skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The information was public. He did nothing wrong.

It is similar to accidentally posting all those email addresses on a bulletin board on the street and hoping no one reads them.
DropzoneJs + PHP: How to display existing files on server
Lookout, thar be loons here.
I hate infographics. Although I understand the need for an overview of a subject, I don't think it's a substitute for a meaty body of text. I feel that anytime a subject is processed and homogenized into a one page graphic that I'm selling myself short. They remind me of "talking points" you see on the "news". I'd rather just read a body of text and then give myself some leeway to discover more about the topic in my own way. I have the patience and willpower to truly discover some truths, instead of parroting a factoid from an infographic. I do like how they are being used to draw people into a topic, and I do understand how data scientists are redefining visualization, I just don't like to see a ton of them for no reason other than being trendy.
If you want opencl compute performance, though, Intel's haswell parts (especially crystalwell) are basically built for GPGPU, and can deliver huge strides above its price grade. A lot of professional contexts need that compute power, not necessarily opengl performance.
Rules as a Control Structure
Ask HN: Most regrettable design decision in computer industry?
I think that there is a type of design decision that cause a lot of trouble and trivial benefit.
If designers had been aware of problems, the world would have saved tons of time and money.

For example:

Big-Endian and Little-Endian:

The difference of endian forces developers to be careful of target architecture.
If early processor vendors had communicated and established which is the standard, there would have been less trouble and no need to invent byte order mark(BOM).

32bit IP address:

Of course it is difficult to judge how many devices will be in the world, but sometimes I have an uneasy feeling about shifting to IPv6. I think that the industry will experience confusion and need to devote much effort than we think.

What do you think is most regrettable design decision in computer industry?
If they made lots of money, good: they offered a service the public wanted. As far as that basic model goes they added value into the economy.

Anyone who wants to claim there is something actually materially bad there needs to provide evidence that some harm was done to the economy -- show that the public lost-out. That would be really quite interesting, because economic research seems to have had difficulty doing that so far.
Final Doom included Doom95 and used it by default on Windows, so I would expect that many players were aware.
Today's 16 year olds are by far not mature in thought enough to vote. Sorry no.
If I remember correctly, in iOS6 when interacting with Siri while the phone was locked, Siri would respond to certain commands by telling you that you needed to enter your passcode to do that.
Maybe it injects itself using some hardware hooks, more or less the same way as described in this this previously submitted article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6393029

With such a hardware root-kit, it could be possible to detect other software root-kits by looking for patterns in memory and/or other suspicious behaviour.
Apple Updates iMac
Plato said "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Well, as someone who should understand the value of free software, it is kind of your fault for buying a part from a company who has never supported foss before, and this move is quite a change of pace from them.

If they pull an AMD, except they do it right (ie, just depreciate the proprietary driver for enterprise compute usage and focus entirely on making gallium great) they have my business forever.

I'm thinking of getting a tegra note next month, on the pretense that at least Nvidia provides open source Tegra drivers through a 3rd party so that the platform is hackable. The new Nexus 7 is a disgrace since smart people have to waste their time reverse engineering the gpu in the Snapdragon because Qualcomm is being a dick.
The person asking you politely for free work is probably someone good at sales and manipulating people. In other words, you aren't doing them a favor. They see you as a sucker. You sound like a nice guy, and everyone assumes most people are like themselves. But in business there are tons of wolves in sheeps clothing. The line of people who will take advantage of you will last longer than your life on earth. So you have to learn communication, and learn that you bring value and they should pay what they agreed to pay. Invoice them for the full amount, and don't give them any freebies unless either they complain (even then they need a good reason), or at the very least they have to know that you are trying to do them a favor. If you do free work and they don't even know about it, you have just shot yourself in both feet. You remind me of me. I speak from experience. It's not easy, but it is worth it.
> Then you're in the target's multitasking menu

Neat, but you can't actually go into any app other than the clock app - tapping apps in the multitasking menu does nothing.

> Go to the camera app, view photos, and you can share the pictures from there with email, Twitter, and more.

I just see a message telling me I can't see the photos without unlocking the device first.

My question is... how on earth did you figure that first one out??
Beta release of IBM SDK for Node.js is now available
Yup, i thought the animation was brilliant. Pretty much summed the blog post. The equivalent in HN is the wall of text - breaking down the message into paragraphs, and keeping the content crisp makes posts/comments a lot more readable.

In fact, wouldn't data-to-ink ratio apply even for text?
Even if we grant the notion of childhood as valid (one which I agree with, but am open to other models - the idea that one turns 18 and is suddenly a different person has weird impacts), we are seeing a systemic erosion of the notion. One which makes the GP's question valid.

