skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having closely followed the activities of Motorola and what Google's been doing with it post-acquisition, it's (now) obvious to me they were always trying to safely unwind it & protect the rest of their hardware partners[1]. The upside that they were hoping for was that the IP portfolio would be a good defensive weapon against Apple instead of an offensive one against other Android ODMs, but that didn't pan out. They were never expecting to be a major ODM themselves for the long haul.

You're right that the contractors working at that facility may have gotten their walking papers earlier had Google had not come around post-Nokia (it was a most recently a Nokia plant - not a Motorola one, IIRC), so there is that to be said.

Again, my complaint is that it's just terrible optics for Schmidt et. al, to have signaled a commitment to growing U.S. manufacturing and then sold this enterprise not 2 full quarters from tepid launch of a toned-down flagship that didn't even get full support from the parent company's management.[2]

Additionally, Google did not really spend an "enormous" amount of money creating tech manufacturing jobs. They shrunk Motorola and phased out numerous lines and support for them and released thousands of Mobility workers before even launching the Moto X.

Yes, this might have happened anyway, but it's not like they were trying to grow the business organically. They were winding it down (and getting it ready for sale) while talking about growing it.

They were also able to take advantage of Motorola's losses to offset their own corporate tax liability and I'm sure they got manufacturing credits in Texas on that plant, which is why they had Gov. Rick Perry and all the cameras there and played up the whole "bringing back jobs" angle even though they were all temporary contractors.

[1] http://www.unwiredview.com/2011/08/11/motorolas-sanjay-jha-o...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/motorolas-super-powered-googl...
floating point is hard. backwards compatibility is even harder
@stiff Thx for the better link!

Looks like a nice book, though the writing isn't outstanding. If someone out there is looking for a free calculus textbook, I highly recommend this one: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283 It's old too, but the writing is very entertaining---the author doesn't take the subjects seriously, but keeps joking around about how everyone takes Calc so seriously.

<shamelessplug>Hm... hm... I wrote a modern calculus book. It's not-free, but very affordable + it comes with physics. v4.1 is coming out next week...</shamelessplug>
My interpretation was that he suspects that the higher performing female students were the ones that were less likely to drop out due to the negatives that come from the male-domination of the subject. So rather than the professor's assertion that "females are the highest scorers", he is suggesting that "the females that don't leave are the highest scoring females".
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Someone ought to do Statistics for the Concerned Citizen with an angle on analytics and 'big data' and how these new applications of statistical inference may form part of decision making in the future.

Having said that I have a soft spot for Thompson's text.
I love this game soooooo much
Anyone who loves Flappy Bird will love this...
It's the opposite, you play the pipe instead of the bird
I have two young children, they won't attend a public school, or a private one for that matter.

I'm very optimistic about their education. However, there is no hope of educating masses of children in large assembly-line public school systems, because those systems aren't designed to educate.
Your theoretical answer doesn't even seem satisfactory. Given that you are American why should the German government be answerable to you? Lets say Japan's people are a-ok with the mass social media surveillance. Theres nothing stopping the Japan government from harvesting your (public) social media data the same way Sony does in order to gauge your interest in Playstation.
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We produce our own content, so we're also hiring course developers. A course developer has a huge impact on the way we teach and the courses we build.

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and no one was surprised
For those interested, Sunde got 2911 votes. The Pirate party got ~12000 votes in total. 106000 was needed for a single parlament seat.

Sunde was barely mentioned in Finnish media before the election.

http://vaalit.yle.fi/tulospalvelu/2014/eurovaalit/ehdokkaat_...
Well if you made a general add function that always performed an or operation on the least significant bit, it would be pretty interesting. You'd always flip odd and even in any addition.
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ChessNetwork on YouTube[1] has many videos of blitz chess tournaments where he provides commentary as he plays. Very interesting to watch!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWYS209ydE
> And you haven't got a hope of being able to buy any decent family home in London on this salary.

You haven't got a hope of being able to buy a decent family home in central London on that kind of salary.

If people can be bothered to commute just a little bit further out, you can in fact get a decent family home in Croydon for example, for 200k-300k. My 3 bedroom house with a garden cost use 208k when I bought it in 2004. The market has gone up, but it's still "only" valued at around 270k.

