skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think pissing off their hardware vendors is really that big a deal. There is an echo chamber in HN towards unix in both Linux and Apple forms - your grandparents still expect to talk into Best Buy and buy something with Windows on it, because it runs their ISPs POS pop3 email app, or they have all their pictures in some proprietary picture catalog program and don't know how to take them out of it.

I guess the more alarming trend is how a lot of tech companies and governments are picking up LTS Ubuntu as a replacement for Windows XP workstations they have had for 10+ years.
Mid 2011 27" iMac and a ~8mth old Win7 PC.

I generally upgrade every 2 years, just not impressed by the new iMacs enough to replace my current one (did SSD upgrade to current one + 16GB RAM, earlier this year).
Long form writing seems close to impossible on a tablet. A long hacker news comment is possible, but once you are looking at even a modest book report, I can't see it.

Maybe with some sort of accessory keyboard, but then you are looking at more of an ad hoc laptop than a pure tablet.
From your source, "According to OPSWAT’s data (which admittedly could be wildly skewed depending on who actually downloads their software, take it with multiple grains of salt)."

Admittedly I'm referencing data I read somewhere which I can't find right now, so I'll retract the statement about SkyDrive being the biggest. It is certainly up there though and growing according to this financial report.
This seems like an advertisement for dwolla credit masquerading as real-time payments with no interchange.

Real time payments without interchange are possible and they're going to be serious news as they'll enable micro payments. It doesn't have much to do with cloning BillMeLater.
This may be the most pompous comment on HN, a forum known for its pompous comments. Congratulations.
WITCHCRAFT IN COLARADO
I don't think iOS is anything unix, at all. They might reuse system utilities from OSX and its kernel, but that is like saying if you put the same motor in a pickup truck and a dune buggy you have the same vehicle.
Take some time off - maybe just a week (if you cannot get more). When you get back if you still feel the same about work, it means that its time to move on - maybe to a different job or maybe a different industry.

It's hard to do especially if you have bills to pay. But you are going to have to take that step and make an effort to move on. Work becomes very difficult once you start resenting it.
There would be a beating of a high magnitude if these end up being false. If anything, if they were false, they would have only met numbers not gone and crushed them.
The enterprise and business division is turning into a juggernaut at Microsoft that shows no sign of slowing down. Unlike the Windows team, they have a clear focus and vision guiding them.
It's funny really. Microsoft has lots of revenue streams despite being clueless about a lot of things (in many ways they are in lots of markets they don't truly understand). But to some degree it doesn't matter, at least for now, because they keep trying and they do learn from their mistakes.

Google, on the other hand, is extremely bizarre. They have excellent engineers and they have a ton of high-impact applications and services. But they are utterly clueless when it comes to dealing with customers, so they have yet to significantly diversify beyond their revenue models from a decade ago. Google has at least 3 separate multi-billion dollar businesses locked away within their company (in addition to search/ads) but they still don't know how to make use of them or bring them to maturity.

It's stuff like this that makes you appreciate the companies that get everything right.
Unless I am reading the prospectus wrong, looks like they haven't made a profit yet and the losses are much larger this year than last. I find that troubling for a software company wanting to IPO.
A quick update on the status of php.net
Using it and liking it aren't the same thing. Shedloads of people here use Facebook, and a fair percentage of them would no doubt gleefully criticize it given half a chance.
> I would never be okay with the idea of an application monitoring what I'm doing, in order to reorder itself.

Oh boy, how will you survive the next 20 years? Saying "I will never touch a computer" 40 years ago would have had the same effect.
I highly recommend the book Code Name Ginger, which is the remarkable story behind the Segway.

