skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is all there is (and we're definitely not sure about that yet) then google does have some egg on its face, but only a little bit.

As far as I can see at this moment none of this code ever made it in to the actual distribution that is used to operate the android devices, it is but a series of tests to ensure that compiled code functions correctly.

Still, these tests shouldn't have been in that tree and google will have to remove them and possibly will end up settling for the damages, though what those damages are will be very tough to argue. How does one quantify the damage of having these tests copied? In programmer hours required to re-create the code?

So, I agree with you that the copyrights are not the issue and even if a lot more code surfaces that google does not have a right to redistribute and it did end up in the android kernel they have the resources to work around it and to absorb the damages.

If the patent claims will stick and google will be prohibited from further distribution there will be an immediate and hard to resolve issue.

A case like that could drag on for a very long time and it would be next to impossible to stop infringing on a patent that is specified vaguely enough to require such litigation in the first place.

I'm probably slightly evil for hoping that this case actually will revolve around the patent and will prove once and for all how bad the patent system really is and that software patents do little to nothing to encourage innovation and actually do a lot of harm.

If there is one party that has the resources to fight such a battle successfully it is google.

The big winner in a fight like that would be Apple with the Apple system being untainted by any of these claims and presumably unencumbered by these particular patents.

Of course Apple has its own patent issues to contend with (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/16/nokia-apple...), on the whole it looks as though the mobile world is an all out battle ground for patent lawyers.
I've forwarded this to a friend. After 10 years in a job, things finally fell out and he walked. He hated the job but it paid the bills and kept his family comfortable.

All this time he's been talking how he has been going to work on a startup, do something for himself. After his job finished I said to take a couple of months and get his head clear before launching into anything. It's now a couple of months later, and instead of coming back to me with a plan and some ideas, he's instead going to an interview with someone who rang him up out of the blue.

I'm not sure at this point whether to help overcome his fear or just write him off as a possibility to do something with. I had a couple of good things we could have collaborated on, but I think he is drifting back towards a job he will end up (start out?) hating. In the past this individual has built some tools and sold them on the side, has good networking skills and some good ideas. Personally I just feel he's too frightened to step out, even though they (as a family) are pretty secure financially.

So I guess what I'm asking is should I offer encouragement to step out, or just let him choose to walk back into another corporate job? Should all choices to follow an entrepreneur dream be self motivated, or does it sometime help if a friend gives you the 'it's now or never' speech?
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iana.org still shows 7 unallocated blocks in the free pool... anything 5 or under will indeed trigger the final blocks to go to the RIRs, but I totally don't see any source that verifies that this happened yet.

Can someone provide a second source?

Block 39 still shows up as reserved:

NetRange: 39.0.0.0 - 39.255.255.255
CIDR: 39.0.0.0/8
OriginAS:
NetName: RESERVED-39A
NetHandle: NET-39-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: IANA Reserved
RegDate:
Updated: 2002-09-12
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-39-0-0-0-1

OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgId: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US
RegDate:
Updated: 2004-02-24
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/IANA

The other remaining reserved blocks that are routable should be 102, 103, 104, 106 and 179.

We are close to this event, but to my knowledge it has not yet happened.

Quote ARIN: "When the IANA IPv4 free pool has only five /8 blocks remaining, they will be simultaneously distributed to the five RIRs in accordance with global policy. This means that only two blocks remain to be handed out under the normal distribution method." (From: https://www.arin.net/announcements/2010/20101130.html which is dated a few months, but I believe this policy still stands...)
Getting most out of your Iddhis account.
Well, that was interesting.
Can think of standard deviation much like a distance.

So, if have random variables X and Y, if they have finite means and standard deviations, and if we denote standard deviation by Std(X) and variance by Var(X) and set Z = X + Y, then Var(X) = Std(X)^2 and we get the Pythagorean theorem

Var(Z) = Var(X + Y) = Var(X) + Var(Y)

if we can assume that X and Y are uncorrelated which is true if X and Y are independent. So, uncorrelated is analogous to perpendicular in geometry.
What's the downside with static methods? It makes sense to me that they use them for factories and now that the can be effectively overridden in PHP5.3, I'm not sure why it's a bad thing... perhaps just a personal preference?
TCHunt 1.5 is available
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That was in 2008, is there an updated version?
no an asian domain
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ip addresses aren't owned, they're just leased from arin and companies have to pay yearly fees of thousands of dollars to keep using them.

