skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK, the switch to RPM happened when Nokia was still in the game, as part of their joint agreement with Intel that transformed Maemo into Meego (which is now Jolla). Intel's own "linux for phones" project was based on RPM; the idea was that Intel would have brought better OS internals, and Nokia would have provided a better UI, playing to the strengths of both projects.

By then the development of N9 was already at an advanced status, so it didn't switch to Intel-provided internals; the N9 is basically the last Maemo device, and everything Jolla did afterwards is the Meego we would have seen if not for Elop's self-sabotage.
E-ink parts are a hassle to obtain in small quantities; colour even more so. And the colour tech isn't great: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/05/the-once-bright-future-of...

I suspect the answer to "will people pay ~$100 for a washed out colour photo frame that is slightly less inconvenient than normal LCD digital photo frames" is "no", but you're welcome to try.

I used to work for a consultancy that did hardware product prototyping as a design service. We were good and very wide ranging but not at all cheap. The cheap DIY end is probably covered by the maker/hackerspace/arduino/rasberrypi movement which has evolved from the older ham/model railway ecosystem.

Another wrinkle is that if you want to sell electronic goods you need to consider FCC/CE/UL certifications, and there is no minimum quantity for the rules to apply. That increases the cost of the MVP greatly.
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I'm not following the cause and effect of your logic. Are you missing a point or two? Perhaps "The ones who are paying for it are paying less than they need to"? or maybe "The ones who apportion those taxes have no financial incentive to apportion them wisely"?

Even in those cases, there should be enough distance between those paying the tax (in whatever portions) and those spending the tax to ensure that the government runs without interference and can provide the best service at that price point. If the service isn't good enough, then increase the price point. If you don't want to increase the price point, then reduce the quality of your service.

Either way, I think the argument falls into the category of "Wealth redistribution is a broken concept", and that's a whole 'nother ball game that any discussion on schools just isn't big enough for.
I've had the Jolla phone since January. I'm very happy with the device - the UI is great, it runs Android apps well, has a full Linux environment. The phone itself also looks really smart (IMHO)

I had some brief issues with the phone spontaneously rebooting, which was solved by wedging a piece of paper at the back of the battery so it made a better connection with the contacts. Such are the joys of buying a first gen device I guess...
Included inside: an sqlite3 DB with the starting/ending positions of the games, so you can run your own analysis over them.
Harrapa & Mohenjo-daro are both in Pakistan. Both of the sites are famous and most of the kids in Punjab province visit these sites through school/college trips.

Most of the remains of the Indus Civilization are in Pakistan.

One of the oldest known sites of early Harrapan culture is not mentioned in the article is Mehrgarh [1] and belongs to Neolithic period (6500 BCE to c. 2500 BCE).

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrgarh
It might be that trickle-down only works if the people from whom it trickles down are in some real way dependent on the trickling-down. Which seems not to be the case here, as cies said.
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2010 model (1280x800) here and the menu bar / general font looks fine for me.

Here's the bar for me: http://i.imgur.com/oKnD674.png
I'm no expert, but no. Most big sites rely on a fairly short TTL.

It's a thick layer of caches. Your browser, OS, router, ISP, and a bunch of intermediaries can cache the DNS. So even at 60s, you get good cache hits (the busier, the more true that is, of course)

Also, the update can always happen asynchronously. You and 9999 people ask your ISP for Facebook's IP. It serves all of you a slightly stale IP and asynchronously fetches a new one (thus turning 10000 requests into 1). AKA: thundering heard problem.

DNS mostly uses UDP, which is more efficient for the server and harder to DOS (the server doesn't have to maintain state per request).

Finally, # of requests is usually (always?) a factor in the price of DNS services. So the cost is borne by the clients, not the service providers. And since DNS hosting is seemingly profitable, I assume they're more than happy to build up the infrastructure to deal with additional requests.
=\ charging for a bad review is not going to increase your good reviews. It's like companies don't think before they pull this type of shit.
Seems like this might be really fun to hack with (I would love a more open, vaguely nice mobile device), but I'm sceptical about the lack of a firm processor choice at that price... Even i it is an 'early adopter one'.

If I thought they weren't going to reach their goal I'd go for it, but doesn't look look like they'll have any issues there!

I liked a lot of the Jolla ideas on the phone too, hopefully this'll be great!
> You're talking about translating from one high-level language to another, and expecting the interpreter for the latter to care anything about the rules of the former.

