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Nokia said this already that their strategy for these phones is to serve as a feeder to higher end Lumia. Making cheap Windows Phones like the 520 was relatively successful I thought. So its interesting why they chose to go android route. Because if all its customers cared about was a trusted brand then Nokia could have offered that with a phone similar to the 520.
oh I see - thanks for that, interesting stuff
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Bitcoin is an open network that exhibits resilience and anti-fragility
Good point but I have to say these reasons don't really apply to me.

1. We have a local doctors surgery which has offices for around 5 GP's and 2 nurses. You can request an appointment with a specific one but most people just take whoever is available soonest. Although I've come across a few bad doctors for the most part people seem to trust the system to weed them out.

2/3. For me this means calling a number and asking for the next available appointment. If work is a problem they have a few nights where they work late and you can request the next available appointment on a late night. No need to take time off unless it's imperative you get seen quickly.

4. This is true but I find with an appointment that hasn't been arranged last minute I get seen within 10 minutes of turning up.

NB: I'm in the UK so obviously there are differences to how the systems we're both describing work.
This will likely further integrate into IBM's SoftLayer platform. The SoftLayer API already integrates with Cloudant, perhaps this means that all Cloudant compute would migrate to the SoftLayer bare metal server infrastructure. This essentially adds dedicated hardware, global footprint for data distribution, and SLA far in excess than what you can get with something like AWS Dynamo.
Having read the article, I'm pretty sure that person is #2 :)
The text in the info section was updated in the past few days, that is the interesting part not the old video. The guy in the video is an investor in Gox so he would be in a better position than most to know what is really going on.
To remove all doubt, your interpretation of the statistics is incorrect. In particular this sentence is demonstrably false: "They are directionally correct, [...] the business will still do better implementing the variation (v/s not doing anything)."
Is there a reason Skype and soon WhatsApp can do this, but Voice needs to connect through a phone? I might guess antiquated taxes or, more likely deals with carriers, because I can make calls with gmail from my laptop after all.
Good thing then that they aren't rewriting vim.
I like this. Reminds me a (tiny) bit of Bruce Nauman's "One Hundred Live and Die": http://www.art21.org/images/bruce-nauman/one-hundred-live-an...
What Does a Degree in Architecture Have to Do with Web Design and Development?
An introduction to transients in WordPress
I'm afraid that the latest release on RubyInstaller is 2.0.0-p353 (Nov 2013)
I think we can safely assume that two to four billion unique users for a single deployment of some software that originally had a small user count and only four billion unique public network identifications are at a completely different level of risk for happening.
Many judges have already said Bitcoin is money.
> EST

Also EDT. :)

I usually just write ET to mean both. (And CT, MT, PT, etc.)

Yeah I'm being picky. It's a pet peeve. Sorry.

Edit: After a downvote -- actually, I'm not sorry anymore for pointing this out. Roughly half the year there is no such thing as EST. Think that's picky? Bite me. (Note that I didn't grammar police their use of "vary" instead of "very".)
You might like https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions
There isn't very much fuel in the reactor at a given time, and the reaction only happens in the very center. If the containment fails, the material will just continue in a straight line instead of being redirected to the center, and it will spread out and cool off very quickly. A bigger worry might be that too much fuel is added at once, but heating and ionizing all that fuel is already very difficult for the reactor, so it would probably just quench it.
No real clue what you mean. The rPi is a neat toy but not in a position to be the gateway to programming that the 8-bit computers were in the late 70's and early 80's. It is a toy for the elite not the mass market.
Also, these phones have been in development for a while. If anything they took what they had and slapped the MSFT services on top.
Would be interested to know of that percentage how many are NOT dual stack. Adaptation is one thing, replacement of IPv4 is quite another.
Exactly. This article just makes me mad - they are penny-pinching on quite simply the most important piece of technology that humanity has ever tried to develop. If commercial reactors are switched on by 2040, the planet's CO2 output will have dropped drastically by 2060 - way more than all but the most optimistic estimations linked to climate change.

$10b is nothing compared to what was destroyed in the GFC. It's nothing compared to what the US spent on a largely futile war in Iraq. It is nothing compared to what G8 governments spend every year on defence. FFS, damages from Hurricane Sandy are estimated at twice that figure. It's peanuts.

Somewhere along the line, the message that this is R&D, and not science has been lost. Politicians honestly seem to think that this is another of those toys that scientists are always wanting to build, and not the solution to the world's energy problems. Dear politicians - no, this is not another space telescope. It's not even another LHC. It is nothing more or less than the one technology that can save the planet from the worst ravages of climate change, and they quibble about the cost. Madness.
I don't share your opinion.

