skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say the most important thing is to stimulate your thinking in different ways, here are a few books that might help in that regard-

Technomanifestos: Visions from the Information Revolutionaries by Adam Brate

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel De Landa

Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes edited by Roy Christopher

I would also recommend reading the works of Ted Nelson and Buckminster Fuller, as well as some fiction by Neal Stephenson, Robert Anton Wilson and other SF authors.
There's quite a difference between JIT and producing after the customer has placed an order (which is what the article proposed.)
Thinking U-Deals in a local way - Part 2
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The Internet became the success it is now once it escaped from being a centrally planned government network.
Huh? I've been using Reader with my free Apps account for about a year now. (Ever since they upgraded the Apps accounts to full fledged Google accounts.)
Australia hasn't had coing smaller than 5c for years now. This rounding is commonplace.
Because in general employees stick around longer than contractors (even if it might not be true in every case). Plus employee incentives tend to be aligned with staying long term (bonuses, equity, etc.)
(How is TNW getting all these Circle stories?)
The .COM domain has always been international in nature, not a country domain restricted to the US. See the extract of RFC 1591 below. Or have I missed something?

It is fairly clear that .US is for US companies, .COM is international commercial, and the .GOV and .MIL domains are restricted to the US.

RFC 1591 (March 1994)
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1591.txt

"Each of the generic TLDs was created for a general category of organizations. The country code domains (for example, FR, NL, KR, US) are each organized by an administrator for that country. ... These administrators are performing a public service on behalf of the Internet community. Descriptions of the generic domains and the US country domain follow.

Of these generic domains, five are international in nature, and two are restricted to use by entities in the United States.

World Wide Generic Domains:

COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is companies. ...

EDU - This domain was originally intended for all educational institutions. ...

NET - This domain is intended to hold only the computers of network providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the administrative computers, and the network node computers. ...

ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. ...

INT - This domain is for organizations established by international treaties, or international databases.

United States Only Generic Domains:

GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of government office or agency. More recently a decision was taken to register only agencies of the US Federal government in this domain. State and local agencies are registered in the country domains (see US Domain, below).

MIL - This domain is used by the US military.

Example country code Domain:

US - As an example of a country domain, the US domain provides for the registration of all kinds of entities in the United States on the basis of political geography, ..."
Samsung should go to court with them, and they should also cease any plans to launch WP7 phones. Microsoft is like a leech in the smartphone industry. They saw they can't make money with their own product, so they try to scare the little guys into paying up, to make it seem that they are right on this, and then go after the big guys, too.

Even if using Android costs manufacturers the same as using WP7, why would they use it over Android, when Android is a very proven product in the market, while WP7 is not at all and it sits around 1% market share right now, and dropping.

Does Microsoft think this will make consumers more likely to buy their phones? I think they are much more likely to get a lot of bad PR over this, because there are a lot of Android users and only a few WP7 users. This bad PR will focus negatively on their future products, like Windows 8. They are creating a negative halo effect around their products.
1000 people who have expressed interest is very different from 1000 people who have placed a cash up front order.

Ask for the cash-up-front orders and then come back and tell us how big your demand problem really is.
Run it on my XP/Linux desktop.
Termite: A generic distributed compilation system in Go
4.3.2 worked for me (iPad 1). Perhaps you have a previous version?
So they exposed all of their contacts on Google+? I wonder how the contacts felt.
Yandex to Invest in Refine.io from US/Ukraine
Ask HN: I need a friend but I'm having trouble
Hi, I live in Manchester, UK. More specifically, I live in Irlam, a pretty obscure town within Greater Manchester. This would be great, if there were many people interested in tech. The closest I've come to is a friend-of-a-friend web developer but outside of that, I've not heard of anyone within my physical social network.

Needless to say, I feel pretty lonely.

One of the main solutions I can see is to go out to Hackspaces and just get stuck in. I tell myself I'm going to go but I never bring myself to do it. I can be quite shy and I'm pretty frightened. For example, how do I know if I'm good/smart enough to go?

I don't know, I was just wondering if anyone could help me out here and potentially give a second perspective or something. I just generally feel like I'd be much happier with a few like-minded friends rather than ones that can't do much more than turn a computer on and use Facebook.
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That's false.
"Author of more than 25 books on Microsoft Windows and Office, including the recently released Windows 7 Inside Out"(from his bio) suggests a Microsoft solution.

[edit: removed "tldr" tag because this was clearly not a summary but a mere snark.]
Except the cases where central planning works, like (DUH!) Minitel (until the internet came, it didn't fail, it just got upgraded, duh), going to the Moon (distributed attempt at reaching the moon, also known as the living pyramid), justice system (as soon as you introduce the ability for appeal), the Internet, DNS system (it may be not centralized, but it is centrally planned), Google, Apple, and your own consciousness.