Yes; but the Closure compiler knows about the semantics of JS and generates a shitload of disgusting low-level wrappers and checks that implement the retarded JS semantics. You're right in that there are cases where this breaks down, but Closure is not really a high-level-language to high-level-language compiler. The JS output is not in any way human readable (look, for example, at http://de.indeed.com/s/8a9f5dc/jobsearch-all-compiled_de.js).
OK – this post has a higher ID than the other one; I assumed they were assigned sequentially.
The economy of the north already collapsed in the 1990s, with on the order of 500,000 people dying from famine. But this did not break the regime.
One thing is to say that German has the best economy of the Eurozone, which is a fact we can all agree on. Another thing entirely is to attribute this to reunification, considering how the situation is in the Eastern half of Germany.
It's a moderately aggressive way to get people to change their passwords (more aggressive than an email or prompt, less aggressive than forcing upon login)
NSLs? US agencies are legally able to perform MITM attacks under US jurisdiction.
Or you can install Certificate Patrol (https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/certificate-patr...). And then you'll cry at the amount of sites badly configured.
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First of all, I thank you for responding and bringing statistics to this conversation. You are right that I seemed to have generalize what my friends said to all young Koreans, at least in the way I wrote it. I should have been more careful with what I said.

I think the article you linked actually gives ammunition to my claim that as time passes and memories fade with them, reunification is becoming less popular. I mean, the headline ends with the clause: "dreams of unity fade into past for young South Koreans." One of the 20-somethings interviewed here opposes unification based on economic and financial grounds. As another poster commented, though, a majority still do support reunification.

With respect to my saying the rest of the world wants them to reunite, I admit that was hyperbole. The reason I said it was that every single comment on this story so far started with the assumption that reunification was right and we want it to happen[1]. I think something closer to the truth is that a lot of us in the western world don't necessarily want to see reunification happen as much as we want the North Korean government to fail. Anyone who has heard about the famines and seen pictures of children dead in the street would want that. Reunification, of course, would be the "natural" step after that. However, it's ironic that for many South Koreans, they are simply indifferent, or outright opposed to the idea.

So, I what I was pointing to was the fact that while a lot of us in the west seem to think reunification is the end goal, a significant number of Koreans, the actual people who we are discussing, do not favor it. I felt it was fair to point that out since the conversation at the time seemed to have hinged on the assumption that it was the right thing and the South Koreans themselves wants to go along with it.

Somewhat related, but this [2] has always stuck with me. This video was aired back during the time when tensions were running high and CNN was ablaze with talk about Kim Jong-Un and the NK state-run media said this and that, etc. At that time, I was considering studying in SK for grad school, and the typical response involved some shock that I'd want to go to a warzone. It's ironic that in SK itself, people were much more interested in their pop culture, their daily lives, than the hatred spewing from up North that was littering our news articles here in the west.

[1] So by "the rest of the world", I meant, "you all in the room", the kind of hyperbole you let out when you want to say a dissenting word against the common opinion.

[2] http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/international/2013/0...
It ought to work with Handoff and let you open iOS Safari's current web page in Chrome. Currently you get a popup with the Chrome icon but it doesn't work because Chrome isn't 32-bit(!)
You've written why: the badly aliased fonts.
Wow, that book you linked is truly a terrible example! You can get much better results than that from TeX (XeLaTeX, ConTeXt, etc).
> This whole story feels like they took a frustrated guy venting at dinner and making it into a conspiracy.

A frustrated guy venting at a business dinner, attended by an influential crowd, specifically addressing a person they just hired that could (and probably would) make this "conspiracy" happen for real if he made the call.

See, personally, I think even in a perfectly informal off-the-record setting, what he suggested was simply wrong and should be called on it. Whether you're frustrated or not. Unless it was extremely clear from the context it was just a joking "haha we should .." with no intent to follow through, then, maybe then it becomes acceptable to say these sorts of things in an informal off-the-record setting, assuming you're sufficiently acquainted with the current company that you know they won't be put off by such a tasteless remark.

What he called for was a personal attack on someone's personal life. With a straight face, to his hired media mouthpiece. It's IMO not very different (though obviously less illegal) from telling your hired muscle "we should teach that person a lesson, beat them up a little", with no intent to follow through, obviously. The window to make that last bit over-abundantly clear evaporates within a minute or so. And even then, in what sort of company does he think it's okay to even begin to vent about that sort of thing, even without intent to follow through? Surely a lot more private than some fancy I-thought-it-was-off-the-record dinner.

