skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Printing the books isn't the act that constitutes speech, it's the act of passing them out to others. To ban their 'dump[ing]' and spamming is unfortunately tantamount to banning their speech altogether.

I'm don't disagree with the law, I actually support it, but I think it's very likely it will ultimately be repealed.
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- Moodle.

- My college's proprietary academic tools. (For checking grades, signing up for credits, etc)

- Banking sites (usually require you to install stupid addons, that either won't run on Mac OS X, or require outdated browser/java versions)
I was there last fall and agree, it's pretty fantastic. The only unrealistic thing about these pics is that they were staged during a down time - the Moscow Metro (yes, it's proper to call it the "Metro") is used by a lot of people! It's pretty busy and taking pictures can get in the way of foot traffic.
These are a pretty good start. What I had in mind is an organization that gives long-term grants for many areas of study. Of course, any returns on this kind of investment would be ten to fifteen years away, which would make it hard to find anyone to support it. And worse, we do not know if a we can have a good return on this kind of investment.
So Canonical, a distribution maker, is not to be trusted for their kernel suggestions, but Amazon is infallible? On what basis?

We asked the Amazon kernel team if we should try switching to one of their kernels/distros, and they said "No, just upgrade to Maverick and the accompanying kernel." It's been pointed out that Maverick has its own set of Xen bugs. I guess Amazon doesn't know everything.

The horse you're getting on about using the "proven" Amazon kernels is a bit high. Turns out this whole virtualization thing is somewhat new, and the kinks are still being worked out. Old kernel builds don't work particularly well because a lot of their assumptions are broken by virtualization; new kernels are what they are - new.

(Edit, forgot initially): Finally, we ran 10.04 - the Long Term Support release of Ubuntu from a year ago. There was no "because we can."

Frankly, I'm a bit amazed at your disdain for people sharing their findings from practical experience running into these issues in high-load production environments.
monotouch apps were never compiled to c/C++/ObjC. they go straight to native code.
I couldn't agree more. I can't keep up with all of the advertising local shops and eateries and services leave on my door (which inevitably end up blown all over my yard and in the bushes and the window wells) and it makes huge mess - especially if it rains before I get to them. The last thing I need on top of that is the damn phone book (and, of course, you usually have multiple phone books). The first thing I do when I get those on my door step is close the door behind me and walk them to the trash. I have not used a phone book in a decade, but have thrown away a minimum of thirty.
He can only rely on his mental speculation and sense perception, which are not sufficient to deal in matters beyond this life.
I believe that we could easily be years ahead of where we are now if everything was open source, or maybe not. I think it's dumb how we have to reinvent the wheel for something that currently exists, or maybe it's a good thing.
Trade secrets are less secret than patents, because outside engineers don't carefully avoid reading trade secrets.

Also, hardly any secret can be kept for as long as a patent lasts.
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Do you have some benchmarks handy that indicate that CentOS or RHEL are more performant than Ubuntu?
We can all point fingers and accuse people of being too conservative in their fear or not, but I think we can all agree that this is an unfortunate setback in terms of public perception of nuclear energy.

I hate seeing coal ads that more or less state that it's safer than nuclear energy.
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Ever since I saw this webcomic, I knew that was a great idea! http://www.octopuspie.com/2007-07-09/025-well-duh/
What about an opt-out? Is it suppression of free speech to not be tortured with phone calls during dinner every, single, night?

I'd arguably be more upset about this due to the complete waste of resources and generation of additional litter.

(edit, as someone else has noted, there appears to be an opt-out. I'd have to say I'd argue in favor of letting them then. )
On the surface, it sounds more applicable to netflix and amazon, and their recommendation engines.
if you're going to comment on the quality of participants, i would suggest you refrain from using words such as "idiots"
The rumor I hear from lawyers is that they aren't obfuscated to confuse other engineers (who are never going to read it) but to confuse the patent examiners. If they can understand it, they will call it "obvious", but if they can't read it, they'll assume it's patent-worthy.
No one wants to ban passing them out. It's just they want to ban passing out advertising without consent. I don't think that's barring free speech in any way, is it? Also, don't littering/nuisance laws start to come into play, at some point?

What's the difference between a phone book and a similarly sized brick with "Jesus loves you -- call us to find out more" on it? Can I go around leaving bricks all over the place under the guise of free speech?
No, if enough people do that, it sets a precedence that "opt out" of harmful behaviour is acceptable. Instead, it should be opt-in.
This is even more serious than the one in 10.04. While in 10.04 the bug would slow down the machine for a while in 10.10 with 2.6.35 kernel will simply hang the machine and requires a reboot (which can only be achieved by rebooting from the AWS console multiple times) of the instance to be "fixed".

