skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For others like me, the press release says: "a family of smartphones that run Android(TM) apps". Yes, other app stores can be sideloaded, and they even mention a few, but not Google's Play Store.

Personally, I doubt getting Play Store on it would be as simple as sideloading (sideloading itself isn't much different from what other app stores do) because of Google's Play Services.

Hopefully root (or a ROM, if necessary) could help with that.
No particular reductions, though there are a few railcards for certain groups (e.g. <25s, retired) that generally offer a 33% discount. The best way to save money on trains is just to know your way around the labyrinthine system. For example, if you're going to Birmingham, don't catch the crazily expensive Virgin service from Euston; take the London Midland semi-fast, or the Chiltern line from Marylebone.
Nokia launches a trio of Android platform phones
I agree that this is the next hurdle. To just from Microsoft's desktop embrace to Google's cloud embrace is to switch one master for another even though Google has shown itself to be an excellent open-source champion in terms of their Summer of Code effort and the amount of client (and server?) software they develop in the open. But lock-in is lock-in no matter how comfy the handcuffs.
"Found 43,415 Flatshare, Rooms to Rent ads in London"

Gumtree displays 55 ads per page. So, after looking through ~0.25% of the adverts, you concluded that there was nothing cheaper than £300/month? Wow, that's pretty thorough!

It took me less than five minutes to find a hostel-style roomshare for £7 per night (less than £220 per month).
> What? That's not right at all! A confidence measure is how much you can trust that there's actually a difference. You can't say it'll improve things if your confidence is lower than your original threshold!

A 95% confidence doesn't magically translate into a binary decision of winner v/s no decision. A 90% confidence means that the variation is more likely to be better than control, but of course not as likely if confidence was 95%. The p-value is an arbitrary cut-off. (A p-value of 0.945 shouldn't make you throw your results) Of course, in fields such as clinical trials, you'd want to be very sure of your results and might not want to take chances, but on the web when you're running many tests, you are usually OK with something that is probable to work better than the existing version.

Of course, if it is a high stakes A/B test on the web, you'd be as careful as a clinical trial design. We're working towards making all those techniques available within the tool itself.
The Lumia 820 was 800x480 on a 4.3" screen, and I found it perfectly pleasant to use. 5" would be adequate for that end of the market.

It was less pleasant when I dropped it a foot and a half onto a carpeted floor and the screen cracked irreparably.

Maybe the idea is to recapture that market they used to dominate, of low-cost, robust phones with the very basics. (And snake.) Nowadays, of course, the 'very basics' includes web, email and suchlike. But not everybody wants the latest fad phone-game; they want their phones to, shock horror, communicate with people. Maybe they'll find a market that would otherwise go to the most rock-bottom terrible android handsets; pretty sure it'll be a better product than those.

Maybe they'll fail. Given it's where they excelled in the past, though, you can't blame them for trying.
Indeed. There is a ton of polish that has to be sunk into the language and the libraries to get them to a state where 1.0 can finally be declared.
I can't find any hint of Home or Menu buttons, even soft.
Best comment I read from the article..

"That middle bit there, as you put it; "....it's depressing how easily you get used to the slugs, the dampness, the cold and the filth".......that's what is counted on. This separation of living standards, it's manufactured. Yes there are some random elements mixed in, but by and large everything is engineered to be this way. Government, banks, housing moguls....they know they have people over a barrell, they know people just have to get on.
They also know that if they keep it this way for long enough, not so awful as to make people revolt but awful enough to serve their greed, people will get used to it. It will become expected. Then people will feel lucky for having the things that should be standard for everyone, not one person excluded.
You are indeed lucky, good Sir, but you feel that way because of what you've been put through. They made the System, and the System has made you this way because that serves a purpose. That purpose is to keep the rich rich, the poor poor and to make everyone believe that that's precisely the way it should be."
I tried lying to the dentist when I was a kid about how often I brushed my teeth. He just laughed at me.
Works well for me. For those who want to try it, this is what I did.

Create a Dockerfile:

# Ubuntu 12.04 + Python + Git
FROM nlothian/python-git

# Ruby
RUN apt-get -y install libgnutls26 ruby1.9.1
RUN apt-get -y install ruby1.9.1-dev

RUN gem install rb-inotify ffi

RUN git clone https://github.com/jewel/clearskies

Build:

sudo docker build -t clearskies .

Run:

sudo docker run -i -t clearskies /bin/bash

Then:

mkdir /testdir
echo 'testing' > afile
cd /clearskies
./clearskies start
./clearskies share /testdir

That will print something out in the form:

clearskies:SYNCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Note this, then start another clearskies docker container.

