skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's lots of evidence for that theory. For example, giving away iLife, a package that contained replacements for many of the most common app types, with every Mac. Also, if you look at their Pro apps, like Logic & Final Cut, Apple has consistently undercut the competition agressively, likely as some kind of loss-leader to sell Macs. For example, I remember when Apple bought eMagic (the developers of Logic) they slashed the price from something like $600 to $200, a shockingly low price at the time. All the other software makers had to respond with "lite" versions to compete in this price bracket.
I took a DFM class in school.

I don't think there was a similar class about product life cycle available.

(Which doesn't mean that it will be ignored, but I think we are sort of in a place right now where cost control sees too much emphasis while value is overlooked. And I think there are lots of decisions that could be made to favor value without impacting costs, which would be a good reason to include value maximization in design practice.)
Because you have been chosen as a best examiner of the GOD. Give your exam properly and swoon all struggles.
People have been saying this about AMD for many years. Those things they did that you think are great, there was someone complaining about how stupid AMD was at the time they did them.
New Internet Rules in China Target Usernames, Avatars as Subversive Tools
Here's one: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.debate/month=201...

Apart from occasional issues in the community Scala is criticised for being too complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJycy6dFSQ
I've seen multiple comments complain about the lack of a "scandal", using that same word. Why does something have to be scandalous to be worth preserving for history's sake?

Such an archival strategy will lead to us never learning from the successes and failures of the past, because they've all been exaggerated into a series of unreachable highs and lamentable lows.

The actions of the hackers who tried to blackmail Sony and stole the documents are wholly unjustifiable. But now that the damage has been done, there is incredible historic and sociological value in seeing what "normal" means inside of a major media corporation.
App-store-sarcasm-on: Oh, the curated library of applications and games is failing? You have to resort to 3rd party sites to actually filter things?

At this point App Stores are nothing more than extremely expensive anti viruses for all the applications installed. We'll see on the long term if giving up so much control is worth it for a security scan :|
The 1st/top comment on this article by Steve C is very interesting.
> I wish the C++ standard had something like Cocoa's NSArray/CFArrayRef

I think the proposed array_view is a much better choice in C++ land. The actual storage format of data (the data structure) should be an implementation detail, but there should be standard ways to share that data across various unrelated pieces of code.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n417...
Do you want to provide a service that fetches data from GA API and saves it at others' databases? Or are you looking for this service?
madoff's scheme worked precisely because people did do due dilligence.

they shouldn't. they should have just asked him how he got the returns, and rejected his offer when he didn't have a compelling answer.

EDIT: someone asked why the paragraphs aren't contradictory. The thing about due dilligence is that to me it sounds like looking into past investors and other things, doing reference checks. The thing about ponzi schemes is that until they crash, they produce lots of high-quality references. In the case of Madoff, people who have received reasonable returns from him for 20 years. He also managed charities' money, as well as contributed civicly.

None of these stuff matters, though, because despite the stellar references (which is what makes ponzi schemes work) there is no underlying way to actually generate returns.
Here is a related story about a urinary tract infection causing psychotic symptoms and
some additional thoughts on immune system, psychosis, and evolution.

Infection and Psychosis in Schizophrenia
http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com.tr/2013/06/infect...
> Creating products that will be useful for 10+ years

Well that's just a matter of opinion, isn't it? Nothing's going to stop you from running this laptop 10 years from now just like nothing's going to stop you from running a PC laptop 10 years from now. The question is _are you going to want to_ continue using a 10 year old laptop? That's an eternity in technological terms.

Sure you can upgrade a PC laptop to squeeze a longer life out of it, but there are practical limits to that to (i.e., it's unlikely that a 10 year old chipset is going to support the amount of RAM that we would consider "bare minimum" in 10 years, likewise for the CPU).

I agree with your argument in principle but "10+ years lifetime" is not really a good point to argue.
Compare the submitted URL:

https://www.google.com/?q=x*sin(y)

with:

https://www.google.com/search?q=x*sin(y)

The resource is still the index page, not /search for the search results page; the query is simply prepopulated.
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I have one of the early Macbooks with a non-user replaceable battery, and I'm using it today, 6 years after I bought it, and the battery is still fine. Sure, the capacity is a bit lower (maybe 50%), or I could get it replaced for around 150€.

Apple introduced non user replaceable batteries because it made sense: capacity and longevity was at a point where the average customer never replaced their battery.
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The police are basically our doctors w/in western medicine.
> $334 million just 3 years ago and now simply shutting it down?

