skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you don't support standards or commonly accepted conventions of modern browsers, and build a browser optimized for one operating system you SHOULD end up with a faster browser.

However, given the aforementioned limitation why would you want to use such a browser?

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for ie10 see

http://html5test.com/compare/browser/ie10.html

ie10 scores 320 vs firefox 22's 410

i'm downloading the ie11 preview to compare firsthand now

"You'll need to restart your PC before you can use your new browser" -- thanks IE

ie11 scores 350 on html5test (compared to firefox 22's 410 and ie 10's 320)
I was under the impression that pretty much any company that took CCs on signups assumed you would stay signed up until you explicitly cancelled...there are tons of examples of beloved companies doing this, so I don't agree that this was so bad. I suppose they could've made it clearer...
White Van speaker guys sell speakers, that's literally all they do. Their crime is their super efficient marketing - they stop their van next to you while you're walking in the street. There's no laws against that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam
"You are struck by a great idea out of the blue, and then you lose it minutes later?"

Not Great Ideas, no.

But faint echoes, suddenly noticed connections, things that 'ring a bell', yes, I can lose those. And I need to 'listen to faint signals' in teaching.

Think little used synaptic pathway glowing for 30 seconds then dimming...

So I have an A6 notebook and pen around.
> I agree, but existence is so much more important than availability at this point in history.

You assume that those in power will want to make more like them and I think that is mostly unlikely. Nothing attracts the powerful like an insurmountable advantage. Being able to outwait your potential competition at that scale is powerful and I have a hard time seeing powerful people wanting to make their potential competitors as powerful.
Doctor uses Google Glass to air operation live
I have a similar issue. I've gotten peoples apple account activation emails when buying new iPhones, emails from realtors, and emails from teachers about a student intended for their parent. I got a contract for a new business just this week which said it was time sensitive and was asking for a signature via right signature. I was hoping there was somewhere in rightsignature to say that the contract was sent to the wrong address but nope all you can do is sign the thing. Luckily the contract listed a phone number and I was able to reach the account manager who had a phone number for the client and got it sorted out.
The new development tools look really nice, I must say. The dev tools in previous releases have been shocking.
Tesla, Mercedes, and others are all working _harder_ on self driving cars now.
Aparently, yes: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009....
There has been a big push. As best I can tell, there isn't much more aggressive they can get, aside from ignoring the user and literally forcing computers with old browsers to update.
The problem is that most people want to use clouds services that are flexible and can interface with lots of things besides just Apple stuff. Native apps can interconnect with iCloud via APIs, but what about all the other services we use that are not native apps. Just look at IFTTT for example. No cloud is an island.
PayByGroup Expands Internationally
Did anyone find the pricing for MMS on their site?
What generic first order principles should a new startup follow?
If their crime was only that they ranked highly because of the text in the questions and sold access to answers, I would be okay with that, but EE decided to let Google index the _answers_ too, for SEO purposes, and then hid the answers to non-paying members via various CSS tricks, hiding them below a large wall of boilerplate footer text, etc. The babies analogy is certainly silly though.
from the Time article[1], although they don't say it explicitly i get the impression that they're going to run it essentially like a charity - just dump money on it, and not expect any financial return.

[1] http://business.time.com/2013/09/18/google-extend-human-life...
>'If you’re ever asked, “Do you have any questions?” and your reply is no, mentally deduct 20 points from your personal score immediately.'

I expect that's how it plays out, but I personally find the "Do you have any questions?" bit, or at least such a hard and fast dismissal in response to it pretty silly.

The last two places I've interviewed are companies I follow closely in the news who have secretive interview processes. The things I'd really like to know like are things an interviewer can't/won't answer.

I can certainly contrive a question engineered to demonstrate my knowledge and engagement with the company, but what good does that do either of us? It's like asking "What's your biggest weakness?" and being satisfied with a dead stock "I'm too driven and strive for perfection."

Ideally, my questions should be answered by having a real exchange during the interview. Unfortunately, the majority of time I've spent in recent interviews has been on quizzes and whiteboarding.
>"The benefits of static typing are very much tied to the power of the type system in question."

One of the main benefits of static typing is to detect errors at compile time which is a benefit of typed Scheme compilers too.

BTW, static typing goes way before Java :)
Have you developed for IE10 or 11? They are far more standards compliant than any other version. In fact IE11 surpasses Firefox in some areas (full support for Flexbox for example)
actually in the developing world people prefer cellphones to indoor plumbing. i expect this to continue to be the case.
Why taxi cab drivers cannot put down their smartphones
Admittedly, they generated plenty of frustration for me, as well. SO has changed everything, but it's kinda funny to me that when we encounter content that isn't free, we have a visceral reaction against it. Yet when people demand our software be free, we'd laugh them to scorn. Thanks for your comments.
I was hoping for 31%. Are you certain it's not 29?
Reliable Pricing: Send pictures for 2¢/message and receive pictures for just 1¢/message.

