skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you looked into the blackphone?

Also, mozilla does not make hardware, it can't provide you with the hardware safety you need.

Android is not open source. AOSP is open source but a lot of the stuff you see in a modern high-end Android device is not OSS. On the other hand, all of Firefox OS, its built-in apps and its associated services are FOSS. You can check the code and audit it.
Note: I have a late 2013 edition, Sputnik 3, there's a newer - 2015 edition which has a much better battery life from what I've read.

On average lasts ~7 hours, less if you're watching a video.

Yes, sleep/wake up is working as expected.

I myself was very impressed when I got the laptop, I didn't expect such beautiful and fine tuned laptop from Dell.
I did complain to my immediate boss, and then when I became a manager, I went to HR fought to make the pay more equitable. Not a whole lot happened, as far as I can tell.

To be fair to them, it's not quite so easy though. You can bring underpaid people up to "fair", but you can't really bring overpaid people down, so you still wind up with some unfair (imo) compensation going around.

Incidentally, the last time I got a raise was when I became a manager and became more aware of the exact compensation numbers for the rest of my team. My plan for the next time I get a raise was to ask them to give it to some of my underpaid team members instead, but I'm leaving this company soon, so I won't be able to see if that strategy would work or not.
Hybris is not useful in this case. Firefox OS is already based on Bionic.
>They just need to increase the amount of traffic I can get and I'd drop the hardline service.

Which they will literally never do. They have no incentive to. The absurdly low caps allow them to consistently charge overage fees/print money.
Is that even possible; how can contributors legally provide patches under a license that is different from the source they are patching? How do you know if there is any "GPLv2 only" code left in the project? Do you track license usage by the code line? Can you add a trailing space to every single line of the code and release it on github as "GPLv2 and later" (hey, it's a patch), thus getting rid of the whole "GPLv2 only" clause?
> In the 300-day grace period after the 1954 division that allowed open migration between the two Vietnams, 600,000 people migrated south compared with around 150,000 to the north

There is a reason for that huge number of people migrating south:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Passage_to_Freedom#Pr...
>but I’ve lived all over the US in the past five years and can say with some authority that TWC is worse.

There is absolutely 0 chance TWC is worse than Frontier. I've had both, it's not even close.
This page (and worse, their home page) is unwatchable on my (not so new) phone as well, android 4.2.2 stock browser, probably still used by millions.
Dear hipsters, form over function is terrible ux, throwing computational resources at a design problem does not solve anything.

Unrelated, but some time ago somebody redesigned medium.com to be so bloated I can't scroll half a line without terrible artifacts drawing themselves all over the text, on a website supposedly designed around the reading experience.
Email is better for me, and more specifically, email directly to a person and not a mailbox; I always get more traction this way and so prefer it.
Lumias are subsidized by Microsoft. They can sell them at a loss.

Mozilla does not make hardware. Partners make hardware and they need to recover their cost.

I have a couple FxOS phones in here, they all have time set just fine. I don't have the 35$ device though.
It'll probably prevail in 2029 giving us one bonus year of "Happy Birthday" singing without royalties.
I think the system browser in 3.x is a significant UX improvement. The old browser app always felt like trying to impose an Android-like world-view on a system where the system was supposed to be a browser all along.
Project Exodus: What’s behind the dream of colonizing Mars?
I'm curious - why would Australians learn Mandarin (if not for exogenous reasons - such as family relations or business opportunities)?
The article misconstrues multiple food movements from by taking three words, natural, fresh, and local, and not understanding the context around them. The article therefore boils down into a straw man argument.

The slow food movement particularly is a tiny minority, it’s like bringing up the Tea Party, for a political debate. There is a much larger movement against fast food, and that’s mostly because of chemicals used in fast food. Nitrate preserved meat has links to cancer. Azodicarbonamide, a dough conditional, banned in Europe/Australia, was in US Subway sandwiches till last year. Then of course there is soda, a food engineered to be over-consumed, which leads to diabetes and obesity.

No one outside of Raw Vegans, again another tiny minority, is against preservation of foods. In fact, it’s common and promoted. The mechanism though is typically through bacterial fermentation and pickling with vinegar which is how most of the foods (soy, tofu, kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles, herring, yogurt etc) are prepared, stored, and used during winter times when no vegetation is available. Synthetic preservatives have been linked to negative health outcomes.

The local food movement is really just about eating produce locally when possible. Why should? Typically it’s cheaper, more varied, and more nutritious. All of the words agriculture is bred for maximum shelf life. You aren’t getting the best tasting food, you are just getting the food that won’t go bad. That also means it’s less genetically diverse. There 10k varieties of tomatoes, you can only buy about 5 commercially. Emphasis here is on produce, no one is abstaining from imported spices.

