skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICANN has policies in place if a "Registrar" goes under. They will request other "Registrars" to take over.
Most programming languages implicitly type erase closures, C++ does not. Type erasure can come at the cost of heap allocation and indirect function calls. If you need type erasure in C++ you can put any callable type inside std::function.
"sudo chmod 777" - ALERT!
My completely uneducated guess is that you won't be able to remove the Windows services. The reason being that Microsoft haven't so much produced an Android phone as a low end Windows mobile services phone. That seems quite a sensible strategy.
Oh and we haven't adopted the Euro as its current parents still appear to want it even though it's caused no end of trouble in its teen years.
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What word would be more appropriate than homophobe here? I know it's fun to argue, but what is your point?
That's how I have it working here in the UK as well and I think most people do.

A couple of hours after 6pm and a couple of hours just before you wake up. All controlled from a simple timer.

Yes, Nest would be a fancier solution, but I don't really see much benefit a part from the 'coolness' factor.
I'm not sure how this differs from them as it has exactly the same interface. Unless it comes with Google Play?

I've got a dual SIM version of the Nokia X and it's about as bad as you imagine it to be. Side loading Google Play helped, but it's still not great. The Moto G is a much better investment.
In addition, adopting the Euro would mean giving up independent monetary policy. Unilateral monetary policy across regions with disparate economic performance can be very problematic.

Consider the case of Hong Kong, which has effectively adopted the US dollar (pegged in 1983). Despite the fact the economy has been growing strongly and inflation is running around 4-5%, interest rates are near zero, as dictated by the Fed.

As a result, fixed asset prices have soared, with residential real estate rising 100% over the last five years.

Those that own assets benefit and everyone else gets screwed as asset price changes feed into cost of living without wage growth to compensate. No surprise then that HK has the most unequal income distribution in the developed world. [1]

This also works the other way. So as others have pointed out, until there is a proper fiscal union (which I certainly can't see in the foreseeable future), the decision to not adopt the Euro seems wise.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...
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Honestly I would get a mentor. Find someone either in your org or out of your org that has the skills and career you would like to work towards and start talking to them. If you hit it off you may have found someone who can help you through the bumpy parts of your career and help you plan your next steps. Some people charge for this as career coaching and that can also have some value but it's challenging to sort out the best ones. Every place I've gone I've looked for a mentor to bounce ideas off of and generally double check my thinking and how I'm approaching problems and my career. You can go to industry events and start reaching out or just look for people you admire and reach out and start a dialog.

I personally think the concept of apprenticeship is lacking in the technology industry and we loose out on what other older professions have with clearer career paths because of their established practices of guiding people though their careers. That said I've seen it abused too so there always needs to be balance in these things.

I personally coach about five people (for free) in my current company and they come from all areas of the org not just my group. I was very lucky in the early days to have several great mentors in my life who helped me and I feel it's my job to pay that back now in the latter years of my career.

Books are wonderful but nothing beats interacting with successful people.
Thanks for the reply; the last feature is pretty cool. I'll certainly have a play with the free 'dabbler' edition (I forgot what it was called), but it doesn't sound like there's much to tempt me away from Mathematica for the time being. I use the CAS stuff a fair bit now.
Oh, I didn't know betfair had an API, that's interesting. Do you know if there exists an open source implementation for any languages, or do you roll your own?
Can one still load apks ? though ? I wonder.And is there a specific sdk for this phone?
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Can't forget Moshidora (What If the Manageress of a High School Baseball Team read Drucker's "Management"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshidora
SMF is nice for users and usually OK for admins but the code is indeed a mess, and, for example, it stores usergroups as a comma-separated list in a VARCHAR(255), so it will break horribly if you have many membergroups.

Source: admin on a SMF2 forum.
> Just because you're not looking, doesn't mean they don't exist.

Did I say really say that? And was that jab really necessary?

I'm well aware of the Moto E. It's definitely a competitor to this phone, but it's likely more expensive.
What does a 17 year old have to do with the Code Avengers redesign?
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You mistakenly equate "hacking" with "making flakey".
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I don't think this is the right forum to post it (though I agree that the article raises some very pertinent questions)
> I doubt they are burying it, I rather assume they are just going to continue with it

I'd love to agree but still it hurts ,when one looks at the specs,dont you think?and if that phone is really successfull, what's next? this phone obviously cant run Windows Phone apps,so why did I get all these IDEs and Sdks on windows to produce apps for Windows Phone? I'd like MS to make it clear what is the strategy here.
It seems like Microsoft and Amazon are not getting the real benefit of this platform by excluding the Google Play store from their versions of the Android experience. I guess it's understandable why they're doing that, it's just bad for users.

