skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 Million Pre-order is a big number as of now, But it would be interesting to see Global Number. Nokia X is a great device of 4-inch screen size, just 512 MB RAM will be an issue as the system will be slow if we install more number of Apps. It's Interesting to see how Microsoft is going to a clear winner in this game, As this Nokia X device uses Microsoft services.
>If I have Mathematica, does that allow me to execute code against the giant corpus of Wolfram Alpha knowledge?
Yes. you can use results of natural inputs as a computable data.
For example, type ==dog picture, this will give you exactly the same result as Wolfram|Alpha. then you can click on "+" sign in the top right corner of the pod and select "subpod content". which will give something like
WolframAlpha["dog picture", {{"Image:SpeciesData", 1}, "Content"}]
and it is an image you can do processing on.
Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk
That said, a plain contentEditable is just fine already if you can prevent the combinatoric explosion of browsers+OSes. Like, say, if you're shipping a node-webkit application.
It's the effect that these sorts of comparisons have: they distract from and derail the better discussions on the rest of this page.
Ask HN: Why isn't Ruby written in Ruby?
I started learning Ruby two days ago. I checked out the source code and it seemed to be all in C. I couldn't find why it hasn't been converted to Ruby (performance reasons?), so asking here.
Turks doesn't have fanaticism towards domestic good. It's a central communication channel that is known to run by people who seems to be fair, them being American is obviously not relevant to them.
The official Scala IDE is Eclipse based though (http://scala-ide.org/) and I trust that people who develop the language itself are best suited to develop the IDE as well. Plus I hate the fact that both Netbeans and IntelliJ are developed on top of Swing and it has that forever-not-fixed issue with font rendering on some major linux distros - Ubuntu just to name one. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15053069/netbeans-on-ubun...
I didn't actually major in the arts myself, but I can see many of my old friends suffering. Turns out, knowing ancient greek might help you get a coding job, but knowing data structures, algorithms and some Perl would help a lot more.

With the economy in the state that it is, it's a lot harder to beat the odds. Just getting an interview with a not-directly-applicable major seems to be flat out impossible.

After many years of watching people dear to me struggle, I'm starting to feel bad telling them that they just need to market themselves better, find a way to bypass the recruitment process and think outside the box. I've come to realize that they really got the raw end of the deal, and instead of any sympathy, they get told that they just need to try harder.
No, I am not excited. I expect this will be (again) used as an excuse to force me to upgrade either Windows, my video card, or both.
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MF Global.
Slightly OT: I see a lot of people here talking about EULAs. What about EULAs and Europan law, EU or national? I don't think they're compatible.
If 140 characters is a threat to your government, then most probably the problem is your governing.
If you want to know: just checked the one project where I did a long running PHP-process.

It is a job scheduler which takes jobs from a Redis queue and executes it.

It does fork a new process for 1 type of task (image resizing in this case) to make sure it doesn't leak memory.

It also reuses these forked processes so it doesn't need to fork for every task.

It was last started on Jan. 2013 (because of maintenance) and still running fine.

The reason ? I didn't want to introduce an extra language for project for which all the server code was already written in PHP.

So if it fits the task, you can do it.
Ignoring the rather dodgy legal shenanigans here, it was pretty silly to discuss doing nasty things to Microsoft, on MS controlled systems.
A large portion of Ruby, primarily standard libraries, is written in Ruby. The entire language isn't in Ruby for performance reasons.
Did your research extend as far as to why it is illegal ?

When it was introduced it was only the manufacturers that were able to sell cars to you, by their own choice. The law was introduced to break the stranglehold that manufacturers had on retail operations. Car dealers were able, for the first time, to guide buyers through the positive and negative aspects of the features of one model against another in a climate where they weren't just bashing the competition to make a sale.

It is ironic you choose Toyota as your example because when breaking into the US market they faced similar problems as Tesla does now. At the time, in Japan, the car dealers sold cars door to door, there were no showrooms. And you dealt with the same dealer for all your life. Japanese joked that it was easier to lose contact with your parents than it was your car dealer.

Boy, does the US now hate Toyota http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26650173
That's some spin Holder puts on the story.I guess he's got to try and get GM's bailout money back somehow, just another $23.9bn to go
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I've got a sparkfun multimeter and have used lots of fluke gear and the color is quite different looking at them in person. Sparkfun's color is closer to the orange of Tenma gear (though lighter) than it is to the yellow of Fluke's gear, which is unmistakably yellow.
can all the rich people buy all the telcos and make internet more neutral?
Does not work in Opera (the normal one) at all. Uncaught exception and some css errors as well.
Most of the sales managers I've seen rose from the ranks of line sales.
By restricting your worldview to Microsoft's predefined notion of what it should be, you'll never know the true extent of what you can do as a graphics programmer

can't you just as well say that By restricting your worldview to OpenGl's predefined notion of what it should be, you'll never know the true extent of what you can do as a graphics programmer ? I probably don't have enough experience with it, but to me it seemds in the end both DirectX11 and latest OpenGL pretty much have equal capabilities apart from some details? Not like DirectX7 for instance, which obviously is capable of less.
I call fan fiction.