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Ginger-Behind-Segway/dp/1578...
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MEPs vote to suspend US data sharing
You could take it as another sign that the bubble is ending. If a company like twitter needs to do this to get valuation ...
Congrats on getting this running. I know there were a lot of tough issues surrounding this and I'm glad it's finally up. I've been using this on http://gitignore.io since Feb and it's been great.
... you know PHP's supported PDO for a while now, right?
Most people would actually search "apples".
Quite expected. My disappointment with the US gov and its general attitude is reaching new levels. Really BAD.
Agreed. People love to trash talk Microsoft's mobile offerings, but really their biggest failing was being so late to the game. If I was in the market for a tablet (which I am not, because I am still perfectly satisfied with my 3 year old Android tablet) I would definitely be taking a hard look at the Surface.
Why exactly do you love 'alias psgrep="ps aux | grep"' ? What does it get you that pgrep doesn't (or, if you need more information, 'ps u `pgrep <name>`')?
Yes I was referring to Yahoo trying to delay roll out of bing in Asian Countries.
Kratu - Client side analysis framework from Google
To be fair, he didn't say which people...
In the wise words of Linus Torvalds: Talk is cheap, show me the code
Jay Carney issued a statement that said the US
"is not monitoring and will not monitor" the
German chancellor's communications.

This is probably the best tell the US government has for sniffing out the bullshit. If they don't explicitly deny the event occurring in the past, it happened.

Reminds me of a Spaceballs scene:

Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir.
Everything that happens now, is happening now.

Dark Helmet: What happened to then?

Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.

Dark Helmet: When?

Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.

I imagine this is probably about how the "Cover Your Ass" conversation goes before official comments are made to the press.
As well as the market, which has spoken. Nobody wants Microsoft tablets.
Yes very true; I remember hearing once (I don't know how true this bit is), that Samsung Group alone make up around 20% of the South Korean economy...

It may just be me, but I do detect a slight slowing down of Apple's supply chain in recent years though. I know that they've had a lot of trouble when trying to move away from Samsung, simply because Samsung were/are the only single supplier that is able to provide the sheer quantity of components that Apple need.

Also, Apple always used to have a habit of having their big product announcements available for order and shipping on the day that they announced them, not 2 months down the line. When you add in potential omissions like the 4k monitors (or any kind of monitor refresh since 2011), you have to start thinking that perhaps they have a few troubles down the line.

Whether it's suppliers being difficult, or just a factor of the sheer size that Apple has reached, I really don't know.
US Foreign Policy: How to turn friends into enemies and isolate yourself from the world
All Things Considered: Alexis Ohanian on Reddit's creation
There is at least one difference: Mailbox only supports gmail, and as such only asks for oauth credentials with permissions to read from and write to your inbox, not username/password. Linkedin does the same thing with gmail (and google apps) but they also support mail services that don't have this support.
Are Linkedin still working out of Mom's garage? Do they not have a single person on staff capable of looking at the current environment regarding internet privacy and say, "Uh, guys...maybe put this one on ice for a year..?"
Discussion invitation: "Testing confusion"
There's a huge middle ground between reducing cognition to statistics (as you seem to be proposing) and "abstracting away" the statistics. You seem to be accusing any approach that's not "statistics all the way down" of ignoring the statistical nature of the mind. When in fact, there are many approaches to cognition which make heavy uses of advances in statistical theory without reducing cognition to statistics.

What you're proposing is an overly reductionist ontology, IMO, and yet I agree that statistics are important, if not critical. (Hint: not the boring linear kind of statistics that you so often see in Big Data)
The psychology of online comments
A lot of this feels like measuring the results of education with standardized tests. Do they ultimately correlate to economic output/GDP? How does the US maintain it's current level of economic output if it's so stupid?

Maybe it doesn't hurt economically that larger chunks of the population are dumber in the US. Less intellectual competition might allow the best companies/players to rise to the top and multiply their effects.

Study but http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/study-argu...

