skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on your priorities. Personally, I think the community discussion here is far more interesting than the toy language project it runs on. If you think Arc is the future of computing you may think of this discussion board as just a convenient test suite for the language.

Either way, it's 2011 and that really is some spectacular slowness.
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For IE9 and Safari (except Safari for Windows) is is exactly the case. And because the OS vendor is the same as browser vendor, the effect is the same as bundling with the browser.

That is not the case for browser vendor without their OS. They cannot achieve the same effect.
I saw this broadcast tonight and right in the middle (see the transcript) Micky Bly (executive director, General Motors Electrical and Battery Engineering) mentions they are thinking about car tones people can change out because the cars are too quiet.

So if you thought spinners were distracting and annoying...
Comcast loves chat(ting)
With comcast, you need to undergo a painful 15 mins of a chat session to reset your password.
When I try to log in, it tells me

"There is a problem with the information in your account and we need to talk to you in order to reset your password. A customer support agent will assist you and help you reset your password securely". And then the torture begins.

And this is not just with reset passwords, its also with signing up for new service. After you select all options and you are ready to checkout, it stops you. There is no "Place Order/Confirm" but "LIVE CHAT".

I ended up calling them and placing the order. But not without wasting another 20 mins.

For every freakin' thing, they want you to chat with someone.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue.
You don't happen to have a link to that patent?
Symbian ^ 3: Arrival of Shazam and Minor Update of N8
The Shazam application, to analyze and identify a song played in public, is now available for phones running the Symbian OS ^ 3.
So, to watch a video using H.264, you use a patent encumbered codec, running on a patent encumbered CPU, accelerated by a patent encumbered GPU. The video came over patent encumbered network hardware, or from patent encumbered local storage, over patent encumbered interfaces and patent encumbered connectors.

If we switch to WebM, we have one less "patent encumbered" in there (maybe). I'm not impressed with the "free Web" argument.
There is a work-around for this, but it's somewhat painful and not guaranteed to work. You can port a land-line number to Vonage (at least in many cases, not all localities support LNP at this time, but you can check your number for portability at Vonage.com). You should then be able to port your Vonage number into Google Voice. I have not tried this second step, but it should work.

EDIT: Apparently, it doesn't work for VOIP numbers at this time. Nonetheless, Vonage does offer many of the same features as GV, like multi-forwarding and VM transcription, for a reasonable, flat monthly fee.

I ported my wife's 212 phone number (the original area code for Manhattan, before overlays, arguably the most sought-after area code in the country) to Vonage before we left NYC. People are always asking me how I did it. To be fair, it took almost two months to complete the port, and there was a lot of yelling on the phone at Vonage and AT&T (previous landline service provider) in the interim. For a while there, I thought that the number was lost for good.

I will warn you, if you move across time zones, porting your home number may come back to bite you -- we regularly get calls from businesses at 9:05 AM EST, which is 6:05 AM PST ...
The first comment for Win XP I saw:

":( incompatible with farmville toolbar"
Yea, I remember reading that it was likely paid by Microsoft.
I'd be interested to see a reference for that result. I've been working for some time on the equivalent problem for graph 3-coloring, and really there are only some vague, heuristic results. I should think it also depends on the randomness model you use. In graph coloring some random processes give easy problems and others give hard problems for the same density.
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There are two big concerns with a state's ability to tax: the due process clause and the "dormant" commerce clause[0]. Quill Corp v. North Dakota[1] is the most recent SCOTUS case on point, and it really confused more issues than it settled.

The short, minimally accurate version goes like this: The analysis under the due process clause and the commerce clause looks very similar—they both deal with fairness and the connection ("nexus") the taxpayer has to the state. There is older precedent, Bellas Hess, that required a physical presence for nexus under both the due process and commerce clause. In the 67 years after Bellas Hess, the due process doctrine changed a lot, so courts around the country began to wonder if Bellas Hess was still relevant. North Dakota jumped the gun, and tried to overrule Bellas Hess for the Supreme Court. The Court was not pleased. So Quill holds that the nexus requirement is different under the due process and commerce clause. Due process does not require physical presence, but the Bellas Hess physical presence test is still the law under the commerce clause.

There are some state court decisions applying Quill every which way.

Why does this all matter? The due process limit is unavoidable, by the courts, the federal government, and the states.

The commerce clause, on the other hand, is a limit on states, but it is within congress's powers to redraw. For example, Congress clarified the state's power to tax income in P.L. 86-272.

