skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How I Generated 2,079 Visitors to a New Blog with This Promotion Technique
Another consideration is that many shops have in place C and C++ code that is 32 bit, which hosts JVMs and uses JNI to talk to them.
KDE Ships Plasma 5.3.1
In the real world, Firefox OS has zero marketshare at the low-end. Mozilla announced just a day or two ago that they're abandoning the low-end strategy.

Featurephones are largely gone. Microsoft bought Nokia's featurephone business, shut down further development and has been converting it to low-end Lumias as fast as they can, but Android is nibbling away most of that market.
I think it should be a subset of DOM / CSS designed for speed and flexibility. A normal browser could render the page correctly but an optimized browser for apps would be able to make some assumptions to render everything much faster. Something like asm.js but for DOM/CSS.
Almost every single comment here is negative. Snapchat is going to die soon. He doesn't know what he's doing. They're just going to use ads and then lose users.

Let's see what you're done.

Snapchat has done well thus far not to alienate users while introducing features that allow brands to get their content in front of users (discover). Particularly difficult considering it's mostly a private network on which you share with friends. They haven't any huge privacy scandals yet either - at least none that have had an effect on usage.

It may seem like just another dumb app to a lot of people here and honestly I thought the same for a while. My generation took quite a while to start using it but now it's something we use a lot. It's great for sharing pictures you don't need around forever on Facebook. Photos of nights out, as they happen for people who can't be there. Candid snaps on holidays and trips. I don't see it replacing Facebook for anyone but it seems to coexist nicely.

Most of the negativity here is actually quite familiar. It's the same crap people spewed about Facebook for the last 6 years or so. Any none of it has really come true.

Sorry for the rant.
That is a lovely typo.
Why? If who you're talking to is blabbing over a side channel, encryption doesn't matter. Encryption only stops Eve from seeing the content. And this says nothing regarding authentication. And there is no internet-wide RADIUS server.
Why would they build this in California? Why not pick a place in pretty much ANY other place in the US that has demonstrably cheaper land.
Cheer it just stopped! My ears thank you
So... you're still calling people crybabies, but I'd still like to know: did you ever talk to these people about their burnout? Did you try to understand what was going on with them?

Do you have any curiosity at all about the people you're judging?
Please, just leave. You're not doing the world a favor by shaming single men.
Latin, Greek, and German (among others) recognize three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter. The genders do not necessarily map gracefully onto sexes (see Mark Twain's "The Goddamned German Language" for some cases where this is so). I will leave others to argue the case for using gender to sort of but not quite mean sex.
After banning it and getting dizzy from watching some bad Prezi presentations, you'll want PowerPoint back.
Or the ??!??! operator [1]

!ErrorHasOccured() ??!??! HandleError();

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825055/what-does-the-c-o...
"..and then proceeded to not open source anything after 2011 or so"

Really? I think they have a pretty good track on open sourcing libraries just as before. Like https://github.com/google and Go, Dart, Blink etc etc..
My Nokia 3120 phone can do a week or so between charges quite easily, and is very small. It has a paygo sim in it with £10 of credit for emergencies and sits in the kitchen drawer.

As others have mentioned, the new Nokia branded basic phones have good battery lifetimes, although the build quality is basic and I find the buttons quite plasticky
Two salient points from Tuft's essay:

1) a reference books like an almanac averages 150 characters per square inch; a printed power point slide 7 characters per square inch (page 22): the visual brain starves for stimulation during a poor PP presentation.

2) Tufte recommends high resolution handouts accompany PP image slides. Eschew low content slides.

"Avoid elaborate hierarchies of bullet lists.
Never read aloud from slides. Never use PP templates to format paper
reports or web screens. Use PP as a projector for showing low-resolution
color images, graphics, and videos that cannot be reproduced as printed
handouts at a presentation."

