skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> iOS was more of a copy of palm

Bullshit. I used tons of Palm devices and iOS has basically nothing in common with PalmOS.

The only thing in common between the initial iPhone and a Palm device is that they have a large touch screen.
Strongsync: Dropbox-like sync using only sftp or S3
An interesting alternative to btsync, and owning your own cloud storage.
So, "They prioritized a form factor they'd already been working on"?

I'm not sure that I'd describe that as "The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android".
- Why not just write ',' instead of '=>'? Is there an actual reason for this other syntax to exist and to be used?

- Why does the array have to be explicitly dereferenced? Isn't it obvious from context?

- Why count on the mapping from boolean to int being false = 0, true = 1? Pretty much everything other language that has such a mapping does false = 0, true != 0.

In one line, a vivid reminder of why I find perl so awful.
That was fixed a month or two ago, run the auto updater! :) If it fails for you, there must be some other issue, ping us again if that is the case.
I'm in the same boat. I've been looking at Neo4J, Titan, etc., as part of research for a new application I'm building. Our data set is fairly tiny (<<10M entities, almost certainly), but the information we're tracking is highly graph-oriented.

I've been trying to decide between a graph db, which seems like a better fit for the real world relationships but is entirely new to me, and postgresql with exports to graph structures for analysis as needed.

In particular, I'd be interested in deployment experiences with Orient and other graph dbs. I don't have a sys admin and I'm not one myself, so a PaaS platform is highly attractive.

Neo4J has a Heroku "try" option, but there's no clear upgrade path. Titan is flexible in terms of backing store (Cassandra, PersistIt, etc.), but seems to require self-admin.

Anyone deployed and maintained OrientDB or any of these other tools?
How many use cases are there for needing a so precise stylus? Apart from drawing, I can't really think of anything that hasn't benefited from capacitive screens + fingers...

If you need a stylus to read mails, use the web or normal stuff, you'll probably need a better UI, not a stylus
Both of those issues have been rectified!
That's not very hard to do when you're worth billions of dollars, because even if you give away 99% of your wealth to charity, you'd still be worth tens of millions of dollars at the end of the day.

Regular folks can't afford to do that without putting their financial stability at risk.

Nevertheless, I do respect Bill for his actions, and I believe all modern tycoons should feel responsible for making the world a better place through charity.
Thank you for answering dualogy's remark pretty well.

There is another reason why Bitcoin is in a weird spot, though. Bitcoin is neither anybody's IOU nor does it have an intrinsic, physically-based value similar to gold. It is perhaps the only example of a currency (or near-currency) that arose purely from something else entirely, and I'm not quite sure what that "something else" even is.
The OP pretty obviously was talking about the iPhone specifically.
Coinbase was fair and resolved my transaction for 10 bitcoins this morning, by giving them to be at the current market price; however there are 2 bitcoins still completely missing from my account.
>Also, the last time I looked at Myriad's technology, they were using their own Java VM, which means, at least,some kind of Dalvik to Java bytecode converter for apps as they are installed, or an SDK plugin to produce "Myriad-VM-ready" apps.

Does that mean it's a fork of Android and thus no Android OEM(that ships the Play Store) can make Jolla phones unless they stop shipping Android phones and get out of the Open Handset Alliance?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...
Why are these still a thing?
Agreed - I'd really appreciate coming across that one. It probably isn't the definitive example I'm looking for though.
I love the idea, but changing the current system requires more than grant money. Professors need to be recognized for their efforts creating and updating free educational materials. That means schools need to consider these contributions in promotion decisions or otherwise compensate academics for their time. Most academics receive a modest advance against royalties for working on textbooks. Switching to a system in which universities become the primary publishers and distributors of textbooks is desirable; we need to get the incentives right.
Gladly:

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This is what 6 Apple moonshot technologies could look like
I volunteered to go to a website, that volunteered to use that service. I can choose not to visit the source sites or the associate ones.