This is too many words for inherently trivial ideas that are all based on the magic assumed already to be in place and readily available. But mostly it's the tone and triviality of what's being discussed. It's all a script-kiddie level.
> MS's track record shows, any of their "improvements" are not backwards compatible with old OSes.

What do you mean? All new versions of all commercial software have new improvements/features. If they just released all of them for free on the previous version, they might as well just shut down their company.

> Not compatible with Windows XP, yet Chrome and Firefox is still.

Well IE since version 7 uses mandatory integrity control which is a kernel feature of Vista and above. XP only has DACLs. I believe what they did initially was just disable the protected mode feature when IE ran on XP.

Firefox is woefully behind other browsers in this particular aspect so it doesn't need to worry about it. Chrome does the same thing as IE on Vista+. They wrote their own sandbox because its a cross platform product which is why it works on XP.

So certainly, Chrome would be your choice if you want a single browser that runs on XP as well as Vista. That would matter only to businesses or computer labs or places where there is a large deployment of software across multiple OS versions. For home users, it doesn't matter. People just use whatever version of windows came with the PC.
So don't upgrade? How are you being forced?
Actually many people expect that it's probably not a sex tape but evidence about a political assassination and the PM himself is involved.

Since a while the whistleblowers are talking about it, giving teasers and so on.
Turkey is a neighboring country. Erdogan has been busy dismantling what Kemal Ataturk built (don't go into how he built it), for more than a decade under the banner of religious freedom. But he is getting more and more resistance because seems a lot of young Turks read religious freedom as "right to be as secular as one wishes" and his government has a lot of corruption going on and the West really managed to sell the whole freedom of speech ideal across the world.

So he, Putin, and all known and unknown cronies will wrestle with a lot of insubordination for years to come. The millennial all around the world see government differently. Unlike the elites. So they just cannot grasp why stuff like Gezi happens.
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But it's also not closed source, because OpenGL is just a specification, like Wayland.
Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language of the Future
Breaking NDAs and leaking company secrets are civic, not criminal, breaches of law; they only exist insofar as the company is empowered to sue using them. There are no authorities who would be interested in investigating.
I would say, but just to notify that you are getting a call. Do you why Smartphone manufacturer are jumping into Smartwatch domain, it's not only about shipment, it's about providing one single ecosystem to all the user either it's smartphone, Tablet or Smartwatch. In a recent study :- Google Android Wear Will Trigger Smartwatch Race To 373 Million Units By 2020 http://www.dazeinfo.com/2014/03/19/google-inc-goog-android-w...
"the intervening years allowed the PHP mess to become only more entrenched"

They specifically choose to do it and not move to an other language. One of the reasons was: PHP programmers are cheap and plenty full and can do quick iterations.

Sounds a bit like you are complaining about other peoples choices, it really is their choice. :-)

I'm not saying it is possible to move to an other language. Just look at Paypal they moved their customer-facing code from Java to node.js and got a very large productivity increase: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5yk5SZxWX4

Obviously the reason Paypal choose node.js are similar to why Facebook choose PHP: quick iterations, means more iterations, which means more experimentation and better results.
Is this a good synopsis of your lawsuits?

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/07/zuckerberg-nemesis-...

How does the suit relate to your experience with FaceCash?
now i may be wrong, but isn't Facebook on PHP?
Regulation isn't an appropriate response. If taxi's are cheap to operate (hence ample supply but artificially limited) then personal vehicles are cheap as well. "Big fat lazy motherfuckers" will just buy their own vehicle and make an even larger mess.

Pardon my idealistic views, but it would be better to curb demand for taxis with:
a. cheaper, more consistently on-time public transportation
b. safer bike routes
c. casual carpool programs

The real question is why you rather take a taxi than your local public transportation.
I genuinely thought something had gone wrong with my browser. It's surreal.
Humans to obtain a rich set of God-like abilities?
I wonder if the US will apply it's moral here this time? Seriously, if Venezuela or some other country like that did something like this the US gov would be up against the 'regime' in no time. Let's see.
If we are talking nostalgia, I remember the first time I heard of google; it was around the first time I heard of napster. Fourteen years ago. How the landscapes have changed.
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Automatically have your open web app turned into an APK for Android
But this doesn't work ?

"apply cat vision to photo of obama"
Or you could just wait till a DX12 game is out and decide if its worth upgrading. DX11 got a fairly lukewarm response from most studios when it came out.
Armed and dangerous – America’s police use paramilitary tactics too often
C designers choose deliberately to ignore the other system level programming languages at the time, which already offered more memory safe constructs, in their quest for a portable macro assembler.

