skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are close to the answer, but not quite there.

You see a lot of government work has to be done in the vernacular ( by political necessity) - and the defacto tool for written communication happens to be Word.
Now, I have been trying to (as part of Accountability Initiative and other egov channels) get the govt to adopt open source alternatives like OpenOffice. But the problem is that complex Indic languages are NOT a priority for either Gnome or KDE (and frankly dont work that well on Linux).
For example, the Harfbuzz project mentions somewhere For established scripts though, there is not much reason to prefer Graphite over OpenType. Graphite is of course, the Indic compatible smartfont technology.
Again, I might be completely wrong by way of technology, but the fact remains that the world's fastest growing computing market doesnt have significant linux mindshare. Very sad considering tha it is very very easy to do that in India.. much more than Europe or America, where you have to de-Apple people.

What really, really hurts me though is the fact that a significant (>70%) number of Indian colleges teach programming in Borland C. Why ? well it is easy to blame our cultural proclivity to resist change - but the easier answer is that they dont know any better. Remember, India does not have a significant amount of internet penetration: Network effects happen more due to physical communities rather than electronic ones
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Asia (and especially India) is at the cusp of an open-source revolution just because we cant afford anything else. Come over and start one.
His deck is also the best place to work in the Summer in Seattle IMHO.
All I was saying is that intents have fewer communicaton features compared to D-Bus while you were championing them as an open communication tool.
Multiple partitions won't help if the drive goes bad.

With Apple's insistance that new HDDs in all their newer devices (*except the Mac Pro) are not user serviceable, no one should care about that because the new harddrive will be pre-loaded with an OS after you get it back from the Geniuses or AppleCare.
E3 2011: Microsoft Keynote (Liveblog)
Call me romantic, but in this decision I would leave reputation, money, status etc. behind

To my mind what really matters is: do you love what you are doing. Ergo the goal is to figure out: What do I love?

How to do that? By doing internships and gain experience! I did 4 internships at companies from small to huuuge till my graduation. When you, like me, after many internships at companies of different sizes and sectors still have not found a job that you love - then you should think about working at a startup or even founding one.

Well, I don't want to generalize things too much, but when you are a creative mind and have ideas and want to make them real, then a huge company is the worst place to start.
They lure with self-fulfilment, but more likely they suck out your potential. The questions you want to ask yourself in the morning should be like: Am I intrinsic motivated to get up now and give my best till midnight+ today?

Since I founded my startup it is the first time in my life that I have this feeling and I wake up in the morning and really can't wait to get to work and get work done.

Achieve that and your decision is made.
I don't, .NET is brilliant, even if it's model is a bit antiquated these days and they're playing "me too" (as with so many other things) with ASP.NET MVC (which is kind of .NET on Rails).

The main reason why I don't use .NET much anymore is licensing costs. There are better, or "good enough" stuff out there that are free. The tools are free, the stack (os, web server, tools, runtime) is free.
Fix the code, not the tooling
Cikgu Sofiey? |  SofieyAzwa
"The price isn't being destabilized. The reproduction cost of digital goods IS zero."

It was never about the reproduction, it's about the original and the "value" to the user. If they know they can get it for free, they will download it for free. How is this not destabilizing?

Currency is just ink and paper and pretty much costs nothing to reproduce, yet it has a value.

"Piracy is running rampant because the laws have been manipulated and skewed in favor of the content generators so their work get all the protections but no longer ever fall into the public domain."

Right, because people that are downloading the latest Lady Ga Ga album are doing so because of these laws. Why can't people admit that they are selfish and just don't want to spend their own money because they know they can get it for free?

"The collective public thus no longer have incentive to follow copyright laws and have quite a bit of incentive to violate and disregard them as totally and as quickly as possible."

Piracy is running rampant because:

1) The Internet is now mainstream and it's very easy to tell mass amounts of people how to download something for free.
2) The risk involved with being caught for pirated materials is almost non-existent.