In that one:

mkdir /testdir
cd /clearskies
./clearskies start
./clearskies attach clearskies:SYNCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX /sharedir

Wait a few seconds, and your file should appear.
Yahoo was a special case. It was not just our price to earnings ratio that was bogus. Half our earnings were too...What made our earnings bogus was that Yahoo was, in effect, the center of a Ponzi scheme. Investors looked at Yahoo's earnings and said to themselves, here is proof that Internet companies can make money. So they invested in new startups that promised to be the next Yahoo.

This section seems eerily prescient in foreseeing the current bubble - replace Yahoo with FB or Google, and it could have been written in 2013. Values are supported by confidence in larger companies which subsist on the advertising bought by smaller companies, which are funded in the hope of acquisition by larger companies. When that confidence evaporates, things will collapse, even the companies which provide true value, if they sell advertising and depend on the entire ecosystem continuing to grow.

This bubble gets some things right too - there are of course many many profitable and valuable communications and social networking companies (as there were in the first boom, probably even more now), and Twitter, FB and Google are not going to disappear any time soon, but if your income is based on advertising or VC funding, this sort of bubble can be really damaging, and when a crash comes, many worthy projects will be thrown out with the unworthy.

Perhaps bubbles repeat themselves too - the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
ah, i re-read the paper and you're absolutely right.
You use an Oyster card in London and you buy train tickets in advance and after peak hours or arriving to less "main" train stations (like Liverpool Street instead of King's Cross). If you can, you take a National Express/Megabus coach. English, British doesn't matter unless you are an OAP.
A proper handling of Ajax requests
This blog post is part of series about AbsurdJS. I'll continue filling the library with small and self organized black boxes. In the last article we talked about creating a JavaScript router. This time we will go through the process of making Ajax requests.
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

-- Linus Torvalds
Not really: BBC has one of the best record when it comes to scientific and medical news. In this case, they seem to be getting in front of the panic.
No play store? Nothing to see here, move along.
A friend of mine (who is well known in the London tech community, and might pop up here) has lived on a house boat within spitting distance of London bridge, it's not a 'slum' but rather cheap, centralised accommodation.
None of those are from-scratch rewrites of existing software. They're mostly (not all) clones of existing software, with some (e.g. Linux) being more "inspired by", and some (e.g. Clang) being "We can do this better".
It only seems wrong from the perspective of a residential buyer.

Anyone buying transit did indeed experience a very competitive market. Why else has the cost of backbone bandwidth been steadily falling for a almost 20 years? Not out of the goodness of a monopolists heart.
"our tweets" ?
That sounds an awful lot like a conspiracy theory.

How about: someone has a boat, and the government lets them moor cheaply in central London. They make money renting it, out of natural human self interest.
"In fact, Nokia told TNW that only three APIs have been changed, so if a developer isn’t making use of these, no changes are needed at all."

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/02/24/nokia-unveils-nokia...

This so reminds me of Microsoft's J++.
Nope; just the IRC channel, these newsletters and http://www.rust-ci.org/ to inform people when things break (it triggers Travis CI builds each day, when a new nightly package is built).

The language moves too fast for maintaining a gofix tool to be feasible or a productive use of time (IMO much better to spend all the effort on getting the language nicer and nicer as fast as possible).
Your dotfiles and you
This is an introductory article describing what dotfiles are and why you should treat them as a life long software project.
They might require as much as 6 moths (i.e. pay your rent in advance) if you cannot prove you have a (good?) job.
Line length in programming
I have USD and Bitcoin in Mt. Gox. Will I still be able to withdraw my USD?
Getting started with IntelliJ IDEA Live Templates
Not as such, you can use TCP, just be aware that it won't guarantee that your packet will arrive in order given.

http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/udp...
People in your organization that grow legacy code
That commit is "just" clean-up after https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/11863

But yeah, probably worth an explicit mention.
I remember visiting a similar protest, in my work clothes, to show support years ago. Being well dressed is taken as a sign you have some kind of malicious intention.
Lawsuits. Lots of money is at stake. They will be sued.
Hmm, they are different problems. It depends on where they have their assets tied up. I'm not saying MtGox is solvent - I have no idea if they are or not - but in theory, they could be solvent while not having enough liquidity to fulfill their obligations.
Granted, I'm on mobile, but how does this differ from BTSync for two computers? There needs to be some agent proxying discovery if machines aren't on the same local network.
> Who would want to buy a list of people who unsubscribe?

A spammer. Before Can-Spam, spammers would always re-use and sell the address of someone who replied to a prior spam mailing, even if the reply was a threat of legal action.
Thanks a lot for sharing that. Without personal knowledge like yours a text medium (sans explicit "jk" or /sarcasm tags) is hard to parse right.

