skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you are interested in. Distinctive features:

1. It has strong focus on real multitasking (performance and design wise). Both Android and iOS are weak on that and prefer to avoid multitasking in order to gain battery life advantage.

2. It has innovative approach to UI, not being stuck in ideas developed a while ago, which hold Android and iOS back from advancing.

3. It's DRM free and aims to be privacy respecting unlike competition. It gives control over the system to the user and doesn't attempt to lock things up and make it hard to modify.

4. For those who care (developers probably more than others) - it's real glibc based Linux which gives synergy with the global Linux community. Android while using the Linux kernel is a completley different beast from libc and middleware up to the top of the stack. Mer/Sailfish on the other hand uses glibc, Wayland and other conventional Linux middleware and tools.

5. They plan to allow better participation of community in the development. Right now things aren't so open though, except the open parts Sailfish is based on (Mer Core and Nemo Mobile which are openly developed open source projects).

6. It's a startup and not some monstrous stonewalling corp with no face. So you often can communicate with Jolla directly (they even have official presence in Diaspora: https://joindiaspora.com/u/jolla) and they are interested in the community.

For more details see:

* https://sailfishos.org/about.html

* https://sailfishos.org/design.html

* https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Main_Page

* https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo
I tend to have the "comments are an apology" mindset, where I will write a comment to apologize if something is partially implemented, counter-intuitive, driven by a byzantine external requirement, or an ugly workaround to someone else's bug.

Those can totally be essential, as they will save someone (your future self, maybe) from attempting to refactor them to something simpler/cleaner that won't actually work.
Take A Long-Exposure Picture Of A Christmas Tree While Zooming Out
http://socialcoder.org I would guess from KiwiCoder's profile.
No particular reason, just giving a 2-sentence context to why I posted the link.
What do you think Jolla is?
I read through the OP, and it's convinced me to at least have a look at OrientDB. It seems interesting, though I've never used a Graph database before, let alone something like this.

I'll be honest: I've pretty much only ever used Relational databases. I've not even properly tried using Document databases (the hype just didn't overcome my laziness and inertia!). On big big projects, I just wrote the queries I needed, with a schema I defined, and let my DBA deal with the nitty gritty of it... I really should learn more about the various classes of data stores. I know enough to understand a lot of the trade offs inherent to the major types (hence why I've stuck with relational, it fits the way i think about application data, and I haven't needed Web Scale(tm) for those projects, so horizontal scaling wasn't ever an issue), so I'm really curious how this one holds up under close scrutiny, and whether I can map how I think about data to how Orient works (or whether it's way of tackling it is better enough than how I think to just embrace it's style entirely).

Anyone here have experience with it? What use case, data model, etc. what trade offs did you make, and why?
I think it is because most torrent client developers are focused on the protocol rather than the end-user experience.

Here is a tool that makes it possible to preview video/audio quality by getting the first and last .rar file: http://techzil.com/play-rar-files-without-extracting-uisng-d...
Which Nodejs Web framework is the most popular in production? There are so many choices: http://nodeframework.com/

It seems Express and Connect? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3809539/choosing-a-web-ap...
I think what made Jobs understandably furious was that the CEO of Google was on Apple's board. Not that he wouldn't have been litigious otherwise, but I think that moved it into vendetta territory.
I've been looking/waiting for an article like this ever since news of the NSA spying was released (but haven't been looking particularly hard). All of what I've seen previously discussed whether the spying has been legal/appropriate to do to US Citizens, while I've always felt it has been a bad idea regardless of citizenship.