I think states are losing revenue that is rightly theirs. Amazon has basically built a business model around avoiding sales tax. I like buying cheap stuffs on Amazon as much as anyone, but I also like having state-funded universities, decent roads, and the rest of the goods that sales/use taxes fund. States shouldn't have to suffer because so much of their economy is moving online. As long as states mind the ruptured, tangled mess left of Quill, and follow any rules thrown down by congress, I think states can get theirs without any constitutional problems.

[0] The dormant commerce clause is like the shadow of Article 1, Section 8. Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce, so even where Congress has yet to regulate (such as use tax land), states are still prohibited from certain actions. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormant_Commerce_Clause

[1] http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/504/504.US.298.91-1...
RefControl
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

I'm using it since years and I don't understand all that referrer-privacy hype. Just don't send the referrer.
You didn't buy a phone from Google, you bought it from HTC (I assume this is the Nexus One, the same as I have) with heavy Google branding on it. If you want to get hardware support, you'll go through HTC directly. Learn your lesson that HTC has shitty component quality and never buy from them again. Google just makes the software, which works fine. The hardware in the Nexus One is another story...

As soon as some good dual core phones ship this year, I'm jumping ship off the HTC boat.
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Don't understand why windows haven't invented an app store years ago...
I understand the privacy concerns, but not the FUD about the referrer. Just turn it off and you're done! There's even a Firefox addon that allows site-specific settings.

RefControl
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

I've been using it for years.
Social-networking site Quora has answers to your questions
IntelliJ's IDEA IDE has excellent Scala integration in the Community Edition (i.e. the free version).

I've been working with Scala for about two years now and in my experience IDEA has always been ahead of Eclipse for Scala development. That being said I prefer IDEA for writing Java code too so this may just be personal preference.
You're right about states not being prohibited from enacting laws governing interstate commerce, I think the clearer argument is one of jurisdiction. States have no right to compel a company that is not doing business within their borders to collect sales tax.

States can and do collect tax on interstate purchases, they just do it by compelling the individual taxpayer to report and pay tax on those transactions. The problem is, without any way of auditing those transactions, there's basically no way to enforce this rule.
That's often not the case for me (french/english), I routinely switch the hl=xx to get relevant results (I default to hl=en).
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Hi ,
We are running beta for our application, what is best strategy to reach people and ask for signup ?

Note "Somehow my post in hackernews is coming in news and now in ask segment.
OAuth doesn't use cookies, does it?
I can't imagine they deliberately mess with the results anyway.

This does remind me of an issue I had with Bing last week though. I had a clean windows install, with Bing as the default search engine, and I was looking for Microsoft Security Essentials. I searched for 'microsoft antivirus' (not remembering the exact name), and the download link isn't on the first page of results! It's the first result on Google.

Maybe Microsoft could do with favouring itself a little?
> Not sure why this hasn't been said yet (maybe I missed it), but dukgo.com already has this figured out.

Or better yet, search for "fabric python" and be done with it, no need for Google storing all your searches at the expense of you typing a few more characters once in a while.
A quick thing to notice, if you fiddle a bit with the variables, you can get the answer "1" to the number of civilisations in our galaxy. Just decrease the probability of life or intelligent life. After all, it took 3 bn. years before the first multicellular life developed on Earth and 1bn. years for intelligence to develop afterwards.
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Reviewing code by writing your comments inline with the diffs is definitely the way to go. I'm averaging one code review a day (about 200+ lines of code) lately and it would take me several times longer if I had to do it in person or even without a good code review tool.

That being said, being on the same page as the rest of your coworkers for what constitutes correctly-styled code is invaluable.
Having spoken to Gabriel offline, because I was building my own search engine, he cares quite a bit about this issue. A ton of us in tech clain to care about privacy, but very few of us put their balls (and actions) where their beliefs are. DuckDuckGo's privacy policy has been in place for quite some time. And, it's only been recently that he's advertised it.
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From what I understand they a 'thought to be' the toughest but this isn't proven.

Yes, it is. Any NP problem can be many-one reduced to SAT, which means that there's a function that transforms an instance of the NP problem to an instance of SAT, and the answer to whether that formula is satisfiable is the same as whether that instance is a member of the NP problem (in its decision version).

So who is still standing as a contender for the hardest problem in NP?