I'm not dismissing all the work, I just decided that I've to move on. The project (we're talking opensmtpd here?) very well might be great. This was just a crappy first impression. No hard feelings, no rage or whatever - it seems people think I feel much stronger about this than I actually do.

I was disappointed, consider this distasteful/low (see elsewhere in this thread: I certainly get that humor's different and context matters), decided that for me, personally, this isn't cool and moved on.

I really feel sorry for sharing this here by now, though. It was something that immediately came back to me when the OpenBSD headline came up, I found it worth commenting/sharing and now I started a big thread of .. noise. I'll make sure to remember this outcome next time I'm feeling the urge to post a rather unrelated/negative piece like this.
Full disclosure: I work for Qubit who published this white paper.

I see a lot of this kind of testing going on in the industry and it's frustrating. A/B testing can be a massive tool for your business if it's done right but obviously if you only wait for 2-3 conversions, you're not learning much... "Good" to hear that other people feel the same way!
Well, the language is still pre-1.0. It is better to fix things now than be stuck with supporting poor design decisions years into the future. The good thing is that the semantic changes to the language have decreased significantly over the past year, and feature flags are now provided to force users to opt-in to experimental parts of the language. Much of the churn is is now on the library front.

There is no gofix tool, but you can use http://rust-ci.org/ to get immediate feedback when things break.
Why would a poor person move anywhere? The most likely reason is that they had an offer of employment, or maybe the hope of getting one.
grabs popcorn

I am an asian, therefore my comment shouldn't be taken as racial. The moment I realized, Mt.Gox was an asian enterprise, (based in asia) I became wary of them, and put them on my least priority. I want people to transact their wealth/money only with those companies, which are located in countries, which have good repute for accountability and have strong judicial system. I don't mean, Japan is not one of those. But I don't know, I still can't put faith with any Asian company as yet, when it involves 'money'.
YotaPhone Dual Display – cool way to show your status to people around you?
To be honest, I don't think they were focused on anything at all: people inside the movement will tell you that.

"We're the 99%" fantastic, we knew that already.

"We want equality" what specifically do you think you're entitled to?
Tried that with working hours, with amouny of daily reports sent (I kept forgetting or avoiding them sometimes) and with sleep hours. In all three cases, it only ended up in me getting into unseen levels of anxiety because of failing AND loosing money (which I don't have much), which obviously led to more failure (positive feedback loop of anxiety and/or panic).

Ultimately I semi-solved some of my problems by writing a time for coming into office in my work contract and thus fixing the top (early) part of my schedule.

In a way, this experience taught me that I'm increasingly anxiety-driven and unable to be deterred by potential punishment. I'll ponder something hurtful to me in my conscious mind, stress like hell because of the unconscious, and then go ahead and do it anyway. Anyone knows a cure for that?
> which/that is not even an error, much less an egregious one.

On the contrary:

http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/which-vs-that
I guess he meant "they reported it first, instead of any other major US news outlet"
>3-megapixel camera

:/
Hoa\Ruler, a very natural, modular and fast ruler engine for PHP
The beauty of Shadow of the Colossus
Nature does not solve problems. Molecules bump into each others. There's no purpose in their doing so. There is not simple for nature and complex for us. If you want a scientific approach to complexity, you would not insert a term in the definition that reads as 'us', or 'nature', or frogs.
Negotiate with whom?
A very good place to download some great mobile applications design.
Thanks, I assumed good authority from the author since he's into Programming Languages research. Heading to your link now.
I'm afraid that's not quite right. A simple python simulation will show you that a variant with -5% (ie NEGATIVE) uplift will still give a positive results around 10% of the time if you perform early stopping of the test.
Full disclosure: I work for Qubit who published this white paper.

Just wanted to add that if you have less than a million users you can A/B test for upper funnel goals, effectively measuring if changes improve engagement. Obviously then you have the problem of working out if the engagement translates into more sales but perhaps you're willing to wait longer to find out if a test that improves engagement leads to more revenue in the long run.
The OS in the most basic of Nokia phones is commonly referred to as S30. It doesn't really need much active maintenance, though, because they mostly only change graphics and included games (and utilities) between those phones.
I think this is a problem in places with free health care too (so money isn't even a reason for a lot of people). It doesn't cost a penny to see a doctor or get treatment here but I know plenty of people who avoid going to the doctor until a problem has gotten out of hand.
What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced
They're not real-time, though, in the sense that a delayed message is as good as no message. The tolerance is high enough that a few delays usually don't affect gameplay.
Thanks a lot for the first part/explanation. The answer is nothing spectacular: Because it didn't came to my mind. When I stumbled upon that post I didn't submit it anywhere. I recalled that post when this 'OpenBSD' headline turned up.

