skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The danger of having system programmers around
Personalization of this type is pretty common in marketing communications of all types (direct mail, emails, etc). Calling it a lie seems a stretch.
UK2 claims its SL forcing the disconnect.
Tracking one additional dependent attribute per app and checking it during the refund flow would be non-trivial? I can't see why.
"or do you mean what pieces of infrastructure would fail if github went down tomorrow."

The answer to that being: not many. The basic architecture of git (and other DVCS's) is, that everyone has a copy of the full revision history, so if github really went down, you'd see most of the projects there (at least most of the active ones someone cares about) on gitorious or some other git hosting service within a very short period of time, and things would go on with only a minor interruption.
Very interesting.

It's amazing how the pilots can remain calm in such circumstances. I wonder what they told the passengers. "One of our engines blew up and two are not working in full capacity, but don't worry everything is fine".

I would also be interested in knowing why the engine blew up in the first place. Seems to me that the ECAM messages were less than helpful sometimes. Which reminded me of how we approach error reporting in the applications that we develop where we report on individual problems and not necessarily relate that to the overall state of the system.
To me it seems that at this stage it's purely a matter of refusing to back down on any "security" measure because that could be interpreted as "letting the terrorists win" by political opponents or voters.
wow, I never knew that "new age" made it to the web.
That might be a part of it, but I think the other part of it is that the average guy looking to start a blog, or website, or whatever, has absolutely no idea how much traffic his thing will generate. For people like that, the claims that Dreamhost makes are a godsend, as he doesn't have to worry about "what if I get a 1000 subscribers?"

Generally, I'm pleased as punch that Slicehost, Linode and Amazon came along, as now I have fair prices with real limits. If I outgrow them, I don't have to move, I just increase memory allocation, or grow the slice, or add a node, whatever.

Dreamhost couldn't get away with this because likely, 80% of their users are paying $9.95 a month for the equivalent of 25 cents worth of usage.
Many of the everyday tasks performed by professional workers are done in the serial processing center of the left brain. Music will not interfere particularly with this work, since it's the brain's holistic right side that digests music.

Makes me wonder if one of the subconscious motives for encouraging people to listen to music in cubicleville is to subtly keep them cowed and contented with doing the repetitive tasks they are assigned without thinking too much about how the process might be improved, without asking too many questions, and so on.
The alternative would be to not include "RE:" in the subject, which makes it looks like a reply to an earlier thread. The subject is subject enough already. Don't manipulate it with a "RE:" to imply something more.

That said, I've been working with Twilio on and off for 2 years and have never received an email like this from them.
Fair enough. The use of Re: is def a bit manipulative/not truly representative.
Settle a dispute: Is the Google CR-48 a good looking device?
A few friends of mine and I got into an argument about whether or not the CR-48 was a good looking device or not.
So have your say, Is it sexy? is it disgusting?
is it a Macbook ripoff?

If you haven't seen it yet heres a link with loads of pics.
http://www.thechromesource.com/a-collection-of-cr-48-photos-by-users/
This guy teached me shell scripting during college.

I've enjoyed his class.
It's ok if you want to stop providing service to SimpleCDN, but at least give people some notice, don't just start shutting down their servers.
I always thought RIM would do better, to offer their enterprise tools as a suite on all platforms. The reality is if they had they would have remained the default enterprise provider. A lot of companies mad significant investments in BB Enterprise infrastructure. To the extend that they resisted modern mobile devices even as they clearly surpassed RIMs offerings. Now I think the clock has run down too far for that, even dinosaur of companies got on the band wagon of offering access to the enterprise on alternative devices. Further, you are now seeing them hire alternative platform developers for internal enterprise products. Had RIM offered it's suite of enterprise client access on alternative devices, they would still assuredly be getting a cut for every enterprise devices sale.
The question is: is anybody surprised? (particularly curious about those at DHS/TSA, and scum like Chertoff... I'm guessing not)
That is an interesting scenario. Still, it seems like a rather underhanded tactic. Also, I think the OP is talking about a license like the X you mention because I it sounds like he was trying to publish before and after benchmarks, not comparisons with competitors.
Mozilla is Designing a New Programming Language Language Called Rust
Classical Beethoven and Mozart and Pachelbel and Vivaldi

Or typical heavy metal.
Blackberries are certainly the phone of choice for teenagers in the UK at the moment. According to my daughter this is entirely because of BBM
I do a few freelance jobs -- things like:

http://www.vimeo.com/5233789
http://www.vimeo.com/8525186

they are either events (outdoor projection) or for performances / online videos. Usually are 1-3 weeks of coding solo or in a group, and tons of organization / planning time.

in terms of opencl, I think Memo is pushing that pretty far -- see for example:

http://www.memo.tv/opencl_particles_at_okgos_design_miami_20...

