skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that any more dangerous from deploying and installing an OS package? It's very hard to accidentally deploy to a release Maven repo. Maven Central makes you jump through hoops, and organizational repos have their own safeguards. They already deploy everything to their Maven repo anyway, why deploy again?

And if you don't want to enable automatic upgrades, you still get stateless, installation-free deployment.
While this makes little sense on the surface, I suspect the folks at Apple are far from stupid. There's likely a solid reason behind this move, and instead of doing the easy thing by saying "b-b-but their headphones are crap!", it'd be more productive to explore the underlying motives.

I actually think this is a smart move. Beats first and foremost is a fashion company. The majority don't buy Beats for sound quality, but for the style and image. I see people wearing Beats in all sorts of colors every day on the train. NBA players are seen sporting them at practice or in the locker room. It has become the fashion icon for audio-wear. In the context of Apple's recent fashion-binge with hires from Burberry and YSL, this move may provide further evidence of Apple creating/entering the wearable-tech fashion market.

This could also be a response to Apple losing ground in music streaming. Rdio, Spotify have become the default source of music for so many, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has seen a hit to their music sales. They also botched social music up with Ping, which is an area the aforementioned services are doing pretty well in. Beats may have the connections, the brand and marketing capital, to help make Apple a formidable competitor in this area. But I read here yesterday that the Beats streaming service only has 200,000 low-quality subscribers (ie they joined because their phones came preloaded with the service), so I'm less inclined to believe Apple dropped 3.2 billion on them for this alone.

Maybe it's a combination of both, or for a different reason altogether. It's intriguing, nonetheless.
That's the general idea. Show them what life will be like if you're on the internet slow lane in the hopes they'll wake up and realize what it really means. Especially since the branding has become that they really want to create a "fast lane" which actually doesn't sound like such a bad idea until you realize the reality is the exact opposite.
They wouldn't, it looks like more pat-yourself-on-the-back then give-yourself-a-high-five internet slacktivism. Someone should make a petition!
Most places won't refresh entire departments at a go, and allowing a single department to "mix" windows / linux without a clean cutover would likely make the migration more work.
Excellent - I don't know what yet, but something around here is in for a "hodgepodge brute" designation this afternoon.
Local government elect/appoints IT geeks in various important positions to advise them on, and even make these decisions. If your hired IT expert says "we need to switch to Linux" I would imagine they'd listen. I'm not proposing that these IT geeks are shoving their tech-religious beliefs down the throats of the public but rather they are exposing their biases to at least their immediate bosses, who ultimately make the decisions and trust their hired experts.
Apple was recently boasting of having nearly 800mn credit cards-enabled iTunes accounts. Doesn't seem to me they are short of users.

Also, Apple is primarily a hardware + associated services company. They're not interested in getting users that aren't Apple hardware owners.
RTFA

> “We have a very limited Wine installation, because there’s always the need to save the configuration of Wine together with the application. They’re deeply dependent. If you change the version of Wine, you have to do something with the application, and vice-versa. We saw that we’d have to use 10 or 15 different configurations of Wine on the same machine in some cases
The most surprising thing about all this is that a city council needed 15'000 PCs in the first place, implying a roughly equal number of users.
The functional flux/react architectural style is truly excellent. Over the last few months, Andrey Popp implemented a declarative form engine using React and it's much simpler to reason about than our older JQuery equivalent. Having undo/redo emerge as an almost-free feature from this architecture is super useful.

http://prometheusresearch.github.io/react-forms/
If you want to simulate this in JavaScript for all users, I wrote this short snippet: https://gist.github.com/matthewdfuller/69f990f58f1e0850443e
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This is simply untrue. The best headphones, speakers, and amplifiers, are designed to faithfully reproduce the recorded signal.

Have you seen the actual frequency response curves of headphones? They are by no means flat! They can approach flat from 20-20k, but there are always trade offs, at least until you get to certain price points.

What is good or bad sound is largely subjective and socially conditioned. The expectations around binaural recordings of natural sound are very different from highly produced studio production. What is bad in one context is good in another and vice versa. And while I'd go for headphones with better frequency response, it's not the be-all end all measurement either.

Then again, maybe Beats are a tragedy, since we are getting to a point technologically where every headphone could have reference class performance, if that is what the market wanted. That's not what the market wants. Maybe that's the real tragedy.
I wonder how this man with no memory could have been considered competent to consent to the preservation of his brain. That part seemed a little like a circus.
I don't see a free trial there.
Capsule works for any JVM application. It doesn't even have to be Java. It can use Java libraries, native libraries, a well-known server, your own server, with http, with a custom Infiniband thingy -- what have you.
EarPods are quite decent and the design is very ingenious.

