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> How will Microsoft not be able to develop Mobile Office for Android?

Easily. My first thought on seeing the specs on those devices is that they are trying to position the Android offering as the cheap option: something for peopel who can't afford a proper phone. Want Office and the other big boy's toys? Then buy one of our Windows based devices instead.

> How are Microsoft going to be able to maintain two mobile OSs?

They already do: while it looks like the Symbian based OS is officially dead, as are other alternatives like meego, "feature phones" from Nokia (such as the Asha range) are still being released based around the old S40 OS. Perhaps they are looking to retire this and see Android as an inexpensive way forward, that way someone else is developing the core OS and they just need to provide drivers and device specific tweaks (and an app store & such if not licensing Google's parts). There is certainly a project out there working on smoothly running apps targeting the S40 on Linux based devices (IIRC not funcded by Nokia, but the existence of the project indicatesit is possible) which would smooth the replacement.

They have to have a cheaper alternative to the WP devices unless they can release a WP device that can compete price-wise in those markets without diminishing the appearance of the more expensive kit or they lose the "chep-nokia-to-expensive-nokia upgrade path: people with another cheap Andoird device won't have any Nokia brand loyalty so they would be competing entirely directly with high-end Android and iOS devices in that instance and they need something to try make the move to WP more attractive than a move to iOS at that point because the public perception of WP8 is far behind that of Apple (and depending on who you talk to, high-end Android).

> Are Nokia going to see this through?

That is the big question, though the answer probably doesn't really matter to smartphone users. If my guesses about the positioning thing and S40 replacement are right then they'll need to keep it going a while at least, but with the other competition around in the Android market it'll only ever fool the stupid anyway. And from the point of view of "feature phones", that is business as usual.
Not when the media monopoly is taking almost all of your revenue in "license" fees

Netflix does not really make that much in profit. I see a rate hike coming soon
Nice quotes:
"It's looking good! I haven't had a proper look yet though ... it's late, plus I'm drunk"
"It's looking good! I haven't had a proper look yet though ... it's early, I just got up, plus I'm drunk"

In both "I'm drunk"... :D
I don't think Perl 6 is a dead end. Far from it. From what I know is that its nearly feature complete. A small set of features remain, but those are only like what should be added for completeness sake.

Bulk of the effort is in developing MoarVM, which is likely to become a suitable replacement for Parrot. Documentation, Speed and standard libraries remain as open issues. Of which last I heard was Larry Wall was writing a Camel book equivalent for Perl 6. So its mainly speed and standard libraries.

I would give end of next year, by the time its ready for prime time.
I wasn't talking about individuals, instead the company and where it is based at.
Most libertarians are pro-police and pro-state. For a lot of them, the police and the courts are the only government bodies they support
Tie Fighter was marvellous. All in 3 floppy disks if I remember correctly.
Full disclosure: I work for Qubit who published this white paper.

This kind of "historical testing" (I think people often call it sequential testing?) can be pretty dangerous even for large effects. For example Christmas might be a really good time to change the colour of all the buttons on your site and see a 50% increase in sales.
Bitcoin for Africe would require a lite-client implemented in J2ME. Afaik not available so far.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103290.0

Edit: Also, p2p in general sucks, if you have no reliable internet, power outages, and low connectivity.
No. They implemented forward error correction, which is a proper thing not supported by TCP.
If my car's system had the same track record and fundamental flaws as the climate models commonly cited, I would be inclined to ignore it. By track record I mean predicting a 3 degree C increase per doubling of CO2 and experience showing only half of that. The fundamental flaw is the assumption that positive feedback effects will triple the 1 degree C per doubling CO2 greenhouse effect, when these feedback effects (clouds and water vapour) are so difficult to model correctly.

Pretty sure the time lag of decades for temperature increase is simply false. Most of these models were predicting temperature increases since 1998 which haven't happened.

Finally, I probably would consider not braking at all if I couldn't possibly come close to stopping in time to prevent a fatal impact. If you really think a 3-6 degree C temperature increase is coming, the only thing that is going to do anything is something like a 50% drop in fossil fuel consumption. The world can't even agree on a 10% cut that won't do anything. EDIT: That's why I think these are really anti-peak oil policies, because a 10% cut actually helps there.
Is the Internet good or bad? Yes.
So we may rephrase this as 'why nobody else talks about this?'
Ask HN: How can Apple safely upgrade a OS when the update app itself is broken?
Will Apple send USB flash drives to all customers?
Costs will be passed along on the netflix side

Savings(if any) will not be passed along on the comcast side

Personally I do not believe there will be any real saving for comcast in the first place, so there is nothing to pass along, it is 100% profit for them
And obviously practicality can get in the way.
80 character lines will be a nightmare in a java-project with verbose naming schemes (FactoryFactoryObjectThingymybobProducer thingy = new FactoryFactoryObjectThingymybobProducer(..);).
The LA Times is a major US news outlet which reported it: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-polio-like-paral... .