It's funny because when the discussion is about open source and the GNU license, opinions quickly change. Using software against the spirit of the license is "theft" and shouldn't be allowed. Even though it does nothing to harm the original content creator (the original open source work is still there and open, you just don't get the changes).

Months ago when there were discussions about the Thesis wordpress theme, there was nearly a witch hunt on HN. This is why it's difficult to take any of these discussions seriously. It's all about politics and has nothing to do with freedom or rights.
Amazing High-Speed Photos Use Lethal Home-Made Flash
Pretty boring chunk of PHP..

$ cloc .
2866 text files.
2752 unique files.
12473 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.51 T=9.0 s (217.8 files/s, 40512.2 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHP 1508 29776 56381 166846
Javascript 195 8880 5486 40783
HTML 70 1050 477 9115
CSS 93 1473 732 8103
Bourne Shell 13 772 917 5267
XML 7 1418 177 3878
SQL 4 1550 3707 3515
C 10 590 924 3317
Perl 20 589 463 2738
Python 6 376 870 1493
m4 3 192 2 1008
C/C++ Header 3 173 145 930
ASP.Net 4 44 0 156
Ruby 21 38 97 84
make 2 12 5 26
YAML 1 2 15 18
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 1960 46935 70398 247277
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bitcoin does have real-world applications: drug dealing
I saw pg's announcement on reddit. I didn't actually stick around until later, though.

I also filed an early bug report - you couldn't read comments without logging in.

(I think I found reddit from pg's website, and again didn't stick around until later.)
That's a decent point about clearing the cache - it should be distinct from flushing assets indicated for offline use. That distinction could be drawn by determining whether or not each asset was served with stale-if-error.
A bunch of NYC startups are having an open house June 10th
does "auto compaction" mean that the compaction process is just automatically triggered?
Tech Cheapest Since 1998 Amid IPO Bubble Fear
EBay Agrees to Acquire Magento
Am I misinterpreting your comment?

You said, the hackers "lowered people's trust in massive corporations [...] which is not good in any respect."

It seems pretty clear to me that Sony is most decidedly not deserving of consumer's trust - and without these public disclosures, we would have never known that.

Certainly - as I learned in the Gawker security breach - it sucks to have your login details broadcasted to the rest of the internets. But, after a few hours restting passwords across the internet, I was good to go. I expect the affected consumers in this case will have a similar experience.

And, that experience is a far better one than having your data stolen by a more malicious group of hackers, who use it for far more damaging means, without your knowledge.

So, I don't believe that this group of hackers are any kind of heroic. But even if their motivation is suspect, I do believe they're performing a type of public service. Teaching us all that it's the height of ludicrous to hand over your sensitive data to Sony, and expect them to keep it reasonably secure from basic script-kiddie tactics.
India's Experiment in schooling Rich and Poor
A single data point isn't statistically significant. Mutations happen all the time for any number of reasons.
EBay acquires Magento, builds a commerce OS
As someone who works at one of these online video streaming sites - the content providers' do make it pretty hard to do things right. Even companies that 'get it' have their hands tied by the people the content is licensed from.
PageKite.net does something similar
Can I teach Google that when I say `Java`, I mean `Java 6`?
Every time you comment, I wish to friend you on Hacker News so I do not miss a wit of your insightful commentary.

Thanks for being such a useful contributor.
Compare that to instagram, 1000s of pics posted already: http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram/tags/wwdc?view=grid
Wow, that was fast. Does anybody know how big the deal was?
I doubt that Microsoft will eclipse the future of .NET.
Is YouTube killing music piracy?
Yes, but only when certain configurable conditions are met (fragmentation level, time period). There's some user level documentation in the default.ini config file:

https://github.com/couchbase/couchdb/blob/preview/etc/couchd...
To be fair this is what Color thinks their MVP is....
i think i noticed this problem when i was writing a query two months ago.

back around 2001, I was reading Celko's "SQL for Smarties"... MySQL didn't have subselects then so I rewrote more than half of the subselect queries with joins... The funny thing is that I'd run my converted queries in Oracle and find they'd run faster in Oracle if i did them that way.
Windows 8- watch the official video from Microsoft.
They are working towards that, but it's a fair amount of work for a codebase that's more than a decade old.

