skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are maybe talking past each other a little. It wasn't case the case that the phones just lacked an app store. What really sucked about Nokia's symbian phones was the UI and the price tag. Now that's the fault of dysfunction within Nokia and not the fault of Symbian per se, but the fact remains if Nokia had just switched to Android it would likely still exist as a mobile phone company.
But it's not a competitive handset market. Google has gotten all of them agreed not to compete with Google on OS, apps, and services, which they've all fallen in line with, and barely if at all compete with each other. (You'll notice they all do anti-Apple marketing, but no other Android OEM has ever done an ad against Samsung, for instance.)
We use this great tool already with commercial code.
Foursquare pretty much 'Digg'-ed their own grave. Oh snap!
City of Helsinki
Would you let the IRS do your taxes?
Corporations aren't inherently bad, especially when they're checking government abuse. If you've followed the situation in Indiana at all then you know that corporations destroyed the core intent of the rfra law in under a week. Corporations may do dirty things to support their own interests, but so do governments. We shouldn't blindly support either.
Making a nicer product that increases user engagement is manipulating the product to match what the user likes, not manipulating the user. Changing the order and quality of ranked news articles, bending the truth, using behavioral science to promote addictive dependence,advertising products you don't actually make are all manipulating the user.

There is a big difference and yes, "manipulating the user" is sinister.
Justifying one injustice with another?
Any group tends to recruit like members. Its human nature. Even the much-applauded hiring criterion of "they have to be a team fit" just means "they have to be like us" which probably means male, upper-middle-class white college kid.

So there's the whole problem right there. Never mind right or wrong. Its just statistics and bias in group dynamics, nothing more.
The User Is My Mom
If the price were enough, they would sell it. While I understand that this logic is not helpful when we try to develop the nation's infrastructure, we must not forget that we're imposing the desires of a more important mass of people at the depends of a tiny number of victims.
HTTP.sys feeds directly into the IIS Request Queue. When that queue overruns, (i.e. too many pending requests that are waiting on a backend NAS or other resource) it's HTTP.sys providing the 503 error, not IIS.
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I made GUI for brainfuck, by 'including' libraries you can modify specific memory addresses to change pixels on a buffer. Something like a system call.

http://enginmercan.com/?p=32

It is in Turkish, just hit run and you should be able to see a hello world.

@gui@ includes the library (for my JS brainfuck interpreter) which adds a canvas to my page, BF code writes into it
They're already monetizing the amount of swipes you get:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/tinder-plus-being-tested-in-eu...

Dropped dead instantly among everyone I know.
"The abbey graveyard contains the graves of many early Scottish Kings, as well as kings from Ireland, Norway and France... In 1549 an inventory of 48 Scottish, 8 Norwegian and 4 Irish kings was recorded."
NGINX: An open source platform for high-performance web architectures
Yup. Google on Search: "Mobile is changing everything... please ignore the fact that we control the mobile industry too."
Scala is syntactically complex, compiles relatively slowly, and some of the tools (IDE plugins) are terrible. Or, at least, they were a few years ago. On the positive side, you'll have a more mature ecosystem of third-party libraries since you'll be able to tap into everything Java offers.

Go, on the other hand, has a simple syntax, excellent tools, and compiles lightning fast. Depending on what you're doing you may not have the library support you need.
Why Windows 10 isn't named Windows 9
I'd argue that it doesn't matter if your idea is new or not. It only matters if it is executed better. Think of some of the battery tech that is happening now, they are literally taking battery tech invented in the 1800's and adding today's technology and chemistry knowledge to make it better and more cost effective. So their idea isn't new, but hopefully their ability to execute is superior.

So in the end, I'd worry less about if your idea is new, and more about can you do it so that you have a market wanting to pay you for it. Somehow you have to monetize, so if you can answer how it makes money and have validated that with real people willing to pay for it, then just do it and screw whether its new or not.
This logic blows my mind.