Obviously his own moral compass didn't prevent him from saying these things, in the first place. That's exactly why he should be called on "venting" such ideas. Even when he honestly had no intent to follow through, he's a powerful man, speaking directly to someone whose task it would be to make this happen, someone might take it seriously and warm to the idea that such behaviour could be acceptable.
Issue 2 you mention is an issue for me. If I am in Safari or Xcode and click that green blob, I get a full screen window. Now, what if I want to use Calculator to calculate something related to the webpage or code I am viewing? I use cmd-space to open Spotlight and type "calculator" and press Enter. Now, I get a calculator but on an entirely different desktop because fullscreen apps and non-fullscreen apps cannot share the same desktop space. It's STUPID.

I know you can hold down alt or whatever to make it behave like it used to, but I wish they'd put an option in to make it behave like it used to as the DEFAULT.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625092
A nice little page with some very helpful examples for someone just starting out with using assembly on Linux. (There actually isn't much that's specific to Nasm, though. Based on the page's title, I would have at least expected an example that demonstrated setting up a .bss section, with the special resd [et al.] directives, and some examples of Nasm macros, which have some idiosyncratic features. But that's just a minor quibble about the name of the page. The information that is there is plenty useful, and not always easy to find.)
It's a great system. However, one should not forget the lost art of doing one thing at a time, for a time.
How does converge work? Is it any good?
I use OneTab[1] to dump tab state.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...
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Hacker News is a great place to find good content and intelligent discussion. Can anyone recommend any other discussion boards or good Subreddits where I can discover, learn and interact with other smart knowledge seekers?
How do I get the big boards?
Yes. Services used only or mainly by the poor, tend to be poor.
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.... also, you need multiple people in the organisation, you typically need to write your own infrastructure for vending certs, billing, you need to run OSCP responders and perhaps CRLs so clients can check if the cert was revoked, that can take a lot of bandwidth, then you need support staff because when people are paying, they expect support, etc.
In simple language -> because it's difficult to provide the machine with the information it needs to make decisions about efficiency.
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My mother died of an agressive blastoma multiforme last spring. I tried to get her cannabis but she declined in spite of the evidence I presented (at the time the principal papers were written in Spain). Marijuana use has been greatly stigmatized in my country and that played a big role in her rejection. I am both glad and angry at the same time.
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I would love to see a low-spec laptop with detachable keyboard with some Linux desktop environment when the keyboard is connected, switching to Sailfish OS when used in tablet mode. If it had long battery life and had good support of additional screens (to avoid disasters when running presentations) it would be a perfect device for me.
I think Jolla has HERE maps as well, which would make sense given the history of the companies.
Not to overly defend Chinese space capabilities, but those timescales are a choice, not a constraint. China's manned space program is a prestige program, not a functional one (though this is typical of manned spaceflight). That means they're being very careful and cautious. If they wanted to put a permanently manned multi-module station in orbit, put people on the moon within a decade, etc, they could. But only at levels of risk and cost they aren't willing to support.
/r/programming has some good stuff sometimes, but most of the articles are here, too. Also the Dunning Kruger effect is at an all time high there. They get pretty tetchy about shit that they decide is "bad", and then devolve into flaming.
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Your comment did question the victim's validity. This may not be blaming in the literal sense of the word, but well within the expression.

The point of all this is that even if the victim was an unreputable person (which I have no reason to believe here, but even if) the data sifting and the threats are still wrong. Very wrong.

Some people still find it important that the victim's qualities enter the discussion, and this is what is meant by "victim blaming". We can talk about it, sure, and I'd be interested in what you have to say, but it's neither here nor there in this discussion. Otherwise we would spiral into "he did -- she did" which is not of value of anyone.
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Well that definitely takes the 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕫𝕖 for most noticeable Hacker News submission.

Suggestion (if you are author): There are a lot of chars that look like another char, often used on the web, so i think that there are more advanced versions to be made. I think i read that a lot of thai signs and cyrillic look like latin chars.
Bigger boards come when your army size grows (otherwise you would have real trouble filling them).

That's why I didn't look at them - there are hardly any games played on them (at least not enough to pick up any statistical relevance)
I don't get the watch-craze at all, as it adds 0 things you couldn't do before. However, i m looking forward to Android Auto, something that i wanted for a long time.
Looks like you fall between a couple of sweet spots with the responsive design. If you reduce your browser width a bit more I'm guessing you see the brighter globe wireframe disappear and the search bar becomes more obvious?