(Their codename for this is Electrolysis, or e10s; mobile Firefox already has it, IIRC.)
You will have better luck at a .NET focused meetup, here is one in MN: http://www.tcdnug.com/
Regardless of the root causes for how passwords get hacked, having a unique and strong password for each account helps limit the damage for nearly all forms of password theft to just one account. The following post (mine) describes the 9 most common forms of password theft as well as protection and damage control for each:

http://www.filterjoe.com/2010/05/14/how-attackers-steal-pass...

You'll see that if you simply do the following, it will stop or at least limit the damage from the most common forms of password theft:

"Use a password manager to assign unique, random 15 character passwords for all accounts, protecting them with a strong master password."
Interestingly enough, it wasn't $future_version, but version 1.0, that didn't even support .NET and was scriptable only through JS. Silverlight is still scriptable through JS to this day. Given that Silverlight already supports a hybrid model I can image we could expect that to continue, with HTML as a possible alternative UI langauge to XAML.
What Google seems to be testing is whether you will be able to connect to a site that is served by both IPv4 and IPv6 (i.e. A and AAAA DNS records).

I believe their message is incorrect. It should be "Your system is not using IPv6 connection by default OR you don't have it."

Also, the IPv6 is available on <random>.ds.ipv6test.google.com, which is what they use to check your conectivity.
I miss NewtonScript for its version of prototype inheritance, but was never fond of the syntax.
Maybe the point was that there are a lot cooler ways to piss away 41m than taking 5 photos at WWDC. Perhaps few of them would sound interesting to a VC though.
Clickable: http://pagekite.net/

Thanks for the mention! Yes, we're similar, but built on more flexible technology (pure python, no ssh required, we can tunnel more protocols, etc.). Our solution is also open source for those who don't want to rely on a third-party front-end.

If people are trying it for the first time, I kinda recommend trying the new 0.4 release, it is way more user friendly than the old 0.3 which we consider 'stable'.
Are you serious? Hackers using windows? :'(
You mean http://www.firstpost.com/politics/trapped-in-politics-india%...
This discussion is pretty similar to one made on Agile’s Second Chasm (and how we fell in): http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
Whilst my posts on this subject are all over the place here. I'm not arguing that Wikipedia is not useful, nor impressive, nor successful. It is all of these.

Nor am I suggesting that having "Dr" in front of your name should give you more power on Wikipedia.

What I am alleging is that Wikipedia has a problem with plagiarism, with incorrect information and it has not brought a technological solution to the very difficult problem of verifying information in technical areas (I have also alleged elsewhere that Wikipedia has a problem with deletionism). The general Wikipedia approach works extremely well for general knowledge, but badly, IMHO, with specialised knowledge.

For that reason, some academics prefer to devote their time to writing primary peer reviewed articles (the corpus of which is vast compared to Wikipedia, and much more successful if quantity and quality is the metric). As I have already noted, there are many academics who do spend time adding to Wikipedia. They are not wrong to do so. But I personally see limitations to the approach, with no workable solution, technological or otherwise, in sight.
The say "You don’t have IPv6, but you shouldn’t have problems on websites that add IPv6 support", and that's incorrect. I have an IPv6 address, I have full IPv6 connectivity and actually I have IPv6 prioritized over IPv4.

Honestly, I don't see how are they testing if I have an IPv6 address when their web it's not accessible using IPv6. I can be wrong, though :)

Edit: OK, point for you. Although the system tries IPv6 first, may be Firefox is using IPv4 for that page because there's no IPv6 on ipv6test.google.com.