Are there some kind of licensing terms that prevent them from shipping forks like this with the Google Play store as one of two app stores available? Would they have to make the all the Google apps 'first class' citizens just to allow users the ability to install any of them ala carte?
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Yes, absolutely. Cargo cult doesn't have the best reputation, but this would be an opportunity to cherish it :-)
It's a Nokia phone, not a Microsoft phone. It takes an average of 18 months to bring a phone to market. The Nokia acquisition was completed just two months ago, and the teams must be fairly independent right now. While the Nokia acquisition was being completed, Nokia was legally required to act as if the acquisition would fail.

China approved the Nokia acquisition only on April 8, what would have happened if they didn't? Without an Android strategy, Nokia would be left without any momentum for atleast a year in a fast moving market. Remember how FTC denied AT&T and Tmobile's merger?

The only interesting thing here is that Microsoft didn't immediately kill the X2 and lay off Nokia's Android team. They could do that anytime or sell that division to some other company. There would be a lot of people at MS calling for its head. The headline, story and most of the comments seem to be implying that it's Microsoft that conceived and implemented this idea which is wrong.
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> Oh, and I agree that the tabbing makes it look ridiculous. Javascript should use two spaces, nothing more, nothing less (let the fight begin).

That's not the code's fault, GitHub should set the tab-size[1] property to something more legible.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#tab-size
> government can become and is too large to benefit the people
This is gaining more steam, however its not the conservative small government (less public sector employees). Its the belief that countries should divide to be smaller nations.

That way less power/money is controlled centrally. What we are getting is the direct opposite of communism in that wealth is not spread evenly and central planning is happening.

Whilst I like the concept of a European currency, it fails to provide benefits for local regions with differing needs. Germany's economy is built on manufacturing whilst Greece is tourism and agriculture.
Thank you for making this clear! :-)
I had worked for a social network, and our system provides a function to let user upload their photo then transform it to some fixed size of original one. We did have pre-transformed and on-demand too.
Pre-transformed for the image that's most viewed by user, like new feed's photo (720x720), large photo (1024x768), and the origin one (if user's screen is detected as big screen), we have to resize it asap. Other sizes, like thumbnail, we do on-demand transform using nginx resize filter plugins, and caching using varnish and/or traffic server.
That system have been working well until this time.
I would say on-demand transformation is good idea, since you don't have to store resized-image that's never viewed by any user, so you save your storage. But that idea must be implemented well, very well if you're going to serve million users.
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DanielBMarkham has been on this site for a long time and is pretty well known, so I would trust him not to put shady links.

I also heartily agree with him that lots of business books are best digested as summaries - look them up on wikipedia, for instance. The fundamental problem is that many have a simple idea, but you can't sell a 10 page book. So it gets fluffed up with lots of case studies and extra material until it's long enough to sell as a book.
Yes. No strategy at all. They want to sell everything. Just Sales figures? That qualifying factor won't let them survive in market for a long time. They need Strategy. If WP is their vision, they should just stick to it. Launching forked Android might be okay for Amazon, but for MSFT, if they keep on doing this and that too at this low cost, they are marketing for Google!
He runs through how he did it here: http://www.chrispattle.com/blog/simpsons-in-css/
Isn't it a repost ? I've seen it here before
It's actually "Opera" based on Blink.
Not (yet) with other Nests that I'm aware of, but they're making deals with the power companies. Users can get discounts on their bill for allowing the power company to bump energy use down a degree or two during peak times.
Everything I have read seems to suggest that the problem is not with the product and more with the individual and what happens when you allow something to cover your skin and never take it off for a long period of time. The larger surface area of the force being the biggest problem.

I don't think a recall taking a few months is extreme, as an investigation into what is causing a medical problem might not be the easiest thing in the entire world, not to mention the fact that it just takes time to investigate period. I'm also sure that the decision to stop selling them entirely and to ask everyone to return them, likely to have them never be sold again, is not something that is often decided at a moment's notice because someone complained on an internet forum.
As much as this UI is Apple.

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Adwaita+Cupertino?con...
Type erased closures are strictly less useful than subtype polymorphism + virtual functions (another form of type erasure) as the latter allows you to share data among an entire interface.
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The main utility that I see in the OWASP Top 10 is as a baseline for the knowledge that we should all be expected to have as developers about web security -- knowledge that should be tested at interview, for instance.

