skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft has a history of doing bad things. I don't know that the fear is warranted today, but "embrace and extend" was a real problem for a long time. Hell, Microsoft broke innovation on the web for a decade with IE. That wasn't an accident...it's just how Microsoft do.

There are certainly people within Microsoft who want to cooperate with the rest of the world, and their behavior has been better in the past several years, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's built into their corporate culture to destroy or coopt anything that might pose a threat to them. And, it may be that the only reason they aren't still destroying and coopting on a wide scale is because they have so much less power today. The web is not owned by Microsoft; in the end, they lost that war, despite trying very hard.

Anyway...Microsoft is not Google (and Google is not flawless in their relation to the rest of the web and Open Source). I think it's wise to proceed with caution whenever interacting with anything Microsoft has touched.
I actually wrote an application using WPF, and what's worse is it was relatively recently. The project was an audio/visual control application, and our CEO (not CTO) made the decision to use WPF because "the Mac fad was in its final days." (Never mind the obvious, platform-neutral rebuttals.)

Truth be told, though, the development process was pretty straight-forward and I don't have anything negative to say about that aspect of the project (though our application was pretty straight forward). The only downside was we deployed the application at a university, where about 90% of students and staff were running OS X and unwilling to install Silverlight on their machines, which made sense; the iPhone 4 was already out, and responsive, cross-platform access was already considered MVP by most product managers at the time.
Privacy isn't even mentioned in its features :(

https://android.com/versions/lollipop-5-0/
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/15/6983833/stop-gamergate-ga...

The last paragraph explicitly calls out your theory. You can consider things from different angles all you want, but when the angles you're considering are provably fiction, it's hard to see how they have a place in a discussion of facts.
What do you mean? There are no pitfalls when buying a new iPad.
Guessing you don't speak Italian, but this video should give you some idea of the visual differences at least... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZoneBqMvD0

Also, don't know how accurate this site is, but perhaps this will be of some use... http://versus.com/en/sony-xperia-z1-compact-vs-sony-xperia-z...
Many people don't realize that the Nexus 6 is not the next iteration in the Nexus line. It is Google's entry into the phablet market.

To me, the follow-up to the Nexus 5 is the Moto X. Decent specs, moderate price, stock Android, etc.
Well, try looking for these games on the Google Play Store?

https://www.ouya.tv/games/
I can echo what he says. The iPhone has absolutely enormous bezels, so much so that the iPhone 6 Plus is definitely larger than my Galaxy Note 3 despite its having a 5.7" screen. That was the first thing I noticed when I held them side by side at a store a few weeks ago.
I deployed a three node RethinkDB cluster the other day. The process was very smooth and I love the web UI. If operating the cluster proves to be as simple, they have managed to remove so many pains that you need to deal with with other vendors that paying for a hosted version makes little sense.
Which one should be faster, the N9 or the Shield?
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You can, but you'll really hate it :)
Precisely. I was expecting this to be incredibly useful. With the license restriction, these documents lose tremendous value.
I dislike negativity as much as the other guy but fusion specifically has been "10 years away" for the last 60 years. I'm not convinced, especially without any specifics about what improvements they made. Probably just another grab for funding.
Why Great Logging Is Key to Continuous Delivery
Speaking of the culture around static typing: Bob Harper's blog, where Matthias Felleisen gets 15 downvotes per courteous, thoughtful response...
7 Most Important Signs of Nice Girl Syndrome
Yep, although my computer is fairly advanced, so maybe that would not work so well on a slow computer.
Burying the only way out in the loop body is more error-prone, especially for those who come after you. Putting an escape hatch in the loop setup makes it less likely that an operationally-problematic[0] infinite loop scenario will be triggered. This is particularly important when your code doesn't have a runtime environment that can easily kill runaway requests.

[0] Or utterly catastrophic. Think embedded system with limited debugging facilities. This kind of bug could manifest as the system completely locking up, and take much, much longer to track down than a "infinite loop detected!" message in an error log.
Plus, the Moto G LTE has a 4.5" screen, has the same CPU and RAM as the 2014 version, and will get all the L goodness.

I have a G as a backup phone, and it is a great small phone. If I wasn't used to the performance of my X, I could definitely live with the G. Great screen, fast enough, takes an SD card, near-stock Android.
Mark from Catalyze. We picked non-commercial as the CC license type simply so that people wouldn't modify and then resell the documentation itself. From my understanding, the license allows users to use our docs for your company policies, but you can not resell the content itself. That would be against the spirit of what we are trying to accomplish with releasing the documentation. If you think that the license is prohibiting this, let me know. We want to make sure that we strike a happy medium of usage/keeping the policies "free".