But I still think it's wrong because they're doing false negatives.
No, objectively.
This sounds a lot like the excellent article "What Colour are your bits?" http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

Well worth a read for what I think is a good way to understand the legal vs technical perspective of copyright.
I use .Net at work because my employers are happy to spend £thousands on servers and licenses and tools.
I use free stuff at home because I am poor.
I agree, the people who disseminate that meme (with good or bad intentions) doesn't have a clue of the work behind .NET.

At the same time I think that creating HTML5 UIs (ala Windows Forms/WPF) within Visual Studio is a killer application by itself.
At the same time, this is an incredibly direct source. It's not a long-winded blog post that editorializes.

Hopefully someone here can enlighten us, though.
http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-upda...
> The best way to achieve your goal is to start with the right people

That is pie in the sky. Everyone says it and it's bogus for most people/companies/projects. 90% of the time you have the people you're gonna have. You need to know and make the best of them.
Magento seems too complicated (XML files, install) for eBay merchants.
Still more stable than half the other distributions out there
Agreed.

Any social program in the government uses stastical methods to determine utility, impact and ROI.

Why? It works. Would you prefer a more "faith-based" approach?

Perhaps in our day and age of more direct interactions (ie, email, SMS, twitter) it might be possible to augment statistical methods with direct feedback.
Bradley Kuhn: a life devoted to Free Software (Interview)
Here is a list of shell accounts I found a long time ago.

http://christopherwoodall.com/blog/?x=entry:entry101221-0243...
Sorry, I don't see the similarity. Can you elaborate? Thanks.
All related files are Apache-licensed, as by consent of Abe Pralle (and in case of doubt, just mail him!)

I will include the data-files in the repository. This is the very first release, and it's far from perfect as it is of course.
I'm getting memcached installed; will be even faster
TechStars Seattle, on the Prowl for Talented Coders, Adopts HackStars Program
Simple, you don't want to hire those people anyway. "could probably" means they've zero experience of it but assume it must be easy because... PHP is easy?

People with skills recognize that the .NET platform is state-of-the-art, and know that with the magic word BizSpark the Windows platform costs basically nothing.

PS some advice for free: don't refer to people as "resources".
Lessons Learned Launching a Lean Startup Accelerator
Firstly, out of all the other browsers that Mozilla would want to have take share, Chrome is the obvious first choice due to shared ethos and belief in the future direction of the web (e.g. WebM, WebRTC, WebGL etc.). The last choice would be IE, which is where Chrome is mostly taking share. Chrome's gains are therefore only a positive for Mozilla.

It's obviously not only a positive, but they're aligned on a lot of things. Still, in some ways Google is trying to push the web towards whatever they like, whereas Mozilla tries to find out what would help the web move forward. For example, Mozilla likes WebM because it's an open standard, but they don't think WebP is worth the effort of yet another image standard.
Interesting set of acquisitions by eBay. Bodes well for the company's future-- it sounds like somebody behind the scenes there has a couple of big ideas.
I'm not so sure. My experience with Titanium Desktop has been lots of bugs that get tracked but have no discussion or updates. The API documentation is often completely wrong and simple bugs don't seem to get fixed for months. Just look at the forums for dozens of examples. I think the problem is that they make no money on the core product. I'd much prefer if they'd charge $500 and build a bigger team with the revenue to really support their products.
Oh definitely. Also definitely an illegal thing to download which will probably have court cases going after it and IP trolls fiercely finding who downloaded it, etc.

I'm a big boy: I can ignore editorial commentary if I get to not commit a crime.
Do knockoff Prada bags hurt Prada—or help sell more of the real thing?
Maybe you are at an airport. Or an internet café. Or visiting a client and don't want to mess with his network. Many web developers are actually pretty mobile these days.
It's good to have observed it in the wild, at some distance, but becoming part of such a tribe alters your perception of what is acceptable and qualifies as good enough. Like a reverse Heisenberg effect.
The idea that a human and a program would use the same interface is a good one if your goal is to allow the humans to focus on adding domain knowledge and the machines to focus on the boring repetitive tasks. Consider it a design pattern, not an evil plot.
I understood the point you were making. I was attempting to add to it, saying that these are issues that are going to be especially annoying for academics, who are accustomed to different norms (in particular, respect for expertise earned through study and publication).

