlessly trade correctness without returning serious dividends (I'm sure we can all name a few) add no value.
"Reality tends to be dramatically more nuanced, and such a blanket statement is almost certainly naive nonsense."

Indeed, which is why I dislike the "puck" bromide, regardless of who popularized it.
When the nations' school system was founded, it had a goal, which was, and is, to product a compliant work force for industry.
I'm no fan of Second Life (As an academic who writes about videogames, if I hear one more paper about Second Life I may go crazy) but I do think that if there was a good phone client for Second Life I could see people just staying logged on the whole time and messing around with it while they were in meetings or class or something.
The rewrite wasn't Firefox. The rewrite was Netscape 6. Firefox was streamlined version of Netscape 6 which hit 1.0 four years after Netscape 7. So from Netscape 4.0 to Firefox 1.0 was 7 years.

I think Joel's argument was that continual refactoring and improvement could have allowed one to evolve into the other in a much shorter time.
If you planned ahead, you could keep a version log somewhere inside the software showing which versions they'd had installed. Or, you could have each new version installed 'phone home', maybe ask users to 'register now for free/cheap upgrades later!'. All of them have drawbacks, but would get a significant chunk of the desired experience.
The quality of video color has improved dramatically.
Google Play gift cards have been available less than a month in most of the world. I'm not sure when they were first made available in the US.
Another thing Second Life got very right was the use of spatialized voice chat. That means you're not just able to look out of your avatars eyes and see who's in the room and who is currently talking (WebEx or Skype can do those), but you hear with your avatars ears too - so you can tell which direction the voice is coming from, which is very powerful when mixed with an avatar. You can tell speakers apart better and you can even turn your virtual head when you hear someone speaking from one direction and focus on them. It's a much more natural way of communicating than just mixing all the audio inputs together, and allowed me to associate voices with people (and their avatars) much better. Plus, if you can be bothered to learn the editor, you have some pretty powerful collaborative 3D modeling tools right there with you, which are handy for quick illustrations.
So do you make the games for fun, or do you plan to switch to them fulltime in the future?
A lot of this is not really structured it's just a bunch of thoughts I want to share with everyone.

This guy may say he loves Nintendo but I really don't think he's a gamer. He seems to be looking at it from the smartphone market point of view. The author compares Nintendo to Nokia and Blackberry; phone companies that barely even touch console or mobile gaming. Nokia and Blackberry lost a lot of market share but to say that Nintendo has fallen off as hard as they have is false. Relative to their markets of course.

Why can't console gaming still be a market and co-exist with touch screen games? Is there really only room for one? Just because the PC exists doesn't mean consoles will go to shit or that no one buys PC games.

Nintendo does pretty well in it's home country Japan, and I bet in other parts of the world also.

The author also neglects to talk about the differences in gaming markets. He seems to think all games and hardware are the same.

Handheld games are a market in itself and Nintendo is at the top of it. Just because people own more smart phones doesn't mean they'll buy a Nintendo game on it.

What does he care. It's not like he's going to buy "Super Super Mario World TOUCH for iOS" for $30. It doesn't sound like he's a gamer at all and it's sort of offensive when someone who thinks the latest tech will take over doesn't consider the facts or any other factors.

Think about, why would you give in to your "competition" and make games for their "console".
By that standard, you're an exception that the system successfully accommodated.

No, I'm an exception who the system made miserable, at extra cost and burden to itself, for 10 years until its rules finally allowed me to leave.

I spent an actual post elsewhere specifically making suggestions for what I think would make a better system for everyone, not just myself.

It starts with:

1) Let people make choices for themselves.

2) Hit them with the natural consequences of their own choices as soon as possible. Don't make any effort to delay consequences; instead, hasten them.

2a) It's ok to soften the consequences for children when they make a mistake. What psychological studies show is that sure and consistent consequences are better at training behavior than more extreme consequences that arrive unsurely and inconsistently.

3) Actually attempt to reason with people, including children. Children are foolish, but not stupid. The more you reason with them, the more they learn to use reason with people. The less you reason them, the more they learn to manipulate and exploit people.

4) Make sure your kids know what the adult world really is. They don't have to like it, since most adults don't, and knowing that it sucks earlier on will help them develop the moral fiber to fix it.

5) Teach your kids ("your" referring to any parent or teacher or adult in general) useful stuff that will help them when they become adults.
That line is actually electrified in all 3 videos, just not with conventional overhead caternary. Southeast England is one of the few places in the world that uses 3rd rail power outside of mass transit metros. You can clearly see the rail just outside of the running rail in all the videos.
Pretty fancy:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3892224512/tt0067992
I'd argue that the more-hardcore gaming market isn't shrinking.
Advice for Microsoft’s new CEO: Go All-in with Apps
I'm kind of surprised no MMO/3d immersive world has been successful on consoles or (more importantly) mobile, yet. It seems like a pretty natural thing.