Where did a large number of our brightest math and physics students end up? Wall St. Their contribution is well known. The US doesn't seem to have enough productive places to stick educated people.
Hofstadter's stuff is not remotely GOFAI. Have you read his books or looked at any of the projects?
It's interesting that Biz Stone, the face of Twitter for a few years, isn't listed on the prospectus as a large shareholder.
You probably mean bill of rights. The US Constitution has no wording expressing any concerns over an American's privacy.
cough https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263205 cough
I couldn't believe it would work, so I made a toy implementation in Python using simple operator overloading: https://github.com/boppreh/derivative

All values tried so far agree with Wolfram Alpha, so color me surprised and happy for learning something new.
UC Davis pepper spray cop gets $38G worker's compensation settlement
Yes. And the US is the only country whose intelligence service has ever done anything like this.

And newsflash ... we probably bug your embassies too.
Rapportive is pretty cool tool to have. Aside from the standard NSA paranoia stuff mentioned in the article, what's the real danger for an average person who wants the rapportive experience on mobile?
This was my take away as well
4K UHD is 85% more pixels than the 13" rMBP’s internal display. Driving 2 Thunderbolt Displays, which the 13" rMBP can do, involves 6% more pixels than one 4K display at full resolution.
LUKS, GPG as examples only. I feel like time would be better spent switching to something less suspicious than trying to prove the suspicions false.
I've been criticized more than once by designers for making references to content being "below the fold." Of course there's no actual fold, and yes, it's an old term from the newspaper world. However, it's very clearly still relevant, even if it's not as easily definable: The harder you make it for people to find your content, the less likely they are to view it or continue parsing your message, regardless of what it is.
This worries me though. I use AdBlock and get really annoyed when using friends' machines without it. But the system won't work if too many people use AdBlock. So if more ads -> more adblock -> then what?

My nightmare scenario is the spread of what already goes on on alot of less scrupulous sites: "we have detected that you are using AdBlock. Turn it off to view our content".

It reminds me of the excellent dystopia-satire "Black Mirror" where citizens are forced to view ads and if they look away or shut their eyes, an increasingly loud tone is played along with a "warning"...
This is the understood and expected function of the NSA, isn't it? Collecting signals intelligence from foreign sources? Does anyone honestly believe the Germans aren't regularly trying to figure out ways to listen to American officials' communications?

I find the NSA's domestic spying to be appalling... but this is the sort of thing everyone knew the NSA was responsible for since its inception.
Well to be fair, the Germans did try to kill us all.
Whither iWork?
When ability is no longer a bottleneck on the actions of an individual or group, that is the time that the character of that individual or group is discovered.

The character of the US government in general, and the NSA in particular, is apparently that of a rotten, sneaking, dishonest liar.

I cannot say that I am surprised, human nature being what it is, but I am very disappointed.

On the bright side, it is in good international company.
Twitter Releases a Lower Than Expected Stock Price
I am sympathetic to your view, but may I offer you a different viewpoint, at my own expense?

Truly original ideas are fragile and delicate. They require careful nurturing and devoted protection if they are to eventually flower.

It may be that Hofstadter sees far more deeply than I, and approaches like NuPIC and deep belief networks that seem different to me and therefore in need of synthesis are to him transparently isomorphic and dead ends. The effort it would take him to make me understand why this is so would cost him precious time and progress on his true path.
Beautifully worded :)

I've got a 4th gen iPad, a laptop, an external monitor + kb + mouse and a Lumia 920 right now. I still wonder at times if I should cut back a bit, but most of these devices have their uses for me.
>without making one themselves //

Why not "having Samsung make one for them" as it's been in recent years?
I always wonder when I see charts like this:

How would, say, the top 1 or 2% of each of those countries fare against each other?
If it was 2007, then it was probably the Heart Disease Education, Analysis and Research, and Treatment for Women Act (acronym HEART). The bill died in the House. Identical bills were passed by the House in 2008 and 2009 but were not voted upon by the Senate.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s573
This is such a non-issue. They searched for an actual brand name, and they got branded results. If I searched for "how do airplanes work?" and got a massive Southwest Airlines banner this would be something to complain about. Currently though, this is just link bait.
Or perhaps it's faster, easier, and more accurate to place your own five icons that to wait for an algorithm to try and figure it out.
I genuinely fail to be outraged by this. The NSA has a job, which is the monitoring of the signals of foreign militaries and governments. That they were doing that is not surprising or necessarily bad since those entities should be more than capable of operating in such an environment.