Sunk cost. The question isn't how much it cost how recently, the question is how much burn they have before there is a chance of making money. If there is not much chance, why burn more resources on it?
There are labels in the legend associated with axis colors.
One can only vote for a politician who is running for office, so if no viable candidates share one's views, one is out of luck.
The one I saw (which seems to alternate with some girlfriend joke):

>tell me a joke
>>What's the difference between a feminist and a computer?
>>You can punch information into a computer.

If you don't see what is wrong with that, ask around.
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Now explain how those paragraphs aren't contradictory.

Your second paragraph is certainly a reasonable step in a comprehensive appraisal.

edit: Due diligence means understanding the thing you are investing in. For something like investing millions of dollars with Madoff, that includes more than asking his other customers what their returns were.
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I'm talking about an ideal, not about the advancements they have made. Maybe it's the Dunning-Kruger effect, but it seems that they could have easily soldered on slots for SSD and RAM and added a little access door with Philips screws even with this smaller board. I could also very well imagine that people would buy upgrades if they were cheap, quick to install and if they knew about them in the first place.
I'm not arguing against your position that the legal workings of a corporation, in the context of fair laws administered by a legitimate government, should not be splashed around.

But, if you believe we don't have a legitimate government specifically because some big corporations have bought the government, there really is no barrier between those corporations and the government they bought, and there is no difference leaking government or corporate documents.

Evidently, the people at Wikileaks think the latter.
This one from zedshaw immediately came to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805807
The chips use virtually no power.

The only limit is the power the connected through the hub devices draw.
> The principal of territorial integrity was upheld. The strategic aims were upheld.

Let's be honest, the US cares about those only in there's oil or other goodies involved (see the lack of response to the current situation in Ukraine, where there's little to gain and much to lose for the US).
Apple does tap-to-click not too well, and doesn't do tap+tap-to-drag at all. So I have to use better touch tool, so I constantly drag shit accidentally. what a pain, both windows and linux do these out of the box.
Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
I think it could be argued that the graph of a function isn't actually knowledge... but otherwise I agree there is a potential problem here...
Eh, it gets the basic monospace-preserve-whitespace stuff right. It's good enough for me 99% of the time, and if it isn't, I normally want to be debugging somewhere other than a chat app.

What Slack does very well is giving a good enough experience for programmers to do shop-talk, and ample opportunities for chatbot yak-shaves, it's also perfectly well usable for non technical people. I work for $ENORMOCORP, and after a couple of brave pioneers among the tech people, now everyone's falling over themselves to get their teams a Slack instance. (As others have said here, the ability to have multiple instances is pretty fundamental to this dynamic - we have team-specific Slacks, product specific, project specific and what have you. I certainly would not want some more 'old fashioned' colleagues seeing that NSFW bollocks people keep wiring into the tech specific chatbots...)

This strikes me as a pattern with some potential for growth - tech people driving adoption among non-technical colleagues. I reserve judgement on whether that's $3bn worth of potential.
So you can hit the - key or the ] key without looking at the keyboard as quickly as someone who is looking at the keyboard?

You just reach over and press the key and you never press an adjacent key by mistake?
Read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447467

One of the points stands out and may apply here:

> Stick with it- Don't give up too fast. Being broke and not making any money sucks + can often make you think nothing will ever work. Don't quit when you're down. If this was easy then everyone would be a millionaire and being a millionaire wouldn't be anything special. Certainly learn from your mistakes + pivot, but don't quit just because it didn't work right away.
> I still don't know how I'd achieve per-instance allocator in modern "part-of-standard C++ STL." Is it possible? If yes, how? Does anybody know?

Well, there are two things you can do.

1. (Accepted in C++11) Allow stateful allocators. This is especially useful for things like pool allocators. Your container would keep a pointer to its allocator and perform allocator operations through it.

2. (Proposed but not accepted yet) Allow polymorphic allocators. This would allow different data structures to use different allocators but still have the same type. Basically it would look like 1 above, but instead of keeping an allocator pointer, you would keep a pointer to an allocator interface and perform allocator operations through virtual method calls.
It's still a score of 0 for the orange's repairability.
Seems fixed on the UK site:

http://imgur.com/SXWzBqZ
Or hyperbolic paraboloid, to give it a non-brand name
Anyone else feeling left out?

I poked the link on my phone and just got search results (safari). Same thing in mobile chrome even after "request the desktop site". It wasn't until I got to work and saw all of the comments that I figured out what was going on.
I have been working working on some small issues in https://github.com/servo/servo working my way to bigger issues. Also I have been working on a bittorrent client in Rust, it is my project to learn the language.
A fix has been released: https://mojang.com/2015/04/minecraft-1-8-4-security-release/
> - International text input:

Just press the key for ´ and then e and then you have é. Tada!
If that is the point the OP is trying to make, then why single out the military? And all that nonsense about the "right wing" (clue: militarism is equally distributed throughout the political spectrum).
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> I'm talking about superiority.

