skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone that has some experience in big companies like that

1 - Hardware companies DO NOT KNOW how to develop software. The one that knew best was Nokia and see what happened to them. That's why mobile vendors are moving to Android or "pre-packaged solutions"

2 - They usually go for the pre-package corporate BS "solutions" for their development process, like Java in underpowered hardware, "solutions" that involves shuffling huge amounts of XML, "tools" like clearcase, etc. Don't think for a second this doesn't affect software quality (for the worse)

3 - The way people end in companies like that is: "I'm focusing on a stable job", hence knowledge of latest technologies (like OpenGL - that "latest" in a very wide sense) tends to suffer.

So, yeah, absolutely, 100% not surprising to me.
I verbally accepted a job at a UK based start-up once, it was 3 days per week as that was all they could afford at the time.

It was not until i got the contract that it stated a minimum of 40 hours in the 3 Days, so they wanted me to work full time hours in the 3 days for 3 days pay.

I turned it down. I still see the founder around and he is still looking for dev's.
Why i fired Google
But it means they're not comparing iOS (and WP and BB10) to Android, they're comparing them to TouchWiz (or whatever Samsung are calling their skin these days). In that case, they should also include HTC Sense and Motorola Blur etc. The fact that TouchWiz is most popular is irrelvant; pretty much any Android skin is probably more popular than BB10, and many are more popular than WP as well.
Prime is a membership. It even has it in the name! How is that the same level of misleading?
here's some other data hubs/search engines, endless lists:

http://datahub.io/

http://blog.bigml.com/2013/02/28/data-data-data-thousands-of...

http://tm.durusau.net/?p=39312

http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/

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this subreddit seems like a decent place to ask questions

http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets
The language you have been learning had best be C or Assembly. Almost anything else and your database will always be the weakest link in performance.
> Can anyone help me to bypass my hotel's wifi login page?

Are you serious? You've just asked people to collude in the commission of a felony crime, in a public forum. How stupid do you think people are?

Circumventing a login page is a violation of federal law, nut just state law, and it's a felony, not a misdemeanor.

Anyone who helps you has to be brain-damaged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
You may not accept the word misleading, but everyone who knows what that word means, does. The page definitely misleads. It does try to position it as something other than a subscription: it tries to position itself as a regular sale. The entire fact that it is a subscription is hidden at the bottom of the light-grey sidebar. The language may be in English, but it's still light grey at the bottom of the sidebar, and not anywhere near the actual purchase and pricing info that you're agreeing to.

"Are you sure?" popups don't provide any additional info. Explaining what you're signing up for does.

Those million subscribes with very low churn rates, are they actually ordering new shoes every month? Or are they people that haven't figured out they're still paying every month for that one pair of shoes that they liked? How do you know they're happy? Have you asked, or do you simply assume because they haven't sued you yet?

You're right that it's a tradeoff. It's a tradeoff between honesty and extra undeserved revenue.
This site has much wider range of sci-fi objects. It goes from human size all up to planetary sizes with every picture exactly to scale.

http://www.merzo.net/
It's missing a Death Star, Discovery One (2001:A Space Oddesey) and, my personal favourite, the ship from Solaris (2002).
All of a similar design to Valley Forge (Silent Running) which does feature. Maybe they're all too small.
Actually, when you agree to the terms of service, you conveniently waive the right to participate in a class-action lawsuit.

Source: http://www.justfab.com/index.cfm?action=home.terms_and_condi...
I was pleasantly surprised that in spray-http for scala all the headers (and content types, and similar things) are types.
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I remember in the 70s and 80s, the climatees were barking about a news ice age. I wonder whatever happened to that argument. Must've not gotten as much benefits as 'global warming' I guess.
Taken to an extreme, this idea of applying wiretapping law to federated services seems to be a danger to open systems. A closed messaging system can get all users, both senders and recipients, to agree to whatever is needed to make the system work (e.g. if they need to examine the content and not just the envelope)

However, when you have federation, two different sets of users on two different services may have agreed to differing terms. Applying terms like "interception" in these cases also seems strange.

It's bad enough that silos and vertical integration seem to be winning over the internet of old, but to have the legal system create a situation in which the open systems are much more risky to run seems to be a bad precedent.

(I also have to wonder who is really behind these cases. It's not very plausible that any of the plantiffs are really being harmed by automated ad serving, and then there's the whole Scroogled campaign...as Arsenio Hall used to say...things that make you go hmmmmm.)
You are right, it's obviously not comparable to human trafficking.

I'm just making the point that this guy has a history of founding shady companies, therefore it's not surprising that he can't see why JustFab is a shady company.
I would not be surprised if German law forbids the buy-and-subscribe trick. I would LOVE to hear about the German profit's of this company.
Uh, I tried upgrading to 10.8.5 in the middle of nowhere with bad Internet and it broke my OS X install. Fortunately I have the installer mirrored in a different volume and installing OS X over the hosed volume fixed it.