How do you know those sites have those trackers before visiting them? The only way to "opt-out" of the sites with such trackers is to stop using the web entirely.

Against whom? Facebook? Google?

How about GOVERNMENTS.

Actually, yes. In the (European) country I live in, public organizations have been prevented from invading privacy (e.g. setting CCTV cameras) by our national data protection commission.

If you ask me, any sort of nefarious behaviour commited by web companies are most likely the product of a larger, coercive form of behaviour starting from the government.

How is web analytics and personal data mining a product of State spying? And even if it is, how is it justifiable on that basis?
Just to clarify what the problem is now. Coinbase reconciled my purchase of 10 bitcoins by giving them to be at todays market price. I'm still missing 2 bitcoins from an old purchase that says it's been cleared.
Well, the Target Red is tied to your debit card. You can't use it anywhere else but Target.

So I wonder if Red Card customers had their debit information stolen too....
What would an Apple moonshot look like?
"The Linux Programming Interface" is a top-notch book
http://nostarch.com/tlpi
Demand for trade is the only difference between bitcoin and a hot potato stock in a company with 0 earnings and 0 capital. In other words, in the long run, absolutely essential.

I would say that political ideology is another big difference. The early adopters of Bitcoin were largely of a certain ideological bent that made them predisposed to wanting Bitcoin to succeed. When have you ever seen this kind of behaviour around a penny stock?
pretty well
This is the first console I've ever been interested in actually buying. I've always refused to buy devices that don't allow you to write and install your own software (I don't count hacks on them, so this is the first console that's actually open enough to meet my criteria. The nice thing is that this makes a pretty good off the shelf home theater PC even if I never actually use it for gaming.
I've been using ExpanDrive since version 2, and I've been reasonably pleased with customer service and the pace of bug fixes/improvements (and ExpanDrive 3 is a huge improvement over 2, at least on Windows). It's a very small shop, so I can see how trying to ship two products at once would cause them problems in how much they can support either.

I really wish the documentation on the site gave a better idea of why I'd want to use this instead of/along with ExpanDrive, though.
(pointing to the statement that HN is not a support forum) + (commenting that PG should have killed the thread) = (PG is likely to kill all threads that may seem like support requests)

Given that many defenders of coinbase, including PG, are seeing support requests as criticisms, (threads that criticize coinbase = threads that seem like support requests) in their heads.

Therefore, (pointing to the statement that HN is not a support forum) + (commenting that PG should have killed the thread) = (PG is likely to kill all threads that may seem like support requests) = (PG is likely to kill all threads that criticize coinbase)
A line-by-line dissection of a writer's pposition is not an ad hominem attack. Slamming Jezebel for some supposed disposition for ad hominem is itself, ironically, an ad hominem attack.
Some gamers still prefer PS/2 if given the choice, even though there's little technical advantage. Although their most cited reason (key rollover) isn't valid; the keyboard determines how many simultaneous key presses it will transmit over USB.
Or how different doing the same approach can be with a successful, multibillion dollar company driving it.
Yes, I saw it a while ago. It is something very rare, how many videos of this kind introduces something that completely revolutionizes the way everyone uses a piece of technology?
Oh, I would love to see a michaelochurch comment on a VC video :)
> has almost a $10 million market cap

A few days ago, I was talking to my co-workers about DOGE, because I'm pretty into it. This morning, when I walked into work:

"Hey, remember how I was saying DOGE had a $2MM market cap the other day and you were laughing? Today it's $12MM. It's now the 8th biggest altcoin (and is almost 7th)."

http://coinmarketcap.com/ has the whole list of altcoins and the numbers and graphs for them, if anyone is interested in this kind of thing.

DOGE specifically has changed my entire perspective on cryptocurrency. It's incredibly interesting.
Thanks for suggesting this. I will check it out.