You misspelled 'personal preference' there.
Give me an example for a nice looking OS X audio editor in comparison? I find Pro-Tools (Not a Editor but a Digital Audio Workstation DAW) to be extremely ugly. https://www.avid.com/US/products/pro-tools-software the Open Source Audor is fairly compariable in terms of UI aka hideous http://ardour.org

Waveform editors and video editors really don't need to be pretty and can easily be DEAD ugly. You can pay over a thousand dollars for a cleaning suite and the UI would make you cry.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan12/articles/noise-reducti...

Professionals : They do not want pretty and will actually avoid products glorified. They just need something that works and allows them to have a work flow that gives them a great product at the end. It takes hours to get things done. There will be some solutions that almost requires a $500-$2,800+++ hardware piece just so you can actually work with the audio because a mouse isn't always the best tool. https://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_shop&view=shop&Ite...

Pro-Sumer: That would be like Adobe Audition (https://creative.adobe.com/products/audition) which as a UI isn't much better, but it does look nicer and the products have less features and just are not where professionals need to use them. Audition works great for Podcast and Online Education Courses but I used Audacity instead when I did Graduate Class Creation for the College I worked for.

Would anyone find Photoshop and the other Adobe design software and Premier to be a nice UI? It really is function over design.

PS I love tiled window managers and hate to have to use a mouse when I am working with a desktop computer so I am the last person to have design taste, but I find that this area of computer technology is just so different and a mouse and a nice UI do not make for a good interface. It is very abstract of the physical controllers. Kind of like playing a guitar on a iPad.
The way Americans treat war and violence as entertainment is disturbing to him, as he has been at the other end of it.

I've read an interview of a war correspondent that after witnessing war can no longer enjoy war entertainment, as it is disgusting to him.

I think hostility towards an attitude that takes inflicting death lightly, for entertainment is justified.
Basically an oxymoron. Shakespeare loved them [1]

[1] http://kerbev.hubpages.com/hub/shakespeare-oxymorons
Looking for a downloadable PostgreSQL or MySQL database, git archive, or gzipped tarball. Anyone point me to one?

Searched of course: https://www.google.com/#q=site:wikileaks.org+download+sony+a...

Seems that Wikileaks is bearing unnecessary cost in hosting the search interface in addition to publishing.
The high deserts of the western united states (generally speaking) even more so :)
Alternately, one could invest in startups that solve this problem.
> software was a $407.3B industry in 2013

And that's not counting embedded software, which is often sold as part of a hardware package.
Are you telling me that BBC is not available in the UK?
Similar to this is the survey of all trees in The City of Melbourne http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/#mapexplore , that also gives viewers the opportunity to email each tree.
such as effective team communication, will not go away any time soon.

But tools come and go my friend
starting 2017, all mobile chargers in the EU have to be of the same standard to reduce electronic waste.

I doubt micro USB will cut it in 2017, but I also doubt everyone will be using Lightning. So I wonder if USB Type C will end up being that single standard - it'd explain why Apple's keen to try it out in a new product line already.
Sounds like a sunk cost fallacy. The EV of startups could be negative, and probably is.
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I don't know when you worked there, but that is not how things are run. Source: I work there.
DigitalOcean has a tutorial series on Docker[0] with a discussion on the components[1].

[0]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/the-d...

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/the-docker-...
Apparently so... I've never encountered pages like that on the BBC site before though:

We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes.
For those having issues, adding the hash should do the trick: https://www.google.com/?#q=x*sin(y)
I think you're not quite seeing my point.

I agree that something like what you wrote is likely descriptive (very roughly) of the conscious thoughts of the average punter - but what we need here is an explanation of WHY this is going through the average punter's head. And such an explanation is not necessarily going to be something that is included on their conscious list of concerns (though it might).

What you have reiterated here is just what the article has already said. We already know facts like: - Punter hears about silk road, associates Bitcoin with illegal drug markets. What we want to know is why hearing such a fact causes such an association.

Now you might think that there is no explanation here that is needed beyond how reputations are assigned generally by human societies. You might just think that - well, it's natural to associate a low reputation score to a system when you hear headlines about Silk Road style marketplaces, and so there is nothing more to say here.

I'm saying - no, there is something more going on here than just standard reputation assignment. Why? Well - as I said before - because for every negative headline that is supposed to prove Bitcoin's low reputation, we can produce a fact about the traditional system that completely trumps the negative bitcoin headline.

