skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but it could be netflix helping the acceleration of the DVD's demise. Also, I'm sure the additional monies made from those who still rent DVDs will be used to help support the ever increasing cost of streaming content.
The DHCP stack in iOS does some profiling that should reliably detect whether it is, in fact, on the network that it expects. The most significant of which is the verification of the DHCP server's Ethernet address as correlated to IP.

If you are on a known network, your DHCP lease is still active, and network equipment is working as expected, all of these assumptions are safe. The most common failure scenario is where the DHCP server has lost its DHCP lease table. For many consumer routers, this will occur when the router is rebooted. If you have to reboot your router frequently, you should replace it. Even if you do encounter a failure mode, the error will clear a second or two later when a new address is negotiated via DHCP and the subsequent ARP update.

This is very clearly a trade-off. Devices like the iPhone and iPad are switched on and off very frequently. The difference between 10s to network ready and 0.3s to network ready is more than significant; it's monumental. This is especially true for devices whose use-pattern will involve frequent on-off usage.

If you're uncomfortable with this trade off, you should stay away from Apple devices. Personally, I'll take the 10s.
Wow, really? What a crappy developer platform. I question why Twitter even bothers to put that stuff in a bulleted list when they're not even giving the developers a choice as to what they want to use. My natural reaction is to blame the developer for trigger-happy permissions requesting. Sorry about that!
Google thinks so, they use human readable permalinks on their official blogs: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-do-you-love.html
I don't think that would be a good idea either:

"...sending a takedown notice, if you are not the copyright holder, is what's actually against the law."
If you use Chrome, you might be interested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240646
The secret to contentment.
Google ultimately wants everyone to move to the web. Chrome OS is just one more method to advance the idea that web apps are powerful enough for most use cases.
Regardless, it does seem quite slow.
...but the 1% of the times that it steals an ip adress...

Could someone explain how we're imagining this might happen? If my Dell Precision laptop is using the contended IP Address, then why didn't its interface's mac address get returned by the ARP who-has request for that IP?
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A lot of that thing a few weeks ago was a mishap, not anyone trying to say "screw you, we'll do what we want." Sorry it felt that way :-/. Hopefully if you were incorrectly affected, things got resolved?

Check out https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/521/ for some info on how we're trying to improve the experience when we find apps to be too spammy / in violation of policy. I think the team working on that has already made quite a bit of progress (all while still keeping spam numbers down, which is pretty impressive).

Disclaimer: I work at FB, but not on the platform team.
It's nearly impossible to fire teachers, but staying a teacher is tough in terms of dealing with the emotional and mental stress (or simply wanting more money).

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090222/articles/90222032...
What's the point? He'll never beat LuaJIT. I'd rather see a new language with a "slow, slow, and slow" implementation that had interesting semantics than another python/lua/js cut-down LISP.
Strange that it's slow. Where are you located? Our servers are in the SF bay area.
Sweet! Thanks for the great list.
not sure what you mean... it uses an iframe to display the webpage and adds the chat to the parent page.
in a perfect world, yes. but now you're relying on 2 competent, motivated people instead of 1 competent and motivated person. why rely on 2? why not just give the project manager the authority?

is there something about their ability in this regard you don't trust? then, why are they a project manager? the success or failure of the project could impact the jobs of all of the members of the project, and potentially everyone in the company. why will you trust this responsibility to them, but not the ability to fire individual members of their team?
yeah grooveshark is a tad more complicated. I can assure you, we will figure something out by the end of today that will close this issue.

looks to me like grooveshark is giving a stream.
I'd like to understand this better. I don't understand what you mean by "steal DHCP connections." Do you mean they use up all of the available DHCP leases? Have you verified this assertion?

I've never observed the behavior you're talking about, and frankly, I suspect that you're just attributing some network failure to a Mac user that just happens to be present.
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If you're having to reboot the router more often than DHCP leases expire, you may want to look into a new router.
i love it! thanks for the link!
It sort of was. At one point, he said to me, "What are you complaining for? I haven't even started the death-march yet."
I'm just relieved that I can copy their URLs, email them to a friend and have them work ... since there are so many gaps in G+ sharing.
As noted in other comments, this notice does not even mention copyright, so that law is irrelevant.
"It's still true, because the PS4/Xbox720/Whatever run limited hardware specs that basically wouldn't allow enough ram/cpu available for a general purpose OS running at the same time to come even close to replicating the speed of an actual desktop system."