I'm in the process of upgrading all of our instances to Natty from 10.04 or younger. It's actually weird that this issue didn't get any attention whatsoever.
Diaspora is already dead. The masses won't use it because they already use Facebook, which fits their needs perfectly. Diaspora tried to appeal to the tech crowd, but they failed miserably with that by not having any idea what they're doing.
A scalable proposal:

When a suit is filed, an engineer is given the problem and told to build clean-room implementations. If he gets it in under a month, it's obvious and overturned. If he gets it in a day, it's extremely obvious and the plaintiff is fined three times the asking damages. If he gets it in under an hour, thirty times.

This disincentivizes completely bogus patent claims, and should bring the total rate down to something manageable.

Variant:

When the proposal is submitted, the engineer attempts the recreation. If he fails, the patent office pays him. If he succeeds, the attempted patenter pays for a month of his salary. If he succeeds in under a day, the patenter pays a year.

This gets up-front examination, but weakens the incentive to hire good engineers and doesn't guarantee to make trolling unprofitable.
Customers want new functionality, but they don’t want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.

- Marc Benioff (@benioff)

http://startupquote.com/post/5565935336
Useful if you are composing the function with others which may not be built specifically for strings, e.g. filter, map etc.
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Groklaw, the site that convinced every Linux forum poster that they were suddenly legal experts.
This is a hybrid between CentOS and Fedora.
Joel Spolsky wants to know if bounce rates affects Google's rankings
I want a CS degree because my only degree right now is in business management and even the management positions in Silicon Valley require some CS/engineering talent. I feel like I would be a more competitive candidate for job offers if I had some sort of tangible proof that I have technical skills.
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You never have to reboot for an update? If you do, than it's little different from Windows' auto-update, which downloads and installs in the background. Also, Chrome OS is based on Gentoo, and I doubt Gentoo will never need an update again.
> It would also go a long way to assuage people that MS wasn't about to pull the rug out from under Mono with a patent suit. If MS was a shareholder in a company that commercializes Mono, it would be tougher (but not impossible) for them to sue.

For exactly this reason, I don't expect to see this happen.
Any performance differences should be negligible. Use what you're used to. I personally use Amazon/CentOS/RHEL because I know where everything is and how everything goes.
After hack, Sony offers freebies to unhappy gamers
I think there's a big difference between a process and the underlying mathematics which explains why the process works. The matrix factorization which underlies the FFT was known long before Cooley and Tukey came along, but they were the first people to say "hey, this allows us to compute the DFT in O(N log N) time".

I don't think it should be possible to patent an equation, but I'm perfectly find with people patenting (subject to non-obviousness, lack of prior art, etc.) ways of using an equation to do something useful.

If patents had existed when Scipione del Ferro discovered how to solve cubics, I would have no problem with him receiving a patent on his method -- but because patents did not exist, he never published his method (he kept it as a "trade secret") and it wasn't revealed until 19 years after he died.
One reason is that they usually don't release something that's not worth the excitement. If you keep a good track record, people will attach significance to everything.
What's the law on preferential protection of your patents?

With copyrights and/or trademarks, I think there's something like losing the rights if you fail to defend them. So people with legitimate, inoffensive uses for things have been quashed because of corporate policy on potentially profitable legal fictions.

edit: Whoa, forgot to complete the thought. The point is, you could lose if you end up just going after the people you don't like, leaving everyone from Apple to Microsoft to Zynga free to use your patents without so much as a licensing fee or even a piece of paper saying they can.
My experience has been the opposite. Best employees aren't desperate to work for you. They're gainfully employed, and you have to poach them. No one I know who is productive would give up this much time to something. Almost everyone I know who is unemployed and desperate would.

The key to finding good employees is to do what Google does. Find successful people. Don't have them come to you -- go to them. How do you do this? Talk to professors and see who top students are. Read publications and books in your field. Hire whoever wrote them. Find neat free software projects, and hire the authors. The list goes on. People like that generally won't want to work for you, and the trick is to recruit them somehow.
Looking for best practices on architecting Rails applications.
I'm new to Rails though I've been developing system software (C/C++) for 5+ years now.

I'm learning Rails through building an application that is similar to Twitter but which charges for each post (I know this is contrived, but it's the next step from a simplistic example application for me). I'm hoping this will teach me about authentication, integration with OAuth APIs, payment processing and overall Rails development.

I have been going through the http://www.railstutorial.org book and it's been very very helpful in understanding Rails basics. However, I am constantly hung up on how to either integrate various gems (i.e. devise) or create my own functionality within Rails architecture.

What are some resources people here would recommend for transitioning from a novice Rails dev to an intermediate Rails dev? I'm looking for guides, how-to's, etc. on architecture and patterns for developing an application using Rails; something that will talk about real-world experience(s). Don't get me wrong, I like going through the made-up examples as a complete novice, I need that to be comfortable with the language/framework/API, but what comes after that?

