skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well according to Gordon Letwin who was there at the time "DOS was a one-time throw-away product intended to keep IBM happy so that they'd buy our languages" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS )
Reddit is a good source for various topics for discussions. I also go by keywords.. Google still does magic.
So what we're saying is, if you find yourself wanting to use NW.js... maybe you should think about what you're doing, turn a little bit to the right, and stop trying to develop systems out of slinkies?
He did say 2010.. so let's look at 2010:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-16/rim-beats-revenue-p...

Q3 2010:
40% revenue growth to $5.5B
Their share declined from #1 (20% marketshare) to #2 (15% behind apple at 17%)

Fast forward a bit:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2626010/smartphones/rim-pos...

Q2 2011:
12 million units sold, more than apple (8.4m) and nearly as many as all android units combined (14.7m)

Blackberry didn't die the moment the iphone was announced. They were in the fight for several years, and it wasn't entirely clear they would lose.

At the end of 2010, they still had a $30B market cap:
http://ycharts.com/companies/BBRY/market_cap
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I'd really love to hear more details about what your company did and how they did it:

* What size is the company?

* Who proposed the change?

* Were people resistant to the idea? Which people? How were they persuaded otherwise?

* What differences are noticeable about the company now? Productivity? General happiness in the office?

* Any advice for people wishing to follow in your footsteps?
Is anyone familiar with Jim Colin's hedgehog concept mentioned in "Good to great" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great

I'd even assume it's 'inspired' by it, as they did similar studies and came to the same conclusion...
Intelligent and stupid, it's a very dangerous combination.
Its funny how similar the Digg and Myspace home pages look..
Sounds like you've found a little fast&furious nook there. Not so many of these places now - a racer's haven...
Indeed, the first law is about conservation of energy, the second law is about the increase of entropy.
Now something useful.. and not to mention practical. My wife would really love this.
Ignoring prominent racists is a great way to help racism spread.

For that matter, ignoring anyone/anything vile and influential is, in my opinion, tantamount to helping them spread their ideas.
This is like telling us not to believe everything we read... I'd agree though when he said that not all studies are equal. We also need to check their sources.
That only works for the (amazing) WordLens functionality. Live audio translation still requires Google's cloud for processing.
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Another way to get around this sort of thing in Firefox is to disable styles on the page. From the menus it's View -> Page Style -> None. On Windows the keyboard accelerator is ALT-V-Y-N.
I'm happy to see that many medical diagnostics and procedures have become non-invasive. My only concern about this Revolution CT are its possible harmful effects to humans. They didn't cite any on this article though.
You've got it backwards. The Austrian school of economic thought is the only one that actually corresponds to reality.

You're not going to take my word it, but feel free to see for yourself. Watch their lectures on YouTube ("misesmedia"), and you'll get it.
I used to run 7 neurotic miles a day since 8th grade. I did it to feel better, and control stress. I know have a heart
murmer. No one in my family has a murmer. I think it was do
to overdoing it? As I got older, in Order to control anxiety, while saving my knees--I walk/run. It's usually every other night. I don't exercise enough to work up a big appetite. I eat a basic diet, and don't eat a lot of sugar, or fat--
out of poverty, and just lasyness(don't like to shop). My last blood tests said I have a low risk of death by cardio vascular disease. My point is I don't think you need to buy a Fitbit and push yourself in order to keep your
heart healthy; just a good brisk walk/run for 30-40 minutes
every other day? Plus, my walks have done much more for my mood than Any hetro, or tricyclic antidepressant. If I could do it all over again I would have never asked to see a Psychiatrist for anxiety/depression.
It's convenient for them that their server-side opt-out code cannot be audited. It would have been easier for them to just set an anonymous, client-side opt-out cookie.
Freelancing is a good thing for some. For others it can be a distraction though once you begin to love your side job more than your actual job. Believe me, I have been there.
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Free soloing does mean no rope however, which is the important bit. You're speaking of rope-soloing, which can be done either free or aid. If you don't have rope with you, whether or not you bring protection only matters in the edge-case that you want to french-free various moves.
Italy is ranked as more corrupt than Brazil, South Africa and Bulgaria. It has very serious problems with crime and corruption.

http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results#myAnchor1
I'm looking for a way to do this too. I'm a solo developer working for myself, and I'd like to live in Europe for more than 3 months at a time as per the Schengen agreement. Unfortunately, most residency requirements involve finding a job in the host country. DAFT can make this work, but it reportedly costs thousands of dollars in filing and other bureaucratic fees. Wonder if this would do the trick?
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Intriguing one time purchase price! No monthly fees and all that? But how long will I be able to use this service?
My recruiter helped in a few ways:

- Honed my CV (more like made me rewrite it), it was full of fluff pieces and bullshit that made ME happy. He basically took a red marker to all the things that weren't purely factual and provable (or at least explainable.) He was an ex developer and current on tech so he knew what he was talking about in regards to what needed to be said and what wasn't. This could easily be done online with google docs and a skype call.