I guess VR of some kind of (Oculus, or Meta, or Glass, or something better than any of these) will be the ultimate platform for this. You could pretty much implement the peak of 1980/1990s standalone-VR-using-$5mm-rigs with $1-2k in equipment now, and make it networked.
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@jrs99, I explicitly state that I do not expect an increase in speed. Especially when switching to a more efficient keyboard layout, like Colemak or Dvorak, after using QWERTY for 15+ years.

I expect it to take at least a year to reach my old QWERTY speed on Colemak. Sure, speed is important, but comfort: that's the Rolls Royce of typing.
Ah, you got me. Not a true train buff :)
They're far from gamers...
No offense taken on my side. Thank you for your time and input. Best of luck to you as well.
I was kinda repelled by second life when it hit the news as basically a gold rush. People getting rich buying and selling virtual property seemed weird to me.

A company I used to work for had a building in SL in about 05. We were encouraged to use it for meetings for about a week then never heard of it again...
Crowded Planet
At least I gave an example. "Many things" are not just easier, but "far" easier? Like what? I've got plenty more examples, but I'd really like to hear about these "many" things which are "far" easier than in iOS.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6331529

There are some compelling similarities between the two.
This is awesome -- it's kind of like the older Priceonomics blogs which used quantitive analysis to uncover hidden facts in plain sight.
It's heavily dependent on what you want to get out of it. From a resume POV, you want to show that you fully exploit the opportunities that are available to you, and yet also will seek out new opportunities if there are no more opportunities available to you. How long that translates to depends on how many opportunities are available to you.

I would say that if you're looking for technical skills, those max out at about 18 months. If you're looking to develop leadership, sales (as an engineer) or soft skills, plan on staying a minimum of 4 years, because it takes 2 years or so before people recognize that you have the technical skills to be worth listening to, and then another couple years to actually develop the soft skills. Persistence is another hard one: if you're trying to develop persistence, you need to get put on an ambitious project, and then you need to stick it out until the moonshot succeeds, which frequently takes 3ish years. Soft intrapersonal skills like recognizing your own blind spots and learning how to compensate for them are really hard: many people will never develop these skills, but if you do it usually takes being put on a project that's outside of your comfort zone, and then seeking therapy to deal with the anxiety and avoidance this creates, which usually takes all the time required to develop the skills above plus a year or so.
I think they're 25-35 year old guys living in NYC...
Holy C is a new language.

if (13<=age<20)
"Teenager\n";
else
"Not Teenager\n";
Then you build one in the southern hemisphere. Oops!
Offtopic: Concrete Mathematics is the best book I've ever read. If you have a chance get it. It requires very very little pre knowledge of math.
I think the overall idea of 30 logos, one per day, is terrible. It cheapens the brand, and the seriousness of the process of creating the focal point of a multi-billion dollar company's branding for the next decade and beyond. I understand they want to underline that they're making changes. But people want to be told a compelling story, not asked which of 30 stories they prefer.

This feels like a huge A/B test, and -- even if not true -- seems like an experiment in releasing the tiller to see where the wind takes the boat. They should make a strategic design decision and execute it consistently -- have a strong opinion. Given the paradox of choice, the fact that people ultimately prefer a logo similar to the current one isn't surprising.
They created the perfect environment for furries to play out their fantasies, that's pretty much all that's there. Furries and flying dicks.
Read my original comment. It would very much depend on context, and, as I said, I'd be more inclined to do it in the false case.

It's funny, you still seem to think there is a "right and wrong" here, and you can't see that coding style is just like writing a poem - each individual will do things a little differently.
14-year old's are wiser in many ways than 24-year old's. Most people in either age group aren't wise or mature enough to think from other people's perspectives, but 14-year old's are less pretentious about their motives. You're not posting here out of concern for the people you think are not being served by the current system, but rather out of some narrow sense of having been wronged by the system (despite almost certainly being extremely privileged). You have no idea how to improve the system as a whole, or even what the system looks like top to bottom, but you can't stop complaining about how you felt when you were young. Why?
The most famous apple fans are also big Nintendo fans. Or at least they claim to be. John Siracusa is the only one of them that I remember talking about actually playing Nintendo games (even though he always says Mary-o).

Part of it is that for a long time people have compared Nintendo and Apple (both make hardware and software, both have had iconoclastic leaders, both have tended to go their own way contrary to popular trends).

But I think a big part of it is combination of the fact that the Nintendo 2ds was announced and that all these apple people are friendly and follow each other. So when one of them mentions something then the odds are that others will mention it too.
I'd like to make them full-time, but unless I move to the hinterlands or something I don't know if I'll ever be able to pay my rent on them.
And really, isn't that the reason we have the Internet?

I see no problems with this.
Can you get them all in the same X session? I've never tried SLI, I generally just upgrade to a beefier main card and use a second card to drive extra monitors. I have an HD6970 and an HD6450 on 4 monitors that work great under OS X (Hackintosh'd) and Windows and things go extremely sideways under Ubuntu.
Something is wrong with your thought process when you think the most dominant type of games are touch screen games. Video games haven't changed, there are just different types of games now. Some of which are limited by their lack of controls. Last time I checked gamers still exist, many of which don't play touch games.