PHP could have been easily done in any language with native compiler toolchains.
Scary! :)
What do you consider to be high quality VM? How many do you expect to see and how many do you find?

Adaptive JIT and generational GC would be a good baseline. Limiting myself to open source VM, I think (at least) HotSpot, Mono, V8, JavaScriptCore, PyPy, SBCL, Racket qualify. J9, CLR, Chakra, Allegro CL also qualify, but not open source. SpiderMonkey, LuaJIT, HHVM lack generational GC. All these projects are actively developed, and there are doubtlessly more, e.g. I am not faimilar with Smalltalk VM, some of which are commercial. Research VM like JikesRVM, Maxine qualify. I believe Bartok qualifies too.

I am not sure what you are arguing for. If you are arguing for Quercus route(PHP-on-JVM), I think it's unclear Quercus route is better than HHVM route. If you are arguing for not running existing PHP codebase, I think you are being unrealistic.
For the record, I'm not one of the downvoters and not just because my karma is not enough.

But come on, "They are as good as those that blocked Twitter in Turkey." is harsh to say the
least.
It's not solving the problem, though, as you then still have an XP machine that cannot be patched anymore. It's just virtual and only runs when the old application runs, but that doesn't necessarily help.
Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries

It really isn't. Politicians fear scandals because the powerbase that they spend many long nights and hard years building can be undone in a heartbeat. "A week is a long time in politics".
What do the bailouts have to do with the regulation of banks?

In the US, banks are regulated by the Federal Reserve. They have the authority to close and liquidate a bank. They have no authority to bailout a bank. That authority is the responsibility of Congress.

I'm pretty sure it's the same in other countries with a regulated banking sector. The UK parliament decided to bailout their banks, the German senate chose not to.
What desk do you use?
Simple question what desk do you use?
Nassim Taleb on being an autodidact
The article is horrible. Its a report on a high schools student's project at best. Its like India longs for greatness and the media is desperate for some one to do something big.
Targeting sysadmin personal accounts for networks exploitation
DigitalOcean + Black Friday + Hacker News = $4000
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Unifying Structured Recursion Schemes
C++ belongs to my list of languages that I enjoy using, sadly it was build in quicksand foundations due to C compatibility as a way to make it mainstream.
I am so tweeting this
A: We've created a decentralized accounting system and currency that obviates the need for most of the standard accounting controls and fraud prevention measures, so long as you operate within that currency!

B: Oh yeah? Well look at all the shenanigans that happen at the re-entry points to the conventional financial system! Checkmate, hard-moneyists.
Worst case is that we hit a feedback loop after at +5C and spike to +10C or more and we get a repeat of the Permian extinction.

No responsible scientist can come out and predict this because it is unknown territory. But if you want to go to Mars based on a meteor-driven event at the P-T transition, you damn well better worry that we recreating the events that lead to the 'Great Dying' at the end of the Permian that took out 90% of all _species_ at the time.
Human Nose Can Distinguish Between At Least A Trillion Smells
Genuine question: why do people prefer Markdown to - say - a HTML subset consisting of h1,h2,h3,p,img,i,b and maybe br?

Tables are a problem, but tables are just as horrible to write in Markdown as they are in HTML.
I am copying this.
I think it has more to do feeling pride for one's own country. I fail to see how this is "mindless hero worship", rather than a means to push India into the spotlight for their 15 minutes of fame, granted the story makes international headlines.

Now bollywood movies on the other hand........
If it's Amazon then they will go with Forked Android as they have maintained their identity in Tablet market with the name of Kindle. Amazon came up with a great strategy of using forked Android and integrate Amazon services for app store and many more.
I doubt they will confront Turkey now. Because there's enough confrontation with Russia already.
Obama is a big time supporter of Erdogan. During gezipark protests, he even silenced his embassador after his pro-democratic statements -- they deleted the public tweets, etc.

US government is one of the few reasons that Erdogan's regime is still illegitimate, because the opposition against them is minimal in the Western media.
care to elaborate on what's wrong with it, considering it's being upvoted?
Might I recall that competing with foreign companies using Gmail accounts is silly too, but we still do it, betting they're not organized enough yet to find the information.

On the plus side, it shows that even Microsoft internal ennemies love Hotmail.
everyone has it's own <opinion> over the fact that facebook had to use another language rather than php. On the other side there is the fact that facebook managed to get one of the most visited website on top of php, period. This is a <fact> and we would never know what would be facebook if it was built on top of another language. Probably they had to shut down early just because they were not able to hire enough developers to keep pace with new stuff and scale.
At the same time they haven't suffered the same amount of issues twitter had to deal with (remember the landing whale?) with much less users and traffic just because they were using RoR and that lead them to move to something completely different with scala and a different architecture. But still, facebook has about 4x times users and much more data to deal with (more text, images, video and so on).