Thank you
I don't think anyone ever suggested it was a choice... PG just said he'd be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had an infant or was planning to have a baby soon. That doesn't mean he NEVER would.

But if a potential co-founder said, "I have a hobby I can't give up. It can cause me to lose sleep for days or weeks on end (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.htm...), cause marital stress, costs a ton of money (about a million bucks over 21 years), is intermittently really loud, and will likely require frequent trips to the doctor", would you be at all reluctant to team up with that person? I would. There are all sorts of things that could cause me to want to pair up with them anyways (lots of money, stay-at-home spouse or in-law, etc), but the bar would be higher.

A baby isn't startup insta-death-- there are plenty of examples of where it has worked out just fine. But it's heaping difficulty, stress, and expense on an already difficult, stressful and expensive exercise.
> These two data points are impressive predictions indeed.

One of them is not. It's been long obvious Symbian was a dead end. Phones are getting more powerful and Symbian was targeted to very simple chips. As processors got more powerful, it became comparatively harder to scale Symbian up than to simply use Linux or other Unix like kernel that would be perfectly at home on a 32-bit, multi-megabyte RISC machine (more or less like the first Unix workstation I had on my desk).
Hmm, PHP 5.2+ is still that slow with require_once ?

I thought they fixed that.

Anyway, just use function_exists instead.
I think we should have fixed-term copyrights rather than life-plus copyrights. The life-plus approach made sense when authors' retirements were funded by ongoing royalties, but in the 21st century we have authors selling their rights, pension funds, life annuities, et cetera, all of which make such an approach obsolete.
I believe Construct was trying to convey a relevant and considerate position; punishing people with prison sentences for playing movies over the internet is unjust.

As you are apparently aware, being classified a 'felon' requires that one be convicted of a crime for which the punishment is either a year+ in prison or death. How can you justify that type of punishment, including the attending permanent consequences, as being meaningless in the context of this conversation?
The importance of the short release cycle has decreased a lot for us since we moved to EC2. It's really simple to re-deploy the entire infrastructure on newer and supported images. Using puppet and cloudformation or whatever it is that you prefer you can upgrade with very little trouble.
Nvidia blames everyone (except NVIDIA) for lackluster Android tablet sales
Winklevoss Twins Will Appeal Facebook Case to Supreme Court
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Upvoted? Nope. Ctrl+W'd.
Check out this open source application sbautologin (link: http://code.google.com/p/sbautologin/) that automatically logs into Starbucks (AT&T really) WiFi.
using that logic: wasn't a palm pilot just a smaller newton?
It does sometime require a reboot; an almost instant reboot.

Edit: I get your point though I hate reboots and the CR-48 is not perfect. But its quickly becoming my main driver. Just as soon as I can afford unlimited 3G.
iPhone OS 3.0

(now called iOS 3.0)

- iOS app developer who was there when Apple explained it
It's important to realize, all you non-child-having people out there, that before you actually have a child, there is no freaking way you can estimate the amount of time and dedication an infant will require of you.

Honestly, I would hesitate to start a startup with anyone about to have their first child, man or woman, because they cannot possibly know what a cratering impact it is going to have on every aspect of their lives.

Now, a woman who is already at home with her children and has a couple of years of experience with it, her I'd trust to juggle. But starting a startup is already a gigantic change in lifestyle, and so is child care. Starting both at once is probably not a good idea. My own two bits as work-at-home father of two.
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He truly his an engineer's mind. Engineering joy is, of course, a bit difficult.
I know of at least one change that isn't a new product for consumers but isn't a new change to the store displays either. Nor a giveaway. Might be what this is.
I could live with the ONE phonebook that I would have used in the days when you actually used phonebooks. But nowadays, I never use the phonebook (and I'm a weirdo who still mails letters), but there seems to be like a half dozen phonebook providers.
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Be sure to check out the annotated source - http://willbailey.name/conway/docs/conway.html
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The surrounding land is heavily contaminated with Cs-134 and Cs-137.

http://i.imgur.com/xu0Pm.jpg

http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfil...

It will be a closed zone for decades. Almost all of the (external) dose in the area right now is from these two isotopes; the rest have decayed. (There's a model of this in [1]). These two will not decay away quickly; Cs-134 has a half life of 2 years, and Cs-137, 30 years.

[1] http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/seminar/No110/Iitate-inter...
There were no leaves on the bed, so I turned it off.
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Fact: Knowledge or information based on real occurrences: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fact

Language is a convention, not a fact. You are entitled to your own conventions (but I'm going to use the ones others accept for the sake of this post), but not your own facts.