I haven't really thought it through, but I sometimes wish that the international blowback does happen, and happens in a big way. I think the US government has betrayed the world's trust, and I would like to see repercussions. As a software engineer working in Silicon Valley for a company that sells software internationally, it would not be good for my industry. However, my country's morality compass seems to be broken, and I'd appreciate if the rest of the world helped us to get back on track.
Enterprise apps are complex and holistic. Configuration drift breaks apps. Find configuration inconsistencies across different systems.

http://www.baqbeat.com
What you're missing is that she's writing her own OS in Rust, which means that the OS functionality that Rust would normally use for that doesn't exist unless she writes it.
I'm sorry. Please accept my apology as that wasn't my intent. As a student of both writing and communication, I subscribe to the belief of that a person should write not to be understood, but to not be misunderstood. Clearly I've failed at that.

My point was that I don't think that regulation is the answer. I honed in on the idea that regulation has failed in the past (I have more research to do here) and thus, maybe alternatives should be considered. I wasn't trying to imply that because laws don't prevent criminals, that we should not have laws. Obviously, that's ludicrous. It's ludicrous because regulation != laws, or the principle of having laws. I think we can safely say that regulation may be an implementation of a law, or a specific law. Much like pizza is food, but not all food is pizza. Follow me so far? So, philosophically, if we have a bad set of laws, I wasn't suggesting that we throw out all laws, I was suggesting that we look for alternatives to the bad set of laws. To bring it home a bit more to other areas in modern society, it'd be like if I said that I think the war on drugs is failure, "tell me how the war on drugs has helped stopped drug abusers and criminals" and then you were to respond with your same response of "And laws against theft don't prevent all theft so theft should be legal." when that clearly wasn't my position.

Does this clear up my position a bit? Anyways, sorry I came off as a jerk.
App Wars: Who buys the most, and why?
Here's the problem with recognizing "human rights" in a "modern globalized context." They're either meaningless verbiage, as the UDHR are, or enforceable norms, which presuppose some "modern globalized" body with the power to enforce norms.

I disagree that in the long run, people will find it so imperative to respect a universal set of "human rights" that they will be willing to give up autonomy to submit to international norms to enforce those rights. Yes, the arc of history trends towards greater recognition of rights. But it also shows that groups of like minded people always struggle for autonomy. Nationalist movements are just as common in history as civil rights movements.

Consider the UDHR itself. Most things in there are things Americans can agree with. But take Article 24 (right to holidays with pay), Article 25 (right to healthcare and housing), Article 26 (right to education), Article 27(2) (right to copyright protection). A lot of people, all over the world, would find calling one or more of these things "human rights" utterly ridiculous. You think they'd be in favor of giving up the autonomy of their countries to decide for themselves what social norms to adhere to, so as to elevate to an exalted status a set of norms determined mostly by other people?
Hopefully we've evolved to the point where we can reject any dogmatic approach and realize that there exists certain good practices that can be applied - but it depends on the environment we find ourselves in, size and makeup of available team, timeframe, existing rules we have to adhere to for the particular project etc.. No silver bullet, but we rehash these debates endlessly.
Strongsync also has full dedup and integration with filesystem monitoring on multiple platforms.
>I think Steve Jobs was probably justified in his furious reaction to Android.

iOS was more of a copy of palm (which in turn was a copy of Newton..) than android was a copy of iOS.

The biggest innovation was realizing capactive screens made things much nicer, and made browsing possible. But it is hard to fault Google for copying their browser when Apple themselves based it on LGPLed KHTML; the license dictates that they share.
"how did Apple get out of that?"

They include an adapter in Europe.
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Great work.

ps. The hardware structure design of the NMP is great, but WHY THE HELL apple make it a cylender? And WHY it is black and glossy, differ from any other Apple hardware.
With PHP, Python, Ruby and Javascript... space seems tight for another scripting language.

That's an ironic statement, since Perl came first and was absolutely dominant in the domains which PHP, Python, Ruby, and Javascript now occupy. When they were young, it would have been reasonable to say that space seems tight for another scripting language because we had Perl.

Languages like Lua have something special. What's special about Perl?