The legacy blocks were never owned by ARIN. It is unclear whether they have any right to claim anything over them. IANA may have rights to claim ownership, ARIN definitely does not. ARIN is merely one of five RIRs that ask for addresses from IANA.
I can agree with that. But you've made two implicit assumptions here:

1. The disease is diagnosed and identified as 'common'
2. There are no other complications because of say
alcohol abuse, or a genetic condition with kidneys and so forth
Great use of JavaScript's weird + operator.

The whole trick stems from the fact that !$ == false and !$+$ == "false"
Similar situation in the Philippines. All the Filipino developers I know learned their craft with pirated copies of MSFT software.
Define "best"?

elgg is a Ning alternative that's got pretty wide usage

status.net (formerly identi.ca) is an excellent Twitter alternative

Appleseed, Diaspora, and OneSocialWeb are distributed Facebook alternatives

crabgrass is targetted at activists

depending on what you're looking for, any of them might be the best
Jorge - rogue looks great, and had it existed when I started my current project I might well have picked scala rather than clojure and congomongo (which is great too).

However - when you say it would have involved more work to guarantee well formed queries from a test suite, I find myself wondering how that can be true if you test every function that hits the database. Wouldn't malformed queries would cause such tests to fail?
How about 240/4, that's 2^28 addresses that are reserved for 'future use', that's still 256M addresses.
van Gogh only got serious about painting in the last decade of his life, and even then he was pretty well known.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_fame_of_Vincent_van_...

Toulouse-Lautrec even challenged another artist to a duel over the worth of van Gogh's paintings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh_chronology#189...

I'm only an amateur aficionado of photography, but Vivian Maier seems a bit different. The quality is undeniable but the style seems a bit derivative or antique by 2010 standards. At least so far, I don't see territory that hasn't been well covered by other street photographers.

Maybe more treasures will be unearthed from the collection, though.

A thought just struck me: maybe she just couldn't afford, or never had time, to get her negs developed. What sort of photographer might she have become if she could have closed that loop just a bit faster, or easier?
I honestly doubt that the various Git-knocking commenters on this story have any real experience using Git on Windows. They are likely just parroting what they have heard about the early days of Git on Windows.

All of my Windows work during 2010 used Git and it was perfectly fine. The only thing that even comes to mind is that there was a tiny bit more effort with initial setup of SSH than on other platforms.
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IIRC the reason we can't use those is many IP stacks deployed today will refuse to even try using the addresses in 240/4. They were for a future version of IP, not for allocation later.

As a hack, it's quite possible someone will try allocating these and ask everyone to patch their systems over the next half a year to a year as things get more critical and the RIRs begin to run out of /24s. (The RIRs all still have enough /24s to last us for months after the IANA pool gets exhausted.)

We shall see. At the moment, there is no plans to use these. We could also arguably try to steal back the multicast ranges since it's so underused. :\
Yes, I was surprised too. I've never used the word "virtualization" when refering to jails and VServer, but Wikipedia apparently refers to it as "Operating system-level virtualization".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualization
var $ = []

![] == false because [] exists.

false + [] == 'false' because anything added to an array will become whatever that is as a string plus the contents inside the array.

2 + [] is also a string "2"

2 + [2,2] will become "22,2" (string)
Brickify: Turn Any Image Into A Lego Statue
I saw these long back in a forum that listed such expressions for all printable characters; I am unable to locate them now. Can someone help? Thanks!
Here's a converter from regular JS to using a subset of these characters: http://discogscounter.getfreehosting.co.uk/js-noalnum_com.ph...

And the forum thread where this technique was explored at length: http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?24,33349,33405

Superfun. :D
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fuller-240space-02

At the present time, most IP implementations consider any IP address
in the range 240.0.0.0 through 255.255.255.255 to be invalid as the
source or destination of a datagram. The check for such "illegal"
addresses may occur in many places, including at datagram receipt,
before IP datagram transmission, when an IP address is assigned to a
network interface, or even by router and firewall configuration
parsers.
Gecko is just fine with applying CSS transitions to pseudo-elements. Try this testcase:

data:text/html,<style>div::before { color: green; content: "text"; } div:hover::before { color: red; -moz-transition-duration: 5s; }</style><div>

It does look like Webkit doesn't support this, though. Which is a bug, per the current spec draft. All the transition stuff is specced to apply to ::before and ::after.
>And then there's PETA.

Is that a suggestion of what to feed T-Rex?
How can you overcome his fear?

If his choice weren't self-motivated, the first thing that would happen when adversity inevitably struck would be to blame you.

Seems to me the best encouragement you can offer is to have a heartfelt discussion, then leave him free to go wherever his inner vectors add up to.
I used to meditate regularly until I decided to take a break a couple of months ago.