The multiplayer is so great that we still gather together every year and fly missions for a night. Balance of Power added great coop missions that needed team-play and sticking to your role.

The most interesting thing - historically - about XvT was that it was one of the first games that completely skipped single-player campaigns for multiplayer. Everyone screamed "madness" back then. See where it got us ;).
The internet wasn't designed for high-latency, high-compression modem sessions. TCP works just fine over a 56 kbps leased line. It's terrifying on a 56k home modem, despite similar "bandwidth."

The leased line has 50 ms of very predictable latency and 56 kbps of very predictable throughput. The 56k PPP session has an unpredictable 300-500 ms of latency and a constantly varying capacity of 2.4 to 56 kbps thanks to high noise and ugly compression schemes.

Lots of things that worked perfectly well on the relatively crude internet of the 1980s were real pains in the ass on "high-tech" modems in the 1990s.

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edit: a specific example would be X11. An emacs X11 session was totally usable on a leased line or ISDN, despite the low bandwidth, because they delivered low latency and packet loss. It was hellish on any kind of a home dial-up.
Microsoft has been distributing GPL2 software before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
WhatsApp and the Ridiculous Argument Over Job Growth
We Need Young People To Take Risks And Build Inspiring Things
Not a bug, but some warning comment might be useful.
Will Nokia's new Android phones lead to a civil war inside Microsoft?
This is a bit OT, but I have a theory about the Web being a loser for phones and tablets: There is some empirical evidence that the Web-as-app-runtime works best on bigger devices that are stationary or have large batteries, and that have screens that are a bit too far away to touch.

Chromebook is a winner. WebOS on LG TVs is great. Both of these can have larger memory and batteries and more-powerful and power-hungrier GPUs. They also both have pointing devices. They're not trying to drag the Web into a touch UI.
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That's not what I said. No single language future is better. Innovation thrives when you give people options.
Realistically, I'm not worried about someone brute forcing my password for some one-off site. On the other hand, there's really no technical reason to limit passwords to anything less than 255 characters, so why do it? What if some technological breakthrough enables us to build processors much more powerful than previously thought possible, processors that can easily brute force a 16 character password? Likely? No. Possible? I have no clue, but I'd rather not gamble on it.
because neither Ios or Android have a web browser ! yeah...
"How much runway" is completely above-the-board. If they won't tell you, run.

"What's the end-game?" will probably give you the runaround -- it certainly has for me, with silly redirects like "we are more interested in building value for our customers" when it's obvious that management is always extremely concerned about the long-term plan, so this is interesting to write down and compare to what happens later to see what they say, but of no real use during your interview process.
> That was like, one third of one fourth of my post.

The importance of different pieces of your post shouldn't be measured in word count, but in dollars. I picked the part that matters the most (by far) from this perspective.
In this day of software developers seemingly needing to keep up with the latest technologies, it is interesting to realize that the languages I use most often are decades old.
But gives them the OS/2 problem. Nobody wrote native apps because it could run Windows 3.x software.
Curiously, with MOOCs replacing OpenCourseware, we've shifted to an environment that's a little bit harder to iterate on. Editing text is easy. Editing something someone said in the middle of some video can be harder (continuity issues, availability of the original speaker, audio environment, etc).

Quite a few MOOCs have shifted up a notch in their production values recently. When you've flown to another country to interview a famous scientist for your MOOC, it's probably a bit trickier to make a minor edit to what was said next year.
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Matt Might wrote a blog post about using standard CLI tools for this purpose: http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/

Rather than making a custom tool to issue SQL, the idea is that regular CLI tools map well to the traditional relational algebra operations. sed is like selection, cat is like union, etc.
The cat is finally out of the bag: Android as a platform is a more capable service delivery layer than the web even for Nokia and Microsoft, especially in developing markets, much as Google and Mozilla like to pretend otherwise. These are going to prove exceedingly popular.

The sad thing is Android is essentially a dead platform at this point because Google recognise investment in the core system is helping their enemies, and they hold a veto over what counts as a fork and what doesn't. The only thing that can save Android would be Google letting go completely, which is simply not in their interests.
All startups are:

1. going to give you the same super optimistic answers about funding and runway because they usually start posting jobs when either they just got more funding or they are about get more funding and everything is wonderful according to them. They're not going to tell you "Dude, we're really screwed. We have about 3 months left! You still wanna job here?"

2. some will not hire you just for asking because they prefer employees who can take the risk

To find out what their true health is, ask them:

1. How many paying customers did you have last year?

2. How many paying customers did you add this year?

3. How many paying customers canceled, or what's your cancellation rate?

A good answer indicates healthy year-over-year growth with a low cancellation rate that speaks to good customer retention and customer satisfaction. Especially in a subscription business retaining customers is critical.