The problem is the mass slurping of the data of everyone else.
It sounds like you can give some solid insight on this issue.

No, I can't because I don't follow Microsoft as a stock. The analogy is that while I am able to program in Java, that doesn't mean I'm qualified to evaluate a particular code base written in Java without investing substantial time to research it. The analogy is not perfect of course - since most of the time people writing code aren't purposely trying to obfuscate it like people who write accounting statements are trying to do.
A note to say that the Stop Watching Us coalition rally is now just two days away. If you're on the east coast, it's not too late to attend. If you're interested, you can find out more here:

https://rally.stopwatching.us/

Privacy is one of the hardest things to get folks riled up about. It erodes slowly, and for "good" reasons, like defending the country against terrorism. But privacy is critical to a meaningful democracy. Strangely, many of the members of Congress fail to understand how important it is, and that compromising our privacy for security is a huge mistake. Particularly since those compromises are not necessary.

The fact that the NSA is monitoring the calls of world leaders is also worrying. But it's more of a foreign policy issue, damaging international relations and making it more difficult for countries to trust the US. I think it's foolish, and needs to stop, but it doesn't threaten our freedom directly.
Hold up in court to what?
I would say mostly the latter (been around longer, more docs, etc). Power consumption on RP kind of sucks though
I quite frankly don't understand why anyone would condemn such acts of espionage. They are not only essential for a nation state to function successfully, but they are also a far superior way for the US to maintain its hegemony as compared to using acts of brute force.

Now I do not condone Orwellian spying on the citizens of your own republic, but this really is their job and it's quite impressive that they're this good at it. Especially given the fact that historically the US has not been completely invested in espionage and has favoured building up capacity after key events and quickly dismantling the apparatus once the emergency has passed. What these scandals are offering is a glimpse into a dramatic shift in the way the US conducts its affairs and that in of itself is quite noteworthy.
Well you might say Wundt was the father of structuralism and James the father of functionalism - a deep divide which is still felt today. I suppose this shows the author's bias, implicit or not.
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We're in sort of a weird place with mobile computing. We're in the part of the technology/market growth curve where it's easy, for some, to make a killing with comparatively little effort and innovation. The iPad mini is a perfect example, it's mostly just iPad 2 guts with a smaller screen and battery, but they sold like crazy and made an even crazier amount of profit for Apple. And to some degree rightly so, they put a device in people's hands that they wanted.

Nevertheless, when the rewards for laziness are so high what incentive is there to take on risk? There are negative incentives, in fact, because any amount of effort or resources spent pursuing something risky will likely come at the cost of working on something safer. If the safe and lazy thing is sure to bring in billions in profit then even if the risky things succeeds it might end up being a short-term loss due to opportunity cost.

It's obvious that things like the iPad are the harbingers of the future. But at the same time it's just as obvious that the iPad does not represent anywhere near the final evolution along those lines. It's clear to me that consumer OSes will increasingly be like modern mobile OSes, with managed apps, streamlined UI, and even more streamlined administration. But the idea of there being such a gulf between a desktop with a keyboard and mouse on the one hand and a touch-only tablet on the other is mostly an accident of history. As well, the idea, from Windows 8, that there should be a single UI model that spans both portable (touch only) and stationary (keyboard and mouse) realms is ridiculous.