I think markerless AR is going to be big soon -- the work from EPFL come to mind, such as:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZOeRhQdew8

the other thing which is huge is kinect -- this pretty much changes the game for interaction, and you can see some great work being done by artists and hackers within the community with it:

http://www.creativeapplications.net/kinect/
Happenstance
There is one thing that I really miss on that box, and I think it's a major oversight from Apple. I haven't seen a jailbreak that would give me that right now.

a clock

It's a very simple thing, but nowhere in the entire UI you will find a clock to get the time. If your computer is not running, and you're just watching some movies, you start to wonder what the time is. You look outside to check the sun, even start to approximate from shadows. On comcast cable you switch into the channel selection or a news channel to get the time.
Several years ago I did some development on the BlackBerry platform and was shocked at their api - got the distinct impression they were coasting. I think they only started to get back in the game in response to iPhone and Android. I still get the feeling they wouldn't have updated as much if not for the competition.
You're thinking of Etacts.
"but the publisher insisted that we had signed a contract, and that with-or-without assets we were expected to deliver the alpha version on time....which at this point was a week later."

Crazy, yet all too common. We didn't hold up our end of an agreement, but YOU have to. Does this happen in all industries, or just software?

"We didn't provide the plants or mulch or dirt for the garden (which we were supposed to do last week), but you still have to provide a flower bed tomorrow."

I'm assuming there was something in the contract that the original party was required to provide assets for the port. Perhaps it wasn't.

"No... no need to contractually obligate us to deliver - just believe us, we'll get you the files!"
Interesting, maybe it's something they rolled out more recently for their newer members. I only started with them a couple months ago.
I totally wouldn't put it past them, with the proviso that the proper claim is that they are able to predict when someone goes from "in a relationship" on FB to "single" or "in a relationship [with someone else" on FB, and this isn't perfect but it is much better than you'd expect from random chance.

For example, I think that Facebook could identity a pool of 100,000 users tomorrow and predict a breakup within the next two weeks, and be right for over 20% of them. That is statistically improbable unless you expect relationships to average about 10 weeks. (Yeah yeah, handwavy math there. Wave wave.)

How you'd do this? The same way you do any AI problem: cheat like a mofo until it looks like a problem we've already solved. For example, come up with a feature space of, say, 100 things which are easily algorithmically checkable: messaged boyfriend in past day, messaged boyfriend more than 10 times in last day, messaged boyfriend in last week, messaged boy other than boyfriend in last day, ..., changed sexual orientation listed in FB, changed residence listed in FB, ... went off to college, whatever. Assign each factor a random number from 1 to 100.

Now, construct a Hadoop cluster, grab your favorite million Facebook accounts, and use any AI technique you like (simulated annealing, GA, whatever) to play with those scores until you find a decent fit where the dot product of that vector and a vector of binary tests against a user delivers high scores for people who break up and low scores for people who don't.

Then, grab a hundred million Facebookers, take the dot product for each of them against your best performing vector, and print out the 100k with the highest scores.

This will work. Indeed, it almost can't not work, if any of your constituents of the feature vector captured any useful information. (P.S. The experimental design here is ridiculously biased in favor of success. Real life sometimes is -- it is certainly true for FICO, for example, since success is "beats a human underwriter" and human underwriters suck, what with their sucky salaries and sucky accuracy and sucky inability to process a hundred thousand applications an hour.)
Programming languages, databases, and browsers ranked based on a variety of characteristics:

http://hammerprinciple.com/
I got evaluated for adult ADD because of similar productivity issues. It turns out I'm just really bored and unmotivated by the work I'm doing.
Led Zeppelin Indian Classical (Raag Deshkaar) Instrumental
He doesn't say that the CnD was actually sent.

Legal teams have zero incentive not to draft such letters. It's up to the executives at the company to have the courage to ignore the attorneys' advice. Of course, odds are it was sent and now the poor SpyHunter fan has an entertaining story to tell.
I love how the product line pages look almost exactly like the current product line pages at store.apple.com

Consistency consistency consistency.
Architecture of WikiLeaks | ArchDaily
I would pick up Haskell. It is a more mature language, there are already quite a few companies that use it in production code.

Even thought it is a mainly a functional programming language it allows the programmer to express in a more natural way lots of programming algorithms.

It allows a more easy way to explore multiprocessor programming by contrast with Go's go routines, because of the functional semantics.
Perlmonks which I mentioned, is a StackOverflow variant since a decade, or so.
It's quite refreshing to see them provide a migration path for their customers, even if it is to another company.
Stories like this make me thing that we should have some legal basis for telling the suits to fuck off. Professions like aircraft pilots and medicine doctors do this.
Gingerbread ported to HTC Desire, in its early stages
GingerBread ported to HTC Desire
The main reason why Android is winning is because they were the first quality (iOS like) multi-manufacturer OS that was pushed by a big company that most people love and got a lot of momentum. I don't think being free or open-source was the main reason Android is succeed. It definitely plays a huge role, but even if Google charged a $10 license like Microsoft is doing now with WP7, Android would've still succeeded.

