skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goes to show that only 20 Million out of 430M paid the $1/year (which has something to do with it not being charged everywhere and people having a 1 year grace period and a majority of their target market having no credit card (young audience in emerging markets)).
Let's see how Zuckerberg plans to change that drastically.
Anyone who thinks Google+ has missed the boat doesn't understand Google+.

Google+ brings together:
- SMS
- Chat
- Likes (+1), on apps, youtube, websites
- Videochat / screen-sharing / helping out
- The easiest OAuth implementation (Facebook needs an App-ID), google needs nothing
- Your location information (Android)
- GMail
- Contacts (backup of your cellphone)
- SEO (their platform is OPEN for the web, while Twitter and Facebook wants to hide their information)
- Information for businesses (Google Places)
- and probably a lot more that i didn't thought about right now.
- Pictures (backup of your android phone, default tag= personal)
- Documents (Google Drive)

Now, to create a social network, what do you need and what does Google + doesn't have? Google+ is probably one of the most used communication social network... But a lot of it is going on in the backend and you don't see it on the web.. Because people don't really use it right now (they don't use it by going to Google+ and enter their message there).
blah, looked at the other c# implementations and saw you already changed the array initialisation, please ignore that part :D

Edit:
yeah, pretty much ignore me, the array initialisation for implementation 1 of F# and C# is almost incomparable to that of the C implementation; which is why the first implementations are so much slower.

If you wanted them to be more directly comparable then for C, you should have an array of pointers which you then fill with pointers to malloc'd addresses.

I should have noticed that sooner... i guess this is why you dont read code at 1am.
yes. he was missing, then falsely accused, then found dead.
And what does the end user get out of all of this exactly?
Why Bing should go sit in a corner and die
They did try to provide an open platform with Wave, which was amazing, powerful, innovative, open source and decentralized. And it failed. I wish it hadn't; I liked it a lot.
Android is based on the Linux kernel. User-land is not required to be open-source. Dalvik, Android's SDK, all user-land libraries, the whole of open-source Android is not required to be open-source. You may notice that the license is Apache 2.0, a license that's incompatible with GPL v.2 ;-)

> What is the line from Android to Bing? Does google open source google? gmail?

The line is that Bing is not core to Microsoft, but complementary, so why not open-source the technology behind it?

In fact, Bing is even less important for Microsoft, than Android is to Google, because Android for Google is their insurance that they'll stay relevant in this mobiles connected world. Without Android, Google would be at the mercy of the various walled gardens that popped into existence, a trend started by Apple ... quick question, can you set Google as your search provider on Windows Phone? Maybe you can, but I can't do it on my Nokia Lumia. There is no way to make that search button open Google and the option in IExplorer doesn't work.

Open-sourcing Bing would be great for everybody, including Microsoft, just like when Yahoo open-sourced Hadoop. Yet, they won't do it - because they are the same bastards, that's why.
(Spoiler) This is another reason why you should never use if statements without curly braces.

Thanks for the hint. It was amusing to spot the actual bug.
That sucks. I always had hoped to play with a PR-2.
In Italy we say "missed the train" :-)
I ended up with the exact same problem.

Somehow the records of my Photos folder got "lost" and completely reuploaded, all the incremental are gone. And this was not even after I adopted an old backup, just happened randomly. It reuploaded 15 GB before I saw what was going on. So now my Glacier is about double the size it needed to be.

Support responded and had me send in the logfiles. I looked over the logs and there was nothing helpful there. Sure enough support could not help me and I am left with no solution.

This kind of stuff really makes me wary about the whole software. Strangely enough the other folders did not see the same thing happen.
Chromium is open source (and Chrome is just Chromium tied into Google services).

Your point is valid though.
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Also what would be a great resource to learn c++ ?

My goal is to contribute to open-source database (like create a data-type extension(ex:hll) for postgres (iknow it's in c))
Aparrently the name is partly a reference to the tag:

>Why did Google call the new rendering engine Blink? Upson told me it’s obviously supposed to signify how the focus here is on speed and simplicity. Browser developers, however, also tend to have a tendency to have a bit of fun with their names. Chrome, for example, is all about making the “chrome” disappear as much as possible and Blink, he told me, is meant to remind people of the good old (and annoying) blink tag the Netscape Navigator introduced in the 90s. [0]

[0]: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/google-forks-webkit-and-lau...
Goto fail
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While Google is becoming or is already as bad as Microsoft this is not a good enough argument to excuse Microsoft for bullying the mobile market with the FAT patent.

I remember the J# lawsuit!

From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J++ "Some observers have remarked that this was deliberate from Microsoft, in an attempt to at least slow the advance of Sun's Java technology."
Agreed, and you can't even revoke them, they need to be active for a year.
> They are paying you to do tasks the way they want them done.