When we did buy, I was paid only a little bit out of that range, and it was only my income, and we lived very comfortably on my salary despite that mortgage. For years before that, I rented properties that cost me more per month even on salaries closer to the bottom of the 40k-60k range.

The issue, in my experience, is that younger people tends to want to live in areas that are more hip and closer to the centre, despite not having built up any equity, and if they can't, they often prefer to rent. And then years down the line they're still complaining that they can't afford to buy, when competing with people who spent the last decade living somewhere cheaper and building up equity that lets them put up higher total amounts and gives them access to cheaper mortgages.
Open Source GPGPU
I was fooled this would be an article about building apps for Google Glass. :)
> It seems backward to me.

That's just unfamiliarity. Spanish initially seemed backwards to me because they say "casa blanca" and not "white house", but you get used to it.
What do they mean by barrows? A pit in the ground?
You're thinking of the Web, not the Internet. The Web is already a layer on top of the Internet, though I'm sure you would agree that to call the Web intelligent would be out of the question. Good luck with the strong AI problem!
I've also seen that talk. In many cases I think the advantages which may be had from deep learning are likely to be marginal - a few percent improvement over the next best algorithm. Multi-layer neural nets already existed for a couple of decades, and deep learning is really just a refinement on that, making the training process faster and more robust to overfitting.
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I've been using BazQux since the Google Reader close and have been pretty happy with it. I don't think I've noticed a single issue with BazQux so far.

The web interface is actually quite snappy, in contrast to a lot of the overly-designed alternatives I tried out. That said, I generally interface with FeeddlerPro on my phone/tablet rather than directly hitting bazqux.com.
Blogspam? I demand satisfaction!
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I see no failure in this. Just a constant drive to do more that is wearing you out. You recognise potential in yourself which is keeping your focus on the future. The thought of 'why hasn't it happened already' is detracting from finding what makes you happy in the here and now. There's a balance that needs to be struck.

You seem focused on changing the world for everyone when in reality you can change the world of just one person or a handful of people and have that matter just as much.

I think you may find some of the motivation you need by starting small and creating & shipping something tiny. You need to get to the part of the feedback loop where people are using what you have made and you have an asset for yourself.

Your projects don't know if you have a degree or care if investors are on the horizon. What matters is they are enjoyed, finished and used.
`git config alias.staged 'diff --cached'` was the first alias I ever created.

Even for one-line changes I compulsively check `git staged` before committing.
Neovim looks promising. Not to derail the thread but is there a similar reimplementation effort on the Emacs side?
Good for having the export/migrate option.
Just type jk slowly.

Also see [1]:

:help timeoutlen

and

:help ttimeoutlen

[1] - http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27timeou...
How is what you said related to the article?
The concept of Acme remembers me of Xiki[1]. It would be perfect with better fonts and/or code highlighting.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUR_eUVcABg
Agreed evil in emacs is very good. It is the best vim emulator I've ever used and is even better than vim in instances (like when it shows you everything you are replacing as you type the replace command).

Lately though, after near a decade of using vim, I've been trying to unlearn vim. Many editors provide easy ways to navigate, search and replace the way you do in vim 80% of the time without all the baggage that modes bring. The baggage that vim creates is muscle memory training to navigate with hjkl which is incompatible with non-vim input boxes. I'm also not a fan of the vim source code or its creator and it may be too late for me to care about neovim.

Another negative aspect of vim is that at least in myself and maybe in others it leads to an unearned increase level of engineering confidence as you master an arguably useless, esoteric skillset that doesn't translate into better understanding of basic computer science topics. Vim does help improve regular expression familiarity, but that may be it.
yeah it's definitely more complex than just allowing IPv6 traffic by adding an AAAA record. For example, many applications will have tracking that expects typical IPv4 address format and will break in the presence of an IPv6 address. So even updating the routing layer won't be enough in all cases. :(
50+ years olds? <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20... 60+ year olds</a>, with a turnover rate that is unfavorably compared to the old Soviet Politburo.
Any judicial execution of a six year old would be nearly indistinguishable from ritualistic killing, IMO. The reasoning that, "they were outsiders, so they were killed" (whatever the guise of the killing) seems to match humans today pretty well, too (unfortunately).
Rails is a nice to have, but it's not a pre-requisite for the QA position.
I think one thing a lot of people miss is that vi's key bindings are more ergonomic. You don't ever need to press more than one key with each hand at a time, and you don't have to take your fingers from the home row. Meanwhile a lot of emacs key combinations are like playing "twister" with your fingers, and the guy who wrote most of it (RMS) developed a crippling case of RSI.