"Paper handouts at a talk can effectively show text, numbers, data
graphics, images. Printed materials, which should largely replace PP,
bring information transfer rates in presentations up to that of everyday
material in newspapers, magazines, books, and internet screens. A useful
paper size for handouts at presentations is 11 by 17 inches (28 by 43 cm),
folded in half to make 4 pages. This piece of paper can show images
with a resolution of 1,200 dpi and up to 60,000 characters of words and
numbers, the content-equivalent of 50 to 250 typical PP slides of text
and data. Thoughtfully planned handouts at your talk tell the audience
that you are serious and precise; that you seek to leave traces and have
consequences. And that you respect your audience."
More like FaceTime, just one to one.
I don't know if it's named, but there's the !!?!!? operator [1]

!ErrorHasOccured() ??!??! HandleError();

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825055/what-does-the-c-o...
Disagree. Currently I'm running Audacity, Sococo (network conferencing tool; soon to be a web app), NetMon, Outlook, WeatherEye and a few services. Also have 3 browser tabs open.

So from here it looks like native apps are winning. Especially since I despise two of the three web apps (TeamCity, Jira) for being laggy, buggy and very slow.
That bridge is so much more aesthetically pleasing than its replacement. There is an oft repeated myth that they bought the wrong bridge by mistake but that is clearly denied in the article.
"I don't even know any serious contender to Reddit."

Everyone is staying on Reddit, but they aren't interested in seeing ads or paying money for most things. The only reason it's lasted as long as it has is because it's owned by a much larger company that can cover the losses until it can actually turn a profit.

Here is some info:

in 2013:

http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-admits-were-still-...

again in 2014:

http://recode.net/2014/03/03/still-in-the-red-reddit-to-dona...

You would think that a company getting millions of visitors per month would be able to turn a profit or at least break even. They've been scrambling over the past couple of years to turn a profit and still can't figure out a working business model.

"t's like Facebook in its class, it's too entrenched, people are not going to move on to the next thing so easily"

I remember people telling me the same thing about Myspace.
" and then proceeded to not open source anything after 2011 or so."

Google has released literally 1000+ open source projects since then. These are just the ones that went through me in one way or another (IE that i have personal knowledge of).

So you may want to reevaluate your premise :)

You can't even argue "they didn't release anything major".
You may be able to argue "they didn't release anything I personally care about"

I went to go reply to the typical "name a whatever that google has released as open source since then", but the person deleted their comment after two people already named some.

Here, i'll double the number:

GRPC
Bazel
LevelDB
etc

There are 393 projects in the main google org on github since 2012. This doesn't count the ~55 other github orgs google owns, or the fact that at least triple that number were released on code.google.com in the same time period. If you can't find something that meets whatever criteria you want to lay out, not sure what to tell you.
I don't have first-hand experience yet, but Matias claims to have "world's quietest mechanical keyswitches": http://matias.ca/switches/quiet/
People had to prepare transparancies and it was time-consuming and expensive, so they took a bit of care over it.

I can dump 7,000 words into powerpoint, chose a terrible font and terrible colours, fill it with weird clip art and transitions, and then bore and confuse my audience.

I like the idea of powerpoint. But there are far too many examples of suboptimal powerpoint presentations.

Perhaps there should be a gallery of good presentations (this probanly exists) which have the slides but also a video of the actual presentation, so people can compare the sparse slides and detailed talk.
Well, not that I think video streaming services are going to go anywhere, but YouTube was primarily used for pirated content when it first came out too.
Have you thought about open-sourcing this? I'd love to see this same thing for elections elsewhere.
I was thinking it makes sense in that California, sort of following I-5, is where the Hyperloop would supposedly go... but no. There's no reason to construct a proof of concept track there. Go buy some flats in the middle of nowhere and get a working prototype going first.
Best part that the whole city was created for this one company
FYI this is a project by https://opencorporates.com/ (the largest open database of companies in the world).
Yeah? Spotify, Skype, Google Earth, any developer tool, iTunes, Sonos, Keynote, MS Office, Photoshop, any video game ..... there are plenty of popular native desktop apps out there. I'd say there'd be more too, if the industry made them more frequently. But all we churn out are web apps these days - not because that's what users demand but for all sorts of other reasons.
Reminds me one of the comments on this article, so not the one you are linking to: Mostly it demonstrated that people would rather post their own comments than read other people's comments.
An expensive ($800k+ home) in Dallas could easily cost $10k a month to maintain. Generally, as people make more money, they find more ways to spend it. More/expensive cars, more/expensive housing, more/expensive vacations, etc.
> This solution uses Maven behind the scenes