There should be a lot more innovation, a lot more development, and a lot more trial and error out in the market today. But until the market dynamics change we'll likely be stuck with a lot of lazy designs for a while.
Great link to fpm! I'm definitely going to check that out.
Are you really saying people don't understand junk food is unhealthy to the same degree they don't understand IT?
>They're not going to release a $3,400 monitor and hype about it at their event, when only 1% of people are going to be able to afford it. //

You mean 1% of the 1% in the US that can afford, and still want, an Apple laptop?
Compare Massachusetts to all of Europe and then Europe looks like it is in decline.
> I remember hearing once that Samsung Group alone make up around 20% of the South Korean economy

It was. Right now, South Korea GDP is 1687 trillion Won. Samsung’s revenue is 252 trillion Won. That makes Samsung’s share 15 percent. Hyundai adds another 12% and LG 11%. That’s 38% of the economy in hands of just three companies. Effectively, South Korea is an oligarchy[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
Then I absolutely want to know more about such things. Please do share some or anything you can, regarding, oh... I dunno... whatever sort of insights might escape the ordinary common man, equipped with a high-schooler's grasp of basic integer math.

I've heard these sort of claims before, coming from financially oriented colleagues. I hate it when they make these kinds of dismissive pronouncements. The worst thing you could ever do is plainly state that a thing is simply too complicated to be worth explaining.

If these arcane statements should be regarded as esoteric hieroglyphics by the uninitiated, at least tell us which one is the sun god?

Seriously, we're all pretty curious types around here, and even when the material is bone dry and stale as Soviet bread, we all enjoy learning. At least I know I do.
Only partial for that reason. If everyone demanded all their money, yes, it would break the bank. But if 30% of the money were requested, and only 20% were held in reserve, the bank can still act as if it has the money. There's no similar mechanism for bitcoins.
This is honestly the revelation that I worry about least in these NSA leaks. Isn't foreign surveillance basically the raison d'etre for the NSA?
Snowden has documents on foreign cooperation with U.S.
No it wouldn't - as long as the device, target and environment heat up as a whole. For ex, laser cooling where a laser reflects off a surface with more energy than it started with.
Hi, I'm replying here rather then on you submission as it's dead and so I can't. Your three submissions are all marked dead, you may be 'shadow banned' or your submissions may have gotten caught in a spam filter. That's why you aren't getting any replies. I browse with 'show dead' on and spotted it.

Edit: actually it's a a little confusing as from your submissions it looks like you are shadow band but if that was the case I would not be able to reply to you here.
What is twitter going to do with $1.4B? Do they have some incredibly expensive investments planned?

Companies offer stock as an investment opportunity to raise capitol. Right?
How do you write a good test? What characteristics should it have?
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I wouldn't call it creepy, but for those that value their privacy, I would call it concerning. In the 'post-Snowden' era, it's not far fetched to imagine that the NSA et all would or could get their hands on the data.

Then again, if your privacy is so essential, you should probably already be wary of using any mobile device/web service to hail a taxi.
I was just answering if it would run OSX...I by no means think it's on par with the new Mac Pro specs or build quality wise

> So "sorta, not really" is the answer. It's a potential hackintosh, with all the associated hassles that come along. (updates break your hackintosh? Hope you didn't want to get work done today).

Well..no, not really. Builds with recent Intel CPUs are pretty stable, even across upgrades. One of my hackintoshes (which was built because it took Apple Too Damn Long(TM) to update the MacPro line) has made the jump from Lion > ML > Mavericks with little to no issue. The biggest problem when upgrading was on the windows side going XP-x64 > Win7 when Win7 wouldn't install and then I realized that SSD wasn't in slot 1 during the install. The only issue I've had with my OSX disk was Win8 corrupting it's volume headers (which are easy enough to repair in 5mins)
In the wise words of capitalists: show me the money. No one is going to develop some software to prove a point for an argument in an internet forum. You put up the money to commission a project with the ongoing rate and I'll show you the code.
Why not just delete your account as well? I deleted mine a year ago and I have no reason to look back