Nonsense. You don't need quad-core 3GHz machines with 4 GB of RAM to run a general-purpose OS. You don't need anything close to it, and you certainly don't need anything close to that when you're running things that, even if written for a "general-purpose OS", will still at least have an optimized mode for this very common case. You're not going to run an unmodified Firefox 2 with its GBs of memory use on these things. Carving out resources equivalent to a 2011 mid-grade smartphone on a machine that won't exist for at least one more year and probably two won't be that hard.

Even "Windows" doesn't have to be that hard to run, if it isn't running every service a desktop needs and the vast swathes of reverse-compatibility code.

How quickly people forget what you can do with even just 256MB of RAM, half-a-gigahertz, and some hardware graphics acceleration.
Ah, missed that section down the page. Very good!
I actually understood that you weren't a plugin to MySQL, but the fact that you chose to "maintain the MySQL protocol on the wire to minimize friction for existing applications" is confusing to me, as in my experience the performance-savy database operators did not write their application to target MySQL due to all of the reasons I stated (poor or missing locking and indexing algorithms, such as no hash joins, and an inability to perform partitioning, windowing, or ubiquitous/efficient sub-selects), and therefore your product actually maximizes friction for those seemingly key users (due to MySQL having a horribly unique and generally incompatible take on SQL syntax in some areas, and outright missing functionality elsewhere).
If you don't mind, could you reply to those emails please - that will send them to my inbox, will need to take a look.

I suspect there's an issue either with the MapReduce library processing your email more than one time or there's something with App Engine's email service (Mail API).
POUCH - C library for CouchDB
I don't disagree with this, but it's still a shame. What if Microsoft updated their TOS and decided to delete Adobe products? You think Adobe would have a case against them? I think so...

Although someone from Facebook has rebutted these claims, if this story was 100% true, I would think the company that had their app deleted would have easy success in an anti-trust lawsuit.
Nice work! But I wish when I clicked a thread, it brought me to that URL as a room.
That's a "link" not embedded content. It's the difference between linking to youtube page and actually having the video in your post.
This is very well done
'South California' for 51st state?
Careful I admitted I was bored doing purchase orders of parts (supposed to be an engineering position) in a previous job and the manager went nuts, got in multiple shouting matches with me ("this project is the most interesting work that's come along in a while and yoooou're bored! I'm shocked, just shocked"). Hah. Wrong thing to say to me - if what I was doing then was supposedly better than their baseline normal, suddenly I had no regrets about quitting.
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If things are as you say, then we may have jumped to conclusions and judged Facebook unfairly on this particular matter. However, I'd say jumping to conclusions is to be expected, given Facebook's track record. I long ago stopped giving FB the benefit of the doubt, considering the many questionable and thoughtless actions in its past. FB has a long way to go in recovering the goodwill it has lost (from me and surely from others).

(BY the way, I have not watched "The Social Network" or formed any opinions on FB based on that movie. My opinions are strictly based on news articles and my personal experience with the service.)
Goodbye, and thanks for all the animated GIFs
But wouldn't that lawyer be first now? How could some other person get in front of him in the application line?
interestingly, the official press release mentions that matz will retain his positions at NaCL and Rakuten Institute of Technology.

http://news.heroku.com/news_releases/ruby-creator-yukihiro-m...
Contrary to the other posters, I think this may actually happen: a little research will show that the xbox 360 OS is based on Xbox OS. Some people say this is a fork of Windows 2000, some people say it is from scratch.

If it's true it's based on Win2K, given the current Windows code base is still very portable - we knows x64 and MIPS are maintained already - it makes sense to have a unified code base and update the NextBox.
Well, you would need to construct a legal fiction to maintain the pretense that this is above-board. So yes, some PAC-y things will be needed.

And of course you don't buy a bill, you just strongly suggest (with the implied promise of continued donations)

I believe it's called lobbying, but nobody has tried it via crowd-sourcing yet. I should get a patent ;)
Michael, regardless of the issue of who does and doesn't own the copyright - it is 100% clear that the copyright owner is not yourself.

You have blatantly 'lifted' these photographs from somewhere - I presume the Daily Mail online. On the presumption that you do not like to encourage copyright theft (regardless of who owns it) then please remove the photographs.

The insidious assumption here is that someone must own these photos, if not the author then somebody else, because everything has an owner.

Once explicitly articulated and challenged, this assumption will be defended on the grounds that anything that is not owned is worthless, and assigning ownership gives it value. If this viewpoint is resisted, and if it eventually triumphs, we'll find that those who resisted it own nothing, and those who forced it on the rest of us own everything.

This has happened before.
Congrats James. Leave some Ruby luminaries for other companies :)
Pricing gripes aside, by packaging DVDs and streaming separately, they'll have much clearer signals about which one users really want, as measured in dollars.