Maybe with respect to "code quality", but it would be unethical write code with blatant security flaws, even if the organization paying you says "that's just the way we do it here".
Me too!

Have you seen the UBR-1 ? Should be fairly similar and quite cheaper!
What is unbelievable about this conversation is that the question about how content creators will get paid for the content is never raised. In fact this is biggest mistake. There are questions about how app developers get their exits but not how people who create content get paid. This is the heart of the problem with the internet today, not how someone can build the next bottleneck aggregator that rides on the wave of users creativity but pays them nothing in return. Social or not.
This still isn't about Open Source but about legislating file format suppot.

> I routinely got and still getting Word/Excel documents that I can't view in MS Office on OS X or in LibreOffice in Linux, because users can't help themselves in using totally useless features and also can't be convinced to use more portable formats, because in their worldview, what could be more standard than MS Office?

That's very sad, but where does this end? I don't like PSD files, force Adobe to implement XCF?

It sets a bad precedent if government can dictate software features.

Edit: I misinterpreted the situation -- the government acting as a customer should be able to set conditions of course
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The contention in this particular discussion is that women are somehow not natural programmers. There is no evidence that testosterone levels will affect someone to the extent that they have a natural tendency to logic or programming. Hormones DO have an effect, but it's socialisation that is pressuring men and women to adopt their roles.
Where's your evidence for inherent psychological differences? There are differences in adult men and women due to their SOCIALISATION which is not an inherent property. Raise a generation of women to believe that they're useless at male-dominated jobs then they'll start to think they are!
"C++ Primer" by Lippman et al. is the best book in my opinion
http://www.amazon.co.uk/C-Primer-Stanley-B-Lippman/dp/032171...
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There is an indirect mention of open source. Microsoft argue the act of not paying for a licence will not reap any rewards, in fact it will do just the opposite, as there will be a loss of productivity.

"Modern productivity applications are not selected on the basis of the file formats they support, but on the value they provide and the personal productivity they enable. This clearly transcends the cost (or otherwise) of any license. "
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Sure but that isn't her argument. The number of studies that attempt to demonstrate some fundamental difference between the sexes vastly outnumber claims of similarity, and those disproportionate claims need to be addressed. The book goes through the studies that are touted as the most demonstrable difference in the sexes (tests on empathy) and shows how they're flawed and once you control for that flaw there is no demonstrable difference between the sexes.
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>* syntax holdups: you miss an underscore and your document is broken. All the way through. And can take an hour to fix even if you're skilled.

I'm sorry, but I just have no idea what you're talking about. I haven't encountered anything like that - not when I was starting out with LaTeX, not now when I use it for writing technical docs. "An hour to fix" smells like pure FUD to me - any mistake can take an hour, a minute, or even a week to fix. However, I can't imagine a syntax error like missing an underscore - especially one like that - could take more than a few minutes at the very most.

>PS: NeoVim sounds like someone finally got off their high horse (or from whining) and decided to actually make something better. Thanks!

I think you're a bit confused as to what exactly are the "hardcore entitled hackers" defending. Lots of systems in the UNIX ecosystem are bogged down by backward compatibility, are arcane, or just plainly in need of rewrite. Nobody disputes that. The commenters here however attack them from a completely different position, and with arguments which mostly don't hold water - so don't expect no defense.

Hackers aren't the kind of people who would cling to their tools despite them having obvious and easily mitigable flaws. After all, this post did gain a lot of traction, at this point mostly by simply presenting what would be great to do.
"better demographic targeting for ad sales"

Does Facebook really produce better demographic targetting? Facebook has more explicit knowledge about me, in that I've filled in stuff like my age and gender on my Facebook profile; but Google knows enough about my web habits that it ought to be able to work out that information and more besides (Facebook obviously also knows stuff implicitly about me from tracking Like buttons and so on, but it's not in any better position than Google in terms of implicit knowledge). Google viewing Facebook as a threat strikes me as Google having a lack of faith in its distinctive advantage (big data rather than conventional explicit demographics).
One down, one more to go. Venezuela has just shut down the Internet in some areas and they've kicked CNN out of the country:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/not-satisfied-with-blocking...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-26298133
Amen buddy. For those not around at the time the BBC Micro and the ecosystem around it (including this programme) wasn't unlike the Raspberry Pi movement today.

I got my Beeb at the age of 10 and because of it (and without any formal CS education) my entire professional life has been in software.

That said, am I right in remembering the programme was cast away to BBC2, because it just wasn't quite mainstream enough?
1. Bullshit. Out of all companies you enumerated, Microsoft is the only leech I'm seeing. Plus that's not a good enough excuse, because I couldn't give a shit about how things work in a certain market as long as it has a negative impact on me as a user or developer or on the industry as a whole.

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversie...