I mean that the very idea of 18 == adulthood is going away. For instance, more and more people over the age of 13 but under the age of 18 are being prosecuted as adults in criminal cases. Zero tolerance policies for kids of all ages are assuming that they are capable of making choices with life altering consequences, but only in negative ways. So for some actions - adult understanding of the world is assumed much younger than the age of 18. On the other hand, we are seeing the infantilization of people older than 18 - drinking age is 21, car rental 25, college policies are becoming more and more like those of high-school, college campus law enforcement is becoming less and less tolerant of "young people behavior" (e.g. parties and festivals). It is a weird set of standards that sends a strange message. Those that conform well are placed in a class that can fully enjoy the rewards of membership eventually, and those that don't or make mistakes are placed in a different class, one with many restrictions.

Basically I'm saying that while the notions of adulthood and childhood aren't bad, the implementation brings them into question.
Gabe Newell worked for Microsoft at the time in question. He is saying that as a principal Microsoft employee he initiated the port of Doom because Microsoft saw the problem getting game authors to target Windows. Notable that Alex St. John then led the development team, for those who note his obvious importance in gaming on Windows.
I almost missed them, but now that you've pointed it out I can't not notice it.

Maybe the port isn't really a port, but the nerve center of China's secret Internet resistance? Which is why it's resistance and not resistance.

Sorry, couldn't resist it :-)
Well, feel free to take any medicine you want, whenever something hurts or you feel depressed, basically every time you want to adjust any body function. Never mind side effects and let evolution take its course.
Fingerprint readers were always a joke and unreliable. Like on old IBM Thinkpads. Nobody used them, people "hacked"/fooled them easily. I was surprised that Apple brought them back, probably just for convienience reasons.
Thanks, just gone to read it. I think they do show up sometimes though - look at this video when they turn the screen off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8b8d8kSNQ

Several very clear fingerprints are visible on the glass.
If there were a correspondence between the two, it wouldn't surprise me. But you'd think that even if the selection process was political you'd dole out some juicy areas too. Maybe I'm asking too much of a politician...
For those who are wanting a higher quality preview of the map, I've setup a Minecraft Dynmap for it over at: http://ordnancesurvey.geit.co.uk/

Also, For anyone actually wanting to give this a go in game without having to download the world file, there's also a public server running it on 5.9.102.172 with the tppos command enabled.
Appreciate the info, always nice to learn new things.
5 mins per people missing the tab, a lot of waste time worldide = How many life time ruined?
hahah, yeah, we need to change this
Given that iOS 7 is a copy of what MS and Google were already offering on their systems, why not?
Seconded. I had the exact same problem jumping between devices when iMessage first launched.
> Well, feel free to take any medicine you want

You are not making any sense. That's the opposite of what I'm advocating.
In the battle between information and graphics I feel that sadly, graphics have won.
Also maybe read some of Ramit Sethi's stuff. He has a book and tons of stuff on his website and YouTube.
The word misused wasn't even used in your comment.
Why does Apple use Microsoft Azure though? I would have thought that they have enough server capacity for that.
Both John Lindsay and Mark Newton [1] have, in the past, set wonderful examples of how to deal with bullying from both monopolistic competitors and over-reaching governments. I like Internode.

1. http://users.on.net/~newton/ellis-2008-10-20.pdf (Letter to Minister for Youth and Sport regarding the so called "clean feed" filter proposition)
Lobsters[1] is the closest equivalent to "HN with tags"

[1] https://lobste.rs/
Similar to what?

Here's a link to the open source linux version:
http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/

Also check out this site for more info:
http://www.open-iscsi.org/

The Windows DDK is a good source of sample driver code. If you are a MSDN subscriber, you would be able to find it as part of your collection ( or available for download online )

Beyond that, i suggest contacting MS tech support.
Could you explain why? Or at least provide some pointers?
"This could be the end of any radical innovation in mobile, period. Even Apple has run its course: Where else can it go?"

If the author can't think of anything innovative, then surely that must mean the end of innovation.
Try being a user of iMessage then switching to another phone without disabling iMessage in advance. Any Apple user who messaged you through iMessage will continue to send messages to a dead iMessage account.
> Why are there high deficits, currently? Oh yeah, social safety net.

Yes, because it's definitely not military and espionage expenditure or subsidies for corporations.

> My point is, these subjects (even TBTF) aren't black and white.

While I agree with you B&W point, I feel like too big to fail is a failure in management of the economy. To let companies become so big as to effect the entire economy so negatively if they fail is disastrous. The government is propping up/keeping afloat monopolies.

In my opinion, The US is at 0% interest rates, is still in a recession, and can't possibly do anything else in regards to inflationary measures (printing money) without the negative affect on it's position as the world reserve currency.

http://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0?t=13m36s <- Notice how the US is on target for a depression according to many economists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMHmTyJXcy0&feature=c4-overvi... <- Here's a great talk regarding quantum easing and how unless the government can start more drastic measures, the economy will tank.