Central planning never works.
If sigil means non-ascii character, there are six. If you use it to mean name-modifier (changes what the following string means) there is one, the colon. What did you mean?

And yes, colon is also the or in the ternary operator.

But there are still less than Perl, for the same length of code, and the code is simpler - .call() the thing if it.respond_to?(:call)
If you put data (usually little icons) in a data: URI, the browser can load the image without having to make another request to the server for the image, because the data is right there in the URL. It doesn't have to touch the network or disk.

If you put that in an <image src=data://...> tag, it would be rendered inline just like a normal image. So that's the main advantage: the data is in the URI. It's usually used to reduce the number of requests made to the server for icon images.
Even if there are patents, I'm not sure how they explain the $15 value as part of the phone price (10% for smaller handsets?)
Agreed. But, then again, even when I did work at start-ups in the 90s, without kids and responsibilities, I much preferred "out of the office" activities. I thoroughly enjoy programming, and make time to hack when I'm not in the office, but I also like to do things that have nothing to do with computers, or the people I work with. So...these perks have always been lost on me, and like you, I see them as a "perk" at least partially designed to keep you in the office more.

That said, if this works for other people, by all means, have fun with it.
Smear campaigns are, in fact, standard. Swift boat veterans, Birthers, Abortion doctors as baby killers, comparing homosexuals to pedophiles are all examples of exactly this sort of behavior on the right. Similar examples exist on the left, but you can look them up yourself.

It is a new meaning. It has appeared in numerous publications, and has achieved a pretty wide spread. The fact that it was started as a "propaganda tactic" is immaterial.

Advocating pedophilia? I don't know why I'm feeding such an obvious troll. A group of people called someone who they had a (justified) dislike for a bad name and it stuck. Santorum has compared gay sex to bestiality and pedophilia, I think both of those associations are far worse than being associated with the "frothy mix". Giving someone an insulting nickname is a bit childish, but it's harmless and in this case, a response to Santorum using essentially the same tactic to attack the gay community.
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It depends on the nature of the business, if the technology is a key differentiator for their business then using a third party agency will likely be difficult.

If it's primarily a business model innovation with fairly standard tech then it might be more doable.
Samsung is reportedly looking to lower the payment to nearer $10 per handset in exchange for an alliance which benefit the creation of new Windows Phone devices

Suggests (certainly doesn't prove) that Samsung agrees they're using MS IP, and they're just haggling over price. We have no idea from the article what the patents are for - it could be a hardware patent for all we know. Unlikely, yeah, but unless we know what the patent's for its tough to pass judgement. Tempting and entertaining, but tough.
If you make a circle with email addresses of people who don't have Google+, then make a post to that circle, they will get invites. The catch is, that even if you have an invite, Google+ will still just put you in line instead of letting you sign up immediately.
It actually started out as Startup News.

http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
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Name some philosophers worth reading, then.
this is exactly the type of thing i was thinking about. Basically a file that you place in your dropbox which autoruns...
Google Apps attracts 3,000 new businesses a day, search giant claims
You should probably change your root password at this point since the default root password is the same for all devices.
Nice. I am in Kerala right now! The vegetarian food here is amazing :)
ah well here he is. though who knows how accurate this is (or if the police will even follow up with it):

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.3820+%09-72.9171&oe=utf...
He just spent a whole page talking about security issues and then never mentioned what security he is benefiting from by moving to Windows...
"Right now, both the cent and nickle ($0.01 and $0.05 coins) cost more to make than their face values. If they kill pennies today, then nickles are certain to be next."

I guess the solution is to get away from physical currency altogether, with the cheap point of entry for things like Square now I should be able to use debit or my cell phone to pay for anything.
Your example isn't exactly identical because its not making use the $self object. Your example would look more like this in Perl:

my $name = ref $args{form_name} eq 'CODE' ? $args{form_name}->(@user_options) : $args{form_name};

Taking the original Perl example I would probably write it like this:

my $name = do { my $c = $args{form_name}; ref $c eq 'CODE' ? $self->$c(@user_options) : $c };

Which seems DRYer to me.
What, other than your complete lack of respect for human dignity ? This isn't a "straw man". It is an example of exactly what you suggested.

Are you suggesting people raise their families in dormitories ? It's one thing for students or a military barracks (which are for unmarried soldiers anyway). It's quite another for people wishing to bring up a family in privacy and dignity.
Google+ for Google apps will kill Yammer.
CoinStar in the UK/USA does coin counting+cash out for free as long as you turn coins into a gift certificate. Perhaps there is something similar where you live, it may be an alternative to the bank?
> Samsung should go to court with them

Yes.

