skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong. The reason why Git/Mercurial users are more likely to use AppHarbor is that AppHarbor is probably more likely used by open source projects. Enterprises, where SVN is actually the preferable system, are less likely to host on AppHarbor (or EC2 or Azure).

The issue isn't cutting edge of the source code control system (which frankly makes no sense if you actually understand Git and SVN), but business model.
Most of the pilots I know who use an iPad as an EFB also carry paper charts as a backup. The real issue with the iPad in-flight, at least in a small airplane without A/C, is overheating and shutting down. I've seen this happen before and a backup iPad isn't much good in that situation. The fix is usually to remove any insulating case and direct a fresh-air vent at the device until it cools back down a bit.

Where the iOS devices shine is in the pre-flight weather briefing. Foreflight specifically is just an amazing tool for pre-flight planning. http://www.foreflight.com/mobile
Awesome, thanks. I just subscribed to the blog for updates and will definitely be using it once it's out.

http://blog.like.fm/ (I can't find a link to this on your site)
It's harder to make a paper map useless than to make an iPad useless.

Of course a protective case and a spare would solve that problem since I assume flight crews are used to operating in an environment where they are surrounded by sensitive electronics that they really don't want to break.
The hg-git plugin for Mercurial worked fine on Heroku the last time I tried it: http://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git
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Chris replied via his live support that he has an API and some support for Exaile (a linux player). Sick!
Zed Shaw: Launchpad vs. Github/SysAdmin vs. Coder
What can you do with a PhD in CS besides become a professor?
That's begging the question; since Android is not a serious competitor to the iPhone, the fact that Android is doing so well is therefore proof that Android is not a serious competitor to the iPhone. You neglected to spell out that first clause but your statement is clearly based on that.

I'd suggest the much more plausible line of logic, along with being logically sound, is that as Android is now outselling the iPhone, the Android is a serious competitor to the iPhone. Pretty much by definition of "serious competitor". Will you still be dismissing it as "not a serious competitor" when Android outsells the iPhone by a factor of two? Because I rather expect it to only be a matter of time.
The top 1% programmers are drop-outs, who spend all their college years hacking/programming.

Some of them are oversees who can't acquire H1B visa's due to lack of diploma.

With those circumstances, do you think they hired them? can they go abroad to work? No.

They are not even close on getting those guys.
Coincidentally I have just started reading ETS. Care to tell me where he actually talks about ampersands in the book?
I think rather the opposite: OEMs sell desktop real estate. You think Dell pays for antivirus? I think they get a fat fee upfront for even thinking of you, and then a per-conversion affiliate payout.

This is similar to many mobile softwRe arrangements in the pre-iPhone world.
Delete Button. Yammer take a hint.
Or 'How to know when you should start working out.'
Lead to? You're somehow implying it isn't currently rampant?
Looks pretty. Would you mind explaining how this is different from existing apps (e.g. doodle.com)?
And I agree with frankdenbow on the email issue. Maybe a screencast or some more elaborating would help (by the way: doodle.com doesn't require an email address).
It is an outsized threat to their profits vs. what you might expect based on linear extrapolation. Up until quite recently they've basically been able to collect monopoly rent. It is quite likely they will not be able to do so by this time next year. It is entirely possible that they will lose this ability this year, with the speed this market has been moving with.

Especially if iPhone users start to migrate to Android. While Apple partisans will swear up and down this is simply Not Possible (TM), it in fact is completely possible. Broadly speaking, most Americans will choose to save money and get something "good enough" over something perfect. Even if I stipulate that Android will never be more than "good enough", a statement I would not necessarily agree with but let's go with it, you will still find a lot of not-Apple-partisans getting peeled off proportionally to the price delta between the iPhone and the Android. In which case Apple will either have to drop prices and profits or firmly entrench itself as the high-margin, low-sales player... and drop profits. There really isn't a scenario in which Apple gets to be the high-margin, high-sales player that some people seem almost desperate to believe will be the outcome, but even mighty Apple with its Steve-Jobs-powered RDF can't actually flout economic realities, only harness them.
Signed up. If you send me an email when mpd support is added then I'll give it a try. I could check back in a few months, but I'll probably forget.
"For all intents and purposes, people of age 16 are not much different from other adults except in that they don't have much experience in life."