Winning back your penny at the penny slots isn't the result you're playing for, but it's a better result than losing the penny.

I don't know the details of the FourSquare pivot, and hindsight is 20/20, but if I had even a small chance at medium-to-long term profitability (good brand, loyal followers, but flat growth), and a minuscule chance at riches by burning down the building, I wouldn't light the match.
Yeah that's widely disputed. Maybe because its just the PC line; maybe its actually nonsense. That article spends an uncomfortable amount of time tooting its own horn about being the underdog and what national newspapers its been featured in.

The obvious criticism is, the classes measured in so-called 'Jensenism' are defined by cultures as well as race. What attempt has been made to disambiguate that?
I'm going to post it here because the other post complaining about FourSquare's check-in function (Swarm) dying is saturated.

I'm a big check-in user but FourSquare's pivot has been brilliant. You can clearly see the benefits when they partnered with Twitter, with FourSquare being the 'Google of the physical world'.

Having a dedicated app for checking in (meaning the people who like to check-in are properly looked after in their own, siloed app) is a lot nicer than before.

Back to Yahoo!: Don't think this will be a good acquisition. Look at their previous acquisitions: Tumblr. Nothing much has happened, no major monetisation project.

Twitter would be a better company to buy. It also makes logistical sense as well. Combination of Twitter and FourSquare would be an effective combination against Facebook, and also Google Plus and Google Maps.
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The morbid movie magic of post-mortem performance
I actually think limiting swipes is a good thing. It means people can't just like everyone and then choose the matches that come in later.
I don't think Google should be allowed to get away with clauses like this one from their developer agreement:

4.5 Non-Compete.
You may not use the Market to distribute or make available any
Product whose primary purpose is to facilitate the distribution
of software applications and games for use on Android devices
outside of the Market.

See: https://play.google.com/intl/ALL_us/about/developer-distribu...
I am not a physics expert, but isn't dark matter simply a plug because mass of galaxies and large scale astronomical structures calculated from light and other electromagnetic radiation, doesn't agree with mass calculated by observing they're gravitational interaction? That is, we assume that both models (radiation & gravity) are correct, and that 90+% of the universe is made up of matter which has never been directly observed and is radically different than any matter we observe directly.

The whole thing seems ludicrous -- but for the problem that no better explanation has yet been put forth. One gets the feeling though that one day in the future 'dark matter' is gonna look a lot like 'epicycles'.
I used to be in an investment partnership and prepared the tax returns for said partnership. We filled the return out and sent it to the IRS in parallel with the members getting their K1 forms. The members actually got the forms before the IRS did. In order for the IRS to know what each member should have on their return the IRS would have to process the business' return first.

All those other forms are the same way. 1098s and 1099 are sent to the IRS at the same time they are sent to the taxpayers. The IRS takes who knows how long to process those forms from all the various generators, and it is highly likely that most people are done with their tax returns before the IRS gets to the forms submitted by the banks and brokerages. Same thing again for W2s.

So yes, the IRS has all this information. Eventually. They do not have it by the deadline they set for people to make their tax accounts right.
I think there are secondary effects. While technical expertise is probably not going to be affected, team dynamics will be affected through diversity in critical thinking and expression. That's not the same as race/gender/etc. Too much conformity within a team causes the team to embrace that common ground rather than embrace differences.

I'm a fairly loud, direct person. I work with other loud and direct people. We added someone to our team who is a bit quieter and quite frankly thoughtful onto the team. The effect wasn't so much that (s)he changed our technical decisions, but that we as a team started to give people apace for less confrontational disagreement. It improved our individual abilities to communicate and approach a problem from multiple angles.

That is why diversity in personality is important. The hypothesis is then that race/gender/etc is correlated with intellectual diversity.

Anecdotal evidence yes, but something I've found valuable.
Foursquare also makes a good tie-in with Flickr and their WOEID[1] stuff.

