skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That. Very much that.

Plus, global roaming. It's kinda sad nobody ever thinks about it…

BlackBerry was able to provide worldwide flatrate roaming (well, they could, but it was up to each carrier to sell it as a product or bill each user to death).

Now, BB10 loses that capability. In fact, BB10 is completely and absolutely dumb when it comes to be an enterprise phone: multiple massive inboxes with different providers/technologies, many contacts, busy agenda, roaming and travel planning.

BlackBerry could have been today the perfect companion for people who really mean business. Or, at least, a very powerful one (people sometimes don't mind carrying two phones). But with an utterly expensive, beta-grade[1] device that does none of these things, I can't find a single reason why someone wouldn't pick an Android or an iPhone. Even for business.

[1] http://blackberryq10.tumblr.com/
> _if a supplier is actively working against a customer_

Samsung was in the mobile phone business long before Apple. It shipped its first phones in 1998 and was the second-largest manufacturer by 2007.

So Apple already knew it was going to a phone manufacturer, and that it would be competing with one of its suppliers.
echo BATCH=1 >>/etc/make.conf

No more prompts for options - they should all certainly have sane defaults. If not, it's a good reason to run send-pr.
Not only that. Many cars have unique customizations like roof racks, nerf bars, bumpers etc.
I'm sorry. I was unaware that any universities (or any other educational institutions, for that matter) outside the United States were engaged in the kind of semi-professional sporting/entertainment industry that is common inside the United States.

[Edit: Examples]

* Between 2009 and 2012, the Allen, TX, Independent School District (which has one high-school) built a $60,000,000, 18,000 seat football stadium. "'It shows that the people of Allen support their kids,' said Allen head football coach Tom Westerberg."

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Allen-Unveils-New-Eagle-Sta...

* The football program at The University of Texas at Austin made $103,813,684 in 2011-12.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciajessop/2013/08/31/the-econ...
I wonder how it'll compare to the Android port of the open source clone of the original?

http://www.openttd.org

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openttd.sd...
Perhaps more so when your central bank keeps printing money
No, this isn't a problem of probability, it's a problem of "not enough data."

Based on this tiny sample, here's the lottery analogy:

The lottery will flip 4 coins that have a 37.5% chance of being heads.

If you roll 4 heads lots of people die. So, just using this very inadequate sample from a single declassified document, you could estimate that a misfired bomb has a 2% chance of detonation (37.5%^4).

Obviously none of us know the real dataset, but my point is simply that it's not comforting that so many safety measures failed. (Which, as it happens, is also the opinion of the author of the original report in the article.)
You're highly entitled to your opinion. However, you can't blame them for wanting to jump on the latest bandwagon and promoting their service. It's obviously working for them. And you have to think that services like this do have an audience.

I prefer to roll my own backend too. I still like seeing a startup being inventive with their marketing. Unlike most startups I've seen, they're at least willing to put more effort in to promoting their service beyond a simple top 10 list or one off tutorial.
It shouldn't. Clearly their strategy works.
> Minecraft has direct sales, no?

A cut through the iOS store, a cut through the Google Play store, a cut through Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace.

The IGN article says Minecraft sold 12 million on PC, so it's paying cuts on the other 21 million.
Oh yes, it more than explains the over-the-top vitriol.
> I use Linux since 1995, and was for some time a Gtkmm contributor in the early days.
> I know how it feels to be a C++ developer in Linux land.

The GNOME crowd was self selected to be a bunch of "C not C++" bigots. The KDE community was quite different (even if MOQ is an abomination ;-). The only community I can think of that would be more hostile to C++ is the kernel devs.

I don't think your experiences are accurately reflective of the larger community. Particularly as C++ has improved (really, pre-gcc 3.0 there wasn't a good C++ compiler, and pre-2000 hardly anybody understood RAII, so C++ was kind of a pain), the larger community's attitude has changed. You can see this reflected in the success of the Boost project.
Apple does own fabs. They bought PA Semi a few years ago. I think they also picked up a NAND place somewhere overseas more recently as well.
Is there a reason you want/need to be the commerce platform on which these resale transactions take place?

Two-sided markets are generally more difficult to crack, and displacing eBay in particular is going to be challenging. I'd expect your cost of customer acquisition to grow quite significantly once you've tapped out the low hanging fruit.

If your core competency is your ability to detect counterfeits, however, maybe there's an opportunity to convince legitimate vendors to pay you to certify that their items are authentic, something that they then promote to prospective customers in all of their sales channels. You'd probably need to offer a buyer money-back guarantee for this model to be viable, but if you did this, you could try tying your pricing to the vendor's sales price (i.e. it costs more to certify a handbag being resold for $750 than a dress being resold for $250).

