skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually coming into the comments section to hate on the "< 1kb forum" until I saw this. The first thing I had looked for yesterday was security holes and that took ~1 second due to the small filesize. Bravo illiterate.
There was some X11 in OpenStep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep

The link I put up earlier has some ref to Apple's reasoning. In the end, they decided to just replace it instead of just add the missing bits. That is really significant if X brings so much. I think it's just easier to get somewhere useful without the huge network of interested parties involved. I've watched Linux gyrate (and used it) since about 95, each year or so with a prediction it'll take over. My hope is that Google's OS will be a useful makeover for the mainstream.
Certainly not in the classification of Tourettes it isn't. And it's rather insulting to those of us who do have it to make an excuse like that.

Having lived with it for 30 years I wouldn't classify it as something to cast about lightly as some kind of metaphoric excuse for being an asshole.
You can get rid of the dock when you have the cursor away from it. Check your preferences to change this. I also aligned the dock to the left-hand side to make it less obtrusive.
World hottest news: Police publish report into death of Blair Peach in 1979
He's the guy in the video.
That last article doesn't seem to be related, unless it's really screwed up in translation - it's about rats bedding in corn, not hamsters eating soy.

Also, the article only mentions the word genetic once, and has this to say:

Although we have not directly quantified the levels of LTX-diol
or THF-diol in corncob bedding by GC-MS, it is clear from HPLC
analysis of a number of corncob extracts that the concentration
of these disruptor/mitogenic agents in different lots or
varieties of corncob, and genetically engineered corn, vary
significantly

So it sounds to me like this substance occurs in all sorts of corn, GM or not...
Sorry I'm so late in replying to your comment. The issue here is how the insurance companies obtain that information. I think the analogy would be if auto insurance companies determined their rates using data from your cell phone provider as to how fast and where you drive. And, especially, if they were to do so without your knowledge.
Whitney Houston's bad performance of her own song
Well, it's really too bad they haven't introduced better playlist-management. That's the one thing their client is lacking the most.
How could that question not reflect respondents prejudices more than anything else?
Cigarettes are legal, yet there are still criminal gangs making their living out of smuggling and selling cigarettes. Unless drugs are sold without restriction and without tax there will still be a market for illegal drugs. Sure the market will be smaller and less profitable, but that might just make the gangs more violent in defending their turf as they need a larger market share to keep their current profit levels.
"... What always fascinated me is how girl bullying has almost no effect on a guy (even with other girls), so girls quickly give up on bullying guys (I'll come back to this in a second), but can devastate a girl, while the inverse, guys bullying girls can be just as effective as guys bullying guys. ..."

Don't know about this. I've seen groups of women cut men down in bars all the time. Another explanation is maybe men don't show weakness.

"... She knows that she has a peer group she can draw positive socializations from, while her friends are still thinking that someday, those popular girls might want to be friends with them and care about maintaining that possible relationship -- which the popular girls seem to use as an avenue for their bullying. ..."

Excellent observation.
This is prima facie stupid. Genetically modified is not a meaningful term; it is merely political. Furthermore, this was not a blinded study and — surprise! — the scientists got the result they clearly wanted.
One thing that I noticed in your inbox is the filter option, "Only show items from people I follow". Does that mean that you can send songs to other peoples inboxes that your are not friends with? Opportunity to spam music?
How exactly is it unprofessional to leave after 12 months?

An employee doesn't owe an employer anything more than the employer owes the employee (which is not much). If a better opportunity comes up, who is the employer to prevent the employee from advancing their career?
Well, considering that parallelism among two, three or four cores is already a problem for "classic" programming... I mean, we've hit the limit on speed for CPU until some magical graphite stuff comes out, so we've moved to multiple cores. Multiple cores are great for programs that can utilize them, but as I understand it, it's generally considered difficult to write truly parallel code in a language like C or C++.

(source, my crazy Comp Systems & Organizations teacher, plus it kinda makes sense). I suppose it doesn't answer your question about "super parallelable" but I would assume that any compiler that generates code for simultaneous execution based on a language that lets you write such code would simply be adapted to the new "super parallel" level.

The problem comes down to the fact that you can just throw a regular program at a compiler and expect it to magically become parallelized.
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John -- congratulations in your quest. I never understood it and even after reading your description don't understand it. Turing had a great mind, but there are a plethora of people with great minds who were killed by society in some fashion or another because of being different. The Holocaust comes to mind. We could take up reams of paper with people treated just like Turing. What real impact does this have aside from making people feel like they did something of value? I really do not understand -- but that's not important.