Storage: Store 5GB of pictures you send and receive for free, then just 20¢ per additional GB.
Who's getting virtually all the press? That was my point
Exactly - Loopback = "Parse in an open source box" versus a black-box.
I also disagree with the parent poster but you absolutely do not either "believe in capitalism, or you don't".

The only pure capitalist societies are anarchist hellholes. Among nice societies, capitalism is implemented all sorts of different ways with the things capitalism does poorly[1] papered over in different ways.

[1] law enforcement, basic standard of living for all, various economic regulations to address market failures, e.g. I can't legally plug in a transmitter at 100MHz and 1000 watts and black out WNBC in my neighborhood, and can't sell capitalist let-the-market-decide food out of a roach den
if you cared as little as you are pretending to, you wouldn't feel a need to whine about it. every single article relating to anything google, there's a bunch of you down at the bottom of the comments section whining about google shutting down failing products. get over it, or at least shut up about it. it's not funny, it's just pathetic. google is a company, they shut down products when they aren't working out. that's how companies work.
They are quite probably reading it, and I think I read something about a buffer of a few days that they kept things for. But they're probably not keeping all of everyone's communications in case they want to refer to them in five years time. Whereas on GMail they can dig back through years of old e-mails as well.

At the very least, it adds a small per-person cost to their surveillance, because they have to store copies of e-mails themselves rather than getting Google to do it.
ugh. Only on shortcodes for US.. That means extremely expensive to try out :(.. A short code is $3,000 every 3 months
44 Things We Tell Ourselves that Hurt Productivity
Want to be more productive? There are patterns, behavior, biases and thoughts you must avoid first. Here's the ultimate list that gathers them all in one place!

Think that you can add something? Don't be shy...
Regarding your total count comment, thats what I thought and I completely agree. More often than not the extra performance hit is worth it for a better 'consumer experience'.
I agree IE became an object of scorn in the past. Are there any clues yet which show IE11 will be different regarding standards and compatibility?
The subjective apple has objective correlative brain patterns indeed, but what else?

You're imagining an apple, using stored memories to create an image in your mind. Nothing else.

What if I imagine an object that i've never seen before? No stored image there. Or just watch the ambient closed-eye-visuals that seem to run constantly in the background like a screen saver? Those and many other examples of different ways that people use their brains will require just as many rebuttles which I'm sure you'd provide but that gets us nowhere.

The image of an apple "means" something and cannot be completely reduced to electrons or synapse patterns without losing the concept of "apple".

Sure it can, it is just patterns after all.

Then why do we look at images on the computer monitor? Why not just watch the electrons flow? Why do we imagine in images at all then? Either way the tiresome point-by-point breakdowns into arguing the logical bits outside of their context very much captures symbolically the essence of what we're going on about here I think.

Reductionism. The following statements both true:

A cell is nothing more than a giant chemical reaction and can be eventually explained (with enough scientific understanding) on the molecular level.

The cell as a whole exhibits characteristics and behaviors totally different than any of its molecular counterparts.

You say the latter above quote that the apple image can be boiled down to its electrons and it is still an apple on that level. But then you say in response to my previous quote:

It loses the apple, for now it is just "brain patterns" or electrons.

No it doesn't, materialism doesn't deny subjective mental experiences.

And then:

Neuroscience has pretty well established that consciousness is an illusion Followed by That's merely a subjective mental experience of reality, something completely accepted by materialists and science.

Then go on accuse me of misunderstanding materialism. But in fact your position changes from reductionist materialism to non-reductionist twice in one post. Which is progress in my opinion!
I would totally expect it to be extra GPU cycles. To support all those animations and transitions, they are certain to be executing many more screen redraws.
I originally had a lot of text here, but let's just leave it at this... something being in Gentoo doesn't mean it's in any way mainstream. I mean that in the nicest possible way (Gentoo can be fun).
Great, you pulled out one disease in the past 60 years. Really slow progress. In the next 40, we should see a few more advances, but if we really want to move the needle, we need to be more aggressive.

9 months is not much time. If Steve were just an average person, his condition probably wouldn't have been discovered as early as it was. He simply squandered the little extra time that he had. There's no guarantee that he it wouldn't have killed him in the long run even if he had gone under the knife earlier. Pancreatic cancer, in general, is pretty deadly: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/pancreaticcancer/detailedguide/...

Randy Pausch had pancreatic cancer and died at 47:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch

Sure, it's great that we can predict with a higher accuracy what diseases we might get. Now it would probably be helpful if we could cure most of them.
can you go to a stationary store or art supplies that deals in Waterman, Cross, Mont Blanc etc and try a bunch. Mostly they have gold nibs which make the ink flow really nicely, but they all balance and fit your hand differently, and after a while, the nib softens to how you write
Does anybody remember what the spat with that one Cyanogenmod contributor was all about a few weeks ago? I'm ashamed to say that I don't remember what it was, and now I can't find anything on it.