emacs lisp is much nicer to write extensions in than vimscript, though. It's too bad vim didn't copy that part.
My ISP (BT) has a full IPv6 implementation but it's not targeted at home users right now. I'll try contacting their customer support to ask about rollout plans but frankly, I don't think I'll get anywhere.

Personally, I think the point of IPv6 day was to provide people with something to access over IPv6. I got a tunnel after IPv6 day but I think I only used it on Google.

How can you disable IPv4 when your tunnelled IPv6-connection relies on it?

For me I was able to disable IPv4 as my router did the tunnelling for me, however I feel this article is primarily targeting those with native IPv6.
Let me clarify: Techcrunch articles talking about papers being published.

Blogspam to me is just something that talks about the stuff at such a high level, there's no meat in it. Within that subset I'm talking about academic concepts where you can learn a lot more if you just read the papers.
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We're looking for a few good unicorn jockeys
Ask HN: How to reclaim domain when caught between Yahoo and Melbourne IT?
Regretfully I used Yahoo Small Business to renew my domain name last time it was about to expire. I used a @yahoo.com email which I only signed up for for this.

Today I visit my site and see that it redirects me to an australian company called Melbourne IT telling me that my domain has expired.

I check my whois records and see that I used an old phonenumber and phone to register it which is why I didn't get a expiry notice. Stupid me, my bad! :(

I tried to renew it with Melbourne IT but I can't as I didn't directly host it with them.

Here comes the tricky part... Yahoo Small Business control panel claims I have no domains with them so I can't renew it. I try to find their support number to call them but they don't allow email nor phone support for "non-customers"?!

As I'm quite desperate to reclaim and renew my domain, does anyone here have an idea how I could do this?

I have posted on Melbourne IT's "24/7 support" which seems to be a community forum.
Especially to Evernote, that's really helpful.
Will they open source it?
> one needs a mechanical IBM Model M keyboard

While better than a rubber dome keyboard for sure, I think I'm one of the few people out there that prefers the Cherry MX switches over the oldschool buckling spring.

MX Browns with the o-ring mod (as to not disturb my office mates) is a dream to type on.
It also leads to some interesting programming errors in Java.

class A {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Integer a = 100, b = 100;
Integer c = 10000, d = 10000;
System.out.println(a == b);
System.out.println(c == d);
}
}

Prints:

true
false

For those unaware, the == check above is doing an Object check (are they the same object). The cache makes the '100' return the same instance of an object. To do actual value checks, you'd need to do c.equals(d)
Nice, comes with an API even. Seems like a serious project, not just a novelty website.

May I ask what kind of effort you've spent on the site? You've manually translated many of the english contributions :)

Suggestion:
- Add a little category icon to each card. Took a while to realize that the colors correspond to categories, and when I open the category dropdown the cards are offscreen so I can't tell/remember which is which.

- the "Bootstrap blue" doesn't seem to fit the rest of the (beautiful) theme.

- The title search has some titles available for which no cards exist. I'd love to know if anything from "A Fire Upon The Deep" has become reality already...
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The Wayback Machine is so essential to the nature of the internet that I wish it could be made into some sort of automatic, decentralized service that's part of the web itself. Imagine how much linked knowledge would permanently, irreparably disappear if this one company went out of business!
I'm afraid it doesn't really take an experiment to determine what will happen in my case, as my ISP (RoadRunner) doesn't support IPv6 at all (in my area?). So doing this would only result in a day without any internet…
I think yesod (http://www.yesodweb.com/) manages to achieve a decent amount of this stuff in Haskell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C

sorry for spoiling:

"??/" got replaced by "\"
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