If the company has less than 20 people are the answer is "I don't know" or "0" or "1" or "We weren't in business last year" or "We don't charge any customers yet." then it's has approx 50:50 odds of surviving another year.
The cotton farmers are going to have a heart attack when North Dakota, South Dakota, and the rest of the upper plains can grow hemp again.
I have yet to find a joystick that is half as nice as the (Microsoft!) one I had back then. Now it seems like either the springs are too hard or force feedback makes the dead zone all sloppy. I feel like the Goldilocks of joysticks.
"Most scientists think it's safe" is indeed an appeal to authority. Instead of fear mongering and appeals to reason, let's introduce some real facts into the conversation:

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/6mishome.htm

http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/vaccine-si...

Hell, if you want to, you can even get the raw data for yourself:

http://vaers.hhs.gov/index

The conclusion that I draw is that the dangers presented by vaccines are far less dangerous than the dangers presented by the diseases they protect against.
Chris Dixon at Startup School 2013
Kind of scary. Here in the San Francisco Bay area I had a bad cough a few weeks ago for the first time in a long time. I felt bad for taking BART into SF and potentially getting others sick. A lot of people have been sick, working from home. Probably not related.
Long-form twitter is actually a thing! You just keep replying to yourself and removing your name to create a gigantic stream of consciousness - unsightly perhaps, but I personally enjoy quality tweeters that do this. Most of the tweeters I enjoy just write aphorisms though.

The bedrock of twitter is in finding and following non-noisy tweeters that are similar thinkers to yourself. I'm @sebinsua on there. I can vouch for accounts like @afoolswisdom, @macroresilience, @asquidislove, @pmarca, @EpicureanDeal, and @groditi. These are people that I recognise to be unusual and phenomenally smart, and that I admire from a distance.
I don't think it actually goes down. Look at Jan 12 to Jan 13. Then look at Jan 13 to Jan 14. There is definitely a lot more volatility during the second period.

The others largely measure average price spread using slightly different means from each other.
What about the 'second operating system?' The baseband software?
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...
Ask HN: How do you spec your projects?
What methods do you use to create specifications for your projects? How do you communicate features and interface considerations to your team?
The Wild Wild Web: YouTube ads serving malware
I'm surprised by the comparison to perl6.

Rust is moving very quickly now, but they clearly have a cutoff in sight, and their explicit goal is a stable language spec and standard library for 1.0.

They are also building on LLVM, which gives them a fairly solid base; in contrast to perl6 that was trying to make a multi-language VM while reinventing the language.
You typically sue a company over torts, not crimes. A tort is a civil cause of action. "They deprived me of my property in a fashion we had not agreed upon" is a tort called conversion. There exist many other ones you could describe Mt. Gox as having committed. Japan and the US are friendly first-world nations; their courts routinely enforce each others' judgments. (You'd have to demonstrate tortious behavior in the US to the satisfaction of a Japanese court, which might not be straightforward, but that's the sort of thing you'd want to ask an actual Japanese lawyer rather than somebody with a cursory understanding of the matter.)

That said, most people hoping for recourse in a court of law do not understand the expense, timeline, and likelihood of actual collection involved. (Six figures, years, and "probably nil", respectively.)
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Patience, dedication, and the ability to defer enjoyment in service of a bigger goal are things I've observed at greater than normal quantities in those of our team who have kids.
I just tested out a new tutorial layout on my blog that utilized two columns.. It still has the code in the main column, but the examples get pushed to the side..

http://wegnerdesign.com/blog/learning-svg-with-logos/
Is it really that hard to switch platforms/languages? Learning a new language should not be so difficult, particularly once you've become familiar with a few.

There are so many factors influencing language and API popularity that it's silly to try to bet it all on one language/platform or vendor at any time in your life. Why not just enjoy the ones you use, and when they are no longer of use (for whatever political, technical or personal reasons), switch to something else?
I think this is a very promising development (OLPC anyone?) but Android is cheerfully doing this organically:

"Looking at nice dual-core dual-SIM 3G Android for $30-40 wholesale. Quad-core for $100-125. And increasingly hard to tell apart from premium" (tweet from @BenedictEvans this morning).
Ask HN: Beta Testers for App
We are in need of some hackers who love to beta test apps and give early feedback. We are about to launch our app into the app store but could use some help with feedback. www.widdle.it if you are interested just connect with me on twitter @aj_mihalic and we will get you on our testflight.
If I was responsible for this decision at Apple, I would definitely be much more open to doing this now (post-WhatsApp). I'd hope Google and Apple are at least trying to get first-class interoperability between iOS / Android. Maybe only for text and not voice/video, but otherwise Facebook / WhatsApp wins the space.
IBM Doubles Down On Cloud Services With Cloudant (YC S08) Acquisition
> It could be a classic Microsoft embrace/extend/extinguish move.