Obviously this was great for both you and your supporters. I can respect the fact that everybody has different motivations and values, some of which are fathomless. So while I can't share your joy, I can be happy for you. Congratulations in accomplishing your goal!
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I was accentuating the difference between foster care and growing up with parents. Foster care provides for little to no genuine love.
Increasing punishment for drunk driving (combined with lower limits and more random roadside testing) might make people think twice about risking it.

Coming from Sweden where we have relatively high punishments and low legal limits, I was shocked about how cavalier most people I met in the States where about getting in their car after a nights drinking. If you want to lower drunk driving relates deaths you have to change peoples attitudes towards drinking and driving.
Both Line-up and Flood-it are on Android, and are pretty good. The iPhone/iPod versions of these are much more polished and look better though.

I can imagine that if Google is serious about taking on the iPhone with Android, they're going to have to start hitting where the iPhone is killing it--mobile games. Having a company that has created successful games on a multitude of platforms are going to be great advisors for this effort I'd think.
Documentaries are a subset of real life. So there must at the minimum be some couples who fit this pattern :/
That would depend on whether or not you want to see the current music industry system saved or destroyed...
I knew, because of that, that if I was called out to a fight, I could show up at the designated time and place and give what I could.

Whenever someone would try to designate a time and place, my response was invariably, "No. Right now."

I thereby avoided the scenario where I won the fight in private but the challenger publicly claimed victory anyway.

It also cut down the number of challengers very quickly. I didn't have to fight at all in high school. :)
And a lot of voters who feel safer believing their elected officials are doing everything they can to combat this so called evil.
They give away their games, in an ad supported mode. I don't know if people actually click on the ads or not--my guess is not, but during my morning and afternoon commute from Brooklyn to 18th Street in Manhattan, I typically see someone playing either Flood-it or Line-up at least once a week. Doesn't seem to ever be the same person either...
But foster care wasn't what dzorz was arguing for.
Manuel Noriega - from US friend to foe
WOFF (Web Open Font Format) 1.0 Submission to W3C
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I think a lot of dynamic language implementations suck because their authors haven't bothered to study Lisp implementations. The widely used implementations of Common Lisp and Scheme don't suck at all[0]. Of course, some implementors of other dynamic languages do seem to have studied Lisp implementations and it shows in the results. Lua doesn't suck at all.

[0] Ok, the multi-platform support of some of the CL implementations could be better.
'memba him?

Pop Quiz: What "hard rock" music and radio talk show was played continually to make Noriega surrender?
Here comes all the "A <insert language> Forum in x bytes of code" posts.
It's 10 years old. PowerPoint looked like that, then. The style you're referring to is much newer.

Although, it would be fun to do a hipster-with-Keynote update of it.
It's funny you're saying that after all the years of work that went into making traditional window managers more Windows/MacOSX like.
Police seize Gizmodo computers in Apple iPhone 4.0 prototype leak
As a related note, if any of you guys have a Netflix account, I'd highly suggest watching the film Food, Inc. It's on streaming, so you can watch it on your computer, Xbox, etc... Definitely an insightful film that relates to genetically modified foods.
Needle-in-a-Haystack Problems, and P vs. NP
Only if said drafting tables are marketed as enabling the owner, regardless of training or abilities, to build a high-rise in an afternoon.
Atrocious Ethics Galore in the "Lost iPhone" Case
UK VC trend points to smaller, less syndicated deals
1. Apple already had the phone; Gizmodo sent it back to them.

2. "If I were Apple, I would have done X" does not in any way imply "Apple did X".
> An optional block of extended metadata, represented in XML format and compressed for storage in the WOFF file.

At least it's compressed, but seems like it might make more sense to use compressed JSON, given that you're likely only ever going to read it with, you know, JavaScript.
The Pill at 50: Sex, Freedom and Paradox
Even if you're not a Mac/Transmit user you should check our their product page for this: http://panic.com/transmit/

It looks great and the attention to detail these guys have is pretty amazing.
I agree with the comments about GEB - I've had a battered copy for over 20 years and I still haven't made it all the way to the end.
Interview with Gee Chuang, Co-founder of Listia (YC S09)
On building systems that will fail
What if they want Macs though?
Looks more slick, but just as scary as the one shown in Arrested Development.
Couldn't disagree more about TAOCP. I haven't finished any of them, but I think they recommend themselves poorly as references and are brilliant front-to-back readers. Every time I make a couple hours for them, no matter where in which book I start, I learn something new. TAOCP is in that sense more like the Bible than the dictionary.

That the examples are in "assembly language" is a red herring, since the machine the book targets is deliberately simplified. The "assembly" is just a notation. The idea, which seems to be to make the examples as concrete as possible, is beginner-friendly --- as anyone who's been tripped up by mistakes and ambiguities in older Sedgewick books can attest.
"In the coming months, he estimates it will be possible to establish the reflector’s coordinates to better than one-centimeter precision."