However, the response is pretty neutral. I'd imagine the Beats acquisition is probably at least in part to make better headphones. I don't know if Beats' streaming licenses are transferrable.
I'd like to see a law that government offices can only have an internet connection as fast as the slowest constituent.
It's a giant market, as they hint at in the careers section: "our goal is to supply everything needed to rebuild civilization." They're far from done with their growth.
There's a proposal to fix the 'foo' case but, as an outsider, it's unclear whether it will be fixed in time for C++14. [0]

The vector case is unfortunate, but I'd personally argue the defect is in the vector class. There's no significant performance advantage, that I can see, to the (n, T) construction over a default construction followed by v.resize(n, T).

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n392...
Interesting, just yesterday I visited the "Landeskriminalamt" (State Office of Criminal Investigations) in Munich and they are just migrating all of their Windows XP desktops (They were criticized after paying a lot of money to keep getting security updates from Microsoft) to Windows 8.1. They mentioned that they are paying a lot of licence fees every year and that making sure everything is licenced correctly is a big task in itself. We asked them why they are not switching to open source software and Linux for their desktops and they basically said it's too big of a switch and even the city of Munich is struggling to migrate all their computers and that they are even thinking about switching back to Windows. This doesn't really seem that accurate after reading that article.

Edit:

Another anecdote from the visit: They said that even the switch from XP to 8.1 will confuse a lot of users (The guy giving the talk said that their average employee is already confused if some icons on the desktop change and they are very reluctant to accept changes). They printed flyers and recorded elearning courses on how to open a program or use the new system. They also added a simple way to migrate to some kind of legacy interface emulating the Windows XP look & feel for users who just won't accept the new system.
The OS is not the issue. Users mainly use applications not operating systems. Software that people need to accomplish their work is much harder to replace.

The team in Munich had to develop their own extension to OpenOffice/LibreOffice to support existing workflows http://www.wollmux.net/wiki/Hauptseite
You're not alone. Munich doesn't represent some unique enlightenment on the part of local government. It is just an ordinary political decision where the calculus was informed by conditions which just happened to be statistical outliers and thus the result is also a statistical outlier.

About the time this decision was rolling out, I worked in Municipal government. They had standardized on WordPerfect Office Suite. As part of my job, I attended a few council workshops and can unequivocally assert that these were neither visionaries nor geniuses. Just people making decisions that balanced their personal aspirations and the public good while answering their constiuancy.

This story gets rolled out every few months and draws the expected upvotes. One day I hope to read an inside technical account rather than 'Linux has Risen, Risen Indeed.' Today alas is not that day.
Can you elaborate more on how having these specific tweets helps your specific startup or how you are converting them from casual tweeters to your new users?

Right now there is a big disconnect in the post. I am guessing its because you assume the reader understands even what ner/nlp is
"Austria is a notoriously conservative and very bureaucratic country, which is deeply reflected by the political landscape" I am from Bavaria and this sentence exactly describes the politics there. Overall there is not much diffrence between Austria and Bavaria even the dialect is pretty much the same. No insults intended I live in Bavaria and work in Austria.
I have. I'm using it for a German tax reporting software (ElsterFormular), and I couldn't get it to run at all with the current Wine version (1.7.17), so I had to downgrade Wine to 1.6.1 so it would work (but not without prepending "taskset -c 0").

So yeah, when Wine works flawlessly, it's great. When it doesn't: good luck.
"In light of all the recent links and the sheer cosiness of American corporations with the US intelligence this starts to look prescient."

Hindsight is a helluva thing. If you remember back 15 years, not a single person knew of the recent revelations regarding the NSA. The "controversy" was about Microsoft's effort to curb piracy, and many (including myself) within the industry were weary of how authoritarian (or not) their approach was. Don't apply the knowledge of today to past events that did not enjoy the same.

"I could easily see a local government selling that to it's local workers."

What was kind of my point ... its sounds good to the locals but what actual results has it returned? Does Munich now have a robust Linux economy with local providers swimming in work? I can't say whether they do or not, only that the article lacked any proof of either.

"Microsoft won't disclose that kind of information to anyone, there is still not a clear picture of what various Microsoft products (including these days Skype) do and do not do."

I can't speak to this, as I'm not aware of how much or little MS has disclosed about what services within XP called home. I just found it hard to believe MS would exert such effort (how much did Balmer's time cost?), but fail to address the specific concern raised.
Great guys! I'm looking for one feature in rich text editor, which is bulletin points with checkmark instead of rounded dots, but I couldn't that in any RTEs.
Not quite true - Mac desktops are marketed as audio processing units. They even come with the software preinstalled. They took pains to make the mic-speaker loop low-latency so you could listen to yourself as you record.