It's being distributed through the AP. There are 18 newspapers listed on Google News which reported on this in the last 24 hours: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0... .

For what it's worth, West Nile virus can cause polio-like paralysis( http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140211-west-nile-trig... and http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/02/the-l... ).
You aren't buying directly from Gox, it's an exchange. You can buy 10x more bitcoins with your money, but you're buying from people who have lost confidence in the exchange and believe they are more likely to get their USD out than their bitcoins.

MtGox should be full reserve, that is, they should be holding 100% of all user's bitcoins and fiat deposits, only skimming off the exchange fees.
What exactly is the function of untrusted peers? Speed up the sync?
Microsoft is a kernel contributor, and Android isn't really linux

http://go.linuxfoundation.org/who-writes-linux-2012
I meant Celsius, but see my edit - I have to revise that guess. Given that +6 degree C will probably cause runaway warming processes to initiate (which I wasn't thinking about before), surviving for even a few more centuries suddenly becomes a tough order.
Martin gave this paper as a talk at our PyData London conference this weekend (thanks Martin!), videos will be linked once we have them. He shares hard-won lessons and good advice. Here's my write-up: http://ianozsvald.com/2014/02/24/pydatalondon-2014/
The issue at hand is that Gox has allegedly lost BTC due to double-payouts as a result of the malleable transaction. So if the price of BTC on Gox is super low, Gox could decide that it's better to change the ledger such that instead of 10 BTC a person has $1000, instead of having to buy 10 BTC at the market price (~$10 000) and use that to reimburse the person.

(Granted, considering how much trouble they were having before with USD being frozen, I can't imagine that this is a feasible move for Gox at the moment.)
Installing Google Play on this should be trivial anyway, what's the big deal?

The problem is that it's another iphone lookalike.

I WANT A DAMN KEYBOARD!
"curated by hand" - that's redundant. You could simply write "hand-picked" or "curated", although the latter is definitely more of a buzzword these days.
Under what mechanism is it decided that this particular post becomes visible on Hacker News? Does it simply mean that one user with high karma liked the post? The 80 character rule is in programming over and over again and I didn't find anything new in the article...
The boats in this article are moored about 1/4 mile from where I am right now. This particular riverbank is owned by the council - it's essentially a strip of parkland. As far as I understand, mooring is free, but you're not supposed to stay more than a few days. Certainly not the years this small floating shanty town has been growing there. That's why the article mentioned that the council has been taking legal action to move these boats on.
No shit Sherlock. Its been happening for years.
It's hard to admit there's something wrong with oneself. Physical problems are easier than mental ones, but it's still not a pleasant admission. (Probably makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, where medical care wasn't available, and it was valuable to be able to affect being ok even when one wasn't)
Good Read
Who cares? It's about the "safe" feeling for 99% of Apple's customers, so if FOX says we're safe now with the update installed...
Cheat your way to running CLJS on Node
Where's iMessage for Android?
Something like under £20k after tax is "war economy living conditions" in London.
I have seen this more than 10 times. Why this posted again?
What... That sounds surreal. He was honking for no reason? Was he aware he was doing it?
The information on how to configure emacs to highlight lines that are too long was new to me.

I presume it is on the front page because it has got several up votes in its first half hour.
There are people who act like they believe that.
80 is too few. The old reason for it (what if you get stuck doing an emergency bugfix using vi on an 80 char display?!?) no longer holds.

It's not massively too few, and most lines never get close to the limit anyway, but the odd line of 100-120 thrown in really isn't a problem on a modern display.
Before we start I'd like to point out that I have a few cans of mauve paint going spare.
80 chars is a useful rule of thumb, so long as it's tempered by practicality. I've worked on projects where the limit was taken far too literally, which results in code that's harder to read.

This is especially true if you're using something verbose (Java, Objective-C) or whitespace-sensitive (Python).
Their agenda here is completely reasonable. Successive UK governments have failed to address a crisis in housing.

Yes, a crisis.
This resonates pretty well with me due to my current role in an organization. Did anyone own the execution side of the project to hold the designers accountable for late deliverables?
I can understand expecting MPs to live in their constituency, and also that they need some London accommodation. If you're proposing it could work like a university halls of residence, I agree with that. My thinking with a per diem is any change would need MPs support, and they'd go for a per diem more easily than a cut in their benefits, however deserved it may be.