I'm assuming they'll be watching the numbers for DVD rental drop until it no longer makes business sense to offer that service.
You should point them at Righthaven's (non) case. It's absolutely true that only the copyright holder can issue a takedown and its also true that you can't assign copyright to a lawyer for the purposes of suing people.

I also think the precedents from some of the Righthaven cases would bolster your case that you're use was covered by fair use (at least according to one judge :-)
I can't believe Google is criticizing how Sony does CAPTCHAs when I've been complaining for years about how difficult Google's are to read. But as to their point, based on Sony's recent security issues, it doesn't sound like Sony has a very good IT department.
I've heard that you can buy plutonium with BitCoin.
It's not a violation of the DHCP protocol, because the requests being made aren't specifically DHCP requests. It might be a violation of network policy though, but that depends on your perspective, not an RFC.

Think of it like this. Your iOS device assumes that if it's on the same network, and it has a valid/current DHCP lease, it will use that address while it goes about the business of negotiating a proper DHCP address. The assumption is made outside the scope of negotiating an actual DHCP address.

A violation of the protocol would involve tricking the DHCP server or sending false information to the DHCP server. Neither happens here.

It's up to the network owner to decide whether or not this is acceptable. With a properly functioning network equipment, you should never encounter a failure of this assumption. If you have an unhealthy network, the assumption may fail more frequently, but then again, you're just compounding an existing issue that should probably be resolved.

In the end, we're talking about saving 10s every time you wake your device up. Ten seconds. That's significant. I use my iPad/iPhone very casually. I don't think about "grouping" my usage, because it works instantly when I pick it up. My network works properly, so I'm happy it's making these assumptions.
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Is there any way to do this besides a self post? I have a question regarding my dead posts. A blog of mine is marked as SPAM, and I would like to understand why or how I can get it unblocked if possible.
"There is no benefit for anyone to be gained through domain seizures. It's just another gateway to censorship."

See, that's where you lose me. If you take a moderate position, like "the benefits of keeping domains free outweigh the benefits of domain seizures", you might have a point.

But saying "there is no benefit for anyone" [emphasis mine] is clearly, demonstrably false. If a website contains instructions on making bombs, there is some benefit in taking it down. If a website contains lists of hitmen for hire, there is some benefit in taking it down. Even if the website only contains copyrighted material, there is some benefit to someone (the copyright holders) in taking it down.

You can stick to your "censorship is always always always evil" stance, but you'll likely find few people willing to seriously consider it.
Assume that required devices are hardwired when you remove IO ports. It's kind of stupid to remove all IO ports except one :)
Think of it as parasiting off the existing library of MySQL libraries for every language under the sun. It's why every key-value store speaks its wire protocol and also memcached.
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Hmm, didn't work. Maybe I did it wrong...
If a sound (like a stream) is playing on your computer, it can be ripped directly from the playback device. I've done it in the past with complete preservation of the sound's fidelity, but I suppose it might not always be possible.
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Again, it's sad if you think they're actually logging everyone's plaintext credentials. Which is besides the point, because in the latest versions the additional non-Google account passphrase extends to all the encrypted data it syncs.
Yes, human-readable URLs are important.

They are important as additional clue to users.

They are important for SEO.

But most likely it would take Google+ years before they implement it (like it was with Blogger).
Added it, thanks.
Congrats to Heroku - it's certainly a fitting parternship! I wouldn't put anything past them. With such an amazing team and insatiable ambition, they're going to be leaving a mark on history.
The Chatroulette connection is particularly interesting since Verbling could achieve what Chatroullete tried and failed at. Chatroulette's founder, who learned English from online video chats, supposedly got his idea from interactions with foreigners and other cultures in a tourist shop in Russia: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/17/100517fa_fact_...
He was a friend before, which is why I spent as much time as I did trying to convince him to join the company, and trying to convince everyone that he'd be a good hire for VP of Engineering. We'd hang out on occasion, talk shop on the phone, etc. He's a pretty cool guy, but I don't especially care to see him again. (I was not the only or first one fired; I didn't make any efforts to conceal what I thought about our sysadmin getting fired.)
Several of these appear to already exist (such as the crowdsourced editing).

Then there is your webcam deal that hits a personal pain point - anywhere sufficiently exotic will be Mega expensive to get a signal out of. Heck I'd pay for 50 webcams to be installed throughout Rocky Mountain National Park myself if it weren't that only a satellite uplink would work for most locations and a couple hundred a day adds up to real money quick :-)
touching 10% of the internet's traffic

Not quite. More like: 10% of internet users visit at least one cloudflare-protected site in any given month.
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Unless you set up all the circles all your friends use, you don't care. A single person will only have n-1 actions for n friends.