Ran into the same problem with 10.8.4. Apparently it does not happen with 10.9…
I hope you, as an investor in this company, are also held (at least financially) liable for this scam.

Unfortunately, you're likely to greatly benefit from scamming so many people.
I really don't see how you could suggest to learn assembly in this context. I'm not aware of any production database for commodity hardware written in assembler. (in the embedded world there are a few but that's specialty stuff).
True, but to understand that you also need to understand what fetch and merge do respectively. Not so easy for the profane/beginner. You're correct that this one is a bit of dishonesty on my part though :)
What kind of change though? http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/ gives pause for thought. The 5th IPCC report suggests that Topher was too generous in his assessment.
The company's tactics have been thoroughly eviscerated here, as they should be. This is clearly misleading and I don't think I can add much there.

But, here's something else that I find funny: the membership fee is $39.95/month, which then entitles you to buy a pair of shoes for an additional $39.95/month. They state that this price is "up to 50% off". So, if you only buy one pair of shoes in a month, and the discount is anything less than 50% off, then you actually lose by being a VIP member.

And, even given the maximum discount of 50% off, you would have to buy at least two pairs of shoes each month to come out ahead vs. just breaking even.

I am sure that there are people who buy shoes at this rate, but I am willing to bet that many do not consider this in their calculus, and the company knows it. I would guess that many assume they are getting a deal, as long as they "use their memberships" and buy at least one pair of shoes each month. And, almost certainly, none of them think think they could actually lose as a VIP, so long as they make one purchase.

This is not as overtly deceptive as their site design, but it underscores that their primary business model relies upon their customers' lack of understanding in one way or another.
We can not know this from the screenshoot alone.
The membership itself is mentioned.

Maybe the fee is mentioned on a other screen.

As far as i renember it is not really "illegal",but the contract is invalid.
They have a Spanish site, too, and it's exactly the same as the US version - the same scam.
For adding to your argument, I have a VIP membership at Qatar Airways and it does not include a subscription. So as you say, one does not automatically means the other.
Not equatorial enough.
There is no need to root or reinstall the entire system. You can just install a new launcher app.
I think it would be better to have tested against vanilla Android (The one that comes with the nexus). Probably more people has that system than a Windows Phone.
Note that this was filed in October 2011.
Microsoft will build 'next big thing', tearful Ballmer vows
> I remember in the 70s and 80s, the climatees were barking about a news ice age.

A lot of people seem to be "remembering" that lately. Indeed, there were some concerns of an ice age somewhere in the next few millennia, but global warming was already on the table, and becoming the mainstream (scientific) view by the 80s. The term didn't really hit mainstream public use until the late 80s.

There was a separate scare about imminent global cooling in the early 70s, but it was largely media-driven, had little support in the scientific community, and never became terribly mainstream.
I love coming up with ideas and executing on them as well, but that's not what provides value in the particular role I'm in at present. It is a good sign that you are worrying less about ideas and more about execution, especially since most businesses revolve around one good idea that needs focused execution at the expense of "things that would be a good idea 6-12 months from now", because a business is what it is at a particular point in time regardless of the end-goal vision.

And yes, at times lines need to be drawn in the sand but those are pretty rare times when you have a good group of smart people and usually involve breaking impasses when there is no clear consensus. There's also the whole "I have a responsibility to shareholders at the end of the day" duty that many employees do not feel, but too often founders use both of these as excuses for "I think X, so it must be so" rather than questioning themselves in the face of disagreement with a group of people you brought on board because of their skills and intellects.

Frankly, I imbue no magical powers to writing code when it comes to founders of tech companies because often the tech is the least difficult problem to address. I know, I know, I speak heresy given the venue but I can code a great product far easier than what is required to build a good marketing campaign and sales strategy, and I at least can depend on my bash/vi session to be predictable unlike those that have to venture out into the customer acquisition arena with all its unpredictability.
Very neat. I'm ordering a print of my home town. Then we can add pins to show where our house, where grandparents live, etc. I'm sure the kids will enjoy it.
This sure is a thing normal consumers do. Installing a new launcher app.
IPCC Releases Climate Report (Summary for Policymakers)
I don't think commodity hardware was specified as a project goal.

If you run any of the big EMC, or NetAPP, or Exadata systems those are built with many of the core components written in Assembly.
To All Future Makers
Presumably at some point the kernel will have to do a context switch and subsequently store the contents of those registers in ram.