If you're wedded to the idea of running your own commerce platform, you could provide vendors that certify their goods with you a free listing on your site, and reimburse the certification fee from the sales commission if their product sells through you. By getting listings this way, you can avoid some of the questions you're bound to be asked if your only proposition is that you're an eBay competitor (think "How many sales do you generate a month?"). And you avoid having to grow your buyer base to make money.
Unless I'm mistaken, every cell phone maker has only a standard one-year warranty. I agree with all the points you made. I just don't think a longer warranty would have helped them.
Press results from BB: http://press.blackberry.com/financial/2013/blackberry-announ...
Great post, thanks for the effort. But I definitely second BigChief on this, please include ASP.Net MVC and for completeness ASP.Net Web Forms.

Thanks
> No, this isn't a problem of probability, it's a problem of "not enough data."

That was exactly my point, that with such little data you cannot judge the probability.
lots of boring things cost a lot of money
not racist.

Many feel it's targeted at immigrants like Muslims and Sikhs.

If you work for the government, and don't like it move out.

People would be FORCED to move out on the account of something that was not a problem until the PQ decided it was (for political gain too).

yes, i'm canadian

What an embarrassment.
>Movies spread out their sales over an extremely long time compared to games.

Keep in mind: With the advent of online services like GoG, Steam, PS Plus, and XBLA, this is very quickly changing.
> "go out for a drink"-ness (gulp, and what does that say about age)

This reminds me: I think I've yet to see a tech company where the default assumption is that you're a teetotaler. Why do y'all SV-ites insist on taking me out to consume (legal) mind-altering drugs?
IOS 7 Lock Screen Bug
Minecraft PC sales are almost exclusively Mojang's money (except for merchant fees) except when it comes to the giftcards that can be purchased in stores like Target. Minecraft Xbox is a licensed product so it's fairly safe to assume that Mojang are sharing a non-negligible portion of the revenue with Microsoft. Pocket Edition is sold through mobile stores and developed by Mojang.

The Mojang and Notch AB financial records are public -- as it is the way Sweden works -- by the way, if for whatever reason you want to look into the money that they're making.
DRM does not usually attempt to protect the design or inner workings of software, it only tries to restrict its distribution.
They are not exactly "micro locations" (as far as I concern), it's more like proximity (did something get close?). And I think people should set their expectations of BTLE straight.

There could be different kind of receivers. It could be something plugged into the wall and it doesn't have to consider battery consumption any more. And if the transmitter is transmitting at a high enough frequency, an iphone running in background mode could still pick up a signal really quick and conserve battery at the same time.
Content is King of Social Media Realm
This is some silly shit.

Edit: I mean the article is silly.
PA Semi was a fabless company.
The "Object of Internet Ridicule" guy is newly selling stories online, FYI.
I suspect Disney may be atypical in that regard. People are constantly having kids for the first time, and there is then a steady stream of people buying movies for their kids that they know kids like. Most other genres probably have not enjoyed much of that.

Most of the value in old movies, going forward, is probably going to be in padding streaming libraries for Netflix/etc to license. Will Goodfellas itself worth much currently and in the future? Probably not; anybody who wants that on DVD probably already has it on DVD. A streaming library that includes movies of the caliber of Goodfellas though? That is probably worth a hefty chunk of cash.
The decline of BlackBerry in one chart
>"...their strengths (security, gov & enterprise sales), they might be doing pretty-well today."

Yeah, while pretty much everyone witnessed and understands the failure of RIM to respond to the iPhone and hardware/OS missteps it might not be so well known that they were failing to properly service their existing strengths at the same time.

In my experience, lots of Enterprise/Government folks really didn't and likely still don't care about touchscreens and apps (for their employees), just email/PIN.

Problem was, the sometimes painful software/support plus lengthy, too frequent SRP outages ensured that BES and the Blackberries connected to them would be abandoned at the first opportunity.
"SQL" is not a query language.
I usually think of "hoisting" as promoting a var outside of its containing scope to within the next block.

e.g.,

function() {
var a = 2;
// b is visible here
if (a == 2) {
var b = 3;
}
}
I would really like to have my Pi powered by the same power supply as the hard drive. I could probably hack it together myself, but out of the box would be nice.
No, the silver home button/touchid ring is pretty distinctive as well... but only if you can see the front of the phone.

Plus most folks now have cases, too.
I don't understand what your issue is with a browser ext. The one I use just works -- so well that I forget and had to stop and think about your headline that comments aren't collapsible.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
What is so great about this game? Most of it looks like terrible cut-scene-choose-your-own-adventure.
This isn't a great analogy, because the absence of Turkish coffee isn't a case of malice. They have to degrade service (i.e. take the coffee off the menu) in that way in order to survive. It's not malicious for a business to do things that are slightly shitty but necessary in order to stay alive.