[1] https://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/concepts.htm...
Google has to want you for that to happen.
Looks like Yahoo! is where startups go to rest in peace!
This is straight from the prospectus. The first bullet alone makes me want to buy shares.

Culture and Employees

If you have ambitious goals, you need an equally ambitious team. Shopify is composed of hundreds of highly talented, deeply caring individuals all working on making commerce better for everyone. Our culture is continuously being redefined with every person that joins our company, but, at our core, we value people who:

•	Get shit done

•	Build for the long-term

•	Focus on simple solutions

•	Act like owners

•	Thrive on change
Parallelism and Concurrency with Python
I don't know how it works in the UK, but they could be a non-profit that's not (yet) registered as a charity. The rules for being registered as a charity in Canada preclude political advocacy like this; I wouldn't be surprised if this is similar in the UK. There is a public registry of charities, but not of non-profits.
that's insteresting...
That was pretty weak arguments against the case of the Chagossians people. I had to try really hard not to downvote because I disagree with your position.

It doesn't matter if western countries mistreat their people sometimes, that doesn't justify mistreating the Chagossians or anyone else for that matter.

Even if you think 200 years isn't a strong claim to a nation, that doesn't change the fact those people lived there and were forceably removed from the islands.

I'm also curious, what is your cut-off point for a "strong" claim to a nation? 250 years? 500 years? 1 AD?
What’s it like to have Google and Amazon try to kill your startup?
Never happened here, EU citizen though. It could be that they are required to do so by EU law, rather than because they just love to have your personal details.
Indeed there's no law in the universe that us humans have to be able to comprehend it. Just because you want to know doesn't mean you get to.
It's been a few years since I used it, but V8's own built-in profiler is perfectly capable of emitting a stack trace every 10 ms or so (747 samples in 10 seconds in the example). That's what Chrome uses when you profile code in the browser, and it works on all platforms. I wonder what the advantage of this approach is?
Thanks for the reply and the data about each. Compile time is actually something I hadn't given one iota of thought about, likely because I've never really worked in a compiled language. I imagine this is a huge pain when you want to make a quick production change or you just like to get quick changeset feedback.
You're a nation if you have a military. These folks clearly failed that test.
That's a fair point, but I read the parent post as complaining that the leadership couldn't squeeze blood from a stone, not that they came up with a non-commercial product in the first place.
Weirdly enough the 'Steak Bomb' in general is usually a New England thing.
According to another post by someone who actually worked tax prep[1], it's more like 30%. In light of that and the delay in the IRS receiving the information from other parties, it does seem like a reasonable default.

The real problem is that the US tax code is horribly, unnecessarily complicated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9381067
Utilitarian arguments lead you strange places. You can end up eating children or burning hobos for fuel. Be very careful.
Why everyone wants to be the next disrupter?
Frankly, I think requiring that the property owner has to be convicted of a crime before the property can be seized qualifies as a real "reform".
Is the HttpListener .NET class impacted?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httplist...
I get the HTTP 416 on windows 8.1 + iis 8.5 unpatched even after turning kernel caching off and restarting iis. Even after rebooting.
“It was a huge signal to politicians everywhere how much Intuit cares about this,” Mr. Bankman said. “People in other states who had been interested in it started saying, ‘We just don’t want to pick a fight with Intuit.’”

Intuit is not a human being. It is a corporation. A legal fiction. It doesn't "care" about anything, nor does it have fights picked with "it". It can't autonomously decide to spend millions on lobbying. There are executives who make decisions to keep the tax system complex through lobbying, so that they can extract wealth from the rest of us and enjoy it for themselves and their families.

I understand that this is a standard reporting convention, but reporters need to call the executives who make these decisions to account. They shouldn't go to corporate PR to do this.