With a fake POM and shelling out (and uses the go-offline goal, it could be argued that copy-dependencies is probably what you want). The proper way would be to use Aether.
Agreed. Powerpoint is good when its NOT a set of bullet points. Instead, show data rendered in a way that can't easily be explained in a word or two. Use the maxim that 'a picture is worth 1000 words'. There the presentation shines.

Data representation should properly be at least two variables plotted against one another, neither of which is time.
Too bad this write up showed up after this episode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9523431
There are also many free alternatives which are very good. I'm not suggesting something like Tinder or OkCupid are perfect, but both of them are fully usable for your whole dating lifecycle without ever having to pay a cent (both of them have premium options, but they are entirely optional). Maybe IAC will change that at some point, but they haven't thus far.

Dating is also always going to require work that can't be replaced with money. I can throw money at my laundry, my meals, my house cleaning and completely outsource them. But with dating, regardless of how good the site or matching is, I'm still going to have to meet the other person and have to do most of the "dirty work" involved with dating myself. So I'd think that fact limits the upper bound of money they can charge and upper bound of money a dating company can make.
♫If you liked it then you should have put a block chain on it♪
Also worth take a look at the Roboto specimen booklet which presents the font in a better light than the Google Fonts website (PDF): http://material-design.storage.googleapis.com/publish/materi...
> Herbie Hancock (of "Rockit" fame)

I'm just being a grumpy old jazz fan, but it bothers me that he's not known for anything but Rockit. Even if it's just to note that he was sampled in "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia),").

I know, it's not a culturally salient genre anymore, and I should shut up. Sorry.
Great little app. I would go a little further -- let the app also take pics (with the GPS on), or simply remember places with tags on the spot. e.g. tag and say "parked car".

I sometimes do not leave the location on, however, I would still like the functionality of the app.

Great job!
Debating this is sort of a "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.

PowerPoint is not inherently bad. Poor communication skills are inherently bad.
I take your point on the calculator, but as others have mentioned, the Nokia branded candybar phones of current production are doing rather well actually. People are buying them.
I just searched up RISE, and as a guy who loves reveal.js and spends a lot of time writing python in IPython (and who wants to bridge out into Julia), this is a godsend.

Thanks for bringing it up!
Thank you! Yes you are right! WordPress is huge! but not everyone need all the functionality... let's just say 10% of current WordPress users just need a simple blogging platform without all the widgets... then I think 1K function calls should be enough!

Anyway, I love WordPress and do not compare my hubby project with 10 years of 1000+ developers time!
Even more flagging -- tptacek and friends are flagging off posts, leaving their ridiculous replies to things not actually said (the tactic of responding to things not actually stated, and then leaving their aghast reply. This is tptacek's thing). As mentioned they waited until this fell off the front page, when they could, 1984-esque, change the reality of the thread.

What an utter abomination.
>I like his disdain for targeted ads, in spite of the fact that this could probably be profitable for his company.

I don't agree with the idea that all a company has to do is tack on ads and they'll be wildly profitable. I think that ship has sailed; the more ads we're bombarded with, the less effect each individual ad has on us. There are diminishing returns to ad optimization. We can only buy so much stuff.

There will be some interesting times in the near future surrounding this ad-driven ecosystem.
That's not the point, and I think you know that.