Again, submitting 'So I think this isn't nice' never came to my mind and adding this here was (ignoring attributes like 'useless' etc) a spontaneous 'You know what I recently found?' kind of comment. This was blown way out of proportion by now. My bad.
This seemed to work for AIM and AOL.
For me the problem with configuration is not the config files - but getting the config into the running application. There is never a perfect way - it is a chicken and egg situation - pass it in from the command line? Ok now do that for 100 servers, I know let's have an app - but that needs to know which 100, for which we write a config file ...

it's all doable, but I always think I could make a better choice.
Android 4.4 is targeted to run on low memory (i.e 512MB) devices unlike some of the previous Android releases.
Evolution DOES proceed with a lot of regard for complexity. Evolution is not a person. The processes by which the evolution is supposed to go about are very much complex.

Complexity is something that can be clearly defined in terms of probabilities and hence measurable. If it's stated that these complex (made of {large number of} parts) molecules _work together_ with these others complex (also very large) molecules, than this all process, in order for it to fulfill a function, requires a set of very specific values for very specific parameters.

This is measurable complexity. And if one says that in time evolution will solve a problem, you can make the liaison with the complexity of the process through the probability of its occurrence.
Towards template programming with Haskell – A small tutorial
So does it mean that I shouldn't say anything about that issue? Does it mean that you should not support the protesters in Ukraine if you are not Ukrainian, because you have no intention of participating?

Also - this is Hacker News, not Hacker News USA, so if something is important enough that it's brought to the attention of the worldwide population, then that population should be able to voice their opinion on the matter.
Have you tried the Assistant and its web UI? It comes bundled with git-annex: http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/
This is what happened in Ireland with traditional phone services and the infrastructure they depend on.

Eircom split into Eircom Wholesale and Eircom.. The last mile copper and core network is managed by Eircom Wholesale, while end users subscribe to Eircom.

The wholesale company offers its services to any phone or broadband company, with published (starting..) price lists. This seems to work well.

In Europe, we also have the notion of Internet Exchanges like INEX, LINX and AMS-IX. These are non-profits, typically owned by their members, who provide switching fabric at the major datacenters for ISPs and other internet companies to exchange traffic - without any per-peer fees. You simply pay a membership fee typically based on the number and type of ports you want.

This allows even the smallest companies to directly peer with the major ISPs. INEX requires members establish BGP peering with something like "at least 80% of other members".. Again, this seems to work well.
Even though the founder isn't Asian at all, but a French techie who moved the Japan to become an entrepreneur? And the top management appear to all be non-Asian?

I'm not saying your concerns don't have some basis, but MtGox was not a relevant example. Unless you mean that Westerners moving to Asia to set up businesses automatically can't be trusted either.
I stayed in a hostel for £5 each day (3-4 years ago) while in London. Wouldn't that plus a locked container somewhere be cheaper? Surely beats a car or a boat
He aggressively promoted it and got downstream applications and distributions to adopt it, no?
Clang v. GCC all over again?
Rule 59 from the Joint Strike Fighter C++ coding guide[1] calls out exactly this bug (with example bad code similar to Apple's bug): all if/while/for bodies must be enclosed in braces. Some other notable guides, like those frmo Google and NASA, do not require this. I thought it was a good idea before, and very good idea now.

[1]: http://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
> Also, poker is not gambling, at least not the way I play.

What you did that night was definitely gambling (buying in with 100% of your bankroll). Glad it worked out for you though
How is that even possible, I thought Android is closed source.

At least that's what Ars Technica has been telling us for the last months.

</sarcasm>
Interesting - so would you be looking for some kind of centralised configuration deployment system?
I am perfectly Aware of how "opeering" works, am I also perfectly aware how that is a bull shit excuse made up by people like Verizon to justify double billing

There is absolutely zero chance Cogent will ever recieve more data from Verizon then Verizon receives from cogent.

So the Teir 1 Providers that also just so happen to be last Mile Providers have created this nice little scam whereby they can double bill and call it "peering"
Yes, that would be quite the "coincidence", wouldn't it?
“Last Seen at” goes optional on Whatsapp for Android
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#tgTzm1g10zm2g25z...

Chaikin Volatility goes down imho. I do not really know what the others mean. Are they adjusted for volume?
Cloud Automation with WinRM vs SSH
This is a great article though I knew most of what is said.

I'd like to find the same thing for encrypting all the data of users in a DB.
It's also possible they're not doing this out of greed but as a way to actually rescue their company. They may owe a lot of money and the only way they can make it through this without going under is by buying all the bitcoin back at a low value. The question is, how far do they go, and how much of the retained earnings do they commit to rescuing the company and how much of these retained earnings have already found their way into individual executive bank accounts.
DevOps Glossary: How well you know DevOps
Your Product Might be for Your Customer’s Customer
like they said after kicking forstall out: teams will be working together much closer.