On the moon.
From parents and close relatives it is easy to see a evolutionary reason

Which is not a rational reason. That would be the naturalistic fallacy.
I'm just replying to the original upvoted post, "Didn't he/she know the engineer's name?".

Obviously the "finder" knew it was Apple hardware and the thug who stole my XBox knew it was Microsoft. The finder DID call the "owner" and most likely has it recorded. I'm not defending Gizmodo at all but I think the thief has a more compelling argument in court.
The article alludes to this: there's an entire subculture at DoD dedicated to creating PowerPoint decks. Lots of really high-paid contractors have the main job of creating PowerPoints for senior command. The whole place runs off of PowerPoint.

After I read Beyond Bullet Points, my opinion of presentations totally changed. Back of the Napkin helped some, but BBP really ingrained in me the right way to do a deck.

Now when I teach or present, I have a brief deck full of pictures and conveying a simple, reasoned discussion not involving a lot of data.

What happens is that the PPT takes the place of the thinking that goes into analysis. That's really, really bad. Instead, do the thinking, solve the problem, make a recommendation, come up with the couple of points you have to teach, THEN create a multimedia presentation around it. Presentations are like movies -- people absorb them differently than a book. Too often the people making PowerPoints are trying to write a book or impress us with their knowledge of graphics, and the information overload leads to "death by PowerPoint"
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Not sure what country you're in, but here in the UK the law is on your side.

* Get everything in writing. Keep copies. Inform both MS and the collection agency that they're in error. Send it recorded. Make them sign for the letter.

* Next, ignore them until they either take you to court, or put something on your credit record. Only a court can force you to pay a debt like that.

* If they take you to court, you have a period of time to respond. You don't need to physically go to court in most cases.

* If they put something on your credit record, take them to court to have it removed. That costs about £70. The record comes off in a matter of days.

* Any court judgements issued can also be overturned, if you have a good reason for not responding in time.

* Any costs (eg that £70 above) can then be reclaimed through small claims. A small claims filing costs about the same, but you just add it to the claim you're making. Add on postage, travel, etc.

* Remember the judge will recognize the sleazy agencies. (They will probabaly deal with several such cases every day). If you have the proof in paperwork, they will find for you.

* Once overturned, they cannot take you to court again for the same amount. If a judge decides the amount is wrong, you cannot be harrassed again for the same amount. End of story.

You've probably now lost the money however since you've essentially admitted fault, but you may be able to put it through small claims. Not sure.
Processing 10000 Pictures Using Many Computers With Oropo (Debian/Ubuntu)
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I think you'll find that's an entirely subjective comment you've just made ;)

For example, there are plenty of radio stations who set up deals to play a new artist often for few royalties, because it's a cheap(er) way of promoting new and unknown artists.

Actually, no, you tell me precisely how much less artists earn from radio stations with few listeners. I think it might be the opposite to what you're trying to argue.
Wow, thanks for the link, damned shame that their decent response didn't get the same press coverage.

So, phew, back to enjoying Spotify :-D
I have a hard time believing many people have read Code Complete cover to cover, unless perhaps they're older and it was a long time ago before that was much better to do. It's so dry that I can't get more than a couple of chapters without falling asleep.
"Say No by default"

Yes!

That's the most useful single meme from the article :)
They not compare themselves. You try to read between the lines but there's nothing in it
A friend of mine is the test pilot for them. He said their quite cool to fly, but scary as hell.
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa..., it's a "general interest non-fiction" book with lots of historical stuff, e.g. coverage of the 8080 and 6500.

I can't find it now, but it reminds me of a MIT Press book for the educated layman that covered electronics, the various generations of semi-conductors (and how at that period TI was the only company to negotiate all of them, this was written at the dawn of the LSI or VLSI era), the critical details of wafer yield and resultant profitability, etc.

Perhaps not the right book for the original poster, but for many people it could be very useful.
http://www.thewadi.com/google-acquires-widgets-powerhouse-la... -- "Google and Labpixies worked closely together on a variety of projects, including the launch of a number of global OpenSocial based gadgets. Recently, Google decided it could do more if they were part of the same team, and as such, announced the acquisition of Labpixies....The company explained the acquisition: We both felt the time was right to come together."

Thus,

1) Build something users want much better than Google/MS/Apple/etc, or what MGAe haven't foreseen at all.

2) Strike a working relationship with GMAe employees

3) Get acquired by them

Insert somewhere: protect intellectual property, be careful of employee loyalty, and beware of idea/content stealing to ensure 3 actually takes place by GMAe.
Of course, you'll find the same pattern among some straight couples as well. Your original statement that most gay couples fit the pattern simply isn't true, most couples of gay men is two guys living together, dividing household chores in a way that does not follow stereotypical gender roles, and most couples of gay women living together is the same. Hell, even most straight couples I know don't divide household chores that way, or have one partner being the dominant one.