I just recently started using Bittorrent Sync just for the ability that I can "host" all of my own files, and not rely on S3, DropBox, etc.
Zabbix support added to Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1
Michael Noll has some really good introductory articles to Big Data, and I highly recommend his posts for anyone starting in this field.

His post on writing Python streaming programs in Hadoop - http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/writing-an-hadoop-mapr... - got me started in this area two years ago, and that's what I'm still doing these days! :)
And if you're doing that you're doing it wrong.

This whole myth of you needing vast amounts of devices to do Android testing is mysteriously propagated by those that stand to benefit from it, such as game QA companies or departments.

In reality you can do massive scale deployment with a relative handful of devices, assuming you understand what you're actually doing and not just writing stuff that's specific to whatever device you're testing on.
CentOS is not removing deprecated things and Fedora is. This is the difference here.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifconfig#Current_status

"Modern Linux distributions are in the process of deprecating ifconfig and route..."

Deliberately removing something means you don't have to maintain it any more and can spend your time improving the better tool rather than bug-fixing the legacy one.
The iphone may have had a lower resolution screen, but the performance and responsiveness of the OS and browser were the real innovations. The power of Safari as well as the way you could zoom made it a game changer for surfing the web on your phone.
Victory Passport is not Secure
I remember huge fights on mid-90s usenet about Apple's anti-open source practices, up to and including Stallman trying to prevent FSF code from being ported to System Whatever, it was so bad. (But I'm not going to go digging through 20 year old gnu.misc.discuss flamewars)
If anybody finds / does a benchmark, please link it here.
For anyone finding the verge review- http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5156446/jolla-smartpho...
Pussy Riot band members to be freed from Russian jail
Any advantages over the mature and feature rich FOSS Pydio project? I have two installs of this at work and people seem to like it. I disabled more than a few plugins to keep it simpler for end users, but its a great little piece of software.
Can Machine Learning Fix a Broken Patent System?
Palm's application launcher was very similar to the iOS Springboard.
"Who was going to buy an iPhone when virtually all websites were unusable? (remember at that time there were no apps). And who would rewrite their website to support an iPhone that nobody was buying? "

Which of course was why MobileSafari and it's "pinch-to-zoom" functionality was revolutionary - it solved the chicken-and-egg problem by not requiring a site to be rewritten (although as experience has since demonstrated, you can certainly improve the user experience by optimising for mobile devices).
The enthusiasm is infectious. I find it helpful to step back every so often and remember just how staggeringly much it is we take for granted.
This. One tech ceo can be brushed off by the administration. A room full of hand-picked ceo's all saying the same thing in unison is tough to ignore.

You have to wonder, though, whether they all were willing to spend their limited presidential currency shitting on Obama's head. I can't imagine pardon requests are something a president ever wants to entertain.
Not sure I understand the semantics. I'm passed what looks like a continuation, but instead of calling it, I yield it?

What other values can I yield, and why would I want to?

Alternatively, couldn't the `next` object just be a plain continuation?
The main thing I need for all of these is android support to upload my photos. That is literally the only thing tying me to dropbox today. I already use TC containers with stupidly long passwords for the "sensitive" stuff (i.e., my porn and ex gf pics) so I'm not overly concerned with that but dropbox strikes me as not-very-secure in general.
Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency
What the hell is a 32 bit processor doing on a simple button/light daughterboard?
My thing is is that I'm pretty damn good with PHP, so it's also fun for me to hack on, as well as being pretty damned powerful (and solid, as of v5) :)
What's better about them? Resistant screens are more accurate and pressure sensitive. Capacitive screens are...
To degree do you (a) want code examples (b) want to get intuition? (c) want to dig into the underlying math?
Huge advantage. Whip out that 5lb Model M and get to clicking. Typing on an original right now.
We (rsync.net) are big fans of git-annex[1] as well, but we are more than happy to support all of the above.

That's what's nice about this new software from expandrive - it works over plain old SFTP.