In this case it's actually WP7 that is more like Linux - opportunity wise - because WP7 is the one coming into the market after Android is well entrenched.
Since UK2 doesn't really have a CDN product themselves, as they resell HighWinds and Level3, their interest is a bit lower as opposed to SoftLayer which has million dollar contracts signed with InterNAP for connectivity and DC space, which also sells content delivery.

My guess is it's not really about kicking out the competition but mostly the fact that they can't realistically offer the said bandwidth for the advertised price, which is far too low for a quality network blend.
Re #1 and #3, that's not really true. They performed a manual landing, and the procedure in any emergency is to 'follow the book' regardless of the type of plane being flown. Their job was to evaluate the damage & take actions informed by their experience, ensure the plane was in a state to land, and then land it. That's what they did, a computer didn't do that for them.
What I meant is that both Tellme and Zappos got investments from Venture Frogs

http://www.vfrogs.com/investments.html
Yeah I believe it should be somewhat straightforward since the history is stored on your computer. The problem lies in the fact that there's no standardized means of storing browsing history, so every browser requires a different approach. I think these links will get you started for some of the major browsers.

IE: http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_History_...

Firefox: http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox_3_History_...

Safari: http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Apple_Safari_History_File_...

There may be libraries to do this, but I wasn't able to find one from a quick search.
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Very interesting additions. But, like the article mentioned, these probably won't show up in actual devices before at least a year.

I really hope Google would try and do something about that. Getting a new $600 phone every year is not exactly something i look forward to.
The HTML5 Canvas Tag is not the Adobe Flash Killer
Generally, the meaning of orthogonal in conversation has become orthogonal to the "real" meaning: It can mean both 'perpendicular' as well as 'parallel.' "At odds" and "unrelated." It's really kind of silly.
And CSS Transforms :-)
In 2-5 years, will the "Mac" product be relevant?
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Looks like this is a bit of email usability fail on our part. When you first sign up for Twilio, you receive an email with the subject line "Welcome to Twilio... Learn to Build Your First Phone App in Less than 5 Minutes" and then 7 days later we send you an email introducing our CEO that says "RE: Welcome to Twilio..." in the subject line. The goal was that these would get threaded together, but they don't since the from is "Twilio" in the first and we use real names in the other emails (the one from Jeff says his name, the one from me says my name, etc.)

Sorry about that, it's an easy fix to remove the RE:
The thing you mention though hasn't happened -- nobody's taken Linux to anywhere near the level of polish found in OS X.

I think Canonical is the obvious front-runner in that regard, and while they're making leaps and bounds, I've found nothing in Ubuntu that comes anywhere near the level of fit and finish available in almost every single OS X application.

Functionally, the Ubuntu equivalents are close, but from a usability perspective, they're a very long way away.

Perhaps dropping Xorg is the push that things need to make this happen? I honestly don't know, but while OS X is iterating even more towards perfection, simply moving the control icons to the other side of the title bar in Ubuntu caused an uproar. I think the community at large is too big and stubborn to allow a complete makeover similar to the OS9 OS X transition.
You could've gotten the same insights if you read (and understood) 2 books: Innovator's Dilemma and Chasm Companion. They are extremely insightful books about why companies succeed (and fail) and I felt that most of his assumptions came from the theories in those books, because I've been saying those things for over a year to a friend that works at RIM, but she never believed me because RIM "is doing so well financially".
I love the looks and feel of mine.
100TB a month = ~300mbps of constant use. The Unmetered upgrade means that you could saturate the full 1gbps for the entire month.
Seriously, as much as their team "care" their product is absolute shit. My experience with vps.net has put me off UK2 for life, some of the things I've seen in the customer forum are just plain scary. Like the admission they don't have the infrastructure to handle DDoS attacks because it's "too expensive".
I've found when doing network pentesting there's a very different set of music that works well for me compared to web app pentesting. For network testing I tend to start with movie soundtracks before moving up to rock instrumentals like east Hastings then on to harder and harder rock/metal before hitting cradle of filth.

On web app tests I normally find plaid or other ambient electronica works better for me.

For coding I find that swing, jazz and blues works best. I've been listening to a lot of cab Calloway of late which is mostly instrumental or scat focused. If theres too much by way of lyrics or if it's too catchy it tends to disrupt my concentration though.
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One would expect serious business customers will move up to Band 4 [$3K+] and the job of Macintosh and VLC is to migrate the remaining Band 3 [$1500-$3K] customers down to Band 2 [<$1500], leaving Band 3 manufacturers	out in the cold!!