Once the media and public refuse to buy into corporate person-hood, we could see corporations behaving better.
'Understanding' means in some framework. Its inevitable we'll come to some understanding, even if its 'physics at its most fundamental level is simply probability distributions'.
The Aether was proved wrong, and Special Relativity (that makes different previsions) was only developed after that.
Is 32-bit Linux still worth worrying about? It seems that 64-bit CPUs and kernels have been around for a really long time now. (Honest question.)
Golang if you're writing systems-y network-y code more than application-y database-y code.

Scala if you're more interested in language theory and statically analyzable correctness. Or, again, if you're doing anything database-intensive.

Golang is a very pleasant language to get systems-y things done in. I'm fond of saying that it's not an amazing language, but is an amazing programming tool.

Scala is going to be much friendlier to you if you're into language features; generics would be a big one, pattern matching is a Scala-y one.

Are you writing web apps? I'd give the nod to Scala.

Are you much more inclined to write a web service, something that spits JSON out instead of HTML? Golang back in the running.

IRC server? Golang.

Social network? Scala.

Emulator? Golang.

Compiler? Scala.

Do you like C, even though you never use it anymore? Golang.

Do you think a lot about someday learning Haskell? Scala.

Are you picky about languages? Golang will occasionally frustrate you with the things it lacks. Scala will occasionally frustrate you with the things it has.

They're both good languages and --- unless you need a graphical UI (in which case: Scala) --- both of them will do better than Python for almost any task.
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> Sometimes languages "borrow" nonexistant words, like "footing" for jogging in Italian.

German loves to do that, too. A cell phone is a "Handy", a projector is a "Beamer", etc.

And then there's Japanese, which takes English words and abbreviates them differently. So "personal computer" becomes "persocom" instead of "PC", "remote control" becomes "remocon" instead of "R/C", "television" becomes "televi" instead of "TV". From that, you might think Japanese people don't like acronyms... until you see that they call a secretary an "OL", which stands for "office lady".
Our belief is that company culture is a combination of the factors we have listed.
Google charged with violating fair competition by Europe
I understand it was simply proved irrelevant - it cancelled out of the equations. Until recently, when Maxwells Equations were re-derived using some quantum field as the Aether, which yielded many surprising (and true) results. So maybe now, not so irrelevant.
The USA subsidies high-tech via military spending. This is not just a Chomsky theory - it has been on Hacker News a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980498 (direct: http://steveblank.com/secret-history/)
Link to that discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9379981
The patches of beard that stopped growing looks like alopecia areata[1]. It's an autoimmune condition, and can't find any indication that it's stress-related. I have it in my beard, it started a couple of years ago for no apparent reason. (in particular, I was not/am not overstressed at work).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata
"It's a convention."

Does Minix use that convention? How about BSD?
Where I work, we have the concept of a "subject matter expert". This is someone that the technical people can work with, to sove problems outside the technical person's expertise. Using technology outside the SME's expertise.

Why can't this idea of collaborating with outsiders work for the industry as a whole? Why must everyone be able to do everything?
DIGIT DISORDER Will Speed Up Your Math Skills
Agreed. My litmus test is, unless you can name a person, then the statement of intent is meaningless. E.g. when I get emails from 'corporate HR' I delete them without reading them.
I think this article title is a bit misleading. When I think "old-school watch makers" I think of something like Rolex or Breitling, the high end painstakingly crafted watches that are as much about art, engineering, style, and "look at how much money I can spend" as they are about telling time. I don't think the Apple Watch poses much of a threat to these companies, at least not in the near future.

The body of the article is more clear, showing that midrange watch makers are likely to suffer, which I think is a reasonable prediction to make.
>> I thought that was actually true. Why are you calling it tired and old?

Because there is no reason to expect stars going around a galaxy to follow keplers laws for two body systems. I have yet to see the measured rotation curves compared to an "expected" curve where the author doesn't use Kepler as part of the expectation.