EDIT: Yeah, it seems like there are some far reaching not-understood legal implications of the "NC" license. Ok, we're going to re-commit and re-issue these with the BY-SA. Should be up in a few minutes.
Yes, C# and lots of other language have that feature. Where it gets really tricky is if you want to dynamically check the type of functions or objects, since you need to run the assertions when the function/method gets called rather than when the function/method gets assigned to some reference. Its also tricky to give a parametric type to code that is implemented with dynamic types.
Actually, I subtly said "get the hell out of the way if you don't think it'll work," not warm and fuzzy smarminess. But it's much easier for you to mock if you read warm and fuzzies out of it, and I get that.

What I said, reworded, was the people who sit on the sidelines of anything and tell you, while you are trying something, that it won't work are among the worst people in the profession. I didn't say believe harder. I don't give a damn what you believe and don't need you reminding me, constantly, that my project has a chance of failure. Keep it to yourself or get on board. That's my point.

I am not a kind person, so that you'd ascribe feel-good nonsense to me is downright hilarious. I can handle it but a lot of people can't, and it's really, really tiring to keep a team from becoming demoralized when there's a naysayer popcorn gallery in every thread and watercooler discussion.
Unless one of those services is HBO Go. At least in my market, the cheapest cable package that includes HBO is extraordinarily expensive (often in the neighborhood of $120/mo). Of course, this makes some pretty thick assumptions about the cost of HBO Go as an over-the-top service.
I'm not sure why any competent programmer would use for(;;) or while(true) without explicitly including a break; statement.
I thought this pretty apparent a few years ago? Has everyone still been on the bandwagon and still developing in WPF heavily? I sure Microsoft is not going to kill it but it's not the active area of focus with RT. It's unfortunate. Friends that develop components have had to go from VB6 (native ActiveX/OLE C++ components) to WinForms to WPF to Silverlight (then back to WPF) and now RT. No one UI system to rule them all. Always uncertainty that it will change. Hell it changed a lot from CE 6.5 to WinMo 7 to WinMo 8.

On Mac we had classic (carbon) and then AppKit (which is arguably the same UI toolkit since the 90s on NextStep but still doing ok.. although feeling a little dated compared to UIKit).

Linux is a cluster of UI systems but at least X is stable.
Presumably, while one couldn't simply adopt this document verbatim, it could be used as an educational source when drafting your own original HIPAA compliance policies.
Doesn't that mean you just can't sell the policies? You can still use them internally in a commercial enterprise, no?
Have you checked out ATS[0] and the ATS book[1]?

0: http://www.ats-lang.org/

1: Sorry, I can't find the link at the moment. I'll try to update this later.
Wait until you need reading glasses.

Size matters

The ability to increase the font size and still see the screen at arms length is really nice
As the issue with bending phones demonstrates, plastic is hardly a failure of imagination in design and Samsung pretty clearly have that issue well understood.
The flip side of something like this is that it creates a "floaty" feeling, due to delaying UI update for several runloop passes (jumping from one queue to another). Sometimes this is more acceptable but often it is not. If you played with Paper, and felt it was "floaty", now you know why. If it didn't bother you, I guess you are less sensitive to this. Not to say this library is useless, like most things, when not abused, good can come from it.
I'll say it. Been using the iPhone 6 for several weeks. Love it, but the screen is just a little too big for my tastes. It's awkward and I miss the smaller screen. It's enough of an annoyance I'm looking at other phones for the first time.
Yes, we have some remote employees. I am myself in Quebec province, Canada. We have people in Brazil and in different US states too.
Any reason why? I'd love to read some discussion about it.
Great move for MS.

Not sure this is a good idea for Docker though. Doesn't it mean they lose their focus on Linux? Seems to complicate things a lot, and potentially introduce conflicts when prioritising what to do next. Simple is good. Serving a closed source operating system looks unwise, given the nature of their business.
Germany = Bizarro World
The wasabi sushi restaurants serve is pretty much never actual wasabi
If I understand correctly, I think Powershell DSC (Desired State Configuration) might be able to do what you need with regards to windows server config.

See:
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249918.aspx
- http://powershell.org/wp/2013/10/02/building-a-desired-state...
From what I heard, Chromecast and Google TV come from 2 completely different teams.
It is possible that Google will want to focus on only one of these 2, but it is also possible that they will push both ideas at least for some time.

I think Google stumbled on a very great idea with Chromecast. I don't want a smart TV with tons of features and a shitty interface that I have to navigate through with an awkward pad.

I want an extremely dumb TV that only displays what my other terminals (laptop, tablet and phone) tell it to display.
Speaking just as a developer updating code for L-devices, the new scheduling interface almost guarantees an improvement depending on how many apps that sync in the background you have installed.