He was talking about about some kind of scandal as they were about to monetize the project.
You are just saying the equally wrong thing on the opposing side. You can get to 2x without giving up anything. Lists are just a data structure. So are vectors. You don't give anything up to choose one or the other, you pick the right one and use it. You do not write "everything in procedural (by monads) way" to gain performance. Do notation is literally syntactic sugar, and there is no "perform faster" monad to do it in. Haskell code gets to 2x C speeds the same way C gets to 1x C speeds: profile your code and fix the inefficiencies.
You seem to be thinking that people answering questions deserve to be paid

If I may first pay you a compliment, you are very adept at twisting words and building up straw man arguments.

What I actually said was:

What [Experts Exchange] did was build a business model based on taking from many and giving to nobody

Your response was then:

EE treats those answering questions really well

But we both know this isn't true. It pays the vast, vast, vast majority of question answerers in worthless or near worthless points. The average question answerer, including the ones that get flown places and "treated like a VIP" is probably actually getting less than minimum wage for their work. That's hardly being treated "really well".

So we come back to my original statement. Experts Exchange built their business on taking from many and giving to nobody. If you want me to add an exception of, "giving to nobody except giving scraps to the very top of people whose time they were taking to build their business on" I would be amenable to that.
I never trust code that Microsoft writes to make up statistics about how awesome their technology is.

How well does it handle real world examples rather than some contrite example of theirs?
Interesting. How would this play with Mongo?
That site is somewhat biased. Where are Pointer Events for instance, which IE would score highly on and Firefox not so much?
Stepping Out of the Search Box
Plus the one thing Google doesn't have access to at the moment is your medical records.

I guess this fixes that.
they have only 1 significant figure of accuracy
The biggest problem is that Samsung and LG think they need to customize & brand the phone to be recognizable as their own product. They're spitting in the face of OSS when they go and half-ass their own versions of standard components. Things are even worse when you get carriers into the mix trying to provide their own unique user experience.

A great example of how this can blow up in their face is a recent T-Mobile visual voicemail app. Not only is it slow, buggy & constantly crashing but they had the audacity to place advertisements in it. For some reason, customers didn't like being forced to use their time & metered bandwidth to view shitty ads (the "Click here to upgrade your memory!" sort) while using a service that they had already paid for. If you look at the Play Store, you'll see brazillions of 1-star reviews complaining about this. Fortunately, T-Mo listened & removed the ads. The app is still slow & buggy. I still can't uninstall the Slacker app or remove the Fox News bookmark from the browser but at least I don't have to stare at advertisements while waiting for my voicemail to crash.

Manufacturers & Carriers need to recognize that the value they bring to the table with Android is by providing good hardware, low prices & good service, not crapping up an awesome phone with reminders that Samsung & Verizon are the Best Thing Ever.
ByteStrings are not the alternative to Strings! Text is.
Where's Rob Spectre at when you need him!!

So many questions.

1) Does Twilio own an MMSC? How did access happen? This is no easy feat.

2) How does signaling work? MMS is an incredibly rich format and can do a ton of stuff SMS can't.

3) I'd love to hear the backstory on how this went down. I imagine this is multiple years of work coming together.

Yeah, I'm a telecom nerd and I know how politically difficult this is to achieve. Incredibly impressed if this is real MMS. That's one of the carrier grails, so getting that exposed is awesome.

Would love to hear more if possible!!
In case you didn't see it, this thread links to a site that did a side by side comparison of how a lot of apps moved to the new aesthetics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6400834
The concept is RAD, in practice the Firebase learning curve sucks due to lack of good documentation of API semantics, especially w.r.t. AngularJS.
I'm pretty sure you don't have to use any of the features.
Very interesting, thanks for clarifying!
What needs to be considered is what EE was good at. EE's speciality, as I recall, was not tutorials, but quick problem solving advice. And it was very Google friendly. It usually looked like it had a good answer whenever it showed up.

That being said, when a person is looking for advice on how to fix a problem, they are probably frustrated, stressed, or both.

So imagine going to Google for help to see a really promising link appear in the results (not in the advertising section), and the content is hidden behind a pay-wall. Almost like seeing an oasis in the desert only to realize it is a mirage.

I don't know about other users, but I'd rather not see a link. From my perspective, all EE did was make Google less effective.

Some might say that "there is no such thing as pad publicity." I would argue that isn't true at all. The above describes my first and only reaction to hearing about EE. And due to not being able to see the content, I lack any personal positive stories on the matter.
Thanks, I scanned over that section and missed it.
Extended life is great, provided you solve the problems of over-population / birth rate exceeding death rate, and resource depletion. The carrying capacity of the planet is limited. Technology and ideas don't replace physics and chemistry.