My main criticism on the other hand is that some of the items on it are too broad in scope. This is especially true of A2 "Broken Authentication and Session Management" which covers three or four vulnerabilities that may be closely related in terms of functionality but are very different technically. Insecure password storage, session fixation and login recovery workflows all have quite different considerations and trade-offs and I'd have thought they would each be worthy of their own separate section.
http://gigaom.com/2014/06/24/microsofts-android-line-evolves...

"Here’s a fun game. Mentally rewind 5 years and see how likely the following sentence would have been: Microsoft has decided to make Opera the default browser on its new, Linux-based Android handsets."
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The track pad is very important to me, a working one is very useful, and who wants to carry around a mouse (and find a table to use one) or suffer from guerilla arm using touch all the time. If it is important to you, you can only get a MacBook.
Software dev age limit?
*human bart == white bart.

(edit: caucasian)
Advanced search generally isn't.

It usually comes down to either searching the search terms for specific keywords, or tokenizing the search terms. The keywords are then treated as special, and may be used against different backend stores or with different pieces of logic.

What this means is that a simple search has a single well-defined execution path... and simpler code is easier to check for attack vectors and to harden.

Advanced search introduces many execution paths, possibly facing different tech, and is likely to have multiplied the attack surface whilst making it hard for a developer to spot all of the attack vectors.

Other problems arise from this: If you pre-process the search terms to clean the input, it may be that a later step in your "advanced" query transforms the search terms in a way that makes an attack possible.

Basically: Keep It Simple Stupid rules when it comes to security and advanced search not implemented by someone mindful of security will probably knock big holes in whatever security you think you have.
This has been posted before (8 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6710863

But according to the git-commit log, in the last two weeks, he's added the blinking (the code for which is pretty cool)...and since the last submission, he's added Apu, Comic Book Guy, and Ralph Wiggum...so that definitely deserves a resubmit.

Given that the blinking was the first difference I noticed...I would love to see Blinky, the 3-eyed fish

on a side note...I remember cloning the repo as soon as I saw it on HN, just because I thought for sure it would attract a takedown notice. Hope I didn't just jinx it...
As far as I know Tunisia, which is all contingencies is talking about, is doing pretty well.
I don't know about the 18 months, the Blackphone started development in December or January and is coming out in a few days, which is a far cry from 18 months. Maybe that's an outlier, though.
I'm curious as well. It's very nice that the Mercedes integration is in theory just an app, but like you I don't have a house that's compatible with Nest.

It would be really nice though if there was an open protocol for this stuff. I'd like my car/phone to tell my house that I'm on my way, even if I'm not using anything Nest-like.

Sadly, a sense of realism tells me open protocols aren't really what any manufacturers have in mind. So far it's all tightly integrated walled gardens.
Connected objects and assisted living
"His strategy was to risk his lead ships in order to break the coherence of his enemy’s fleet."

He defines strategy incorrectly. He means "tactic". I think the problem is that "strategy" sounds more important, but it irks me every time someone confuses the two. (The US military thinks the difference is merely one of the size of the operation, which is also wrong.)

Nelson's strategy at Trafalgar was to have a decisive battle versus a skirmish. He wanted to destroy the French navy (and was willing to risk everything to do it).
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It was developed before or after Elop's burning platform speech ?
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Its taken from a BBC article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27731725

It seems to work well for Nordic countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries#Demographics
Will it be possible to flash the phone with a stock Android ROM, or some other ROM that has access to the play store?

I realize that's not relevant to the vast majority of the market, but I'm curious.
CSS has gone too far. We are playing God here.
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It reminds me of Spore, but it already looks a lot more promising than Spore.
To me, this looks like Microsoft opening a new front against Google and one which has the potential to change the landscape - note that I said 'potential', I'm not claiming unequivocally the strategy will be successful and Google will be sent to the dustbin of history.

What I am claiming is that Microsoft:

+ May have the killer smartphone app - carrier independent voice calls (aka "Skype").

+ Clearly has a more thoughtfully designed user interface in the form of Metro versus Android's WIMP on a phone mashups.

+ Could offer a more thoughtfully integrated suite of development tools should they get Android tooling into Visual Studio.

+ Already has a set of platform agnostic cloud services that are at least as good as Google's and since they include Office more attractive to general users.

+ Because of their B2B orientation, access to revenue streams other than advertising and therefore more latitude in providing a more appealing user experience in the consumer market.

Finally it is possible that Microsoft will play the
'bundling' card against Google's policy in regard to its platform, and by producing an Android phone, they get legal standing.
Hi guys, we're actually working on bare-metal PaaS, and we're a couple of weeks away from launching a beta.
There's a huge support cost in providing self-host, together with an impact on image (ease of use, etc). With the tiny proportion of people who actually would self-host, I don't think it makes any business sense.