Prescient. Most server are at $3K+, and most personal machines are sub-$1.5K these days. Relatively little exists in the $1.5K-$3K market these days (besides what I'd guess to be a small quantity of high end work stations and low end servers).
Apple - Feedback on all products & software
SimpleCDN goes down - a case for using multiple CDN providers
> when convenient, interpret this vague bill in such a way as to allow them carte blanche to regulate whatever they want?

Or, more dangerously, in ways their corporate sponsors find profitable?
An infrastructure investment like this one needs to be seen from the perspective of a one time capital expenditure. A savings of $50 billion isn't a one time boost, but a year over year contribution to the economic growth. In this light, it would pay itself off extremely quickly.

The article also mentions a 0.5% to 1.5% improvement in the efficiency of public-sector work. By just considering the federal government's budget, a 1% improvement would in itself be a $30 billion improvement.

Examples of productivity increases could easily be seen in the emergence of effective telecommuting. In the Washington DC area, so much time is lost to managing the traffic nightmare. If the broadband speeds existed for agencies to allow for employees to work from home, teleconference when needed, have uninterrupted access to their work data, the savings would be enormous.

Also, companies like Google are investing in high speed connections because many of them see it as a limiting factor towards new innovation. Meaning, that no one really knows what is to come out of connecting homes to gigabit+ lines, but it is one of the promising sectors for increased growth.

An interesting project at Case Western Reserve is hooking up some of the low income homes around the campus to see what types of possibilities can be gleaned by dropping this service on people. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395490457510...

Finally, the point I wanted to highlight, but obviously missed doing so, was to ask why "green" tech advocates seem so much more adept at convincing the government that they provide stimulus than information technology advocates.
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SMS is dirt cheap in Europe.
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Same problem with iPad/iPhone. It appears many mobile WebKit implementations have decided not to provide contenteditable support.
Security experts outline smart-phone vulnerability
Never confuse the person with the office he or she occupies. Also, as hugh3 pointed out, your president works for you (he was never my president), not the other way around. Do you have the same respect for your mayor? Or your building manager? It's the same job, with a different scope.
Your supposition is incorrect. The planet is awash in oil. The only limitation is cost of extracting it. For example: the Bakken oil reserve in North Dakota is estimated to be in the 100's of billion barrels. Unfortunately, the oil is trapped in shale which limits the amount that can be extracted _today_. That problem gets reduced every year that new extraction technology comes on line.

I think you're making the error of equating "energy" with "oil". In an economy that relies on moving people and stuff around, new cheaper ways of supplying the energy will always be found - it's in our nature.

Example: New York state has huge natural gas reserves. If you converted all the buses in New York to run on CNG, the state would still be be a net-exporter of natural gas.
The semantic-editor.org demo is still in quite early stage. We did a bit more with Aloha already in July, and hopefully this will now be wrapped into the editor:

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/aloha_and_the_art_of_semantic_web_...
I received my test unit several weeks ago. There are still a few rough edges, but they work as advertised. It's fascinating to see raw data on the way you sleep.
In my opinion the only interesting advice comes from people that "been there, done that". I don't need to read any self-help crap from people that tell you how something is done without actually having done it. Sometimes they are right and their tips are valuable, but more often than not they are just writing about trivial things or nonsense.

I don't like people that worship say "pg" and take his words as holy truths. But when pg says something I'm more likely to listen to him than to an unknown person, because he has a track record.

A nick-name (and the authentication behind it) is the only credibility indicator for me. Therefore I'm certainly not installing this extension.

Sometimes something will sound like good information, but that doesn't mean it is good information. At least a high-karma nickname means the person posting it is putting his hn-reputation on the table. Now that may not be much, but it's as good as it gets.
Hey Alex, not sure if you've logged into your Twilio account lately, but we reduced prices a couple months back so inbound calls are now $0.01/min, SMS is $0.02/msg, and phone numbers are $1/domestic or $2/toll free. We've yet to see someone actually blow through the whole $30 in trial credit, but if you run out and need more just let us know at help@twilio.com

Also not sure if you've seen this, but you can pick from English, French, German, and Spanish accents here: http://www.twilio.com/say
There is a growing trend of moving from dedicated platforms like Sony's PSP or Nintendo DS to playing games on high end (but now more common) cell phones.

In the future, you'll see many devices optimized towards gaming. Manufacturers see this as a way to grow the smartphones market.

I guess these games appeal to the younger generation -- which is probably seen as future growth opportunity.
Haskell is too academic. Go suffers from dreadful interoperability with other languages, even C.
No, you start a brand of 'Space' cheeses, and then when transit to and from the moon becomes regular you expand to a line of 'Moon' cheeses.
Dumb question, would Google not send an email to the people they are sending these too? I filled out that form when I saw it posted here days ago and promptly forgot about it.