skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I have contacted them at that address - this is some parts of the email

first response

"Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting Huawei device.

Would you please kindly click the to download online directly.

http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/downloadCenter.do?meth...

Once again thank you for contacting Huawei device.

Best Regards.

Huawei Device Customer Care Team."

They reply by sending me the link to the PDF Written offer.

Second email does the same, this time with a screenshot of the download button for the PDF. I tell them again, "Please kindly provide the source code not the pdf." They reply with this "Please kindly note that the package download just the source code, it the exactly one, which is not one code.
Please kindly check as per the file according.
Once again thank you for contacting Huawei device.". Wtf?

Again I insist and this time with google translate to chinese, give me the source code as stated in the written offer. And this seems to be their final answer

"The open source is under our technical department to make.

Since the procedure is a little more complex, so please kindly be a little patient.

We will keep you informed once available."

It wouldnt suprise me at all if the source they would put on a CD is tarballs of the vanilla kernel and others, and none of their modifications to it.

Basically, whats the point of free software and GPL when I the end user cant anyway do more with this router than if it was proprietary? This is in practice now real life.
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Sorry, but, get over it. Different things are accessible in different parts of the world. That's probably unlikely to change. Ever.
Wow. It's about time - I've had a 30 inch UltraSharp since 2007 (at which time it cost $2000, and that was with 25% off), and it is the best computer-related purchase I've ever made. You'll get _so much stuff done_ on this amount of monitor real estate. It's a shame that things haven't been happening on this front in a while.

Probably won't upgrade right now, but this is warmly recommended to people who need to have many windows on-screen at once. It's better than a 2-monitor solution for most situations.
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84 frameworks and no GWT? The original cross-compiling web framework, being used for Adwords, Adsense, Google Play store, Amazon AWS, Google Groups, and lots of other huge deployments?

JRebel's web framework comparison this summer had GWT as the front runner, pitted against Spring MVC, Play, Grails, etc.:

http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/the-curious-coders-java-...

Glaring omission for a comprehensive comparison, IMHO.
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This is the app: http://www.transdroid.org/
it's not on the Google App store (It has been removed) so you have to download the APK from their site and install it (enabling non trusted sources on the phone)
There's also a companion Search app, it should be this one:
http://code.google.com/p/transdroid-search/
My first foray into Android was with a Motorola Defy. It was actually a really good little phone. 3.7" with a x800 resolution.

Unfortunately it bricked and I fell back to my spare Nokia N95 which is taped together. Having a taped-together phone (with water damage which affects call quality) isn't really where I want to be but I refuse to purchase any of these huge new phones. I just want something that fits in my pocket, has a >= x800 resolution and can act as a wifi hotspot. My tablet can take care of the rest.
I personally do not blame Elop of anything. I was merely presenting the narrative from N900 cultist point of view, which to tend to blame either Elop directly (which is ridiculous) or the boared (as do you, which is more reasonable but still bit narrowminded).

Personally I blame every single layer inside Nokia, from the grassroots engineers to the board and CEO, and everything in between.
It is just as equally bad as a KKK rally.

Perfectly legal. And perfectly justified for them to espouse what they believe is in their own best interests.

They're still assholes though.
Aren't you assuming that the benchmark is targeted at all web-apps? They are just creating a benchmark. If an app you design doesn't need to scale, then you can ignore the benchmark.

To the rest who are building apps that need to scale, the benchmarks are definitely useful.
Not really weird - it allows for more composability if you ever need to go that way.
Are you always signed into LastPass on your phone?

I've got a (simple) screen lock password + full encryption, but I'm still a bit paranoid to keep LastPass signed in.
Instead, I have to type my 20+ character passphrase each time I have to use LastPass on my phone, which is frustrating, but not as frustrating as losing all my accounts together with my phone.
Before iGoogle I used my.yahoo.com. Not really tempted at going back though it does still exist (and apparently never changed, 7 years later).
Freemium?
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ironically firefox is probably the best android browser right now. why not just use that?
If they were really interested in catching people doing that they had several opportunities

Now you're telling me that will all these apparatus they missed Beavis & Butthead there? (yes, that's what they were) And they had several warnings that went ignored and didn't depend on surveillance.

Looks like extreme incompetency or that they weren't looking for that in the first place.
but say I want a smartphone, what is my alternative?

I agree all mainstream choices suck, but there are alternatives: FirefoxOS or Ubuntu Phone
What I don't understand is why in the world are companies allowed to buy patents in the first place? At the very least, patents should NOT be transferable.

How is it acceptable for companies with big pockets to simply buy 6,000 patents and then sue the shit out of whomever they don't like?