They could probably fix this by throwing in some more media queries that do the same thing (toggle the brighter globe) but based on `min-height` rather than width-alone.
Self-signed is a significant probability of man-in-the-middle attack.
I use chrome on osx on a 5 year old macbook pro (bottom of the line at purchase time) and the site ran perfectly smooth.
Yeah, it's great fun to put a cyrillic "а" into a variable name in code.
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I wonder how much of that cost is the launcher, how much is R&D and how much the actual payload hardware will cost to manufacture. A proper moon base may not be that expensive given economies of scale.
For others without that specific font or what have you:
"Unicode Text Converter"

On my windows box with chrome all i see are empty boxes.
Impressive! Hopefully, this won't end with HN sanitizing everything except latin + latin extended from submissions.
How did the proprietors ever think this was going to end well? The "victims" have been given airtime on the national breakfast TV show. Even if it is legal it wont take long for internet justice to ensue.

edit: actually, no need for internet justice, already there are 147 x 1 star reviews - the most recent stating "don't go there" and "lacking basic cleanliness"
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Both. The article talks about how he accessed the data they had on a journalist, without explicit persmission from the person in question.

Not only is it not nice, it shouldn't even have been possible without logging this against a ticket number at the very least.
No. There is a vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift sysctl you can poke now instead of messing about with gnop, but it still defaults to 9 (512b).
See wiremine's post here:

"The Watch app resides on the user’s Apple Watch and contains only storyboard and resource files; it does not contain any code. "
Nice, but LTE would make it a killer
I do hobby level small js projects, I make type errors quite often, but they are easily found the moment I run the tests/the app. I would prefer to find them at compile time, but it's not a big deal.

Interstingly it's almost always the same kind of type error- accessing nested maps/arrays and forgetting to go deep enough before I call some method on the elements in that collection.

I can't remember one example of type error where I intended to call method on MyClassA and ended up trying to call it on MyClassB. But that may be the effect of my coding style (I'm not big fan of class hierarchies in js).
It works :)

𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒅𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓

comes in a fancy bold italic font in my HN list. I love this hack.
From what I have read, for software which wasn't originally developed for Windows, especially if the code base is old enough, porting to 64-bit is harder on Windows than on other systems.

The problem is that, while the Unix-based world went the LP64 way (int is 32-bit, long and pointers are 64-bit), Windows went the LLP64 way (int and long are 32-bit, pointers are 64-bit). A lot of Unix programmers tended to behave as if "long" was the largest native type ("long long" on 32-bit uses a pair of registers). They have to scrub their whole code base for things like assuming an object's size or array index will always fit on a "long".

For software originally developed for Windows, LLP64 was supposed to make porting easier, since unlike on the Unix world (where "long" could be 32-bit or 64-bit), a lot of Windows programs assumed a LONG was always 32-bit, and that assumption was baked into file formats and IPC protocols.

Newly developed software has it easier; programmers nowadays keep in mind that there are relevant systems where sizeof(long) < sizeof(size_t), and since the C99 standard they have the stdint.h types to help (even on Windows with its pre-C99 compilers, since it's easy to find a working stdint.h for them).

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As for Mac OS X, the porting problem is Carbon. If the code base is old enough, it'll be using Carbon, which AFAIK is not available for 64-bit.
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https://twitter.com/benbjohnson/status/533848879423578112
No, going fast is about not doing work twice. It is about the dependency graph. Go was developed to make dependency analysis very simple, so you recompile a tiny number of files even on massive, complex apps... and don't spend massive amounts of time deciding what to compile, or building stuff up just to tear it down (include all the things, use macros to exclude, etc).
The trip advisor page. http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186332-d554701-Re...

There were 147 bad reviews before the story broke and these bad reviews are the majority.

I'm curious about the dupe detector not spotting duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8629113

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8629117

Edit: this link is to the mobile site; one links to .com and the third links to .co.uk
Agreed. When I was looking at cloud providers recently I noticed that most of them make a claim along the lines of "$X percent of {Fortune 500,FTSE 100} companies use $OURPRODUCT" where $X is > 50%. My conclusions were:-

* Most major companies use more than one cloud provider

* "Use" is a very loose term here. It could mean anything from "the accounts team in some branch office uses S3 to back up their Sage data (or uses an online backup service that uses S3 in the back end)" to "they run their main product on our infrastructure".
Go is a spec, not a compiler.
Hey! I was just thinking about this site, and visited it for the first time in years, after mentioning the old San Francisco ransom-font in another thread.

By randomly mixing these Unicode letter and letterlike characters, you can simulate a cut-and-paste ransom-note. For example, an acquired company could announce changes to its privacy policy:

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& ℙℓaℕ τø ⅆo µnSρεaKᴀble †hiℕℊs t○ ⅈt
I helped write some of the first iterations of this app. This is one of the few camera apps that doesn't even have a backend server. The goal was to create a fun way to share a moment with somebody. I'd be curious to see what those on HN with an iPhone think.
Oh it can get much much worse... have a look at greek questionmark: "[...] canonically decomposes to U+003B ; semicolon making the marks identical in practice." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Greek_question_ma...