On the other hand, there are a lot of cases where bad code and processes are a result of, if rarely malice, intentional and socially negative behaviors (that aren't justified by a need for survival). "Launch and flee" is often intentional.
You may find this economics paper by Lant Pritchett to be interesting. It is one of the most enlightening I've read this year. It discusses the ways that a system wherein the state provides the majority of education services at every level of education fails to support the stated goals of education from an economic perspective (although that is actually not explicitly what he's trying to prove, which is that just because a schooling system exists a certain way doesn't mean that way is optimal, i.e. basically efficient markets hypothesis doesn't apply to provided government schooling). He makes the statement that he's not talking about developed economies, only developing, but it's transparently applicable to developed economies as well. This is one of the rare papers that teaches much more than it claims to.

1: https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/11943/1/ber-02...
Okay, so a LOT went into marketing. But there is a significant development budget too... I was astounded as well, until I played it.

The graphics are, as you say, very good. But what the money has clearly gone into is the production value. Cut scenes, animation, map, all of it is very high quality. That's pretty revolutionary attention to detail - especially over such a large map.
This definition (caring about doing your job) is a bit annoying, because it means it's sort of impossible to work at any company that looks for this, while also trying to start your own company. All my passion is reserved for my start-up; you get my professionalism, but nothing more. Why is that not enough? (This is assuming salary and no equity.)
PC-BSD has pkgng packages, you just have to change the URL. http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Convert_a_FreeBSD_System_to_...
I would feel less comfortable about the reliability of switches in a plane that was spiraling out of control and presumably heading for a catastrophic impact. The switch might never turn itself on, but it has no way to prevent things palling onto it. as for your example about home appliances, surely you are aware that there are many accidents every year from people carelessly or accidentally activating switches on power tools or the like.
Is Intel really in any trouble? They're got a huge dominance on laptop/desktop processors, no?
Hilarious to me that no one here gives a second thought of how intimidating a list like this would be to someone first getting into web development. On my initial scroll down the list, I first thought it was a tongue-in-cheek joke ("cheat sheet"? Lol) about the incredible range of things your typical full stack developer needs to know to actually go from 0 to .com
The reason they don't exist is because people actively prevent it. Much like the original article and various examples provided throughout the thread show.

People ask each other all the time about their personal experiences about doctors to attempt to avoid the bad ones, but that's as far as it seems to go in most cases.
A more practical way is to wait for the water to boil, then pour out some of the water into a cup (which you will put back afterwards). This way there is more room for the coffee to rise and not overflow. Then put coffee in and bring to boil several times. The surface should rise but not separate. Some people even remove the foam altogether to remove the bitterness.
>There is a vast difference between someone who cares about doing their job well and someone who does their job. And 'cultural fit' will be used to describe that.

There is so little of a difference between those sorts of person that they are frequently the exact same person except on different days or in different working environments.
"Fun" is probably not a painpoint, good catch, and this is one reason why the above examples caught on.
Carriers already whined about 5S supply issues using adverbs like "grotesquely" - quite telling of their state of mind.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/17/iphone-5s-supply-will...
You are assuming that profits on successive days are uncorrelated.

And in any case, all you have proven is that we can reject the null that the distribution of JP morgans daily returns this year, was different to the distribution of their daily returns in previous years.

Let's leave guilty-by-rejecting-the-null-in-an-artificial-model to the courts and not let their logic infect HN too. All that's been shown is that JP Morgan have had 0 days with a trading loss. No one has actually shown they did anything wrong, or even explained what they might have done wrong.
Can you prove it?

Can I do what exactly? I'm not your monkey.

The application we built did not access the database per request. That was the point of the blob of data that was not serialized and deserialized; it was a disconnected data set.

IIS was used purely as a driver for an IHttpHandler implementation. We didn't use any of ASP.NET apart from implement that interface. We implemented our own AJAX component system before ASP.NET had AJAX controls.

It was fairly quick on 2003 hardware. Further, the blob of data started out with an embedded URL that referenced a private metadata server, with the version of the app included in the URL. The behaviour for the objects in the little heap was driven from code loaded (normally, cached) via that URL. This meant that you could post-mortem a session by loading up the heap almost like you load up a core dump; you could save the heap along with the request if an error occurred, and have everything you needed for a full repro.

The fact that the URL referenced the code for the behaviour also meant we could roll out updates without ever restarting anything, and existing sessions would see the old behaviour until they were finished, but new sessions would roll over immediately to the new code.

For the niche (data entry, specifically for the insurance industry), I have yet to see a better system than the one we built; it was declarative and typed, and if it compiled, you could be pretty sure it worked, and yet had a built-in API for testing. Loading up the aforementioned core dump even had a REPL. Rails is an enormous pile of work and rats nest of polyglot spaghetti by comparison.