I totally disagree on this. There are remarkable physical differences between a 16 yo, and a 28yo.

Your mental capabilities are different, your hormonal level is completely different etc.

Yes, there are cultures or where teens are forced to act as adults to function in society, but that doesn't make them they have the same capabilities as of an adult, be either physical, or emotional/mental.

And, traditionally armies are staffed with 17-20 yo. Do you know why? Because they make better cannon fodder, and more likely to obey orders, take higher risks, which are correlated with the high testosterone levels that teens do have.

(BTW, I am 30, and when I was 16 I was basically acting as supervisor of a team of 12 workers when my family was building the house due to my father having heart problems. Yes, I was good with money, I could negotiate some, tell people what to do to a certain point, but I lacked emotional intelligence, tact, or general maturity to handle more finer problems).
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Florida online traffic school courses are easy
Regarding your troubles with "ordering of operations". I've found it varies on installation, but that each team works to avoid these issues by setting a standard on module development. So that when you "include 'ntp'" you know exactly what you are getting. I've seen many different ideas on how to accomplish this, all of which made it really easy to include without ramifications.

Also, regarding testing. I think this is an issue with both Chef and Puppet. Something I hope someone addresses at some point in the future. I've seen some custom tools with some promise (Chef focused) but perhaps a Vagrant setup might be the best answer these days.
Very funny. It's referring to a charity, of course, which is extremely well known in the UK (and in Ireland, if Wikipedia is to be believed). Here is the correct Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans_(charity)

The charity is most well known for the phone line that it runs, staffed by volunteers, that anyone can call if they are feeling suicidal or just desperate and need someone to talk to. An ex girlfriend of mine worked as a Samaritans volunteer for a short while. She said that it was very hard work (manning the phones all night and dealing with a fair few prank/abusive callers) and also extremely worthwhile and rewarding.
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You can be Jim Clark, Danny Hillis or Eric Schmidt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Clark

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis
I assumed the content was the paragraph above the listings for paid ebooks. My mistake.
Sure. I will let you know.
That "revenge is mine" feeling is one of my favorite parts of RPGs.

"What's the matter, horde of orcs? You beat me twelve times when I was level four, why are you scared of me now? Could it be fireball? Oh I see it could. And what is this little stick I'm carrying? Still a nonmagical quarterstaff? Oh, wait, dropped that when I picked up the Wand of Lightning Bolt."
This is correct but kind of just shifts the question to "Why doesn't Google do the same for Android?", particularly now that the Honeycomb SDK is out because the Android SDK emulator running Honeycomb is so slow as to be completely unusable even on my quad-core desktop system.
If you want a dead simple way to use Puppet with Rails, check out Moonshine. I did an overview of it at SD Ruby:

http://jarinheit.posterous.com/a-talk-i-gave-at-sd-ruby-depl...
1) pick a project large and difficult enough that you don't already know how to accomplish it. I certainly will not have fun if I already know how to accomplish the task before I've begun.

2) daily progress. It doesn't have to be consistently a huge amount of progress every day, but it should be enough progress that you could grab somebody and say "hey take a look at what I did today" and be able to show them some new functionality you've added.

3) responsibility. You should feel bad if you are not making progress. If there are no consequences then it's easy to slide off the cliff.

To help myself with #3, two weeks ago I began making daily video logs (like from the movie Avatar). Every day I tell the camera what I have accomplished, and I present a quick 1-2 minute demo of the new code or functionality. But most importantly I tell the camera what I will accomplish tomorrow. And in tomorrow's video log I better either have that task completed or I have to fess up and explain to the camera why I didn't get it done.
> 0$ phones are also not magically “free” in the US.