On the positive side it has helped me a lot - lowered stress, better sleep, improved communication, creativity and a lot of the things others have already covered. I want to highlight a few things on the not so positive side.

1) lowered drive at work. I had to take more conscious effort to get myself to take action on things when I previously reacted quickly as I was more "on the edge".
2) feeling very emotional / sensitive. I found myself crying to myself a lot more and generally being affected by things around me.
3) Ignoring certain things that needed attention. I think at some point it started to become a crutch. Some relationships needed my attention / action in my personal life and I found myself doing nothing about it because I think in some way I started using meditation almost as some place I could escape into and feel good internally when externally things weren't great.

In spite of all the above, I want to resume my practice soon as I feel that the fact that I can see the issues give me the ability to address them. I highly recommend the site http://lorinroche.com
It's a very interesting survey. Looking forward to the results.

The hiring manager in the video reminds me a lot of people I've worked with at other companies.
I vote in favor of selling your organs upon death. It's not a bad way to pay for the funeral. :-)
Not really, a big website can not cover all keywords in its niche, no matter how big it is. The strategy for small sites is to focus on long tail keywords (3-4 terms) and outrank the big guys.
This is a misleading headline, in that the obvious interpretation is not the intended one. Something more like "Why variation among rich parents doesn't matter" would be better.
It seems to me that pypy is the obvious candidate for blessing as the new reference implementation (because it is self-hosted), but I never see any mention of this being so, with most next-gen effort still being spent on 3.x and CPython. Why is this so?
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"By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare."

I often wonder how much of it is environmental. Why are the parents poor in the first place? Is this directly related to education? If so, it doesn't surprise me that children of parents that aren't educated (and don't stress education) are affected by this.
"Nothing is more important than taking a few minutes to organize yourself and your living quarters"

Reeeally? I haven't cleaned my room or made my bed in a year. Think about how much time I've gained.
Slightly disappointed that entering "hardcore" didn't bring up favourites like "bardcore" or "wizardcore".

Still, pretty great!
How solar fuel works?
Thanks for the explanation! I ogled the multicast ranges too but I figured that would be even harder than using a chunk that was previously not allocated at all.

I think we'll be seeing a resurgence of NAT but for companies to relinquish their excessive blocks of routable IPS in return for a nice cash bonus from the new owners, a 'market for addreses' so to speak.

We'll see if that is the way things will go, it would to me seem that that is a logical short term solution that does not require force.
Even still, assuming ludicrous 100% market penetration in the US and China. Microsoft would still be making 1/3 in China that it is in the US (assuming 0% piracy in the US).

I don't know a single person who has legal copies of Office or Photoshop that didn't come free and I've lived in the UK and live in Canada.

What MSFT has done in the Western world is to ensure that companies (who can afford to pay) can't have pirated copies. Essentially this is because corporations can be sued at the drop of an envelope. I somehow don't think China has the ease in filing suits for small amounts against companies.
Got $500? You can buy a hacked U.S. military website
Sedo is good. I bought http://ronnie.me through sedo.

I'll probably list http://south.by there.
Nice link, thanks. It should have been obvious that "eye contact" and a pointing finger would be a very common theme.
FYI:

On Chrome you have Search Engine Blacklist
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jiicbcimbjppjbck...

On Firefox you can use the filter option of Optimize Google
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/optimizegoogl...
Right. For now everything is fine and will be for months and months. The RIRs will start getting more stingy, some amount of reclaiming will be made possible... but at some point market forces are going to start pushing things around and we will either end up on IPv6 or we will end up in a place where having real IP addresses will be a luxury.

I am hoping for the option where the end to end principle is not murdered. We shall see.

In any case, some of the software I'm developing as part of a research project will work even if the Internet becomes a NAT field. I hope we don't have to resort to that.

As for the multicast block... I think some of them haven't been allocated, so if we're going to patch all the systems to make 240/4 usable, we might as well throw in some of the unallocated multicast space...
I agree with your first statement (though your second takes it too far IMO). Still my question was relevant. Our judgments of these things are necessarily probabilistic and trust-based, at least in the absence of personally replicating a given result. Following the money is important in estimating the odds.

Money involves desire. Desire involves emotion. Emotion trumps intellect. That may be disturbing, but it's a bedrock fact about human nature.
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I had a Toshiba tablet (a Tecra M4). It now hangs on my wall as a Star-Trek-styled dashboard: http://d.pr/8Dyk
Probably about as well as an elephant-repellant
That's an ad full of win. It's very different from the off putting DROID eats your lunch and is smarter than you stuff from Verizon, doesn't look at all inspired or a derivative from Apple marketing and lists features that are interesting instead of attacking Apple.
Is it just me, or did anyone else not see anything that makes it stand out from the rest of the android tablets coming out.
Why are the parents poor in the first place?