Don't forget who had utilized a touch screen for games properly.
The books you have are just fine. The books were high quality when they first came out. Thousands of us studied the first printings without ill effects. Besides, you have the opportunity to test your reading by looking for errors. Just relax and enjoy a masterpiece.
> You learn how (and how not) to run your own business—on someone else’s dime.

I have worked everywhere from startups where I was hired employee #1 to Fortune 50 companies. Odds are your own business will start small. You learn about how to run your own business when you sit 20 feet from the CEO and the sales team and finance and HR and marketing etc. You don't learn as much about how to run a company when you are the company's 104th Java programmer in that particular city. Maybe at a big company you learn about their particular, complex procedure that it takes to change one line of production code.
Yes.

Really little different than the other circumstances in which Child Protective Services might show up with a police escort.
It's a shame they used such a shitty camera for the 2013 video.

Things look mostly the same, and there seems to be more green in the more recent videos.
Right, Marathon is like a distributed init.d
There are also three major features etcd has over doozer:

- time to live keys
- persistence to disk
- TLS support for client and backend
Nintendo used to produce card games etc., but today they only produce video game consoles and software.

That being said, I think the rest of your comment still holds.
I use two monitors with an nVidia card, and it just works. You can configure stuff through nVidia's GUI application, if you want to.
How, and over what timeframe?
Wonder if they would consider selling the service to somebody else, who might want to keep it live? Even more, I wonder how much it would cost to run a service like MyOpenID? It would be awesome if we could put together a community backed org to keep it alive...
Yup, Apple needs to fix this. Doesn't seem like a difficult engineering problem on the surface. Just fix it.
The prior version creates a unique proof-of-ownership code (perhaps on request, after consulting the vendor's server).

That code is either cut & pasted, or custom-URL-handler'ed, over to the new install, unlocking the same features as an in-app-purchase. (Or maybe there's a bounce through Safari, somehow leveraging its offer-to-launch-or-install functionality to minimize the steps, or through the vendor's own servers keyed by opt-in email address. Lots of possibilities, really.)
not yet... now, if only we could use the video record of our driving for the trip prior to the traffic stop to determine if we were driving reasonably... I'll just leave this here: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146909-darpa-shows-off-1-...

for better or worse, it's not far off. imagine we could cross reference some street level CCTV (license plate, maybe gate and facial recognition) and "select driver_dl from trips where driving_ability < 0.7"; revoke licenses from those who can't drive well, consistently... to pay for it, maybe, we could just issue some DUI tickets where the car was parked in-front of a bar for a while and the driver appeared to walk unusually (dozens of violations per habitual drinker, ez). cross reference some phone/text and CC metadata to determine sociability and spending, maybe more, and you can get a pretty good certainty who's probably driving under the infuence and/or a poor driver, and take them off the road.

barely fiction (maybe not at all?), but it won't be hard forever and they won't need to "stop" many people in the sense that is hard to do, for much longer.
This is a good metric.
Any specifics on that? Unless you are doing something really weird, there shouldn't be compatibility issues between recent devices like that. Generally the issues are with older devices that have very little ram etc, which are becoming less and less common.
If that's the point, start your prototype with Appcelerator, or to a lesser extent Kivy. Or popapp.in for that matter.

The dev distribution problem is thoroughly solved by testflightapp.com and I don't see anything else missing.
Git's new pre-push hook
Programming by Demonstration with Eager
sometimes we can experience a sense of "something missing" - it could be a small voice or internal sense that something awaits us - Joseph Campbell called this the "call to adventure"...if we do not respond by stepping out of our comfort zone, life will usually conspire to force us out into new, challenging, unknown realms.

What might be calling you?
The Opera goes to Silicon Valley, hopes that Silicon Valley will return favor
You can't really remap keys on a dumb terminal. You're stuck with what they give you.

Your keyboard should be transparent, effortless, and this happens with any layout, no matter how ridiculous, with enough exposure. If customizing helps you, by all means, but some prefer to stick with stock layouts because it doesn't bother them.
I'm not sure how apropos this is, but I've noted that the phrase "show up at their doorstep with guns" and closely related phrases are the cue for normal people who are listening to the Libertarian Schtick at a party or something to disengage and go get a drink or something.

It's way less persuasive than you think it is.
This isn't even remotely coherent from a policy perspective. You couldn't even handle schooling as a child because somehow you weren't handled in some special way and couldn't do what you wanted to do, but now you think somehow all parents must act in a specific way that you prescribe? What if they refuse? Why should they follow any of this? Maybe they are all special too? So your "system" is hoping that parents follow some random set of rules that you came up with, having, let me guess, zero parenting experience? Do you really feel that behind all this lies your incredible concern for the world's children?
People nostalgic for Mario, Link, etc.