I mean, to some degree, I accept that patents in the health-care industry are helping, because research labs spend years and enormous amount of money on research, with results that can be easily copied. And so they need the first mover advantage in bringing the product they researched on the market. It's not perfect, but at least it has some economical and moral ground.

But how in the world is it acceptable for patents to be transferred, like they are assets? If you weren't the one doing the research, then you shouldn't be the one that benefits from a government-granted monopoly, no matter how much money you have.
> "very dubious game"

Quite a statement especially on the background of the other companies involved. Any substantial arguments for that?
Until recently, Google had not filed even a single patent lawsuit [1] and so far still has not done so against Apple, MS, and the like, afaik. Meanwhile, the 'rockstars' have been going rampant [2].

[1] http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/02/google-files-first-patent...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_wars
That's because php is a really thin wrapper around the underlying C libraries. The thing that makes it ugly is what makes it fast. Php is still interpreted and not jit'ed, even with the opcode cache used in this benchmark, so it loses out in anything that exercises the php code side of the equation, which is why the big php frameworks (symfony, cake and laravel) are 50 times slower than raw php. I wonder how facebook's hhvm engine would stack up, as it is a jit'ing php engine and supposedly an order of magnitude faster.
It was, and you are correct. Look at line #299 for a reference.
If I were trying to get a shell on the boxes of as many startups as possible, here's what I'd do:

1. Create a new library, rubygem, infrastructure thingie that was genuinely useful but had a non-trivial setup process.

2. To aid in that setup process, create a script that I recommend be piped into your shell.

3. Somewhere in the middle of that script, silently tar up everything in the users .ssh/ directory and send it somewhere I can see it.
That would be nine.
I think separating good guys and bad guys is pretty simple, if one is against (at least software) patents:

Using patents aggressively makes you a bad guy.

Google has not done this, Microsoft and Apple have.
How about a site-specific CSS to set the fontage? If that's your main issue with the site it should be a quick fix.

Or just set your browser to ignore sites' font specifications. Less eye-strain that way in general.
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For Round 8, it would interesting to see Cognitect's (http://cognitect.com/) new Pedestal framework (http://pedestal.io/) for Clojure. Pedestal is Ring compatible but it doesn't use Ring.

Instead, Pedestal's new interceptors abstraction decouples http requests from threads. This provides better concurrency support because it enables processing a single request across multiple threads (http://pedestal.io/documentation/service-interceptors/).
Apple has a fair number of standards-essential patents as well, but they have not been used in a lawsuit to date. These include networking patents (notably zeroconf) and are always made available by Apple via the following statement:

In the event that the technology discussed in the Document becomes an IETF standard (the "Standard") which is not materially different from the Document, Apple agrees, upon written request from a Party to negotiate outside of IETF to make available a non-exclusive license under reasonable and non-discriminatory ("RAND") terms and conditions under such claims of the Patents that are essential to implement a product compliant with the Standard (a "Compliant Product").
These RAND terms and conditions may be conditional upon a reciprocal grant or defense use.

However it has yet to demand reciprocal grants of design patents from others for licensing.

The company has not refused to license SEPs, it has refused to license them with a cross-patent agreement that includes their design patents, as their view is that SEPs should be offered on fair monetary licensing terms.

That does not necessarily mean their stance is right (or that Apple is innocent because they're quite clearly not), but it's a lot more complex and defensible than you've implied here.
Wow it's been at least 6 years I haven't heard about Netvibes. It was a so-called Web 2.0 pioneer. Is it still out there? Let me check my account..
Why do you describe it as libertarian leanings? What in the libertarian philosophy still makes you uncomfortable?
You're right, I'm completely wrong - the worst thing that can happen here is that the whole RVM directory is removed. Hardly catastrophic, and definitely not the extreme failure case the article is talking about.
Just because it's not in Google's name: http://www.fosspatents.com/search/label/Motorola

Edit: Ah, I see you edited when you spotted Google had in fact filed suit.
Completely off topic here, but why is it that people some times write "would of" instead of "would have"? Is it something you would use in spoken language? And where?
Hehe, Norwegian here - I bought the same monitor you did, and have made the same thoughts about it.
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If the Obama DOJ has any guts, they'll break out the collusion section of anti-trust law and make some new anti-trust case law regarding multi-company patent offensives and the potential to cause harm to consumers.
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Actually, in this case, no it won't. Your own shell will parse $TMP_DIR and replace it with the output of mktemp, and then execute it.

Its only really bad if some does the following:

rm -rf /$TMP_DIR

The slash is important
Like many have said already; how do you vote with a wallet when there is not so much choice. I need a new laptop; my macbook, after many (by apple and by myself) repairs, is falling apart. It's fast enough, but just broken. So I was going to get the 13 inch retina, but now I'm rethinking my position. But what is the alternative... I haven't seen much yet. I want long battery life, i7 4th gen, 13 inch and at least retina resolution. So Pixel, Ativ 9 pro, Yoga 2 pro, ... ? But I also don't want Windows; I don't want to pay for it. Problem... I know the thinkpad t440s has long battery life, i7 4th gen, linux can be installed(still pay for windows), but the resolution (& GPU) are simply too depressing.