- Answered all the dumb questions every developer wants to know but really shouldn't be asking a prospective employer in an initial interview (can I wear shorts and a tshirt? how much $$$? flexitime? holidays? beer on friday? - This would be solved by an FAQ employers could fill out.

- Filtered jobs I'd call awful on anyway (multiple reporting lines, under paying, no source control, one man bands, etc etc This is easy for development, just make sure it passes the joel test.

- Found opportunities that actually match my skill-set (Full stack PHP Developer with javascript tendencies) - Sort of job board style sites attempt to solve this but suck at it pretty badly, because who pays their bills?

- Interview prep happens but its essentially just reminding me to be myself and if I don't have an answer say so. I don't know what would be worth it to you for putting this online but you could certainly do some last minute reminder calls with the candidate and follow up directly afterward to ensure everything went well / any issues can be discussed while they're fresh.

Sorry if that doesn't help much, a lot of it requires a person and a phone, I'd certainly start in those areas though, do things that don't scale n all heh.

Feel free to email me if you want any further info, don't follow HN too much.
I would agree that boredom only comes in when your mind lacks the ability to be creative. For as long as your mind knows even the smallest sense of adventure, you can never be bored as there is so much to do.
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What about vias? If your board is that simple then just use a breadboard.

Also you can get one off simple 2 layer boards for $25.
>That's going to be have a pretty huge donut then

Not really. One hour on the treadmill burns about 600 calories or so. A cream filled donut the gas station next door to me sells is listed at 630 calories.
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From a business point of view, STAY AWAY FROM ITALY. I'm an italian computer engineer and work as a freelance with VAT number since 5 years and i can say that there are no fiscal or burocratic simplifications and aids for startup.

There is a reason why a lot of italians preferred to create a ltd based in the UK instead of a srl in italy. There is a reason why a lot of italian entreprenuers are moving to Switzerland. There is a reason why a lot of italians base their business in Tenerife (even if i don't accept this fiscal-escamotage, i can't blame them too much).

As an example of the business complications here in italy, even if i own a computer engineer consultancy VAT type, i can't send invoices to Google to get money from GoogleAds: i need to add another VAT specification (paying money) and register my self to the chamber of commerce (again paying) and having a more complicated fiscal management (for my business consultant's joy!) just because at that point, i'm in the advertising business (really? small GoogleAds income is an advertising business?!).

In italy you can go with the same invoices (incomes and expenses) to two different business consultant and they will produce two different tax declarations! And in the case of a fiscal check, you will find that maybe none of them was right! This is ridiculous, but this is the reality of Italy because fiscal law and bureaucracy are a real mess!

Talking about startup: if you read well you will find that there are a lot of obstacles in the opening of a startup in italy: an an example you must set at least 15% of the bigger between income or expenses for R&D, you must have at least a third of the workforce as Ph. D. and you must own a patent...and they call it "innovative startup in italy[1]"...do you find it easy and comfortable? Please, if you understand italian language, go and see Report Startup Stories [2]

Last, it is true that Italy is a beautiful country and that if you own a small business located in the north, maybe you won't have too much problems with criminality, but remember that it is true that mafia has people and hands on the most important political chairs and in the richest businesses. Just think about the recent scandal regarding Rome or the mafia and 'ndrangheta penetration in milan.

[1] http://startup.registroimprese.it/
[2] http://www.report.rai.it/dl/Report/puntata/ContentItem-a31ab...
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This is pretty far from being a ringing endorsement of community colleges. If anything, it just reaffirms the complete lack of academic rigor they provide.

- He aced an English class by doing "nothing more than embellish the definition I had looked up in the dictionary."

- His recollection of public speaking class was a gorgeous flight attendant.

- He never ended up graduating with a bachelor's degree and pursued a career which depends more on good looks than academic or intellectual ability.