Most of these movements come at the heels of rising obesity epidemic in the US and around the world against an industry that’s for profit and not for pro health. Some are extreme, but that helps swing the pendulum the opposite direction. You can see the rise of more ingredient conscious and more delicious Chipotle, which sources all ingredients within 350mi and the fall of the heavily processed McDonalds. This is a net positive and not something we should be condemning.
Good news for the planet. Bad news for the dirty coal industry. Still don't trust the chinese tough.
Is this why in restaurants, the staff always have a unusual shorter version that I cannot follow along?
Awesome, then we can make promotions tenure based and make it virtually impossible to fire someone for incompetence.
Does your employer promote based on the results of an objective test? For example, many police departments have tests officers must pass to attain a particular supervisory rank. If that's how things work, then I agree that you know "what it takes to get there". In most organizations, public sector or private, there are a limited number of openings at a particular level, dependent upon budget, need, politics, and whatever other means of decision-making are in use. And those positions are filled based on subjective criteria at the discretion of the supervisor(s) responsible for them. So while you do know what other positions pay, the hard part -- assigning each human a role and compensation -- is every bit as opaque and subject to manipulation and error as anywhere else.
Copyright was originally set at lifespan of the creator plus some arbitrary amount of time that has changed over the years.

There's still about a few dozen rules that apply in the US:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

Every country has similarly confused systems.
I work for the government and this is exactly what happens. With the added bonus that everyone's salaries are public.
The real problem is that the telecoms companies (AT&T and Verizon in most areas) aren't putting up any competition at all.

AT&Ts UVerse VDSL rollout is flawed (the cabinets are generally too far from customers premises), so speeds are too slow. Verizon has given up with further significant FiOS rollout.

I don't really think this matters too much. TWC and Charter serve different areas, so there is no real change in competition. You could argue maybe there is some changes in bids for content, or perhaps peering and transit, but I think the much more important thing is getting a competitor on the ground.

Everywhere Google Fiber has rolled out (or even said they may roll out) has seen huge service improvements from the incumbents. Instead of bickering over these merges, there should be more thought on how to get more Google Fibers out there.
Raymond Chen rants about other developers doing stupid things - his job is basically to help them get stuff done in 'the right way' from what I can tell, so he finds a lot of weirdness like this.

My impression is that this is a parody of something ridiculous he found.
Why? Have you looked at todays games? Most of these are only good for us, the kids of the 90s (born in the early 80s)... Today's kids have PS,xbox,etc. Way more advanced game consoles...
Rick Wagoner was in charge back then. A company man, he was myopic as to anything happening outside the firm. The White House requested he resign (The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules) because of the firm's impending bankruptcy and lack of confidence in his leadership abilities (GM having lost $84 billion while he was in charge).

The current CEO is Mary Barra. She seems to be talented and getting the firm going in the right direction, but was basically handed a shit sandwich. I wish her luck.
Neo900 [1] develops a device like that - privacy oriented open platform, with maximum user control over the device. Even though its specs and price might be a bit unsatisfying to some, it's actually a pretty reasonable approach worth supporting - basing its design on N900 and GTA04 is for a small project like that like reaching the low-hanging fruit, while ideas and solutions developed for it such as baseband "sandbox" or hackerbus will be able to be used later in future devices. See also [2] for more details.

Full disclosure: I found this project so worth supporting, I actually became team member somewhere at its beginning :)

[1] http://neo900.org/

[2] http://neo900.org/stuff/ohsw2014/ohsw2014.pdf
When I interviewed there, the interviewer said that the bosses would get abusive nearing deadlines - and good matches for the job should be able to handle that pressure.
Aside from "serious literature struggle" a nation that liked catch-22 and stuff like that would dig "Monday begins on Saturday". Its been out of print forever (in english), used copies sell for $50 on amazon.

Something to think about with "failed markets" is when you only have a microscopic hyper regulated oligopoly you can end up with tons of demand but if the small number of providers close ranks and refuse to sell that kind of stuff, well... doesn't matter if used or bootleg copies indicate market demand at $50, the general public simply will not be permitted to read. Its very much like recording company execs as gatekeepers, if you disagree with them well tough cookies you aren't going to hear what you want.

I suffered thru about half of "The Idiot" before I gave up, and I almost never give up on books, but Russia is really big and not all russian lit is like that (although there is a lot of old russian lit that obviously was paid for on a "per word" contract)
As I expected, the article does not actually discuss any of the deeper or well thought out reasons behind why some thing settling another world is a good idea. It's incredibly one sided.

I balanced article would discuss the frontier thesis, among many other things.
I think that is a good point, and I'm sure approaches like this don't solve the issue, but there is a difference in transparency.

Pay isn't public, but titles are. So if you are in the company you can see the landscape and know if you should be in the group of people with the better title. This would mean that although women might not be as inclined to negotiate, it would become clearer to people where themselves and others should be with their titles, so discrepancies between performance and title and pay would be more obvious.
I can't afford to compete with those hourly rates or the payment terms.