So no, you are not likely to find the "male"/"female" pattern among gay couples, but since it's not even common among straight couples, I strongly doubt it's relevant for raising children.
This is not DNA. This is kind of inertia, following the herd. They do what they believe their organisation believes in. When people see that there are too many beliefs in it, they can strive for something simpler and more useful.
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Something I noticed while running the new version the first time: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanhalin/4556877903/

In other words, uncheck that if you don't want Spotify modifying your tags in your audio files.
Many organisations are not even at the stage of automating their deployment process. Yes, this process seems obvious for those of us who are constantly seeking a better way to do things, but many software development shops are still doing bespoke builds and manual deployments. What seems obvious and intuitive to you is new, scary and different to many people.
Investing cash will create new jobs, spending will preserve existing jobs and saving cash will destroy jobs.
There are some things that aren't a matter of money, and I would suggest "true" AI is one of them (i.e. human level general intelligence).

I honestly don't think, even if you had $100 billion, anyone would know where to start to build such a beast. It isn't just a case of building sufficiently powerful hardware - I suspect that would be the easy bit.

Spend $100 billion on CYC and you would end up with a big interesting database, not a functioning mind.
A cruise missile in a shipping box on sale to rogue bidders
I have always wondered whats the overhead of scp over ftp ?
Especially when copying file locally, it's most of the time easier than ftp (activated by default on most OS).
> You can't be arrested for them.

Unless you refuse to comply with a court order related to a civil matter.
Quite impressive, isn't it?
love it. Was just getting ready to post this myself.
I've always thought that the f and t motions along with I and A to switch to insert mode, and . (repeat) should be included in the basic motions and text objects should be the next step.

They're relatively simple to remember and you can string them together to accomplish a lot more than the character-wise to word-wise motion progression I've seen in most vim intros.
Linux on Desktop is offering too many options for users to install and
configure apps.
I'm not sure where you're basing that on.

Most couples have pretty strongly defined roles. For example, if a shelf needs putting up, it's more than likely that the male will be tasked with this. If a daughter is after makeup advice, it's likely that they'll go to their mother rather than father.

Perhaps you're reading way more into what I'm saying than is actually there.
Hell yes. Yahoo demonstrates some great engineering talent in various products.

What does Mahalo have? A scraped HTML linkfarm. Which are dime a dozen, except this one somehow evaded the google ban so far.

The whole "trying to crush Yahoo" notion is just surreal to me.
Not only do I not see that happen. But I also think many people would miss yahoo and their products, whereas I have never seen anyone say anything positive about Mahalo.
I have never claimed I read "The C++ Programming Language" ;-)

After learning OOP with Smalltalk, it seemed a step in the wrong direction.

C is fine though. And TCPL is a fine book too.

I also never managed to finish "Code Complete".

To be fair, I also had exposure to Cincom's Mantis. That further spoiled me. To the point I still want a 3278 for my living room.

The books you end up reading are consequences of the steps you take in your career.
Does somebody know who is the speaker? Didn't see it on the blip.tv page.
As for spelling I believe enabling flyspell-mode will do the job, i.e. M-x flyspell-mode
it will always "soon" be ready for large-scale adoption.

But it never will.
I don't think architects necessarily want to play 'room tetris', it's just what happens when you have property developers on one side, and building regulations on the other.
Ferrari, Marlboro: What’s Behind That Barcode
Keep wondering why a Barcode has replaced the Marlboro logo on Ferrari cars and the track suits of racers? Well, there is a lot going on behind this change.
Bryan Lunduke - sorry I saw it on the video now.
We Were Promised Jetpacks [1] will be delighted by the news.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_Promised_Jetpacks
Spotify doesn't seem to work where I live, so I use Grooveshark instead.

Grooveshark has a gigantic library of music and instant streaming. Recommendation engine works well, and you can explore the playlists of other users to discover new music. I'm not sure how Grooveshark can stream music to everybody for free (or almost free for pro users), but as long as it exists I'll be a happy user.
As someone who has run Arch on their main PC for a year+, let me tell you it's not all roses. pacman may be simple, but it lacks many features you have come to expect; don't be surprised when everything on your system breaks when you pull in an updated library. Don't be surprised when pacman pulls in a new kernel without noticing, your machine fails to boot because it has nuked all of your old kernel modules.
While I agree that the rolling release model is attractive, it requires a much more robust package management system to be practical for people who do not live on the bleeding edge 24/7.