3. IExplorer 11 is lagging behind all other popular browsers: http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

4. Nokia's fate was sealed the minute it signed that agreement with Microsoft.

Did you know that Nokia N9, the last MeeGo/Maemo phone they released as a limited edition, was a success with raving reviews? Do you realize that almost everybody that has held a Nokia Lumia in their hand thinks that the models are awesome, including the cheaper ones, too bad it isn't on Android? And besides the phones it produced, Nokia was huge and as a result had amongst the best distribution networks and brand recognition - it wasn't too late for them to turn around, they could have been bigger than Samsung. But ALAS, that Microsoft shill had to become their CEO - and Nokia's board I'm sure got bonuses, but what about the shareholders? Not happy ...

http://thenextweb.com/eu/2012/05/04/nokia-and-execs-hit-with...
Good thread, though I can only come up with one thing.

# Good relationships are really important for your mental health
I'm not sure what reasons there could be to avoid "anything XML based" yet still favour HTML. Can you explain further, please?
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LuaTeX is exactly what you’re talking about.

LuaLaTeX is a reimplementation of PDFLaTeX on that base.

ConTeXt is a new syntax/concept based on LuaLaTeX (that doesn’t want to be compatible with LaTeX and its errors)

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That shell is unfortunately MS PowerShell. There are several approaches to do it in a way more familiar and compatible with unix shells. (some of which have been started recently, such as Final Term, and some are vaporware, such as TermKit)

And most editors are like that, some of which even have an optional vim mode for fans of that control scheme (my favourite is Kate)
If we follow your reasoning than quine itself is not possible.
Some of the animus is also related to regional/cultural tribalisms.

It's the free-wheeling multifaceted Bay Area – or more generally California – against a monolithic empire to the North, whose offerings are most popular among the crass bean-counters of the East.

Even those far away from these regions can be swept up in the same thematic framing.
Congrats, you won the "crappiest article of the interwebs" award today.
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Thats why it is on top of a major aggregation site today.
Show HN: Experimental node based web audio sequencer
More info: http://treesmovethemost.com/2014-02-19-nodation
Source code: https://github.com/szymonkaliski/nodation
Apple SSL bug: goto fail
Nope. I'm just a Ruby developer, not a security researcher :)
Word changes its layout if you plug a different printer in, never mind open documents from 1995. It was never designed to keep a consistent layout and it fails miserably in practice.
Bing is maybe the greatest tool on the internet, but your article is one of the shittiest and useless, that I'v ever read.
While this is a good development and I care about it and I'm glad to hear of it, I'm not sure that this is anything to do with Hacker News, sorry. There's not really any conceivable "hacker" or "interesting to hackers" angle to this...
Adam Langley has written up the details of the issue here:
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html
Gonna flag this. Too much Ukrainian bullshit here, sorry
Whenever I experience a bugged computer algorithm, I always feel personally slighted and in my mind I interpret this bug as a "fuck you" from the entire company that hired the programmer who wrote that code. Then I write a scathing blog post about how I'm so much in love with their competitor's computer algorithm. Yeah.
One "what" down? Democracy? I encourage you to watch this Democracy Now interview before thinking that the opposition are democrats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROTwyP5no08
New rule: if you don't even understand what the Microsoft antitrust case was about, you're not allowed to tell us that it wasn't a big deal.

Doubly so if you work for Microsoft who are currently making similar arguments against Google in Europe.

Nevermind Microsoft, I'm barely three paragraphs in and I'm forming a strong dislike of the writer due to his breezy dismissive style.
Is it insane to speculate that pressure is coming from government agencies? In a talk at Fosdem Poul-Henning Kamp talks about the pretty insane timeline with skype and how much it potentially benefited the NSA.

http://youtu.be/fwcl17Q0bpk?t=9m45s
What search results do you expect to use to find your site? "bands sxsw 2014" doesn't show your sign on google nor bing. "gig sounder sxsw 2014" lists your site at the top on both google and bing.
So are you just trying to get HN people to see your site?
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Wow. Imagine the author's blog post when something actually significant happens in his life.
And SPLCENTER is a peddler of white guilt bent on making its founders rich: http://www.centerforimmigrationtruth.org/SPLC-follow-the-mon...

How about sticking to the actual article and discussing its merits?
Seriously who wrote this article? Are you 5?
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Ah, the occasional overly aggressive rant that hits the front page.

I wonder how the phrase "Here is a small example" can lead to "Fuck you Bing, really, fuck you" in only a few paragraphs.
Cool! I like the clean interface.
Good point. I just checked that file ever since it was open-sourced in 10.8 and it stays exactly the same throughout all of 10.8.x (10.8 - 10.8.5) and only changes in 10.9. (You can check for yourself here: http://opensource.apple.com/)

It doesn't seem like what you said is the case here but obviously we're still missing changesets that may have been committed between 10.8.5 (Security-55179.13) and 10.9 (Security-55471). It'd be really interesting to do a git-blame on that file.