The tablet + phone. Firefox phone; I'll get one of those. Tablet? Are there any which you can buy now?

I really would just like to see Ubuntu on everything; tablet, phone and laptop, but I guess that's not really an option. I say Ubuntu because it's the most obvious; when Ubuntu is on there I know I can replace it with another Linux and I can customize it at least.

Like someone said; we cry here, but we all buy macbooks anyway. While a lot of us have the power to actually change things. If 100.000 people ask Lenovo for a Linux laptop, it'll probably come. Besides MS pressure (which is probably 100% of the reason) I wouldn't see why they wouldn't all offer the choice. It's just not popular enough; check any video on any startup site on HN: everyone has macbooks.
Thanks, I did.

Seems Im not alone, a lot of Chinese manufacturers just dont give a shit about copyright in any way shape or form.
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I'm not sure about Sony. I can't remember any non-Android smartphones they had in 2011.
If you haven't learned to not use a Google product that isn't core to their revenue stream in the year 2013, I don't know what to tell you.
Would have is abbreviated "would've", which is pronounced similarly. I expect people get it from hearing that before seeing it written.
Timeline of Events:

October 27th - 29th: Database compromised according to MongoHQ.

22:15 PST 10/31: Notified of breach by MongoHQ

23:30 PST 10/31: Communicated breach to customers

And I thought all impacted MongoHQ customers knew what had happened on October 27th or 28th itself.
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It would be interesting to see what would happen if Microsoft/Apple moved beyond Google to target IBM.
It actually got an update recently and looks cool. I don't use it though.

http://my.yahoo.com/
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Too bad... it was a great service.
I would tend to look at it this way:

Because the control version was part of an experiment, the result is statistical proof that the control version is indeed better than the variation.

It kind of reaffirms your belief that you had when you developed the app. This reaffirmation happened only because you put it to test with another variation!!
debian - mainly because it's the same environment we (a small business employing 5 people) use across home, office (where I encouraged a mass migration from Windows), and our cloud server where our website resides. In fact I managed to make 3 other people migrate their home pc / laptop too). Some proprietary Windows apps we had were moved to either Wine or, when they didn't work under Wine, to a few VirtualBox Windows machines - but I'm confident we will soon manage to get rid of them.
you can add a test login username and password in the meta data
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Do you really think Microsoft and Apple don't sell "you" too?

They have (admittedly less-successful) advertising businesses that they show no signs of abandoning, they boast about the number of accounts and/or the number of credit cards they have for developers and partners and so on.

To a first approximation "everybody" wants your money and "everybody" sells you. Generalizations don't work. You need to look at the bundles that come with products/ecosystems on a case-by-case basis.
Ruby is for stubborn people :D
Not sure what edit you are referring to, my original post already stated that until recently they haven't filed a lawsuit.
Well, it is lawful - just like Google's tax evasion.
Can it get any easier to label clothes?
> Turns into this: wget -O install.sh https://example.com/install.sh && sudo sh ./install.sh

Straw man.

No it doesnt turn into that, it turns into wget https://install.sh && ls && less install.sh && less lala2 && echo "ok looks good enough" && ./install.sh # no sudo, to user local install, its just a package or program ffs,

when you want packages to install for all users, or system wide, then you use the default package manager of your distribution.
I suspect all parties to the Rockstar trove have equal rights to the patents (and unequal royalties). Buying RIM would make the lawsuit null and void, unless RIM agreed that their rights can't be assigned (eg to Google) upon purchase etc.

Anyone have more knowledge on Rockstar and know how this would all work?
Same here. New tab > open home page > scan my iGoogle feeds has been a very frequent and almost automatic habit of mine for years. When it redirected me to a search page it took a good second or two for me to realise what was going on.
Depends where you live, i'm pretty sure Google's Chinese services are pretty dire compared to the native alternatives.
That is a blatant lie. The Google blog post from the time is available here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-a...

Google is explicit about why they wanted the patents, and why joining the consortium would not further that goal.
I would really like to know a good alternative for iGoogle too. My dad has been using it for years as his default homepage and he asks me now and then if I know an alternative because he knew it was ending. He likes it because of the widgets (weather, traffic, notepad, task lists et cetera) and the fact that the Google search is integrated on the same page.