> and they should also cease any plans to launch WP7 phones

Not quite. I guess you're asumming that WP7 phones are only beneficial to MSFT instead of both MSFT & Samsung.

What if, i'm not saying it will happen and i find it unlikely, Google starts hardening the Android rules for new releases? Samsung, as well as other handset manufacturers, need to diversificate.

Samsung has bada, but that's for mid, mid-low handsets. HTC & Motorola have nothing afaik (correct me if i'm wrong).

> They saw they can't make money with their own product

Yup

> while WP7 is not at all and it sits around 1% market share right now, and dropping.

I'm superinterested in smartphone stats, where's that dropping in WP7? it's not "super-growing", but it's not dropping either.

> Does Microsoft think this will make consumers more likely to buy their phones?

Consumers don't care about this.
One of my favorite resources is the #clojure tag on Twitter. I use Tweetie and have bookmarked a search on that.

Here are a few sites from my GReader

http://www.bestinclass.dk/blog.html

http://nakkaya.com/

http://freegeek.in/blog/

https://groups.google.com/group/clojure

And here are a few tabs that I currently have open (Maybe this weekend I will get to them :D)

https://github.com/dbushenko/ClojureBlog

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/talk-by-patrick-fredri...

http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction

http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/rich-hickey/ (Interview with Rich)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2682191

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2709319

Hope these help :)
The patent angle is also interesting -- S3 did some important early 3d acceleration research, and it is literally impossible to ship a modern system that uses either Direct3D or OpenGL without licensing some S3 patents. Every single laptop, notebook, game console or handset on the market today uses S3 tech, and now HTC has the ability to stop them from being sold. This is just the kind of blunt instrument that HTC needs to keep Apple and it's patent claims at bay.
Isn't .me a Montenegro's TLD and belongs under its laws?
The Coming Creative Revolution in Digital Advertising
I know it's obvious enough and not really scary - but that page is tracking every jailbreak and failed jailbreak:

// track jailbreaks!
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'jailbreak', 'jailbreak']);
timeout = setTimeout(function() {
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'failed', 'failure']);
goto('failure');
}, 5000);
With prestel, BTX and MUPID there were quite a few prior technologies but to my knowledge, this only really took off like that in France due to substantial public funding.

Prestel in UK died and BTX in Germany/Austria was but a novelty AFAIR. I have never seen BTX being widely used here but when I was on vacation in France, sure enough even the rest stops on the highway had a few minitel terminals you could pay for. And that was around 94 or 95 when the internet has already been heard of around here in Europe and the first ISPs started popping up.
Not for the objects they don't, you could build in support for the typed arrays for example using the current V8/C++ to JS module system
They already have this. Go into your Google Apps admin, go to "Organizations & Users", click "Services", and make sure Google Reader is turned on. Might want to go through and see what others you're missing while you're at it!
How difficult would it be to make a proxy for it and make minitel accessible world wide? Do they bill you per minute?
Whenever I pick up a maths book, I read all these symbols that have no explanation whatsoever - it's obviously self-indulgent wanking. I admit I don't actually read the book, though, I just open it. But I can tell the symbols aren't english, or any other language I learned before my mind closed, so I can tell it's dross.
Even if I don't install OpenSSH from Cydia?
I worked on a project recently where they gave $10 million USD to convince a major consumer electronics manufacturer to use a Microsoft software component in an upcoming product. This is apparently standard practice for them.

Microsoft is essentially a marketing business with a huge amount of capital: not a software company.
Is there a way to decompile the base64 code into the actual script? I'm guessing the shellcode is the bits after the AAAAAAA's?
right, then EVERY transaction will be traceable. No anonymity for anything you buy.
From http://dot-p2p.org/

> We currently believe the best way to create a stable environment for TLDs is to enact a central authority. We know this will cause much argument within the community, but we have made the decision that we believe will be best for the continued development of this project.

That, being against the whole point of it, probably killed it.
I love how Google have the balls to do things like this,
this can only be considered a good thing.
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I was really thinking about this, ie WP vs custom-built. Couple of reasons we've gone with WP:

) There's (going to be) a lot of static content - informational pages, etc - and it's so easy to build the structure with WP. Having a user friendly backend is also essential.
) Time. However much I'd love to spend time building own custom CMS I just don't have time to do this. This project is a side project and I have full time job. So anything that allows me to achieve my goal without spending extra time is a winner in this contest.