What's special about Lua? That's a four-word question that could require a huge response. Lua's a nice little embeddable scripting language, but that's a niche that Perl has occupied too. It's got fantastic support for both being embedded (callable from other languages) and embedding (able to call other languages). You might say that Lua's better because it's smaller and cleaner and simpler, but that's only true until you run into Lua not being powerful enough for something you want to do. If you used Perl as your embedded scripting language instead, you probably wouldn't have that problem. (Other problems, maybe, but not a lack of power.)
I'll just leave this here.

https://plus.google.com/+LaurentBossavit/posts/VBJTGru3PeW

Or this.

http://leanpub.com/leprechauns
Does anyone remember Infinium Labs and the Phantom[1]? I'm not at all trying to make vaporware accusations. I just can't believe it's been 10 years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment
I bought a Packt book (or go it free on some discount thing) and it wasn't too bad.

I got the impression that the quality of any given Packt book would be up to the author, that Packt was OK with releasing sub-par technical works.

Caveat emptor.
I think the problem is the word "copied", it always comes with a whiff of "and hence worthless".
This remains as true as it ever was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
beautiful... almost makes me want to buy a mac pro to use as an actual trash can. :)

except i'm not wealthy enough to ever consider buying one anyway... XD
Indeed. Perl does have Jifty and Gantry which do have out of the box support for the M part of MVC, but for whatever reasons they never became as popular as Django/Rails.
How were they capturing the CVV? It's not in the magnetic stripe and you don't hand your card to anyone to check-out. Bad news for them though because storing the CVV in any manner is very much against the rules.
It says €399.00, but then €414.00 for tax and shipping in Europe.

I changed from "Ah, same as a Nexus 5" to "Wow, that's two Nexus 4!".
That link, and the mere fact it exists, contradicts your point. Irregardless is a word [...]

Irregardless, it's not about being grammatically correct, but being socially accepted and understood; just like slang and broken grammar that develops in subcultures, it ain't no goin anywhere!
Heyyy, if torture was "regulated" by Congress, The President and his military commanders, I guess it would be alright?
I get an ~monthly email asking about producing d3 content for them. For what they're offering it really doesn't make any sense lock what I have time to write or make in a book only a few people will read.
I was surprised by the fact that it was an "internet phone". They didn't even talk about apps really. Just a few "widgets", like Google Maps.

The native, installed apps were just a by-product.
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So what would be the advantage over Dropbox? Storage price? It is not a big issue for me personally.

Basically what I want is the Dropbox clone with client side encryption, with open-source client that is able to work either with proprietary servers or (better yet), open-source server and/or with S3 and other backends.

Edit: I'll check out SparkleShare!
> * they were less interested in "changing the paradigm of mobile UX" than in killing the Real Fragmentation that existed before, with each OEM having its own OS, and unifying them under the open source Android.*

The article alludes to this, but I think at the time Google wasn't interested in killing "real fragmentation" so much as killing the carrier control that was stopping them from pushing search and ads to mobile.

When it came to negotiating with carriers, Apple had a huge advantage. They had a strong hardware brand, and the iPhone was exciting. Google didn't have that. When they went to talk to AT&T, Telefonica, Verizon, Vodafone, etc, to get Google services onto devices those companies were basically holding them to ransom. And quite rightly Google though: "hey, rather than spending all our money getting carriers to promote our services let's spend it making something carriers will want from us".
Seems particularly obvious given this audience. You do know that submissions without URLs are punished in the rankings, making it less likely to reach the front page, and hence less likely to get much attention, yes?

It's also less likely to get readers, because it isn't a clickable link.
RUP and UML happened around the same time as XP, in 1998, but it was the culmination of a decade of so-called "object oriented methodologies" being discussed between Booch, Rumbaugh, and Jacobsen. The latter coined the term "use case" in his method. RUP and UML combined the three approaches and modelling notations (I'd say 70% Rumbaugh, 20% Booch, 10% Jacobsen)
Are there any new Perl jobs in 2014?