I'd like to heard your defense for the status quo, and also how you believe that social safety nets created in the 40's has anything to do with our crises of 2008.
Nobody cares about incidental linking to infringing material. What they care about are streaming sites and file locker sites.

File locker sites are not targeted. They're outside Spain anyway. The target are clearly the forums where people posts links to file lockers.

Do you think nobody cares about incidental linking? Just wait and see. What will happen when this law starts being applied? Obvious first move for these forums owners will be putting the sites out or spanish jurisdiction. People will also start to use other less specific forums to post links.

This measure will be useless, but legal monstrosities like "indirect profit" and other vague provisions will still poison the legal system.

This is just a dirty hack to placate US gov.
slykat: I'm looking at asset liquidation value too, but my conclusions are different from yours. According to the June 1, 2014 financial statements[1]:

* Cash, short-term and long-term liquid investments, receivables, and assets held for sale totaled $6.0 billion. (I wouldn't dare put a dollar value on inventories, because their value declines at an accelerating pace, like a waterfall, due to the rapid pace of technological change.)

* Property plant & equipment (consisting mostly of land and buildings) totals $2.2 billion. Let's give them full credit for this figure.

* Total liabilities are $3.7 billion.

So, assuming you can liquidate the whole business quickly, the liquidation value of all tangible assets appears to be somewhere around $6.0 + $2.2 - $3.7 = $4.5 billion. However, the company is hemorrhaging money by the day and suffering from anti-network effects that can make revenues drop like a waterfall (instead of declining in a gentle slope), so this estimate may be optimistic. In a year, the figure could very well be down to $3.5 billion.

That leaves the value of intellectual property, carried on the books at $3.5 billion. Of that amount, $0.8 billion is the price paid for Blackberry's share of the Nortel patents[2]; the reminder consists primarily of all the Blackberry software they've developed in-house (that is, their proprietary OS and applications, built on top of QNX), which is valuable to third parties only to the extent they want to build a business around it. My (conservative) guess: this is worth a LOT less than $3.5 billion -- maybe ~$1 billion -- but I don't know for sure.[3]

At a proposed purchase price of $4.7 billion, the margin of safety looks very slim to me.

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[1] http://ca.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbCompany/Desktop/Globa...

[2] See the "Intangible Assets, Net" notes in http://press.blackberry.com/content/dam/rim/press/PDF/Financ...

[3] For reference, QNX -- the jewel in Blackberry's software portfolio -- has been sold twice over the past decade. Harman International bought it for $138 million in 1994, and then sold it to RIM for $200 million in 2010. These figures are rounding errors compared to $4.7 billion. Source: http://blog.vdcresearch.com/embedded_sw/2010/04/update-2-rim...
Gun ownership is not completely banned in DC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_District_of_Col...
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Growth Hacking for the Enterprise?
Counter argument:

- Catholics worldwide have, over decades, mistreated and abused hundreds and hundreds of children put in their care, scarring them for life

I am, of course, talking about the priests we heard about in the news. I wouldn't dare to generalize that their absolutely abysmal moral compass is indicative for the religion as such.

Just saying. Generalization is bad, mmkay.
Hygienic macro proposal [Coffeescript]
I think this is the technique used by Philips in their app too:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/vital-signs-camera-philips/i... [iTunes link]

What would be ideal is if the app also took your heart rate using a combination of both methods to reduce error, but I don't think either do this.
And women, too... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_Unite...
Linux wouldn't have quite the uptake it does today if it was Torvalds was the only coder and the source code was closed.
- plain text authentication (FTP, SMTP, etc).

- 2 digits for years of 4 digits

- 32 bits ints for counting dates since epoch
Its like an finding an encyclopedia, when a picture normally presents an idea. The OP criticized your graphic for having too much and no clear main idea. That part was true.
ProjectSherpa is in Private Beta
My bank won't give you any money with just a password. You also have to claim to be me. That's the illegal bit.

My lock isn't authorised to give permission to anyone. Lock picks are forcing it, not requesting it.
No. For the same grammatical reasons and for the more important fact that they don't sell data or information, they sell ad placement that get populated with relevant ads determined by analysing said data. Advertisers don't buy the data, they aren't exposed to it, they are exposed to dashboards, aggregates, and abstractions, e.g "I want this product advertised to 18-35 year old males" then don't get to personally know their demographic.
Black Matter Developers
I was listening to a podcast the other day and heard someone reference "black matter developers". I think this is the original source of the term:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen99.aspx

It struck such a chord with me because I started working in a large consulting company a little while ago and almost all of the developers fall into this category. I had noticed that none of them had github accounts, few even had linked in accounts and fewer yet had a personal website/portfolio. Listening to a podcast, going to a conference or even following a tech news site are out of the question.