People suggested Symbaloo, but that's only a nice iconic representation of hyperlinks. I don't think there is a site with the same concept as iGoogle. If anyone knows a good altenative then I'd really like to know to make my dad happy again ;)

I somehow understand the move of Google to stop doing iGoogle, because similar widgets are now by default integrated in Windows/Android itself.
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So if you're 47 you either have some savings for your retirement or you need to build some very fast. Otherwise you'll be living of Hartz IV anyways. I fail to see your point? Do you want to rely on social security while not paying into the social system - sorry, for me that doesn't work. I'm all for making freelancers save money for when they're older, as long as they can choose how they want to do it.
Good advice, one quibble:

> Only the copyright holder has the right to take any action against a licensee violating the terms of their license

This might not be true. If you can successfully argue that:

1. You bought the hardware because you believed their promise that you would have access to the sources they used, and

2. The value of the device is materially impaired by not having access to the source

then you would have (IMO, IANAL) a trade descriptions case. If you want to audit your phone system for security reasons, say, then the above might apply.
> All the freedoms and luxuries you enjoy today come either from technological disruption, or from people that were outraged and that decided to do something about it.

"Decided to do something about it"

I am against "outrage" for outrage sake. If you are outraged but not willing to do anything about it, then it is worse than ambivalence. You are wasting energy and reducing the value of outrage as a deterrent.

Outrage would be a useful if it resulted in action. So anytime there is outrage, the offending party would retrace their steps. Because they would be aware "shit is about to go down!"

So if the first time Twitter/Facebook/Apple indiscriminately fucked over developers, out rage resulted in something that affected them, things would have been different today.

>I also don't understand your position on this matter. if you agree that patents are bad, then your cynicism does nothing else but to waist(sic) other people's time

I am against the abuse of patents and this is an abuse of patents. I am hoping my "cynical post" will offend hackers (who have leverage) enough to say "how dare you say I am all talk!" and take action.
$56 billion in cash. They're anything but helpless.

A $6 billion bid for RIM would solve the problem.

They also have Motorola's massive patent hoard, with thousands of patents available to assault both Microsoft and Apple. So far Google has mostly played nice on patents.
Well, perhaps in the spirit of knowledge sharing and to set an example Google could share their full search algorithm?
I switched over to http://www.protopage.com/ last week, but I don't think you can configure the fonts easily there either so may not be of interest to you. It works for me so far at least.
Couldn't they just hide buy button? Can we at least see it :)
I'm regularly amazed at how poor Google are at getting this right. Both of the following have occurred to me in the last week alone:

1) Friend and I both have nexus devices, both setup in English with Google accounts signed in, both residing in Hong Kong. Friend creates calendar event and sends invite to to me. I get the invite in GMail entirely in Chinese with no translation links in English.

2) Install app that requires access to Google account services. App opens browser and attempts to get account permission. Google.com shows permission granting page entirely in Chinese with no English links to change language. To make things worse, the Yes / No buttons are both blue, preventing even inferring which one is which.

This last case is especially ridiculous. A nexus device, setup in English language, logged into English language Google account, browser on the device logged into Google account, and yet Google.com page displays permissions page in Chinese.
OK. So does this once and for all end the debate about Apple being a proper patent-troll, or do they need to buy a bridge first?
cuz I been done dat, and you know, like dat idea where, you know, it's like, when I been tryin', but it ain't gud nuff 4 dem, cuz dey white foke be thinkin dat I can't do it when I can!

versus

Because I've done that, and you know, the idea where, I-have-been-trying-but-it-isn't-good-enough, makes them think that I can't do it when I can.

versus

The impression I left with them portrayed a lack of capability, when in-fact, that was not the case. I felt it unfair, that I may have been the recipient of a snap-judgement and to add insult to injury, I did not have the opportunity to re-impress upon them my talent.

A lot of people equate speaking-white with [more-]proper sentence structure , but the true differentiator in articulative ability is an expansive vocabulary capable of conveying in-intricate-detail or not, the abstract ideas necessary to communicate on a team.
I never understood the name "iGoogle". You know what the "i" in Apple's products and many other company's products mean? Internet. So Google called the product "Internet Google".
They haven't done it because they don't have many patents. It's easy to act noble about how you'll use your patents when you don't have any. Other commenters have noted that Google is currently suing Apple and others over standards essential patents (no just because the lawsuit started before their acquisition closed doesn't mean anything, they could settle or withdraw their case). Google had the opportunity to join a consortium with Microsoft to bid on the Novell patents, they declined. They could have joined this consortium as well but they decided to bid for it alone. Not only would it have shared the costs among the group, but it would have also prevented each other from suing over them. Google clearly wanted to control these patents themselves so that they could extract licensing deals from others, something that isn't so easy to do when you just have a license for a patent.
Anybody else seeing Google suing Microsoft and Apple directly in the future or is it just me?

This is battle stations and given Google doesn't use shell companies they either make one or declare all out war.