Is there growth in the actual number of Perl full-time positions or is it declining?

Companies obviously need Perl programmers to maintain and enhance existing systems, but we don't see or hear about any new start-ups using Perl as part of their stack.

Fwiw: I don't use Perl anymore but was a fan and love Moose and CPAN.
> The guilt and shame is so spot on

Absolutely. If the waterfall isn't working, you need to waterfall harder. Because more time spent up front writing paper architectures and guesswork requirements is what's needed!
Or iTunes.
>realizing capactive screens made things much nicer

In what way? Inaccuracy and the inability to use a stylus or wear gloves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66RBfrBgL2E

edit: surprised at the downvotes. Is there a capacitive screen even remotely comparable to the accuracy and pressure response of a 4 year old resistant N900? I'm open to examples.
oh, don't get me wrong i've worked in that environment, but its just a natural naive way of doing things - dignifying it with a name seems to be something that happened later
Interesting idea, but your site lacks details. Vague blurbs with no real information about what's going on always turns me away.
What is the point of bringing that up here?
I don't care too much for gaming, but I'm in the market for a CUDA box, and this looks pretty much ideal...
Problem: I have free time, a smartphone, and a hatred for pigs, and wish to combine those things together?
Endurance athletes, mainly triathletes, find it difficult to find one place to find races to participate in. (https://www.competehub.com/)
I would think overhead would be the 7.3% cited on Charity Navigator and the 22% fund raising would be separate. Maybe that 22% will really pay off in the future. If Bill likes them though they can't be doing too bad.
Nice, reminds me of this funny Mac Pro parody [1].

[1] [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wShNx6cdk_8
You will need one to mine Valve's hatcoins
IPhone doesn’t allow you to change the default hotspot name easily
QNotify - a Qt C++ notification framework
Is there no Bitcoin theft?
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So, over time, chicks unrelated to each other began to not peck at a given object as much, given a negative stimulus. Results aren't really in question, it's the "oh, they're all psychically linked" that's pretty much in question. There are multitude of other explanations possible, including involuntary corruption of the test by the experimenter (see also: the 'counting' horse that was actually responding to visual cues from its trainer, and not actually counting).

See also: Venkman and the pretty girl at the beginning of Ghostbusters

I tried to find instances of other scientists

Morphic resonance (and the 'morphogenic field') is an old idea from before we even knew about chromosomes, let alone DNA: it's a lot like how homeopathy was a big thing until we kind of figured out that bacteria caused disease.. A low statistical correlation with no corresponding replication with a high probability of accidental corruption by the original experimenter does not a compelling argument make.

Your 'unbiased look' at the event is by the guy himself. I don't think that really counts..
The variation of opinion across the U.S. is at least as big as the variation across the planet. Just watch Louis Theroux's documentaries to see the evidence of this. You have extremist thinkers in any country. That is why we have democracy and political parties, to find compromise through negotiation, and why we have constitutions and courts of law to uphold them, to ensure basic rights cannot be trampled with the shifting of the political winds. The scale at which you apply democracy and constitutional rights doesn't really matter, except that it is unfair to apply it unequally.

Now, I know what you're thinking. Can you take iran and israel and make one country out of them? What a ridiculous idea, it would only end in bloodshed. Here's the thing that's ridiculous to me: that we tolerate it when countries deny people their human rights because it happens inside their borders. Team America, World Police, right? Well, despite being a European I'm all for that if it means we finally get rid of human rights violations. It's not ok to deny women their human rights, so Iranians must eventually comply with that or face consequences before a court of law. Similarly it's not ok for Israelis and Palestinians to deny each other their human rights, so eventually they must comply with that or face consequences before a court of law.