The fact is that if you have more relative profit margins than revenues, that more of the money people are paying you are not going to the costs used to produce the product. Thus, you are paying a smaller % of your money toward the product itself, no matter what value you place in having that product.

You fanboys are seriously rabid, and for the sake of this community, please learn how to defend things you like in a civilized manner (http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html) as opposed to the emotional knee-jerk reactions you have. Or leave.
I agree with the point that you make, although I think that something like this is more idiomatic Java:

boolean hasUpper(String str){
if(str != null){
for(char c : str.toCharArray()){
if(Character.isUpperCase(c)){
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}

It's wordier than the Clojure example, but less than the Strawman example given in the article.

I'd also argue that you could claim it reads better. To me, "Character.isUpperCase(c)" explains what it's doing better than "(some #(Character/isUpperCase %) string))"
Facebook-Loving Couple Names Baby "Like"
sorry if i sounded harsh. ok, it has specific badges and plenty of stuff for motivation, and i think that was your main goal. nothing that actually guides or facilitate, which was what i was expecting, maybe.

All of my running friends already post daily to their facebook status how many miles they've run that day.
If you're thinking of patenting your software, think about how useful it would be if you had to license absolutely everything you take for granted - algorithms, data structures, compiler optimisations, I/O mechanisms.

Patents were intended to encourage and reward creativity. When they're being used to stifle it, it's time to abolish them.
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I don't spend my vacations working for other people. You also can't expect a contractor to be passionate about your company when they have no vested interest in its success.
I'd heard about this when they instituted it - great to see some statistics about its success!
Nice code!

Docco always impresses too, eh?

I really like the use of:

this[key] = value for key, value of options

I'm going to use that for sure :)
I really like how that is done. It would be great to be able to annotate source code like this within your IDE.
What happens is they will support it for 2 years and then drop it.

See:
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/press_releases/press_release.c...

and 2 years later:
http://www.cio.com/article/532513/Microsoft_to_Drop_Linux_Un...
Asked author to include APC enabled/disabled as a variable in comparison.

Edit: APC was enabled
Why is it that any time the subject of private voluntary human interaction comes up, so many people immediately think of the risk of mass death, horror, and self-destruction? What a dismal state of mind. I look on the bright side, because I know that human life depends on private voluntary human interaction, and is ultimately impossible without it.
PCI slots are the new floppy drive: lot of people think they can't live without, they will scream bloody murder when Apple releases a new Mac Peo without PCI slots, but in reality Thunderbolt has just made internal PCI obsolete.

There will not be 3 models. A Mac Pro with PCI slots is just a temporary stop-gap like iPod Classic until all the PCI card vendors have transformed their products into external Thunderbolt devices.

The future will have a small Mac Mini and a big Mac Mini, the latter with the required cpu/ram for server purposes.
The thing is, it's not usually necessary for an entire organization (or even the most critical controlling part) to explicitly come up with and follow an evil plan, in order for them to act as though they were governed by an evil plan. Just like it's not necessary for one person, or one group of people, to conceive of the entire manufacturing process of, say, a pencil (right down to the brewing of the coffee drunk by the lumberjacks that chop the wood eventually used to make the pencil), in order for the pencil to be produced in that fashion. If the right people have the right incentives at the right time, then the end result is the same as if they were all following a plan.

So, if, say, some media companies lobby some members of Congress to put forth a bill because piracy is inconvenient for them, and the rest of Congress passes the bill because they think it helps enforce what they think are property rights, and the President signs it because it appears to be the solution to a growing problem, and the FBI or whatever (apparently DHS has taken an interest in these cases) makes a vague effort toward enforcing it (it is hard and resource-intensive to enforce thoroughly)... and then a dictatorial-minded president gets elected, and makes a practice of enforcing this law very stringently upon political opponents... then it's the same result as if the whole thing were planned beforehand by a conspiracy of evil masterminds.

(I'll take the opportunity to mention how Al Capone was convicted and put to justice... for income tax evasion. Whatever Congress or the public had in mind when passing the 16th amendment, I'm sure it wasn't this.)

It's simply helpful as a way to predict the potential consequences down the road of a piece of legislation to imagine that the government is composed of evil masterminds. I don't care whether there is such a conspiracy; arguing with that premise misses the point. It's like treating a mass of jiggling particles as an ideal gas for purposes of physical calculations; the argument is that that will--most likely, eventually--happen.
Interestingly, this downvoted link resulted in 63 hits to Maddox's page from this referer. http://maddox.xmission.com/statistics/statistics.html
Have you tried a fountain pen with a quick-drying ink? Noodler's Bernanke black and blue, or a Private Reserve fast-dry ink, are good choices, especially if you are a lefty.
Here's a link to the relevant part of the Chromium source tree:
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/brows...
What I love most about Emacs is Org mode.

http://orgmode.org/