That's why I said the SUM total is MxN
Proposal to Create 51st State
Is there something wrong with the iOS app?
Java enums are very underused and rather awesome. This article misses out members and constructors, which is a pity.
Try your local public library, it's free.

You may have to wait a day or two for ILL or movies to get to your local branch if they don't have what you're looking for right there. There's also going to be an online listing of movie that are available in the catalog, unlike most of the now defunct movie rental places.
A system to solve problems like #1 was actually one of the very first tasks solved by early AI research. It was a PhD in MIT in 1964.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUDENT_%28computer_program%29
If you think Google has access to your raw, plaintext credentials logged somewhere on their servers

I don't think that. Read my comment again, paying special attention to the phrase "in any form".
It would be great if it was just a JS plugin rather than redirecting.
The only time this should happen is if your router has been rebooted. Otherwise, the Mac is only reusing what should be a valid DHCP lease. If your router is handing out that same IP within the term of the lease expiration, you have bigger problems. If your router is restarted frequently, you should look in to a firmware update to increase the stability.
Nice, except for the on by default noises. Ugh.
Wouldn't it be more according to the pattern to call it Xbox 360360 rather than Xbox 720? It went from "Xbox" to "Xbox" + "360" not xbox 180 to xbox 360... so it stands to reason the next release would be "Xbox 360360" or since it is Microsoft we're talking about maybe "XBox 360 R2 Professional Gamer Edition X10"
I'm not discouraging people from blogging about experiences like these, it was mostly a complaint about the comments in reply to it. Replying with a story about how well your customer support request went doesn't really help (or add anything) in this case.

If you wanted to start a discussion about a company's level of support, you could create a poll or ask people to post their stories and then analyze/aggregate the responses.
"Scammed" is exactly the right word here.

When CAPTCHA is just simulated on the client, then it's clear indication of malicious intent (of getting paid for faking real job).

That said, CAPTCHA should not be used at all. But torturing users with CAPTCHA while allowing bypass access to bots is more advanced level of evil.
I find it absolutely unacceptable that so many companies, under the guise of protecting your important data, insist that you give them your important data.
It's possible. Then I would say that Amazon is much more tolerant of my problems.
Excellent. And committed - I will study your code, Haskell is next on my agenda :-)
It'd definitely be an amazing product for Kiosks that need locked-down architecture.
Same here. Our turn-around is usually two days. We routinely get the "we've received" emails but our next ones won't ship for 1-3 days after that. It's annoying considering the "unlimited" plan claim.
I understand prices rise...I am just pissed for me is it almost $6/month for the same plan.
Very cool. I wonder what Matz will work on directly for Heroku. I understand that he will continue to work on the language, but what new things can we expect to see from Heroku as a platform?
There is nothing proprietary about this.
Not to be juvenile, but isn't the name "Doo doo" going to kill this before it has a chance?
Another nice trick of OS X is its use of IPv6, also for its multicast DNS (Bonjour) networking. This means you can have a bonjour session up and running long before you have an IPv4 address, especially in the absence of a DHCP server. It's what allows plugging a network cable between two macs and immediately start using NFS.
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Wow.

I like the idea of Heroku going the same way as EngineYard. And investing in technology.

But dreww is correct, he's keeping his other positions so is this merely a marketing and bragging rights thing?
How does Google match an account to you?
A couple weeks back I was asking how Google found out my Twitter account went with my Google account. Their explanation:

"Google uses two primary signals to make an educated guess about which public accounts you may own:

Similarities between your Google Account name and usernames, and other account names and profile names. For instance, Bob's Gmail address is surferguybob@gmail.com and his Twitter profile name is surferguybob.

Similarities between your connections. For example, Bob's Google Contacts have names that are very similar to the names of people he follows publicly on Twitter."

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1142745
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I could imagine this being very useful for the initial building of a following for a startup. Let's say some people share your passion - they can talk to people about it, and rally to get some features done or something.

Good job guys, I quite like the implementation, I hope to use it myself actually.
The Sony's CAPTCHA we are discussing here was likely written years ago (before Sony security vulnerability scandal).

It just indicates pathetic state of Sony Security development team - something that cannot be changed overnight.
In this case, the monkey "borrowed" somebody else's camera, without permission, and took the picture in question. If I steal somebody's camera, and take photos with it, do I still own the copyright?
My first thought, after reading my parent, was Native Americans (really, indigenous peoples worldwide) and European colonists. Is my parent referring to other cases as well?
the Mac is not sending that out in the request.

I could be wrong about this, as I haven't analyzed actual arp requests in ages, but from the article it appears the arp requests are unicast to the (at least in the example) cached MAC for the gateway.