I want a self-host, and generally resist on any technology unless I can, but at the same time I don't expect any company looking to sell products to actually do it.

So self-host generally only goes hand-in-hand with non-commercial projects.
1st "Thinking in Systems"
http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/...

2nd Article "Leverage Points" http://www.donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-place...

after these two you will have enough know-how on how to identify and manage systems (i.e.: your growing company)

then the only thing between you and success is reality, for how to influence the company reality you live in please read

3rd "Seeing Systems" http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Systems-Unlocking-Mysteries-Org...

good luck and have fun (with the books, with your new responsibilities)
Add imaginary "for/in USA only" to every title on HN.
Understand Lean paradigm as a way of delivering business value: http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Lean-Resolving-Efficiency-Parad...

In terms of agile - I believe that scrum and related are too operational-related and not really strategic. You can skip that and delegate crunching it to others.

Master delegation - 1 minute manager, etc. - read at least one short book about it. Don't fall into micromanagement trap.
Take a break for half a year or something anyway, and then have a look at the Oxfam thing, it sounds cool. You can also do that part-time, no need to force it. Good luck nikki!
Ask HN: Just learned to code, now learning to market.
Any advice in terms of Facebook ads best practice?

I'm really surprised there aren't many blog posts or startups dedicated to this space for small businesses. Specifically, I'm looking for something that will allow me to do A/B testing, and it will just optimize and randomize everyday using basic statistics. Seems like everyone should be doing this and I'm really surprised that it's not talked about more.

I looked into AdEspresso and Qwaya. AdEspresso is very limited (only side ads). Will tryout Qwaya, but it's not cheap after it's 30 day free trial.

Thought about trying writing something myself, but couldn't find an Ruby gems specifically for Facebook Ads API.

If anyone has any tips or links, would really appreciate it!

Oh, btw, for any iOS developers, save yourself some money by joining the Apple affiliate program and use tokens for your own links.

http://david-smith.org/blog/2013/08/19/itunes-affiliate-linking/

Bam! 7%!
We've added full-on user accounts now, rather than the anything-goes system we had in place before. Visitors can still vote on anything, but only registered users can submit content. We're hoping this will increase the quality of the content a bit, while also allowing us to provide more functionality to the users who do sign up. Some if those added features include email controls, a scoring system for users, and a commenting system for each scenario. As the site scales, the commenting will allow for discussion of merits or the scenarios and words. Finally, we've implemented a new emailing system to give users a "daily digest" of what's changed for them on the site. Before, you'd receive an email anytime something happened on your username - that sucked if your submission became popular. Now, everything is compiled into one email, which gets sent once per day, max.

There are lots of other, smaller changes as well, all geared toward increasing retention and sharing, but those outlined above are the major changes.
The natural assumption is that the hacker has got your password, not hacked gmail or hotmail, etc.
use ctrl+ a few times to make everything larger - the eyelids start to close. Not sure how intentional that was, but it's sort of cool - gives the characters a completely different feel.
It is a re-post but who cares. I'm very impressed with the results, it's very easy to spot when something's not quite right with a character draw (eyes too big/small, mouth slightly too wide etc) but I can imagine getting this close to the 'real' thing wasn't easy.
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The South African chartered accountant industry does, in fact, have its roots in the UK tradition: https://www.saica.co.za/About/SAICAHistory/tabid/70/language...
Universim is much closer to Spore and got funded not few weeks ago.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crytivogames/the-univer...
Do they really send takedown notices to projects like this one?
Maybe https://github.com/betfair/API-NG-sample-code is a good place to start?

Also:
https://developer.betfair.com/ http://forum.bdp.betfair.com/

I was careful about using someone else's code for handling my money! So I used basic example code that I understood (I no longer remember where I got it, sorry), then extended it.

From various forums etc, there seems to be a big pool of people doing this sort of thing. Also, from the betting market dynamics, you can see there are other algo traders - watching the in-play betting on soccer matches is quite amazing - the bettors work with such small margins and big volumes, 'predicting' the game in real-time. Most impressive.
There are pro's and con's in both choices. However I believe that over the course of my lifetime we'll need a fundamental change in the way we are governed if we are to progress as a race.

The growing rich poor divide and lack of social mobility seem like a backward step.
Well, I hope someone tells them their backdoor has been compromised.
I can do better: http://paulrouget.com/e/simpsons/ :)