As another example since you mentioned Silk Road. What is the financial instrument used overwhelmingly by the world's drug dealers to exchange value? It is the U.S. 100 dollar bill. But is the reputation of the U.S. dollar impacted by this? Not at all. The even greater irony is that while the Bitcoin ecosystem overall gets branded as the province of nutbar libertarians that love drug dealers - the U.S. government is renown the world over for fighting the war on drugs. Except the U.S. has done nothing to remove the hundred dollar bills that drug dealers love to use. There is no greater single act the U.S. government could do to fight the drug cartels. It doesn't do it.

So the reputation assignments here are odd to say the least. They certainly aren't consistent. This is something that cries out for explanation.
Sidenote: The words "Open" and "Pandora" don't mix very well together.
Is that like saying Microsoft shouldn't have been penalized for bundling IE because the user chose the machine which came bundled with Windows which came bundled with IE? (Just so you know, telecom cartels are a reality - at least in India)
Oh, so I can tell whether the designer uses OSX by the fact that I can't read the fonts. That's nice.
Thanks for the kind words, and thanks also for the inspiration - your talks at Better Software, and MicroConf Europe were very nice in that they show that it's possible to do a cool, successful bootstrapped startup in Europe too.
People who actually use Scala love it. For instance, Scala is one of the most loved languages in the recent StackOverflow developer survey. The survey had more than 26'000 respondents, so this is pretty significant.

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech...

But you are completely right that there's also a lot of negative sentiment around it. Here are two possible reasons I can think of (I am sure there are others).

1. Scala does not form part of an established programming language tribe. It is neither a better Java nor a Haskell on the JVM. So people are challenged in their assumptions; they don't know what it is, and react negatively in order not to have to learn more.

2. Scala is pretty successful. So people in neighbouring language communities sometimes feel frustrated that a seemingly (to them) inferior language gets traction and their perfect language gets less. I saw some of that when Java eclipsed Smalltalk in the 90's. I never met a community as spiteful of Java as the Smalltalk one.
It is bbc.com not .co.uk. And http://www.bbc.com/travel is not available in the UK because of licence stuff.
I wouldn't say hate. Scala is a OO-functional language, so it's bound to have people who dislike it from both of those camps.

I started learning Scala (it got me into functional programming) but dumped it for the same reasons as Java. It's bloated. I also question Scala's longevity.

I'm happily using Elixir and Clojure these days, but I mainly do web stuff so YMMV.
You realize that the sender of this post (a) has been banned from all Scala mailing lists (b) has become one of the strongest Scala haters since?
These from swamp40 and junto about habits, summing up the related article perfectly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852430
lol, I think you're overestimating HN traffic just a bit here.

Adding a hash solves the double enter https://www.google.com/?#q=x*sin(y)
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The service does have unrealistic reliability. An event like this is exceedingly rare.
Terminals can lease for way more than $24,000 depending on additional data options, and an investment bank can easily spend more than $50m on them.

There will also be Reuters, Datastream and various other terminals with not quite substitutable functionality kicking around the office, so they're not totally 'in the dark' its just a bit less convenient and some trades could be missed.
Bloomberg has just paid a lot for their experience of what mistakes to not make in the future.

Walking them out the door would be a fantastic waste of money.
We have previously discussed something similar [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6709631). The book, Free to Learn, by Peter Gray discusses the promise of democratic schools with a historical and social perspective. He even calls the Sudbury Valley schools "America's best kept secret".

I attended the open house of the closest (around 50 miles from where I live in CA!) local Sudbury Valley School (called Diablo Valley School, DVS) a few months ago. We, of course, went there with the kids. After coming back home, I asked the kids which school they would rather attend -- their present school or this one and they had no doubt in their mind that they wanted to attend the DVS.

But for some reason, I am not able to make the switch to the idea that the democratic schools are the way to go, although Dan Greenberg (the founder of SVS, back in 1968 in Framingham, MA) has been running this 'experiment' for past 46 years. Maybe, as a parent, I feel overly responsible for my kids and insist that I know more about them than they do. And we know, as Kahneman (Thinking fast and slow) and others have repeated shown, how little we know. It's a sad impasse.
Same here, Chrome/Ipad :|
Apple isn't changing, they've always wrested control of their platform from developers. This approach is obviously working for them, this time next year we'll all be talking about "watch first web development."

I read the article and while Jeff made valid points, I wonder if he would've benefited from having a PR/marketing person vet his messaging. His article can easily be dismissed as hyperventilating about change and as a reader it's unclear what action I should take after absorbing his point of view.