Yes, they are -- the only benefit will be contract/no-contract. Pay full price and come back two years later and tell me it's not free.

> The subsidized price is never a meaningful metric for comparison

It's not subsidized when you pay the same monthly rate regardless (T-Mobile being the exception)

> I have always been puzzled by this attitude which seems to be rampant with Americans

It's not an attitude; it's an acceptance of reality. I'd like a discount with Verizon if I bring my own phone but I'm not counting on it anytime soon. Not sure what's puzzling about that.
The Rise of the Tablet & the Innevitable Death of the Netbook
Congrats guys.

You may want to double check the demo video, seems to be down.
The last paragraph is making me think...

"Really I think you need a 3rd system that's radically different."

I think he's right. I'm not sure what that 3rd system would look like. I wonder if a meta-service piggybacking on both Github and Launchpad would work?
For all intents and purposes, people of age 16 are not much different from other adults except in that they don't have much experience in life.

This is demonstrably not true, and even says so in the article. The brains of a teenager are different than that of an adult. The question the article is asking is not "Are they differen?" because we know they are. The question the article is asking is "Is this difference caused by culture or biology?"
I read the linked article and I'm not entirely convinced there is a difference (I've used last.fm happily for five years, and never touched the streaming stuff).

If I've got 30,000 "scrobbles" and all my friends on last.fm, what does like.fm offer me that would make me switch?
Yes the API is identical to Last.fm's api and there is a hacked Last.fm scrobbler for exaile.
There are pretty remarkable physical differences between a 28yo and a 40yo, yet the legal and cultural differences between those ages are quite a bit less than between 16 and 28.
Last summer, I remember saying Rdio should put together an offer for like.fm - looks like that has gotten more expensive. (nice work)
Wow. You pay the same price even if you bring your own phone?! That’s just crazy. How is that even possible? You should get pitchforks!

The phones are obviously still subsidized, you just don’t get a phone for free. It’s just that they presumably also overcharge you if you bring your own phone. Wow! That wouldn’t fly in Europe.
You may be interested in checking out Rump: https://github.com/railsmachine/rump

[Disclaimer: I work for Rails Machine.]

It's essentially a headless puppet that centers around a workflow of testing changes from an individual checkout of the puppet code on a target server, testing no-op applies of the manifests, and applying the manifest until you're happy enough to commit, push, and roll-out.

This won't help with your second annoyance, sadly, but it should definitely help with the first in quickly pinpointing these sorts of issues without having a messy commit history.
There is no faster chirping sound. I'm guessing you are using Jesvs's sox line? I was very surprised sox was able to work at all, half of the settings were wrong. Try

awk [...] | sox -c 1 -b 8 -r 64k -e unsigned -t raw - -d

instead. No clicking/popping with that.
Unlimited SMS plans are common in the US, but the 'cartel' part comes from the pricing structure:

$10/month for unlimited
$0.35/text sent (without an unlimited plan)
$0.25/text received (without an unlimited plan)

The pricing structure is there to drive you to the unlimited model by price gouging you if you remain ala carte. They even make it difficult for you to turn off the ability to received text messages. This way when you rack up the charges from receiving text messages, you are up-sold to the unlimited plan rather than given the option to disable receiving of text messages. [This is also rather annoying when someone spams you with a text message advert... b/c now you've just PAID to get an advertisement that you didn't want.]
http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html
Book Review: The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
Debit Card Fees Prompt a Push Near Deadline
>Why oh why have you guys built and application that I can’t leave easily?

I feel your pain, but isn't it obvious though? Increase the pain of leaving and you increase the likelihood of staying. Annoying, but effective.
"... the service uses a Chrome, Firefox and Safari extension to automatically track what you’re listening to on YouTube, Pandora, Rdio, Meemix, Grooveshark and Earbits and a desktop client to track what you’re listening to on Winamp, iTunes, MediaMonkey or Windows Media Player. ..."