I'm based in the UK so as well as cost of living, I have to factor the strength of Sterling into my hourly rate as well when dealing with international clients.

My strength is communication and understanding of your requirements so I'm targeting a different type of client; perhaps putting bargain basement in the title was misleading?
Given a supervisor script that automatically restarts the process, wouldn't it be simpler for the process to communicate its own death the next time it boots?
What If Facebook Actually Paid People for Content?
The causality may run the other way. Lock-step salaries work best when the key driver of the firm's success is not the knowledge and skills that individual employees bring to the firm, but rather pre-existing market advantages that the firm itself has that let its employees be more productive and make more money. Otherwise, the firm has a strong incentive to acquire those individual knowledge and skills to make itself more profitable.

The most profitable and selective law firms are such because they've built up very strong brand names and client relationships over time. They make an employee's career; an employee doesn't make the firm's success. As a result, the employee doesn't have the negotiating leverage to demand a higher salary, and the firm has a strong incentive to ensure harmony and control costs among its workers.
Cool tip. You're right though, bash in /bin/sh mode doesn't have that feature.
Android 2.x was not better than Firefox OS 2.x IMHO. I have them all here and I really enjoy the Flame running 2.x, it was my primary smartphone until February.

One don't need HTML5 at 60fps. One need HTML5 apps that work. Movies are not 60fps. The only place where you need 60fps is games and that type of game is not the objective of the devices you've seen running Firefox OS.

What is needed is quality HTML5 apps. The old Pre2 and Pre3 webOS devices had some pretty amazing HTML5 apps. The usability was great even if the phone slowed sometimes. UX is better than FPS. Usability trumps benchmarks.

The problem is when you code for the high-end place of the spectrum with evergreen browsers and stuff and try to shoehorn that into a phone. thats when misery happens.

Instead of reading a review from written by someone used to high-end devices and ubiquitous networking. Look for those people in India and South America who are buying Firefox OS devices as their first smartphone because they couldn't afford a higher-end device. Look for their feedback. Many are accessing the web on a personal device for the first time. Its a life transforming opportunity once the doors to the vast knowledge repository of the web is open. I can go on for hours on where Firefox OS shines but I will not bore you. Just don't try to compare it against Android and iOS devices, that was never the objective.
Here is an interesting documentary about the history of copyright, the role of Big Content, and a future vision on copyright [1] Also covers the happy birthday song.

[1] Rip: a Remix Manifesto, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EnX0vACj4Q
No, like a professional association.
What are you talking about? There was no "South Vietnam"... There was Vietnam and there were places the invading forces were occupying.
I understand where you're coming from. I've contracted long enough to have had my share of nightmare projects - late payments, feature creep, poorly planned specs etc. I think I'm getting good at sensing which projects should set my alarm bells ringing.

Unfortunately my free time gets in the way of JFDI so I thought this was the best way to kill two birds with one stone.
A crying face is called "ever"

#define ever (;;)

for ever {
// do something
}
A lot of hate probably comes from programmers, not so much from visual designers. There is a big difference between doing left-brain and right-brain type of work.

I'm a programmer and when I do visual type work, e.g. HTML/CSS I don't mind sitting in an open space. I can easily concentrate on what I'm doing.

However, when I'm doing algorithmic type work and I need to juggle ten different problems in short term memory I certainly want peace and quiet so I can concentrate.

Many companies can easily solve the problem by have a "loud" and "quiet" space, but most companies simply choose not to.
The logo is meh, but the grammatical error in the first sentence of TFA is obnoxious.
My HN profile has my email address, thanks for the heads up re: the contact form and sorry you had to fill out the entire form to figure out it was not working!
>Linux on the desktop is happening

What makes you think so?
The 3 year is at the point of distribution, so each time they distribute the software to a person (ie, at the point of someone purchasing the router), they got give a written offer that is valid for 3 year from that point in time.

So saying that they released the software 3 years ago doesn't mean anything for staying in compliance with the license. It has to be 3 years since the router was sold to you.
I have never understood the "we'll win at the lo-end" approach. Android was designed for lo-spec devices. ART has moved android a little bit away from that focus, and so has some bloat in Google's proprietary apps. But Android can still be tuned for and run on very modest hardware. Competing against Android on lo-spec hardware is not a winning plan.

For the class of IoT devices that are capable of running Linux, Google thinks they can turn Android into a "headless" configuration that uses Android's runtime and base classes, presumably minus the UI classes. Android is, in fact, pretty darn efficient.