Perhaps the solution could be a small usb dongle containing an embedded arm soc with a kind of RAM that doesn't persist at all -- maybe even no RAM at all, just the cpu. The dongle would support just three commands: init, encrypt, decrypt. Init sets the key and algorithm, after which the device doesn't let you change them until the system is powered off. En/decrypt do block-level crypto.
There's https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tax_compliance#Jurisdictions - it's just a matter of filling in the details.
Discovery One compared to International Space Station

http://www.merzo.net/images/1mpp2001discovery.gif

http://www.merzo.net/images/1mppexistSpaceStation.gif
There are certain protections and more importantly, risk awareness & risk mitigation for investor-shareholders that employee-shareholders rarely have. They don't have the information. The savy or bargaining power to negotiate the specifics of their contracts. Etc. That doesn't mean the equity is worthless. It's a few steps up from a verbal commitment but it has the same caveat, you need to trust the person its coming from.
To be precise, I want to code a key/value store exclusively oriented at geolocated queries by key. It doesn't look like a very complex project or am I underestimating it?
Looks great - add it to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14154753/how-do-i-make-an... and I'll happily vote up!
Relatively no one who walks into a store to buy a phone understands any of those words you just said.

They just know they bought the most popular android phone and I guess this is what android is?

Edit: By your definition you can't compare anything to android because android doesn't exist.

Is it possible to compare windows to linux?
The Writer Automaton
A note on this: I do believe the website to be a scam and parent to be obtuse or lying, but for the specific case of your comment studies have proved that people are more likely to stick with the default choice made for them, so you example wouldn't work. Even if the two offers were providing an absolutely identical end value, the default one would have more adoption.
How many employees understand the dilution clauses for their share/options.
Where's the Homeworld ship? Isn't it supposed to be ~25km?
> This sure is a thing normal consumers do. Installing a new launcher app.

Looking that just one launcher (Nova Launcher) has between 5 and 10 million install, yes, it is something normal consumers do
In my opinion, The best way to keep you from neglecting something that looks like a "nice to have" task in your project is by making it part of the process. If you can make your diary based on your commits/bug system's tickets or even features of the project, you might be able to keep your diary up-to-date while blogging only on the important things of the project. Good luck ;)
"but let's be clear: these "review" sites are shady operations that extort retailers by aggregating negative reviews and charging to hide them."

Sounds like a perfect business for you to invest in. Lots of synergies, ya know?
I had exactly the same reaction.

Nice appropriate handle, btw. :-)
The other difference worth noticing is that albeit being a bit unclear, Amazon's Prime is far to be as shady as JustFab's darkpattern since there's a huge modal window popping during the order.
Yes you're right, the thing is, the project produces different binaries which should be accessible for all different versions, which was solved by having only different base directories, all the configuration files build to same subdirectories no matter which version. If I'd switch to "always having only one version in a single base directory" then I'd have to maintain different temporary output and binary output names in all the configuration files in every version which is quite ugly. Then I can't use any "known fixed subdirectory names" in the projects.
You know, when I read the OP my first thought was "there are two sides to every story". A lot depends on how the actual costs are communicated.

Then I saw your screenshot.

Your defence of this company has succeeded where the OP failed, in proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is an unmitigated scam. You should be ashamed for attempting to profit from such a thoroughly disreputable con.

> Folks are right to be skeptical -- a lot of businesses have done this, tried to hide the fact there would be future charges. Does JustFab?

Yes. Yes. YES! They've quite clearly worked very hard to hide it.

Have you received some sort of ethics bypass that renders you literally the only person in this thread unable to see that?
No you can't compare iOS 7 to android until you install my bespoke launcher and remove all the default icons and widgets and customize the phone!

It's not fair picking both up out of a box and comparing the user experience.
The overwhelming majority of buyers use it as it comes out of the box so an out of the box comparison is the only fair one.
The costs and benefits of mass immigration
It's also one of the most popular versions. Everyone I know that owns an Android device owns a Samsung or a cheap device that can barely be classified as a smartphone. TouchWiz IS Android to these people.
Both right. We were heading for an ice age. Not any more.
I've heard from several sources (mostly New Zealanders, admittedly) that Oracle didn't just tweak their trim, but fitted active stabilization to their foils.

After just now doing a bit of Googling – it's pretty clear all the rumours I'm hearing are all based of (and contain verbatim chunks of) this:

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-Speculatio...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1309/S00253/americas-cup-la...

Not sure how much truth there is in that claim – or even if it matters much, but there's clear;y some controversy about why Oracle got so much faster after race 9…
this makes a pretty cool phone/desktop wallpaper!
Go Launcher: 100-500mil installs
Nova Launcher: 5-10mil installs
Smart Launcher: 5-10mil installs
ADW.Launcher: 5-10mill installs

That's just the top 4 and makes it over 115 millions installs. Facebook Messenger has 100-500mil installs. So I think it's safe to say that there is plenty of people that install launchers.