Nevertheless, let's remember that web applications are not a one-shop monolithic anymore.
Netbeans JavaScript support is great.

Good enough autocomplete, integration JSLint makes you aware of possible errors as one types and there is the integration with a myriad of JS frameworks.

Really nice.
His combinations make no sense. Just a random strings.
Ha. Office 420.
Off topic: Can anyone else see a trend to name projects so that they're impossible to google? Hack, Go, Celery, Fig, Cucumber, Lettuce, you name it.

E.g. the only way how I could find useful resources on how to run celery with fig was to exclude -gorgonzola.
He's a founder at http://coffitivity.com
And Turkey is an ally in that confrontation and in the one with Syria.

(though not an ally on Irak and Iran)
I'm working on an open source knowledge engine thing roughly similar to WolframAlpha.

I'm pretty interested in the types of things you might like to do in your "advanced mode".

I've begun work on a SymPy part of it for the math parts, but one of the first things I realised was that it might make sense to expose the "knowledge base" itself to python.
Though I really like your idea, and think that I may fit into 1 or more categories described in your post, I don't think it is a good thing for the brilliant guy.

The world only remembers the one who finishes, rather than the one who throws out an idea and then walks off. It may be easy for the brilliant guy to find excuses to not make more commitment and finish, he's just being either lazy or inconfident to implement his own idea. If he never finishes a thing, how can he know if it is good or not? how can he gather more practical experience?

It may or may not be good for the employer, it is definitely bad for the employeed to indulge in not having to finish.
I just noticed your profile mentions Coffitivity's revenue. What's the revenue model, if you don't mind my asking?
What kind of question is that even? If you'd told me before the Snowden/NSA scandal that the NSA or GCHQ were _blackmailing_ clerks, I'd have called it spy fiction.

To my knowledge, it was only publically proven that the Russians use these tactics, but the US?

And now you are telling me that the NSA compromising the informational integrity of thousands of sysadmins is not surprising since they already used unethical TV-drama bullshit in the past?

This raises so many questions. Do you have examples of the NSA blackmailing a clerk?
Your CI server should be running a stack very similar to production, but there are excellent reasons to use SQLite/H2/etc. in dev.

Being able to do a "git clone foo; cd foo; do my job" is a great way to start working, especially if you have struggled with front-end stylists using real data and back-end services, or any other specialised, possibly short-term, experts who are working on your project and don't have a need to learn basic db admin skills.

Never mind if you use RAC in production - you're going to make some concessions in your dev environment.
>> I think it has more to do feeling pride for one's own country.

India has considerably more impressive achievements to be proud of.

>> I fail to see how this is "mindless hero worship"

Of course it is. Some kid does something entirely ordinary (and probably realises that is the case), and the media treats it like the next big thing and calls him a prodigy. (For examples, look at the links I posted.)

>> rather than a means to push India into the spotlight for their 15 minutes of fame, granted the story makes international headlines.

Better unknown than famous like this.
Microsoft breaks into leaker employee's Hotmail without warrant
> I've heard some people say

Ah yes, the goto phrase of every shitrag that calls themselves a newspaper.

"I've heard some people say drinking my own urine replenishes the body with electrolytes."
What is an API speed? The hardware that makes it happen determines the speed.
Netbeans is nice. Especially with the jvi plugin, that makes vimers feel right at home.
Why don't they protect their logo instead of something like "grey face, yellow casing"?
So argue. Much armchair quarterback. Very flame. Wow.

It's entirely appropriate and reasonable to say "I don't understand why Facebook would do this; please explain it to me." But it reflects a supreme lack of humility to say "I don't understand why Facebook would do this; they must be idiots, and when they, armed with inside information I don't even know I don't have, come to defend themselves, I will angrily try to convince them of the error of their ways."

If you think what Facebook has done here is stupid, why is that something to get upset over? In fact, why is it even something worth arguing about? You're not going to convince anyone who matters, and anyway you have nothing to gain by doing so: Instead, just short Facebook stock and be smug in the knowledge that, when Facebook announces next year that they're abandoning PHP in favor of a ménage à trois of OCaml, F#, and Clojure, you'll be able to say "I told you so".
Apple After Jobs: Pretty Much the Same as Ever
That sounds about right! Greg's Quora answer pretty much covers everything, and I'd say that there's not much you should particularly do to prepare other than to keep getting better at what it is you do anyway and to chill out. pc specifically said to me that the primary thing he cared about was that people were able to show how good they actually are, and that everyone feels they got a good crack at the whip and didn't get screwed over by a weird question or not preparing some specific thing or anything like that.

I am actually the OP :), my email address is in my HN profile and feel free to email me with any more questions!
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