The paradigm went from "wake up every 10 minutes, turn on the CPU, check for network, try to do stuff, if you fail, try again in 10 minutes, keep waking up the device" to "tell the device to do my stuff when next there is network and sufficient battery and the CPU is already on for the sake of running other tasks".
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I feel like a SaaS offering is required for databases now a days. I don't want to go back to manning my database again, so this is exciting news. That being said, we stopped using compose (when it was called MongoHQ) after they had a worst-case data breach in which our database and that of most users was completely compromised. I learned my lesson and I make sure I understand the security situation before I use a service now. But I can find zero information on the compose.io site about what they do and what you can do when using them to keep your data secure.
This is just dandy. We believe the risk of transmission in such a circumstance are low, but that low risk is counterbalanced by awful consequences if that belief is wrong or there's bad luck.

Note also that it appears to have been determined that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is not going to become the "Dallas Ebola Magnet Hospital of Excellence", she's being sent to Emory, which has 3 of the 23 hospital beds in the country that are truly equipped and prepared for Ebola.

ADDED: more joy, although one should be very careful about early reports of data that's in this case 2nd or worst hand:

However, Dr. Margo Erme from the Summit County Public Health said in an Akron press conference later in the afternoon that they’re not sure about the timeline. “We have gotten conflicting dates too, so we are actually looking at getting the manifest from the airline to actually confirm that because we have actually heard both.” She said her department is in the process of interviewing family members in Tallmadge, where they believe Vinson spent time. According to Erme, Vinson was “quite ill” when she went to the hospital and may be having trouble remembering details about her movements before she began to exhibit symptoms.

From http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/10/15/conflicting-timelines-a...

Unfortunately believable given the reported fever, although what "quite sick" really means is extremely vague.
Disassociating myself from #GamerGate
I think we sometimes forget the number of users who would try and get to your service, then bail because they need to boot-up Outlook, or work in a building with no cell reception.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity#Normal_vision
Get your developers to run Linux natively?
All I can say is - Sticking to Qt5 for now.
Interesting. Looks like it's a VA panel, which is better perf than TN, but less than IPS. Which would explain the low price, yet high res.
I'm actually trying to unlock myself from Chrome... although it's still my goto browser, I realized I'd fallen in heavily with Chrome, and my passwords are something I can't really share with, say my Firefox, Safari, or IE instances.
If you have the choice to deploy a WPF app, couldn't you ship something using chromiumembedded to get the benefits of a web app without worrying about browser compatibility? In the past, I've even dropped a CEF WebView into WPF and had the UI in HTML/CSS/JS.
The average humans vision is just fine st distances under a foot. Vision defects do not scale linearly with distance.
Not who you're replying to, but there's a similar class at Cambridge where you implement pong/game of life on an FPGA board. Some of the practical course notes are available publicly, though the full computer design notes referenced are not. There may be some interest in the basic sources and approach however: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/ECAD+Arch/

(Linked to the course I know from a few years ago, the course has since changed)
I would like to be able to view battery as a percent.
> Still, I don't think it's super appropriate, because there's nothing making the older phones worse, they just aren't getting better in the ways they obviously could.

They released an update to the Galaxy Nexus that literally halved performance across the board and never addressed it. The Nexus 4 has had similar woes.

I don't think it's necessarily planned obsolecence so much as allocating less resources to testing and fixing issues on older devices, but to an end-user the result is similar.
The Nexus Player supports Google Cast which may make it the best combination of Chromecast and media box functionality.

Apps on your phone should be able to control apps on the player, and the apps on the player can be used standalone. We'll have to see if apps from the Play Store gets Google Cast control, or if this only happens for the Chromecast-style web apps.

This has the advantage that you can select content on phone and then use the phone or remote on the player to control playback.
if OpenELEC, or Wii U were on there I would sign up immediately.
There's more than 3 companies, I can think of:

- Rainforest QA (for which I work for)

- Heroku

- Librato

- CircleCI

- Zappier

And there's probably a lot more than that.

What are the 3 companies you had in mind?
From the CC license: "NonCommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation."

I'm definitely not a lawyer and would like to hear from one interpreting the license for this use case, but it sounds like that could be interpreted to mean not okay to use for a business if it generated a commercial advantage, like HIPAA compliance.

Clarification from your lawyer (published on your site) would be good if you aren't okay switching to a more permissive license.

Suggestion: name them "FREE HIPAA DOCS AVAILABLE AT [URL]" and use a license requiring attribution, should make them hard to resell?
[bcrypt] Determine the number of rounds for a fixed maximum amount of login time
Tsu Register is free
http://www.tsu.co/getinvited

But... it's like earn cts reading emails? u remember?
I am writing a WPF app now, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. The issue I see with your example is that WPF as a platform went against just about everything your user needed.