So, can we radically extend life? Probably, with sufficient research.

But without solving the other two issues it raises huge problems. Unless of course we're talking a tiny immortal class controlling all the world's wealth and dwindling resources, and the rest with no access to it.
One data point (me): Try one of the cheaper Pelikan fountain pens. I like the Safari, but my Pelikan is way smother (but x3 the price)
Due to these circumstances, I suspect that this having possible applications into life extension is a really good way to get funding for your research, because death is 100% certain, and a .0001% chance of evading it sounds so good to some people that you can just about write your own check. Agreed though, death can be terrifying, but the idea of immortality is flawed in more ways than one. Are you really the same person you were 10 years ago? 10 Months? Weeks? Days? Minutes? Seconds? What is it, other than one's own fragile ego, that people are trying to perpetuate into eternity? A few extra years is one thing, immortality sounds like a fool's paradise to me.
reminds me of this:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/02/24/122-moleskine-not...
I agree. Sounds like a number theory halting problem.

Generate sequences of numbers continually, ad infinitum, and determine if distribution rates are (?).

How would one begin to fill in that question mark? A PRNG that spits out three million 'zeros' and a single 'four' is as reliable as a PRNG that spits out an even distribution of random numbers.
You can't cheat physics, but there's a great deal about fundamental physics that we don't yet understand. Given solutions to the most fundamental bug of biology, we'd have a few million or billion years to solve the cosmological limitations on lifespan, and that's ignoring the possibility of improvements to the speed of thought or to the subjective experience of time.

So, yes, the ultimate battle is with entropy, but we have a long way to go before that's the actual limiting factor.
Twilio Adds Picture Messaging Into Its API Frame, Cuts Text API Pricing By 25%
Ah, the lesser known "Sneetches" business model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories
Do you have a 4S? This is a hardware issue.
That guy's blue hair is awesome

(the installer looks like an OK idea...maybe it/cyanogenmod needs some blue hair too...purple cow...)
gzip compression kind of minimizes this issue.
The greatest thing about faking is you'll actually end up believing it, even subconsciously, which is great.

A great way to start is just by changing postures. Related: http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes...

I've experienced quite a few of this. When I'm having conversation with colleagues in a closed body posture, boy do I stutter a lot.
Landing on the moon in 1969 rewrote a lot too. I bet if you asked people back then what the future would be like, the space program would look a little different.

All we're doing today is announcing a moon shot.
Well at 1/3, 1/3 and 1/3, at least the selection of authors chosen are beating Sturgeon's Law.
I never became confident that my worldview had matured into adulthood until I lost my fear of death. And not only that, someday will welcome it (and all the agonizing pain it may likely entail) as the ultimate justification for everything that came before and that will occur after.

Actually, I have no fucking clue what kind of mindset wants to live forever. Reminded of the beautiful (book) scene in Ender's Game where Wiggin ponders the death of the buggers, and the essential union of death and rebirth.
And that impression is completely wrong.

Gods, how I wish I had enough karma to downvote on HN...
Your post brings to mind a fairly well known quote from A Game of Thrones:

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
Fog Creek has a github repo at least: https://github.com/fogcreek

I'm totally OK with paying companies to build useful proprietary stuff when they're spinning out a few open source artifacts now and then.
> Contra your claims, I have never seen insurance on the private market cost less than employer provided group health insurance.

I pay under $275/month for a HDHP and the maximum I contribute to the HSA each year exceeds the deductible.

I don't know what a similar plan would cost through an employer, but all things being considered, including the fact the premiums are a deductible business expense and the HSA contribution is pre-tax (post SE tax), I have never once considered that an employer could offer me a significantly better package.
Bitcoin Escrow Service
Their offense (now a crime by Google Law) was showing Google one thing (full content) and users another (squeeze pages). There's a reason Google started kicking sites out of the index for this.
Can you name something that was only for the elites fifty years ago that isn't available to pretty much everyone today? This is what progress always looks like.
Racket threads (which are green threads hosted on the same native thread in 1:n model) are not really equivalent to Goroutines (which are green threads hosted across a pool of native threads in an m:n model).

Racket has a richer set of concurrency/parallelism structures (threads, futures, places, engines) than Go provides (goroutines). This is both a source of power, and a source of cognitive overhead.
Let's just hope it's not an order of magnitude wrong, then.
But that comment is such a transparent and absurd red herring that it is an insult to your intelligence to repeat it. People talk about PHP too. That doesn't stop them from shipping products using it. Talking about languages has absolutely no detrimental effects on writing code.
"Better" does not necessarily even mean "adequate".