If P = NP, then all problems in NP are as easy as each other, so this question is meaningless.
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Though it's probably inaccurate, that's how I intuit the matter.

It's actually quite accurate, but you can do even better: any other NP problem can be "compiled down" to one 3-SAT statement.
The downside is that the secure versions take longer to download if you don't get a local cache hit. I did a speed test and loaded jQuery 20 times from Google using my local machine with an unprimed cache. For the http version, the average load time was 90ms. For the https version, the average load time was 192ms. That’s over twice as slow for the SSL version. Since you can't guarantee the cache hit, it's a trade-off that doesn't have an obvious answer.
wherever they have operations

And because of that I choose to use a 1-man search engine, without loss of quality, while gaining everything last bit of privacy.

And because of this, his stunt of a billboard ad is actually truthful.
The people in the outer ring, near the axle, will experience almost no gees. Kind of useless, really.
Remember Vista Marketplace? no? No me neither.
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H.264 is the standard for video compression. Period. It is what almost all professional hardware and software supports. It's how video is distributed on disc, via cable, via satellite, and via digital broadcast. It's what consumer hardware supports.

Someday it will be replaced, but it will take a technically better standard. WebM is not technically better. Take a time machine and send WebM back about 10 years, and it has a shot. Without a time machine, it is too late.

The problem Google and the FSF face is that very few really care about having everything be free in the FSF's sense of free. Heck, even among Linux users, who you'd expect would be the most receptive of wanting everything to be free, very few run the truly free distributions, with no non-free modules or drivers. The vast majority are not even on Linux. They are on Windows and Mac, and so have no qualms about using non-free stuff.

To convince people they need to switch to something that is technically inferior, they need to be shown a problem that actually affects them. H.264 being subject to patent licensing in those countries that recognize software or codec patents is not a problem that can be shown to affect most web users or most web video producers, at least in a way they care about. The royalty free license for distributing free video on the web, and the high thresholds before license fees kick in for video producers, ensure that the vast majority of us never do anything that requires coughing up any money, and that takes the problem off most people's radar.
Which randomness models in particular? The two Erdős–Rényi models G(n,p) vs G(n, M)? I thought for almost all purposes they gave the same answer as long as equivalent M and p were chosen in the large n limit, because the concentration around M will be so tight due to the law of large numbers. Is there some other model you're looking at?

Random without qualification is used to mean "uniformly". For this specific case (3-SAT), there are only four reasonable readings: both (variables within a clause), and (clauses within the set of all possible clauses) can be chosen with or without replacement. Neither makes a difference in the large n limit.

http://books.google.com/books?id=zyktZTqZSzMC&lpg=PA414&...

is from a reasonable book.

It's true that this phenomenon hasn't been completely rigorously proven, but it's been given "physicist proofs". There's enough evidence that it's unreasonable to not consider it true.
"and sue Oracle collectively for infringing their patents."

What patents is Oracle infringing on?
Is the whole privacy on search thing really a big issue?

Of course it is. Google and Facebook have been pushing the bounds of privacy repeatedly over the years because it is in their financial best interest to do so.

Their primary product isn't search or communication or maps. Their product is plain and simple people's personal information. And, becuase they are a corporation in the USA they are legally bound to maximize shareholder value.

So, of course Google and Facebook have to erode the concept of online privacy. That is their product and that is the value that they are legally bound to maximize.

If they were very clear and up front about this issue, and communicated that information in plain language to their users that would be one thing. But, they don't.

Google doesn't every plainly say, "We track your location with your android phone. We track your searches on Google. We track what sites you visit though our advertising network. We track who you email when you use Gmail. If you use our calendar, we know what your schedule is. We track who you call when you use Google Voice. And, we want you to trust us to do the right thing with that data. We make a crap load of money using everything that we know about you to let other people sell stuff to you. Oh, and by the way, the government can have access to all that data without a search warrant."

So, yes, I do think the privacy issue is pretty important. You have a couple of massive corporations who are for all intents and purposes forced to erode people's concept of privacy. And, if people are going to compete with Google, one of the areas they are very vulnerable is in the area of privacy. Gabriel has been kicking their ass on this, and it's an area where they are vulnerable to competitors.

I say more power to DDG. It's a conversation that needs to be had, and more people need to know about this.
Being valid according to spec and having support in a particular browser are different and unrelated things.
I am validating against doctype I use, and make sure things work as intended in browsers I'd like to support.
I have the same problem after installing maptail on my server. All I see I the html as plain text in my browser.