And on top of all that, Mozilla thought a Web runtime could be made as efficient as a Java-ish runtime that has a very memory-efficient component architecture? That's just strange.
Google research shows parents' encouragement is reason for lack of women in tech
On my 2015 XPS 13 I my power will idle (with wifi/bt on and 50% screen brightness) down to under 5W. You can be more agressive with power savings (I run TLP, but in a pretty middle of the road configuration) and get better use out of it. 10 hours is reasonable use for general work, less if you're compiling while watching netflix of course :)
The Rage to Master: The Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts (1996) [pdf]
And will get a half dozen more titles to keep salaries diversified enough. This will not motivate workers at the same title who are twice as productive of course
They say they are making a comeback and then list one place that is using lockstep salaries.
Why ‘Uber for x’ is the way to turn off investors via a top investor at Qualcomm
I'm using a different model dell with a touch screen and I'm running OpenSUSE 13.2 with GNOME 3 and the touch screen works pretty good. Linux doesn't have a metro style desktop so it's not exactly "tailored" for touch, but it works.

For a really smooth experience I suggest using GTK3 apps. Not sure how qt compares but GTK3 apps are wonderful.
Not to mention the poor reception you get using GPS in a parking garage!
Yay, Linux!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam

First google hit.
There is still copyright on them, and there will be for several decades after release.
>The year of the Linux desktop was brought about by Android

What's the marketshare of Android on desktops?
This is a waste of time. I am out of here.
How to get an mba from Eminem
React ES6 Component “Gotchas”
1. As far as the effect of the window manager: this isn't emacs+X11 in 1995: the drag on CPU/ram/battery of gecko/blink will dwarf the "weight" of the windowing system.

Firefox OS can actually run on a 1 ARM CPU with as low as 128mb. It may not be the best experience but Android and WP can't even boot given those constraints. Firefox OS can be really nimble, the main issue when people complain about performance is usually a poorly implemented app and not the OS.

2. FirefoxOS maybe be leaner in principle, but the competition has vastly better hardware, both in the Windows Phone field and in the Android one, via what I can guess is a combination of subsidies (is mobile MS still burning piles of cash or has the division posted some profits?) and sheer mass scale production. So, for little more money you get a get a better device that actually runs all the apps that your friends have, and a web browser.

That is true for some places but not everywhere. There are places where all the devices are imported and heavily taxed. In these cases Firefox OS tends to be a lot cheaper than a comparable Android. Some people can't afford an Android device, they may be stuck with dumb phones, in these cases, Firefox OS is an appealing solution. Thats the original case, migrating people to their first smartphone and give them web access.

3. The appeal of FirefoxOS even in those low end markets was negligible (this has been discussed to death). Besides they released phones in places such as Italy and Spain, two markets were people will en masse shell out the cash for an Iphone. I found that simply baffling.

I will not comment on the negligible part of your comment because I know people from those locations, real people not data points in a graph, who were delighted to have their first device. Also remember that Firefox OS is a partnership with hardware makers and carriers. The carriers decide where it will launch and both TIM and Telefonica wanted to launch on their home country. It was their decision, we may not agree, but its their call to launch on their home base.
I'm still confused as to what Mozilla actually does.

At one point they(or the company that spawned them) built a web browser that they sold. Then they were the non-profit offshoot of that keeping an open source browser alive.

But now they're... erm... what is it exactly that they are? They're a non-profit that sells browser searches, or something. I'm confused.
I refuse to believe that what you described was a default experience.

I've used the same model my self and never seen the issues you described. I've looked for reviews and all the ones I find only mention poor high DPI scaling, which has gotten better.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2897199/opensource-subne...

If what you described is what it's really like out of the box then there should be a lot more scathing reviews. I have a feeling you probably installed some third party software from some random website.
Google drive. Performance is terrible (it hogs memory), but the sharing features are great. Also, the storage is cheap.
Did you bother to click on any of the links, or did you just glance at the "news" page? Almost half of the links on the page ("technology", "check it out", "100% Postgres, 100X Faster for Analytics", or "(slides)") they explain how it works (and it makes sense, although I'd personally be very wary of installing this, due to not particularly trusting that it gets the implementation "correct").
How did Lenovo burn you? Even minimal distros such as Arch with various DEs/WMs work great out of the box on my T450s, because all of the hardware is supported in the kernel. Reading the 2015 XPS 13 Ubuntu guide made it seem like a painful process that involved downloading drivers, etc.
I presume there's no statute of limitations so we can send emails itemising each past violation? People have been singing this to me for years...
>It also means that veterans who are willing to take minimum salary may find themselves priced out of the league since their minimum is higher than less experienced players.

Actually, the NBA CBA has that loophole covered. If a veteran player accepts a minimum salary contract, the team only has to pay the minimum salary for a player with 3 years of experience. The league pays the difference, and the difference does not count against the salary cap.

So, the minimum salary scale for veterans is not a disincentive against hiring a veteran who is willing to play for the minimum.