The rules governing mergers actually prohibit Microsoft and Nokia from strategizing that kind of thing together until the merger is complete.
I find I spend most of my time on the engineering than in understanding types. (I recommend 'Types and Programming Languages by Pierce for general type stuff and Typeclassopedia for Haskell specific). Though I confess Yesod is the first real time I've seen quasiquoting and template haskell before. I haven't yet got a familiarity of what certain errors mean. 50% of the time when I get a compile error, the error message seems to be off on a complete tangent and is nowhere near where the actual error was.

Eg. I had some problem where a Data.Text was being passed into a function where Data.Text.Lazy was expected (Network.Mail.Mime.simpleMail for the record). The error message was deep in the internals of Data.Text.Lazy rather than in my code. I had to play a ridiculous pecking game of using undefine on each time I use Data.Text in turn in order to find which particular Data.Text was causing the error and then explicitly force one particular argument type to be a Data.Text.Lazy. I didn't feel like the compiler helped me at all.

Stepping through a program linearly doesn't seem possible (though not entirely sure why not) so I have no intermediate or step through capability. I also can't (normally) just stick in a println in the middle of a function or view the data structures at any particular point of the program. These are two tools I use all the time with Java and C#, but in Haskell I am rendered blind.
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Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying
Ask HN: Best way to do a coding exercise for a phone screen?
I'm conducting phone screens for candidates. Let's assume for now two things:

1) We want to do a phone screen before onsite interviews and

2) we want to have the candidates do a simple coding exercise as part of the phone screen.

As part of our phone screen we make all candidates do a simple coding exercise during the interview. It's at the fizbuzz and Steve Yegge phone screen blog post level. ie one of....

- Write a function to reverse a string.

- Write a function to compute the Nth fibonacci number.

- Print out the grade-school multiplication table up to 12 x 12.

- Find the largest int value in an int array.

We do this as we've had people who we've brought in for onsite interviews that couldn't code at all.

My question is what should we be using for phone screen coding exercises?

Currently I'm using a shared google doc as the coding platform. This allows me to see the user code and help him/her along the way if they get stuck on something.

What else could we be using here?

I'm currently against giving the user "homework" but I'm willing to be swayed if someone can come up with a convincing reason...

Is there a better way to determine basic coding ability during a phone screen?
Yes, see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyinstaller/8Je3OE... for reasons.
Either way, I learned about a new thing!
These sound like very smart questions to ask. As you say, working for a startup is risky. They could go bankrupt and leave you with a few unpaid months of work. You want to be able to understand and manage the risk you're taking.

And if they don't want to answer these, particularly if they don't even want to share their basic business model, I'd be a bit wary of working there.
That may be, but this thread seems to be "Python is a language with serious deficiencies because whitespace!" If that's the case, then people are pitting Python up against all other languages, not just Perl.

That being said, even with the helpful Perl error message, the less experienced developers may have issues trying to determine why Perl doesn't like their double-quote before they figure out what the real issue is.

I guess I should be clear, that I'm not hating on Perl. It's more that I see the "OMG! Semantic whitespace in Python!" argument as a bit of a red herring if that's your only reason for not using the language.
Warren buffett berkshire letter
I'd point towards Adam Kocoloski's (CTO) recent email to the couchdb-dev list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201402....
I'm not using Haskell for things like this yet, but I must admit, this is one of the features that draws me to it as a language for web development. The idea of type safe HTML and requests is really interesting to me.
I think this is an accurate observation (re: computing power and battery life), but it's only valid for now. In fact, it is less true than it was a year ago, and will be even less true in a few more years.
My Experience as a New Developer Evangelist
hello from a jolla :-) it will be hard but 'we' have a chance! there is no other platform which feels like a normal linux distribution and people are very friendly, neither 'inaccesible ad droids' nor grim 'prison guards'. just normal maybe a bit nerdy humans which have built a - imho - great phone. not yet there in certain aspects but (more than) good enough and with ethics that i like and want to support.
i wouldn't expect anything more than 0% and i don't think there's anything wrong with that. dual stack won't die before ipv6 is much, much more above 50%, probably 90% or so.
$ rustc --pretty foo.rs
The problem with flagship phones is the screens, which are high res enough that GPU acceleration of the user interface is mandatory for decent performance. Doing good enough GPU side rendering of web content is an unsolved problem, and if your devs are having to worry about it (as many mobile web devs already do) you've lost the point of using the web stack in the first place.