Nevertheless, amazing work!
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You really need to seek some professional legal advice on this - you are thinking of setting up a gambling website, and will need to be registered with and regulated by the relevant authority.

If you are pitching this as a "service", I believe you will need to offer free play. An example from the UK: Let's say a particular chocolate bar brand is running a competition where you can win a prize by finding a special code inside the chocolate wrapper. They are legally required to offer free entry for this to be classified as a competition (so you can write to them and ask for a free entry form - they have to comply).

If you can only enter the "competition" by paying, it is considered gambling and regulated accordingly.
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Yeah. I helped a friend of mine get signed up. You enter all your information on their web site (address, phone #, etc.) and then during the chat, they make you confirm all the information you just put in. Why the hell did I waste 10 minutes filling out the site just to have to retype it in during the chat?

And their shopping cart is all f'ed up. They let you put conflicting deals into your cart (i.e. she chose a deal on internet that was only for current customers and a deal on cable that is only for new customers). And the cart happily allowed it. Around the 10 minute mark of the chat, the rep says "Oh. I just noticed that those deals aren't compatible. You'll need to do X instead" where X was about $20 a month more. I canceled the order, called them, and asked how was a person supposed to know which deals are conflicting and which ones aren't if their own website doesn't stop them from being put in the cart? Finally I got the rep on the phone to give me both deals. Took about an hour of reasoning with them, making them walk through the website with me (which I'm sure they didn't), and finally just threatening to hang up and go with Qwest and DirecTV. I think it was the latter that finally tipped the scale. Of course, she can't get Qwest or DirecTV at her apartment :)
Here they are (after a small googling):

http://v3.espacenet.com/searchResults?locale=en_EP&IN=eh...

Specifically take a look at these claims:
http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC=US&...

I'm not really sure whether those are actual patents or patent applications, but even in later case the chance of them being rejected are very low.
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We were defining it just for better readability:

isAsync:YES just sounds more naturally than isAsync:false.

Saw and liked it in Objective-C....
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You comment is wrong on many levels. Let's just start by saying that HTML spec (formerly known as HTML5) is a very practical work, more than any of the preceding specs. This was driven by the desire and the goal to "make it work in all browsers". I guess you don't remember the "if (document.layers)" days…

While true that users don't care, spec is not for the users. It is for developers and browser vendors, and they care a lot.
You may not care what's under the hood of your car as long as it drives you from the point A to the point B, but believe me, countless specs are involved.
W3C did release the logo. WHATWG produces the specs, not logos.
I remember this was not considered ok when MS allegedly did it with SCO... Or do morals change depending on who has what stakes in the fight?
More studies needed from Captain Obvious Inc.
If you don't have a degree but do have the required coding skills you will get that job.

I have till date met 1000 programmers who have degrees from reputed institutes but don't know shit about coding.

@philbarr's method is actually very cool.

In the beginning you can work for start-ups and then switch.

Also: Take a look at this post
Why can't programmers program?? by Jeff Atwood
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...
h.264 is also now.
I think the point was that quite a bit of what is on arXiv is from quacks and nutcases. (maybe not the majority, or even a large part - but enough to cast some shadow over arXiv itself, and therefore over other submissions as well).
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A huge part of the business and consumer world now takes benefit from fruits of free software movement. Your Android smartphone, your $49 Taiwanese wifi router, that Heroku service in the cloud you use - all of them would not exist as they are otherwise.

So like it or not, those freedom freaks are entitled to have a say to how things should work. They are too big part of an ecosystem to be ignored.
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Could it be ... P = NP? Most people suspected otherwise.

Someone should really verify his algorithm on various SAT sets. But I have to say that his approach is very good and humble... he suggests he may have solved the problem -- but it is up to us to verify! I'd like to follow this further, so I bookmarked it via an upvote.
Google OWNS Orkut, in fact, it says so on the 2nd line:

Google's Orkut social networking site

Here is the same story on TechCrunch showing how Google provided more than just an email address:

The owner of the email id Rahul Vaid was traced, using information supplied by Google, to Chakarpur in Gurgaon city of Haryana.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/18/hit-pause-on-the-evil-butto...
Maybe they should fix their pension plans first:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870331540457525...
not if you are logged in using your google account
Right, he just didn't want to submit it to a peer-reviewed journal?
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