EDIT: Nevermind, that file wasn't open-sourced in 10.8. It's actually really old. (Look for directories starting with libsecurity_ssl in pre-10.8 OS X versions.) Didn't find anything particularly interesting in the old versions though.
May I inquire, what job made him turn down SpaceX ?
Because it's not a blatant regression, it's a complicate bug that requires a custom-patched TLS stack on the server to be explocited. As Adam Langley put it:

> A test case could have caught this, but it's difficult because it's so deep into the handshake. One needs to write a completely separate TLS stack, with lots of options for sending invalid handshakes. In Chromium we have a patched version of TLSLite to do this sort of thing but I cannot recall that we have a test case for exactly this. (Sounds like I know what my Monday morning involves if not.)
> It sets a bad precedent if government can dictate software features.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the government dictating software features for the software they want to use. If anyone doesn't want to implement a specific feature, that's totally fine. But their software won't be eligible for government use and working with official documents.

After all, it's public money and documents may better be saved in a good and properly documented format so anybody could, in theory, open them now or in the future.
I loved that programme and I loved my Model B. Serle & Mac were so easy to watch.

It was on BBC2 (then so were a bunch of great early morning Open University programmes on subjects that were way over my young head).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMWEiCdsfc

Wasn't there also a weekly Radio 4 computer programme where they'd transmit a program that you could record on tape and then load onto your computer?
Never judge a programmer by their commit history
The government is a customer of Microsoft (and other software companies). It is the government's right to set the criteria for choosing which software - or interchange format - to use. Microsoft can still sell its software to every other customer who wants it.
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"I didn't kill your Pappy, but my brother is severely wounding your sisters".
11 votes on a Saturday will do that.
IOS terms of service say you are soley responsible for validating certs
Here are some practical innovations that are usefull when i'm going out with my car.

When you lookup a bussiness in Chrome/Google on my PC, Google Now (your mobile) will suggest the navigation to this business, included with traffic delays. Just click on it (you don't have to enter an address), and it will navigate to that place. (ps. this is a less user friendly method: http://gps.about.com/od/gpsmapscharts/ht/google_garmin.htm )

Traffic delays can be calculated by people who navigate with Google Maps (or are using Google's Localisation Service).

Low Battery localisation (with WIFI) can be calculated by the combined power of collecting MAC-address by the Android platform and/or the cars that are used for Google Street View.

I can view the surroundings of where i'm going with Google Street View in my navigation app. It will ask me if this information is correct, if it's not correct. I can correct it and the business has a improved place on the Google Maps platform.. (without doing it themselves)

Google+ is not only a social network. It's an authentication system where the pk is your email, the frontend is www.google.com/+ (social network) and the backend is a collection of meta-data (big data?) that can be used to make your life easier... And on top of that big data, you have a learning skynet ;-)
Seemingly no-go in Firefox 27.0.1 - shame, I really like the idea.
> It sets a bad precedent if government can dictate software features.

They're not are they? I thought they'd just dictated that they'd chosen a standard open format for their tax payer funded documents. Seems sensible to me, there's no obligation for software companies to do anything with their features.
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Dumping PHP to use JavaScript instead? That's like moving from terrible to terrible ...
Goto lives!
These standards don't just cover 'word documents', they also cover other Office types for spreadsheets and presentations. HTML+CSS is a terrible idea for a spreadsheet standard.
Long live the goto. and the Fail.
You're right, I could have provided more details but I didn't want to write one of those long detailed posts that no one reads.

The link in the post explains my point of contention:
http://www.bing.com/blogs/webmaster/f/12248/p/668210/9698585...

Basically Bing allows you to submit a sitemap but then gives a status of pending for several days without explaining what is going on.
The answer to how do content creators get paid? Dogecoin.

Hack on that.
Have you seen Micro Men? Whimsical sort of film about the early days of Sinclair and Acorn, with some focus given to the race to manufacture the BBC's computer.
git commit -m "Always commit your changes first!"; git pull --rebase; git push

And I use tmux, it's more modern ;)

I like the syslog into irc thing, that's neat.

By the way, I recently made a commit in the Github web interface while sitting on the toilet. No posix stack required ;)
Congratulations Sam!
Good luck with what is coming next in this adventure and I hope you will continue writing on your blog.
So you're replacing a barcode with an image? Visited the site... very confused.
As seen in Micro Men - BBC Dramatisation of the business end of (some of) the 80s home computer scene in the 80s in the UK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
So a search for "gigsounder ashes" will show the relevant artist on google but not on bing.
WhatsApp didn't have "no revenue", they had a much simpler revenue stream.. But your point stands. No doubt a lot of Skype's operation costs were the business and marketing side of things.