The origin of paying MPs was in the Chartist movement [1] - back when MPs were unpaid, no-one who relied on a salary to feed their family could get into parliament; only rich landowners who didn't have to work for their income could afford to be MPs. The intent of paying MPs is to allow working class and middle class people to stand for election.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartism
Android isn't really linux? Please expand.
I can't find the link, but I remember a few talks about Perl 6 Grammars which were very interesting both in the eDSL structure and the fact that Perl 6 was built on top of them. I think it was Damian Conway speaking but I'm not sure anymore.
Apparently so. Here are some articles on the subject in more trustworthy publications:

Süddeutsche Zeitung: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/us-geheimdienste-nsa-uebe...

Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article125122483/Nach...

TAZ: http://taz.de/Ueberwachung-durch-US-Geheimdienst/!133621/
Sure, but for people who had 100BTC in their Gox account that was worth $100000 and is now worth $10000 that's much cheaper for Gox to return. If the balances in Gox accounts in BTC are higher than the balances in $, and/or most of Gox's own assets are in $, then it's in their interests for the BTC price to be lower.
Wouldn't something like Dropbox (or some kind of hacky rsync/shellscript/cron replacement) be more appropriate for that? Usually you don't want to version your configuration files; you just want them to be the same in all places. And with a repository I still have to think about committing, pushing and pulling.
4. Mt Gox is no longer liquid because the Feds have their (encrypted) wallet

(ok, this is probably a bit too far down the conspiracy path)
Basically yes. "Going green" increases energy prices and thus comes with a disadvantage regarding the cost of production/doing business. This cost is proportional to the relative offset to the global energy prices caused by green energy.

So if the shale gas revolution drags down energy prices, it becomes politically harder to maintain the "go green" plan over here.
Do you know where that table came from originally? I'd be interested to read a fuller report so if/when I resent those figures to anyone else I can answer any pertenant questions that come up.
Very helpful and well written article.
I remember when Nokia phones were crushing their opponents in terms of user experience, despite the incredible amount of devices they offered. The one-in-all blue button was remarkable. There were no OS, just different brands.

Nokia failed to make the leap to smartphones though. I still believe they were the only company capable of competing with the iPhone by delivering a hardware/software combo, but sadly failed to do so.
sigh, no. When the author says "p-value cutoff", this refers to the significance level. I interpreted this correctly.
It's not like it runs Linux now, is it? ;)
Thank you! Those multiple-page madness is even more rageworthy when using an adblocker.
template-haskell comes with GHC. If your OS doesn't include it in its GHC package, it should be provided in a separate package.

For that matter, the Haskell Platform is hopefully packaged for your OS: install that and don't worry about installing GHC, template-haskell, cabal, etc separately.
Github activity points to 64-bit Android, but there’s a long road ahead
He is mocking the way MtGox tried to pass the buck for their inability to deal with the malleability issue to Bitcoin core developers.
Yap, and PvZ2 can't be ported to AOSP because it uses GMS API's
Does your spose stop you getting a train or a tube to work as well?

No, but that makes little difference in practice, because savings on property are rapidly eaten up by transport costs and additional commute times.
It might have privacy issues, though. Say you copy the HN logo to your server, and then serve it with an hash. You can then tell if the person has visited HN by seeing if their browser asks for the logo.
Nexe – create a single executable out of your Node.js apps
Sorry, but I don't understand how Bayesian statistics could possibly solve the problems described here.

Sometimes bad scenarios will get good results, by luck, and sometimes good scenarios will get bad results, by luck.

Using more advanced statistical methods doesn't change that these cases are fundamentally indistinguishable.
The "mixing with local cultures" is a process that took centuries, and in cultures already connected to similar tenets and beliefs.

It was not a case of "I saw a documentary/bought a manual on budhism, I am so zen now" while shopping stuff from Whole Foods.
I'm just sharing someone else's comment. The idea that the rich like to get richer and make the poor, poorer is pretty commonly thought.
Agree with you,

Without business motive, they hardly do anything :)
Should I move my BTC to a different exchange? Which one would you suggest?
In my opinion the 80 character limit is mostly for better presentability. If the code appears in a blog post or a book, it is better to read and typeset if it is less than 80 characters. Though there are several articles[1] which explain other reasons for this legacy limitation.

I would be happy to read code more than 80 characters, if it doesn't have to be artificially cut into multiple lines (the screenshot in the post is a pretty good example). In fact, I find 80 characters too less and often set Emacs to use 100 characters as the limit.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/903754/do-you-still-limit...
I don't think that Julia is targeted only for scientific computing.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17433435/what-makes-julia...
Nokia X runs Android 4.1, not 4.4
I think this post was upvoted because the tip is easily among the top 10 advice that can be given to aspiring programmers. Forcing yourself to write short lines forces you to decompose code which in turn lets you see the patterns you are working with which you then can refactor. Long lines, deeply nested code blocks and code duplication. Those traits tend to cluster together and are a sign of inexperience imnsho.
If they have banking problems it has nothing to do with banks ability, but about banks willingness. International banking can be difficult, and almost all of that difficulty is about banks worried about fraud and money laundering. E.g. I remember trying to pay someone in Russia for some work some years back, only to find out my bank considered the Russian bank "too risky", and I had to transfer money via the Russian banks account in some US bank. When you're trying to be an exchange for a currency not supported by any government, I'm sure that's raised a ton of red flags in a lot of banks.