The way I see it, the discussion is not about what needs to be done, only on when it will come about. Economically, we've already formed frameworks that span the globe, like the WTO and IMF, and we have somehow managed to bring everyone into a single unified economic theory, even the communists. Now we just need to do the same thing for the other half of what governments do and unify the social theory.
a coworker got into the beta and I got to play with the controller for a little bit yesterday. I really like the concept of the touch pads, especially as a big FPS person. Analog sticks just can't compare to a mouse, but the touch pad will make me consider switching some gaming to the living room. http://twitpic.com/dp50dp
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Thank you, that's really useful.
> We have a few other competitors targeting the high-end of the freelancer market, but that's still open territory.

Could you please name a few?
Reminds me of my favorite webcomic Opplopolis http://www.opplopolis.com both in the sales model and the theme, except that Opplopolis is free-to-read online with a higher-quality paid download option, and it takes a while before the ubiquitous surveillance theme emerges. Even when it does it's still very covert and mysterious e.g. http://www.opplopolis.com/issues/9/15

Very cool, though.
> we do not live under world government where sovereign nations are subject to international legal restrictions

There is no need for "world government". For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_...

You know, if human rights didn't transcend nations they probably wouldn't be called that way.

And don't US constitution and laws also have things in them that apply to all people, period? Honest question, I don't know in detail; but I do know "you" signed the above -- sure it's not enforcable, but that doesn't give you the moral high ground, too.
Think affiliate marketing, or niche product creation (targeted ebooks and the like), that require a bit of upfront effort, but little ongoing maintenance, and can scale out to many of these products/revenue streams. Lots of ongoing small hits, rather than one big payoff for one big product :)
I'd say Strongsync is easier to set up because there's no server to set up (if you use S3). SparkleShare requires a remote git repository on a server somewhere.
Is there anything wrong with exposing them to how things are created? Admittedly programming involves a massive level of abstraction but it needn't be C or Javascript. Even if they don't do it, its good to let them know its possible.
Comma first is a great convention, it allows you to easily comment out an item in a list while debugging. for example:

var test = [
"firstitem"
, "seconditem"
//, "thriditem_commented_out"
//, "fourthitem_should_also_be_commented_out"
]

Otherwise you have to do this:

var test = [
"firstitem",
"seconditem"//,
//"thriditem",
//"fourthitem"
]

It's just a lot more cognitive overhead to not put the comma first.
EPA's fake spy gets 32 months in prison
Client side encryption is coming [in beta] soon.
Might as well be the "standard" spec for a good 5+ years (see how long the xbox360 & ps3 stayed in production: 7-8 years), and prices for pc hardware drop quickly.
It happened to me recently, but it was my paycheck. Googling around, it seems to be something that happens with ACH transactions somewhat rarely, but it does seem to happen.
Check your URL. Perhaps you're looking for news.learningram.com?
That GPU is 3x faster than the one in Xbox One. Also, if you cared so much about performance/price, you should've gotten a PS4, which has a performance to price ratio of 1.8:1 compared to the Xbox One (1.8 Gflops/$400 vs 1.2 Gflops/$500), and you can play all games at 1080p.
Always knew Balmer was a goof - however this one will go down in history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

The best part is when he goes over the "checklist" of features their phones have.. it'll do email! - quality products are more about checklists of features, something Microsoft still does not get.
Wise policy. I keep getting tempted by that dark world, though. The subject matter I was working on was awesome (real-time radar signal processing) and I had a great 60/40 balance of EE/CS knowledge focus. I can't find any jobs like that out in the real world, though. Everyone out there seems to want either a CS expert or an EE expert, not a hybrid.
It didn't make sense to talk about apps, because there were no third-party apps at the time.
Could you explain what features or aspects made it quicker to get up and running with? I love Python and have never worked with a language that I felt let me get features out so quickly. Do you feel you've sacrificed readability as well? I've heard Perl is notorious for having a million ways to do everything, making reading it hard.
This looks interesting. Are you going to launch with private messaging, and then move to private audio/video calls?

Quick recommendation: I'd recommend an email signup form. I (personally) would be interested in knowing when you launch.