* Alienate users with a platform that's not compatible with their OS by default (OSX, Linux)

* Alienate users with a platform that's not compatible with the multiple platforms you may be targeting (Tablet, Phone, Laptop, Desktop)

* Require an extra step (e.g. Silverlight plugin) for users to run the app at all

That's why the LoB example is such a powerful testament to how WPF may stick around. You've got 'trapped' users (for better or worse) who will likely be forced on the Windows platform.
I'm not sure, I might try doing a rubric later. Obvious uses cases to start with are the contrasts between FB and Snapchat.
I think you are looking for ShareAlike - i.e., that you can modify the content but must redistribute under the same license.
No, because the complaint you get is "I like this phone I bought, it has a great screen, but I can't reach the top half of it when I hold it, and my hand gets so tired, and I'm ending up with tendonitis or carpal tunnel all the time now."

These are all very real complaints - I've heard them from coworkers (who work at Google, so if they have a bias, it's in the other way) and family members, and I suffered from frequent tendonitis while I had my Galaxy Nexus that went away when I "downgraded" (in screen size, at least) to a Moto X.
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WPF is dead in the sense that Microsoft doesn't want to be promoting a non-cloud, non-mobile technology. WPF is alive in the sense that it is the best solution for meeting certain customer needs today.

For example, we have a very heavy desktop application that needs to run on Windows 7 PCs with IE 8. When we started developing this application a year ago, the cost to do it in HTML5/CSS/JS given the maturity of the tools at that time, compared to WPF, made WPF the obvious choice. In a few years when local web databases and synchronization frameworks have improved (we just saw a really neat one a day or two ago here on HN) and all the machines have been replaced with Windows 10 and IE 11, an offline web app would be the right choice. But we can't (or, don't want to) delay development until that time. So, for now, WPF is the right answer.

But anyone who thinks WPF is still a first-class citizen or that Microsoft is going to come back in marketing support of it is probably kidding themselves.
Really cool -- we've been working on a similar framework at Parse.ly called streamparse:

https://github.com/Parsely/streamparse

http://blog.parsely.com/post/1172/streamparse/

Will really look forward to evaluating this and seeing how the frameworks compare, and perhaps some way to collaborate across the projects.
http://grabaperch.com

Started life as a side project of our consulting business, is now all that we do. Not big as in making us millionaires big, but it's a profitable business. I wrote about a lot of the story of Perch and the stuff we learned in my book (another side project!) http://rachelandrew.co.uk/books/the-profitable-side-project
Exactly. The "telephone" app is just another app on my phone, and far from the most important one.
Thanks.

Some of these aren't properties exclusive to redirection sites... but I'll readily admit they're very much standard features there, while mostly not too common elsewhere.
This article set my mind at ease a bit. Hopefully it can do the same for others.
I agree. My iPhone 6 is too big. Not an iPhone 6, just a regular iPhone. I've had it since launch day, so I've had plenty of time to get used to it. Whenever I pick up my wife's 5S, it's like a breath of fresh air.
If you're generating integers, or selecting from a discrete set with uniform probabilities, there's no reason to involve floating point at any point in the process.
Useful thread at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/poodle-attacks-on-s.... OpenSSL 1.0.1j is released with TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV support if you really need to keep SSLv3 enabled too.
Take a look at Nexus 5. It's an extremely nice phone and will remain so for a while.
“Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements.” (2002)
"Modern consumers seem to be perfectly fine with trading all-day battery life for better display"

No, they're not. Plenty of people bitch about how frequently they need to charge their phone, and only tech-savvy people realise how large of a factor screen choice is on this battery drain.
Oh awesome, thanks! I was looking for addons yesterday, but I must've missed this one. It does everything I want, so I'm placated for the moment.
This! I made the mistake of ONE TIME using the xfinity wifi hot spot and suddenly my phone became severely crippled as it would randomly try to be on some hotspot (configured or not) with that SSID.
This is a perennial submission (http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/http%3A%2F%2...) but hasn't shown up in a while. I'm resubmitting it because it's part of the canon: you can't understand Silicon Valley big politics/business without understanding this concept in some way - otherwise, you'll be mystified by moves like Google's Android or big tech giants going into fields that seem only tangentially related to their core business.
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Nano Sim. Do they really need the space saving from micro to nano? Prepaid carriers charge extra for nano sim. Not sure if it is because it is more expensive to manufacture. Requires more delicate handling for those who swap sims which is more common in Asia.
The idea with Linux is that you contribute your time to the project or helping others. That's how you pay. If you don't do anything of that, you are freeloading.
I don't think "financially impossible" was the phrase they used. As far as I know, they simply seemed to feel it was disadvantageous at that time.
Wrongful life
I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is spicy and delicious.
“Transhumanist Fables”
What is your relationship with Google?
Bummer. Is there no "forget this network"?