I just don't understand why I should be footing the bill for more substandard students to get easy As, ogle girls, and pursue unintellectual careers. There's already plenty of aid available for intellectually deserving students (read: capable of filling out the FAFSA form). Adding more will just drive up the cost to taxpayers and continue to lower the quality of a CC education.
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>Like if they make their own doodad, after seeing mine?

Copying bits verbatim is not "making" anything. Also we are now conflating patents and copyright, but...

>A society that sets itself up such that people who do something first are entitled to become rent-seekers for all eternity is dysfunctional.

That may be a valid concern in theory, but current and historical evidence overwhelmingly prove this wrong. The most technical innovation has been happening in countries with stronger IP laws, as opposed to, say BRIC. It's not a coincidence.

>If I were to guess, you have not "cultivated that idea" because you've never created something that people found useful...

Way to quote incompletely. Also, nice dodge. Have you created something valuable only to have it ripped off?

>Yeh. You'd like to believe that, because it's easier to see me as some filthy thief than as someone whose ideas might be correct. The former lets you just call me names and move on, the latter would mean changing your mind and thinking about issues like this critically.

Conversely it's easier for you to rationalize your piracy than to acknowledge that your actions could be harmful. I have no stake in this issue, since my livelihood does not depend on copyright. I have been thinking critically and looking at the evidence. Have you?
We could call that technology "Bitcoin DRM."
Because "If you want to tap into the pool of talented italian " you will get them at a better price at the italian border than somewhere else in Switzerland. Most Italians do not want to leave Italy.
> But internal memos leaked by a former N.S.A. contractor, Edward Snowden, suggest that the N.S.A. generated one of the random number generators used in a 2006 N.I.S.T. standard — called the Dual EC DRBG standard — which contains a back door for the N.S.A. In publishing the standard, N.I.S.T. acknowledged “contributions” from N.S.A., but not primary authorship.

> Internal N.S.A. memos describe how the agency subsequently worked behind the scenes to push the same standard on the International Organization for Standardization. “The road to developing this standard was smooth once the journey began,” one memo noted. “However, beginning the journey was a challenge in finesse.”

> At the time, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment ran the standards process for the international organization, but classified documents describe how ultimately the N.S.A. seized control. “After some behind-the-scenes finessing with the head of the Canadian national delegation and with C.S.E., the stage was set for N.S.A. to submit a rewrite of the draft,” the memo notes. “Eventually, N.S.A. became the sole editor.” [0]

Yes, it's somewhat circumstantial, but pretty damning. If they weren't backdooring it, I'd like to hear an alternate explanation for why the NSA has memos about, in their own words, "behind-the-scenes finessing" to "become the sole editor" and "rewrite" an international standard. All that hard work quietly manipulating things to be just how they want them and, oopsie, the standard just might have a back door! Meanwhile, as described in other comments here, they paid RSA Security to deploy the standard; and were made aware of the possibility of a backdoor[1], but for whatever reason continued recommending its use.

I'd entertain arguments that they were actually trying to strengthen it, as may have happened with DES, but in this case, they were pushing something that civilian contemporaries knew was dangerous. Malice or incompetence seem more likely than secret benevolence here. Or is there some other reasonable explanation I'm missing?

[0] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announce...
[1] https://projectbullrun.org/dual-ec/patent.html
Well... the more you know.
Can anyone tell me what will happen to inflation when, let's say, in 50 years time we have a completely digital economy (e-money)? Would it not, in that special case, be impossible to stash the money under the proverbial mattress thus people may actually lose money simply by having it (in their current accounts, obviously)?
Here we can see italians still don't get we went through globalization yet.
If you open a startup in Italy it doesn't mean you need to rely on the italian market to survive. You can create value at a cheap price and then sell somewhere else.

Also: ever heard of russian/chinese/japanese/american mafias? "People with connections" have more chances everywhere.

Other countries beware of italians with the mindset shown here. I've met them abroad and they all tell the same story which they don't know anything about.

Italy doesn't have the best weather, doesn't have the best food, doesn't have the best people, and so on. It has some good things and some bad things like everywhere else. _DO_ something about the bad things instead of lamenting that you can't get the good things after you left.
not to troll and no expert on the topic, but from outside, the US broadband situation is really puzzling. Many countries have cheap broadband and seems to have found good systems to make its market work.
The installed monopolies looks like a very wrong decision that cannot be changed without legal conflict.
In rural Asia, cast iron tends to be--relative to flimsy aluminum--too expensive, too heavy (a large percentage of those doing the cooking weigh less than 100lbs/45kg), and too poor at conducting heat and too good at absorbing it (thermal inertia), meaning that more cooking fuel is required to cook small meals in cast iron pots than in aluminum.
I had a very good experience at community college, and it cost me $11/unit. When I transferred to a four-year school, the matriculation advisors told me I was probably better prepared for having done my lower division math at the community college.