Since other products are all about the audio experience, it does seem strange that the iPod, the device which most of humanity uses to experience music, does such a poor job. And Apple doesn't care. And neither do the people listening. Strange.
1) I've never had to use ExpandableListView. ListView I use all the time.
2) Most often, BaseAdapter
3) Both options. XML if I had to pick.
Never looked at it that way. Great point!
I don't think I've ever heard anybody claim that streaming algorithms permit O(n4) computation. That seems implausible. Most streaming algorithms are linear, or sublinear. I'm not sure what you meant by O or n or 4, however.
I would second this statement strongly. The only other brand I'd add to the list is AKG as they also have some wonderful headphones at around this price point.

I've done AB comparisons with friends who've bought Beats, Sony, Skull Candy etc. and they're always blown away by the difference between the product they bought, and my AKGs, A-Ts or Sennheisers. I recently tested some Beyerdynamics and would highly recommend them, although I still think A-Ts are the best bang for buck around.
Just ask him? He wasn't retarded, he just didn't have a working memory. You can also ask him multiple times.
Maybe the average person doesn't care to own/permanently store music, thus the reason apple isn't putting out giant iPods anymore.
Munich took a decade to do a partial transition with doubtful benefits. Getting that kind of commitment in time and money is not an easy feat.
"One day I hope to read an inside technical account"

Me too! Most of these feel-good Linux switch stories either fail to look at the long term picture (I switched to Linux last week and so far no problems!) or fail to address the specific reasons why Linux was chosen, or is superior to the MS products.

When I read that in this case they weren't saving any money, I was intrigued and eager to read about the real reason. Yet, after reading the entire account I still don't feel like there is/was any compelling data to back up or justify the decision.
Yeah don't want to get into a big thread about the menu ribbon bar - but the principle reason it is actually worse is, each item in the bar is rendered differently, making it worse for learning by new users. XP-style text menus you could at least search methodically, pulling down each one and opening each submenu until you found something. The ribbon on the other hand, is hard to search at all with different fonts and text positions and icons all scrambled together.

So the menu bar wins now, but principally because its learned (the hard way). Now it would be even harder to switch to anything else.
Videos like this should become standard for any major SV acquisition!
Originally the post was going to be a bit more technical but I decided to keep is simple and see what the reaction was to it. I'll make sure to put that in the technical post. For now I've included an image that I hope gives readers a bit more of an understanding on how we're using this application.
That's total nonsense. Binaries (or shared libraries they depend on) can be and are updated, on all sorts of systems. In many cases it's as simple as overwriting the existing binary with the updated version.

Heck, the runtimes you're advocating are generally installed as binaries. If they can get updated, then so can any other binary.

And if a user doesn't bother to update a given application's binary when a critical flaw of some sort is found, then there's a very good chance they wouldn't bother to update any runtimes that are installed, either. This is true even when some sort of update notification and installation process is offered. The end result is the same in either case: the update is not applied.

Runtimes shouldn't be portrayed as any better in this case, when they're generally no different than any other binary.
The inbuilt microphones do work very well. The whole loop is, as you say, heavily adjusted to compensate for the resonances of the unit. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some quite fancy DSP powering that.

I thought that was for making facetime and skype etc work well though? Musicians are not using the built-in audio interface, regardless of quality considerations, it lacks the necessary functionality.
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Even Beyerdynamic 770 Pro? I tried active noise canceling in the past, but found the sound ultimately fatiguing. I prefer passive cancellation now, and 10db is a significant amount of isolation.
15.000 for the administration of Munich, a city with nearly 1.4 million inhabitants. I don't see anything surprising here?
> Beats first and foremost is a fashion company.

This is the key. I would add it isn't just a fashion company, it is a _premium_ fashion company. I did a quick look at Amazon [1], and the price points are fairly solid: $99 to $299 for over-the-ear headphones, and around $45 for the in-ear models.

I doubt Apple could get away with this level of mark-up if they entered the headphone space. They have a solid markup on their accessaries, but I doubt the margins are similar.

Taking a step back, I wonder what Angela Ahrendts [2] is going to do with this brand. Is the beats brand part of their iWatch strategy?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_5?url=search-alias%...

[2] http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/angela-ahrendts.html
>some of the Linux desktops run Wine to support Windows applications. Which is a huge hacky configuration nightmare.