I mean, it works for them and that's great, but we also get a lot of guys coming out of college. Would it be worth it to try to encourage these people to expand or should I just do my thing and expand my own horizons? Have you guys experienced this as well?
>So bandwidth plays a role

Of course it does, but we're not talking 10Mb/s networks here. People stream 1080p content all the time, gigE can handle that no problem. The only latency concern would be the encoding step, not transferring the data.
If It Could be Anything With Four Wheels, What's Your Dream Car?
They've been around (documented) since 1969... not just since crysis... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu
Replace CAM with a religion of your choice and most of the page reads just fine. Irrational reasoning in the face of contradicting scientific evidence looks the same, no matter the subject it seems.
NLP, it's truly poised for a renaissance.
I think most people who are upset about this at the very least realize that a 4-digit PIN is not much, if any better. People are probably annoyed by Apple's marketing mumbo jumbo about about scanning sub-epidermal skin layers, etc., while (as shown) it is not that much better than existing fingerprint scanners.
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Did you happen to try with C?
Although DOOM95 was not a success, it doesn't mean that what Newell believe was wrong. Also it's pretty clear that many people buy/use computer for solely entertainment purpose and that's why consoles sold.
Mostly AdSense. I get a small amount of money from affiliate links to Groupon also.
You should check out the self-hosted (open source) solution - http://www.fusioninvoice.com - I used it from quoting to invoicing to keeping records.
Wow, so innovation is only when something is so radically different that it's almost a whole new product category? Well then, sorry to 90% of the startups out there, but you aren't innovative. Other things that aren't innovative - new programming languages, HTML 5, electric cars, green energy, and everything else that doesn't involve Steve Jobs introducing a new product line.

I think this article sets up the wrong understanding of what happened at BlackBerry - the corporate structure wasn't setup to compete with Android at the low end and Apple at the high end. Another way to look at it is that BBY never had much competition in the smartphone space before iPhone and Android. That is to say, there were a few smartphones out there, and they weren't very good. BlackBerry was a novel product executed well.

iPhone and Android made email and messaging just another app.

BlackBerry, the company, was NOT designed to compete with the iPhone or Galaxy high end phones while competing with a plethora of low end Android devices. It grew up while competing with feature phones or smartphones with mediocre to terrible enterprise services. The whole company is structured around selling to companies and governments (like Microsoft). That means tons and tons of enterprise salespeople. Tons of corporate bureaucracy and overhead. You don't even have to look very far to find stories of the corporate nature of BBY hamstringing its efforts.

Case in point, BBY had a huge profit shortfall and so they are firing 40% of their workforce. How do you as a company wake up one day and realize that 40% of the staff to go? How do you run a company where almost half of the employees can be let go and not materially impact the business? If BBY is sitting on 2x as many employees as they actually need, then I have no doubt that is hamstringing the company and if nothing else it sets up the wrong cost structure for the entire business.

BlackBerry had a chance to compete in the high end - like Samsung and Sony do now, but instead they derided touch interfaces and took way too long to ship QNX on phones. What they have now looks pretty good, but they wasted like 5-6 years getting there. If it took Samsung, LG, Sony, or HTC 5 years to ship a competitive device we'd be seeing the same story play out. Case in point, Nokia. It took them like 4 years to make a real competitor to the iPhone, then they switched everything to Windows Phone, now they are being sold for pennies on the dollar.

It is ridiculous to blame the lack of mobile innovation for BlackBerry's demise, but the truth is BlackBerry's bloated structure and inability to even keep pace with the apparent "lack of innovation" in mobile technology killed them. BlackBerry's phones just weren't competitive with iPhone, Android, or even Windows Phone until very recently.

Couple non-competitive products with a terrible cost structure and bad management and you have a recipe for a business just waiting to fail.
All you get is register dumps. Compare the ati and intel info on that site. Intel has released full docs. Ati has done as little as possible to be able to say "we released stuff" for publicity purposes.
Wasn't particularly impressed by this article until the last paragraph:

> The less time we spend obsessing over our shiny new devices, the more time we’ll have to use them for stuff that’s interesting, useful, important. Because in the end, what’s a smartphone but another tool? Sure, you can build a slightly better hammer — sturdier wood, stronger metal. But the real power comes in how you swing it.

That's an insight that resonates with me. I am one of those people that will shortly be upgrading to the 5S, but from a 3GS. I don't feel the need to upgrade to each and every new shiny thing, but 3GS to 5S is a worthwhile upgrade for me and I look forward to the new phone becoming 'boring' so that I can get on with using it for the day-to-day interesting, useful and important things, both from a user's and developer's point of view.

I also wonder if this article is conflating incremental improvement too closely with stagnation. Surely it is only the natural way of things for every large technological inflection point to be bracketed by periods of incremental improvement, which serve to fuel the next inflection point.
Edtech should be complementing education, not disrupting it