The real kicker is that students filling out a FAFSA form are asking for substantially more money.
This is why Apache added code to ignore IE10's DNT header:

http://www.cnet.com/news/apache-web-software-overrides-ie10-...

https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f...

but, ironically, it was soon disabled by default:

https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/3dd6fb6882ae2b453c90d...
It was not just about washing hands -- it was about washing them with carbolic acid.
No. An MITM starts changing the ClientHello, and the PreMasterSecret should change because it's all hashed in, and therefore Finished will fail - that's the case with the TLS 1.3 draft and I wouldn't be surprised if TLS 1.2, too, although I'll put it on my list to check. Fallbacks complicate that, but the fallback SCSV signals enough to correctly sound the alarm there too.

I'm specifically on the lookout for sneaky ways to (GCHQ call it) "stain" traffic like that, and try to remove them. ("Kleptography" is similar, but the endpoint is complicit - there's not a lot can be done when the endpoint is complicit, but more deterministic primitives help both.)

These can be rather subtle - with temporal differentiation as well, even 1 bit allows for a basic binary search/partitioning attack, so anonymity networks like Tor, I2P etc have to be particularly careful about that.

(You shouldn't really be using TLS 1.0/1.1 anymore, and definitely not SSL.)
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I'm italian myself and not a fan of how a boatload of things works in Italy, but the reference to the criminality just sounds like something straight out of the Sopranos, which it's quite far from reality in every productive region of the country.

The issues related to fiscal pressure and the perceived lack of rule of law are instead quite real (see every independent ranking about corruption or ease of doing business).

A startup visa program without a serious effort to fix these obvious issues (something that should be done beforehand) is useless.

I've read the summary of the new policies, not enough numbers and details, i hope to find the full document somewhere.

Also, intriguing the fact that you need to show that you have at least 50k in pre-existing founding to partecipate to the program, it make sense to add some filtering criteria but i'm not sure how many new startups will qualify.
I was talking to someone earlier today about the problem facing PC manufacturers - it's not that people are abandoning them to tablets, it's that PCs have been 'powerful enough' for a while now. That need to upgrade, that pinch, just isn't felt these days - you upgrade when your computer fails. Well, for most people anyway. That's my guess as to why laptops have tailed off in sales, and not that they've been eaten by tablets.

Edit: as an example, I'm an avid gamer, though I don't usually run the latest-gen FPSes. I've gamed for over 20 years, and upgraded my rig every year or two to get better power. My current rig is still running fine, but it's five years old with 6GB ram and a good GPU for the day - and only now am I starting to feel the pinch. The only part to date that's been changed is an SSD swapover when the C:\ drive (with pagefile!) started corrupting after four years.
OK, my friend from Chicago misinformed me.
Ask HN: What is the story behind the outlook web app icons?
Anybody knows how the icons from outlook came about and what they are based off (if anything). Tried searching for some info on it but could not find anything.

Icons are not straightforward but they look like some Japanese Greek characters/letters love child
what type of business is it ?
New neural machine translation architectures are experimenting with pairs of neural encoders / decoders, one pair for each language and a shared language independent vector space for the meaning of all words:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1078

http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215

http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8206

So the total number of models is still linear with the number of languages.

I do not know whether this new generation of translation models is leveraged by the google translation app though.

Also pairs of languages for which their are big amount of parallel training data will still be favored.
MIT made about 70 million last year from its patents [1]. I'd guess that patent is no barrier for this technology to be adopted if there's enough practical value in it.

1. http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/about/office_statistics.html
Who the hell has ever used a spreadsheet to ensure they are eating correctly? (OK top athletes, bodybuilders maybe).

And it looks like it is not confirmed that this is especially healthy from comments on this thread.
I think this is the missing link:

https://github.com/commondream/maths
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3038
Hasn't been my recent experience. It's got rather a lot of relay capacity, actually, and has scaled better than I expected.

I2P is also a lot faster than when I last looked, even though i2pd isn't done.