Just a year or two ago, I saw a paper in Nature where they were looking at a gas cloud forming a star, and they compared its rotation to something based on Kepler. I just had to shake my head - the correlation was there but not a great fit of course. The curve is interesting, the comparison not so much.
Boolean parameters aren't always bad. It depends on the language.

This is a more superficial explanation of why they're bad: they're hard to name. I agree. More deeply: they also scale horribly. Boolean parameters often are used to switch off to a meaningfully different function, and when they accumulate, you have 2^n different cases. At n = 6, you have two anti-patterns: a function with at least 6 parameters and probably more, and quite possibly 64 different use cases. How likely is it that those parameters all play well together? It's quite probable that there are combinations of the parameters that don't make any sense together.

They also don't extend well. If you move from 2 cases to 3, the common behavior (by a maintenance programmer who doesn't understand the code well and is working to deadline, so forgive him) is to add another boolean parameter rather than refactor it to an enum or union. Then you have a "case2" and "case3" boolean parameter and get the problem described above: 4 possibilities, 1 of which is meaningless.

With named, optional arguments, boolean parameters can be fine-- if you know that there will never be more than 2 cases. Sometimes they're the right thing. That said, they're a code smell (not always bad, but suggestive that you might be doing something wrong) and I'd almost never use them in Haskell, which (although a great language) doesn't have named arguments, because it's so easy to create your own datatype (that is easier to extend than a boolean).
Protection against critical Windows vulnerability (CVE-2015-1635)
SYSTEM account is far more powerful than Administrator, especially after Win2008
Agreed. Most recent example being talks of them buying Foursquare. I mean c'mon you have some really good tech and guys in your "arsenal". Focus on what you have a.k.a. get you sh*t together!

Yahoo Finance was an industry leader when it came out but in all honesty it has not evolved out that product (writing a mobile app for it doesn't count). I prefer Google Finance which can cover a broad spectrum of users, from most basic to most advanced - you can SMAs and all sorts of funky stuff.

Miss Mayer needs to get its product house in order before going out for more holiday shopping!
Removing check-ins was a strange move, given that it was what made Foursquare Foursquare. Personally, I didn't want to install Swarm in the same way that I didn't want to install Facebook Messenger. I had the same feeling of not trusting the reasoning behind splitting the functionality into two apps, and in Foursquare's case - Foursquare no longer did what I had bought into, and I was already in the habit of using Yelp for looking up reviews, so I stopped using it.

They took over $162 million in funding, and I'd bet that a lot of people had a lot of ideas on how to turn things around monetization-wise. They had to try something, but this pivot seemed pretty detached from understanding their users.
This even happens with private properties that are bought under compulsory purchase for "regeneration". Owners are offered the value of the property as it stands, not the value of the land (which is much higher considering the development oppurtunities).
> You're eliminating the first part of the flight, so the rocket just has to provide the delta-V for orbital insertion, not lift the fuel to do that from sea level.

Sure, but the altitude gain is almost "free" - you need to accelerate by something like 6 km/s laterally (number pulled out of somewhere, it's 2.3 in kerbal space program but the planets are smaller there) and 1 km/s vertically (depending on ascent profile, 0 for an instantaneous ascent and infinite for a slow hover upwards, but it ends up something like that), so by Pythagoras it's sqrt-37 = really not a lot more than the 6 kms/s you'd have to spend if you could start at 100km altitude.

Intuitively we assume rockets go "upwards" partly because that's the part we see, but actually the gravity turn occurs very early and most of the acceleration is closer to horizontal. E.g. the less-crazy of the space shuttle abort plans if something went wrong early in flight was to land at Shannon.
Probably because everyone who was reading about JFK's assassination in the paper already knew about it. The emotional storytelling (Cronkite crying and all that) was on Television. The purpose of the newspaper was to record what happened more than report it.
also one of my frontpages. digg reader replaced google reader for me and now I end up checking their top stories once a while
Docker Announces $95M Series D Funding Round
Tax forms, visualized