To take a specific example, the application code had a definition for the UI for any given page, and knew what controls were on it, and knew their master / detail relationships. The controls had bindings that were evaluated in the context of the object model stored in the little heap, written in a little expression language called Gravity (so called because it sucked in other responsibilities). So when the end-user loaded up a page, the declaration of the UI and its bindings were sufficient to infer what data to send down to the client; and when e.g. a button was clicked, and the model changed, we could calculate minimal updates to send back to the client. Because the framework knew so much about the app declaratively, you had to do very little work to implement things.
Invent it?
The declassified document is new, but this has been well known for some time and corroborated by multiple trusted sources:

http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/story.html

Mr. Schlosser is doing a good job promoting his book though.
It makes me sad as a developer, because it implies that marketing is more important than the development effort. It's where the money is, right?
level design too :)
The focus on that article is silly.

Of course I want law officials to have real time information about travel and be able to catch a criminal before he flees.

The issue should not be that, but that they use that to initiate illegal searches.

The focus should be on illegal searches, period.
2 Enterprise Startups Solving Real-World Problems
Well played by Apple. Vaporous controversy = free earned media.
Desktops are a huge, but declining business. In laptops they already have serious competition in Samsung's ARM-based Chromebooks. Besides, laptops also don't grow nearly as fast as smartphones and tablets. In markets, it's the growth that matters most, not the current revenue.
Textwell -- simple yet powerful iOS app for text entry and manipulation
"no cultural fit" is a HR euphemism for either "you aren't good enough" or "you're fired" at facebook, at least according to a few HN comments. Similarly, at google, "performance improvement plan" means "we don't want to get sued, but please find a new job"
The link Gruber had posted right before this one was: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/17/claim-chowder-pe...
When I say "kerfluffle", I don't mean on an individual level. I mean people who ought to know better predicting massive numbers of drop-outs, gang activity, and the failure of school systems. (Also, not having any local sporting events on Friday nights.)

For example, here is one quote from 2011, something like 25 years after the no-pass-no-play law was passed[1]:

"Dr. Victoria Martin, a Child Psychiatrist in Richardson, TX,...continued by saying: 'Instead of beating these children down even more, we should be encouraging them to participate in activities where they have talents and abilities. We are punishing the “good” kids, the ones who care about their school and want to participate in school activities instead of being involved in gangs and other destructive groups.'" [Emphasis mine.]

As far as teaching coaches go, I'll just mention one of my high-school history teachers, whose primary qualifications as a history teacher seem to have been that he was a very decent football coach.

[1] http://www.adhdtexas.com/no-pass-no-play-law-has-very-advers...
> The reason they don't exist is because people actively prevent it.

No, that's not the reason that the features I identify don't exist in the purchase of major surgery. Its inherent in the kind of commodity it is.
Student ratings actually negatively correlate with learning

I think maybe I'll trust the decades of research on math education rather than your intuitions. For example, there is research showing that many more students succeed in calculus when the math is taught in context, not abstractly and plug and chug. One set of studies showed that such a course increased calculus pass rates from 60% to 90% (see the Wright State engineering math course, and see the ENGAGE Engineering project). Another large set of studies shows that student learning can double and graduation rates triple when active, participatory learning techniques are used by the instructor instead of traditional lecture (The PCAST report - Engage to Excel cites it).
Nobody stands while drinking Turkish coffee. :) But seriously, it's a social drink, which is why it will (or should) never be served in a paper cup. But being originally from a Balkan state myself, I may have a bias against "to go" coffee.
oh, didn't see that as a 'feature' for the developers... my bad. and i really wasn't expecting something like that.
They should just rent out table space per minute independently of the cost of meal itself.
Corollary: Beware of unintended business ramifications when doing a code rewrite (i.e. putting coffee back on the menu might cause revenue per table to drop).
I don't usually like scott aaronson, (although I like his casting of QM as complex-valued probability space) - but this blog post was a gem.
Constructive point: I like the color coding, but use it. Server: red, database: yellow, app: blue.

Javascript: blue
Postgres: yellow
Nginx, Apache: red
Django: purple
Node: blue
Express.js: purple
LAMP: white?

If that won't work, maybe shades of those colors for the various types
Reddit is better.
There are 629 words you won’t be allowed to register as a web address
Or just offering coffee before or at the end of each meal. Factor the price in your menu for large entrees. People like free stuff.
The question which occurs to me is who took the other side of this trade. You would think market actors would know enough to say, "If somebody suddenly wants to buy my stock right around 2pm and I haven't yet integrated the Fed info, it means my stock is more valuable and I should not sell."