The point is this:

1. Person A builds up a persona on HN as a guru, product person, consulting expert, etc.
2. This person then sells an e-book, leaning upon that reputation.
3. This person's uses the launch as an example of being successful.
4. The cycle repeats.

This is an obvious manifestation of the age old Mass Control, Product Launch Formula, etc, and I have no problem with that. My point above is that it's OK for people to vet the parties behind these products, and I think it's lazy to immediately dismiss criticism as jealousy.
You are right! Thank you for the complement!
Their logo looks extremely similar to the Visual Studio 2010 logo.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1LB4PjiDdgU/Ur_tPvwj5HI/AAAAAAAAAo...
Tracking Stability of a Software System [pdf]
with the recent "scandal" with the CEO and her husband, a lot of reddit users are moving to sites like https://voat.co
While I'm vastly amused by your post, the whipping boy isn't a good analogy. As the people on trial are the ones that actually execute the orders, it does act as a deterrent.

> The court was played a clip where Mr Hayes said he was part of a system in which influencing Libor was "commonplace", although he admitted he was a "serial offender".

Even if you only put 5% of these guys in jail, its still enough of a risk some people might choose to be honest.
In my town we have monthly science meeting called the Cafe Scientifique. A speaker must present his topic in twenty minutes without a projector (sort of an expanded elevator pitch). It can work even for the most complicated topics. The speaker is forced into a more story-telling style. And to focus on a few points told well.

P.S. The speaker may distribute a single handout or have a couple images as a large poster.
"Twitter is an example of a company with a similar user base"

Twitter has professionals and many people over the age of 18, so the user base is much different. Facebook is the same. My Mom and Dad are both on Facebook. If you notice, Facebook started becoming profitable when the moved outside of Universities.

Snapchat is mostly students and teenagers. I'm 38 and neither I nor any of my friends have ever used Snapchat (Most wouldn't even know what it is and I only know because I'm interested in Startups).

My point is that if you have no chance of moving outside of the student/teenager demographic with an app like this, it will be very difficult to monetize.
But dating services can go viral. Network effect.
That's it the main bottleneck is Database calls!
We'd like to think that there is little error when it comes to transporting people, but most (if not all) of our current means of transportation are prone to accident. Here's some stats:

- For planes, there were 4,394 near-misses in 2012 [1]

- There were an estimated 5,419,000 automobile accidents in 2010, just in the US, resulting in 32,999 deaths [2]

- And the recent Amtrak train derailment, which could have been prevented (although why the prevention mechanism needs to be in the track, and not on the train itself seems strange). [3] There is also an estimated 2,280 collisions at public/private crossings resulting in 267 deaths in 2014. [4]

The question in my mind is whether the proposed Hyperloop system would be more prone to accident than our current systems of transit. I doubt our current means of transit would fare well under some of the proposed scenarios in the comments.

[1] - http://news.discovery.com/tech/airplane-near-misses-how-ofte...

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

[3] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/derailed-amtrak-tra...

[4] - http://oli.org/about-us/news/collisions-casulties
The worst is when people don't/can't/won't use PowerPoint and they use MS Word or a PDF to create "slides".

I don't think PowerPoint should be banned, just the misuse of PPT should be banned.
Last time I made a presentation with slides was some 15 years ago. I used SliTeX. (It seems that has been superseded by a slides document class in LaTeX2e.)

The slides were very plain: just black text on a white background; no animations. On the other hand, great looking formulas, nicely formatted source code snippets and such.

I had a talk prepared; it wasn't a slide-reading marathon. The slides just anchored what I was saying.