Because they prefer leisure to work, even if it means they have less money. The poor have a labor force participation rate about 1/3 that of the non-poor (20% vs 65%) and a full time labor force participation rate of about 1/5 that of the non-poor (10% vs 55%).

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2007.pdf

A significant amount of the extra leisure time is spent watching TV.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm

[edit: Hi downmodders, sorry for providing inconvenient facts.]
So is the case with most asian countries. So I asked around - why arent you using Libreoffice ?

1. Most cases - excel support is lacking. Yup, they did google for "cheap office" and try out OpenOffice.

2. Local language support - nobody really has it. But Windows (not just Office) has nicer ways to find and install fonts.

Oh and the name "libreoffice" is REALLY, REALLY not working out in Asia. Even for english speaking ones.

<begin rant>
Asiatic scripts (especially China and India) need smart fonts - http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/52884

However, the default font technology in most open source stacks is Harfbuzz and not SIL Graphite. The attitude towards graphite can be summarized thus (http://behdad.org/text/):

This allows for developing fonts for minority scripts and languages without having to update the engine first. For established scripts though, there is not much reason to prefer Graphite over OpenType.

And by minority scripts we mean 1/5th of the world's population, the two fastest growing economies and open source friendly governments.
</end rant>
Yes, but unlike the movies a velociraptor weighs 30lbs, my dacschund x Jack Russell weighs 10lbs and I'd be more afraid of my dog than I would the velociraptor. My in-law's Labrador weighs 80lbs.

In reality, a velociraptor would not step anywhere near you. A pack might, but given that in the wild a wolf pack would still easily have triple to quadruple the weight of a raptor pack. A coyote pack would likely be double the weight.

Given the presence of feathers in velociraptors the best outcome we could expect in the wild is for Big Cats to be playing with a raptor like a house cat plays with a baby pigeon.
I second that and suggest the formation of a lobby group to pre-empt the issue in the senate.
I just tried to read this on my iPhone and it redirected me here: http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html

Such a shame :)
* As a hack, it's quite possible someone will try allocating these and ask everyone to patch their systems over the next half a year to a year as things get more critical and the RIRs begin to run out of /24s. (The RIRs all still have enough /24s to last us for months after the IANA pool gets exhausted.) *

I'm afraid if this were feasible, we would have convinced everybody in the world to upgrade to ipv6 years ago.
I never much liked his brand of hyperbole. Maybe he'll tone it down now on his next gig. I doubt he's going to go hungry.
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I would totally drop $500 on a "ride the brontosaurus" ride. I doubt we'd get a "ride the T. Rex" to be viable in a litigious society.
I was just curious, does anyone know which programming language the wrote Overmind in?
2 reasons IMO:

1) We don't have Python3 support yet, we're working towards it, but we're behind some. Have the reference implementation be a regression over the previous one doesn't make much sense.

2) We don't have enough users.

And honorable mention reason: RPython is an... interesting language to program, something like a cross between C, Python, Java, with error messages from MUMPS.
QuikPiq accepting beta signups
We're a few weeks away from launching our web & iPhone app and are looking for beta testers.

Would love to hear feedback re: concept, landing page, etc.

info(at)QuikPiq.com

Cheers!
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uh... these are not giftcards they can't be used as gifts, they're non-transferable so point 2 is wrong too. As the person above (or maybe below) said, it's free money, it doesn't need any analysis. You give away $20 for $10 on a site people want to use, they will buy it.
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Would love to hear feedback re: concept, landing page, etc.

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There's a rumor floating around Twitter that APNIC will be requesting two /8's this week or next, which puts us at 5 left. At that point, the remaining 5 get distributed to the 5 RIRs.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119927
http://twitter.com/#!/steve_evil/status/27646139280924672
Another Internet Bubble?
The recent redesign of the outer pages and the layout was the first phase of a big UX overhaul - viewing/editing of individual stories is next. Working on design for this now, we plan to dive in to implementation in the next few weeks.
If you visit from an iOS device, you get redirected to this page: http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html

Wouldn't it make more sense to advertise the device and list its features to a potential convert (I am visiting the site to check it out after all), than show me a "haha you can't see flash page". As soon as I saw the page I just hit back and moved onto something else, as most probably will. A red page without even an image of the device so I might later recognize it as the tablet that does flash isn't helping them much.
I'm missing the purpose. Can someone explain?