The missing bit has been video (youtube) and various downloads in mp4 format that I play in xine, totem (linux). Is there anyway to capture in the desktop client in windows (WMP)?

"... My startup blaster.fm ..."

looks like you beat my tweet. The same applies to blaster.fm. Stuff that's not in mp3 that I play mp4,flv isn't captured unless I write my own client.
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Anyone willing to recommend a good book that introduces graph theory?
> The second you made Github more "SysAdmin friendly" you'd piss off the Programmers. Their egos are too softly stroked by having their name first in the URL.

I don't think that's true. Having the name first is great for uniqueness of the fork, but has been a pain when finding the canonical version. I've seen plenty of projects that adopt the similarly named user account, which is great.
Deciding to move to an unlimited plan from the price gouged ala carte pricing seems like caving into the whims of the cell providers. They want you to go to the unlimited plan, otherwise they wouldn't raise the pricing of ala carte text messaging so high. Once you are paying a flat fee per month, they can count on 'guaranteed' income from you rather than hit-or-miss income from ala carte charges that they can't predict from one month to the next. [Either way, the raw costs of text messages are waaaay below what you actually pay for them.]
In the US, you pay to receive text messages as well when you aren't on an unlimited plan.
By the time someone feels that pain he's already decided to leave and it just pisses him off.
page is frozen - latest chromium says - waiting for pixel.quantserve.com...

this started happening after I tried uploading an image for a FB page and got a flash error which crashed the tab... looks good though - i'll try again later, it's probably getting hammered
I noted that the article mentions that there is a lot that is 'coming soon', so maybe this is all in the works and i'm being redundant but:

I have to say that i'm not super impressed with how the profiles are set up. I really like Last.fm's profile pages because they provide a huge amount of information at a glance, and they do Like.fm's stated job of being 'a place to find songs that you like' very well by giving you compatibility ratings and showing top artists, top tracks, &c.

Meanwhile, the profiles on Like.fm are barely a step up from a text log of songs you've played. There's no information at all aside from that, just song a, song b, song c. I am not sure how this is meant to help me discover music i like -- there's no context or anything.

On another note, i find the design/layout of the site somewhat lacking as well. There's a lot of unnecessary white space and the design doesn't seem to have any coherent branding or theme (Last.fm has a relatively attractive and memorable red-and-white thing going on, for instance) -- it's just very dreary.

I hope that wasn't too harsh, it was meant to be constructive. I should add that i did sign up, in anticipation of improvements -- i am very interested in moving off of Last.fm, it's just that so far there's not much to tempt me.
I would agree on the construct part. Once, in college as a senior, an organization I was a member of was being criticized by an administrator who said, and I quote:

"You know what the problem with your org is- there's not enough adult supervision"

Keep in mind I was 23, and everyone in the room was over 20.
I friendlily (!) request less anti-hype and more explanation of the technical issues, preferably with illustrations in code. For example, in the above post there is one point at which you come close to being specific and then back off, saying it's borderline obvious. It wasn't obvious to me.

There is one point at which I somewhat follow you. You say that the complexity introduced by callback management grows nonlinearly with program complexity. I understand this to mean that logic organized into async callbacks isn't composable (you have to write new logic to implement the composition, as opposed to just applying some operator to combine them) and isn't orthogonal (if you want to call some code that's written this way, your code also has to be written this way, and each new layer gets harder to add). It's easy to see how this could rapidly get out of control. But I'm not convinced that it must. There may be designs that nip this complexity in the bud. For example, the work done by callbacks themselves could be kept to a minimum (and preferably be standardized, i.e. when i/o is received, store the result in some standard place). In this way the callback chains always return as quickly as possible. Of course then you need some parallel strategy for managing the control flow of the program itself - some sort of state machine, perhaps.