Wasn't that a total of two? From the article, it seems that they generally just used a Windows computer when they needed a Windows computer.
When I see someone wearing Beats I think "there's someone who overpaid" - those are the people Apple want to continue attracting, I guess that's behind this? But the price, seems steep.
> energy drinks that contain neurotransmitters

That's amusing, since people are already consuming plenty of neurotransmitters when they eat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid
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cynics are usually superficial. it's the easiest thing in the world to say "no".
Not very fast...
when loading a big PDF, before the save button can be used, it needs to render the whole thing first. I don't understand why, because all it has to do is save the file which it already has.
I'm very interested by the follow-up post, but there's no email subscription on your blog. :(
> recent fashion-binge with hires from Burberry and YSL

Angela Ahrendts (Burberry) was hired for retail and online store management. You might be onto something with Paul Deneve (YSL) though.
I looked at all the pages, picking them at random. It always did the one I had onscreen in seconds.
Wondering how much of this new traffic converted into customers...
You make it sound as if the migration wasn't a success while the original article claims it to be more than successful. In my experience, switching over PC's to something like Ubuntu is no issue in most cases. So they had to set a up a few computers with windows/wine?? That's no reason to keep all your PCs windows. Plenty of government have it the other way around where they're running Linux on a few computers and windows on the rest.

Also, while you quote a few articles that show organizations "changing their mind" on Linux, there are plenty of articles that show governments and organizations still attempting a migration, most recently the entire Indian government (http://itsfoss.com/tamil-nadu-switches-linux/), The French switched 37,000 PCs to linux (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/01/french-nation...), Don't forget the Munich saved 10,000,000 Euros by switching to Linux. I could keep going.

In my experience Windows is not needed in 90% of cases and when it is it's for a skilled task that involves skilled workers. It's a fact that skilled workers do not make up even close to a majority of the work force. Also, Ubuntu is certified to run on 70% of desktop computers: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/ . One of the the manufacturers I work closely with is Dell and for the most part I haven't had any problems installing Linux on any business model Dell desktop that there is. Business models don't typically come with high end nVidia GPUs and other unnecessary hardware, so upgrading to Linux is no problem most of the time. On budget and typical business systems Linux seems to be the king of resume times and performance (at least in my experience). I've only used windows 8 on an employees laptop and from what I can tell, it wasn't made to perform well on his Toshiba to say the least. I've seen both windows 7 and windows 8 running very well on the right hardware though. The performance of windows on budget hardware (~75% of consumer) is mediocre at best. Can we stop pretending Linux has no use for anything?
I put the blog post on Ghost droplet with Digital Ocean in a hurry as my first attempt with using Medium never ended up on the front page. I'll add one as quick as I can. For now follow me on twitter @trevorstarick. :)
Ahrendts will be selling its products, considering that she's managing retail operations.

Paul Deneve[1] (ex-YSL CEO) might do something with it.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-03/apple-hires-...
x isn't a variable, it's a tag. Because Python is dynamically typed, x can be an int one minute and a function the next, so every attribute on a class is stored as a pointer to an object, including attributes that are integers (which is an object) and functions (which are also objects). Because you aren't declaring the type of x (Python doesn't allow that), Python has to treat x = 1 the same way it'd treat def x(self).
Have you considered what potential there is for scaling in up? Because if all you are getting that way is 100 uniques a day, the effort involved sounds like it'd make it a net loss compared to simply buying the traffic via paid advertising. If the tweets continue to generate additional referrals down the line, then of course it might change.

But frankly, having seen the travel space up close, I find this system more interesting than your startup...
If Microsoft where (and I'm not saying they where) they would never disclose it to a small local government in German.

I always figured Ballmer flying in to save the day was more a "We really don't want a flagship successful transfer away from our products for the rest to rally around" defense than anything.

Anecdotally I have a friend in local government here in the North of England and their IT internally is already heavily linux and open source (everything from CentOS on machines through to Alfresco) as what they need to do with the budget they have been given makes open source attractive especially when you can't reduce head counts to save costs (councils don't normally lay people off except as a last resort).

I could see a Linux migration happening here in the next few years.
"Over the past decade"? Actually founded on March 21, 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) :)
"How I'm spamming Twitter to acquire 100 uniques in a day"
I'd like to have this done to all government agencies, at least all of the major ones.
Really weird to see the intersection of hip hop and tech on HN so much this week. I love it.

I understand why Beats are popular. They sound great with bass driven music. Its like when people put Bazooka sub woofers in their cars in the 90s. Yeah audiophiles and older people hated them but they sounded great with bass driven hip hop.

I still haven't figured out Apples play here. I'm starting to think its a best of both worlds with the earphone tech and the subscription services. I think they wanted them both equally hence the huge number.
Quite a bit but that might be because of our market. We're a P2P travel / sharing economy metasearch engine and the demographic we aim to target seems to enjoy traveling without burning a hole in their wallets. I'd like it to be a higher but its passive growth hacking with almost a $0 customer acquisition cost.