Note I'm not saying that is sufficient to explain MtGox's current predicament, but there's also every reason to assume that they have some degree of banking problems.
Alright, there is no inherent purpose (something I always say to others and here I am giving the opposite impression :) but if we agree that things 'are' because they sustain some abstract structure in some context then can't we allow saying 'to sustain' is a problem to solve ? and if the context is very diverse thus high in complexity. And as we lack information, the observed structure will elude our understanding, 'complex for us'. From my very limited point of view, I'd believe nature follow some sort of simplest path possible (~lagrangian) law, hence my 'simple for nature' expression.

Feel free to correct me further.
No we aren't, this is just melodrama...

https all the filters stop working.

VPN all the filters stop working.

Use Tor all the filters stop working.

So we aren't allowed to put big billboards up in public with hardcore porn on them... that is not the end of free speech though, that's just the end of billboards with hardcore porn on them.

Even if you put all that aside:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship#Around_the_...

There is a heap of green on that map.

In the next 5 years, I'll still be able to send you whatever information I like, and I'll still be able to ensure you are the only person who can receive it, and that no body else will be able to receive it for ~100 or so years (depending on how encryption develops)...
>You can also get up and leave the coffee shop.

Has more friction. And why would you leave the coffee shop? These people LIKE to work in those.

>...or you could just go home and save yourself the trouble.

If you're the kind of person who is productive and/or enjoys being at home all day, yes.
Despite the "still under construction" message, the lib is (pretty) stable. It's already used in an app of mine and in this other app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alware.clo...

Anyway, I'd be happy to provide support if you want to use it.
The example was contrived to prove the point. I agree that the specifics of the Scenario would be indicative of poor practice in other areas, but that doesn't change the fact that the markup should be semantic.
The coding style is archaic in every way possible. Most things seem to be coded "in-line" instead of being compartmentalized. This coding style shouldn't be used past a few thousand lines of code, no wonder it is hard to improve upon it.

In a way, it's like a direct application of the style in /The C Programming Language/.
Yes, this one writes for Ars Technica.
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Hey Carlo! Kompliment für das neue Design von neues-aus-der-zukunft.de - wird immer chicer!
I'm not seeing why they need to turn the switch ON twice. Couldn't they flip the switch only once and have the counter wait for <number of prisoners> ONs (N - 1 + 1)?
I don't know about the gofix tool, but I sure believe the language needs a standard gofmt tool before it's 1.0.

It saves the Go community so much bikeshedding and BS, and I've never seen anyone (except an insignificant minority bent on "freedom of expression" on their brace style) not like it.
I'm glad we talk about this. Once we have solved this question we can move on to really important stuff, like tabs vs spaces.
I'd quite happily pay an extra £70 a month if only to get a flushing toilet and a room that doesn't drip water onto my head.
Firstly Nottingham is fine and there's plenty to do there. But you have places like Bristol, Bath or Manchester where life and especially housing is much cheaper than in London and they have a lot to offer. Personally I like Liverpool as well, Edinburgh, even Newcastle, but for some reason they are not popular and they are deemed as insecure (when in reality, living in a dump in the East end in London is definitely more insecure than living in a cheaper place up North, South-West, Wales, etc anywhere but London and the South-East).

This "London or bust" mentality is not only ignorant - there's a lot to the UK other than London - it's financial suicide for people on low salaries.

> I remember at the beginning of my career I was living in London on a £25K salary for two years and I was just fine. Don't be elitist.

Firstly, I don't know when this was but now you are definitely poor on that salary here in London. And if you have the choice to make a similar salary elsewhere then it's absurd not to do it because of some "The Secret of my Success" pipe dream. You can always move to London later in your career.

Secondly, I'm not saying people shouldn't be allowed to make absurd decisions. I'm just calling them what they are.

The rent differential alone is higher than the pay differential let alone all the remaining living costs. At the same time, many jobs don't pay more than in other places and yet there are flocks of people coming to do these. Their hardship is the direct result of their poor decision making.
Related: See using GNU Stow for the same result

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6331485

http://taihen.org/managing-dotfiles-with-gnu-stow/
It's about putting Rust in perspective and learning about alternatives.

The same way when a critic reviews a movie, he also mentions and compares to other movies.
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Um... Puppet/Chef/Ansible/CFEngine/Bcfg?
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Maybe because Windows Phone can't run on low spec hardware and MS would like to capture the emerging markets.