Perhaps this is greenspunning Erlang but if so I'd like to know how.
If you believe what you see in those "reality" fishing shows on the Discovery Channel, they are using computerized charts and setting crab pots using GPS so the know exactly where they are. Not to say they don't also carry paper charts, and maybe even a sextant so they can navigate if the GPS goes down, but I am guessing they are not used in practice very often.
The downside to that strategy is if they improved their service (which is what they should be focusing on in the first place), their old users will never come back out of irritation with their past behavior. And the friends of those users won't sign up either.
Given that, I'd definitely recommend you check out Rump: https://github.com/railsmachine/rump

It'll let you manage your servers in a headless manner, using simple version control via git to manage your puppet configuration.

[Disclaimer: I work for Rails Machine.]
The Art of Assembly Language, Second Edition
Apple Keyboard in pure CSS.
I would argue that the mental differences between a 28 and 40 year old are much less, however.
I thought I would be the first with the same snarky comment :) Seriously though, I use my iPhone 4 in much the same way all the time and have never found it to be too heavy in any way. The solid feel also makes it less "toy like", which really doesn't impact function, but sure makes me feel better about what I spent my money on!
Creative people get judged as being worse leaders, unless they're charismatic
Just because it's a hugely exploitative tactic doesn't mean it's not a better deal for me. Should I fight The Man by paying him $200 extra in SMS fees?

I suppose I could just disable SMS on my account, but then I'd be stuck without my favorite method of mobile communication. Fight the power.
So your summary page will rank your recently top played songs and group them by artists. It's supposed to reflect your top music within the last 1-3 days so it can keep up with what you like right now. I know the site may still look a little bare and even unpolished but I'm the only person working on it right now but I'll be hiring soon.

And as far as more quantitative stats and similarity ratings, that's all in the works.
... but you can still include him in the numbers that you present to advertisers.
They have all this cool data and I feel they're not doing as much as they could with it in terms of modern social features. And for new users I think the experience of finding your friends via facebook is much easier than it is on Last.fm.

But I agree with you right now the site still needs more features. But you can use both services while I work on them. I see a lot of potential for improvement and for advancing the idea behind music tracking.
What should be core in Perl 5.16?
I find it interesting that Perl still doesn't have IPv6 support.
So Beluga is like Google Voice...only worse
They were the only ones that applied - it's hard to see the FAA now saying it's unsafe for Middle-manager Jet Management next door
Yammer is ad-supported?
I was thinking about same thing last month and came up with an idea to raise money for charity and other noble causes through e-commerce. I will be doing this as a side project when my current side project completes. You can also give it a try.

Idea - Develop and market a website that sells t-shirts with good design and social awareness messages on it such as anti-smoking, anti-corruption, AIDS awareness t-shirts. Also, tie up with relevant NGO and donate 50% of the profit to them. Make it clear on the site that 50% of the profit goes to NGOs. Many people buy t-shirts online and they will definitely buy such t-shirts if the design is cool. There will also be a feel good factor of doing it for noble cause.

Benefits for buyers - They get cool t-shirts at same rate as on other sites + feel good factor of doing it for noble cause.

Benefits for NGOs - They can raise funds without doing anything and by just allowing their name to be used on website. They get a free online fund-raising system.

Benefits for site owner - You have 50% of the profit to use it in any way you like, to expand your business or anything else + You're contributing to improvement of society + recognition + Something nice in your portfolio.

Benefits for society - Indirect contribution by supporting social activities of NGOs through fund-raising + direct contribution by spreading purposeful educative messages on t-shirts.

A Win-Win idea.
If you're going to make a last.fm clone you could be a little more subtle about it.
It's definitely annoying when you are trying to find the "canonical" fork of a project on Github, but it's not THAT hard to just look under the project name and click on the "forked from xyz/project" link (projects rarely go more than a couple of forks deep), or in the worst case click on the network tab and look at the tree.

Edit: If it's a Ruby Gem, you can also look up the gem on rubygems.org and click the Homepage link.
Brilliant. Good luck :)