Drawbacks are obvious - scalability, inflexibility to build web apps, etc. Until we grow into something bigger I'm afraid we're stuck with WP.

Behind the scenes however there's a Django app (managing school list) and a Flask app (word search generator).

I'm building more Flask based apps at the moment. So WP effectively is a CMS for static pages and a container for some JS.

BTW, very interesting read (diveintoaccessibility.org), thank you!! I'm quite far from design, etc so this is def a good resource for me!

With regards to 'search for a school' it seems to be working ok, although there's a "bug" (feature?) where if you enter something that it cant find it won't tell you about it and won't display anything. Try entering anything from the list which is below the input field and wait for autocomplete to catch up. I need to fix this though really.
The basis of your website was the subject of a wildly popular Metafilter thread, which may interest you:

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?

http://ask.metafilter.com/71101/What-single-book-is-the-best...
Well name a philosophy book that is worth reading.

Maths books don't claim to be anything but self-indulgent.
So I was wondering why numerous pages on mailchimp weren't loading this morning. After giving up I decided to cruise hacker news... then I find this made the front page... everything makes sense now.
Checkout meetup.com and find local tech meetups, there's also the Manchester Linux User Group. A lot of these events are either pure socializing or talks followed by pubbage, so there's not really much to worry about when it comes to being "good" enough to go.

Twitter is also a good place to meet people.
"how do I know if I'm good / smart enough to go",
nobody will care that much as long as you are nice to people ans try to make friends.

Besides, I'm sure you're just as smart as most of the people in attendance.

Trust me, if you go, and make an effort to make new friends, you'll come home with many new people to talk to.
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In theory, yes. The recent news about Dropbox are not encouraging. The thing is, here is a list of things I need from a syncing service:

* Reliability. No fucking up my files, please.

* Low Maintenance. It should just work, basically.

* Cross Platform. I need to work reliably on Win, Lin, OSX. And at the same time, too.

Anything else is just bonus. If you know a syncing service besides Dropbox that satisfies all three of these, please let me know!

Oh, and bonus points for iOS/Android integration.
Bulk flip flops
Most people are used to buying food in bulk, but footwear? Unless perhaps if you’re running a shoe store, you’ll probably never think of ordering bulk flip flops. Indeed, individuals are not advised to order footwear in bulk (just how many flip flops does one person need in a year anyway?)...
Just go, seriously go and walk up to whoever is in charge of whatever event you're at and say that you have a huge interest in the field and you'd love to learn more, people that host those type of events usually really love enthusiastic people.

As a side note, don't mention just wanting a friend, people don't respond well to desperation, so don't act that way and you'll have an easier time making new friends.
Go to the hack spaces. Go to every event. Even if you say not a word to anyone. Have a project and work on it. Nerds are not very good at making other nerds feel welcome: it's not that we are unwelcoming, it's just that we forget. Eventually someone asks if anyone has a recommendation for a templating engine, or a knows the syntax for a reg ex.

Then you're in.
He makes one very good suggestion:

At the very minimum, Dropbox needs to have a thorough security audit from an independent group to ensure that it has the processes in place to back up those promises.

Call it security theatre, a waste of time and resources, or whatever you want, but I would find this very reassuring as a Dropbox user, and it would help me to trust the service again. That, and an independent verification of their claims about the number of users possibly affected by the no-password security bug.
SpiderOak?
"Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh"

Because I am a Microsoft shill.
What is the "viable life line"? Minimum wage jobs are supplements to other income. The actual minimum wage required to support a small family without external assistance is probably more like $15-18/hour.

I'm not white-washing and pretending that being poor is fun. But the combination of US economic, social and criminal policies in the United States has created great injustices that have destroyed millions of lives. 1 in 3 black men will find themselves incarcerated during their lives. (http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/14873_Chapter9.pdf) That statistic is a national disgrace.
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[...] and your own consciousness.

I can't tell if the "central planning" you refer to with respect to consciousness is supposed to be a homunculus or an intelligent designer, but either way I disagree.

Brains are pretty well distributed, and various degrees and kinds of brain damage have shown that no specific location is an inherently privileged "command center" of the brain; [different] people have continued to be thinking people without each part of it.
I know! Agencies like ARPANET, NSFNet & CERN were real drains on the Internet. All they provided was huge initial monetary outlays for building the initial backbones & tech like TCP/IP & HTTP. It also appears that the government made the choice to open the network up for commerce. So I guess these centralized agencies setting up the initial infrastructure & later opening it up when personal computers were becoming affordable was a failure?

Concepts like ICANN, root DNS servers, Tier 1 providers & Client/Server... Yes all very decentralized concepts..mmm hmmm.