I'd like to see about a mixed use dropbox clone - where some (expert) users access it with either git-annex or the git+encfs method[1] and other users access it with this new tool from expandrive.

Remember to ask about our "HN Readers" discount ...

[1] https://raymii.org/s/articles/Set_up_your_own_truly_secure_e...

EDIT: actually simultaneously hosting strongsync and git+encfs users would be difficult since strongsync couldn't handle the encfs aspect of it, but I think we'll still test out a simultaneous git-annex / strongsync model ...
Do you have any links handy for researching how to set up or rent/buy from a vendor such a solution?
Chase sent me an text message on Monday notifying me that my card was at risk of fraud because a 3rd party merchant was compromised. Followup email said they were creating new a card for me. Your credit card company probably knows which cards were at risk. You're not liable for the fraud, so its in their best interests to sort it out.
re: 1, obviously this is true in any element of creative work. there is, of course, a line, where a creative work becomes distinctly new and reasonably un-plagiaristic even though it clearly draws upon the work of others.

in other words, pointing out copying by a copier does not make them a hypocrite, since there isn't just one definition of copying, and anyone doing creative work is by definition a copier. Apple defenders would argue that all of the other products they've built have been sufficiently innovative and improvements over their predecessors so as to make them genuinely new things. It's a hard case to make for Android if you consider iOS a predecessor to its design process, which it sounds like was rebooted upon iOS's reveal.
It does, it's right in the home page. Judging from the source, it encrypts files individually on top of Git.
For game shops, the reason they might have more is for GPU compatibility - where actual OpenGLES features can very between devices and you do have to worry about different code paths.
We are a small 5 programmer company, and we implemented a couple of ansible scripts to deploy our applications a 2-3 month project.

For us, at least, a full-time sysadmin is overkill, and I would expect any decent programmer to be able to implement this himself as part of his basic skill set, or to be able to learn it quickly.
Fingers work just as well on a resistive screen as on a capacitive screen.
Your comment was bad, like always. I hope you catch AIDS and die.
I remember reading that story. IIRC, the bug was was that long running jobs would fail. They eventually traced it to electrical interference generated by a loose floor panel that would move when the user paced over it. Also can't find the link though :(
Mocking it for the cost was especially silly considering the Motorola RAZR - a pretty but otherwise run-of-the-mill flip phone - launched at a higher price and sold like hotcakes.
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> The exhaust from your Chevy also doesn't have the "intrinsic worth" of the oil that it ultimately came from, either.

The difference between it and Bitcoin here is that no one is claiming that automotive exhaust has intrinsic worth due to the resources expended to produce it.
"nobody used capacitive touch screens because they were horribly imprecise. The iPhone included some tricks to make them less precise, but mostly they just embraced the imprecision: all tap targets on the iPhone are thumb size."

This is definitely not true today and I don't believe it was true when the iPhone was introduced either. I remember how remarkable it was that I could hit targets on unzoomed web pages accurately.
Hah - good guess, but incorrect. Coinbase reached out to me this morning from this post. They've reconciled a transaction for 10 bitcoins, but there's 2 bitcoins from an old transaction that are still "missing" despite it being marked as completed, more than a week old and the withdrawal cleared from my bank.
Any experience with their Storm, Kafka, and D3.js books?

For the first two, the communities and versions move so fast that I'd be surprised if a book could be kept up to date. (Storm just hit 0.9; Kafka is now at 0.8. I wouldn't recommend that anyone use older versions at this point.) Following the mailing lists seems to be the way to go in those cases. Anyone disagree?

With regards to D3, it seems like the online examples are prolific; it is hard to imagine a book being needed. Besides, it is more fun to tweak D3 directly.
The book "The Quantum Thief" had an interesting take on this. In one of the communities in the book reality was mediated through strict and fine-grained privacy controls (iirc at a cognitive level, all run somehow by the state.) You could agree to forget a conversation after having it, you could blur your face and mask your voice, that sort of thing.