But anyway, I was pointing out that you don't require to reinstall the system to customize the system. In fact, you can make an android look like any of the other ones any time and without too much tech savvy-ness
Like what? Things that clutter the user experience are certainly valid points. Otherwise we might suggest that the old godaddy website was well designed because it had lots of "features."
"rock stars" - just read Rolling Stones mag.
Prestige? Prestige?

Science is not about prestige. It's about science. If you want prestige, go become a jockey, or the world's best hooker. Too many "scientists" are in it for the holidays, money, and "prestige", rather than the, y'know, SCIENCE.

I'm afraid it's not "understandable", it's nasty, selfish, and contrary to scientific advancement.

By not releasing data, they're preventing the internet hivemind from doing its thing - and it has managed some pretty impressive things (NEAR target spotting, anyone?).
You're joking, don't you?
A simple git branching model
Is more customisation really better? I would have left that out of the report as it can be argued either way. High levels of customisation mean you can tailor the device to your needs. On the other hand a device might be designed to work perfectly for 90% of the users and offering customisation options will just lead to confusion and people not getting the best experience.
I'm not sure that's true - didn't some previous incumbents tweak the rules to require challengers to sail their boats on the open ocean from their home clubs, while the Rhode Island based boats could be built much lighter since they didn't need to be trans-ocean-capable?

I think this particular race has a century-long history of being all about the defender writing their own rulebook…
Are there such things as statutory rights in the US? In the UK, they wouldn't be able to force a waiver of a statutory right.
Who defines what is "best experience"?
I think the law in Germany is very specific in how obvious it has to be what is being purchased and what it costs. Some mention somewhere in the fine print is certainly not enough. I've heard they even specify texts for the buttons, it has to be something like "buy now" to make it clear that the action will lead to costs.
Even worse, should you click on 'Checkout as a Pay As You Go member', the order summary still shows VIP status. It appears there is no way out.
THIS is the reason we have almost 200 NoSQL databases.
Writing a good DB IS rocket science - the hardest programming challenge EVAR. But it seems that everyone has been bitten by the Not-invented-here syndrome and instead of contributing they roll their own.
On the other hand, we are in the Data Age so new approaches and explorations will help everyone - so best of luck!

Source: I Am the founder of the NoSQL alliance - we are trying to help standardize ALL databases. Join us at NoSQL dot org
Wow, that was a little too deep than could be appreciated by (Probably) some capitalist looking to just make some goddamned money
Does "verbatim" mode approach what you need? Google won't attempt to guess what words it thought you meant in that mode.
So which launcher should be used in the comparison? I just checked out Go Launcher and it doesn't look any better than Touch Wiz. Personally I prefer stock Android and got a Nexus 4 because of that. The fact is a large, maybe majority, of Android users are using TouchWiz so it seems fair to use that in the comparison. They probably should have included a few versions of Android (Sense, Stock, most popular launcher app) to improve the results.
> I don't accept the word "misleading" -- I do not believe the page in any way misleads.

How about:

* The important information (i.e. the monthly subscription) remains off-screen for anyone whose resolution is 1366x768 or below, coincidentally most of your target demographics, I presume.
* The important information is styled like an ad, on the right side of the screen
* The option to opt out of the program is not labeled "opt out of the program", but under the misleading "I don't want to save 50%"

In many European countries, like Germany, this is explicitly illegal and you can even go to jail for it.

This insulting type of rationalization is particularly useless on HN. Most of us like people with soft skills, but we passionately hate liars.
Well I wanted to write it in Go. I've seen there are already some DB related projects written in such language http://golang.cat-v.org/go-code
What I mean is the setup that works for the majority of users. For example on my iPhone I don't feel I need to customise anything. It's setup well out of the box so lack of customisation options isn't a problem. In fact if given the options I'd probably mess with them and negatively influence the experience. On my Android device I customise it lots. The OOTB experience isn't bad but not perfect and so lack of customisation options would be a problem.
Search what people are likely to say when discussing this topic, it may be in the form of a question and maybe not.
Islam is ignorance and lies. Any doctrine which labels me a lesser man and says that I will burn in hell can go fuck itself. That's not me being ignorant, that's me standing up for myself.
Yes but unfortunately there are people making that argument quite seriously.
I thought it was coming from the fact Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician. Thus explaining why there is no Nobel Price for Mathematics.
That is a lot of effort from you to defend your purchase. They are just telephones, y'know?
If you're taxed on your mined bitcoins as earned income, I wonder if you can write off your mining costs as business expenses.
A 200km-long System Class GSV might ruin the diagram's scaling a bit...
Same here. In fact, when I read the OP, I thought it was a little emotional and perhaps all a misunderstanding. I then read the investor's reasonable-sounding response, which lent more credence to that notion.

Then, checked the screenshot and there was no question. Pure scam.
Well, I'd go as far as saying that it's the Europeans that keep (Common) Lisp still alive.
There's very detailed information about all the Homeworld ships in the booklet that came with the game. I'm going to find it...