Today if I did slides, I would probably make them into static HTML pages with simple navigation links. Or perhaps a dual frame: navigation pane with screens.
Even so, I thought that the failure mode for tube misalignment of hundredths or even tenths of an inch would result in stoppage, and perhaps damaged "track" and cars, with trapped passengers. This isn't so different from the performance of high speed rail during natural disasters.
I worked as an instructor at a coding bootcamp for a year (the past year actually) and I always felt a little like I was channeling Mr Rogers. I loved him as a kid and as an adult it was very apparent to me that the reason I loved him was because he was so enthusiastic about what was going on. I taught with similar enthusiasm and got great feedback from students and my employer. I think that it held the students' attention and help them grasp new and challenging material. Enthusiasm is often lost in education because at the end of the day it is a J-O-B and it can be difficult to maintain a certain level of enthusiasm.
I remember in college I was marked off for not putting everything I said in my presentation into the powerpoint verbatim. I knew the professor was being dumb, but I just took the grade and moved on. I wonder how many kids in the class actually took her advice.
You can't just ban PowerPoint without replacing it, and without changing the corporate culture.

PowerPoint cultivates a pitch based culture. Taking away PP will still leave that culture in place, they'll just find some other tool to make their pitches. The problem is the culture, which needs to be cut down and have the stump pulled out of the ground. It sounds like a lot of work because it is a lot of work.

Before PowerPoint the way that kind of work got done was through lots of long form written work. RFC-style documents, very long memos that bordered on essays or research papers, that sort of thing. Today the art of communicating that way has to a significant degree been lost in the modern office. The closest thing to it that exists today would probably be internal blogs and wikis. Which is precisely what I'd focus on as a replacement for PowerPoint.

Want to push some new project? Don't pitch it, blog it. Want to spread knowledge of something to other teams, don't pitch it, document it in a wiki.
Agreed the talk should work without slides. Another way of putting it is that the deck shouldn't really work on its own. You can't just read the slides after without explanation.
I claim that you could quite reasonably argue "we'd be better off" if you were allowed to alter any single event in past history. It should be called "proof by fantasy land".
here is the "exact" ranking, without grouping several participants into a single one position
http://icpc.baylor.edu/scoreboard/
> Hasn't every template language in the world has come to a similar conclusion?

No, not even every mainstream template language. For example, I still use ERB and EJS extensively, and so do many other engineers. ERB and EJS use the control flow constructs of the underlying languages (Ruby and JS, respectively).

There is of course debate about whether templates should expose the full power of a programming language. I have tried templating languages that do and ones that don't. For now, I'm sticking with templates that let me mix in arbitrary code as I see fit. Could I abuse that power and make a mess? Absolutely. But I try not to, and my code stays pretty maintainable.
Actually, quite a few set-top boxes do run Java and thus some form of a JVM (though perhaps not HotSpot). Of particular note, Java (specifically, BD-J) is a mandatory part of the Blu-Ray standard in order to implement things like interactive menus, disc updates (for post-release subtitle updates, for example), etc., so literally every device with Blu-Ray playback capability runs a JVM (probably HotSpot). I'd reckon most of these run 32-bit processors, and probably will for the next several years.

This isn't the only case where Java is part of the standards for various set-top boxen. Java's also commonplace as middleware on cable/satellite TV boxes, and (IIRC) some "smart TVs" use Java extensively.
Part of democratizing is access to information, access to different choices, access to drivers.

Can GPUs do this. In my view, not a bad result considering 2014 general availability? How long (and how many $billions did it take for CUDA to catch on...)

https://www.parallella.org/2015/05/25/how-the-do-i-program-t...

In terms of cost, not really sure what you are referring to... supercomputer.io is free to researchers, which last time I checked is less than not zero.
> I don't use it because I don't like Metro UI apps but a large part of the list you give is already supported in Windows 8: calendar, contacts, photos (thru OneDrive)

So the only way to sync them is via the cloud?
Heartography, or, Grizzler, the first phodogropher
Lastpass' Certificate is invalid
So a secret net neutrality agreement is fine, but this is where the line is drawn? I should take all of the things people told me when I raised concerns about the net neutrality agreement and use it in discussions regarding this.