Recommended reading, if a little difficult at times.
HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster
You actually hit the nail on the head with the regional comment. My experience in Mississippi at Home Depot and Walmart was a complete 180 from my experience in Texas. There seems to be less trust in MS.
What I'm looking for in comments is the underlying assumptions and the "why" that was flying around in the author's head when they were doing it.
The judge in his case ruled at one point that he was being illegally mistreated. What I find outrageous about that is that they only cut a small fraction of the time he had already served off of his sentence as a result. In America, such severe misconduct by the authorities is supposed to result in the defendant walking (And I say this as a person who believes that he was otherwise guilty of SOME of the charges due to his wholesale leak of 700000 files that had nothing to do with government crimes).

If we compromise our values in the name of defending freedom, there is no freedom left to defend.
Also works for sorting strings in alphabetical order.
What's the problem with pair programming?
1. "iTunes is also the preferred tool for listening to pirated music, which generates nothing for artists."

Spotify has paid out $1B in 9 years. iTunes is paying out over $1B PER QUARTER. [1]

2. Spotify also has an ARPU cap ($120/yr) - Not only do none of their competitors have this, but it is likely others will find ways to increase APRU (better video CPMs or iTunes exclusives are just a few options). This will likely make Spotify a less appealing distribution option going forward.

3. It seems implausible Spotify is the cause for reduced piracy - YouTube has 10x the content, $0 cost, no need to download an application or creating an account and has 50x the user base.

[1] - Don't worry, I'm not including app sales in this figure.
Let me introduce you to my friend Andrew Carnegie, raging asshole & builder of amongst other things the world's largest free public library system, or my other friend Howard Hughes, raging asshole and founder of one of the world's largest medical charities, or my other friend Werner von Braun, responsible both for massive civilian casualties and also bootstrapping human exploration of space.

Oh what a piece of work is man, to be able to do both good and bad things.
I disagree that the UDHR is "meaningless verbiage". It is a commonly agreed standard to which all can be held and criticised when they fall short and gain respect when it is largely achieved.

Of course it was a compromise and people might prefer some items not included but that compromise was agreed to and is what it is.

On something like privacy it says that it is a human right and that people should generally have it respected, it is useful because it make clear and explicit the wrong that the NSA have been doing at home and abroad.
I looked at OrientDB in a past job where we wanted schema flexibility but we ended up choosing Datomic instead.
n key rollover is determined by the keyboard and the connector, if the keyboard supports it and your interface is PS/2 you do get full rollover.
Compared to JavaScript, Scheme is a modern language!
No, this isn't a mind reading device. It's an open-source, chording stenography system. Instead of hitting individual keys for individual letters, you hit chords or keys, and that gets mapped to the text you (hopefully!) want.

The result is many, many fewer actions to get the same amount of text, allowing higher output speeds.

Only works on some keyboards, and there are some workarounds for some of the keyboards that don't fully support chording..
Python developers always whine about doing their best.

Node developers go home and fuck the prom queen.
I'm just pointing what's solved the problem for me, and how it can be useful for others. I'm aware there's a performance overhead.

> If you can't imagine different use profiles that make certain multi-processing paradigms better suited than others, then you shouldn't be having this discussion and should be getting more experience

Conversely, there's also a huge gain in architectural simplicity which I hope you are aware of. Though you have neither acknowledged nor disproven that yet - based on your last comment, I think this is because you are an asshole. That's not an ad hominem attack, but rather an assessment of your personality after conversing with you here.

I have tried discussing with you technically, and not acknowledging other's points, then responding with "if you can't imagine my points, I can't tell you" is not how a rational, polite adult with a technical viewpoint converses with others.
I'll probably buy a Jolla. I'm just so tired of the mainstream phone manufacturers like Sony and Samsung, it just feels like they don't care about me as a user. I've had way too many annoying problems with my Galaxy S2 because of the pre-installed apps, locked-in OS and design flaws.