Academics like yourself are much better off writing primary and secondary sources outside the encyclopedia. It is the goal of the encyclopedia to aggregate and promote primary and secondary sources. It is not the goal of the encyclopedia to itself be the authoritative source for information on any given topic.

You will find that having written even a simple survey paper that your ideas and critiques are far more readily incorporated into WP than by bloodying your forehead against the brick wall of other editors following what they know to be well-intentioned and, empirically, effective rules.
Magento is horrible. Has anyone here ever used it? It is bad. Makes sense that eBay would acquire it, I guess. My hopes are not high for the platform.
Open discussion, democracy and transparency is certainly the goal of the internet at large, but individual sites have different incentives. The moderator has curating as one of their responsibilities and they probably have a general sense of the kind of discussion they'd like to foster.

Moderators and site-owners should take all measures at their disposal so that they can shape the overall experience of the site they envision. In the end, whatever mix of authoritarianism and democracy achieves that is fine.

That being said, hellbanning seems cruel. I think that all punishment should be explicit because the trick is to cultivate reasonable users rather than to pick and choose. I'd prefer some sort of comment rate adjustment as punishment (1 per day, 1 per hour, 1 per quarter hour, etc). As from personal experience, most obnoxious comments derive from a mixture of caffeine and passion.
To be honest, if your opponent has a couple of million dollars or more to spend on hacking you, and you aren't willing to expend several multiples of that on defence, you should probably give up on the convenience of having your secret data on the internet and just have it encrypted on HDDs surrounded by handpicked armed guards who owe you a blood debt.

Computers and especially networks are just fundamentally insecure for the purposes of high-value information.

This is the same reason why internet voting will never be a good idea.
A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising
participants payment, services or ideals, primarily for enrolling other people
into the scheme or training them to take part, rather than supplying any real
investment or sale of products or services to the public.

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

It's absolutely true that Ken makes money recruiting people to use Scrum, and he has in turn anointed other trainers to teach Scrum and they make their money recruiting people to use Scrum. However, the vast, vast majority of the people who have taken Scrum courses use them to ship software, either directly as employees or indirectly as consultants. Scrum is not a pyramid scheme.

Now let's talk about whether Ken sells a product. Of course he does!!!! Ken sells training, and it is perfectly valid to say that his training is a product as are his books. But that is not the same thing as saying that Scrum itself is a product. You can't just buy the training and expect results. Scrum Training != Scrum.

This is trivially true. Let's compare to programming. I have a Java programming team. I can "buy" the Ruby product, but to experience change, I have to embrace the Ruby Way, and that goes beyond simply installing the Ruby interpreter. Ruby the interpreter is a product, the Ruby Way is not a product (love it or hate it, I'm sure you agree).

(Just so you know, I'm a "Scrum dude" myself.)
My experience with Wikipedia has been hit or miss. Sometimes I'll find an older article and fix it up a bit and it will stay. Other times I get my edit reverted by an over zealous neck beard who can't handle being wrong on the internet. I don't have the time to battle these types of people. This is what sunk, "Wikipedia is not a creditable source" into my brain.
Magento's Blog Post: http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog

They've also prepared a PDF containing an FAQ covering details of the acquisition. Congrats to the Magento team! I remember them launching Magento a few years ago on the then, still young, Zend Framework. Glad to see things turn out so well for them.
Schumer Bashes BitCoin, Wants to Shut Down Silk Road Drug Site
If all else fails, run in a virtual machine to make your screen shots.
Jobs is a brilliant, creative thinker (as usual). I've come to expect nothing less from this guy